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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 02:01 AM EDT |
There are a good many "contracts" foisted on the public that are one sided.
Here in Canada, the CRTC (Canadian-Radio-television and Telecommunications
Commission) has just ruled that
consumers will be relieved of a number onerous conditions imposed by cell phone
carriers. This includes the right to terminate their cell phone "contract"
after two years, the right to unlock their phones which they pay for and own,
and caps on various extra roaming and data charges.
We are all more than
aware now that the digital age has given businesses the ability to track and
gouge consumers on the most trivial and infinitesimal services while laying
waste to any semblance of privacy and they will not reign themselves in.
Facebook, cell phone contracts, abusive licensing of software are all of the
same ilk. Hopefully the awakening will continue with more of these greedy
practices shut down. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Kalrog on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 11:12 AM EDT |
I haven't seen this one mentioned...
Old Apple
products banned
Computer World even seems to
understand that FM isn't
exactly as reliable as many others seem to think. The
tide
may actually be turning, although with the age of the
products banned, it
isn't a death blow by any stretch.
How's that nuclear war working out for ya,
Apple? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 12:37 PM EDT |
Japan's radiation disaster toll: none dead,
none
sick
Let's be clear, Fukushima was hit by a worst-case
scenario:
the world's fifth-most-powerful earthquake since 1900, a
tsunami
twice as high as the plant was built to withstand,
and follow-up quakes of
magnitudes 7.1 and 6.3. A Japanese
commission of inquiry described it as a
"man-made disaster"
because of regulatory failure and lack of a safety
culture.
This "perfect storm" hit a nuclear plant built to a 50-year-
old design
and no one died. Japan moved a few metres east
during a three-minute quake and
the local coastline subsided
half a metre, but the 11 reactors operating in
four nuclear
power plants in the region all shut down automatically. None
suffered significant damage. (The tsunami disabled
Fukushima's cooling
system.)
Yet such is the imbalance of dread to risk on matters
nuclear that
this accident was enough to turn public opinion
and governments against nuclear
power. Never mind that coal
mining kills almost 6000 people a year, or that
populations
of coal-mining areas have death rates about 10 per cent
higher
than non-mining areas, or that coal emissions drive
global
warming.
--- 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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- no one sick ? all is o.k. ?! This article makes me sick - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 12:48 PM EDT
- Japan's radiation disaster toll: none dead, none sick - Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 12:57 PM EDT
- Japan's radiation disaster toll: none dead, none sick - Authored by: albert on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 01:57 PM EDT
- Australian smugness - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 04:25 PM EDT
- Tsunami may have helped contain shutdown? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 05:27 AM EDT
- I have severe doubts about this article - Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 08:28 AM EDT
- Japan's radiation disaster toll: none dead, none sick - Authored by: albert on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 07:01 PM EDT
- Japan's radiation disaster toll: none dead, none sick - Authored by: DannyB on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 09:29 AM EDT
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Authored by: darkonc on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 03:51 PM EDT |
Apple went after Samsung with (often weak) software patents. Samsung wet after
Apple with Hardware patents. Even if you were to invalidate all software
patents today, Samsung would still have a case to bar Apple at the
ITC.
Apple is like the bully who got thrown by the kid he was accosting.
Not only did Apple have a karmic debt in this beating in that they started
this fight -- they got taken down by a clean hit when they were fighting
dirty. --- Powerful, committed communication. Touching the jewel within
each person and bringing it to life.. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 04:46 PM EDT |
Have not read it yet, but seems Judge Rader cowrote a NYTimes
oped.
MouseTheLuckyDog[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 04:59 PM EDT |
Perhaps one thing that might help is that when someone is making a patent
infringement claim, they be required to explicitly detail the infringement, with
failure to do so, nullifying their claims.
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The following program contains immature subject matter.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 11:34 PM EDT |
In March we announced that CalDAV, an open standard for accessing
calendar data
across the web, would become a partner-only API because it
appeared that almost all the API usage
was driven by a few large
developers.
googledevelopers.blogspot
When Apple released
their first version of iCal it didn't implement the full RFC, but at the same
time it
didn't do anything obviously contrary. The single most popular user
requested feature was to make it
syncable with Outlook's calendar. To do this
Apple have had to deviate from from the RFC in the same
direction as MS. Could
these possibly be the "few large developers" referred to by Google?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 07:18 AM EDT |
I cannot see how a patent that describes what looks like a specific
implementation of an internet protocol should have been issued.
If your newly issued patent is infringed by a large number of companies then you
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- PatentMarks: devices transferring files over cellular or WiFi networks infringe new pat - Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 07:58 AM EDT
- This is nothing but an algorithm! - Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 08:51 AM EDT
- Could be patent worthy if Steve Jobs had made a device for this - Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 09:41 AM EDT
- PatentMarks: devices transferring files over cellular or WiFi networks = OBVIOUS & PRIOR ART... - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 11:58 AM EDT
- Sadly: it shouldn't have been - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 12:52 PM EDT
- I have a forked stick, - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 03:31 PM EDT
- This ought to be the final straw - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 05:12 PM EDT
- Guys! - Authored by: albert on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 07:15 PM EDT
- PatentMarks: devices transferring files over cellular or WiFi networks infringe new pat - Authored by: globularity on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 07:54 PM EDT
- obama = apple - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 08:08 AM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 08:02 PM EDT |
I was appalled to read that the USPTO had granted a license for an
over-the-network backup system. Had no one ever heard of Tar? Sure, its name
comes from Tape Archive, but archiving/backing up over a network is one of its
functions - at least with GNU TAR, and that's been around in its current form
since about the late eighties. And updating a computer over a network - CMU's
SUP - Software Upgrade, used for its Mach 3.0 microkernel - has been around
since at least 1990.
Good grief, the USPTO'll be granting patents to the wheel next.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 09:11 PM EDT |
In the news article: "Tech industry groups like Obama’s patent
crackdown" there is a troll depicted waving a club at innovators.
Thinking it over: this is simplified into being wrong (IMHO)
The troll in reality is not waving "a club" by itself.
The club is waved by legislators / patent office / lawyers and judges on behalve
of the troll.
Unfortunately my artistic gifts (slim to none) are not up to the task to make a
nice picture of that.
But I would like to see the troll as a puppet master (string)controlling
forementioned l/po/l&j who swing the bat at innovators.
Or maybe they give or are the bat, but the troll as puppet master is a stronger
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