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Authored by: DannyB on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 06:09 PM EDT |
Surface
RT’s now-free keyboard nicely sums up Microsoft’s tablet
failure
In their latest bid to get anybody to buy a Windows RT
tablet, Microsoft has turned in desperation to the worst option imaginable: it
will sell a complete product without gouging its customers for a hundred (or so)
extra dollars. For a “limited time” (likely ending whenever their internal
threat level has decreased from red to orange) customers in the US and Canada
can pick up a Surface RT tablet with a Touch or Type keyboard cover for no
additional cost. Since the cover is one of Surface’s defining features, and one
of the few that’s received near-universal praise, this move proves that
corporate desperation really is the best thing for consumers.
. . .
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The question now is, if even this doesn’t make Surface RT into a real
contender in the tablet space, what will Microsoft do?
Wow. Will
Apple now follow this fantastic trend and include a bundled keyboard with every
iPad?
No?
Doesn't Apple understand the value of what
Microsoft is doing?
Or maybe Microsoft doesn't understand what Tablets
essentially are and how people use them? Do you think that might be the
case?
After all, Microsoft tried to sell tablet computers for a decade
until Apple suddenly redefined a tablet as something that doesn't run
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 07:23 PM EDT |
Tech Dirt is reporting a legal proceeding (for attorney's fees) with an
interesting affidavit.
It seems that there is evidence that Prenda uploaded the files that it accused
others of downloading.
A while back we were all celebrating Judge Wright's order, and I, curmudgeon
that I am, grumbled that Prenda was actually winning, because the demand letters
were still going out and the money coming in. Who cares about some judge
somewhere.
But now; NOW PRENDA IS DEAD.
DEAD.
DEAD.
DEAD.
Now there is probable cause for the criminal proceedings; the search warrents;
the grand juries.
(Whats the emoticon for dancing on the keyboard.)
No no, don't take my word for it, go to Techdirt.com and read the afffidavit.
Its not perfect, but its good for probable cause, and thats all that is needed.
If, like the cat here, your wondering why the gleeful noises; this is it:
ALLLL those letters, demanding money, are now, each of them, a crime. Think of
it, thousands of counts of extortion or fraud or both. Federal counts. Think
RICO.
And all of the evidence is sitting in Prenda's files, just waiting for the FBI
to collect it.
Because, since Prenda uploaded the bitorrent files, it is not a violation of
copyright, or a crime, to download them.
But it is a crime to demand money on false pretenses.
Schadenfreude is a sin. I should be ashamed of myself.
(Whats the emoticon for schadenfreude?)
Be advised:
I AM NOT A LAWYER, I DONT EVEN PLAY ONE ON TV
All content is the opinion of someone who doesn't know what he's typing about.
JG
PS: jiggedy jigggedy do.
(I can't dance either)
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 07:33 PM EDT |
Infoworld.com
Windows 8 is a big
flop. Its Frankenstein interface combines two fundamentally incompatible
operating systems (Windows 7 and Metro) with two interaction styles
(mouse/keyboard and touch). Sadly, Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8.1 "Blue"
doesn't address these fundamental flaws.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 08:41 PM EDT |
Companies are borrowing cheap to buy back their own stock at
nosebleed prices, and doing so en masse with the carefree abandon
of those
pre-Lehman days.
The Telegraph
observes Wall Street's mentality deficit.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 02:03 AM EDT |
Legislation is now making its way through the
California
legislature—with the support of consumer groups, unions and,
interestingly,
physicians—that would levy a fine of up to
$6,000 on employers like
Wal-Mart for every full-time
employee that ends up on the state’s Medi-Cal
program—the
California incarnation of Medicaid.
The amount of the fine is
no coincidence.
A report [.PDF] released last
week by the
Democratic staff of the U.S. House Committee on Education
and
the Workforce, estimates that the cost of Wal-Mart’s
failure to adequately pay
its employees could total about
$5,815 per employee each and every year of
employment.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 02:29 AM EDT |
This case makes me wonder what the outcome would have
been had it been
presented as a 'states rights' issue.
Was the right question
asked?
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States, are
reserved to the States respectively, or
to the people." -
Amendment X
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Hillman’s policy was part
of a
life insurance program for federal employees, governed by
the Federal
Employees’ Group Life Insurance Act of 1954.
That law says that the proceeds on
death are paid according
to the beneficiary designation. (If for some reason,
the
employee hasn’t signed one, the law ranks other survivors in
order of
preference: the widow or widower; then children or
other descendents; parents;
the executor or administrator of
the estate; and lastly other
relatives.)
The Supreme Court found unanimously that this law trumps
(“preempts” in legal lingo) Virginia law.
Deborah L.
Jacobs, Forbes[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 05:25 AM EDT |
http://forcechange.com/65882/condemn-discovery-of-illegal-genetically-engineered
-wheat-strain/
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 08:18 AM EDT |
Currently stats indicate Windows 8 lags behind even
Vista's dismal market
numbers... By ZDnet's
Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols.
Windows is on the decline no
matter how
measure it. Apple iOS and Android now have the lion's share
of
computing devices, including PCs, smartphones and
tablets, with 65-percent
share over Windows' 35-percent.
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Authored by: DannyB on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 08:50 AM EDT |
President Obama
Comes Out Strongly Against
Patent Trolls; Here
Are The
Details
And now, it's been reported that President Obama is
going to
come out strongly against patent trolling,
directing the USPTO and
others to fix certain issues, while also asking Congress to
pass further laws
to deal with patent trolling. The President will flat out
note that patent
trolls represent a "drain on the American
economy." The
announcement will directly
say that "patent trolls" (yes,
they use the phrase)
are a problem, while also
talking about the problem of
patent thickets like
the infamous "smartphone
wars."
Maybe things really do change.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 11:51 AM EDT |
After the split decision in CLS v Alice these new nominees will decide the fate
of software patents.
CBS
News
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Steve Stites
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