Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 24 2013 @ 11:40 PM EDT |
We agreed to give up most of our enumerated rights and civil
liberties (except for the sacrosanct Second Amendment, of course) in exchange
for a lot of hyper-patriotic tough talk, the promise of “security” and the
freedom to go on sitting on our asses and consuming whatever the hell we wanted
to. Don’t look the other way and tell me that you signed a petition or voted for
John Kerry or whatever.
The fact is that whatever dignified private
opinions you and I may hold, we did not do enough to stop it, and our
constitutional rights are now deemed to be partial or provisional rather than
absolute, do not necessarily apply to everyone, and can be revoked by the
government at any time.
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Authored by: nyarlathotep on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 12:57 AM EDT |
As an Android developer I can also state that B&N have been
one of the best markets for apps.
Rumors keep popping up that with Microsoft's investment in
NOOK that B&N will drop Android and go with Windows, but
they keep coming out with improvements to the Android
infrastructure, like in-app payments recently.
I really hope B&N are able to stay in the NOOK/Android game,
because I think they and their NOOK shop are an excellent
counterpoint to Google Play and the Amazon Appstore.
Heck, you even get used to typing NOOK instead of Nook. They
vet the apps pretty well, and the former is one of the
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 03:18 AM EDT |
Senior Obama administration officials have
secretly authorized the
interception of communications
carried on portions of networks operated by
AT&T and other
Internet service providers, a practice that might otherwise
be illegal under federal wiretapping laws.
The secret legal authorization
from the Justice Department
originally applied to a cybersecurity pilot project
in which
the military monitored defense contractors' Internet links.
Since
then, however, the program has been expanded by
President Obama to cover all
critical infrastructure sectors
including energy, healthcare, and finance
starting June 12.
"The Justice Department is helping private companies evade
federal wiretap laws," said Marc Rotenberg, executive
director of the
Electronic Privacy Information Center, which
obtained over 1,000 pages of
internal government documents
and provided them to CNET this week. "Alarm bells
should be
going off."
Declan
McCullagh, CNET
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EPIC FOIA
Request Reveals Details About Government
Cybersecurity Program
http://epic.org/2013/04/epic-foia-request-
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 07:59 AM EDT |
Even as Microsoft is refusing to pay IP royalties on RAND
patents to Motorola, Microsoft inked a patent licensing deal
with ZTE on Android and/or Chrome devices.
"Much of the current litigation in the so-called 'smartphone
patent wars' could be avoided if companies were willing to
recognize the value of others' creations in a way that is
fair," Microsoft Vice President and General Counsel Horacio
Gutierrez said in a statement. "At Microsoft, experience has
taught us that respect for intellectual-property rights is a
two-way street, and we have always been prepared to respect
the rights of others just as we seek respect for our
rights."
Clearly the only thing we might expect from Gutierrez is
propoganda, not credibility.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 09:38 AM EDT |
SlashDot Link
"As we all know Oracle is not the
biggest friend to the Open Source Community. Long standing OSS supporter
Wikipedia has now moved from an optimized fork of MySQL 5.1 to MariaDB 5.5, for
both its English and German sites. Wikipedia expects all other languages to
follow within a month. Performance-wise, this move has no big implications, but
it will ensure our biggest community database will live long and
prosper."
Z
Dnet Link (Dec/2012)
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 12:23 PM EDT |
The government-run horror show
Arguing that we shouldn't be outraged at government because
"it's just us" is one of the worst lies we tell ourselves.
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- Is the government evil ? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 12:51 PM EDT
- Yes. - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 01 2013 @ 12:35 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 05:40 PM EDT |
The order rejecting the request revealed that the FBI wanted to use
the surveillance tool to covertly infiltrate the computer and take photographs
of its user through his or her webcam. The plan also included recording Internet
activity, user location, email contents, chat messaging logs, photographs,
documents, and passwords.
As the Wall Street Journal reported, Houston
magistrate Judge Stephen Smith said that he could not approve the “extremely
intrusive” tactic because the FBI did not know the location or identity of the
suspect and could not guarantee the spy software would not end up targeting
innocents.
Ryan Gallagher,
Slate[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 05:57 PM EDT |
The long arm of the law reconstructs document deletions
The Independent
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Authored by: xtifr on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 06:03 PM EDT |
The Supreme Court has opened up a collection of historical audio recordings
to the public, dating back to 1955, according to a report at NPR: "Once Under Wraps, Supreme Court Audio
Trove Now Online."
(Recordings from the 1990s on were already
available, so this new material is, well, older material. Still certain to be
full of fascinating material, if you're interested in that sort of
thing.)
--- Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for it makes them
soggy and hard to light. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 06:11 PM EDT |
Or not eating in this case. If the dryness of desert air can do that to a
hamburger, think of its effect on a
legal mind ...
Utah man David
Whipple has managed to hang on to a hamburger from McDonald's since 1999. The
extraordinary part isn't the fact that he didn't throw the burger out, though
-- it's that the burger barely
looks like it has aged.
huffingtonpost
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- Dessication - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 01 2013 @ 01:45 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 09:23 PM EDT |
While people are playing silly twerps in Californian courts,
Archos
shakes up cell phones with three new models
...
These three, and the 700
others you don’t hear about are the worst nightmare for Samsung, Nvidia, and
any other bigger players. Why? Long story.
semiaccurate.com I don't have a subscription to read
the rest of Charlie's story, but what I
do read suggests that if a very small
handful of Chinese makers decide their internal market is boring,
they could
pull the rug out from under Apple and Samsung so fast and so hard it'll hurt
your eyes to watch.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 10:13 PM EDT |
Smartest Machine on Earth [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 01 2013 @ 11:58 AM EDT |
The costs of Patents and Copyright far out-strip their supposed value to
"culture", something that cannot be measured anyway.
The only thing that can be seen is the costs involved, and the crushing of
innovation and culture caused by enforcement of these government mandated
monopolies.
Monopoly is supposed to be a bad thing. Why tolerate it anywhere?
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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