Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 03 2013 @ 08:09 PM EST |
"the world’s third biggest PC maker is expected to
announce a $20bn
leveraged buyout, taking it off the stock
market and putting it back into
private hands"
"Microsoft, along with VC Silver Lake Partners,
is
reported to have lined up $15bn from UK and US banks to
finance a deal,
making them minority investors in a private
Dell. Reports value an estimated
$3bn Microsoft contribution
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 03 2013 @ 11:54 PM EST |
I've traded a couple of emails with Gary, the guy behind the 'Files That
Last' KickStarter Project. It's a great project, Gary knows what he is doing,
and I strongly suggest that anyone who hasn't looked at it do so. Yes, he
made
funding, but I'd really like to see this go Gold.
Gary's got a great
idea, and he needs our support.
Files
That Last
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 04 2013 @ 08:38 AM EST |
XKCD
Expedition
Enjoy.
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 04 2013 @ 09:17 AM EST |
Link to Wired Article
Specialist equipment required in
the execution
of
duties in his professional role as Burglar shall be
purchased, procured, purlioned [sic] or obtained by Burglar,
by whatsoever
method Burglar sees fit..
... so Bilbo gets to keep the one
Ring by virtue of his
Contract, however apparently Bilbo himself wasen't so
sure
about that part because he always kept the one Ring secret
from the
Company (I never understood that part till I read
this analysis of his contract
.... ) But one might also say
he won the one Ring fair and square in the Riddle
challenge
with Gollum, although I am sure that Gollum would vehemently
disagree.
At any rate Bilbo avoided any contractual squabbles about
his
acquisition of the one Ring by keeping it secret from
the Dwarves and the rest
of the Company ...
smart move, No? :-)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 04 2013 @ 03:10 PM EST |
Utah County-based software company hosts annual convention at Salt
Palace.
Novell’s Brainshare conference begins Monday [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 04 2013 @ 05:00 PM EST |
A number of articles have appeared in relation to various attacks on news sites.
In a number of them they have talked about hackers (of the oriental variety)
doing the work.
I have been thinking that we should expand our standing terminology for the
perpetrators as follows:
Hackers - normal people who do interesting things with software and hardware
Crackers - Criminal people who do nefarious things with software and hardware
Gackers - Government people who do government (possibly illegal) things with
software and hardware
Mackers - Military people who do military (possibly illegal) things with
software and hardware
Wackers - Weirdo people who do crazy/weird things with software and hardware
Can we think of any more[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 04 2013 @ 07:56 PM EST |
http://www.stickam.com/
After seven wonderful years we are
incredibly sad to have to say
goodbye. We did everything we
could to keep this dream alive, but unfortunately
you are
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 04 2013 @ 08:24 PM EST |
I met and fell in love with programmer, writer, activist, thinker,
lover, world-changer Aaron Swartz.
We started dating in June 2011, just
weeks before he was indicted by the federal government for downloading too many
academic journal articles. We moved to New York together in 2012 and were living
together in January 2013, at the time of his suicide, while he was facing
federal felony charges potentially amounting to over 35 years in prison and
$4 million in fines.
This blog is about Aaron’s life, death, and the
aftermath thereof, as well as about my life, work, and the many things we both
cared about.
Why Aaron
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Authored by: pem on Tuesday, February 05 2013 @ 12:38 AM EST |
Apparently the punters are clamoring for Windows tablets!
I think I'll
go buy some Microsoft sock now. Or maybe just some put options.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 05 2013 @ 11:41 AM EST |
Back in October, the startup tech firm Silent Circle ruffled
governments’ feathers with a “surveillance-proof” smartphone app to allow people
to make secure phone calls and send texts easily.
Now, the company is
pushing things even further—with a groundbreaking encrypted data transfer app
that will enable people to send files securely from a smartphone or tablet at
the touch of a button. (For now, it’s just being released for iPhones and iPads,
though Android versions should come soon.) That means photographs, videos,
spreadsheets, you name it—sent scrambled from one person to another in a matter
of seconds.
“This has never been done before,” boasts Mike Janke, Silent
Circle’s CEO. “It’s going to revolutionize the ease of privacy and
security.”
Ryan
Gallagher, Slate[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 05 2013 @ 11:50 AM EST |
Dell stockholders will be paid $13.65 per share to leave the company on its
own. That’s 25 percent more than the $10.88 the stock was going for before
word of the buyout talks trickled out last month.
But it’s a steep markdown
from the shares’ price of $26 less than five years ago, when the company’s
eponymous founder Michael Dell returned for a second go-round as CEO.
Computer giant Dell goes private in complex $24.4B deal [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 05 2013 @ 12:02 PM EST |
Nice photos in the photo gallery including shots of the worst air quality
currently in the nation. Come on Motz... you know you want to come back!
Novell exec opens Brainshare with promise for better
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Authored by: sciamiko on Tuesday, February 05 2013 @ 01:34 PM EST |
I've just seen this, but it may old news to you.
Glyn Moody reports on the
launch of a new research centre
looking for real evidence on copyright (Techdirt) :
One of the
things it hopes to do is to bring some objectivity to the notoriously
contentious field of copyright studies by looking at what the evidence really
says; so it was perhaps inevitable that it too would meet some resistance from
the extremist wing of the copyright world. What's surprising is that it seems to have happened during the launch itself, as Paul Bernal, an
academic who was there, reports.
s.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 05 2013 @ 04:56 PM EST |
Microsoft is using a $2 billion loan to help finance Dell's $24.4
billion buyout to bolster one of the largest makers of computers using Windows
software and fend off competition from Google Inc. and Apple Inc.
Steve
Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive officer, discussed the loan with Dell
founder and CEO Michael Dell, according to two people familiar with the
negotiations. Microsoft opted for a loan rather than an equity investment to
avoid rankling other personal-computer makers that use Windows, said one of the
people, who asked not to be named because the matter isn’t public.
Microsoft Loan to Help Dell While Avoiding
Favoritism [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: charlie Turner on Tuesday, February 05 2013 @ 07:31 PM EST |
Just read that Oracle buys Acme (Packet) for $1.7 Billion. Can't wait for Wile
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 05 2013 @ 07:33 PM EST |
In a story in the CBC on the launch of Blackberry's new Z10 phone,
(BlackBerry launches new Z10 phone across Canada) ,
Thorstein Heins, the head of Blackberry said:
Heins also
spoke on Tuesday at Toronto's Empire Club, making a point to discuss how legal
battles over patents, especially in the United States, have been detrimental to
the mobile technology industry.
"This past year, our sector spent
almost $30 billion in courtrooms — particularly in U.S. courtrooms —
defending cases against non-practicing entities — or 'patent trolls' — who
produce nothing," he said in prepared remarks.
"Patent trolls hold
genuine innovators hostage and patents have become weapons in an international
technology arms race. This is crazy. We have to shift our resources from
litigation back to innovation, investment and job
creation."
Let's hope that people listen to him.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 05 2013 @ 10:03 PM EST |
"The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) is the latest
federal agency to become
the victim of a cyberattack while
not immediately being aware of
it".
"Gertz reported that the sources told him that 14
computer
servers and 20 workstations were penetrated, that
personally identifiable
information of several hundred
employees was compromised, but that no
classified
information was exposed"
'Tommy Stiansen, CTO of
Norse, said McCallum is correct,
"given the information I can get from the
Internet, I'm
personally sure .. The DoE server, their Linux box, tells me
they're not security minded .. The box is outdated, not
hardened and there is
not adequate security in front of it"
' link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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