Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, August 04 2012 @ 05:23 PM EDT |
Tough talk for Samsung's lawyers, but no
sanctions --- 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 Saturday, August 04 2012 @ 08:42 PM EDT |
Apple Rejects
NTD's iPad App, for China App
Store
Apple does it again, helping the China's Communist regime
censor
information in China... and its done it before with
Dalai Lama apps and
pretty much any other app critical of
China's one-party
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 04 2012 @ 08:47 PM EDT |
apparently not
Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan, ProPublica [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 04 2012 @ 09:00 PM EDT |
In the women’s fencing epee semifinal match between Britta Heidemann
of Germany and Shin A Lam of South Korea, Lam led with one second left on the
clock. All she had to do was not be touched in that one second and she would be
advancing to the gold medal match.
Unfortunately for Shin, the clock never
started after the referee signaled to restart the match, giving Heidemann more
than one second to land the winning touch.
Jay Sanin, ESPN Radio[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 05 2012 @ 02:21 AM EDT |
NZ Herald
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Authored by: jplatt39 on Sunday, August 05 2012 @ 08:36 AM EDT |
Forbes has this chilling Adrian
Kingsley-Hughes story. Sorry if a repost. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: jplatt39 on Sunday, August 05 2012 @ 01:51 PM EDT |
CNet is reporting someone has hacked the Reuters tech account to change the
name to Reuters ME and post pro-Syrian tweets.
Clicky
In case the story is
at:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57486971-93/reuters-twitter-account-hijack
ed-fake-tweets-sent/
The earlier hack was described here:
Clicky
http://www.rt.com/news/reuters-hack-fake-posts-884/ [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 05 2012 @ 07:50 PM EDT |
[This is a long post – in summary Elsevier breach licences and
charge readers for Open Access.
I also ask the world to verify and amplify
my conclusions].
Peter Murray-Rust[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 05 2012 @ 09:07 PM EDT |
link
"Curious how many Democrats live on your
block? Just download the Obama campaign's new mobile app".
"I do
think it's something useful for them, but it's also
creepy"
"Well, I just don't get all this new stuff with
computers and apps. That's probably more creepy to me"
"'Much of
our feelings around privacy are driven by what you might call status-quo-ism,`
[Jonathan Zittrain] said, so many people may feel that the app is creepy simply
because it represents something new."
--
As far as I can make out
the app allows volunteers to sign-up and locate one another. I'm curious if
Jonathan Zittrain volunteered the creepy comment or was he helpfully encouraged
with a leading question?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 07 2012 @ 04:56 AM EDT |
The 'Apple invented green telephone icon' rubbish has even more providence that
PJ points out.
Look at Nokia phones prior to the first Apple phone. (7110, 2110, 9000) The
phone dial button has a picture of a green phone. What about the Sony Ericsson
T68. Dial button has ....a...wait for it...green phone.And a Motorola V360.
Guess what? Green phone button.
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