Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 04:14 AM EDT |
. or not .
A Vancouver Island woman is missing part of her
fingers after a bizarre surfing accident in Tofino that may have involved a
shark.
After one fall into the water she went to grab her board to get back
on, only to notice there was quite a bit of blood.
She was rushed to Tofino
hospital where a doctor directed her to a surgeon in Campbell River [270km, 170
miles away]. Both physicians said that the cuts had to be from a very sharp,
very quick bite, especially since she didn't feel it ... the bite may have been
from a Salmon shark.
Nick Dulvy, a professor at SFU who specializes in
studying sharks and is the current Canada Research Chair in Marine Biodiversity
and Conservation said that the woman may have been bitten by a seal.
The
woman, who The Vancouver Sun
has not yet been able to reach, has changed her profile picture on Facebook to a
shark.
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Authored by: betajet on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 10:58 AM EDT |
From Geek Times:
Processor IP firms sue
Amazon, Samsung, Huawei, ZTE, others
Alliacense LLC (Cupertino, Calif.),
the adminstrator of the Moore Microprocessor Patent (MMP) portfolio, has
announced that the co-owners of the portfolio are pursuing 13 companies with
complaints alleging infringement being filed with the International Trade
Commission and District Court for the Northern District of
California.
...
Microprocessor technologist Charles H. Moore (Chuck
Moore) whose name is the first M in MMP announced he had filed a law suit
against TPL and Alliacense, alleging fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach
of contract in October 2010.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 01:10 PM EDT |
A highlight from Samsung’s trial brief:
Samsung has been
researching and developing mobile telecommunications technology since at least
as early as 1991 and invented much of the technology for today‘s smartphones.
Indeed, Apple, which sold its first iPhone nearly twenty years after Samsung
started developing mobile phone technology, could not have sold a single iPhone
without the benefit of Samsung‘s patented technology.
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Authored by: jplatt39 on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 02:12 PM EDT |
Clicky
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 03:51 PM EDT |
... a version/security update to Safari for older versions of the OS,
including
Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead
to an unexpected
application termination or arbitrary code
execution
Description: [105] memory corruption issues existed in
WebKit. These issues are
addressed through improved memory
handling.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5400
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 04:32 PM EDT |
Today's patent agreement announced between Microsoft and Amdocs
provides "mutual access to each company’s patent portfolio, including a license
under Microsoft’s patent portfolio covering Amdocs’ use of Linux-based servers
in its data centers," according to Microsoft's press release.
Microsoft inks patent deal with service provider
using Linux servers on ZDNet[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 06:24 PM EDT |
Link
PATENT HOLDING
COMPANY NTP has reached a patent licensing agreement with 13 technology
companies, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, that will let them use its
eight patents for the transmission of email over wireless networks.
The firm
announced in a press release on Monday that it has made a "mutual resolution"
with wireless carriers AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile,
smartphone manufacturers Apple, Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Palm and LG, and
software providers Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.
"As a result, all pending
litigation between NTP and these companies will be dismissed," NTP said. "The
signed agreement provides broad coverage under NTP's patent portfolio to all of
the companies."
NTP added that the contents of the agreement have not been
disclosed.
Yet another secret agreement.
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 07:04 PM EDT |
This is exciting! Valve can't be the only company
looking at Windows
8 with
alarm. Suppose more companies follow Valve's
example?
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Authored by: tiger99 on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 07:18 PM EDT |
Link Now it
will not mean a lot to many people here, because you probably don't get involved
directly with microcontrollers, (some do, I know, but we are
nearly all end users, whether you know it or not), but Texas
are one of the large mainstream semiconductor manufacturers, and the MSP430
family is at the leading edge where low power consumption is concerned. The
point is that, more and more, mainstream semiconductor manufacturers are
appreciating the true advantages of OSS or FOSS, and indeed pushing it quite
hard to their customers. This was in one of the regular emails that they send me
about new products. The toolchain for the MSP430 family involves GCC and GDB,
well known to almost every FOSS developer. It is far from being new, the change
is that it is being pushed harder. Texas may initially lose money over this,
because they also have proprietary tools with which this competes directly, but
clearly they see a bigger long term market for their semiconductors, their
actual money earner, as a result. The main competitors, PIC and AVR (Arduino
etc) also have free toolchains, and although they are not always advertised so
well by the manufacturers, practically every developer who uses these devices
knows about them. Nvidia has been in the news recently, for the opposite
reason. Why, why, why can't they see the point? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 11:16 PM EDT |
In reference to my previous comments about Raspberry Pi,
Previous Comment, The
Raspberry Pi arrived yesterday and it looks good but as I wasn't expecting
delivery for another two weeks I haven't got the OS ready on card to try it out.
That will have to wait for a few days as otherwise busy. I still have not
had any reply to my query about being blocked from site forum. Tried sending
from the original "blocked?" email and another. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 12:28 AM EDT |
Came across this piece of insight from Thomas Jefferson, a most remarkable
American...
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of
their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and
corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all
property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers
conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our
liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the
banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
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Authored by: betajet on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 12:44 AM EDT |
From Geek Times:
Wednesday's ruling affirmed a March
ruling by the ITC administrative law judge presiding over the case. The ITC
found no violation by the group of chip makers, including Broadcom Corp., LSI
Corp., Mediatek Inc., Nvidia Corp. and STMicroelectronics NV.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 03:57 AM EDT |
Using Windwos for critical systems in a power plant? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 04:06 AM EDT |
from Galaxy phones due to a patent dispute. Yet software isn't even patentable
where I live. Why should the rest of the world be made to suffer because America
has a broken legal system and stupid laws. Fix it already! This is getting
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 11:32 AM EDT |
bell canada as an example put out an iptv offering that was
n effect the same as a 25/7megabit un limited account for tv
only however and it went for 9.99 and they showed quite some
profit....
texting costs 10 million times that....
WHOSE the bonehead for using any texting me that doesn't do
it except via on line chatting OR YOU for buying not the
propoganda of media companies..
P.S. our dollar is literally above yours at the time of that
offering buy as much as 10 cents so do your math ( ranked 32
americans)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 11:43 AM EDT |
Kernel expert stood up to mandatory hard disk
DRM
Obit Andre Hedrick, a principal engineer and operating
system architect at Cisco Systems and a Linux kernel contributor, has died. He
leaves behind a wife, four young children and many friends.
Andre made a
significant contribution to personal computing history in a way few people fully
realise. [...]
It was his human ability to pursue a workable compromise
that most impressed me, and really ensured that the personal computer remains an
open system - a marked contrast to today's dogmatic and self-aggrandising
copyfighters, who shun consensus and rational settlements, preferring both the
limelight and the dubious glory of defeat. If Andre had adopted such a strategy,
personal computing history would probably be very different.
Andrew
Orlowski, The Register[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 01:08 PM EDT |
Or free slow broadband Internet after
$300 install fee.
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