Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 09 2012 @ 02:41 PM EST |
https://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software
/stop-patent-mischief-curbing-patent-enforcement-206658
Everyone seems
to have their own idea of how to deal with patents :p.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 09 2012 @ 05:06 PM EST |
This is based on a short talk I have given several times to new TAs
(mostly new graduate students) at Carleton. It's very basic. I think it should
work for most subjects, not just economics. (Though maybe not as well for
science and engineering where TAs run labs?). I think it should work for most
Canadian universities too, and maybe outside Canada.
I have no special
expertise in this area. But I do have a lot of experience, because I have taught
a lot of big courses with a lot of TAs. You will probably be working for someone
like me, so you need to know what I expect.
Nick Rowe, Worthwhile Canadian
Initiative
Nick Rowe is a Professor of Economics at Carleton University
in Ottawa, Canada If the list is relevant, then you'll want to read the
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Authored by: SilverWave on Friday, November 09 2012 @ 05:41 PM EST |
"If suddenly you have got a whole lot of IPR [Intellectual Property
Rights] issues and you've got to pay Apple half of your profits, everyone is
going to say, perhaps I am not going to support Android anymore and maybe I'll
go with Microsoft instead," said mobile analyst Richard Windsor, who blogs at
Radio Free Mobile.
As it turns five, Android solidifies its
smartphone OS dominance--- 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 Friday, November 09 2012 @ 07:25 PM EST |
From ars technica:
The Canadian
Supreme Court has ruled 7-0 the company should have its patent taken away
because the drug company attempted to "game" the system, grabbing a patent
without disclosing what their invention really was.
Further
on:
In the US, Pfizer's patent rights on [redacted] were
originally set to expire in 2012. But when generic companies moved to enter the
market, Pfizer piled on a "method-of-use" patent over the same drug, set to
expire in 2019. A federal judge upheld that patent after a bench trial last
year, so Pfizer will be the only company allowed to sell [redacted] [the
compound required to make [redacted]] in the US for at least seven more years,
and prices will remain high.
<insert snide remark about
american legal system here>
I assume [redacted] and [redacted] are
[redacted] because they occur frequently in spam, not because they're "bad
words" per se.
LOL, GL even replaces [redacted] in the URL so I can't
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 09 2012 @ 08:43 PM EST |
...the state of Arizona is not only not done tallying up votes—it’s now actually
tallying up the number of uncounted votes. And the number is getting larger by
the day. ...
This is how Sheriff Joe keeps his
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, November 09 2012 @ 09:58 PM EST |
Article at arstechnica.
No surprise this happened and no surprise at the
results.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 09 2012 @ 10:39 PM EST |
This isn't about politics per se. It's about discrimination.
in
an article titled
Romney lost the all important slut vote the
writer managed to insult
every woman who didn't vote the way he wanted.
In fact you get the idea he
would rather that
Women
Gays
[redacted]s -
[Redacted] stands for women who like women, and one of the
major Spam targets.
I hate Spam
Bisexuals
Transgendered
And everyone
else he doesn't approve of be denied the right to vote. He
claims he's coming
from a Biblical standpoint. Sorry guy, there's nothing in
the Synoptic Gospels
about this. What little there is, in the New Testament,
is open to debate (read
Paul's letters carefully - he never directly says anything like
this).
While there are things in the Old Testament, most Christian
sects teach
that Christ's atoning sacrifice replaced the Old Testament
requirements,
which is why Christians don't usually stone
adulters...
Another point is that Jesus said to love, not hate one
another. Reads like
hate to me.
Render unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's.
Which the incoming Archbisop of
Canterbury did really nicely in his speech
today.
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 01:49 AM EST |
It took a year and a half, but the Ubuntu developers finally
delivered, and they did an excellent job.
When you install Ubuntu, now
there's a checkbox to "Encrypt the new Ubuntu installation for security." Users
who are new to GNU/Linux and just making the switch can easily have the same
level of security against physical-access attacks as seasoned
nerds.
Micah Lee, EFF[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 02:32 AM EST |
Why? The lead graphic in
this arstechnica story says it
all,
... Any effect depends on whether a website responds to the
request, and how the request is interpreted...
