Authored by: BobDowling on Monday, August 06 2012 @ 01:09 AM EDT |
According to the BBC:
The rover, tucked inside a protective shell, is due to begin its descent
to the surface at 05:24 GMT, Monday (06:24 BST; 22:24 PDT, Sun).
A
signal confirming it has landed inside a deep depression known as Gale Crater is
expected on Earth about seven minutes later, at 05:31 GMT.
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Authored by: BobDowling on Monday, August 06 2012 @ 01:37 AM EDT |
Curiosity has landed and has started sending back data. (A photo of a wheel on
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 06 2012 @ 07:03 AM EDT |
Nokia is introducing a new polish line in honor of their hot pink Lumia 900
phone.
This is a killer app for the Lumia 900 phone ???
Click for Article .
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 06 2012 @ 07:22 AM EDT |
"During Samsung's cross-examination, Forstall said he didn't remember
seeing a Samsung phone with a click-wheel control - the SGH-E910 - during the
iPhone's design process. "
"In response to the breakdown, Forstall admitted Apple has done "tear
downs" of competitors phones, including the Samsung's and the Galaxy S.
Forstall ended his time on the stand by saying he never instructed anyone to
copy Samsung's designs because the company wanted to create something that no
one had ever built. "
<a
href="http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/round-up-day-3-of-apple-v
s-samsung-trial-1091161">Round Up: Day 3 of Apple vs. Samsung
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Authored by: complex_number on Monday, August 06 2012 @ 11:06 AM EDT |
clicky
[www.smh.com.au]
I'm firmly
behing 'Woz' on this one.
All it needs it for the 'Feds' to raid a cloud
supplier on some trumped up warrant and poof, all that data of yours is gone
before your very eyes.
There is no way that the Feds will look at the
different datasets and say, sorry guys leave them alone. They'll take the lot.
Every last byte. Then you'll have to go through endless legal nightmares to
prove that the data is yours and then more to prove to them that 'it really does
not contain any items of interest you them.' That last point is going to be
really hard to prove without forensic examination of the data. This all costs
time and lots of money. in the meantime, your business had gone out of business,
the mortgage company has foreclosed and you are homeless.
Yes I know this is
the nightmare scenario but... If you think this won't happen then you are very
much kidding yourself.
Think about what happens when your cloud supplier
goes bust. Who owns all that lovely data then. your sure don't. They are assets
of the business and will be sold off to the highest bidder.
Encrypting
everything will only IMHO draw attention to the fact that you have something to
hide.
Now for the naysayers repostes....
--- Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are
not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which is of course, "42" or is
it 1.618?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 06 2012 @ 01:12 PM EDT |
Microsoft’s patent
pressure pays off: $800M in fees from
Samsung, HTC dwarf Q2
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 06 2012 @ 03:28 PM EDT |
I suppose Samsung will not be able to show evidence of Apple's icons being
coppies. Example -- Apple's settings icon is just like the openPhone icon
contributed in Nov,2007 by Walrick - and under the GNU General Public License,
The Sunflower photo icon looks like the sunflower in Adobe Elements 6[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 06 2012 @ 03:36 PM EDT |
Newspick
Well there you go, Samsung asked for trouble. I have Another
Brand
phone where the icon has a green handset rotated clockwise 90
degrees
on a white background. Not hard to do, not copied, still
functional.
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Authored by: JamesK on Monday, August 06 2012 @ 03:58 PM EDT |
"And you thought quadratic equations were tough!"
Actually, I liked doing them. ;-)
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, August 07 2012 @ 08:30 AM EDT |
The supposedly " damning
evidence"...
In a 2003
internal Google presentation
described in the filing, the company stated “[we
want web
searchers interested in book content to come to Google not
Amazon.”
As annotated by the Authors’ Guild, the 2003 Google
presentation also said “[e]verything else is secondary … but
make money.” (The
presentation was filed under seal so the
context of the remark is
unclear).
The Authors Guild says this shows that the
scanning was
an overtly commercial project, and that scanning was not a
fair
use as Google is claiming. What a narrow vision of the
world they have. They
don't consider the possibility that
one can make a positive contribution to the
world while at
the same time scratching their own itch? Liberating books
from
Amazon's domination is a worthy cause. If somebody
doing research through
Google's scanned books should happen
to click on a Google ad, then that is
their choice. Let them
contribute a tenth of a cent to help Google defray the
cost
of the scanning effort if they feel so inclined. It is
nobody's business
but theirs.
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