Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 06:47 PM EDT |
Here's the link:
5/13/13 -
Bowman v. Monsanto Co.
They touch on the actual patentability of
the plant only briefly, to cite, but not embellish or reverse, an earlier case
in which they decided that plants can be patented.
Our holding today
also follows from J. E. M. Ag Supply, Inc. v. Pioneer Hi-Bred Int’l, Inc., 534
U. S. 124 (2001). We considered there whether an inventor could get a patent on
a seed or plant, or only a certificate issued under the Plant Variety Protection
Act (PVPA), 7 U. S. C. §2321 et seq. We decided a patent was available,
rejecting the claim that the PVPA implicitly repealed the Patent Act’s coverage
of seeds and plants.
They should have challenged the validity of GM
plant patents...
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 07:57 PM EDT |
Chilling [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 10:40 PM EDT |
"This may be a coincidence, but according to MapLight,
Senators who voted
last week for the bill allowing states to
directly collect taxes on sales via
the Internet, AKA The
Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013, received 40 times as
much
campaign donation money (yes, that's four-oh, not just four)
from
businesses in favor of the bill as those who voted
against it received from
businesses that were against
Internet sales taxes"
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 12:27 AM EDT |
`The United Space Alliance, which manages the computers
aboard the
International Space Station in association with
NASA, has announced that the
Windows XP computers aboard the
ISS have been switched to Linux.
“We
migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we
needed an operating
system that was stable and
reliable.”
In specific, the “dozens of
laptops” will make the change to
Debian 6. These laptops will join many other
systems aboard
the ISS that already run various flavors of Linux, such as
RedHat and Scientific Linux. As far as we know, after this
transition, there
won’t be a single computer aboard the ISS
that runs Windows'. link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: TiddlyPom on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 04:08 AM EDT |
If if would make a difference then I would pray on bended knees to the US
appeals courts (only joking guys) to make this come true.
This is what is needed to allow
true competition and and stop the 'old guard' (e.g. Microsoft, Apple, Oracle,
SAP etc) from stifling innovation. The amount of 'lobbying' that the old guard
must being doing at the moment must be amazing. They have a lot to lose - i.e.
money for old rope.
--- Support Software Freedom - use GPL licenced
software like Linux and LibreOffice instead of proprietary software like
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 04:41 AM EDT |
I recently came across some documents regarding the importance of open
formats for the Catholic Church. In short, the argument comes down
to:
- The Catholic Church wants its documents (e.g. the Bible, but
others as well) to be accessible to as many people as
possible.
- Especially the poor
- Therefore, the
documents must be in non-proprietary, widely accessible formats
- Such
formats should not require expensive software to read
It's also
described as an ethical, not a technical, problem.
More
details here [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 07:22 AM EDT |
http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/saudi-surveillance/ [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: ukjaybrat on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 07:55 AM EDT |
Reg
Link
Apparently saying that he wants to improve something, means
that it
is a complete mess. The author then goes on in gritty
detail about every little
thing he dislikes about android and
how it works. Yes some things are flaws in
an otherwise young
operating system, but somethings like fragmentation are not
Google or Android's fault. --- IANAL [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: complex_number on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 11:24 AM EDT |
yro.slashdot.ord
Not
content with trying to extort money from end users with just the flimsiest bit
of evidence (if any), Prenda Law have taken another leaf out of the 'SCO, how to
keep suing with no evidence' manual.
Now they are going to ask your neighbors
if they have downloaded some copyrighted material using your Internet
connection.
I really hope the FEDS put a stop to this quickly and bang them
up for a really long time. Then these sorry excuses for lawyers will see what
real porn is.
--- 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 Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 12:00 PM EDT |
Title says it all.
Link via google translate
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&
;hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewsticker%2Fme
ldung%2FVorsicht-beim-Skypen-Microsoft-liest-mit-1857620.html
For our German speakers the original
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Vorsicht-beim-Skypen-Microsoft-liest-mit-
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 12:05 PM EDT |
Walk onto someone's lawn and you're trespassing; fly over it in a
helicopter and you're in the clear -- "the air is a public highway," the Supreme
Court declared in 1946. But what about the in-between space?
Does the
availability of unmanned aerial vehicles (aka drones, aka UAVs) throw a wrench
in the old legal understandings?
Well, here's where the rubber meets the
road for this abstract line of questioning.
