Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 07:07 AM EDT |
Main article link.
Here's the irony
behind that and what P.J. stated:
Well, when the DMCA was being
debated, folks warned that this would be the result, that research would be
hobbled. But no one would listen to anyone but
Hollywood.
Unfortunately I can't find the incident - my Googling
skills are currently insufficient. Perhaps someone else will remember and post
a link from the description.
I remember a distinct episode a couple years
ago where a company held a hackathon as a challenge to see if anyone could break
their encryption. I also distinctly remember the winner being sued by the
company not to disclose how the encryption was broken.
Is it really any
wonder that no one wants to "take up the opportunity to hack legally" when
successful individuals are actually being sued for their involvement in such
activities in some cases?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 01:25 PM EDT |
The human cost of patent law and Apple's iron-fisted grip
on
the app store:
shutting down a child's ability to speak: http://ni
ederfamily.blogspot.be/2012/06/silencing
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of-maya.html Apple Steps
Into Patent Fight To
Unnecessarily Silence A Little Girl: http://www.techdirt.com
/articles/20120613/015119
19297/apple-steps-into-patent-fight-to-unnecessarily-
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 01:57 PM EDT |
Am I the only one who winces to see DVD packaging that says
you get *both* the DVD and a "digital" copy of the movie
(via the proprietary movie cyberlocker, forget what it is
called). Does the public really not understand that a
Digital Video Disc is itself digital?
Maybe it isn't such a big deal in the greater scope of
things, but just when I think society can't get any more
dumbed-down, society gets even more dumbed-down.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 02:13 PM EDT |
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/state-sponsored-attackers-using-ie-zero-day-t
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 08:19 PM EDT |
[Rockstar condemns Max Payne 3 cheaters to play only against each other]
"The games might end up as an unwatchable mess, but they'd likely attract
plenty of fans and players who want to see just how far the "baseball"
experience can go."
Makes me think of the movie Real Steel.
--
Bondfire
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 05:29 AM EDT |
This article
highlights the fact that SCOTUS will soon bring down a ruling on whether the
first sale doctrine is applicable to items manufactured outside the USA and
imported into that country.
If all goes pair shaped, it may turn many that
decide to sell some of the stuff they legally purchased via the internet or
while traveling abroad into copyright criminals.
So much for the removal of
trade barriers. Seems double take and double standards are the vocabulary of
multinationals. The world is nuts! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: pem on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 11:21 AM EDT |
I just read Apple's '647 Patent: What It Is and
Why it's Bad for the Mobile Ecosystem and looked at the patent
itself.
Spoiler alert: I'm going to discuss the first claim, so look away
if you need to.
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The first claim
requires:
an input device for receiving data. This could be a USB
port.
an output device for presenting the data. A screen.
a
memory storing information including program routines including yeah, yeah.
Everybody has one of those.
an analyzer server for detecting structures
in the data, and for linking actions to the detected structures; Hmm, the
USB stick I insert into the USB port has directory data, which the computer can
analyze and link actions to (like file associations in Windows since
3.x).
a user interface enabling the selection of a detected structure
and a linked action; Yeah, when I double-click
the file, it selects it and
performs the linked action based on the filetype.
an action processor
for performing the selected action linked to the selected structure; This
would be the text editor, photo editor, etc. based on filetype.
a
processing unit coupled to the input device, the output device, and the memory
for controlling the execution of the program routines. And this is just the
standard magical pixie dust of adding a CPU to make it a real device.
So
there is nothing described by the first claim of the patent that wasn't
happening in Windows 3.x [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 03:27 PM EDT |
Look at the lower right corner.
2012 NAVTEQ copyright 2012 Microsoft
Corporation.
The Looting of Nokia is well underway.
Click here RIP NOKIA! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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