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Graphics Rendering Patent Suits Target Apple, Samsung, HTC, RIM, LG and Sony 159

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @05:16AM from the i-invented-the-pixel dept.

angry tapir writes "Formerly known as Silicon Graphics, Graphics Properties Holdings has filed six separate patent cases against Apple, Samsung, Research In Motion, HTC, Sony and LG with the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. The patent at issue in the lawsuits relates to floating point calculations to render graphics, and is registered as patent number 8,144,158 with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office."

Disaster Strikes Norwegian Government Web Portal 176

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 22, 2012 @03:00AM from the norwegian-blues dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Altinn.no is a web service run by the Norwegian government, on which citizens can find, fill out and deliver forms electronically. Every year Norwegian citizens can also log in to check their tax results. This year, as every year, the site was unable to cope with the traffic generated from everyone wanting to check their taxes at the same time. New this year, however, was that once people were finally able to log in, a significant amount of people were logged in as someone else. Users then had access to all financial data of this unfortunate person over two years back in time, in addition to the financial information of his wife and the company he worked for. Altinn shut down some 15 minutes later, and has been down since."

Comment WoW (Score 1) 184

by t0rb3n on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @10:43AM (#39274653) Attached to: Final Analysis Suggests Tevatron Saw Hint of the Higgs Boson

LfG Tevatron

Comment Lego-Style? (Score 1) 418

by t0rb3n on Thursday November 25, 2010 @04:03AM (#34340610) Attached to: Have I Lost My Gaming Mojo?

Ever tried Minecraft? Works fine for me ^^

Comment wel... (Score 1) 122

by t0rb3n on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @11:49AM (#34101520) Attached to: Fermilab Confirms Evidence of 4th Flavor Neutrino

This is sweet!

Comment Re:Microsoft? (Score 1) 528

by t0rb3n on Thursday June 03, 2010 @07:52AM (#32442850) Attached to: Microsoft Talks Back To Google's Security Claims

If there's nothing wrong with me, maybe there is something wrong with the universe!
<3

Comment Know your enemies? (Score 1) 714

by t0rb3n on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @12:45PM (#32420146) Attached to: Australian Schools To Teach Intelligent Design

So if there's like an hour of discussion about it, nobody would get hurt. Anyone knows how much effort they'll put into this kind of lecture?

Comment Re:Example: Relativity vs Newton (Score 1) 191

by t0rb3n on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @05:21AM (#32416062) Attached to: Chameleon-Like Behavior of Neutrino Confirmed

The existence of real numbers, however, is dependant on a known-inconsistent axiom.

And which one would that be? Such axiom would not be used in maths... if you're referring to the axiom of choice, it's certainly not inconsistent, but rather undecidable.

Comment Re:This is religious intolerance. (Score 1) 562

by t0rb3n on Monday May 31, 2010 @06:13AM (#32405464) Attached to: Bangladesh Blocks Facebook Over Muhammad Cartoons

Like they make no "fun" about the Jews either, http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/ArabCartoons.htm right?

Comment Re:This is religious intolerance. (Score 1) 562

by t0rb3n on Monday May 31, 2010 @06:08AM (#32405450) Attached to: Bangladesh Blocks Facebook Over Muhammad Cartoons

So that some so-called artist can have their few weeks of fame.

Yeah, and maybe some months of police protection, too.

There is little evidence that, say Kurt Westergaard's, intentions were to insult Muslims. And even if so, how would his picture stop any Muslims from practicing their religion?

There may have been no responses from Mecca and Medina, but there certainly were responses all over the Islamic world. And those didn't look like "Please leave us alone".

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