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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 18 2013 @ 06:10 PM EDT |
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter is so concerned about the NSA spying
scandal that he thinks it has essentially resulted in a suspension of American
democracy. link
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".[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 18 2013 @ 07:57 PM EDT |
Mr William (Bill) Gates
Chairman
Microsoft Corp.
Dear Mr Bill Gates
I have been impressed by the energy you have put into your philanthropic
foundation and the projects it supports. You have shown some grasp of the
contradictions and contrarieness of the task you have set yourself to undertake,
and indeed, have shown much energy into investigating the situation on the
ground.
However, as you are well aware, the ultimate success of your philanthropy
depends very much on the free flow of information and its free use in solving
problems by its recipients.
And the "software patent" and "business patent" nonsense
that various companies, including Microsoft, have been perpetrating throughout
the past few decades, is perhaps the most potent threat to the free flow of
information and the solving of the world's major problems yet seen.
The reason for that is clear: as an increasing number of cases taken to court
show, patents can be incredibly badly drafted as to cover almost anything, and
they will still be granted. And as in warfare, God is on the side of the big
battalions. Consequently, the nations that are now in the "Third
World" will never get the opportunity to compete with the current
Kings-of-the-Hill; or at least that is the impression I get. And so they will
never leave their current position of recipients of aid projects, the vast
majority of which will either be badly designed top-down projects with little or
no relevance to the average citizen, or will be badly-funded bottom-up projects
that will have plenty of relevance to the average citizen and will never see the
light of day.
So your chairmanship of Microsoft is undermining your philanthropic foundation.
You lack the general power to alter the general legal environment; however, you
can make a major difference in relation to Microsoft, and lead the way to a more
rational distribution of economic power.
I would like you to consider doing something out of the ordinary. I would ask
you to arrange for the release of the software source code trees of Microsoft's
obsolete operating systems from MS DOS to WinNT 4.x, obsolete systems
development software, and obsolete office productivity software, and related
utilities, as free software, under the FSF's General Public License, Version 3.
The GPL v3 contains provisions that would act as a general ceasefire on the
software patent mess. It should force Microsoft to begin competing on merit
again. Ditto for everyone else.
And while you're at it, because of the entanglements of the development
projects, I would suggest getting IBM to release the source trees of the
similarly obsolete OS/2 from 1.x to 3.x and HP to release the source trees of
VMS from 1.x to 6.x, likewise under the GPL v3.
Unfortunately, that is only the beginning.
I won't go into detail about the flow-on benefits of this; I trust you will be
able to see them for yourself.
Yours Sincerely
Wesley Parish[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, July 18 2013 @ 08:40 PM EDT |
Microsoft takes $900 million hit for unsold Surface RTs
in 4Q13 earnings
ArsTechnica
Whatever were
they thinking?
That Surface adjustment is huge. The company
said that it's for Surface RT and related parts and
accessories. We don't know
the exact breakdown of the $900
million figure. Worst case, it implies that
the company has
six million Surface RTs ($900 million divided by $150
price
cut per unit) sitting unsold. The true number may be a
little lower, due
to some of the hit coming from parts and
accessories. But Microsoft is still
sitting on several
million—perhaps as many as five—Surface RTs.
That
the company is struggling to sell them is perhaps not
so surprising. The value
proposition of the Surface RT was
never clear. For those who wanted an out and
out tablet, the
Nexus 10 and iPad were in the same price ballpark but with
much richer ecosystems. For those who really wanted Windows
software,
Atom-powered devices provided a lot more
compatibility and a bit more
performance, again with prices
in the same ballpark. Surface RT was stuck
awkwardly in the
middle.
What is surprising, however, is that the
company so grossly
overestimated demand for the product that it apparently had
its manufacturers build many millions, such that it would
then have to write
down the value of millions of units of
unsold Surface RT stock. That's a
spectacular misjudgment.
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| Authored by: jbb on Thursday, July 18 2013 @ 09:57 PM EDT |
This article
reminded me of the tragic Aaron Swartz case. This part in
particular:
The police at first concluded that it was a suicide
case, as did the examining doctor from the coroner's office. [...] The district
attorney, Judy Newcomb, brought the case straight to the grand jury without an
arrest and proceeded in almost unprecedented haste, to coincide with a tight
re-election campaign. (She was not re-elected.) There are notes of a meeting
with the doctor who performed the autopsy in which he was placed under intense
pressure by the district attorney and her entourage to change his finding from
probable suicide to homicide, which he refused to do.
