Authored by: red floyd on Thursday, January 31 2013 @ 07:36 PM EST |
The article on Judge Koh's ruling just made the front page there.
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I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a *CITIZEN* of the United
States of America.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 31 2013 @ 10:13 PM EST |
CES itself has put out a press release slamming CNET's behavior and
announcing that CNET won't be allowed to produce the "Best of CES" awards
anymore. Those awards are produced by CNET under contract with the Consumer
Electronics Association (CEA), which puts on CES. CEA said it will work to
identify a new partner to run the Best of CES awards.
"We are shocked that
the ‘Tiffany’ network which is known for its high journalistic standards would
bar all its reporters from favorably describing classes of technology the
network does not like," said CEA President Gary Shapiro in the
statement.
Joe Mullin, ars technica[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: macrorodent on Thursday, January 31 2013 @ 11:53 PM EST |
"Forward-thinking Ángela Ruiz Robles invented her Mechanical Encyclopedia in
1949 - more than half a century before the advent of Kindles, Kobos and
Nooks."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/art
icle-2270525/The-e-reader-Spanish-teacher-precursor-Kindle-1949.html
(Of
course not an e-reader but a mechanical reader. M-reader? The device as shown
looks clearly impractical, but the idea is what counts, it was not her fault the
required technology was decades in the future... Also note her device has
rounded corners :-)
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Authored by: ailuromancy on Friday, February 01 2013 @ 12:32 AM EST |
Susan soon learned that
"No one is to open the door of the
Stationary Cupboard"
was a prohibition that a seven-year-old
simply would not
understand.
You had to think and rephrase it in more immediate terms,
like, "No
one, Jason, no matter what, no, not even if
they thought they heard someone
shouting for help,
no-one - are you paying attention, Jason?
- is to open the
door of the Stationary Cupboard,
or accidentally fall on the door handle so that
it opens,
or threaten to steal Richenda's teddy bear
unless she opens the door
of the Stationary Cupboard,
or be standing nearby when a mysterious wind
comes
out of nowhere and
blows the door open all by itself, honestly,
it really did,
or in any way open, cause to open,
ask anyone else to open, jump up and down
on the loose floorboard to open or in any other way
seek to obtain entry to
the Stationary Cupboard,
Jason!"
Terry
Pratchett
I think patent laws will have to be written by someone
like
Susan Sto Helit or we will end up with software
patents being called "computer
implemented inventions".
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, February 01 2013 @ 12:37 AM EST |
Link
Nokia is leading the electronic firms
within the Graphene Flagship Consortium, which includes 73 other companies and
academic institutions from a number of mediums. The Finnish handset manufacturer
has received a grant of $1.35 billion to research and develop graphene for
practical applications, with the European Union for the Future and Emerging
Technologies (FET) providing the grant itself.
Where there's
carbon, there may be smoke.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 01 2013 @ 12:59 AM EST |
Mega's open source encryption remains unbroken! We'll offer 10,000
EURO to anyone who can break it.
Jon Russell, The Next Web[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SilverWave on Friday, February 01 2013 @ 02:57 AM EST |
Samsung's new commercial spoofs the
Super Bowl
with the help of Paul Rudd and
Seth Rogen
heh!--- 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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