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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 07:28 PM EDT |
Are these frequent? timely?
Samsung TouchWiz
Devices Vulnerable to Mischief f-secure
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Authored by: Tim on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 08:32 PM EDT |
An interesting take on the Google/Apple maps application.
I wonder whether,
because of our wish to see a free Android ecosystem, we are overlooking a
similar potential danger of Google's business model of targeted personal
data
collection. The more Android phones there are out there the easier it is for
Google to collect more information.
I may be paranoid, but I am now
deliberately making sure that I do not use Google+, and I only log into my
Google accounts when I have to. I also avoid targeted
adverts by using a mail
client to retrieve Gmail mail instead of their web-site, and I only use Gmail
for 'trivial' non-personal correspondence.
Link - allthingsd.com [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 08:36 PM EDT |
SCO software still selling?
Can, will anyone explain? I mean I got
it wrong or something.
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- Reseller - Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 09:03 PM EDT
- No, you thought right. - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 09:12 PM EDT
- Unxis - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 08:24 AM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 12:05 AM EDT |
Ecuador beware, the US is after you, so to speak.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/27/0020227/us-military-designates-julian-ass
ange-an-enemy-of-state
"US Military Designates Julian Assange an 'Enemy of State'"
That must be one of the lowest military titles to receive.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 02:31 AM EDT |
How do you actually come up with new ideas?
Especially over such a long stretch of time?
I think, if
anything, it's noticing the things that make me laugh and grabbing onto them and
figuring out how to write them down.
There are definitely times -- and I
think this is pretty common among cartoonists -- where you spend an entire day
trying to think of an idea, and you're like, "I give up." And then you go and
take a shower or run an errand, and halfway there you get an
idea.
Megan Garber, The Atlantic[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 09:31 AM EDT |
http://i.imgur.com/2ulzC.png [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 11:52 AM EDT |
...and certainly doing better than Nokia. Their shares are up
recently to $7, while Nokia is well below $3.
It's a shame
their new platform is taking so long, but it should be a
really
great OS, as it is based on QNX, a venerable and
very mature RTOS.
Now
they have put out a music
video, "Devs,
BlackBerry Is Going To Keep On Loving You"
in which some top RIM RIMM execs
lip-synched to an altered
version of the hit REO Speedwagon song from the '80s
called
"Keep on loving you."
In all the excitement over Apple, Samsung
and Nokia,
we've already forgotten about RIM, but they remain committed
to a
comeback. I hope their new phones put them solidly back
in the running, and
trounce Microsoft's dream of being the
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 12:21 PM EDT |
The case raised the question of whether the vulnerability of minors
warrants special protection in what would otherwise be an open civil court
proceeding.
In essence, the Supreme Court had to decide whose interests come
first - the right of cyber-bullied children to unmask their tormentors or the
right of the press to report freely on court proceedings.
“The critical
importance of the open court principle and a free press has been tenaciously
embedded in the jurisprudence,” Madam Justice Rosalie Abella wrote for a 7-0
majority. “In this case, however, there are interests that are sufficiently
compelling to justify restricting such access: privacy and the protection of
children from cyber bullying.”
Kirk Makin, The Globe and
Mail
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Judgement
Citation: A.B. v. Bragg Communications Inc., 2012 SCC
46
Date: September 27, 2012
Docket: 34240
looks like a well
rounded interveners list [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 02:49 PM EDT |
Meritocracy, at least as normally understood, does not exist and
probably cannot exist in a free market with rational people.You cannot therefore
justify inequalities by claiming that they reflect differences in
ability.
Chris Dillow, Stumbling and
Mumbling
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from the linked paper
Abstract
We
report evidence from an experiment where a principal chooses an agent out of two
to perform a task for a fixed compensation. The principal's payoff depends on
the agent's ex-ante ability and on a non-contractible effort that the agent has
to exert once employed. We find that a significant share of principals select
the mediocre agent (i.e. the one with the lower ex-ante ability). When the
principal is allowed to send a message, mediocre agents exert more effort than
agents with the higher ability, and principals who chooses mediocre agents on
average have a larger payoff than principals who select agents with higher
ability. This difference in effort overcompensates the difference in ability.
Mediocre agents reciprocate more than agents who have ex-ante higher ability
when the principals are able to make them feeling indebted. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 03:15 PM EDT |
NASA's Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once
ran vigorously across the area on
Mars where the rover
is driving.
"From the size of gravels
it carried, we can
interpret the water was moving about 3 feet per second, with
a depth somewhere between ankle and hip deep," said
Curiosity science
co-investigator William Dietrich of the
University of California, Berkeley. []
This is the first
time we're actually seeing water-transported gravel on Mars.
This is a transition from speculation about the size of
streambed material to
direct observation of it."
The rounded shape of some stones in the
conglomerate
indicates long-distance transport from above the rim, where
a
channel named Peace Vallis feeds into the alluvial fan.
The abundance of
channels in the fan between the rim and
conglomerate suggests flows continued
or repeated over a
long time, not just once or for a few
years.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 05:32 PM EDT |
who may well have created the inimitable xkcd,
but where do I file the claim
for my
lost morning ?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 09:44 PM EDT |
The former Register of Copyrights, Ralph Oman, under copyright law,
any new technology should have to apply to Congress for approval and a
review to make sure they don't upset the apple cart of copyright, before they're
allowed to exist. I'm not joking.
Mr. Oman, who was the Register of
Copyright from 1985 to 1993 and was heavily involved in a variety of copyright
issues, has filed an
amicus brief in the Aereo case (pdf).
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 08:32 AM EDT |
Maybe old news, sorry for reposting if someone did so before.
But stumbled
onto this:
03 july 2012 ruling on reselling used software in the
EU
takes you to curia.europa.eu
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