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- Inventor sues Google, Verizon, others on voicemail
- Inventor sues Google, Verizon, others on voicemailNot sure his patents pass the litmus test.Wouldnt star trek and most other sci-fi shows pre-date some of his patents.Just because you come up with an idea doesnt mean you have a patent... you have to establish a process and provide code that does...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Dancing on E-voting's grave
- Dancing on E-voting's graveAgreed - but consider the slippery slopeBecause once you recognized the problem in kind, you ended up arguing (accurately, I think) about degree.Why client-server can't workBecause the expert has to say "yes" to the question in court - no matter how difficult or impractical it may actually...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Wordcamp 2008
- In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- Psystar requires Acknowledgement of Sale letter to receive restore media
- Psystar requires Acknowledgement of Sale letter to receive restore mediaAsking customers ...... to fill in a form and enter their credit card details to get a FREE UPDATE when that could be put on the website ...... yeah, smells awfully dodgy to me.RE: Psystar requires Acknowledgement of Sale letter to...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Court: Open source licenses are copyright licenses
- Open source licenses create a condition on the scope of the license – and thus expose violators to injunctions under copyright law – the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled yesterday. The decision in Jacobsen v. Katzer PDF reverses a District Court holding that the a violation...
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- First Data Could Allow User Generated Financial Credit Reports
- First Data Could Allow User Generated Financial Credit ReportsConfidentiality?Aren't CC transactions confidential between the buyer & seller and card issuer? I like the idea of consumers controlling their own credit reports, but I don't like the idea of First Data saving and compiling records of transactions after they've cleared.RE: First...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- Considering a Windows Innovation Demo
- Considering a Windows Innovation DemoA narrow mind never innovates....Well Mr. Murphy, if you weren’t so narrow minded and stuck in the 70’s you might actually understand why Microsoft, and others, are making billions and you are stuck blogging on ZDNET.What’s next, a blog on how Charles Babbage ripped off the...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
- DNS cache poisoning attacks exploited in the wild
- DNS cache poisoning attacks exploited in the wildMy W2k server and SuSE 10.2...server were easily patched through their respective automatic updates. The patching was so easy that anyone running a DNS server that hasn't patched already is an idiot.Is https still safe?I'm imagining that https connections are still safe. In...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- Airport security part 6: Skimming at airport kiosks
- Airport security part 6: Skimming at airport kiosksNot just at YYZI know those kiosks at Toronto Airport, having just used one. I don't think someone added a skimmer externally. They have trained staff helping passengers, and who would spot anything amiss. Also, airports have CCTVs, so the...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- Jennifer Leggio unpacks demand letter over "branded community"
- Over at ZDNet's Feeds, Jennifer Leggio walks us through a cease and desist email she recently received. The email suggested her blog's use of the term "branded community" might constitute trademark infringement. It's a good object lesson about paying attention to cease and...
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- ShoZu Desktop (do)
- Upload from your PC or Mac to more than 30 different online destinations with just one click - Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Blogger, and TypePad. Before you upload you can add titles, tags and descriptions to your photos and videos. With ShoZus CC feature you can send the same photo or...
- Software downloads 2008-07-11
- NVIDIA: Let's spread the blame far and wide
- NVIDIA: Let's spread the blame far and widePublically?"Well, since then the company’s stock has taken a serious battering, and the company doesn’t seem to be willing to talk about the problems with its GPUs publically."Publically is not a word. Publicly is.That aside, Nvidea is playing the blame game and not...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Care to spend your holiday weekend policing directory listings?
- I'm not a fan in general of sites that create a listing or profile for you, hoping you'll eventually claim and/or correct it. This tactic, neither user-centric nor user-driven, is insidious for at least three reasons: inaccuracies proliferate, privacy is frequently...
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Debut of Hyper-V, departure of Gates usher in new era for Microsoft
- Debut of Hyper-V, departure of Gates usher in new era for MicrosoftNot even Bill gates is happy with MicrosoftStrange that you should incessantly spin them as compelling..... or are you being adequately compensated (free money, not software)?Bill Gates Sends Angry Email to Microsoft http://www.lockergnome.com/digged/2008/06/25/bill-gates-sends-angry-email-to-microsoft/Wednesday, June 25th,...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the most
- Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the mostBrilliance = Techie + Financial ManagerialI think one of the reasons Microsoft has been so succesful is that Bill Gates was adept not necessarily the best at both spectrums: the techie and the business side. Witness General Motors under the "Smith" bean counter tenure:...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- About-face: Apple patches Safari 'carpet bombing' bug
- In what amounts to a major about-face, Apple has patched the Safari "carpet bombing" vulnerability that led to a Safari-to-Internet Explorer remote code execution combo threat. After insisting for weeks that the issue is more of an irritant than a security risk, Apple today released Safari v3.1.2...
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Overly restrictive A.P. quoting guidelines risk winning battles at the war's expense
- Saul Hansell reports today that the Associated Press "will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.'s copyright." The problem with "clear...
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Better Gmail 2 (xpi)
- Gmail 2 is a compilation of the best Greasemonkey enhancements for the new Gmail interface, compiled into one extension. Enhances the new Gmail interface with Greasemonkey user scripts. Only compatible with the new Gmail interface. Released with Compose in Gmail, Attachment Icons, Macros, Inbox Count First, Force Encrypted Connection, and...
- Software downloads 2008-06-15
- Opera ships security patches, adds malware blocker
- Opera users, get your browser patching engine ready. The Norwegian software maker has released version 9.5 as a recommended security and stability update that includes patches for at least three serious security vulnerabilities. The update, available here for download, patches the following: ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- 2009 Volkswagen Jetta SportWagon
- Photo gallery:2009 Volkswagen Jetta SportWagonThe small wagon, one of the most practical body styles, is back with the 2009 Volkswagen Jetta SportWagon. The small wagon mostly gave way to the more sporty hatchbacks in the 1990s, but Volkswagen seems confident in the body style, launching the wagon version of its...
- Product reviews 2008-06-09
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