The ensuing trial
failed to convict Nodine, though it ran him out of money and threw him on the
mercies of the threadbare legal aid system, and the investigation prior to trial
did turn up evidence of his being a drug user and owner of an unauthorized
firearm in a manner prohibited to public officials. As a consolation prize for
their failure to convict him of murder, the prosecutors obtained a sentence
against him of 15 months on those and related charges to which he pleaded in the
usual coercive manner of the American plea bargain, (for which prosecutors would
be disbarred in any other civilized country). They threatened him with an
alternative charge: assistance to, or negligent failure to discourage, a
suicide.
Unfortunately, this dove-tails all too well with the
universal, Unconstitutional surveillance of our society. No one is safe if a
prosecutor is out to get you.
This section contains several things that were
news to me:
The American prosecutocracy terrorizes the entire
country while most of the media cheer it on. American prosecutors win 99.5 per
cent of their cases, 97 per cent without a trial, unheard of success levels by
the standards of other advanced countries, and the U.S. has six to 12 times as
many incarcerated people per capita as the closest comparable democratic and
prosperous societies: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, and
Japan. The United States has five per cent of the world's people, 25 percent of
its incarcerated people, and 50 per cent of its trained lawyers, who consume 10
per cent of its GDP. This is not what Madison and Hamilton and Jay and other
authors of the Constitution meant by a society of laws, and they would be
appalled at the extent to which the Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendment
guaranties of due process -- of the grand jury as an insurance against
capricious prosecution, of the illegality of seizure of property without
compensation, and of an impartial jury, prompt justice, access to counsel and
reasonable bail -- have been put to the shredder. There is no presumption of
innocence; the judges are usually ex-prosecutors and continue unofficially in
that role, there is a huge procedural advantage for the government, which is,
unlike in any other serious jurisdiction, the last to speak to the jury.
---
In a time of universal deceit -- telling the truth is a
revolutionary act.
-- George Orwell
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 18 2013 @ 10:37 PM EDT |
| "World Bank conspiracies of massive corruption are discussed with under-fire
whistleblower Karen Hudes. She discusses how she has been charged with
trespassing from Eric Holder, and how the executive directors of the World Bank
were blackmailed in a prostitution scandal from the same bordello Eliot Spitzer
frequented." link,
link ... [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 19 2013 @ 01:51 AM EDT |
www.nbcsandiego.com
The man
accused of vandalism for drawing with chalk outside banks has been found not
guilty on all charges.
A jury returned its verdict in the case against
Jeff Olson Monday.
The city charged Olson with vandalism after writing
anti-Wall Street messages in chalk on public sidewalks and streets in front of a
bank.
Olson said he was relieved by the jury’s decision.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 19 2013 @ 11:19 AM EDT |
The story begins with two staff members and one librarian who
enthusiastically created and ran a week of interactive programs
for banned book week. The turnout was tepid. A panel discussion on the subject
drew six people. Five were librarians and staff
members. The
sixth was Dennis Miller, our public relations director, who recently published
his second novel, One Woman’s Vengeance.
Scott R. DiMarco, College
& Research Libraries News[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 19 2013 @ 11:56 AM EDT |
Here’s the model: stopping and frisking suspicious-looking people in
high-crime areas will improve the safety and well-being of the city as a
whole.
Here’s Bloomberg/Kelly’s evaluation method: the death rate by
murder has gone down in New York during the policy. However, that rate is highly
variable and depends just as much on whether there’s a crack epidemic going on
as anything else. Or maybe it’s improved medical care. Truth is people don’t
really know. In any case ascribing credit for the plunging death rate to Stop
and Frisk is a tenuous causal argument. Plus since Stop and Frisk events have decreased drastically recently, we haven’t seen the murder rate shoot up.
Cathy
O'Neil, mathbabe[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: artp on Friday, July 19 2013 @ 01:05 PM EDT |
I just got an email from Abebooks, pointing me to one
of their webpages
offering a cheaper
alternative to textbooks.
It wasn't that long since the
case that cracked open this
market, was it?
---
Userfriendly on WGA
server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
sinks ? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 19 2013 @ 02:53 PM EDT |
Perhaps they forgot to write off some amounts on WF7 and
WF8 development
also. And some public relation costs.
