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Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 10:23 PM EDT |
Ad-blockers, the
games press, and
why sexy cosplay galleries lead to better
reporting
Interesting stuff...
And he is right I block all
ads everywhere all the time.
--- 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: complex_number on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 12:29 AM EDT |
With their recent deal with Foxconn, I have to wonder if there is some sort of
'grand plan' in Mr Balmers mind that they could make lots more $$$ per share if
they closed down Windows and all the rest and became another NPE (aka Patent
Troll)
I really wish that Barnes & Noble had stuck to their guns and seen their
legal spat with MS all the way to a verdict thus setting a whole load of
precedents as well as probably invalidating a good number of key patents that MS
use against Android.
---
Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 02:00 AM EDT |
A bank that builds identity theft and fraud into the cost of doing
business is an example of
market failure. A power company that treats a
cyber-induced power outage as an act of God, no different
from a tornado or
earthquake, demonstrates market failure.
If the private sector is
unwilling to take the necessary steps to guarantee the integrity of its online
activities,
the government must step in to fulfill its most fundamental task —
to ensure the security of its citizens; that
is, to provide them with a secure
identity.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 07:17 AM EDT |
XP was my idea is a blog where
one of the guys behind Classic Shell
writes about Windows 8 usability issues.
It's not like I
would have rejected the new Windows 8 interface completely. Touch and mobility
are two important factors why Steven Sinofsky said a new kind of Apps model with
touch-friendly UI and battery life awareness was required. I completely agree
with that. I was actually enjoying the interface (despite the terrible Metro
design) until the Start Menu and other desktop features were removed. The
desktop should be there unharmed.
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Authored by: squib on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 08:30 AM EDT |
At first,
Parallel Exclusion by C. Scott Hemphill of Columbia University - Law School
&
Tim Wu also of Columbia University - Law School March 19, 2013
didn't seem to have any parallels to the behaviour of M$ & Apple et.
al.
It starts off slow and boring but around page 1193, all the tactics of
exclusion M$ have tried themselves over the years slowly come trickling
out. The paper could almost serve as the reference manual of warfare
tactics for M$ and Apple's management. It ends by suggesting that
innovation and competition etc., will suffer if the laws of antitrust are
not reconsidered.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 12:07 PM EDT |
It would appear that Rep. Mike Rogers, the main person in Congress
pushing for CISPA, has kept rather quiet about a very direct conflict of
interest that calls into serious question the entire bill.
It would appear
that Rogers' wife stands to benefit quite a lot from the passage of CISPA, and
has helped in the push to get the bill passed.
It's somewhat amazing that no
one has really covered this part of the story, but it highlights, yet again, the
kind of activities by folks in Congress that make the public trust Congress less
and less.
Mike Masnick,
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 01:04 PM EDT |
Use the contact links on this page.
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and
Protection Act (CISPA) is supposed to promote cybersecurity—a goal EFF
wholeheartedly supports—but it doesn't address common-sense network security
issues. Instead, it creates a new, dangerous exception to existing privacy laws.
That’s why hundreds of thousands of concerned Internet users have joined EFF and
other civil liberties groups in opposing the bill. This is our last chance to
stop it in the House.
48
Hours Left to Stop CISPA in the House [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 03:29 PM EDT |
From The Wall Street Journal: Befo
re the Blast, West Fertilizer’s Monsanto
Lawsuit
http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2
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- Remember Texas City 1947 - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 04:11 PM EDT
- $$$$$ - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 04:38 PM EDT
- $$$$$ - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 05:45 PM EDT
- Remember Texas City 1947 - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 06:40 PM EDT
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Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 08:54 PM EDT |
NASA’s planet-hunting telescope has
discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to
flourish. They are just the right size and in just the right place near their
star. --- The following program contains immature subject matter.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 09:01 PM EDT |
I must admit I'm getting disillusioned with Google. The tipping point has
been news results. They are in the vast majority from local or national
(Canadian) news sources and even at that, a select few. It is more
obvious when events occur in, say, Boston, and I would barely know tha
t Amercan sources are covering the storey. Maybe I'm just supposed to
be over the moon at the authoritatve coverage of my home grwn media
but seriously, the results are way too shallow. It really does make me
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 11:46 PM EDT |
Can't unload them even at a loss. Nokia is
toast.
