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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 01 2013 @ 08:45 PM EDT |
http://www.americanlawyer.com/dige
stTAL.jsp?id=1202602565276&Tech_Companies_Defeat_Abstract_Acacia_Software_Pa
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 01 2013 @ 10:31 PM EDT |
I have to dual-boot Windows 7 and 8 (long story). Have Office 2010 on Win 7
partition. Won't run from Win 8 partition ("not presently
configured"). Looks like I gotta pay for a new license to run it in Win 8,
even though it's on the same machine.
Wonder if this applies to businesses as well. If so, seems like a huge deterrent
to Win 8 adoption for businesses to shell out for a new Office license for it.
Maybe an upgrade, rather than a dual boot, takes care of this?
Anyway, my Win 8 workaround is LibreOffice 4.0.3.3.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 03:33 AM EDT |
“[T]here were some shouts from the crowd, and people wanting [Luntz]
to be taken off the record. So he asked
any reporters to raise their hands, and
there was only one reporter present, a staff reporter from the Daily
Pennsylvanian, our
school paper; he identified himself, and was asked if he
would mind going off the record. He said absolutely not, and he
turned off his
recording device, and that’s about when I turned mine on.”
The New Yorker
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 05:27 AM EDT |
On reading this I was reminded that I had said much
the same thing would happen, back in 2000 on OSOpinion.com, when Kelly McNeil
was still in charge and it was still a going concern.
Amusing that Microsoft
doesn't seem to have any traction in this field.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 07:48 AM EDT |
Walmart wages are so low that many of its workers rely on food
stamps and other government aid programs to fulfill their basic needs, a reality
that could cost taxpayers as much as $900,000 at just one Walmart
Supercenter in Wisconsin, according to a [.PDF] study released by Congressional
Democrats.
[...]
After accounting for the total number of
Walmart stores and employees across the state and the per-person costs of
BadgerCare, as the state’s health care program is known, the report's authors
estimated that the cost of publicly funded health care comes to $251,706 per
year for a 300-employee Supercenter.
The authors then added up the
projected costs of other public-assistance programs available to families on
BadgerCare, such as reduced-price school meals, Section 8 housing assistance,
the earned income tax credit and energy assistance. Assuming all those workers
avail themselves of those additional programs -- granted, an unlikely scenario
-- the report extrapolates that the final tab would top
$900,000.
Dave Jamieson and Saki Knafo, Huffington Post[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 08:24 AM EDT |
When a company called FlatWorld Interactives LLC filed suit against Apple just over a year
ago, it looked like a typical "patent troll" lawsuit against a tech company,
brought by someone who no longer had much of a business beyond
lawsuits.
Court documents unsealed this week have shown who's behind
FlatWorld, and it's anything but typical. FlatWorld is partly owned by the named
inventor on the patents, a Philadelphia design professor named Slavko Milekic. But 35 percent
of the company has been quietly controlled by an attorney at one of Apple's own
go-to law firms, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. E-mail logs show that
the attorney, John McAleese, worked together with his wife and began
planning a wide-ranging patent attack against Apple's touch-screen products in
January 2007—just days after the iPhone was revealed to the
world.
Jennifer McAleese reached out to numerous "troll patent"
companies, as she called them, convinced that she and Milekic had an "excellent
position against Apple" if and when they chose to sue. She emailed top patent
lawyers at Google and Nokia, competitors known to be in patent clashes with
Apple.
The whole time, she was advised by her husband, a lawyer who had
access to reams of confidential Apple data—but who says he never touched it.
(Apple doesn't see it that way.) Together, the McAleeses created "an indirect
and covert pipeline" of information pumped to to FlatWorld's attorneys, say
Apple lawyers. Now Apple wants FlatWorld's law firm, Seattle-based Hagens Berman
Sobol Shapiro, kicked off the case.
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 11:34 AM EDT |
Forget the old saw about how many angels could dance on
the head of a
pin...
In perfect crystalline form, graphene is so
strong
that it would take an elephant, placed on top of a
pencil, to pierce through a
sheet of graphene as thick as a
piece of Saran Wrap.
It
appears that for useful applications, processing
graphene into sheets big
enough to be useful is the problem.
Now it seems
scientists have found a way to remove
large sheets of
graphene deposited on a substrate without damaging it. Even
though containing grain boundaries rather than being one big
crystal lattice,
it can be 90% as strong as though it were.
