Comment Re:The joke in question (Score 1) 606
He's been sent down for 12 weeks. Some joke, do these people not read sickipedia.org or what ?
Submission + - Dutch court rules hyperlinks illegal
Ubi_NL writes: In today's ruling of Playboy (via publisher Sanoma) vs Dutch blog Geenstijl, the court ruled that hyperlinking to copyrighted material was itself infringement of copyright. The court ordered the blog to remove all links to the infringing links (court ruling in dutch). How this ruling fits into the supreme court ruling that hyperlinks cannot by themselves infringe copyright is still to be discussed, possibly in an appeal. An interesting detail of the case is that the anonymous source that pointed Geenstijl to the images did this from an IP address within the Sanoma organisation...
Submission + - Microsoft Xbox 3D-projected games outlined in patent (bbc.co.uk)
Mackadoodledoo writes: Details of an immersive video games display system that projects images of the title's environment around a player's room have been revealed in a US patent belonging to Microsoft.
http://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/pat20120223885.pdf
http://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/pat20120223885.pdf
Comment Missing Option - Not in US so Who Cares? (Score 1) 342
Since I'm not in the US I care because? - errr.. No can't think of one reason I should.
Submission + - Anonymous Leaks 1M Apple Device UDIDs (net-security.org) 1
Orome1 writes: "A file containing a million and one record sets containing Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) and some other general information about the devices has been made available online by Anonymous hackers following an alleged breach of an FBI computer. "During the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, used by Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber Action Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team was breached using the AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability on Java," the hackers claim."
Comment Re:Missing Option (Score 1) 125
Personally I'd have prefered the option
Fuck All
Submission + - Apple and Samsung both get South Korea bans (bbc.co.uk)
Mackadoodledoo writes: A South Korean court has ruled that Apple and Samsung both infringed each other's patents on mobile devices.
The court imposed a limited ban on national sales of products by both companies covered by the ruling.
It ruled that US-based Apple had infringed two patents held by Samsung, while the Korean firm had violated one of Apple's patents.
The sales ban will apply to Apple's iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and its tablets the iPad and iPad 2.
The court imposed a limited ban on national sales of products by both companies covered by the ruling.
It ruled that US-based Apple had infringed two patents held by Samsung, while the Korean firm had violated one of Apple's patents.
The sales ban will apply to Apple's iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and its tablets the iPad and iPad 2.
