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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 06 2013 @ 09:48 PM EDT |
| Popehat
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- Prenda @ Popehat: Judge Wright Rules - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 06 2013 @ 10:15 PM EDT
- link works for me. n/t - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 06 2013 @ 10:39 PM EDT
- ROFL - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 09:51 AM EDT
- ROFL - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 01:29 PM EDT
- Does Prenda Believe In No-Win Scenarios? Because Judge Wright Just Gave Them One. - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 06 2013 @ 11:10 PM EDT
- Does Prenda Believe In No-Win Scenarios? Because Judge Wright Just Gave Them One. - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 12:13 AM EDT
- Does Prenda Believe In No-Win Scenarios? Because Judge Wright Just Gave Them One. - Authored by: Steve Martin on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 06:58 AM EDT
- Does Prenda Believe In No-Win Scenarios? Because Judge Wright Just Gave Them One. - Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 12:14 PM EDT
- PJ, is post above within fair copyright use of popehat? - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 12:45 PM EDT
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| Authored by: cassini2006 on Monday, May 06 2013 @ 10:12 PM EDT |
Good news for once: 3 kidnapped girls found. One was missing for 10
years.
Reading the story, the sad part is that the police appear to have
arrested the wrong people, many times. I hate to think how many lives the
police destroyed, while not catching the perpetrator, who only lived two blocks
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| Authored by: SilverWave on Monday, May 06 2013 @ 10:45 PM EDT |
Orange (EE)
Updating Samsung Galaxy Note 1 to 4.1.2 :-)
At last! About
time Orange!
The plan I have been following
is:
Go with a flagship phone from a successful company, who
updates.
Go with a phone company that updates.
Next time?
If the Nexus 5 is a good phone, in 11 months, Google may
well have
another customer.---
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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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 04:47 AM EDT |
PREDICTING GOOGLE CLOSURES
Clickable links: here.
Incredibly
comprehensive.
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| Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 09:59 AM EDT |
| An Ontario justice of the peace has
been accused of lying to a police officer during a routine traffic stop in
London, Ont. ---
The following program contains immature subject
matter.
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- Sad - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 12:04 PM EDT
- Sad - Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 11:12 AM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 10:22 AM EDT |
Zach Braff is trying to raise money on Kickstarter to fund a movie
he wants to make. Zach Braff is a good actor and a fine filmmaker. GARDEN STATE
was a terrific movie. But I wouldn’t give him a dime.
Why?
Because it
defeats the whole purpose of Kickstarter.
The idea – and it’s a great one –
is that Kickstarter allows filmmakers who otherwise would have NO access to
Hollywood and NO access to serious investors to scrounge up enough money to make
their movies. Zach Braff has contacts. Zach Braff has a name. Zach Braff has a
track record. Zach Braff has residuals. He can get in a room with money people.
He is represented by a major taent agency. But the poor schmoe in Mobile,
Alabama or Walla Walla, Washington has none of those
advantages.
[...]
Recently, Kickstarter was used to fund a new VERONICA
MARS movie. This is obscene to me. It’s a known television series distributed by
a major studio. Are you a big fan of VERONICA MARS? Want to support it? Great.
Buy ten tickets and see the movie ten times.
This is what Hollywood does,
dear reader. It sees an opportunity for exploitation and takes
it.
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 11:18 AM EDT |
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- A bit of humour - Authored by: lgrant on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 02:46 PM EDT
- Oh, Yes - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 03:17 PM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 01:57 PM EDT |
As the future of the proposed Canada-European Union Trade Agreement
becomes increasingly uncertain -- the EU has been unwilling to compromise on the
remaining contentious issues leaving the Canadian government with a deal that
offers limited benefits and significant costs -- the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Agreement (TPP) is likely to emerge as the government's new top trade
priority.
The TPP has rapidly become of the world's most significant trade
negotiations, with participants that include the United States, Australia,
Mexico, Malaysia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Japan, and Canada. There is a veil of
secrecy associated with the TPP, however, as participants are required to sign a
confidentiality agreement as a condition of entry into the
talks.
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Geist, The Tyee[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 04:44 PM EDT |
Globe and Mail: Nokia investors tell CEO their patience
running thin
Nokia Corp. investors told Chief Executive
Stephen Elop on Tuesday that they were running out of patience with his flagging
attempts to catch up with market leaders Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co.
Ltd. in smartphones.
Many shareholders at the annual general meeting in
Helsinki said Elop should reconsider his 2011 decision to switch to the phone
operating software made by his former employer Microsoft Corp., which has left
the company scrambling to get back in the race from a standing start with its
new Lumia range of smartphones.
“Maybe they
could go back to Google and say we also want to go with Android. Even if it
hurts. Microsoft, they’ve had their chances, and are not managing to take
off,”
The Globe and Mail is a leading business newspaper.
Their audience is Bay Street bankers, not Apple fan-boys or Linux advocates.
This is the mainstream business press calling Windows Phone a failure, and
blaming Nokia's problems on their decision to use Windows.
This will
give any business who is considering using Windows Phone serious pause for
thought as to the continuing viability of that platform. It's a big black eye
for Microsoft in general as well.
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| Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 06:35 PM EDT |
| Biggest expectation is that update will revive start button familiar to
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The following
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 10:58 PM EDT |
| Link (71 page
PDF)
You may disagree with Judge Wright, but that may be
the least of
your worries.
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 11:48 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 03:08 AM EDT |
Guardian
Wired
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| Authored by: Steve Martin on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 07:01 AM EDT |
I hope PJ will forgive this one (very, very) OT post, but I just
had to
share the news that Hollywood special-effects pioneer
Ray Harryhausen passed
away yesterday. If you ever saw
early sci-fi classic movies such as Mighty Joe
Young, The 7th
Voyage of Sinbad, or Earth vs. The Flying Saucers, you saw
Ray's stop-motion animation genius at work. (In Pixar's
"Monsters Inc.", the
sushi restaurant "Harryhausen's" was
named after him.)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 10:34 AM EDT |
Strong, the Force is not. In Canada, at least.
Once numbering in
the vicinity of 20,000, the ranks of those in this country who claim to be Jedi
Knights inspired by Star Wars movies have dwindled to fewer than half
that figure, according to Statistics Canada's first release of data from the 2011 National Household Survey.
"A lot less this
time. I think there's about 9,000 reporting Jedi," said Jane Badets, a senior
analyst at Statistics Canada.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 11:26 AM EDT |
A group of 36 students in Western University's Master of Arts in
Journalism class spent three months studying and reporting on citizen science,
covering how it emerged and evolved, where it stands now and where it's
going.
The resulting seven-part series tackles scepticism about whether or
not it is indeed science, looks at the effectiveness of gathering "big data,"
and introduces activists who are using citizen science to bring attention to
their causes.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 01:27 PM EDT |
An FBI investigation manual updated last year, obtained by the ACLU,
says it's possible to warrantlessly obtain Americans' e-mail "without running
afoul" of the Fourth Amendment.
The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI
believe they don't need a search warrant to review Americans' e-mails, Facebook
chats, Twitter direct messages, and other private files, internal documents
reveal.
Government documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union
and provided to CNET show a split over electronic privacy rights within the
Obama administration, with Justice Department prosecutors and investigators
privately insisting they're not legally required to obtain search warrants for
e-mail. The IRS, on the other hand, publicly said last month that it would
abandon a controversial policy that claimed it could get warrantless access to
e-mail correspondence.
The U.S. attorney for Manhattan circulated internal
instructions, for instance, saying a subpoena -- a piece of paper signed by a
prosecutor, not a judge -- is sufficient to obtain nearly "all records from an
ISP."
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