Asha phones lost 45% of their global unit
sales
in just 3 months!!! Smartphone sales down 8% from Q4
to Q1. Preliminary market
share estimate now: 3%.
Smartphone unit continues to generate loss, now 16%
loss.
Nokia total US market smartphone sales - all essentially
Lumia
obviously, down 45% from Q4 to 400,000 units only. And
how did the price do?
The US average price is down 10%.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 02:58 AM EDT |
"The plaintiffs had previously convinced the Second
Circuit to remand the
case to the district court for
determination of some factual issues relating to
specific
videos. District Judge Louis L. Stanton has now resolved all
of the
issues in favor of YouTube, and once again dismissed
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 03:54 AM EDT |
A teardown of a phone
that costs $12
I’m curious to study this new gongkai
ecosystem. For sure, there will be critics who adhere to the tenets of Western
IP law that will summarily reject the notion of alternate systems that can
nourish innovation and entrepreneurship. On the other hand, it’s these tenets
that lock open hardware into technology several generations old, as we wait for
patents to expire and NDAs to lift before gaining access to the latest greatest
technology. After all, 20 years is an eternity in high tech.
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Authored by: tiger99 on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 06:23 AM EDT |
InfoQ
(registration may be required)Netflix is responsible for one
third of all downloaded traffic in North America, according to Adrian Cockcroft,
Director of Architecture for the Cloud Systems at Netflix, and all those bytes
have been streamed to a Silverlight application so far, but that is about to
change. Well, that should hasten the end of
Slitherblight!If there were any doubts before, now we can say with a
high degree of confidence that Silverlight has no future. With Flash suffering
from similar problems, it remains for HTML5 to occupy the RIA space in the
following years. Common sense will prevail in the end, closed,
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 09:08 AM EDT |
I wonder what I should do, now that it seems that my IP get's auto-invisibled? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 02:11 PM EDT |
List
Of Representatives Who Voted For CISPA [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 06:49 PM EDT |
This time it's for distributing obscene material.
The official
notice (Chinese) does not specify the offending material,
but a mildly
titillating screenshot in
techinasia.com suggests this
is user generated content of similar nature
to that found
on many Chinese social media sites.
More on
Wall St Journal
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 07:24 PM EDT |
So, in the interest of accuracy (which we're sure the MPAA really
intended as well), we thought we'd perhaps supplement the MPAA's history with
some of the stuff Sheffner apparently "missed" in his all-too-quick "history"
lesson. In researching this, I reached out to more than half a dozen copyright
lawyers. Amazingly, each one sent back different examples of the MPAA
fighting hard against fair use (there was plenty of overlap, but each one had a
bunch of examples that no one else had) suggesting just how widespread the
MPAA's fight against fair use tends to run. Frankly, the list got so long that
I'm only providing the highlights here. A complete recapping of the
MPAA's war on fair use would simply take way too long.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 07:59 PM EDT |
"On the heels of the Boy Scouts introducing a merit badge for game design,
the Girl Scouts are going one better by developing a badge program to bring
girls into the world of video game development."
"The WIGI-GSLA effort will use Gamestar Mechanic, an educational
development tool from E-Line Media, to allow scouts to develop and create their
own video games."
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/04/in-move-to-pwn-boys-girl-scouts-to-introdu
ce-game-developer-badge/[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 09:29 PM EDT |
Released today
HTC One Review: The
Most Beautiful Android Phone Ever Made [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 09:33 PM EDT |
Seems like the TV networks are giving Bing credit instead of Google Earth for
some of the local pictures. Does Bing do neighborhood street views like Google
Earth? If not, then I guess Microsoft has the networks bought and paid for.
