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Why Multitouch On Notebooks Makes Perfect Sense
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 05:21 AM EDT
Why Multitouch On Notebooks Makes Perfect Sense
Here’s the thing. I’m in the middle of my deep-soak testing of Google’s Chromebook Pixel (review coming soon). This is the first time I’ve spent a whole week with a touchscreen- enabled notebook as my daily driver, to do all of my actual work. I try to to deep-soak testing because I often learn things I wouldn’t have figured out if I were being more casual about it. I’ve had other touchscreen notebooks on loan, but they all failed to pass the “Meh” test. So they never made it to the “deep soak” stage.

What I’ve learned from my experience with the Pixel is that I’m using the touchscreen a lot. And it almost blows my mind. I never would have expected that.

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penny-arcade.com - Glass
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 08:46 AM EDT
Conversions

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Outlook RT testifies to Microsoft's app troubles
Authored by: SilverWave on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 06:43 PM EDT
Lau nch of Outlook RT testifies to Microsoft's app troubles

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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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U.S. farmer lawsuit filed against Monsanto
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 12:49 AM EDT
reuters
This week, Monsanto said that in ending its field testing, the company instructed test participants to destroy the GMO wheat or ship it to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's seed storage facility in Colorado. Company officials have said they have no idea how their biotech wheat could be growing in Oregon.
If Monsanto didn't personally destroy or directly supervise the destruction on site then I would hold them responsible for any leak. But then I'm not DoA.

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Spaf and PRISM, etc.
Authored by: vruz on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 11:10 AM EDT

Of course Spaf is skeptical of whatever has been said of PRISM. He should be, as everyone should. But in our skepticism, we can draw diverging conclusions.

Even as an open source advocate, he is also a cyber-security control freak who advised the President, and --if accounts coming from all sides of the press are accurate-- PRISM is an extension of such Panopticon-like vision of what the internet should be.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/p rogram/284210-7

This is basically Spaf agreeing with Spaf, theoretical existence of PRISM agrees with the vision he influenced as a Presidential advisor.

If you can get the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian and Julian Assange to agree on something, *anything*, there is very likely at least a hint of truth in it. Others like Marcy Wheeler (a.k.a. @emptywheel) disagree in that it's a spying programme a la pre-crime, but she thinks it's more of a wholesale data mining operation which allows NSA to understand how events came into being after the fact. She doesn't disagree in that it does indeed exist and that the law has been bent to accomodate the vision of post-hoc pervasive surveillance of individuals.
Whether that's justifiable or not, that's a matter of separate debate. Patriot Act, FISA and associated interpretations of the law are really thick pieces of legalese and Orwellian speak that need several books of their own to dissect them in detail.

But now with Eric Schmidt telling us in very simplistic language that Google absolutely did no evil because they only follow court orders.
Phu-leeeese... is that not the ultimate insult to our collective intelligence?
We have refused to take the same insult from others before, why should we accept Schmidt's? Because he's a benevolent half-open source dictator?

When you really want to learn about truth, you just can't trust the people you like. Not *exclusively* those you like. Even less so the very powerful people who would have us believe they're heroic fighters for justice and all that is just in this world.
For the simple reason that not even them can ever be that perfect, they are generally the first to fail at living up to their very principles.

I choose to trust the knowledgeable and honest, albeit quirky and fallible individual first. Like I know I can trust you, PJ. And other individuals, but never, ever any dinosaur organisation on the brink of losing its way in the fog of history.

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--- the vruz

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FAO PJ: Google says the government has 'no access' to servers
Authored by: Nick_UK on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 01:52 PM EDT
PJ, please don't read too much into the BCC reports - they are so dumbed down the truth gets lost.

I once sent a complaint to the BBC about their SCO story (or rather the HEADLINE):

SCO wins Linux licence payments

I did receive a reply basically telling me the headline was relevant and SCO did win. Since that time, I don't read the BBC news tech. stuff at all.

Nick

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