Comment Re:PLEASE (Score 1) 110
I wouldn't get so wound up over protecting it's integrity.
You mean fidelity...right?
Submission + - Samsung's Claims of Juror Misconduct Revealed in Unredacted Filings (groklaw.net)
zaphod777 writes: Samsung has now filed an unredacted version [PDF] of its motion for judgment as a matter of law, a new trial, and/or remittitur. That's the one that was originally filed with a redacted section we figured out was about the foreman, Velvin Hogan. The judge ordered it filed unsealed, and so now we get to read all about it.
It's pretty shocking to see the full story. I understand now why Samsung tried to seal it. They call Mr. Hogan untruthful in voir dire (and I gather in media interviews too), accuse him of "implied bias" and of tainting the process by introducing extraneous "evidence" of his own during jury deliberations, all of which calls, Samsung writes, for an evidentiary hearing and a new trial with an unbiased jury as the cure.
Were you wondering how Samsung found out about the lawsuit that Hogan failed to mention in voir dire, the litigation between Seagate and Hogan that Samsung dug up? Apple was, as I'll show you. You wouldn't believe it if it was in a movie script. The lawyer who sued Mr. Hogan on behalf of Seagate back in 1993 is now married to a partner at Quinn Emanuel, the lawyers for Samsung.
What are the odds?
It's pretty shocking to see the full story. I understand now why Samsung tried to seal it. They call Mr. Hogan untruthful in voir dire (and I gather in media interviews too), accuse him of "implied bias" and of tainting the process by introducing extraneous "evidence" of his own during jury deliberations, all of which calls, Samsung writes, for an evidentiary hearing and a new trial with an unbiased jury as the cure.
Were you wondering how Samsung found out about the lawsuit that Hogan failed to mention in voir dire, the litigation between Seagate and Hogan that Samsung dug up? Apple was, as I'll show you. You wouldn't believe it if it was in a movie script. The lawyer who sued Mr. Hogan on behalf of Seagate back in 1993 is now married to a partner at Quinn Emanuel, the lawyers for Samsung.
What are the odds?
Comment Southern hemisphere recognition (Score 1) 240
The "winter" option should have come first, you insensitive clod!
Comment Easy... (Score 1) 916
e x "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" = 114
Explaining why is another thing...
Submission + - MegaUpload Had Planned To Launch Legal Service (itworld.com)
itwbennett writes: "An article in TechCrunch pushes a new theory about why MegaUpload was really taken down: it was in a 'heated marketing battle with the RIAA and MPAA' over the MegaUpload's plans to launch a legal music service. And here's where the conspiracy part kicks in: The MegaBox service would allow artists 'to keep 90 percent of earnings.'"
Comment Re:Another politician with half a brain? (Score 1) 253
This is true that their technical expertise is valuable. Perhaps what is not clear from my previous post is that the power the Commission holds in the law making process is constitutionally and the relationship between the high level institutions wiht in the European Union is different to what most western countries would be accustomed to.
Comment Re:Another politician with half a brain? (Score 1) 253
Ahhh thanks. The Commission sounds like a pointless organization.
Maybe it is now, who knows.. In its creation after WW2, the idea of the Commission was and still is that it is run by "technical experts" (technocrats) rather than politicians. The technocrats do not represent their home member state, instead they represent the European Union. In this respect as another post as mentioned they are like the civil service. And why aren't they politicians? Well the track record in Europe leading up to WW2 even isn't that great with politicians.
Submission + - Wikipedia Blackout (dailymail.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has announced that all English Wikipedia pages will be blacked out in protest of SOPA. I hope he knows Google Chrome will automatically translate an non-English page into an English one....
Submission + - Wikipedia Announces Blackout In Protest of SOPA/PI (wikimediafoundation.org)
PattonPending writes: On Monday Wikipedia announced that it would blackout the entire English language Wikipedia in protest of the potential SOPA/PIPA legislation pending in the US house and Senate. FTA. These acts "if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia. This will be the first time the English Wikipedia has ever staged a public protest of this nature, and it’s a decision that wasn’t lightly made"
Submission + - Wikipedia to Protest SOPA (wikimediafoundation.org) 2
Techmeology writes: In an unprecedented move, the English Wikipedia has announced that it will protest SOPA and PIPA with a 24 hour blackout on the 18th of January. Wikipedia administrators conveyed the community's support for a blackout in spite of apparent setbacks for SOPA, noting that PIPA is still very much alive. They added that a majority of participants in the discussion supported a global blackout in protest of similar legislation in other countries rather than a US only blackout.
Submission + - en.wikipedia striking against SOPA/PIPA on the 18t (wikimedia.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Wikipedians have decided to take the English Wikipedia down for 24 hours on the 18th to protest the SOPA and PIPA bills. This unusual decision comes after months of debate and proposals, and comes immediately after a 72 hour discussion where more than 1800 encyclopaedists commented.
Comment Re:Attention! (Score 0) 73
Yet they contract it to it is to it's. We are fighting a losing battle.
Comment Re:Furniture (Score 1) 312
What are you talking about? My is 3.8L. That's less than a cubic metre.
Comment Quotation from George Box (Score 1) 4
"All models are wrong, but some models are useful."
Comment Chances of success (Score 1) 313
It remains to be seen whether Samsung has any better luck with the retaliatory strike in Australian [snip] courts than it did with courts in the Netherlands.
I don't know, will adversarial courts get it wrong like inquistorial courts did?
