Authored by: Tolerance on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 08:56 PM EST |
Hmmm....
F
ather pays teen not
to use Facebook.
Actually there's a problem with the contract, which
grants
the Dad access to the teen's Facebook password etc.
Giving the
password would violate Facebook's terms of
service, which in turn would subject
the teen (not the Dad)
to civil penalties. (The Dad would be on the hook for
CRIMINAL prosecution by the same team which made Aaron
Swartz commit
suicide).
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 12:34 AM EST |
"Russia’s Yandex search engine has
pushed Microsoft’s Bing aside in global search statistics, climbing to fourth
place after Google, Baidu and Yahoo!"
link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 12:37 AM EST |
'Groklaw is a blog that was started May 16 2003 by Pamela Jones` .. link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 01:35 AM EST |
"Smartphones running the open source Ubuntu operating system will be
available to customers beginning in October 2013 .. Application developers will
have access to the smaartphone operating system, which is optimized for the
Galaxy Nexus handset manufactured by Samsung Electronics Co. , in late
February." link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 04:32 AM EST |
Here's a deep question for the weekend:
What is "Justice"?
I see it as a conglomeration of revenge and discouragement, along with a tiny
nudge of rehabilitation.
What's everyone else's opinion?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: tiger99 on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 04:35 AM EST |
BBC It seems that he
has previously tried to get rid of Ballmer. I am glad that he failed, as Ballmer
is continuing to destroy M$. and I wish him every success in that. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Nick_UK on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 06:54 AM EST |
I remember Shergar being kidnapped (at the time, the Irish police acted like the
Keystone Kops :D ), and here is a fascinating account from 30 years ago on the
BBC:
The Shergar
Story
Nick[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: LocoYokel on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 08:09 AM EST |
http://www.infoworld.com/t/open-source-software/new-libreoffice-turns-the-heat-m
icrosoft-212494?source=IFWNLE_nlt_wrapup_2013-02-07
I have not tried it
yet, but from the article it sounds to be a serious competitor for full MSOffice
replacement even in a heavy MS environment. I did notice the link claiming MS
is now using open standards in MSOffice but haven't followed it. We all pretty
much know the story behind that anyway. --- Political correctness is an
effort to abrogate the First
Amendment under the assumption that there exists a right to
not be offended and that it has priority [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 08:27 AM EST |
Ho-Hum what do we
want [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 09:55 AM EST |
article on the CLS Bank issue, with a link to Groklaw!
http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/federal-hearing-today-mark
s-turning-point-in-war-software-patents-212445?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2013-0
2-08[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 10:17 AM EST |
Perl Problems
Rather
reminds me of the old classic 'How to shoot yourself in the foot' with
various
programming languages joke.
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 10:23 AM EST |
According to 'Lowering the Bar' a rather annoyed Judge Steven Merryday
decided to give a lawyer instructions on how to start a brief.
How to
Start a Brief
I know from writing reports how tempting it can be
to cut and paste to save
time.
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: designerfx on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 12:04 PM EST |
you'd think they'd learn by now.
http://www.techspot.com/news/51574-judge-invalidates-13-
motorola-patent-claims-against-microsoft.html[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 12:27 PM EST |
Ever since Euclid proved there were
an infinite number of prime numbers, mathematicians have been on a quest to find
higher and higher examples --- The following program contains immature
subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 01:29 PM EST |
Proposed changes to Canada's draft antispam regulations
could legalize installation of spyware, says privacy advocate Michael
Geist --- The following program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 02:15 PM EST |
When he lived in Massachusetts, Swartz would compete in the MIT
Mystery Hunt, an annual weekend-long puzzle-solving marathon. Exactly one
week after Swartz died, on the day the 2013 Mystery Hunt kicked off, his old
team hosted an ice cream social in his memory. A large banner was spread out on
a table, on which friends and admirers wrote a long list of personalized
messages: funny memories, words of condolence. Near the end of the night, a
slender boy in a plain sweatshirt who looked too young to be there came over to
the table. He uncapped a marker. He wrote, simply, “We will
continue.”
Justin
Peters, Slate[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 03:03 PM EST |
Michael Dell's buyout of his namesake company and the shareholder suit against
Apple to increase its cash buyout inspired this.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 04:55 PM EST |
On Dec. 2, 2011, an undercover officer posing as a patient with a
legitimate doctor's recommendation for cannabis—something required of all
entrants to the collective—"purchased 4.2 net grams of marijuana for
$37."
The investigation ended there, but the single sale—and a sale it
was, since most pot goes for $50 or $60 per eighth of an ounce—was
enough evidence for the DEA to argue that the otherwise-harmless computer
engineer and dentist should lose their retirement-investment property. On Aug.
20, 2012, the agency filed its lawsuit.
Nick Schou, OC Weekly[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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