Authored by: 351-4V on Wednesday, April 03 2013 @ 06:03 PM EDT |
Prenda Law ELO = Good riddance. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: argee on Thursday, April 04 2013 @ 03:02 PM EDT |
The easy way to fix this is to give voting power to the
corporations.
To make the equivalent of 'one person', we need to find out
how much money an american life is worth.
A good starting point is the amount of insurance paid for
a death in an automobile accident. Let us assume this is
$100,000 per life.
Now, if ABC, Inc has a "market cap" of $1 million, then
ABC, Inc gets 10 votes for the state it is incorporated
in.
I think Delaware might become the most populous state,
voter wise.
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Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, April 04 2013 @ 03:32 PM EDT |
Actually, this has been the case with encrypted email for years. Whether you
use PGP or X.509 certificates, the carrier has no knowledge of the key and so
cannot provide unencrypted access. Of course, this doesn't stop agencies, such
as the NSA, with sufficient computer power from attempting to break your
encryption. Also this sort of encryption can be applied to voice over IP calls.
SIP supports using IPSec for secure calls. To make things doubly fun for the
NSA, you can run your encrypted VoIP through an IPSec or other encrypted VPN.
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- A correction - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 05 2013 @ 11:37 AM EDT
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Authored by: hardmath on Thursday, April 04 2013 @ 05:52 PM EDT |
Link
As I suspect many Groklaw readers are already
aware,
according to the authoritative Jane's, it seems
they do not.
Gustav Whitehead, a German
immigrant to the United States,
accomplished longer and higher powered manned
flight at
least twice in the the years preceding Kitty Hawk, the
second of
which involved a three-axis controller.
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Authored by: ArtimusClyde on Friday, April 05 2013 @ 11:27 AM EDT |
Rackspace
sues another patent troll IP Nav, after being sued first [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 05 2013 @ 12:07 PM EDT |
Original Article
This gives me two brilliant money
making ideas.
The first is to write software to crawl the web looking
for take down notices for movies and videos and generate take down notices for
those. After you sell that to the movie studios, you write software to look for
take down notices for take down notices, and generate take down notices for
those. After you sell that to the movie studios....
The second and even
more brilliant idea is to create software that scours the web and automatically
generates take down notices. Sell it really cheap, but the click through
license agreement has you retain the copyright for all the generated notices.
Then you sue all your customers when their take down notices are published on
the internet. After all, your customers have deeper pockets than most of the
other people posting copyrighted material on the web. Now where can I find
those good people from Prenda Law? I'm sure they would be interested in this
idea.
Did you like the way I got three references to recent
articles/news picks in that last one? And for the humor impaired, this is an
attempt at a joke and to exemplify some problems with our current laws. It is
not intended in any way to advocate committing fraud on the court or any other
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 05 2013 @ 12:13 PM EDT |
Woot!
ISO is no longer the only ANSI-accredited document
standards
authority in the USA. Hotcha!
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 05 2013 @ 04:54 PM EDT |
MIT Technology Review
Uhuh.
Just because you can't see it, has it disappeared? If it's SMS or MMS it will be
on the telco's server for as long as they want to keep it, or
as long as the
spooks tell them to keep it. So these apps by encrypting the content and sending
via the internet bypass that problem, but ... If
you sent it from your mobile
device with NAND storage it will still be there for a while, unless you're one
of the freaks who read these columns
and are destroying your chips running the
levelling function on a cron job. And having it go "poof" after time=t on the
public facing server
hasn't stopped anyone who saw it from sending a copy to
fb. Good luck with suing them for copyright infringement while you're wearing
Federal cufflinks. I'm trying not to think of those black rooms at the bulk
peering exchanges, since anything nowadays seems to invoke the
CFAA...
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Authored by: hardmath on Friday, April 05 2013 @ 06:45 PM EDT |
Link
The so-called cryptography expert quoted in the margin of
the News
Picks says that a "mud puddle" test can prove
whether Apple has the keys to
unlock your messages stored in
the cloud.
Drop your phone in the mud
puddle, and if Apple is able to
restore your phone information, the expert
claims, then it
proves that they have said keys.
Someone is very confused
here. Let's not put any precious
smartphones in jeopardy, but let's ask
ourselves if the fact
that (say) Google is able to display our emails to us in
a
browser, provided we log-in, implies that Google has our
password.
As
most Groklaw readers know, this is not a valid argument.
Most passwords (or
keys) are not stored by service
providers. They store a one-way
encrypted ("hashed")
version of the password, which suffices to verify what you
enter is correct (by re-encrypting/re-hashing) your input.
This was an
element of a recent story about a crack-in at a
social media company, where the
infiltrators were able to
get names, addresses, content, and encrypted versions
of the
passwords, but not the original passwords themselves (which
would be
needed to impersonate said users).
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 06 2013 @ 03:09 AM EDT |
Sorry,
this petition is by geeks, of and for geeks. As one of the people I'll ask a
dumb question,
"What is an API, and why is it's freedom so
important?"
As can be seen in the Oracle v Google lawsuit ...
Huh? That was over in California wasn't it? Whichever way it went
didn't make my car go faster, or
give me cheaper groceries.
Sorry, I
can hear the hackles rising from over the other side of the ocean. But the
preamble should
be written in plain English to explain the subject matter and
reasons. This petition is written in
jargon for the benefit of a minority
sector group of "we the people". Reckless use of jargon and the
assumption that
everyone else understands what you're talking about have hindered the Linux
desktop from conquering the world. I would not be surprised if this petition
failed to achieve
threshold status, or was rejected for failure to state a
case. That would be a pity
because I sympathise entirely with its intent, even
if as a foreigner I can't subscribe.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 06 2013 @ 11:54 AM EDT |
Labor » Employees are trying to prove tech giants colluded on wages, ‘poaching.’
A federal judge on Friday struck down an effort to form a class-action
lawsuit to go after Apple, Google and five other technology companies for
allegedly forming an illegal cartel to tamp down workers’ wages and prevent the
loss of their best engineers during a multiyear conspiracy broken up by
government regulators.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, Calif.,
issued a ruling Friday concluding that the companies’ alleged collusion may have
affected workers in too many different ways to justify lumping the individual
claims together. She denied the request to certify workers’ lawsuits as a class
action and collectively seek damages on behalf of tens of thousands of
employees.
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Authored by: malcart on Saturday, April 06 2013 @ 03:18 PM EDT |
What's Wrong with the US Smartphone Market?
This is a really
interesting article, the part that really shocked me was how much more expensive
it is to purchase a smartphone in the US than it is in here in the UK.
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Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, April 06 2013 @ 09:14 PM EDT |
I had one of those when I was a kid. I recall cleaning off enough of the
coating to see the mechanism behind the glass.
Dilbert
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Authored by: JamesK on Sunday, April 07 2013 @ 08:07 AM EDT |
"but Grace Hopper is riveting. Her verbal descriptions of mechanical parts
or logic operations are lucid."
Years ago, 60 Minutes did a piece on her. One thing I recall was how she
demonstrated a nanosecond. She'd hand out pieces of wire, about 1 foot long,
and say that's how far light would travel in a nanosecond.
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Authored by: tiger99 on Sunday, April 07 2013 @ 11:03 AM EDT |
I was not aware that it had gone wrong. GPL software is very much alive and
well. The majority of developers still prefer it because they can be sure of
getting back any improvements or bug fixes that others do to their work, so
everyone wins. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is one of the fundamental
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