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Mothers Are the Sole or Primary Provider in Four-in-Ten Households with Children
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 30 2013 @ 09:28 PM EDT
A record 40% of all households with children under the age of 18 include mothers who are either the sole or primary source of income for the family, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The share was just 11% in 1960.

These “breadwinner moms” are made up of two very different groups: 5.1 million (37%) are married mothers who have a higher income than their husbands, and 8.6 million (63%) are single mothers.

The income gap between the two groups is quite large.

[...]

Other Key Findings

  • Both groups of breadwinner mothers, married and single, have grown in size in the past five decades.
  • The total family income is higher when the mother, not the father, is the primary breadwinner.
  • Married mothers are increasingly better educated than their husbands.
  • Most people reject the idea that it is bad for a marriage if a wife out-earns her husband.
  • Today’s single mothers are much more likely to be never married than were single mothers in the past.
  • Never married mothers have a distinctive profile.
  • Wendy Wang, Kim Parker and Paul Taylor, Pew Research

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    The Aftermath Of Napster: Letting Incumbents Veto Innovation Slows Down Innovation Drastically
    Authored by: SilverWave on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 05:16 AM EDT
    Th e Aftermath Of Napster: Letting Incumbents Veto Innovation Slows Down Innovation Drastically

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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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    *Hugely speculative* Microsoft could exit search
    Authored by: SilverWave on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 05:35 AM EDT
    Microsoft could exit search
    hmmmm...

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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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    Samsung did not copy Apple tablet
    Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 06:11 AM EDT
    Heading seems to be deceptive, but the verdict of the Hoge Raad, the supreme
    court in the Netherlands, says that Samsung did not copy and did not violate the
    design with the Galaxy Tab. Their conclusion says: The design is made up on
    designs similar to that of other makers of similar products, including Apple.
    Also they came to the conclusion taht an informed buyer would see the difference
    between a product of Samsung and Apple, so that was also a reason to reject the
    appeal, thereby confirming the conclusion of a lower court.

    This will also give similar cases in Europe a new input, due to the fact that
    this conclusion will be taken into account for running cases.

    Caveat: there is the possibility for Apple to appeal to the European Court, but
    if they take this step, it will be a few years later before we finally know what
    is legally possible in Europe.

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    Junk patents
    Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 07:51 AM EDT
    What do you do when the USPTO grants a patent on something
    that is literally nothing more than a translation into English
    Legaleese from Latin, and French?

    Seriously, the drawing are from a book published in England in
    the mid 1950s. About a quarter of the text is a translation from a
    book published in Latin circa 1600. About a third of the text is a
    translation of a book published in French sometime around 1880.
    The rest of the text is pure legalease.

    The numbers used for the diagrams are either from a book that
    was published in the early 1990s, or else a talk given at one of the
    major conferences in the field, in the early 1980s.

    Or am I, as an expert in the field of endevour covered by the
    patent, not supposed to recognise the books that the cut and
    paste came from, when writing the patent?





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    • Reference ? n/t - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 04:27 PM EDT
    FBI Must Return Kim Dotcom’s Illegally Seized Property
    Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 08:42 AM EDT
    “The deficiencies in the warrants and, as a consequence, the searches, were more than merely technical,” she said. “The defects in the warrants were such that the warrants were nullities.”

    “The warrants could not authorize the permanent seizure of hard drives and digital materials against the possibility that they might contain relevant material, with no obligation to check them for relevance,” Winkelmann added.

    In addition the Judge notes that the warrants did not permit the police to ship the 150 terabytes of data to the FBI.

    “They could not authorize the shipping offshore of those hard drives with no check to see if they contained relevant material. Nor could they authorize keeping the plaintiffs out of their own information, including information irrelevant to the offenses.”

    Ernesto, TorrentFreak

    Justice Winkelmann was appointed a High Court judge in July 2004 and appointed as Chief High Court Judge in September 2009 with effect from 1 February 2010.

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    Case number: [2013] NZHC 1269
    31 May 2013
    http://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/about/high/high//from/decisions/judgments

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    LinuxTag: LiMux firmly established in Munich
    Authored by: JamesK on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 10:00 AM EDT
    Peter Hofmann, the leader of Munich's Linux migration project, has denied rumours that the LiMux clientGerman language link will be "decommissioned" when the initiative runs out at the end of the year.

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    The following program contains immature subject matter.
    Viewer discretion is advised.

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    Neelie Kroes calls for the end of mobile roaming fees by 2014
    Authored by: JamesK on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 10:54 AM EDT
    Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission, has been on a mission for a single telecoms market as TelecomsTech first reported back in January.

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    The following program contains immature subject matter.
    Viewer discretion is advised.

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    OT here
    Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 11:02 AM EDT
    If carpenters were hired like programmers. This would be funny, if it weren't so true. Also shows why lawmakers have no clue with software patents either.

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    Subject: GMOs
    Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 11:26 AM EDT

    Should we label them?

    I'll have to disagree with the conclusion.

    RAS

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    • Market forces - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 01 2013 @ 05:23 PM EDT
    Owners of a Raspberry PI, what do you use it for? - Reddit: 7000 replies so far
    Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 02:36 PM EDT
    6867 actually
    A thread about Raspberry Pi ended up on the front page of Reddit today, and it’s a doozy.

    There are thousands of people taking part, and some Pi projects mentioned that we’d never even imagined people taking on. Some of them made our little hearts swell with pride. Teaching machines for schools in Ecuador, prosthetic knees in the USA, musical instruments controlled by eye movements for disabled people, solar flare detection, wood engraving, pocket-money analyser – there’s something here for everyone.

    You guys are brilliant.

    http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/4093

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    DOJ forum shopping?
    Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 03:02 PM EDT
    Link

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    You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.

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    Windows 8.1 - Doublethink at large
    Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 03:52 PM EDT
    Link

    Windows 8.1 brings variable, continuous size of snap views. You will have more ways to see multiple apps on the screen at the same time. You can resize apps to any size you want, share the screen between two apps, or have up to four apps on screen. If you have multiple displays connected, you can have different Windows Store apps running on all the displays at the same time and the Start Screen can stay open on one monitor.

    1. Remove a lot of features
    2. Put them back
    3. Claim that the software is a lot better now
    Wow!

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