440224
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Esther Schindler writes:
It's hateful when a developer takes a "shortcut" that saves that individual a couple of minutes, but thereafter causes extra effort from every single user. Awful as they are, these application design errors—all the fault of lazy developers—are entirely too common.
438238
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shillhunter writes:
Forbes' Dan Lyons, author of the Fake Steve Jobs blog, decided it would be entertaining to parody the unplugging of ThinkSecret by pretending his own blog was under threat from Apple. Except that in order to do that, he had to stop pretending to be FSJ and start pretending that the real Steve Jobs was threatening him. That's where he left the world of parody and reentered the familiar territory of lucrative scandal. Even before starting FSJ, Lyons jumped to follow Microsoft's marketing message with SCO against Linux, and continues to follow closely in his "People Ready," corporate-savvy, yet comical blog. His readers just haven't realized it yet.
Daniel Lyons Cries Wolf: The Real Bill Gates Behind the Fake Steve Jobs
438048
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log1385 writes:
Toshiba has designed a small nuclear reactor to power areas as small as individual buildings.
438018
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Felipe Hoffa writes:
One week ago Google Reader's team decided showing your private data to all your GMail contacts. No need to opt-in, no way to opt-out. Complaints haven't been answered. Some users share their problems, including one family that won't be able to enjoy this Christmas due to this "feature". Will this start happening with all Google products?
You can check a summary of complaints or the whole thread.
436122
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wakim1618 writes:
In Canada, ctv news (the country's largest broadcaster) reports that libraries urge balance in pending copyright reforms". In particular the Canadian Library Association has issued a press release arguing that these amendments make the same mistakes as the American Digital Millennium Copyright Act:
"American law makes no differentiation in penalty between a counterfeiter circumventing technical protection measures for illegal profit and an individual circumventing technical protection measures to make a single copy... Our challenge is with the Hollywood lobbyists and the recording industry who are trying to take rights away from ordinary Canadians"
436094
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Lerc writes:
Computerworld has posted a response to people who called them on their use of the term Bricked in a recent article. They are standing beside their use of the term. It seems they support the idea of misleading headlines in order to gain reader attention arguing that the body of the article still provides accurate information. "The facts in the article are clear and straightforward, and if the headline gets the attention of one user who *won't* walk up to you Wednesday morning with a cheesed laptop, I think you'll agree the verbal slap upside the head is worth it."
432954
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traycerb writes:
A Portuguese company, named Microsoft Lda, and unrelated to the Balmer/Gates/et al institution,
is selling the Portugese rights to the Microsoft name on ebay. As the article says:
"The company registered its title locally in back in 1981, long before Microsoft Corp penetrated the Portuguese market. Since the Beast of Redmond is accordingly not allowed to call itself Microsoft in the land of fado and pasteis de nata, it lurks behind the MSFT moniker."
"MSFT?" How is that even pronounced?
428564
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NijouSK writes:
The Busybox lawsuit against Xterasys Corporation was settled.
