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Where did "etaoin shrdlu" come from
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 03 2013 @ 08:35 PM EDT

I first saw the term used in H. Beam Piper's novella Four Day Planet, which is partly set in a newsroom. I had no idea what it meant, though I gathered it was something pretty bad, or something fannish along the lines of "Yngvi is a louse".

BBC UK

Thanks to the BBC, now I know. I would have never, ever, guessed the real meaning!

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

PS: Four Day Planet is out of copyright and available from Project Gutenberg. Read it. It's really good.

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Big Data is Becoming a Big Deal
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 03 2013 @ 09:43 PM EDT
The Promising Rise of Big Data
Brent Boles, Brendan McConnell and Lola Fakinlede, The Tyee

The Rise of Big Data, Big Brother
Cathy O’Neil, Naked Capitalism

Big Data in the Big Apple
Viktor Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier, Slate

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New Magellan GPS taps cloud computing and social media
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 04 2013 @ 12:17 AM EDT
New Magellan GPS taps cloud computing and social media

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Harper Lee sues for copyright of To Kill A Mockingbird
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 04 2013 @ 02:55 AM EDT
Harper Lee, 87, says Samuel Pinkus took advantage of her failing hearing and eyesight to transfer the rights and has failed to respond to licence requests.

[...]

In the lawsuit, Lee alleges that when her long-time literary agent, Eugene Winick, became ill in 2002, his son-in-law, Mr Pinkus, switched several of Mr Winick's clients to his own company.

Mr Pinkus is alleged to have transferred the rights to secure himself "irrevocable" interest in the income derived from Lee's book.

He also sought to avoid paying legal obligations he owed to his father-in-law's company for royalties, according to the lawsuit.

It is further alleged that Mr Pinkus failed to respond to offers on e-book rights and a request for assistance related to the book's 50th anniversary.

The lawsuit bids the court to assign any rights in the book owned by Mr Pinkus to Lee and asks that she be returned any commission he took from 2007 onwards.

BBC

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“Pinkus knew that Harper Lee was an elderly woman with physical infirmities that made it difficult for her to read and see,” Gloria Phares, Lee’s lawyer, said in the complaint. “Harper Lee had no idea she had assigned her copyright” to Pinkus’s company.

There was no immediate response yesterday to a message left on the voice-mail of Leigh Ann Winick of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, a defendant in the suit and the wife of Pinkus, according to the complaint. She is listed as the president of Keystone Literary LLC, a defendant.

Also named as a defendant is Gerald Posner, identified as a New York lawyer and investigative journalist who incorporated one of Pinkus’s businesses. Posner didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail sent to his website yesterday seeking comment on the lawsuit.

[...]

The case is Lee v. Pinkus, 13-3000, U.S. District Court, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).

Don Jeffrey and Bob Van Voris, Businessweek

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The problem isn't the trolls
Authored by: symbolset on Saturday, May 04 2013 @ 06:55 AM EDT

The problem is patents.

The solution is: "patents preventing progress;they are void."

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Happy Star Wars Day
Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, May 04 2013 @ 11:24 AM EDT
May the 4th be with you! ;-)


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'Appalling irresponsibility' - Chinese creating new strains of influenza virus in vet lab
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 04 2013 @ 11:26 AM EDT
Experts warn of danger that the new viral strains created by mixing bird-flu virus with human influenza could escape from the laboratory to cause a global pandemic killing millions of people.

Senior scientists have criticised the “appalling irresponsibility” of researchers in China who have deliberately created new strains of influenza virus in a veterinary laboratory.

They warned there is a danger that the new viral strains created by mixing bird-flu virus with human influenza could escape from the laboratory to cause a global pandemic killing millions of people.

Lord May of Oxford, a former government chief scientist and past president of the Royal Society, denounced the study published today in the journal Science as doing nothing to further the understanding and prevention of flu pandemics.

“They claim they are doing this to help develop vaccines and such like. In fact the real reason is that they are driven by blind ambition with no common sense whatsoever.”

Steve Conner, The Independent

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US puts India on trade blacklist ..
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 04 2013 @ 12:32 PM EDT
"The Obama administration placed India on a special trade blacklist Wednesday, a move some public health advocates said was retaliation for the country allowing generic versions of expensive drugs preferred by the U.S. government. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative objected to aspects of India's patent system in the agency's latest Special 301 report:" link

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