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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 07:06 PM EDT |
could you put a link at the top of the main page that takes you down to the
newspicks on the page? As it is, you have to scroll past a lot of old articles
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Authored by: arnt on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 07:59 PM EDT |
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http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 08:42 PM EDT |
For those who aren't too fussed about a Brand Name,
or want a plague on
both their houses, there's always
A Free Market
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- Samsung v. Apple - Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 09:15 PM EDT
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- Ultimate Terror Weapon - Authored by: kawabago on Tuesday, June 18 2013 @ 04:15 PM EDT
- You Got Me - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 19 2013 @ 04:27 AM EDT
- So Huawei's OK? - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 16 2013 @ 05:03 PM EDT
- Samsung v. Apple - Authored by: knarf on Sunday, June 16 2013 @ 07:23 PM EDT
- Samsung v. Apple - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 06:56 PM EDT
- Here's Another Way To Look At It - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 18 2013 @ 12:23 AM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 10:53 PM EDT |
National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill
briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That
authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too.
The
National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it
does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls.
Rep.
Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed this week that during a secret
briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone call
could be accessed "simply based on an analyst deciding that."
If the NSA
wants "to listen to the phone," an analyst's decision is sufficient, without any
other legal authorization required, Nadler said he learned. "I was rather
startled," said Nadler, an attorney and congressman who serves on the House
Judiciary committee.
Declan McCullagh
, CNET[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 11:42 PM EDT |
The rapid adoption of electronic payments may render cash
obsolete
in our lifetimes. The new payment methods might be more convenient,
yet every
transaction will be tied back to us.
...
- law enforcement in the U.S.
doesn't need a warrant for many digital searches; a
simple subpoena will do.
This applies to cell-phone location data, information
you store in the cloud,
you name it.
...
The companies contending to win our trust to manage our
digital identities all
seem to have complementary (or competing) business
models that breach that
trust by selling our data.
Harvard Business Review
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 11:47 PM EDT |
You Have No Control Over Security on the Feudal Internet
Bruce Schneier,
Harvard
Business Review
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 16 2013 @ 12:40 AM EDT |
I've only ever come across the term once before. A novel series called The
Death Gate Cycle.
The "gods" referred to the "mortal" races (human,
dwarf, elf) as Mensch... all the while treating them more like subjects (willing
or not).
And now I find out it's a real word meaning:
a person of
honor and integrity
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Sunday, June 16 2013 @ 01:46 PM EDT |
Link
Gertner, now a professor at Harvard Law School who
teaches criminal law and criminal procedure, was a civil rights and criminal
defense lawyer before being confirmed to the federal bench in 1993. In an
interview with ThinkProgress, Gertner explained that the selection process for
the secret national security court formed in 1978 is more “anointment” than
appointment, with the Chief Justice of the United States — now John G. Roberts —
selecting from a pool of already-conservative federal judges those he thinks are
most suited to decide national security cases in secret:
It’s an anointment process. It’s not a selection process. But you know, it’s not
boat rockers. So you have a [federal] bench which is way more conservative than
before. This is a subset of that. And it’s a subset of that who are operating
under privacy, confidentiality, and national security. To suggest that there is
meaningful review it seems to me is an illusion.
...
Gertner
urged the audience to be skeptical about the court’s oversight, both because of
its severely conservative make-up, and its secrecy. The judge whose order was
leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was Judge Roger Vinson, who
authored the
error-riddled federal court decision
striking down the Affordable Care Act
that even his fellow conservatives rejected.
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Authored by: TiddlyPom on Sunday, June 16 2013 @ 05:50 PM EDT |
Unbelievable!
Microsoft and Nokia are claiming that Google are licensing Android 'below cost'
(it's open source for goodness sake!) and want an investigation on
anti-competitive grounds.
--- Support Software Freedom - use GPL
licenced software like Linux and LibreOffice instead of proprietary software
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 16 2013 @ 09:28 PM EDT |
I'm not sure where else to put this, so Off Topic it is.
After seeing a post in the news sidebar the other day, I
followed the link to IPWatchdog and had a somewhat
frustrating discussion there regarding the "computer +
software = new machine" doctrine.
http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2013/06/12/did-the-ptab-just-kill-
software-patents/
I'm posting under the name 'Travis'. I apologise to anyone
reading it if I didn't make my arguments as strongly or as
eloquently as I could - I'm a software engineer, not a
lawyer - but it was difficult not to devolve into ad
hominems.
Eventually, I said:
“Isn’t the implication then that software is only patent
eligible (under the concept of creating/improving a machine)
if it is installed?”
To which Gene Quinn replied:
Finally you have figured it out! Thank GOD!
Yes, software is only patent eligible if it is loaded onto a
machine. Whether that is the right test, the wrong test, or
just plain stupid… that is the law.
