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Lodsys sues developer for calling it a troll
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 02 2013 @ 06:31 PM EDT
Lodsys lawyers admit to suing app developer TMSOFT because company's
owner Todd Moore called it a troll in his popular podcast:

http://toddmoore.com/2013/07/02/why-im-not-paying-the-troll-toll/

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Bottled Water and UVA Student...
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 02 2013 @ 06:35 PM EDT
I ate dinner at the very same shopping center this week. The grocery,
Harris-Teeter, is basically a high-end, all-night kind of a place where you can
get some sushi if you want as well as all your usual groceries.

If these were plainclothes officers, why didn't they have a police car near by?
No, surrounding someone with a bunch of thugs and expecting them not to panic
isn't something the cops should be allowed to do.

Just a little more force, and a little more foolishness, and someone could have
easily been killed...for a six-pack of beer???? For a basically adult college
student who isn't even close to intoxicated??? What about the store that sold
the beer??

That is as good as the teenager that WAS killed when the drinking party he was
at was raided by the cops, he fled in his car, and ran off a particularly
difficult curve and died when he rolled his car. That one was just below
Monticello, on the far side from Charlottesville.

(Christenson)

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Pizza Court
Authored by: calris74 on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 01:32 AM EDT
This is so funny - made more so by the blatant ridiculousness
of it. Nine and a half months, thousands of dollars for one
slice of pizza that had already been paid for.

Seriously!

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  • Pizza Court - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 03:11 AM EDT
The Paranoia Spreads
Authored by: complex_number on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 04:21 PM EDT
nytime s.com

So the US Mail is recording the sender and destination of every item is carries and 'giving it to the man'.

The US Gov wants to know about everyone we communicate with just in case they might be a terrorist. Given that in my estimate less than 0.001% of US Citizens are terrorists I am puzzled as to how they can justify this sort of expense. (I did know two people who died on 11th Sept 2001) and have experienced an IRA bomb at first hand).

What now for the N.H motto, 'Live Free or Die'?

I always thought the US habit of putting the senders address on the envelope was a bit weird. Perhaps people might think twice about doing this in future.

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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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The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 09:56 PM EDT
"The Mother of All Demos is a name given retrospectively to Douglas Engelbart's December 9, 1968, demonstration of experimental computer technologies that are now commonplace. The live demonstration featured the introduction of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor."
1:40:53 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

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Newspicks Thread Here...
Authored by: alisonken1 on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 10:07 PM EDT
The Register article titled "Boston U claims LED patent, files against tech giants"

"Among its targets are Apple's iPhone and iPad, Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite and Fire, Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 and Chromebook."

The suit alleges infringement of patents (links to google patent pages)
US5686738 "Highly insulating monocrystalline gallium nitride thin films"
US6953703 "Method of making a semiconductor device with exposure of sapphire substrate to activated nitrogen"

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Apache pioneer becomes president of Outercurve Foundation
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 02:47 AM EDT
Apache pioneer becomes president of Outercurve Foundation
I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.

Told us what? That the OuterLimits Foundation (or whatever it's called) is completely moribund? That after being in business for 3 or 4 years now, it has yet to host a single project that anyone outside of a few Dotnet developers has heard of? That most of their downloads consist of a single project that is a set of libraries for ASP Dot Net developers? You know, the web framework that's based on warmed over 1990s tech that nobody uses for anything outside of corporate websites?

What else do they have? Oooh! a C# SDK for Facebook! How earth shattering! An add-on for MS Word that lets you enter chemistry symbols! How awesome!

None of us would have even remembered that it existed if you hadn't put in the Newpicks RSS stream. It's not "just resting". It's dead. I doubt that even someone that I've never heard of from the Apache Foundation can re-animate that corpse.

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Privacy protests
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 04:27 AM EDT

Click here (if legal to do so in your country :) )

Interesting point - I hadn't thought about going off-grid as a protest against surveillance. I frequently dream of doing so for other reasons, though - such as:

  • The various food items I already produce myself are of better quality, and usually cheaper, than those I can buy locally;
  • Producing electricity on-site is often cheaper than buying it, and has minimal transmission losses;
  • Anything that makes me harder for the government to spy on also makes me harder for criminals (such as telemarketers) to spy on;
  • Burning paper waste is carbon-neutral and provides an excellent powdered fertiliser.

--O4W

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      • Privacy protests - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 04:21 PM EDT
  • Privacy protests - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 02:20 PM EDT
R.I.P. Douglas Engelbart
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 06:22 AM EDT
Zdnet Mother of all Demos Think about it, 1968.

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Privacy Protests
Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 07:49 AM EDT
"or they hide their smartphones in ad hoc Faraday cages that block their
signals"

????

In a Faraday cage, they'll have no wireless connection for anything. Why not
just put it on "Airplane mode" or turn it off?

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Viewer discretion is advised.

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Microsoft Form 8-K Dated June 25, 2013
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 04:03 PM EDT
Microsoft Form 8-K Dated June 25, 2013
I'd call that the operative sentence behind the agreement. I gather he was asserting claims, maybe not yet in court filings, but telling Microsoft he believed he had such claims. That would explain all the other language about not talking disparagingly about Microsoft.

Probably related to "unjust dismissal" claims relating to how he "left" (got fired from, whatever) Microsoft. He would have had stock options and bonuses outstanding, and wanted to still get them.

And what might this be? "(v) continue complying with certain provisions of the Microsoft Corporation Employee Non-Disclosure Agreement between Microsoft and him related to intellectual property rights and confidentiality of Microsoft and third-party information." Third party as in who? Mr. Sinofsky won't tell, now, but does he know about NSA PRISM details, one can't help but wonder or is this referring to deals with Nokia and FairSearch and such types? If he were ever forced to testify in a court, this agreement wouldn't keep him silent, of course.

He would have been party to a lot of inside information. Microsoft wouldn't want him to go to Google with information about the Nokia contracts, or to Sony with information about the XBox manufacturing contracts, etc. I imagine this is just standard boilerplate.

I know there are fans of Sinofsky out there in Microsoft land, but the fact is he was just as much a part of Microsoft's problems as Balmer. He's a steady plodder and would probably do fine in an "enterprise" company such as Oracle, SAP, or IBM, but he's not likely to deliver a hit consumer product.

On the other hand, if shareholders decide to kick out Balmer and change Microsoft's direction to be more like Oracle, then maybe Sinofsky's the man to milk the most out of customers locked in to a legacy platform. So far though, Microsoft's strategy is still to chase after Apple, Google, and Amazon, delivering a warmed over version of what their competitors did two years before.

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