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Jeremy Drew, Awesome
Authored by: om1er on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 08:28 PM EDT
The link in newspicks doesn't work. Here is my attempt at the correct link. http:// blog.simplejustice.us/2013/05/08/jeremy-drew- awesome.aspx

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March 23, 2010 - Judgement day.

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The Man Who Turned Off Cookies In Firefox Doesn't Care If It Hurts Advertisers
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 08:59 PM EDT

Article link.

Great thanks to Jonathan Mayer!

Active Privacy should always be the default with the individual consciously, explicitly deciding what privacy to relinquish and when.

RAS

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Microsoft to buy Nook Media
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 01:28 AM EDT
I actually don't have a problem with a company buying a competitor and shutting
them down.

This is very different from what happened with Nokia.

If a company buys a competitor and shuts them down, they are paying the former
owners for the full value of the company (at least they are if it's not a sale
under duress)

for something like Nook Media, if Microsoft buys it and kills it, some other
company, some other company can come along and build a replacement. Employees
can move to the new company (or other competing companies)

What happened with Nokia was very different. The Microsoft did not pay the full
market value of Nokia, instead the paid a tiny fraction of the amount to
influence key decisionmakers to do things to destroy the company.

David Lang

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Newspicks
Authored by: dio gratia on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 02:20 AM EDT

Google Framed As Book Stealer Bent On Data Domination In New Documentary.

See, Google didn’t just want to make a universally accessible library. It wanted to use all the knowledge to improve its search and artificial intelligence projects.
It would seem there's this social exchange where society at large prospers ("...to promote the Sciences and the Arts") given as a Constitutional reason to authorize Congress to enact protections for authors (and inventors).
... and others begin to speculate that Google wants to hoard the books primarily for its own purposes, not to democratize their information.
If you were to prevent the Constitutional purpose, what's left? There is no copyright that limits use of ideas expressed therein. We're seeing emotive lobbying for expansion of copyright of the moral rights kind.

You have to wonder how many of these Authors Guild member's works will be extinguished due to neglect before the expiration of their copyright?

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A Good Reason to Use POP Mail
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 03:26 AM EDT
FBI Documents Suggest Feds Read Emails Without a Warrant
We received two paragraphs from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York—part of an unidentified document stating that law enforcement can obtain [from ISPs] “opened electronic communications or extremely old unopened email” without a warrant.
They also got from DoJ Guidance Regarding the Application of United States v. Jones, 132 S. Ct. 945 (2012), DO NOT bother trying to read this document. It has a third of a page of long title and addressees at the top of page 1. The remaining 53.7 pages are blacked out. I guess that information didn't want to be free. And no, I can't be bothered trying to crack their blackout.

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New Zealand to bar software patents, again
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 06:11 AM EDT

The Register: New Zealand to bar software patents, again

"New legislation closes loophole, makes it plain Kiwis won't patent code"

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Government clarifys software not patentable in New Zealand
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 06:20 AM EDT
NZ Govt and NZ's largest group of IT professionals say no to software patents Approx background: The select committee unanimously decided that software is not patentable as part of the Patent reform Bill. Then coincidentally (if you're naïve) an ex MS employee started working with Minister Foss who shortly afterwards had a brainwave changing the wording such that software would effectively be patentable, such as. (to be fair he knows little about software), then a public outcry and now software will hopefully not patentable, again. The people who own most of the fluffy patents don't come from NZ, just a big overseas convicted monopolist of 30 years and a few other big companies.

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