Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 02 2013 @ 07:59 PM EDT |
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Amendment
IV
The right of the
people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers, and effects, against
unreasonable searches and seizures, shall
not be violated, and no Warrants shall
issue, but upon probable cause, supported
by Oath or affirmation, and
particularly describing the place to be searched,
and the persons or things to
be seized.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 02 2013 @ 08:18 PM EDT |
My company TMSOFT was recently sued by Lodsys in the eastern
district of Texas.
I initially thought I was being sued for using a
hyperlink in my White Noise application (see below). I know now I’m being sued
because the CEO of Lodsys didn’t like what I publicly said about their company.
That’s right. I’m being sued because I called Lodsys a “patent troll” on my
podcast, Tech 411.
[...]
I’ve been fortunate to have Dan Ravicher from
PUBPAT (pubpat.org) represent my company pro bono in this matter. Pubpat is a
not-for-profit organization that has the mission to protect freedom in the
patent system. He’s a champion of the little guy who has offered to help app
developers and small companies that have been targeted by
Lodsys.
[...]
Dan contacted the lawyer for Lodsys, who actually admitted
to him that this wasn’t about money. It was about the things I said on my tech
podcast and blog. During that time, the CEO of Lodsys, Mark Small, was getting
a lot of negative media coverage and even wrote on his blog that he received
several death threats. Mark obviously didn’t like the comments I made about
his company and retaliated by sending a patent infringement
letter.
Todd
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 02 2013 @ 10:12 PM EDT |
Google News will show many more equally painful puns on the sad demise of a once
proud Family Firm now short of cash.
Deutsche Welle
HongKong Standard
On a sour note the shareholders are
dissing the price,
marketwatch.com
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 02 2013 @ 11:26 PM EDT |
Video and story at
Russia
Today
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Authored by: drorh on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 07:15 AM EDT |
With all the unfairness of Microsoft's tactics against
Netscape, it is rather a poetic justice that starting with
Internet Explorer 11, the browser would identify itself with
appName set to "Netscape" and product set to "Gecko" (the
Firefox rendering engine). No, this time it is not because of
the regulator but because of the market...
For the details see
http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2013/07/02/internet-explorer-
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- Poetic Justice - Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 12:11 PM EDT
- I wonder if it finally supports drag-n-drop - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 12:36 PM EDT
- A bit optimistic methinks - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 12:46 PM EDT
- Why 10 years? - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 04:57 PM EDT
- Aye - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 02:40 PM EDT
- Aye - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 12:24 AM EDT
- Huh? - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 07:23 AM EDT
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Authored by: tiger99 on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 07:45 AM EDT |
The H A very sensible ruling! Thanks
to Harald for watching out for GPL violations and taking action when
needed. According to a recent ruling of the District Court of
Hamburg, sources released with a GPLv2-licensed program must have the same
version as the corresponding binaries. The court ruled that hardware
manufacturer Fantec had acted negligently in providing older versions of source
code for some of its firmware, rather than providing the actual sources that the
binaries were originally compiled from. The company was sued by Harald Welte's
gpl-violations.org representing the iptables developers of the netfilter
project. I have seen GPL violations like this before, such as some
Epson drivers where the supplied source code was syntactically incorrect and
could not be compiled. I think it was just carelessness rather than malice, and
no doubt would have been settled out of court if someone had complained, but the
problem went away as the CUPS dveelopers, I think, took over, and the Epson
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 12:32 PM EDT |
Sources are reporting that their new CEO is a former
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Authored by: squib on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 01:20 PM EDT |
Motorola Is Listening
Ben Lincoln has done an interesting
analyse of the information that his phone sends back to Motorola and what
protocols it uses for that purpose.
To my mind it is another case, where
even if, the average user, wades through all the terms of service and user
agreements he will still remain unaware of how much is being sent back and so
won't realise he can turn some things off.
It does indirectly demonstrate
too another advantage of buying a phone without carrier contract so being able
to keep a clean Android version on it. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 01:29 PM EDT |
Since I have managed to come in on the last act of Gotterdammerung
and am still trying to find the libretto, I’ve been in what little spare time I
have reading history, particularly on propaganda. One must read book is by Alex
Carey, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy. Carey taught psychology in Australia,
and he depicts the US as the breeding ground for the modern art of what is
sometimes more politely called the engineering of consent.
[...]
While I
am not telling you to skip Fourth of July fireworks, it might be time to
recognize key events that help us look at our history with fresh eyes. Perhaps
we should quietly celebrate what we still have of the America our founders
envisaged, say on the anniversary of the signing of the articles of
Confederation (a protracted affair, with the last signature affixed on March 1,
1781) or their replacement with the Constitution on March 4, 1789. But
regardless of how individuals go about it, the more we recognize how cultural
memes are created and propagated, the more hope we have of freeing ourselves
from them.
Yves Smith, Naked
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- Aristotle? - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 03:14 PM EDT
- Leisure time - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 05:41 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 02:36 PM EDT |
Where does this position Samsung in the good firm, bad firm equation?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23170757[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 05:24 PM EDT |
9 slides
http://extra.globo.com/noticias/rio/fabrica-de-sao-goncalo-ja-produz-cerca-de-80
0-mascaras-por-dia-para-manifestacoes-8744832.html [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Not so Anonymous - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 07:24 PM EDT
- Not so Anonymous - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 09:02 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 06:05 PM EDT |
3 July Kim Dotcom appeared before the parliamentary Select Committee hearing
submissions on a bill to amend legislation to give
the GCSB the right to spy on
New Zealand citizens.
Some
local
coverage.