Would it not be possible to come
closer with this to the
information that MS is so urgently protecting? How many
of
that would come out of money from Android makers for
patents. What money do
they get in average for any sold
Android device?
For EDD (Entertainment
& Devices), including the Xbox, we
have totals and growth numbers. We need
to first get the
Xbox out of the equation. We can compare the total amount
and
total growth with the growth of the WP/Android patent
"division". We know the
Xbox selling decreased from 1,1 to
1,0. And that revenue within Xbox LIVE
increased 20% from
the prior quarter. Total growth was there 8%. Is there
anything else important in that division?
For the WP/Android patent
"division", not that much comes
from the Surface. Or is that in an other
category? They get
some money from Nokia. Do probably have to pay more in
return in support for that company, but that would be a
different section,
wouldn't it? What other income do they
get out of WF? A few other WF8
manufacturers. Still old
phones around? Support? Would they themselves pay for
patent
licences? And would that be in this section?
Many numbers but
also many questions. Has this system of
equations a solution or is there a way
to get close?
In Business Insider a raw estimation was made.
Microsoft Brags About Generating $222
Million More This Quarter From
Mobile, But A Lot Probably
Came From Android
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 19 2013 @ 03:24 PM EDT |
Not quite the latest, but at least it's this month:
Prenda’s John Steele
in LA: Two wrongs don’t make a Wright (happy)
It's amusing to see
Mr. Steele attempt to avoid admitting that he filed a document with the Court
with the wrong address to contact him.
In my humble opinion, if anyone is
depriving Mr. Steele of his 5th Amendment right with regarding due
process:
It's Mr. Steele himself!
And given people can waive their
right of silence, it makes sense people can also choose to waive their right of
due process.
It's not a sane thing to do in my humble opinion - but they
can certainly refuse to show up to Court to defend themselves if they really
want to.
All Mr. Steele has to do is update the Court with a proper
address to contact him.
Ironically: I doubt Mr. Steele has done that
yet.
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 19 2013 @ 03:29 PM EDT |
Nokia Q2 Topline Numbers
"Before Elop's mad Microsoft misadvanture, Nokia grew smartphone sales 52%
from 2009 to 2010 (from 68M to 104M). Meanwhile Windows based smartphones
declined 20% from 15M to 12M in the same period. I think we see who is the
poison in this 'partnership'."
http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/
From under the bridge
stage_v[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 19 2013 @ 07:51 PM EDT |
In a 118-page set of opinions, two members of a three-judge panel
for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va.
— the court whose decisions cover the Pentagon and the C.I.A. — ruled that the
First Amendment provides no protection to reporters who receive unauthorized
leaks from being forced to testify against the people suspected of leaking to
them.
“Clearly, Risen’s direct, firsthand account of the criminal conduct
indicted by the grand jury cannot be obtained by alternative means, as Risen is
without dispute the only witness who can offer this critical testimony,” wrote
Chief Judge William Byrd Traxler Jr., who was joined by Judge Albert
Diaz.
Charlie Savage, NY
Times
decision
http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinion.pdf/115028.P.pdf
or
http://www.rcfp.org/sites/default/files/docs/20130719_134812_risen_opinion.pdf[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, July 20 2013 @ 10:12 AM EDT |
These are all
major, solid reasons why Windows RT failed, and the
auther
doesn't even get into the garishly coloured Fisher-Price
tiles or how
poorly the Human-machine interface was
designed.
I particularly enjoyed
the comments, not one of which in
the current view anyhow were written by a
Microsoft shill.
It appears every one I saw was written by a real person. The
shills must be so discouraged by now they may have given up,
or they are so
overloaded trying to keep up with the
negative press on thousands of sites
across the whole, vast
Internet that they just haven't gotten around to this
site
yet. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, July 20 2013 @ 10:36 AM EDT |
When people say the feds are monitoring what people are doing
online, what does that mean? How does that work? When, and where, does it
start?
Pete Ashdown, CEO of XMission, an internet service provider in Utah,
knows. He received a Foreign Intelligence Service Act (FISA) warrant in 2010
mandating he let the feds monitor one of his customers, through his facility. He
also received a broad gag order. In his own words:
Justine Sharrock, BuzzFeed[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, July 20 2013 @ 09:29 PM EDT |
MIT's concern -- as it was in a separate legal fight concerning
releasing the evidence used against Aaron -- is apparently that the released
documents will reveal which MIT employees helped with the investigation, and
that could lead to unwarranted harassment.
