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Comment Re:easy to turn off as well (Score 2) 234

by He Who Waits on Thursday December 01, 2011 @01:16PM (#38227588) Attached to: Carrier IQ Software May Be in iOS, Too

No, you can't turn it off. You can (un)check a box that determines whether the collected data is transmitted to Apple (or so it says). But the data is still collected, and is still visible to the carrier. Also, (at least some of) the data is still visible to anyone in momentary possession of the iPhone.

Comment Help me out here (Score 2) 373

by He Who Waits on Friday November 18, 2011 @03:13PM (#38101702) Attached to: Study Says Quantum Wavefunction Is a Real Physical Object

So, what I'm not getting is this: If a waveform is a real physical object and not just a conceptual statistical function, what is the physical nature of this object? Is it a half-dead Schodinger's Cat? Or is it a world where the Cat lived superimposed on a world where it died? Is it (gulp) both?

Comment Ob. Mythbusters ref. (Score 1) 575

by He Who Waits on Friday November 04, 2011 @04:00PM (#37951514) Attached to: EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime

This strikes me as being "Mythbusters science" -- basically just blow sh!t up and see what happens. Maybe we SHOULDN'T try this at home.

Comment Great Hera! (Score 1) 488

by He Who Waits on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @11:51AM (#33651254) Attached to: Airbus Planning Transparent Planes

What, two pages of comments and not one about Wonder Woman? What has happened to the /. I knew and loved?

Comment As every physicist knows... (Score 1) 154

by He Who Waits on Friday April 03, 2009 @12:35PM (#27446853) Attached to: What Would It Look Like To Fall Into a Black Hole?

...what happens in the singularity stays in the singularity.

Microsoft Details FOSS Patent Breaches 576

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 15, 2007 @10:41AM from the just-a-little-bit-dangerous dept.

CptRevelation writes "Microsoft has released more detailed information on the patents supposedly in breach by the open-source community. Despite their accusations of infringement, they state they would rather do licensing deals instead of any legal action. 'Open-source programs step on 235 Microsoft patents, the company said. Free Linux software violates 42 patents. Graphical user interfaces, the way menus and windows look on the screen, breach 65. E-mail programs step on 15, and other programs touch 68 other patents, the company said. The patent figures were first reported by Fortune magazine. Microsoft also said Open Office, an open-source program supported in part by Sun Microsystems Inc., infringes on 45 patents. Sun declined to comment on the allegation.'"

Congress May Outlaw 'Attempted Piracy' 768

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 15, 2007 @10:03AM from the i-see-what-you-were-trying-to-do-there dept.

cnet-declan writes "Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is asking Congress to make 'attempted' copyright infringement a federal crime. The text of the legislation as well as the official press-release is available online. Rep. Lamar Smith, a key House Republican, said he 'applauds' the idea, and his Democratic counterpart is probably on board too. In addition, the so-called Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007 would create a new crime of life imprisonment for using pirated software in some circumstances, expand the DMCA with civil asset forfeiture, and authorize wiretaps in investigations of Americans who are 'attempting' to infringe copyrights. Does this go too far?"

Canadians Overpay Millions on Copyright Tax 144

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 15, 2007 @09:22AM from the helping-the-man dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist has up a post on his site about the Copyright Board of Canada's decision last week on the controversial private copying levy, which functions like a tax on blank media. The good news? The Board reduced the levy on certain media such as CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio, and MiniDiscs. The bad news? The millions of dollars in overpayment from these media will go into the pockets of manufacturers, importers, and retailers, not back to the consumers who paid in the first place. 'In addition to the overpayment issue, the decision contains several interesting revelations ... the decision sheds some light on the CPCC's enforcement program. The collective has aggressively targeted those parties that do not pay the levy, with 21 claims over the past three years. In fact, the enforcement program has been so effective that the Board found that concerns about the emergence of a gray or black market for blank CDs has not materialized.'"

Prof. Johan Pouwelse To Take On RIAA Expert 184

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 15, 2007 @07:57AM from the knows-whereof-he-speaks dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Marie Lindor has retained an expert witness of her own to fight the RIAA, and to debunk the testimony and reports of the RIAA's 'expert' Dr. Doug Jacobson, whose reliability has been challenged by Ms. Lindor in her Brooklyn federal court case, UMG v. Lindor. Ms. Lindor's expert is none other than Prof. Johan Pouwelse, Chairman of the Parallel and Distributed Systems Group of Delft University of Technology. It was Prof. Pouwelse's scathing analysis of the RIAA's MediaSentry 'investigations' (PDF) in a case in the Netherlands that caused the courts in that country to direct the ISPs there not to turn over their subscribers' information (PDF), thus nipping in the bud the RIAA's intended litigation juggernaut in that country."

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