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, April 20 2013 @ 07:02 AM EDT |
Intel CEO Paul Otellini earlier this week
said touch devices
could debut at prices as low as $200, as
CNET reported. But the cheapest
devices may be based on a
non-Windows operating system, according to sources --
not
necessarily Windows 8, as originally reported.
"There are design
wins for Android tablets at that $200
price point. Intel will be
participating in that market this
year," a source familiar with Intel's plans
told CNET.
A report in Digitimes on Friday said Intel is promoting
"Android
convertible notebooks" and that Lenovo, Hewlett-
Packard, Toshiba, Acer, and
Asus will launch products in the
coming months.
The CNet article goes on to talk about
potential new 7-inch Windows 8 tablets using Intel Atom
processors priced as
low as $299...
Microsoft said Thursday that future small
devices will be priced competitively.
"We are...working closely with [PC
makers] on a new suite of
small touch devices powered by Windows. These devices
will
have competitive price points, partly enabled by our latest
OEM offerings
designed specifically for these smaller
devices, and will be available in the
coming months,"
Microsoft's chief financial officer, Peter Klein, said
during
the company's earnings call.
But even with Microsoft's rumored
discounts for Windows 8
licensing and Office software, a $200 Windows 8
device may
be difficult to sell at a profit, said the source.
Those
discounts are aimed at smaller-screen Windows 8 touch
devices, according to
another source familiar with device
makers' plans.
Think
about it though... Even if Microsoft drops the
price for Windows 8 enough to
permit OEMs sufficient margin
to develop competitive devices, that is still not
enough.
They are saddled with an albatross around their necks and
dragging a
millstone behind themselves with that unlovely
and unloved OS.
They
have exactly the same problem with the Windows
Phone. Now that they have
cleverly eliminated Nokia as a
competitor, and have Nokia's patents working for
them
instead of against them, they will come out with their own
phone. They
can enjoy a good margin, since they make the OS,
so they will be able to price
it competitively while
maintaining quality hardware.
However,
competitively priced phones and tablets won't do
them any good at all. They
have no hope in competing with
Android. Every Android OEM out there is working
hard to
distinguish their products from those of their competitors.
The result
of this healthy competition is that we have
endless choices in beautiful
screens and software. Microsoft
's OS, however, will always be that same ugly
Fisher Price
design with its clumsy and broken UI. It doesn't matter what
device they put it on, or how competitive the price, it is
still putting
lipstick on a pig - where the device is the
lipstick and the OS is the pig.
If you have always used Windows as I have, this is
irrelevant as a
reason to buy the WARTy Windows 8 tablets,
because they are not Windows as we
know it. They are
something else entirely, and will not run your "legacy"
software. Windows 8 is a scam. The press pointed out long
ago before Windows
RT was released that there will be an
concern that the average consumer will be
confused if
Microsoft doesn't make it clear that Windows RT is not
Windows.
Microsoft responded back then that they will
certainly make that clear when
they begin selling the new
devices.
However, they never did make it
clear. When you see their
ads, there is no mention, no disclaimers that these
devices
will not run your Window's software. They don't tell you you
are going
to have to throw out your old computer and all the
software you have invested
in. Microsoft is counting on
consumer confusion to sell their pig of an OS.
That will not work. I will never buy a WART, and I will
never buy
Windows 8 on the desktop if I have to be
confronted with that Metro layer
between me and my work.
Maybe Windows 9 will be usable. If not, I'm done with
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 20 2013 @ 12:31 PM EDT |
Guest Post: Stop Abusive Patent
Litigation, For the Sake of our Economy
"Immunize end
users from patent suits. PAEs sue end users, including very small businesses,
because it is not cost effective for these defendants to hire lawyers.
Protecting end users from suit will limit the options for PAEs, forcing them to
pursue the manufacturers or providers of common products or services, rather
than their customers. This proposal will eliminate the scanner troll for
good."
Using this "scanner troll" as an example...
Scanners are being sold under some government agency permission, isn't it? So
isn't the government responsible for allowing this product to be sold ?
The end
user bought it in good faith and paid the due taxes. How come the state can't be
held responsible and doesn't clean its own mess?
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