This seems to be a completely arbitrary and useless
distinction to me, which ignores the practical aspect that
installation is merely a distribution choice rather than a
practical part of the invention. Is this how other folks
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- Off topic thread - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 16 2013 @ 10:04 PM EDT
- Off topic thread - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 03:50 AM EDT
- I remember mr. Quinn - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 16 2013 @ 10:51 PM EDT
- Off topic thread - Authored by: cjk fossman on Sunday, June 16 2013 @ 11:05 PM EDT
- Off topic thread - Authored by: PJ on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 12:25 AM EDT
- Novel and non-obvious??? - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 01:38 AM EDT
- Gene doesn't understand anything to do with computers - Authored by: jesse on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 05:13 AM EDT
- The Thing from the Supreme Court - Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 05:16 AM EDT
- Off topic thread - Authored by: GaryD on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 05:30 AM EDT
- The Thing from the Supreme Court - Another point of view - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 09:10 AM EDT
- I'm also there - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 18 2013 @ 07:15 AM EDT
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Authored by: Superbowl H5N1 on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 04:51 AM EDT |
Back in the 1990's Edward Felten made a video demonstration (I think Exhibit
1202 from USA v Microsoft) showing how to remove MSIE from Windows, despite
Microsoft's claim to the contrary.
http://www.justice.go
v/atr/cases/f213400/213460.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/02
/04/allchin_heads_for_video_remix/
Microsoft responded by forging a
video purporting to show how removing MSIE harmed Windows. Microsoft got called
out on their forgery.
Where can the forged video testimony be found as well as
the most official slam of that testimony?
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the computer RMS uses:
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 01:16 PM EDT |
This may be old news to some but the ouya is
set to ship late June. It has a tegra 3 running android and is being billed as
an open console. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 05:28 PM EDT |
Who is Nathan Myhrvold
This Man Is
Either The World's Biggest Patent Troll Or A Champion Of Innovation [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 05:53 PM EDT |
Shively's ambitions — "We are Big Marijuana," he proclaimed — don't merely raise
questions about what marijuana legalization might look like in the long run and
whether large corporations will come to dominate.
Former Microsoft manager wants to create 'Starbucks of Pot'[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 18 2013 @ 02:29 AM EDT |
`Technology resellers, distributors and service providers
need to be ready
for the freshly proposed European Data
Protection law, IDC has said .. when the
EU data protection
regulation comes in - you will get fined, you will get put
into jail if you breach it."'
"As a report from consultancy
firm London Economics last
month showed, many British businesses, particularly
the
smaller ones, don't really understand the main provisions of
the law.
Those businesses will appreciate channel partners
that can help advise them on
whether the products and
services they're using are compliant with the new
directives." link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, June 18 2013 @ 10:37 AM EDT |
William Malamas, 75, has sued dozens of parties in the
past 25 years. A judge upheld a ruling naming him a “vexatious litigant”
Monday. --- The following program contains immature subject matter.
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Authored by: tiger99 on Tuesday, June 18 2013 @ 12:55 PM EDT |
Link Original link which I saw on The
H. I don't know if this is good enough to alleviate every possible concern
about abuse of power by the authorities, but it certainly must help, and isn't
expensive or complex. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 18 2013 @ 01:17 PM EDT |
I think I'm in the market for a new notebook. What I'd really like is an ARM
powered unit.
Suggestions?
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, June 18 2013 @ 01:20 PM EDT |
The
re’s a reason “rocket science” is a cliche. It’s really, really hard to pull off
a launch, and veteran rocket scientists barely raise an eyebrow when it doesn’t
happen. --- The following program contains immature subject matter.
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, June 18 2013 @ 01:27 PM EDT |
Link
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has taken
the unusual step of actively blocking a former committee aide from talking to
TPM about congressional oversight of the intelligence community. At issue
isn’t classified sources and methods of intelligence gathering but
general information about how the committee functions — and how it should
function. The committee’s refusal to allow former general counsel Vicki Divoll
to disclose unclassified information to a reporter was the first and only time
it has sought to block her from making public comments, based on her experience
as one of its most senior aides, since she left Capitol Hill in
2003.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 18 2013 @ 04:54 PM EDT |
Having now learned of freedom from the press thanks to Groklaw, I could not
accept news accounts/opinions of recent developments when they would not point
their viewers/listners/readers to real documents. I bow down to you talking
heads, without whom I would be los..... NOT!
Anyway, I was curious to
know what the Italian Court of Cassation really said so I looked for and found a
pdf of the document, which I accept as a true copy of the original (until any
other belief enters my mind).
So without further blah blah..., if anyone
else is interested, and without my two cents, I found this at www.truejustice.org.
I
doubt that I share the views/opinions of the blogger, but at least they have the
courage to post real documents. I hope there is a good english translation
soon.
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, June 18 2013 @ 07:55 PM EDT |
Link
Google asked the secretive Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over
data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to
speak about information it’s forced to give the government.
The
legal filing, which cites the First Amendment’s
guarantee of free speech, is the latest move by the California-based tech giant
to protect its reputation in the aftermath of news reports about sweeping
National Security Agency surveillance of Internet
traffic.
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Authored by: jesse on Tuesday, June 18 2013 @ 08:58 PM EDT |
https://blog.mariadb.org/mysql-man-pages-silently-relicensed-away-from-gpl/
And are no longer generally available for newer releases.
Good thing MariaDB is taking over.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, June 18 2013 @ 09:49 PM EDT |
Link
Bank of America’s mortgage
servicing unit systematically lied to homeowners, fraudulently denied loan
modifications, and paid their staff bonuses for deliberately pushing people into
foreclosure: Yes, these allegations were suspected by any homeowner who ever had
to deal with the bank to try to get a loan modification – but now they come from
six former employees and one contractor, whose sworn statements were added last
week to a civil lawsuit filed in federal court in
Massachusetts.
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