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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 11:48 AM EDT |
What is FairSearch and why does it hate Google so much?
How Google's competitors
learned to stop worrying and start
lobbying
By Vlad Savov
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 11:54 AM EDT |
Mobile: The new
frontier in claims against Google
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 02:57 PM EDT |
PJ said that only Apple can stop this. But I'm not sure that Apple can, because
Steve Jobs started it, and he's now dead, and Apple is left with "the cult
of the dead leader". Apple's current leadership can't stop the war without
betraying Steve's dying wishes.
So the war will only end when Apple's leadership decides that it isn't worth it
to follow Steve's wishes on this any longer, when there's a shareholder revolt,
or when Apple gets labeled a vexatious litigant. No sooner.
Sorry to be such a pessimist, but that's how I see it...
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Authored by: SirHumphrey on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 08:00 PM EDT |
Adobe provides a local "bespoke" experience for an extra $1000 per
download? Methinks something else "be spoke" round here http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-12/it-price-gouging-inquiry-ma
y-lower-prices/4624376
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Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 04:50 AM EDT |
Microsoft, this
is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
but
it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. --- 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, April 13 2013 @ 12:27 PM EDT |
Headline: 'Bing Delivers Five Times as Many Malicious Websites as Google'
'Times', meaning 5x.
Text: 'Searches on Bing returned five times more links . . .'
'More', meaning 5x + 1, or 6x.
The difference between '1,000 times as many' & '1,000 times more' is often
negligible.
Small numbers force precision. Or should.
Suppose it came up in court . . .
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 03:29 PM EDT |
Log in once, then again...
Where's the beef?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 04:48 PM EDT |
So someone at Google thinks mini-drones need to be regulated
because of their surveillance possibilities? Really! Fancy
that! How about you deep-sixing Google Glasses first and
apologizing abjectly, you forgetting hypocrites?
Our enthusiasm, even exuberance, for rushing toward greater
and more pervasive self-surveillance just because it's
"cool" is as stupid as it is shocking.
You know that "fictional" world of _1984_? _Fahrenheit 451_?
_This Perfect Day_? _THX-1138_? _Brave New World_?
This is exactly how such a dystopia _really_ happens, degree
by degree, welcomed with open hearts, arms and hands. We are
so glad to ever so much more plugged in--especially if the
latest shackles sport Gorilla Glass, come in new colors
named with sexier adjectives, His and Hers and Theirs.
Way till _all_ maps are electronic and centralized and
served up only on screens. Want Area 51--or any place
Centrality wants to hide--to never be, to never have been?
Done!
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Authored by: Arthur Marsh on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 09:25 PM EDT |
http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2013-
03/tractor-apocalypse gives
Content Not Available in Australia
We're sorry, but due to
circumstances surrounding copyright
and permissions, we're unable to bring you
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 11:57 PM EDT |
One of my university professors, worked on the Illiac II and
III computers. He
was one of the designers of the ALU unit.
He told a story about how they put
on a TicTacToe demo at
some sort of open house. Visitors could play against the
computer by pushing buttons to select their move. The
computer would
automatically make it's move and the results
were shown on a crt monitor.
HE
said that people thought it was some kind of trick and
that it wasn't really a
computer because the computer made
it's move seemingly instantaneously. So the
next year they
put in a couple second time delay between the visitor's move
and the computer's move. Then people believed it was a
computer because they
could tell that the computer thinking
about it's next move.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 14 2013 @ 02:43 AM EDT |
Google doesn't normally make this kind of statement. Google
is apparently
getting into this technology (along with self
driving cars) in a big way to
supplement their satellite
maps technology and to provide more real time
updates to
maps
Google funded drones
I
cannot therefore help wondering whether this is a move by
Google to block
competition from others in this field before
it takes off.
The reality is
that you cannot prevent this kind of spying
by restricting technology. The
problem is that cameras have
gotten so small that you can put them into
virtually
anything - a model aeroplane, a tethered balloon, a knot in
a tree,
an apple hanging off a branch, a child's remote
controlled toy car, your pet
cat's collar etc. You cannot
ban all of those I'm afraid. What is more, banning
or
restricting such technology will destroy US competitiveness
in the area and
hand over the cutting edge to other
countries like China, which already makes
most of that key
components that Google seeks to restrict. Besides, if such
technology is an infringement of privacy and needs to be
banned or restricted,
why stop there - why not ban Google
Glasses as well, or restrict their sale to
security
agencies?
There are two issues issues here - privacy and
terrorism. To
deal with the privacy issue, we need better privacy laws -
laws
to make snooping, eavesdropping or overflying private
property without due
reason illegal. There of course needs
to be protection given to whistleblowers,
the press, and law
enforcement agencies collecting such information under a
warrant, where such information gathering is in the public
interest.
As
far as the terrorism issue is concerned, the solution is
the control and
restriction of explosives, not the control
and restriction of cameras, toys, or
ubiquitous technology
that has many peaceful civilian uses. I am not sure that
the
new micro-drones really are a significant threat in any
case, because
their smallness means that they cannot carry
significant quantities of
explosive. They are basically a
tool for information/intelligence collection
rather than
terrorist attack.
Having said this, I do have to mention that
the fact that
the US is carrying out secret drone attacks in other
countries,
apparently in breach of international law, does
not make it easier for the US
to condemn similar attacks
within the US by other countries in order to
eliminate those
they decide to label as terrorists rather than pursuing
those
individuals through the due process of law. This
threat will of course come
from state terrorism or state
sponsored terrorism as is generally the case with
terrorism
and will be indistinguishable from the type of action the US
is
currently engaged in.
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Authored by: SilverWave on Sunday, April 14 2013 @ 10:00 AM EDT |
And the SEC
apparently looks the other way when companies obscure the
true mix of their
domestic-versus-overseas profit in their
regulatory filings. --- 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: JamesK on Sunday, April 14 2013 @ 04:33 PM EDT |
I used to regularly watch Computer Chronicles. For a while, Gary Kildall, the
creator of CP/M, was a regular on that show. I started using the Internet back
around 1993 or 1994, with OS/2 Warp 3 and recall using things like gopher,
archie, news groups wais, etc. to do things that are now done with browsers.
One thing I recall about that show was the intro used to have the sound of a
dial up modem connecting, a very familiar sound to us old timers. ;-)
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