Hello Space Elevator.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 11:42 AM EDT |
"Our cosmos was 'bruised' in collisions with other universes. Now astronomers
have found the first evidence of these impacts in the cosmic microwave
background"
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/421999/astronomers-find-first-evidence-of-o
ther-universes/
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 11:48 AM EDT |
Along with H. G. Well's "The Time Machine", Jules Verne’s
"Journey to the
Center of the Earth" were my favourite of
all stories when I was a kid. Today
we know the centre of
the earth is not much like Jules Verne imagined it, but
most
of what we know about it is derived from seismic wave
analyses, and we
have an incomplete picture. For example,
what causes the heat at the
core?
With today’s technology, we can now probe Earth’s interior
using
neutrinos.
Researchers using a detector in Japan
reported several years ago that they had counted neutrinos
coming from Earth’s
interior. But there was enough
uncertainty in the measurement that these
results didn’t get
much attention.
The bulk of the neutrinos they
measured came from manmade
nuclear reactors in Japan, and the geo-neutrino
signal was
only a small fraction.
Last month, new results were
released from a neutrino
detector in Italy that had much less interference from
above-ground reactors. Made from ultra-pure materials, the
Italian detector is
more sensitive to geo-neutrinos than its
Japanese counterpart.
The
results of these two detectors agree and indicate that
the primary heat source
in Earth’s interior is from
radioactive decay of trace amounts of uranium and
thorium.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 04:08 PM EDT |
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/30/world/asia/china-electronic-
waste-e-waste/index.
html
In one workshop, men sliced open sacks of these
plastic chips, which they then poured into large vats of
fluid. They then used
shovels and their bare hands to stir
this synthetic stew.
"We sell this
plastic to Foxconn," one of the workers said,
referring to a Taiwanese company
that manufactures products
for many global electronics companies, including
Apple, Dell
and Hewlett-Packard.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 05:35 PM EDT |
`A new law proposed by the European Commission would make
it illegal to
"grow, reproduce or trade" any vegetable seeds
that have not been "tested,
approved and accepted" by a new
EU bureaucracy named the "EU Plant Variety
Agency."'
link
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 06:40 PM EDT |
The Justice Department filed suit against Apple and five book publishers in
April 2012, accusing them of price fixing in an effort to outflank Amazon in the
market for e-books. All five publishers have settled with the government, but
Apple has forged on to trial.
Justice Dept.’s showdown with Apple over e-book
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 10:15 PM EDT |
More and more embarrassing stories of keep leaking out of the SEC,
which is beginning to look somehow worse than corrupt – it's hard to find the
right language exactly, but "aggressively clueless" comes pretty close to
summing up the atmosphere that seems to be ruling the country's top financial
gendarmes.
The most recent contribution to the broadening canvas
of dysfunction and incompetence surrounding the SEC is a
whistleblower complaint filed by 56-year-old Kathleen Furey, a senior lawyer
who worked in the New York Regional Office (NYRO), the agency outpost with
direct jurisdiction over Wall Street.
Furey's complaint is full of
startling revelations about the SEC, but the most amazing of them is that Furey
and the other 20-odd lawyers who worked in her unit at the NYRO were actually
barred by a superior from bringing cases under two of the four main securities
laws governing Wall Street, the Investment Advisors Act of 1940 and the
Investment Company Act of 1940.
According to Furey, her group at the
SEC's New York office, from a period stretching for over half a decade through
December, 2008, did not as a matter of policy pursue cases against
investment managers like Bernie Madoff. Furey says she was told flatly by her
boss, Assistant Regional Director George Stepaniuk, that "We do not do IM
cases."
Matt Taibbi, Rolling
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 01:06 AM EDT |
William Blackstone, the 18th century English jurist whose thinking
influenced the nation's founders and American law, famously said it's better
that 10 guilty people go free than for one innocent person to suffer.
U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia begs to differ.
In a blistering dissent
Tuesday in McQuiggin vs. Perkins, Scalia stakes out a stunning position
that the court's three other conservatives join: State prisoners with evidence
of actual innocence should not necessarily get their day in
court.
Robyn E. Blumner, Tampa Bay Times
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McQuiggin v. Perkins, SCOTUSblog [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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