Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 10:29 AM EST |
If Tomi is right this makes Mobile the most popular technology of all time
from several points of view:
1) Speed of adoption
2) Number of
users
3) Value to users
Number 3 might seem odd, but
communication is what sets humans apart,
and mobile allows humans to
communicate faster and easier than any
other technology.
Countdown to Mobile Moment - When Will Mobile Phone Accounts
Outnumber
Humans? I say July 2013 (we are at 6.7B
already)
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 10:36 AM EST |
Enjoy.
Help
Desk
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 10:41 AM EST |
Enjoy.
XKCD
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Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 12:02 PM EST |
An international team of astronomers has
found the largest structure ever in the universe. --- The following
program contains immature subject matter.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 12:47 PM EST |
rms = attended Harvard starting
in 1970 and graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts in physics
billg = enrolled at Harvard
in the fall of 1973, dropped out after a few years: they gave him an honorary
doctorate in 2007
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Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 02:38 PM EST |
Case Study:
Pro-active
Log Review Might Be A Good Idea --- 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 Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 02:58 PM EST |
Larry Lessig tweeted this, I haven't read it yet.
Aaron
Greenspan's
website
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 03:16 PM EST |
I thought they were talking about Bosnia at first. Horrifying. But the
highest
sentence was only 17 years, and they were trying to hit Aaron Swartz
for
35? Sheesh.
Salon
website
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 03:34 PM EST |
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6755/125/
The
conclusion
states:
the appropriate balance of the state interest in gathering
evidence
and privacy interests in information can be struck by an order that
the
servers be brought before the court pursuant to s.15 (2) so that the
court
can make an order refining what is to be sent. By this, I do not
mean that at
this stage the servers must physically be delivered to the
courthouse. The
application for a sending order is adjourned without a
fixed return date,
returnable on 7 days’ notice. If counsel are unable
to agree as to how the
scope of relevant material is to be defined then
the matter may be brought back
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 03:38 PM EST |
Nine people impacted by Prosecutorial Over Reach.
Salon
website
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 01:19 AM EST |
Last September, the UK parliament earmarked £10 Million pounds from
the science budget to support open access scientific publishing. Earlier this
week, the UK parliament announced that they are seeking feedback on this policy,
including 'how the Government should address the concerns raised by the
scientific and publishing communities about the policy'.
The deadline is
this weekend (Jan 18) so it seems important to get the word
out.
Cory
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 10:48 AM EST |
Quantum scale photosynthesis in biological systems which inhabit extreme
environments could hold key to new designs for solar energy and nanoscale
devices
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/unlocking-natures-quantum-engineering-for-eff
icient-solar-energy/
Mathematical breakthrough sets out rules for more
effective teleportation
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 03:21 PM EST |
Summary: The $35 Linux Raspberry Pi computer has sparked a
coding revolution. Here's the inside story of the Pi, from its inspiration and
development to plans for its future.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 04:08 PM EST |
Facebook and Open Compute just blew up the server and disrupted a $55B
market,
Gigaom
and Charlie Demerjian
gloats at his accurate prediction,
semiaccurate
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 04:29 PM EST |
Just saw this on my Twitter feed. There's a White House petition to defund
the Intenational Telecommunication Union, over its attempt at a backdoor
takeover of the Internet. Apparently the U.S. is responsible for 7.3% of the
agency's funding, money which the agency is using against us
geeks.
I'm not American, so I can't sign. Well, I could, but morally I
don't think
I should. I suggest you sign, and pass this on to everyone you
know.
Defund the
ITU
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 10:39 PM EST |
Today Amazon
released an HTML5 web based store for the
Amazon Music
Store to be accessed from iOS devices.
For
Apple it’s a taunt. A taunt against the
lock in on-device music sales that
Apple has, thanks to it’s
tight control of third party apps and the clause in
the
terms and conditions that says you can’t duplicate software
and services
that are already present on the device.
But the biggest issue Apple is
going to have with this? It
bypasses the terms and conditions of the Apple App
Store,
and Cupertino will not see the requisite 30% of any income
derived from
a service running on an iOS device application.
The MP3 file is not downloaded
via the HTML5 site, but
accessed through the Amazon Cloud Player application
already
available on iOS.
Jeff Bezos is almost daring Apple to
react.
If they do react, the PR benefit is going to be
huge...
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 18 2013 @ 04:52 AM EST |
A lawyer in Wired gives a detailed breakdown of the problems in Bilbo's
contract.
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/01/hobbit-contract-legal-analysis/
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 18 2013 @ 04:42 PM EST |
A year ago today, on January 18th 2012, the largest protest in
Internet history stopped the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) — a bill that would
have allowed for the censorship of large portions of the Internet — in its
tracks.
Perhaps no site was more important in this fight than Reddit.
You guys helped organize the protest against GoDaddy, you started forcing
members of Congress to come out against SOPA, and you were the first to declare
January 18th blackout day.
So from all of us on the activism team at the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, we just want
to say thank you again.
But the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
And the fight for Internet freedom continues. So Ask Us Anything about the next
battles over Internet freedom in the coming year and we will try our best to
answer any and all questions that come our way.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 18 2013 @ 08:31 PM EST |
Just watching TV and caught site of an XO laptop. Rewound and found it was a
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Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, January 19 2013 @ 03:10 AM EST |
Language warning.
Anyone on FB really needs to think about not Liking anything
anytime.
These People Are Now Sharing
Horrible Things About
Themselves Thanks to Facebook Search --- 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 Saturday, January 19 2013 @ 05:18 PM EST |
'til 19 January 2038
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 19 2013 @ 05:40 PM EST |
After all the hooha about LiIonbatteries in passenger luggage it seems a bold
step, where no plane has gone before, to
use them as primary electrical storage
on the same planes that ban pax carrying them.
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- 787 Batteries - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 19 2013 @ 07:42 PM EST
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- 787 Batteries - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 20 2013 @ 01:04 AM EST
- Overload? - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 20 2013 @ 05:21 PM EST
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 19 2013 @ 05:48 PM EST |
An Oxford college is being sued for discriminating against poorer
students applying to study for postgraduate courses. St Hugh's, which was
founded in 1886, is being taken to court for choosing applicants not just on
academic merit, but also on their ability to prove they can pay tens of
thousands of pounds for tuition fees and living expenses.
It is claimed
that, along with other Oxford colleges, St Hugh's is "selecting by
wealth".
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Saturday, January 19 2013 @ 10:06 PM EST |
Link
Application 20130012270,
published in the database of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Jan. 10, is
for what the Redmond, Washington-based company calls “inconspicuous mode for
mobile devices.”
Why, back in the good old days, we
called
that a knob.
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Saturday, January 19 2013 @ 10:47 PM EST |
Link
The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency said rootworms in Illinois and Iowa have become resistant to
an insecticide produced by Monsanto Co. (MON) corn, and four more states likely
have resistant worms.
The resistance finding is based on a test developed at
the Iowa State University rather than the regulatory definition, which is
“flawed” and should be changed, the EPA said today in a report examining
Monsanto’s product. Likely resistance in South Dakota, Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Nebraska fields need to be confirmed, the agency said.
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