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Amici brief
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 09 2013 @ 09:50 PM EDT
"Allowing unknowable laws to be written on an ad-hoc basis by private
corporations [...]"

Corporatism defined.

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Open Source Downloads Endangered
Authored by: lnuss on Wednesday, July 10 2013 @ 07:27 AM EDT
There seems to be a lot of duplicated text in this news item.

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Larry N.

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apple guilty.. ebook pricefixing.
Authored by: frankieh on Wednesday, July 10 2013 @ 12:06 PM EDT
apple busted, price fixing

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Total Cost of Ownership?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 10 2013 @ 02:19 PM EDT
US agency baffled by modern technology, destroys mice to get rid of viruses
The total cost to the taxpayer of this incident was $2.7 million: $823,000 went to the security contractor for its investigation and advice, $1,061,000 for the acquisition of temporary infrastructure (requisitioned from the Census Bureau), $4,300 to destroy $170,500 in IT equipment, and $688,000 paid to contractors to assist in development of a long-term response. Full recovery took close to a year.

How's that affecting the Total Cost of Ownership [*] for those legacy Microsoft systems?

[*] Don't blame me for that oxymoron; that's a Microsoft invention. Might even be a patented method of deception.

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Dropbox wants to replace your HDD
Authored by: complex_number on Thursday, July 11 2013 @ 03:19 AM EDT
link to /.

If they do, all your data will belong to the NSA(Prism).

Nice idea but since DropBox will have to give in to ALL NSA requests (don't know about any back doors...) what price privacy then?

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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?

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A look at the black underbelly of Windows 8.1 'Blue'
Authored by: JK Finn on Thursday, July 11 2013 @ 06:38 AM EDT
Infoworld article
The new Win8.1 Smart Search -- invoked by default through the Windows 8.1 Search charm -- not only searches your computer for the string you specify. It also, all by itself, gathers up the terms and runs them through a Bing search. Making this cool new feature all the more lovable, Microsoft has officially announced that advertisers will be able to dish up advertising to your computer, based on the searches you perform on your computer.

Eh, isn't this precisely the mode of operation that Canonical tried with Dash and the Shopping Lense, only to be forced to back out of by, among other things, community response and EU data protection laws?

I can easily see Microsoft ignoring community response, but I wonder if they really think this is a good time to try their luck with those laws, what with the NSA kerfuffle and all.

NSA may consider themselves to be above any applicable laws, but I don't think that extends to their contractual partners like Microsoft.

JK Finn

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