Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 02:37 AM EDT |
Well, I was not totally accurate in my prediction.
Microsoft did blink, a
little.
And Google has not yet responded.
Here's the
blink
Microsoft has now made the next move, with the release
of the updated version of the app yesterday, which disables the ability to
download content from the app. The YouTube app for Windows Phone 8 will still
not display ads. The update is available in the Windows Phone Store now, but
current users of the app will only lose the ability to download content if they
elect to upgrade the app.
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Authored by: SilverWave on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 04:33 AM EDT |
How Google plans
to rule the computing world through
Chrome
If you’ve been paying attention lately, you’ll see the
signs
of a significant disruption in computing. No, I’m not
talking about
mobile: That disruption already happened and
we’re in the midst of it playing
out now as PC sales have
become stagnant at best. Instead, it’s within the
browser:
Google Chrome is the harbinger of change and through it,
Google has
huge potential to change computing once again.
In fact, I’d go so far
as to say, within a year, many of you
will be using a Chromebook. Before you
roll your eyes, let
me add one caveat: That Chromebook won’t be Google-designed
hardware; instead it will be on the Mac, Windows or Linux
machine you have at
that time. So it won’t be a Google-built
device like my Chromebook Pixel
is.
Let’s step back and I’ll explain. --- 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 Friday, May 24 2013 @ 05:54 AM EDT |
Why are the LulzSec hackers being locked up?
A very
sensible question, and not one I'd seen asked in the Mainstream
Media before
this.
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Authored by: JamesK on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 08:24 AM EDT |
eWeek --- The following program contains immature subject
matter.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 10:44 AM EDT |
Eric Victor Cojocaru, the son of Monica Cojocaru, suffered brain
damage during his birth at the British Columbia Women’s Hospital and Health
Centre. Ms. Cojocaru had previously given birth to a child by caesarean section
performed in Romania. On the recommendation of Dr. Yue, Ms. Cojocaru’s prenatal
care obstetrician, Ms. Cojocaru attempted to deliver Eric by “vaginal birth
after caesarean section” or “VBAC”. On the day in question, Ms. Cojocaru’s
labour was induced at the Hospital by Dr. Edris, an obstetrical resident, with
prostaglandin gel. Ms. Cojocaru was under the care of the on‑call
obstetrician, Dr. Steele. As Ms. Cojocaru was a high‑risk patient, she
remained at the Hospital and was attended to by Nurses Verwoerd and Bellini.
During her labour later in the day, Ms. Cojocaru experienced a uterine rupture,
which restricted Eric’s oxygen supply. It was accepted that the scar from the
previous caesarean section was implicated in the rupture. An emergency
caesarean section was then performed. Eric suffered brain damage, which has
given rise to cerebral palsy. Eric and his mother brought an action in
negligence against the Hospital, the attending Nurses Bellini, MacQueen and
Verwoerd and Drs. Steele, Yue and Edris.
At trial, the Hospital, Nurse
Bellini and the three doctors were found liable in negligence and damages were
awarded to the plaintiffs in the amount of $4 million. The trial judge’s
reasons reproduced large portions of the submissions of the plaintiffs.
However, the trial judge did not accept all the submissions of the plaintiffs,
discussed a number of issues and stated his final conclusions in his own words.
The majority of the Court of Appeal held that the trial judge’s decision should
be set aside because of the extensive copying from the plaintiffs’ submissions
and ordered a new trial. The dissenting justice did not set aside the judgment
because of the copying, but reviewed the case on its merits, and determined that
the actions against Dr. Steele, Dr. Edris, the Hospital and Nurse Bellini should
be dismissed. He indicated that he would have also reduced the damage award
against the remaining defendant, Dr. Yue.
The plaintiffs appealed the order
of a new trial. The Hospital and Nurse Bellini cross‑appealed asking that
the issue of liability and damages be resolved by the Court, rather than sending
the matter back for a new trial.
Held: The appeal and the
cross‑appeal should be allowed.
http://scc.lexum.org/decisia-scc-csc/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/13072/index.do[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 11:53 AM EDT |
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/56356205-90/shurtleff-mcbride-robbins-jens
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 04:27 PM EDT |
Yes! http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/05/24/patent-troll-suit/ [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 05:16 PM EDT |
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden dropped by JPL on
Thursday to outline the agency’s plans to capture an asteroid, and to look at a
model of a powerful new ion thruster that has enough strength to drag a space
rock into orbit around the moon. --- The following program contains
immature subject matter.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 07:40 PM EDT |
"The BBC has suspended its chief technical officer after
the corporation was
found to have wasted £98.4m of licence
fee payers' money on its failed Digital
Media Initiative
project." link
"Last week the BBC Trust
approved funding for the Digital
Media Initiative (DMI), the project which will
enable the
BBC to re–engineer its production process, removing tape
from the
equation and progressing towards a fully digital
BBC." Ashley Highfield Feb 2008[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 07:41 PM EDT |
Link
"Microsoft and YouTube
are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable
compliance with YouTube’s API terms of service, including enabling ads, in the
coming weeks. Microsoft will replace the existing YouTube app in Windows Phone
Store with the previous version during this time."
Sounds like
Microsoft realized this was not going to turn
out good for them unless they
complied with the ToS.
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Authored by: bilateralrope on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 09:04 PM EDT |
In a comment on the previous article I mentioned that the Xbox One sounded
rather creepy due to the Kinect camera being required at all times. Mainly
because when you considered all the functions as a whole, it sounds very much
like a telescreen from George Orwell's 1984.
Today I find out that they patented it
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121105/21564420943/microsoft-patents-tv-that-
watches-back-counts-heads-charges-admission.shtml
The implications of that age detector sound interesting, given that it's a
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 09:28 PM EDT |
Article at Ars Technica:
SCO boss: I was offered $2 million by Utah’s top
prosecutor
Darl McBride, the former chief executive officer
of SCO, says he was offered $2 million by the Utah attorney general in May
2009 in exchange for taking down a website criticizing an area business person.
Still pursuing the years-long legal battle against Novell and IBM over Unix and
Linux intellectual property, SCO needed money at the time. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 25 2013 @ 01:51 AM EDT |
It's not two factor if sms is your input channel
but that's only the
start.
f-secure
PC-Mag
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 25 2013 @ 02:47 AM EDT |
Some decisions, such as predicting the winner of a baseball game,
are challenging in part because outcomes are probabilistic. When making such
decisions, one view is that humans stochastically and selectively retrieve a
small
set of relevant memories that provides evidence for competing options. We
show
that optimal performance at test is impossible when retrieving information
in
this fashion, no matter how extensive training is, because limited retrieval
introduces noise into the decision process that cannot be overcome.
...
Optimal machine classifiers modified to selectively and
stochastically sample
from memory match the pattern of human performance. These
results suggest
firm limits on human rationality and have broad implications
for how to train
humans tasked with important classification decisions, such as
radiologists,
baggage screeners, intelligence analysts, and
gamblers.
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