Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, June 30 2012 @ 05:38 PM EDT |
Reuters has reported, citing three sources familiar with the situation,
that Research In Motion Ltd. is strongly considering, among other things,
forming an alliance with Microsoft as a way to stave off RIM's further
losses.
You'd think they'd have learned from what happen to Nokia
after they "partnered" with Microsoft. If they have to join up with MS, then
they're toast!
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 30 2012 @ 05:49 PM EDT |
When it comes to deciding which company Red Hat might acquire next,
there are a number of factors that [Red Hat CEO, Jim Whitehurst] considers. For
one, the company needs to fit in the space in which Red Hat operates. Then
within that space, there is an effort to find a company that has a good number
of community members, such that Red Hat needs to acquire the company, versus
simply hiring a few people. Fundamentally, though, it is all about the
people.
"When you buy an open source company, if the people aren't coming
and passionate about staying then you spend a lot of money for what? Because you
don't get a lot of intellectual property," Whitehurst said.
Sean Michael Kerner, Datamation[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 30 2012 @ 07:44 PM EDT |
I had the opportunity to visit the Administrative Office of the US
Courts,
and I ran across a rack of publications outside their cafeteria. As
it turns
out, the Federal Judicial Center publishes a huge variety of
handbooks and
guides, many of which are available for download as PDF
files. You can browse
the library at
http://www.fjc.gov/library/fj
c_catalog.nsf/.
I picked up a copy of "Managing Discovery of
Electronic Information: A Pocket
Guide for Judges"; while I am neither
attorney nor judge, I found it interesting
in terms of how various
technologies are considered in the context of the
discovery
process.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 30 2012 @ 08:33 PM EDT |
Japanese nuclear officials have apologised to Fukushima residents
for withholding maps showing dangerous radiation areas after last year's
meltdowns.
[...]
But Kawauchi mayor Yuko Endo rejected the apology, saying
it was too late.
He says if his village had been given the maps they could
have avoided evacuating into areas of high radiation.
Mark Willacy, ABC News
[Australia]
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China responds to
Fukushima
Article
Highlights
- Before the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, China
had big nuclear expansion plans, with more than 40 reactor units under
construction or in planning.
- The Fukushima disaster led China to
conduct safety inspections of all its reactors and to suspend nuclear project
approvals until a new nuclear safety plan could be adopted.
- Under
Beijing's new safety regulatory system, reactors that are operating or under
construction will be spared major redesign, but future projects will face
re-engineering, perhaps leading the Chinese to adopt safer third-generation
reactor designs created by Chinese
firms.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 01 2012 @ 03:04 AM EDT |
"Just 11 months after Anthony’s deeply traumatic kidnapping, for
which he received no counseling or treatment for possible PTSD, The New York
Times insisted that Anthony illegally infiltrate Syria in a poorly planned,
dangerously risky operation. His editors overruled Anthony’s objections and
failed to provide equipment he had requested.
When he then died of what his
cousin suspects was a heart attack, the Times put out an inaccurate
story that obscured the newspaper’s role in his death, while proclaiming him a
hero and basking in the reflected glory." - Anthony Shadid’s close cousin, Dr.
Edward Shadid of Oklahoma City
Alison Weir, CounterPunch[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SirHumphrey on Sunday, July 01 2012 @ 03:44 AM EDT |
Now you're just the Star
Wars that I used to know [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Ian Al on Sunday, July 01 2012 @ 05:29 AM EDT |
I wondered what I could do to stop myself installing a complete desktop's
worth of software on my new Rasberry Pi (not that I couldn't. I'm using a
16GB SD card).
So, I thought I would show off by posting on Groklaw.
I only mastered dd'ing the image to the SD card this morning having
discovered a published bug in the windowed alternative. i wasted ages
trying to get GPartEd authorised only to find that sudo does not actually
demand a password. Then i realised that I could not resize my working Linux
partition and had to do it on the nettop.
Still, this post is working just fine. The Rasberry Pi does rather make my
nettop look like a speed fanatic, but all I have to do is glance at the tiny
board and it all seems rather good.
Must avoid trying to get UTube to work!
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Regards
Ian Al
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Authored by: SilverWave on Sunday, July 01 2012 @ 07:40 AM EDT |
Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness discussed Queen's
loss --- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 01 2012 @ 11:22 AM EDT |
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Authored by: WWWombat on Sunday, July 01 2012 @ 12:59 PM EDT |
I've just been watching (via BBC's iPlayer) a couple of
episodes of "The Strange
Case of the Law".
The programme
is a brief history of English common law from
Saxon times. The 2nd episode
covers issues related to
liberty, execution of King Charles, and Habeas Corpus
-
particularly with its impact on hiding prisoners abroad and
on the trigger
of abolishment of slavery.
I've found it interesting, but with 3 episodes
covering over
1000 years, I can't help but wonder what didn't make the
cut!
The series concludes on broadcast TV in a few days, and the
episodes
are available (if you don't get hit by the BBC's
UK-only restrictions) until
11th July.
The link to Harry Potter? He's the barrister presenting the
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Authored by: jheisey on Sunday, July 01 2012 @ 01:37 PM EDT |
Oracle may have lost their lawsuit against Google, but their sailing yacht
(actually a large catamaran) is doing pretty good. It is going up against Team
New Zealand in the America's Cup Yachting World Series. It's being telecast
today on NBC at 1:30 Central Daylight time. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: mdhmiller on Sunday, July 01 2012 @ 01:51 PM EDT |
By accident I ran across a NYTimes article by an actuary who was telling the
story of his tribulations in getting a patent on {his special version of}
statistical sampling. Besides not being special at all (like the techniques have
been used for years), at its core, the patent is nothing more than applied
mathematics and standard statistics. Unbelievable but true!
"Patents Aren’t Only for Engineers" by JAY VADIVELOO (May 12, 2012)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/jobs/an-actuary-proves-patents-arent-only-for-
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Authored by: sciamiko on Sunday, July 01 2012 @ 05:32 PM EDT |
Does anyone know whether there is any truth in
this story (cnet) ?
An
alarming number of people are reporting that the new e-mail address Facebook
forced on users this week is changing their address books while intercepting and
losing unknown amounts of e-mail.
Facebook users say contacts' e-mail
addresses on phones and personal devices have been altered without their consent
-- and their e-mail communication is being redirected elsewhere, and lost.
s.
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Authored by: hardmath on Sunday, July 01 2012 @ 09:14 PM EDT |
CNet Link
Samsung has filed a motion with
the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit appealing the preliminary
injunction issued by Judge Lucy Koh on Friday, saying the order is
"inconsistent" with court directives regarding share losses.
Samsung asks
that the injunction be stayed for the duration of the
appeal.
--- "Prolog is an efficient programming language because it is
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Authored by: sela on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 05:17 PM EDT |
I wish Groklaw did some coverage and analysis of Apple vs. Samsung.
Haven't
been here for a long time. I used to read Groklaw on a daily basis during the
SCO vs. IBM trial and really enjoyed the insightful analysis.
Now Apple vs.
Android (Samsung, HTC etc) seem to look more and more like the new SCO vs. IBM,
and I'm really missing a website that provides in-depth analysis of the case,
like Groklaw used to do back than, and I cannot find anything except for Florian
Muller's deceptively named "FOSSPatents", with his anti-FOSS bias.
PJ, is
there a chance you can provide some insight into this case? For example, some
analysis of
this?
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