Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 04:27 PM EST |
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That would describe some of the stuff in my fridge. ;-)
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Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 04:30 PM EST |
Apollo vet Sy Liebergot shows Ars how NASA got
men safely to the Moon and back. --- The following program contains
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Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 04:32 PM EST |
Rather than hurried improvisation, saving the crew of Apollo 13 took years
of preparation --- The following program contains immature subject
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Authored by: stats_for_all on Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 05:41 PM EST |
UnXis has recently appointed Sean Snyder as "Acting Chief Operating Officer and
Chief Marketing Officer" (per Snyder's Linked In and Facebook pages, datelined
Dec. 2, 2012).
On the same day, Snyder registered a new domain -
Xinuos.com
Xinuos landing page
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Snyder, Sean
The Avenue de Messidor address used in the whois for the Snyder sites
is the very same one used by Thomas Charles Snyder to register shares of
Stratos Renewable stock. Readers may remember that Stratos was a small
bio-fuel company that supposedly was starting a a methanol plant in Peru.
Stephen L. Norris got involved with the stock, (and appointed
acquaintance Tom Snyder to run the company). Stratos got a large PIPE
investment from a hedge run by Russian emigre Oil Billionaires (ex-CFO of Yukos
Oil). The company delisted and vanished with no good accounting of the money
from stock sales or the Russian Billionaire loans.
Sean Snyder is an
acquaintance of Eric Le Blan. He is based out of Brussels, Belgium (he
attended St John's International Prep school there). Snyder was previously
involved in LevelSea -- a internet "social media" design company based in
Belgium. It appears that LevelSea has high design values but a very limited
client base, the whoi on its website lists Snyder as its admin. Snyder was also
involved in TechCorps -- a Belgium based out-sourced IT firm for small
businesses.
I have no idea how Bolandz fits into the new organization, or
how William Broderick (sales) shares responsibility with Sean. My suspicion
is that Bolandz has been left behind, and this new hire is Le Blan trying to
impose some discipline on the rump of SCO.
Eric Le Blan has also
appeared on the website of Techne.us Le Blan and Norris associate Leonard
Brooks III are on the management page. Techne appears to be the brain child of
Dennis Michaud. It original thrust was the integrated development of medical
schools in Saudi Arabia and Dubai. The medical school aspect is de-emphasized
in more recent web up-dates, and it now appears that Techne is promoting large
scale satellite city development in Saudi Arabia.
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Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 06:38 PM EST |
The looks of the iPhone,
exact
dimensions, etc, were considered in January 2007 to be
a copy of an industrial
design winning LG phone - from 2006.
Apple designers cleverly copied an
award-winning LG design
to create the 'wow' factor in 2007, because LG had not
brought this phone to the Western markets (we eventually saw
the consumer
version of it as the LG Chocolate, released in
Europe before the iPhone
launched in the USA in 2007). So LG
knows fully well how to do this type of
phones and form
factors. They just haven't bothered to do that as a
"smartphone" so far. --- 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 Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 08:05 PM EST |
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 08:28 PM EST |
My daughter yelled "Dad I'm taking your iPad, as she grabbed my PlayBook
and headed out the door". So some people can be confused by a shiny
rectangle.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 01:15 AM EST |
"IT problems have
led to a two-year delay in
rolling out a
bowel cancer test that could save thousands of lives, the
Department of Health has admitted".
"BCSS bowel cancer screening system .. PCT Exeter
System X 84 ..
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 07:13 AM EST |
<a
href="http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/11/filing.b
y.qualcomm.induced.by.call.for.comments.from.usitc/">Qualcom
m attacks Apple,
calls FRAND negotiations 'sham'</a>
<i>In response to some questions posed by the United States
International Trade Commission (USITC), wireless baseband
supplier Qualcomm has torn into Apple in a court filing,
saying that apple "should be embarassed" at the length and
depth of the iPad makers' patent infringement. The move is
curious, as Apple has been Qualcomm's largest customer for
three years. Qualcomm and other stakeholders were
encouraged, not required, to comment on a few questions the
ITC commission posed in an Apple versus Samsung complaint.
Submitters were asked to remark on the availability of
injunctive relief over standards-essential patents, and the
criteria for a fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 11:39 AM EST |
“In studies of controversial topics, such as the impact on public health and the
environment potentially stemming from shale-gas hydraulic fracturing,
credibility hinges upon full disclosure of any potential conflicts of interest
by all participants and upon rigorous, independent reviews of findings.
This study failed in both regards”.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/fissures-appear-in-scientis
ts-assurances-about-safety-of-fracking/article6142857/
Kevin Connor, director of the Public Accountability Initiative said Dr. Groat’s
report, which the University of Texas has now withdrawn, is similar to a
fracking study at the State University of New York at Buffalo, which was also
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 12:56 PM EST |
Quite a bit off topic for a legal blog, but we certainly
do have a lot of
software developers here... Software
Engineers should keep lab
notebooks.
After 20 years of developing
software, I wholeheartedly
agree with the authors conclusions. He certainly
knows what
he is talking about.
To add a legal angle to my comment,
more in keeping with
the theme of this site, I would suggest taking notes is
important for two other reasons not stated in the article.
If there is ever
any dispute over the authorship of the
software (ie: if someone accuses you of
"stealing" their
code), your notes will go a long way toward proving your
original authorship. Similarly if you are accused of
"willful" infringement of
somebody's software patent, your
notes may help you disprove this hypotheses.
Finally, notes
are required for R&D tax credits that many countries allow.
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