Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 29 2013 @ 01:14 PM EDT |
Clicky
The treaty makes it
legal to make copies of copyrighted material accessible to the blind community
by converting it to formats such as Braille books, audio recordings or
large-print books without first having to seek permission from copyright holders
in every instance.
Advocates for the visually impaired say that fewer
than one percent of all the world’s books are accessible in these formats. The
treaty would make it possible for converted texts in a given language to be
available in multiple countries.
Wouldn't that be an
enormous advantage of Google's effort with their book scanning
project?
I mean, if the books are in electronic form, they are available
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Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, June 29 2013 @ 05:33 PM EDT |
[PJ: And this is after they sued Samsung for being a "copycat"?]
As I mentioned earlier, when Apple "borrows", it's innovation. When
someone else does, it's stealing.
Please remember that. ;-)
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The following program contains immature subject matter.
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Authored by: jbb on Saturday, June 29 2013 @ 09:40 PM EDT |
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li> Anonymously post incriminating content on a
competitor's site
- Tip off
the State Attorneys General
- Have competitor punished
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Profit!
Making person A responsible for the actions of person
B is never a good idea. I cannot believe intelligent adults would waste
more than one minute pursuing such an idiotic idea.
I attribute this mass
stupidity to fear of the internet.
Frank Herbert got it right when he
said:
Fear is the
mind-killer.
--- Our job is to remind ourselves that
there are more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
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Authored by: ailuromancy on Sunday, June 30 2013 @ 06:19 AM EDT |
Secret-court judges upset at portrayal of
‘collaboration’
with government
"The court hears only one side of the story, and has
to keep
what they hear secret" means "The court will be told a pack of
lies
that they would quickly debunk if they could discus it with
people who have a
clue about what is going on".
"Sign this secrecy agreement" means, "when
we get caught,
we are going to blame you, and if you present any evidence
to
the contrary you will be imprisoned for espionage".
The thing I find
astonishing is that politicians found some judges
dumb enough not to see what
was coming. Anyone would think
they did not know the difference between an ally
and and asset.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 30 2013 @ 10:27 AM EDT |
"creepy" is that IAB's President & CEO Randall Rothenberg (author
of this little screed) spent 7 years with Booz Allen
no wonder he's upset that his tracking cookies are being tossed[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 30 2013 @ 12:07 PM EDT |
Tomi T Ahonen makes a good case for Nokia CEO Stephen Elop being the worst of
the worst, but I'd put Jacques Nasser's 2 year reign of
error as Ford's President and CEO against Elop any day. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 30 2013 @ 12:45 PM EDT |
Strange so blind the EU political establishment has been. Programmers and
experts have warned about the inherent danger of using US-made, proprietary
software and kit for half a generation, so it's not like nobody said anything.
The elite just didn't listen.
So, either they're incompetent or they are naive. Either way, they do not
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 30 2013 @ 05:19 PM EDT |
<blockquote>PJ: How creepy would it be if you went into a supermarket and
someone with a notepad followed you around, aisle by aisle, taking notes on what
you bought, how long you stayed in the cereal aisle, asking you how many kids
you have and where you live, etc.?</blockquote>
They don't need to follow you around or ask, your 'Loyalty' card does that for
them.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 30 2013 @ 09:57 PM EDT |
CSS = Cascading Surveilance State? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Fixed it - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 01 2013 @ 06:38 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 01 2013 @ 01:52 AM EDT |
Brewster Kahle in
The New Yorker has two
priceless takeaways:
The government is not one monolithic thing.
It’s a bunch of people, thinking they’re doing their jobs.
and
Do you encrypt all your own e-mail, as a result of this
stuff?
No, that’s really hard. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonomous on Monday, July 01 2013 @ 07:57 AM EDT |
Nokia to
fully acquire Siemens' stake in Nokia Siemens Networks
Prediction:
Nokia borrows EUR 1.7 billion to buy out Siemens. The bulk of this loan comes
from Microsoft, probably through intermediaries. Under Elop, Nokia cash flow
weakens further, so it cannot possibly service the debt. Microsoft forecloses.
Nokia stockholders sue Elop et al but cannot prove intent.
-Wang-Lo.
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