Rebecca J.
Rosen, The Atlantic
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United
States v. Causby - 328 U.S. 256 (1946) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 12:56 PM EDT |
default to open
data
Now to see if this one will survive the presidency that issued it.
Many EOs do not.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 04:45 PM EDT |
...the NTSB recommending lowering the legal BAC just as firefox turns 21 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 09:46 PM EDT |
A Microsoft executive insisted that “customer satisfaction” with
the new offering “is strong” while also conceding
that “the learning curve is
definitely real”. (Translation: customers are tearing out their hair and
scattering it on the keyboard.)
... The company’s revenues have nearly
tripled under Mr Ballmer, from $25.3 billion in 2001 to $73.7 billion in
2012.
This suggests that he will not be leaving any time soon.
The Economist
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Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, May 15 2013 @ 04:50 AM EDT |
Link
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br>
Switching Sessions
One of the advantages of free
software is that one can
select the desktop environment in
the login manager.
This looks like no longer be possible in
a Mir world. Unity will run
with a
Mir system compositor with LightDM nested underneath.
We will need either the X
Server or a Wayland system compositor. So from the login
manager it will not
be possible
to start directly into a session using a different system
compositor. How will it
continue to be possible to use both Unity and KDE
Plasma on
the same system? Running a
Unity and a KDE Plasma (or GNOME or
XFCE or anything)
session at the same time seems to
no longer be
possible.
This would be a problem for me. Maybe a
move to XFCE would
be in order...hmm
--- 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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- Ubuntu goes the same way as SuSE - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 15 2013 @ 09:59 AM EDT
- Why? - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 15 2013 @ 12:26 PM EDT
- Why? - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 15 2013 @ 11:36 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 15 2013 @ 08:07 AM EDT |
Friday, May 16 2003 @ 03:22 PM EDT
http://groklawstatic.ibiblio.org/article.php%3fstory=3
What do you mean I'm a
day early - check the clocks in New
Zealand ;) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 15 2013 @ 10:22 AM EDT |
Link
Another user is
calling for Ballmer’s ouster. If Steve full approved of Windows 8, I’d fire him
immediately. It shows a total lack of judgement.”
A bit of a
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, May 15 2013 @ 10:57 AM EDT |
There has been endless discussion and criticism of Windows
8. Now with over a
year of perspective behind us we get a
very clear and sober final judgement
from Jason Hiner, the
Editor in Chief of TechRepublic. An excellent read.
"Windows 8 on the desktop will
not take off
until the Metro 'toy' interface becomes an option as
provided by
the superb 'Classic Shell' software (or gets
ditched altogether).
Corporations do not want to pay the
MASSIVE bill for retraining users to use
something which
basically is rubbish."
Windows 8 was
incredibly late to market. When it finally
arrived, it was a big fail. By the
time it was released, the
competition was already on to 2nd and 3rd generation
tablets. Windows 8.1, which will supposedly have "the big
fix" won't see final
release until the fall. By then, the
competition will be several generations
ahead of Microsoft.
Meanwhile, whatever Microsoft does to fix it, I bet the
Metro interface will remain as ugly as ever, a constant
reminder of failed
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 15 2013 @ 05:52 PM EDT |
I like the idea of a YouTube player without
adds... and ms does not want to show google
ads on thier winphone os.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/15/google-
asks-microsoft-remove-wp-youtube-app/?
utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm
_campaign=Engadget
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 15 2013 @ 07:02 PM EDT |
"YouTube only recently came to Windows Phone 8 as a full-fledged app, but its
availability may be short-lived. According to documents obtained by The Verge,
Google has requested that Microsoft remove the app from it Windows Phone Store
-- and disable installations on devices -- immediately." link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, May 15 2013 @ 09:22 PM EDT |
Link
We recently became aware of a Microsoft-authored
YouTube application for Windows Phone 8 available at [redacted]. It appears that
the application: (1) allows users to download videos from YouTube; (2) prevents
the display of advertisements in YouTube video playbacks; and (3) plays videos
that our partners have restricted from playback on certain platforms (e.g.,
mobile devices with limited feature sets). These features directly harm our
content creators and clearly violate our Terms of Service. We request that you
immediately withdraw this application from the Windows Phone Store and disable
existing downloads of the application by Wednesday, May 22,
2013.
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