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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 01:16 PM EDT |
The way we fund and publish science encourages fraud. A forum about academic
misconduct aims to find practical solutions
Pete Etchells is a
biological psychologist and Suzi Gage is a translational epidemiology PhD
student. Both are at the University of Bristol
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/nov/02/scientific-fraud-good-science
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Authored by: squib on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 01:41 PM EDT |
The reporter that first broke the news of yesterday Samsung UK (EU) court's
Apple for Direction is a British legal reporter with an impressive CV (i.e.,
better than mine).
Link
I
presume he was actually in attendance from the way his articles were written
and so quickly posted on two sites – long before any other news organisation
picked up on the out-come (they may too have all relied on Bloomburg's
syndication of his report).
As Bloomberg invites people to contact him and
give his email address at the bottom of the article. I would think he might be
persuaded to post here on GL with fuller account of Samsung's Appeal for
Direction.
This may contrast the difference modus operandi from the
US system – if any. Also, he could describe the body language, facial
expressions and things, that other highly edited accounts of Thursdays
proceedings left out. In a British court (EU community court), it was likely a
short exchange of minutes rather than hours.
What do others think. Would you
like a fuller picture of EU court proceedings?
Email address here at bottom of
article: Bloomburge page. Link
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 02:23 PM EDT |
No, not the US. But in China they have different ways of doing
things.
A spokesman at China's Ministry of Information and Industry
Technology last
week denied rumors that officials planned to shut down Internet
access during the congress,
though he added they would be conducting
maintenance during that time. "You can't really say
it's 'closing down the
Internet,' " spokesman Zhang Feng said at a news conference. "But to
guarantee
the safety and speed of Internet communication during the 18th Party Congress,
it's
true that we've started doing some work to ensure things run
smoothly."
WSJ
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Authored by: kuroshima on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 02:48 PM EDT |
source
Maybe it's because they expect to lose a lot of money
from the build in Windows
Store, but Valve has been moving a lot to help Linux
gaming.
Even if you don't game,
you're getting the benefits from this, since
they're putting
pressure on the GPU
manufacturers to get their drivers up to
speed, and many
Linux desktop environments
are composited and use 3D
acceleration (not sure about the
lightweight ones, but
KDE/GNOME/Unity are
quite 3d heavy)
If Valve manages to make the big studios start releasing
their games for Linux
(and if they already release them for MacOSX, they
should
not have to do that much
more work to get them working on Linux),
Microsoft will
start loosing revenue in a
rapid fashion.
Desura will be the
greatest looser here,
because right now they are the only game in town for Linux
gaming, but even
they
will benefit from more people using Linux to game, and from
improved
drivers.
By the way, the Unity 3d
engine (not to be confused
with the Unity desktop environment) already
works under Linux, making porting to Linux much
easier for those using
it.
If Valve can make Linux the go to platform for high
performance
gaming (because
the Linux kernel is superior when it comes to memory
management, etc etc), then the
Linux desktop will get a lot of new blood that
will also use
it for everyday tasks,
thus reducing the monopoly hold on the
younger generations.
Linux has
already won in embeded and server spaces. Once
gaming falls
our way (and I
know more than one game that runs smoother on WinE
than it
does on
Windows), <bright eyed wild hope>it will only be a
matter
of time until
home desktop also goes that way. From there, Enterprise
will
eventually
follow. After all, Enterprise already has all the tools it
needs.</bright eyed wild hope>
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 03:53 PM EDT |
Saw a TV ad for a Canon DSLR this evening. It featured an 'in camera' zoom
facility driven by a touch screen and finger and thumb gesture. Have they
licensed from Apple I wonder or is it a new patent because it's used in a camera
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 04:49 PM EDT |
What's the price of a new Windows 8
zero-day vulnerability?
French security company Vupen is selling a
vulnerability
in Microsoft's latest operation system and browser -
Computerworld
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 05:30 PM EDT |
UK Gov moves towards open standards
Heres
hoping this gains traction and the various depts, listen.
Especially the
royalty free component.
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Authored by: kuroshima on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 06:34 PM EDT |
What theme are you guys using? I had not noticed that the
website supported multiple themes until I saw some complaints
that some post broke some of the themes. I'm currently using
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 06:38 PM EDT |
I just saw this on google+
Linu
s Torvalds
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 07:53 PM EDT |
They are not all directly dealing with lines
or transmission equipment, but it does show
the level of effort and commitment from
the utilities outside of the directly affected
area hardest hit in the NJ/NY area.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 07:55 PM EDT |
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 03 2012 @ 02:57 AM EDT |
There is a story on Slashdot that is rather funny. It's called Ask Slashdot: Finding
Legacy UnixWare Installation Media? .
"We have an old
(ancient) Unisys server in production that hosts a legacy system and are
attempting to virtualize it. Unfortunately we don't have a generic UnixWare
(2.1.2) installation CD, just a Unisys-specific one, and given the recent
unpleasantness (see Groklaw for details), SCO isn't much of an option. We're not
looking at pirating it (as above, we do still have the Unisys-specific media),
but do need a generic copy of UnixWare. What options, if any, are
available?"
I'm now thinking of all those people in similar
straights, who have Unixware or SCO Openserver systems, who had their heads in
the sand for (how many?) years, and who don't have an escape plan. It's a very
good lesson in vendor lock-in, and why every long-lived software system needs to
have a migration strategy.
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