Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 30 2012 @ 09:23 AM EST |
From the remarkable battle over the Stop Online Piracy Act to the massive public
backlash against Internet surveillance in Canada, law and technology issues
garnered headlines all year long. A look back at 2012 from A to Z
by Michael
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 30 2012 @ 07:22 PM EST |
is it just a mp3 player. The article can't make up its mind, other than
to speculate it's not simply a bluetooth controller for something
bigger you carry in your pocket. And I never seem to take away
anything substantial from the discussions here as to whether
Dick Tracy would be prior art.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 30 2012 @ 09:33 PM EST |
Prompted by soaring health-care costs and increasingly sophisticated
analytical tools, more and more medical treatments are taking their turn under
the microscope. One driving force is John P.A. Ioannidis, chief of the Stanford
Prevention Research Center. He works with colleagues around the globe to
scrutinize treatments that account for huge chunks of the health- care tab but
that are, he says, virtually worthless and sometimes harmful.
Ioannidis says
financial influence is one of several factors that can, deliberately or
unintentionally, skew study design and methodology and undermine the validity of
published research findings.
Joan O'Connell Hamilton, Stanford Magazine[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 30 2012 @ 09:49 PM EST |
"One of the lesser known features of the ring of agents
that former Scotland
Yard Commander Ray Adams ran for
NewsCorp/NDS was that he had an informant placed
at Cambridge
University to spy on its cryptology work". link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: complex_number on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 01:55 AM EST |
You ask if Apple will try to patent the device.
I think that is unlikely.
however they might apply for some patents on the UI. I am sure that they will
have a huge number of problems to solve to make something that is at least half
decently usable. This is where there might be a lot of things to patent.
Remember that just because you might have seen some ham fisted actor in a 'B'
movie using a prop that looks like a watch or mentioned in an SF story does not
mean that parts of the interface can't be patened because of this so called
prior-art.
Neither the prop nor the SF story would describe the detail of the interface in
such a way as to preclude anyone else from applying for a patent on improvements
to the device.
Actually making a device also won't stop someone else from making one as long as
it is sufficiently different they are home free. Please read the story of how
the Boulton & Watt patents on the steam condenser were circumvented by the
Cornish (and others)
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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, December 31 2012 @ 10:53 AM EST |
Not sure if this has been covered before but this is from the law firm involved
on the accused's side :
2012: The year Irish newspapers tried to destroy the
web
It makes the actions against Google in Belgium and Germany look
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 02:30 PM EST |
I looked at this a while back and found to my horror and disgust,
the only officially sanctioned way to make a USB bootable stick
is on a Windows machine. unetbootin didn't want to do it for me.
Also I wonder how they've treated the version with Adobe Reader...
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Authored by: myNym on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 03:53 PM EST |
I apologize that this is oldish news (8th June 2012), but I
just came across
this and had to smile. :-)
The US Navy has signed off on a
$27,883,883 contract from
military contractor Raytheon to install Linux
ground control
software for its fleet of vertical take-off and landing
(VTOL)
drones.
While the US military has been a growing user
of Linux, the
contract might also have something to do with the swabbies
learning from the mistakes made by the flyboys and girls in
the US Air Force.
After a malware attack on the Air Force's
Windows-based drone-control system
last year, there has been
a wholesale move to Linux for security
reasons.
Link
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"Warms the cockles of my heart." :-)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 01:36 AM EST |
MS had a strong first few months last year. We'll see if it happens again.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 01:35 PM EST |
"the EU has actually gone backwards on open standards in
recent times.
Again, as long-suffering readers may recall,
the original European
Interoperability Framework also
required royalty-free licensing, but what was
doubtless a
pretty intense wave of lobbying in Brussels overturned that,
and
EIF v2 ended up pushing FRAND, which effectively locks
out open source - the
whole point of the exercise. link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 01:54 PM EST |
BJ left a comment that might have a url
that needed to be split. A member
is
saying the page is scrolling, so I'm trying
to delete any such comments and
tell you
what they said. Here's BJ's comment:
FSF Campaigning to Stop UEFI. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 02:15 PM EST |
Wrist watch phone (Apple) but it's been done already
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 30 2012 @ 05:04 PM EST
See here:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/
apple/9771472/Apple-iWatch-latest-
rumours-
suggest-a-wearable-revolution.html
But you can already buy such things and they've been on sale in Asia for some
time. Are they going to try to claim 'patent/copyrights' on that too?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 01:48 AM EST |
Not even worth a clicky.
Bailey passed the Maine bar exam last winter. He was previously licensed in
Massachusetts and Florida but was disbarred in those states for mishandling $6
million
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/01/oj-simpson-patty-hearst-attorney-denied-to-
practice-law-in-maine/[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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