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Google C+D to Microsoft - status
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 02:37 AM EDT
Well, I was not totally accurate in my prediction. Microsoft did blink, a little. And Google has not yet responded.

Here's the blink

Microsoft has now made the next move, with the release of the updated version of the app yesterday, which disables the ability to download content from the app. The YouTube app for Windows Phone 8 will still not display ads. The update is available in the Windows Phone Store now, but current users of the app will only lose the ability to download content if they elect to upgrade the app.

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How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome - The Good Stuff :-)
Authored by: SilverWave on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 04:33 AM EDT
How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome
If you’ve been paying attention lately, you’ll see the signs of a significant disruption in computing. No, I’m not talking about mobile: That disruption already happened and we’re in the midst of it playing out now as PC sales have become stagnant at best. Instead, it’s within the browser: Google Chrome is the harbinger of change and through it, Google has huge potential to change computing once again.

In fact, I’d go so far as to say, within a year, many of you will be using a Chromebook. Before you roll your eyes, let me add one caveat: That Chromebook won’t be Google-designed hardware; instead it will be on the Mac, Windows or Linux machine you have at that time. So it won’t be a Google-built device like my Chromebook Pixel is.

Let’s step back and I’ll explain.

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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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Why are the LulzSec hackers being locked up?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 05:54 AM EDT

Why are the LulzSec hackers being locked up?

A very sensible question, and not one I'd seen asked in the Mainstream Media before this.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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http://www.eweek.com/networking/slideshows/ethernet-marks-40-years-linking-people-computers-in-a
Authored by: JamesK on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 08:24 AM EDT
eWeek

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Canada - Supreme Court Decides 'plagiarizing' Judge Case
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 10:44 AM EDT
Eric Victor Cojocaru, the son of Monica Cojocaru, suffered brain damage during his birth at the British Columbia Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. Ms. Cojocaru had previously given birth to a child by caesarean section performed in Romania. On the recommendation of Dr. Yue, Ms. Cojocaru’s prenatal care obstetrician, Ms. Cojocaru attempted to deliver Eric by “vaginal birth after caesarean section” or “VBAC”. On the day in question, Ms. Cojocaru’s labour was induced at the Hospital by Dr. Edris, an obstetrical resident, with prostaglandin gel. Ms. Cojocaru was under the care of the on‑call obstetrician, Dr. Steele. As Ms. Cojocaru was a high‑risk patient, she remained at the Hospital and was attended to by Nurses Verwoerd and Bellini. During her labour later in the day, Ms. Cojocaru experienced a uterine rupture, which restricted Eric’s oxygen supply. It was accepted that the scar from the previous caesarean section was implicated in the rupture. An emergency caesarean section was then performed. Eric suffered brain damage, which has given rise to cerebral palsy. Eric and his mother brought an action in negligence against the Hospital, the attending Nurses Bellini, MacQueen and Verwoerd and Drs. Steele, Yue and Edris.

At trial, the Hospital, Nurse Bellini and the three doctors were found liable in negligence and damages were awarded to the plaintiffs in the amount of $4 million. The trial judge’s reasons reproduced large portions of the submissions of the plaintiffs. However, the trial judge did not accept all the submissions of the plaintiffs, discussed a number of issues and stated his final conclusions in his own words. The majority of the Court of Appeal held that the trial judge’s decision should be set aside because of the extensive copying from the plaintiffs’ submissions and ordered a new trial. The dissenting justice did not set aside the judgment because of the copying, but reviewed the case on its merits, and determined that the actions against Dr. Steele, Dr. Edris, the Hospital and Nurse Bellini should be dismissed. He indicated that he would have also reduced the damage award against the remaining defendant, Dr. Yue.

The plaintiffs appealed the order of a new trial. The Hospital and Nurse Bellini cross‑appealed asking that the issue of liability and damages be resolved by the Court, rather than sending the matter back for a new trial.

Held: The appeal and the cross‑appeal should be allowed.
http://scc.lexum.org/decisia-scc-csc/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/13072/index.do

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New Tribune article about SCO/McBride
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 11:53 AM EDT
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/56356205-90/shurtleff-mcbride-robbins-jens
on.html.csp?page=1

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Well done, Vermont !!
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 04:27 PM EDT
Yes! http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/05/24/patent-troll-suit/

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NASA plans to drag asteroid into lunar orbit
Authored by: JamesK on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 05:16 PM EDT
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden dropped by JPL on Thursday to outline the agency’s plans to capture an asteroid, and to look at a model of a powerful new ion thruster that has enough strength to drag a space rock into orbit around the moon.

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BBC Digital Project cancelled ..
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 07:40 PM EDT
"The BBC has suspended its chief technical officer after the corporation was found to have wasted £98.4m of licence fee payers' money on its failed Digital Media Initiative project." link

"Last week the BBC Trust approved funding for the Digital Media Initiative (DMI), the project which will enable the BBC to re–engineer its production process, removing tape from the equation and progressing towards a fully digital BBC." Ashley Highfield Feb 2008

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Microsoft and Google agree to build YouTube app for Windows Phone 8
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 07:41 PM EDT
Link

"Microsoft and YouTube are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable compliance with YouTube’s API terms of service, including enabling ads, in the coming weeks. Microsoft will replace the existing YouTube app in Windows Phone Store with the previous version during this time."

Sounds like Microsoft realized this was not going to turn out good for them unless they complied with the ToS.

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Microsoft Patents TV That Watches Back
Authored by: bilateralrope on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 09:04 PM EDT
In a comment on the previous article I mentioned that the Xbox One sounded
rather creepy due to the Kinect camera being required at all times. Mainly
because when you considered all the functions as a whole, it sounds very much
like a telescreen from George Orwell's 1984.

Today I find out that they patented it
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121105/21564420943/microsoft-patents-tv-that-
watches-back-counts-heads-charges-admission.shtml

The implications of that age detector sound interesting, given that it's a
camera designed to watch people while they watch porn.

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SCO boss: I was offered $2 million by Utah’s top prosecutor
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 09:28 PM EDT
Article at Ars Technica: SCO boss: I was offered $2 million by Utah’s top prosecutor

Darl McBride, the former chief executive officer of SCO, says he was offered $2 million by the Utah attorney general in May 2009 in exchange for taking down a website criticizing an area business person. Still pursuing the years-long legal battle against Novell and IBM over Unix and Linux intellectual property, SCO needed money at the time.

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Twitter 2FA broken by design
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 25 2013 @ 01:51 AM EDT
It's not two factor if sms is your input channel
but that's only the start.

f-secure   PC-Mag

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Training Baggage Screeners
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 25 2013 @ 02:47 AM EDT
Some decisions, such as predicting the winner of a baseball game, are challenging in part because outcomes are probabilistic. When making such decisions, one view is that humans stochastically and selectively retrieve a small set of relevant memories that provides evidence for competing options. We show that optimal performance at test is impossible when retrieving information in this fashion, no matter how extensive training is, because limited retrieval introduces noise into the decision process that cannot be overcome.
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Optimal machine classifiers modified to selectively and stochastically sample from memory match the pattern of human performance. These results suggest firm limits on human rationality and have broad implications for how to train humans tasked with important classification decisions, such as radiologists, baggage screeners, intelligence analysts, and gamblers.
PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA

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