Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 03:39 PM EDT |
isc.sans.edu
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 04:00 PM EDT |
Here's a new problem to blame on Intellectual Property interests! Slashdot has
a story asserting that Rio+20 was killed because the parties could not come up
with an agreement about technology transfer that protected the interests/profits
of IP owners.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/02/1738214/intellectual-property-rights-the-
quiet-killer-of-rio20
Well, I suppose it 'could' have happened that way.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 06:01 PM EDT |
July 1 2012
On Saturday, Charles Carreon updated his federal lawsuit against Matthew Inman
(creator of the humor website The Oatmeal). Carreon's suit now calls for a
temporary restraining order, asking the court to mandate IndieGoGo not transfer
any of the more than $220,000 raised as of Monday, June 25. If the court sides
with Carreon, funds would not go to Inman or to the target charities, the
National Wildlife Foundation (NWF) and the American Cancer Society (ACS).
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/funnyjunk-lawyer-aims-to-halt-distrib
ution-of-bearlove-money/
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The Oatmeal fights back, snaps photo of cash, sends money to charity - July 2
2012
As for Charles Carreon, he's been making his anti-Inman arguments in legal
filings. His wife, however, continues to crusade publicly on his behalf. When
the Carreons' hometown Tucson Weekly put up a couple paragraphs on the case and
concluded, "I generally like to cheer for Tucsonans, but in this case, I'm
going to side with The Oatmeal instead of a guy suing the American Cancer
Society." Tara Carreon responded:
"There is now plenty of proof that Matt Inman is one of a gang of people
who promote the same type of ideas that inspired Jared Loughner to try and kill
Gabrielle Giffords," she wrote.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/the-oatmeal-fights-backs-snaps-photo-
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 07:35 PM EDT |
I sent a note to WIPO. Maybe they have a response? Or maybe someone else
has a better letter to send to WIPO?
Question: Hello. I suspect
most people are aware of IP and patents. A lot of people assume patents have to
always be applied for.
Have you considered the converse? Can you
lead the converse? Can WIPO form an umbrella organization whereby people who do
NOT want to patent an invention, can submit "something" to this new part of
WIPO, to forever keep this knowledge in the public domain, and hence never
encumbered by patents?
Perhaps such an entity already exists? Who
are they?
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Authored by: sk43 on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 08:30 PM EDT |
Found on Slashdot.
Apparently some of the new Linksys routers have backdoors that allow Cisco to
automatically download new firmware that locks users out of administrative
functions until they create a new account in "Cisco Connect Cloud".
http://homecommunity.cisco.com/t5/Wireless-Routers/EA4500-weird-login-screen-can
-t-login/td-p/535846
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/132142-ciscos-cloud-vision-mandatory-moneti
zed-and-killed-at-their-discretion
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/07/02/1743253/ciscos-cloud-vision-mandatory-an
d-killed-at-their-discretion
Reminiscent of the TurboTax fiasco several years ago.
Yet another reason not to trust closed source/proprietary software.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 10:06 AM EDT |
Physicists say they have all but
proven that the “God particle” exists. They have a footprint and a shadow, and
the only thing left is to see for themselves the elusive subatomic particle
believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape. --- The
following program contains immature subject matter. Viewer discretion is
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Authored by: mcinsand on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 10:36 AM EDT |
Reddit has a posting about Blizzard banning thousands of people playing D3 with
WINE/Linux, and then I have seen reports suggesting that this was unsubstaniated
rumors. Any word from anyone here?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 01:17 PM EDT |
The company behind the Amadeus Altea airline reservation
system used across the world has blamed problems with Linux for the one-second
pause that derailed its servers on Sunday and left passengers to check in using
old-fashioned manual systems. --- The following program contains
immature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 01:53 PM EDT |
Only for those who can survive without continuous mobile FB connection. Wouldn't
want to impose. And only just long enough for ever-vigilant FB engineers to get
things properly
sotted
.
Ed L (not logged in)
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 03:42 PM EDT |
The European Court of Justice confirmed 3 July that when you buy a copy of a
computer program in Europe, the copy is yours to re-sell -- even if it was an
internet download and the copyright owner tried to bind you to a licence
agreement prohibiting resale or onward transfer.
Usedsoft vs Oracle
Case
C-128/11 decided 3 July 2012
From the press release:
"Where the
copyright holder makes available to his customer a copy - tangible or intangible
- and at the same time concludes, in return for payment of a fee, a licence
agreement granting the customer the right to use that copy for an unlimited
period, that rightholder sells the copy to the customer and thus exhausts his
exclusive distribution right.
Such a transaction involves a transfer of
the right of ownership of the copy.
Therefore, even if the licence
agreement prohibits a further transfer, the rightholder can no longer oppose the
resale of that copy."
The full judgment is at curia.europa.eu
-ts-
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 06:10 PM EDT |
A leaked video
published on CERN’s website
earlier today appears to have accidentally
announced the
discovery of the Higgs boson ahead of the rumored official
announcement scheduled for early tomorrow morning. You can
watch the
announcement live on Wired.com beginning at 11
p.m. PT tonight (2 a.m. ET
tomorrow morning).
The video features an awed and earnest Joseph
Incandela,
who was elected to head CMS Experiment at Large Hadron
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 11:15 PM EDT |
I found this brief article in the CS
Monitor very interesting and
stimulating. Combined with
watching the video in the post above, I am better
prepared
for tomorrow's announcement from CERN. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 03:05 AM EDT |
From www.phoro
nix.com/scan.php%3fpage=news_item&px=MTEzMjM
The "GNOME and
Mono Festival of Love 2012" has now ended in Boston, which was taking place at
one of Microsoft's research and development centers.
Last month I wrote
about Microsoft hosting the GNOME & Mono Festival of Love, a week-long
hack-fest described by Microsoft Cambridge as an "event to work on Open Source
.NET integration with the GNOME platform and improve .NET powered Open Source
applications."
What are the Gnome developers doing?
Really?!
Has the "free" thinking of former Gnome people been lost
forever?
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IMANAL
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 03:31 AM EDT |
Forgetting to log off your email ...
arstechnica
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 07:39 AM EDT |
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 11:22 AM EDT |
Keep wondering if the government of Finland can just stand by and watch
Microsoft destroy the country's largest private employer. Any discussion in
Finland for doing this?
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