Mike Masnick, TechDirt[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 21 2013 @ 01:04 AM EDT |
"We, Russells Solicitors, apologise unreservedly for the disclosure
caused by one of our partners, Chris Gossage, in revealing to his wife's best
friend, Judith Callegari, during a private conversation that the true identity
of Robert Galbraith was in fact JK Rowling. Whilst accepting his own
culpability, the disclosure was made in confidence to someone he trusted
implicitly.”
It added: “We can confirm that this leak was not part of any
marketing plan and that neither JK Rowling, her agent nor publishers were in any
way involved.”
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 21 2013 @ 02:26 AM EDT |
20130718:210639 UT M5.7 41.55S 174.41E started a swarm of
quakes, mostly smaller, but a larger one
20130721:050931 UT M6.6 41.742S 174.447E
seems to have caused a major slowdown in internet traffic eastwards
across the Pacific. Possibly just traffic overload in local routers,
westbound seems OK.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 21 2013 @ 09:35 AM EDT |
Not quite on topic...but an excellent and public example of copyright holdup.
http://www.popehat.com/2013/07/20/extended/
PJ, particularly, enjoy!
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 21 2013 @ 01:56 PM EDT |
| Link to WSJ
This article nicley described the 'Shoot first and
maybe ask questions later' role that Police Forces in America are apparently
moving to these days. If the NYC Mayor can proudly state the 'I have the 10th
largest army in the world in the NY Police' the I really fear for honest law
abiding citizens. Break some minor law and you risk a SWAT (or worse) raid with
guns drawns and adrenaline flowing. IF you dare saw 'boo to a goose' you may get
a hail of bullets fired in your direction before you know it.
Having
experienced a gun happy cop in the past and coming from a county where 90%+ of
police are not armed with anything more than a trucheon I almost peed myself. I
feel rather sad that the US law enforcement has moved to become a quasi military
organisation. That is not what most people want, of that I am sure.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 21 2013 @ 03:24 PM EDT |
There has been a security breach on the Ubuntu Forums site, ubuntuforums.org. We
take information security and user privacy very seriously, and apologise for the
breach and ensuing inconvenience.
http://blog.canonical.com/2013/07/21/notice-of-security-breach-on-ubuntu-forums-
site/
We have confirmed the attackers were able to access all user email addresses and
hashed passwords on the Forums site. While the passwords were not stored in
plain text, good practice dictates that users should assume the passwords have
been accessed and change them. If users used the same password on other services
they should immediately change that password.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 03:09 AM EDT |
| "Every household in Britain connected to the internet will
be obliged to
declare whether they want to maintain
access
to online
pornography."
no nefarious list leaks expected
except...
maybe...
at election time... or whenever the NSA finds it
convenient...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/22/david-
cameron-crackdown-inter
net-pornography [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 03:19 AM EDT |
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http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/21/apple-confirms-that-the-dev-
center-has-potent
ially-been-breached-by-hackers/
"They waited three days to alert
developers because they were
trying to figure out exactly what data was
exposed." [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 04:48 AM EDT |
not posting for political points, but rather for the
interesting way the
different levels within the system can
be leveraged
Today
[Thursday, July 18, 2013], an emergency
hearing was to be held where
Ingham
County Circuit Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina would
have ruled on a request for
a temporary restraining order
blocking Snyder from authorizing a bankruptcy
filing, The
Detroit News reports.
But at the request of attorneys for the
governor, that
hearing was delayed five minutes, according to the
Detroit Free Press.
And in that five minutes, attorneys for the
governor filed
their motion in federal court to seek Chapter 9 bankruptcy.
BOOM.
Patrick George,
Jalopnik
---
and it keeps getting
jurisdictionally more
interesting
Ingham County Circuit
Judge
Rosemary Aquilina ruled today [Friday, July 19, 2013] that
the filing
violates the
state's constitution because it will cause "irreparable
harm" to
the state's pensioners.
[...]
Does Aquilina's ruling mean the bankruptcy
won't happen? No,
because she's a local judge, and as the News reports,
bankruptcy is a federal matter; federal law is likely to be
triumphant here.