More
radio
clips.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 08:47 PM EDT |
real time feed
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 10:25 PM EDT |
http://www.intellectualventures.com/index.php/insights/archives/invention-
in-america
Sure, I believe and expect most, possibly even PJ, to believe in the Apple
pie...but I suspect IV has done more to prevent inventors from realizing
dreams than the other way around.
Turning an invention into a bsiness is very different from inventing
itself...the last "lone" inventor I ran into really thought he had
something, a
better electric car, but the honda civic hybrid I was driving at the time did a
much better job of the same thing.
And trolling...well, that really POISONS the market...Especially with
essentially frivolous patents.
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- LOL - Authored by: albert on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 07:53 PM EDT
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Authored by: complex_number on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 02:35 AM EDT |
link
I'm confused (and not for the
first time). Imagine this situation.
I'm a small electronics manufacturer and
I buy quite legally some components from a wholesaler. Then I design and put
together a bit of kit and start selling it. I've not made and components. all
I've done is create something that works from off the shelf parts.
Do I
really need to get my company lawyer to sign patent agreements with EVERY
company that may hold patents on the components I have bought and used in my bit
of kit?
Remember that all the parts (eg a LED) were bought off the shelf.
Presumably the maker of the parts was licensed to make the components in the
first place so why can the patent holders come effectively 'double dipping' and
claim money from me? Any deals will push up the price of my bit of kit. It may
even make it impossible to sell and my company could cease trading.
What
then? The patent holder could (after a court judgement) hold a lien on my
business and then end up owning the right to my bit of kit. Talk about a stealth
takeover...!!!!.
Can this be right or legal?
Answers in 32pt Sans Serif
on a pin=head please. :)
Finally, can it be right that a patent holder can
dictate who can use a component that contains their invention? If I were 'Joe
Public' and bought say a LED from Radio Shack, could Boston Uni dictate what I
could use that LED for? could they demand royalties if I made something and sold
it to a friend?
Yours, confused as ever.
--- 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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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 07:13 AM EDT |
Interesting audio recording. I wonder if she knew she was
being recorded .. link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 08:11 AM EDT |
WHAT we are all adversaries ? GERMANY IS what 70+ years
after world war 2?
and who the hell is a "customer"
"is this job for liers"
can we make this girl really grilling them head of the
nsa...
OHHHHHHH YOU AMERICANS NEED A REAL REALITY CHECK THIS IS
GOING
VIRAL.....
WOW listen
to this girl
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 08:16 AM EDT |
The government ended its case against Pfc. Bradley Manning on
Tuesday by dropping its controversial claim that disclosures to WikiLeaks aided
a "classified" enemy.Prosecutors had accused Manning of "aiding the enemy,"
in particular, al-Qaida, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, and a "classified
enemy." With legal scholars stumped over the term, a military spokeswoman
eventually explained that the concept referred
to "the means and methods of collection that the government has employed to"
determine that its "enemy is in receipt of certain compromised classified
information." As the government rested its case Tuesday, however, Maj. Ashden
Fein announced a new plan to drop the classified enemy charge. "The United
States has not presented nor does it intend to present, since the government
rested, the evidence that was offered during the bill of particulars of a
classified enemy," the lead prosecutor said.
Adam Klasfeld,
Courthouse News
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see also:
US government rests its case in
Bradley Manning WikiLeaks trial
Ed Pilkington, the Guardian [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 08:20 AM EDT |
Desktop
wallpaper is one of the best ways to personalize your computer. And one of the
best topics for desktop wallpaper is space. These 30 images are from NASA and
their associate agencies and research organizations. --- The following
program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 12:17 PM EDT |
Another sign of a re-think of the dominant neo-liberal economic outlook, which
promises so much and delivers so little - at least to the 90-99%.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/06/26/the-origin-of-the-worlds-dum
best-idea-milton-friedman/[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 12:21 PM EDT |
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Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 01:09 PM EDT |
Link Nothing to be concerned about, the
data is still free. The Archive's news item identifies two
particular changes to the licence since version 1: a new section headed
"Non-endorsement" specifies that re-used information cannot be presented as if
the new version of the information has any official status or endorsement from
the department from where it originated. Secondly, an OGL symbol has been
developed as an easy way to identify information that can be used under the
terms of the licence. Just tidying up a couple of loose ends, and
perhaps a minor improvement, the symbol. It is right that as much as possible of
government data is made available freely, after all the taxpayers have paid for
it to be gathered, so we should be able to get free access to it, where privacy
and security considerations permit. At least, updating the license does show a
continuing committment to keep the data free, which is as much as we could hope
for from any government, who are generally occupied with what they see as far
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 03:42 PM EDT |
BBC Link
France's foreign intelligence service intercepts computer and
telephone data on a vast scale, like the controversial US Prism programme,
according to the French daily Le Monde.
The data is stored on a
supercomputer at the headquarters of the DGSE intelligence service, the paper
says.
It seems that government acting illegally is a
worldwide practice.
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- Le Monde report - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 04:17 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 04:09 PM EDT |
Twitter to target ads using your web
history
Oh, joy.
Twitter announced a new
advertising strategy on Wednesday that would track data on a user's computer,
such as browser history and contacts' information.
The "tailored ads"
function allows the social networking service to use third-party data to display
ads in your Twitter feed that more closely match what you do on the internet
other than use Twitter.
(...)
The article isn't
clear on the details, but it sounds like the Twitter app will "harvest" your web
browser history and send it off to Twitter where they can re-sell it to
advertising companies.
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- Oh, joy. - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 04:12 PM EDT
- Oh, joy. - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 04:20 PM EDT
- But we hate this kind of ad. - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 05:04 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 06:37 PM EDT |
And for an alternative scenario http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mag
azine-23179103. People who have made a difference. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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