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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 02 2013 @ 06:31 PM EDT |
Lodsys lawyers admit to suing app developer TMSOFT because company's
owner Todd Moore called it a troll in his popular podcast:
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 02 2013 @ 06:35 PM EDT |
I ate dinner at the very same shopping center this week. The grocery,
Harris-Teeter, is basically a high-end, all-night kind of a place where you can
get some sushi if you want as well as all your usual groceries.
If these were plainclothes officers, why didn't they have a police car near by?
No, surrounding someone with a bunch of thugs and expecting them not to panic
isn't something the cops should be allowed to do.
Just a little more force, and a little more foolishness, and someone could have
easily been killed...for a six-pack of beer???? For a basically adult college
student who isn't even close to intoxicated??? What about the store that sold
the beer??
That is as good as the teenager that WAS killed when the drinking party he was
at was raided by the cops, he fled in his car, and ran off a particularly
difficult curve and died when he rolled his car. That one was just below
Monticello, on the far side from Charlottesville.
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Authored by: calris74 on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 01:32 AM EDT |
This is so funny - made more so by the blatant ridiculousness
of it. Nine and a half months, thousands of dollars for one
slice of pizza that had already been paid for.
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- Pizza Court - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 03:11 AM EDT
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Authored by: complex_number on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 04:21 PM EDT |
nytime
s.com
So the US Mail is recording the sender and destination of every
item is carries and 'giving it to the man'.
The US Gov wants to know about
everyone we communicate with just in case they might be a terrorist. Given that
in my estimate less than 0.001% of US Citizens are terrorists I am puzzled as to
how they can justify this sort of expense.
(I did know two people who died on
11th Sept 2001) and have experienced an IRA bomb at first hand).
What now
for the N.H motto, 'Live Free or Die'?
I always thought the US habit of
putting the senders address on the envelope was a bit weird. Perhaps people
might think twice about doing this in future.
--- Ubuntu & 'apt-get'
are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which is of course, "42"
or is it 1.618?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 09:56 PM EDT |
"The Mother of All Demos is a name given retrospectively to Douglas
Engelbart's December 9, 1968, demonstration of experimental computer
technologies that are now commonplace. The live demonstration featured the
introduction of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing,
hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file
linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time
editor."
1:40:53
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
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Authored by: alisonken1 on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 10:07 PM EDT |
The Register
article titled "Boston U claims LED
patent, files against
tech giants"
"Among its targets are Apple's iPhone
and iPad, Amazon's
Kindle Paperwhite and Fire, Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 and
Chromebook."
The suit alleges infringement of patents (links to google
patent pages)
US5686738
"Highly
insulating monocrystalline gallium nitride thin
films"
US6953703
"Method of making
a semiconductor device with exposure of
sapphire substrate to activated
nitrogen"
--- - Ken -
import std_disclaimer.py
Registered John Doe^W^WLinux user #296561
Slackin' since 1993
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 02:47 AM EDT |
Apache pioneer becomes president of
Outercurve Foundation
I hate to say I told you so, but I told
you so.
Told us what? That the OuterLimits Foundation (or
whatever it's called) is completely moribund? That after being in business for 3
or 4 years now, it has yet to host a single project that anyone outside of a few
Dotnet developers has heard of? That most of their downloads consist of a single
project that is a set of libraries for ASP Dot Net developers? You know, the web
framework that's based on warmed over 1990s tech that nobody uses for anything
outside of corporate websites?
What else do they have? Oooh! a C# SDK
for Facebook! How earth shattering! An add-on for MS Word that lets you enter
chemistry symbols! How awesome!
None of us would have even remembered
that it existed if you hadn't put in the Newpicks RSS stream. It's not "just
resting". It's dead. I doubt that even someone that I've never heard of from the
Apache Foundation can re-animate that corpse.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 04:27 AM EDT |
Click
here (if legal to do so in your country :) )
Interesting point - I
hadn't thought about going off-grid as a protest against surveillance. I
frequently dream of doing so for other reasons, though - such as:
- The
various food items I already produce myself are of better quality, and usually
cheaper, than those I can buy locally;
- Producing electricity on-site is
often cheaper than buying it, and has minimal transmission losses;
- Anything
that makes me harder for the government to spy on also makes me harder for
criminals (such as telemarketers) to spy on;
- Burning paper waste is
carbon-neutral and provides an excellent powdered
fertiliser.
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- Privacy protests - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 04:52 AM EDT
- Privacy protests - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 06:09 AM EDT
- Privacy protests - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 04:21 PM EDT
- Privacy protests - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 02:20 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 06:22 AM EDT |
Zdnet
Mother
of all Demos
Think about it, 1968. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 07:49 AM EDT |
"or they hide their smartphones in ad hoc Faraday cages that block their
signals"
????
In a Faraday cage, they'll have no wireless connection for anything. Why not
just put it on "Airplane mode" or turn it off?
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The following program contains immature subject matter.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 04:03 PM EDT |
Microsoft Form 8-K Dated June 25, 2013
I'd call that
the operative sentence behind the agreement. I gather he was asserting claims,
maybe not yet in court filings, but telling Microsoft he believed he had such
claims. That would explain all the other language about not talking
disparagingly about Microsoft.
Probably related to "unjust
dismissal" claims relating to how he "left" (got fired from, whatever)
Microsoft. He would have had stock options and bonuses outstanding, and wanted
to still get them.
And what might this be? "(v) continue
complying with certain provisions of the Microsoft Corporation Employee
Non-Disclosure Agreement between Microsoft and him related to intellectual
property rights and confidentiality of Microsoft and third-party information."
Third party as in who? Mr. Sinofsky won't tell, now, but does he know about NSA
PRISM details, one can't help but wonder or is this referring to deals with
Nokia and FairSearch and such types? If he were ever forced to testify in a
court, this agreement wouldn't keep him silent, of course.
He
would have been party to a lot of inside information. Microsoft wouldn't want
him to go to Google with information about the Nokia contracts, or to Sony with
information about the XBox manufacturing contracts, etc. I imagine this is just
standard boilerplate.
I know there are fans of Sinofsky out there in
Microsoft land, but the fact is he was just as much a part of Microsoft's
problems as Balmer. He's a steady plodder and would probably do fine in an
"enterprise" company such as Oracle, SAP, or IBM, but he's not likely to deliver
a hit consumer product.
On the other hand, if shareholders decide to
kick out Balmer and change Microsoft's direction to be more like Oracle, then
maybe Sinofsky's the man to milk the most out of customers locked in to a legacy
platform. So far though, Microsoft's strategy is still to chase after Apple,
Google, and Amazon, delivering a warmed over version of what their competitors
did two years before.
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