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Michael Jackson
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 01:43 PM EDT
It was late 1983 when I heard a radio interview with a man who said, "I'm from the generation of the Beatles. There are millions of people my age who have never heard of Michael Jackson". I said to myself, "I've heard of Michael Jackson. He's that British guy who wrote a book about structured programming. (here)" But I had a nagging suspicion that there was another Michael Jackson. So I found a friendly-looking teenager and asked him, and was set straight.

Until PJ mentioned it above, I still hadn't heard of the song, "They Don't Care About Us". Perhaps some of you hadn't either. It's on Youtube, nearing 40 million views. It was recorded in 1994. It appears that MJ, like his father- in-law Elvis before him, late in his short career turned to social activism in his songs.

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  • Michael Jackson - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 02:56 PM EDT
VLC vs Sony on BluRay interop in France
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 02:48 PM EDT
This seems a really interesting case where the VLC developers
are trying to get the proper solution to enable reading BluRay
discs:

http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2013/04/08/la-
hadopi-rend-son-avis-sur-la-lecture-des-blu-ray-par-
vlc_3156110_651865.html

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Microsoft call for EU Android Probe ..
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 03:11 PM EDT
"In their joint complaint, Nokia Corp., NOK1V.HE +0.56% Microsoft Corp., MSFT +3.86% Oracle Corp. ORCL +1.98% and over a dozen other companies accuse Google of anticompetitive behavior because of the way it uses Android to promote its own applications on smartphones"

"The complaint says manufacturers of Android-powered smartphones who want to include Google apps such as Maps, YouTube or Play are required to preload an entire suite of Google mobile services and to give them prominent default placement on the phone". link

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Really, really, Off Topic - Sand Won't Save You This Time - chlorine trifluoride.
Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 04:18 PM EDT
There’s a report from the early 1950s (in this PDF) of a one-ton spill of the stuff. It burned its way through a foot of concrete floor and chewed up another meter of sand and gravel beneath, completing a day that I'm sure no one involved ever forgot. That process, I should add, would necessarily have been accompanied by copious amounts of horribly toxic and corrosive by-products: it’s bad enough when your reagent ignites wet sand, but the clouds of hot hydrofluoric acid are your special door prize if you’re foolhardy enough to hang around and watch the fireworks.
link

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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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AMP v. Myriad Genetics at SCOTUS (oral argument April 15)
Authored by: macliam on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 05:40 PM EDT

I have put some time over the past few evenings working over material relating to the forthcoming AMP v. Myriad case at the Supreme Court. Oral argument is scheduled for next Monday, and the SCOTUSblog case page is here

The case has a dedicated Wikipedia page. Reference 6 of that page links to the judgment of Judge Robert W. Sweet of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Summary judgment was granted to the plaintiffs in a 152 page opinion available from the New York Times website. The PDF file seems to have been scanned from printed text. I have been working on getting some of it into HTML (43 pages so far, starting at the legal argument discussing the patents). I plan to add a comment here to attach what I have so far.

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Why Canada's Digital Divide Persists - Nation's broadband failure lies in both access & adoption
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 11:33 PM EDT
The state of Internet access in Canada has been the subject of considerable debate in recent years as consumers and businesses alike assess whether Canadians have universal access to fast, affordable broadband that compares favourably with other countries.

A new House of Commons study currently being conducted by the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology offers the chance to gain a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of Canadian high-speed networks and what role the government might play in addressing any shortcomings.

Michael Geist, The Tyee

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Access Copyright's Desperate Declaration of War Against Fair Dealing
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 11:41 PM EDT
Months after the Supreme Court of Canada delivered a stinging defeat to Access Copyright by ruling for an expansive approach to fair dealing and the government passed copyright reforms that further expanded the scope of fair dealing, the copyright collective res ponded yesterday with what amounts to a desperate declaration of war against fair dealing.

In the aftermath of the court decisions and legislative reforms, a consensus emerged within the Canadian education community on the scope of fair dealing. The fair dealing policies used guidance from the Supreme Court to establish clear limits on copying and eliminate claims that the law was now a free-for-all.  In developing those fair dealing policies, however, many institutions no longer saw much value in the Access Copyright licence.

Access Copyright has decided to fight the law - along with governments, educational institutions, teachers, librarians, and taxpayers - on several fronts.

Michael Geist

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Semi-Off Topic Quick Thoughts on Miscellaneous Smartphone Developments Awaiting Q1 Results
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 06:47 AM EDT

Comments on Q1 Mobile sales, with a snarky aside about Microsoft's tilting at the anti-trust windmills once again.

Quick Thoughts - Tomi Ahonen

When so many commenters look upon your anti-trust complaint as a joke, maybe, just maybe, you should try something else. Like competing perhaps?

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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New Documents Suggest IRS Reads Emails Without a Warrant
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 01:26 PM EDT
Everyone knows the IRS is our nation’s tax collector, but it is also a law enforcement organization tasked with investigating criminal violations of the tax laws. New documents released to the ACLU under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the IRS Criminal Tax Division has long taken the position that the IRS can read your emails without a warrant—a practice that one appeals court has said violates the Fourth Amendment (and we think most Americans would agree).

Last year, the ACLU sent a FOIA request to the IRS seeking records regarding whether it gets a warrant before reading people’s email, text messages and other private electronic communications. The IRS has now responded by sending us 247 pages of records describing the policies and practices of its criminal investigative arm when seeking the contents of emails and other electronic communications.

So does the IRS always get a warrant? Unfortunately, while the documents we have obtained do not answer this question point blank, they suggest otherwise.

Nathan Freed Wessler, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project

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