But state-level legal wrangling could delay
the process. Patrick George,
Jalopnik[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: JamesK on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 08:24 AM EDT |
| Google bought one. So did Lockheed Martin, one of the world’s largest defense
contractors. But we still can’t agree on what it is they
bought. ---
The following program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 11:32 AM EDT |
In the film, Owen Wilson's character says: "The past is not dead. Actually,
it's not even past."
In Requiem for a Nun, Faulkner wrote: "The past is never dead. It's not
even past."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jul/19/midnight-in-paris-copyright-william-f
aulkner[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 12:11 PM EDT |
As Microsoft is experiencing itself now, in (os
related) software it
is
virtually impossible to enter an established market. What
looks as something
dynamic and modern may be just one of the
slowest for change. This is the more
true for a monopoly
market.
Once you have that monopoly, you may
produce stupidity
after
stupidity. If after some time you copy your
competition,
solving the most important problems in version 3 or 4, you
survive.
But that does not work if it really is an other market,
as MS
should have
noticed. Many of the "techniques" MS used in the mobile
market,
like roll out immature products to block
competition, use your monopoly to
force a change upon
everybody in the first place for your needs, not those of
your consumers are working all the time in their
paper-administration
monopoly. (Trying to kill the
competition with FUD,
tough talk, using proxy's,
public relation techniques,
patents...)
That is why that monopoly is
that damaging for the
consumer
and for the advancement of technology. This
nice article lists
a number of problems with MS. But is
sees the problem more
in the actors'
characters. It does not really make the
link to
that monopoly. (Also Bill Gates didn't see the internet
coming and
reacted to late. And if he would kept it to legal
means, wouldn't that have
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| Authored by: cjk fossman on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 01:03 PM EDT |
We had a few very angry anti Aaron Swartz posters here.
I never
understood
the outrage of these anonymous posters.
That is, until I read
www.popehat.com/2013/07/16/the-unpleasant-profession-of-
nancy-grace.
<
p>
Nancy Grace's political bent is ... not
liberal
or
conservative, ... she's a vigorous statist, at least with
respect to
criminal
justice. ... As a statist, purpose of the criminal
justice
system is to
convict and punish to the maximum extent
possible people
accused by the
government.
To determine whether someone has committed
a
brutal and
dastardly crime, all you need to know is whether the
government
has
said they did.
Sorry about the extraneous paragraph tag.
HTML
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| Authored by: complex_number on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 01:39 PM EDT |
<a
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23402994">www.bbc.co.uk<
;/a><P>
"Ubuntu Edge smartphone seeks $32m of crowdfunded cash"
<P>
AFAIK, $32M won't go very far towards developing a phone.
<P>
Is Mr Shuttleworth spreading his cash a bit too thinly?
<P>
As a long term Linux user, I have never got on with Ubuntu nor seen what the
attraction is. Sure in early days it pretty well 'just worked' but recently and
especially with Unity, I think they have lost the plot. (Gnome 3 is just as
bad). They seem to be trying to be allthings to all men and I just worry that
they simply don't have the resources to make this a success.
<P>
---
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 Monday, July 22 2013 @ 10:12 PM EDT |
| Not seen this reported here, but El reg is reporting that the Eolas case appeal
has been rejected by the CAFC and the relevant patents are deemed
invalid. Will this go to the supremes we wonder ? No clicky as I know some
people don't like el reg. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 23 2013 @ 03:42 AM EDT |
| Just had an attempt to use my MTA as an open relay, rejected of course as I like
it set up tight.
This one was a bit unusual in that it came from a special
server owned (ostensibly) by U Michigan and was trying to send from scan-admin
at UMich to itself.
Anyone able to comment ? - is this something sensible or
should I add it to the firewall block as yet another source of doubtful traffic
?
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| Authored by: moz1959 on Tuesday, July 23 2013 @ 05:08 AM EDT |
Part of Docket
#1115, Order Reopening Case states:
3. On or before July
15, 2013, IBM may file a new motion for summary judgment limited solely to the
effect of the Novell judgment on the remaining claims and
counterclaims.
July 15th has passed, and I haven't seen
anything about any summary judgement motion from IBM.
(Just wondering, as my
popcorn is getting cold while waiting for the Nazgul to heat it up.)
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