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Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 03:13 AM EST |
Inside
Android 4.2's powerful new security system --- 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: SilverWave on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 04:41 AM EST |
Analyst: There are LOADS of iPhone 5s, Apple is keeping them back -
Treat the fanbois mean, keep 'em keen --- 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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- Or. - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 05:37 AM EST
- They might all be broken - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 02:29 PM EST
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 06:01 AM EST |
One of the most balanced articles I have
seen on the topic to date. Clearly
there is a group of
Congress people (and Senators?) behind this effort. I was
wondering if the election might have changed the balance of
participants for
or against Google.
In any event, it is a terrible waste of resources
focusing on Google, when there are real anti-trust violators
to go after. They
might look into both Apple's and
Microsoft's anti-competitive behaviour via
misuse of
patents, as well as Microsoft's campaign to disparage
Google. That
would be money well spent. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 06:38 AM EST |
Apple iPhone 5 touchscreen glitch
discovered by developer
The
glitch manifests itself as a dropout of touch input
when quickly scrolling
diagonally across the screen. Appears
to be related to the underlying hardware
so a software
update may not fix it.
YouTube video [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 07:10 AM EST |
Microsoft warns of first critical Windows 8,
RT
security flaws - ZDnet
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 10:17 AM EST |
Scientists got a shock. During an attempt to interest people in Science,
they took some samples of Belly Button Flora and found a new scientific
frontier, which
was closer than most, the human skin.
Fascinating and funny article.
You'll never look at a Belly Button the same
way, ever again. Next stop: The
Armpit!
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: jheisey on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 11:00 AM EST |
A jury awarded a patent troll a lot less money in damages from Google and a few
advertising partners than the company was hoping for - $30 million instead of
$493 million. Google itself is ordered to pay $15.9 million. I think PJ had a
news pick earlier about the lawsuit with the opinion of an analyst who said that
this lawsuit would cause Google's value to go to zero.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/google-infringes-old-lycos-patents-mu
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 12:14 PM EST |
What do people recommend for a college student's computer?
How much memory? How much disk space?
Processor?
Programs available? Almost certainly she will need MS Word compatibility. Is
OpenOffice transparently equivalent enough that she can just use it, without
ever having to fiddle with things so that they show up right on Word?
Weight? She's going to have to lug it everywhere for 4 years...
MSS2[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Laptop for college student? - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 12:58 PM EST
- Chromebook - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 01:18 PM EST
- What are the requirements? - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 02:04 PM EST
- Laptop for college student? - Authored by: stegu on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 02:27 PM EST
- Laptop for college student? - Authored by: Wol on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 03:05 PM EST
- Laptop for college student? - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 03:21 PM EST
- Backups - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 04:57 PM EST
- WWW - Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 07:06 PM EST
- Don't buy anything - until you know the course requirements - Authored by: cassini2006 on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 08:45 PM EST
- MS-word compatibility - Authored by: ailuromancy on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 10:47 PM EST
- Backup often. - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 12:18 AM EST
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 04:39 PM EST |
No, not Sgt Pepper, rather Twenty years ago today, on 9 November
1992, Nokia
launched the world's first commercially available GSM digital
mobile phone - the
Nokia 1011 - strengthening consumer interest in the world of
mobile
connectivity. The candybar device - which weighed a whopping 475g and
could
sustain a conversation for no more than 90 minutes - also introduced text
messaging, viewable on the handset's two-line display.
The Register
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 05:55 PM EST |
"Robert O'Koniewski, the executive vice president of the
Massachusetts State
Automobile Dealers Association, is suing
Tesla for opening a store in a local
mall.
In Massachusetts, f
ranchise law 93B prohibits a manufacturer
from owning a dealership,
O'Koniewski says. An auto dealer
association in New York is also suing
Tesla. link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 09:23 PM EST |
History Chanel is running a documentary about an Archaeological dig at
the site of The Great Escape. Fascinating stuff. Sorry, no link.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 10:54 PM EST |
Of course details are secret.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 10:57 PM EST |
Notably, this settlement applies to all past and future patents for
the companies, meaning we shouldn't be witnessing the two fight it out in court
for years to come -- at least on the patent front. Hopefully we'll soon begin to
see more of the same with other ongoing patent wars -- Apple vs. Samsung,
anyone?
