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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!
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
PS: Four Day Planet
is out of copyright and available from Project
Gutenberg. Read it. It's really
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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 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 04 2013 @ 12:17 AM EDT |
New Magellan GPS taps cloud computing and social media [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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." [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, May 04 2013 @ 11:24 AM EDT |
May the 4th be with you! ;-)
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The following program contains immature subject matter.
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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