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theverge: What is FairSearch and why does it hate Google so much?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 11:48 AM EDT
What is FairSearch and why does it hate Google so much? How Google's competitors learned to stop worrying and start lobbying By Vlad Savov

here

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Mobile: The new frontier in claims against Google
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 11:54 AM EDT
Mobile: The new frontier in claims against Google

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PJ's comment re: Apple and Motorola not interested in settling
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 02:57 PM EDT
PJ said that only Apple can stop this. But I'm not sure that Apple can, because
Steve Jobs started it, and he's now dead, and Apple is left with "the cult
of the dead leader". Apple's current leadership can't stop the war without
betraying Steve's dying wishes.

So the war will only end when Apple's leadership decides that it isn't worth it
to follow Steve's wishes on this any longer, when there's a shareholder revolt,
or when Apple gets labeled a vexatious litigant. No sooner.

Sorry to be such a pessimist, but that's how I see it...

MSS2

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Australia investigates Micro$oft, Adobe, Apple over price gouging
Authored by: SirHumphrey on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 08:00 PM EDT
Adobe provides a local "bespoke" experience for an extra $1000 per download? Methinks something else "be spoke" round here http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-12/it-price-gouging-inquiry-ma y-lower-prices/4624376

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Microsoft, this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the
Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 04:50 AM EDT
Microsoft, this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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Bing delivers . . .
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 12:27 PM EDT
Headline: 'Bing Delivers Five Times as Many Malicious Websites as Google'

'Times', meaning 5x.

Text: 'Searches on Bing returned five times more links . . .'

'More', meaning 5x + 1, or 6x.

The difference between '1,000 times as many' & '1,000 times more' is often
negligible.

Small numbers force precision. Or should.

Suppose it came up in court . . .



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Strikeforce 2-factor authentication... is there PRIOR ART...
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 03:29 PM EDT
Log in once, then again...

Where's the beef?

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Google's stance on mini-drones: Heal thyself first
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 04:48 PM EDT
So someone at Google thinks mini-drones need to be regulated
because of their surveillance possibilities? Really! Fancy
that! How about you deep-sixing Google Glasses first and
apologizing abjectly, you forgetting hypocrites?

Our enthusiasm, even exuberance, for rushing toward greater
and more pervasive self-surveillance just because it's
"cool" is as stupid as it is shocking.

You know that "fictional" world of _1984_? _Fahrenheit 451_?
_This Perfect Day_? _THX-1138_? _Brave New World_?

This is exactly how such a dystopia _really_ happens, degree
by degree, welcomed with open hearts, arms and hands. We are
so glad to ever so much more plugged in--especially if the
latest shackles sport Gorilla Glass, come in new colors
named with sexier adjectives, His and Hers and Theirs.

Way till _all_ maps are electronic and centralized and
served up only on screens. Want Area 51--or any place
Centrality wants to hide--to never be, to never have been?
Done!

Does the White Clown love you, Millie?

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content not available in Australia: You Built What?!: A Tractor For The Apocalypse
Authored by: Arthur Marsh on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 09:25 PM EDT

http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2013- 03/tractor-apocalypse gives
Content Not Available in Australia
We're sorry, but due to circumstances surrounding copyright and permissions, we're unable to bring you this particular content item.

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Computer Pioneers
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 11:57 PM EDT
One of my university professors, worked on the Illiac II and
III computers. He
was one of the designers of the ALU unit.

He told a story about how they put
on a TicTacToe demo at
some sort of open house. Visitors could play against the
computer by pushing buttons to select their move. The
computer would
automatically make it's move and the results
were shown on a crt monitor.

HE
said that people thought it was some kind of trick and
that it wasn't really a
computer because the computer made
it's move seemingly instantaneously. So the
next year they
put in a couple second time delay between the visitor's move
and the computer's move. Then people believed it was a
computer because they
could tell that the computer thinking
about it's next move.

Thanks for the
links, very enjoyable.

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Google chief urges action to regulate mini-drones
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 14 2013 @ 02:43 AM EDT
Google doesn't normally make this kind of statement. Google is apparently getting into this technology (along with self driving cars) in a big way to supplement their satellite maps technology and to provide more real time updates to maps Google funded drones

I cannot therefore help wondering whether this is a move by Google to block competition from others in this field before it takes off.

The reality is that you cannot prevent this kind of spying by restricting technology. The problem is that cameras have gotten so small that you can put them into virtually anything - a model aeroplane, a tethered balloon, a knot in a tree, an apple hanging off a branch, a child's remote controlled toy car, your pet cat's collar etc. You cannot ban all of those I'm afraid. What is more, banning or restricting such technology will destroy US competitiveness in the area and hand over the cutting edge to other countries like China, which already makes most of that key components that Google seeks to restrict. Besides, if such technology is an infringement of privacy and needs to be banned or restricted, why stop there - why not ban Google Glasses as well, or restrict their sale to security agencies?

There are two issues issues here - privacy and terrorism. To deal with the privacy issue, we need better privacy laws - laws to make snooping, eavesdropping or overflying private property without due reason illegal. There of course needs to be protection given to whistleblowers, the press, and law enforcement agencies collecting such information under a warrant, where such information gathering is in the public interest.

As far as the terrorism issue is concerned, the solution is the control and restriction of explosives, not the control and restriction of cameras, toys, or ubiquitous technology that has many peaceful civilian uses. I am not sure that the new micro-drones really are a significant threat in any case, because their smallness means that they cannot carry significant quantities of explosive. They are basically a tool for information/intelligence collection rather than terrorist attack.

Having said this, I do have to mention that the fact that the US is carrying out secret drone attacks in other countries, apparently in breach of international law, does not make it easier for the US to condemn similar attacks within the US by other countries in order to eliminate those they decide to label as terrorists rather than pursuing those individuals through the due process of law. This threat will of course come from state terrorism or state sponsored terrorism as is generally the case with terrorism and will be indistinguishable from the type of action the US is currently engaged in.

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"And the SEC apparently looks the other way when companies obscure the true mix..."
Authored by: SilverWave on Sunday, April 14 2013 @ 10:00 AM EDT
And the SEC apparently looks the other way when companies obscure the true mix of their domestic-versus-overseas profit in their regulatory filings.

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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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How the internet worked in 1995
Authored by: JamesK on Sunday, April 14 2013 @ 04:33 PM EDT
I used to regularly watch Computer Chronicles. For a while, Gary Kildall, the
creator of CP/M, was a regular on that show. I started using the Internet back
around 1993 or 1994, with OS/2 Warp 3 and recall using things like gopher,
archie, news groups wais, etc. to do things that are now done with browsers.
One thing I recall about that show was the intro used to have the sound of a
dial up modem connecting, a very familiar sound to us old timers. ;-)


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