Joe Pollicino, engadget[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: webster on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 01:40 AM EST |
Or Apple's Nightmare Issue, part ii
This is extraordinary
enough because of a billion-dollar verdict. In addition various acts of the
foreman, some in deliberations and some out, each alone, are incredibly
extraordinary and (in)fortuitous depending on your point of view. Let us
examine the Judge's mind and order:
On October 30, 2012, Samsung
filed a motion to compel Apple to disclose the circumstances and timing of
Apple’s discovery of certain information regarding the jury foreperson. ECF No.
2108. On November 2, 2012, Apple filed an opposition. ECF No. 2118. At the
December 6, 2012 hearing, the Court will consider the questions of whether the
jury foreperson concealed information during voir dire, ...
The
Judge has thought deeply ahead. This is the first step. It is obvious
something significant was concealed or this order would never have occurred.
She is plotting a record in the likely case that she has to rule on this
drastic, lucrative issue. Someone knew about the Seagate case in the courtroom
during voir dire, the trial and during deliberations. For sure the
Judge and Samsung did not know. The Judge has thought ahead about it as if the
concealed information AND the concealment matter and has plotted this course.
... whether any concealed information was material, and whether
any concealment constituted misconduct.
As far as the validity of
the trial is concerned, the information has to be material, i.e. important or
essential. It was certainly significant, a juror sued by a party [or the
party's predecessor]. But the fact that he concealed it multiplies its
significance. It is not the sort of thing that would slip his mind during a
voir dire as indeed it didn't by his own accounts after deliberations.
He even told an "untruth" saying the Judge asked only about the last ten years.
Material should be enough, but the Judge goes beyond to "misconduct." While the
misconduct makes it worse, she could just be satisfied with a material omission
and rule on that. But poor old Velvin is not going to remain undisturbed. Will
he be called in as a witness? If they get him, they will need other jurors. He
is either getting old, he can't apply jury instructions or he has an axe to
grind. Anyway, at this point he has little credibility. The judge appears from
this order to be focused on the concealment. That looks to be {bad} enough.
More explanations won't help or make the situation any worse than it is, one
must imagine. Apple would love to just argue damages.
An
assessment of such issues is intertwined with the question of whether and when
Apple had a duty to disclose the circumstances and timing of its discovery of
information about the foreperson. Accordingly, the Court will address Samsung’s
motion to compel at the December 6, 2012 hearing.
Intertwined!
Poor Apple! If she finds it material, that Velvin concealed it and/or voir
dire missed it, then why intertwine Apple? Because she is ticked off! A
month of her life wasted on this useless trial that will have to be straightened
out and longer the next time. Blasted contentious lawyers! Put a rose before
them and they see a thorny weapon. Put Velvin's concealment before them and
they see an advantage. But all that will happen at the December 6 hearing is a
decision on the motion to compel after the materiality and misconduct issues.
She's there! If it is not material she does not have to address it, but she is
going to address it. If she compels, kiss that billion dollars good bye. Apple
should get out front and minimize it. Tell her now. Tell her how easy it was
to find out and how Samsung was incompetent not to know. Did a note slide under
the door? Did you find with normal legal research? Does Samsung's failure
excuse Apple from a duty to inform the Court her voir dire failed?
Apple has admitted knowing. Their stonewalling perfectly is understandable.
When they knew is irrelevant until they are compelled by the
Judge. That means she has concluded that a party withheld essential information
and ruined the fairness of the trial such as it was. If she thinks Samsung
should have found out, she won't make Apple pay fees and costs for the wasted
trial. She may not even distrub the verdict much. How many dozen million did
that trial cost? Apple is preparing piles of briefs that will say it is all up
to the judge.
If the Court grants Samsung’s motion to compel,
the Court will likely order supplemental briefing before ruling on Samsung’s
motion for judgment as a matter of law.
Ouch! Torture. If she
grants the motion to compel, why not make Apple say right there? How will this
supplemental briefing proceed? A confession by Apple, suggested proceedings and
sanctions by Samsung and then a reply by Apple? She intertwines this to
Samsung's motion for judgment as a matter of law. She already contemplates this
as determinative. It's like a dentist pulling a tooth, an eighth of an inch per
week. Happy Holidays.
~webster~
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 01:50 AM EST |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcby0jlsQQI
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Authored by: JamesK on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 08:41 AM EST |
What
happens when a protest candidate wins an election? --- The following
program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 04:16 PM EST |
SemiAccurate
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