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TiVo Apparently Considering Patent Trolling As A Second Act
It’s been said that the only thing patents encourage is more patents, and you can argue that ridiculous valuations seen on patents these days, combined with the ability to monetize them without doing a damn thing, has more and more companies seeming to… Continue reading
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Evidence Suggests DigiNotar, Who Issued Fraudulent Google Certificate, Was Hacked Years Ago
The big news in the security world, obviously, is the fact that a fraudulent Google certificate made its way out into the wild, apparently targeting internet users in Iran. The Dutch company DigiNotar has put out a statement saying that it discovered … Continue reading
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Swedish Teenager Turned Over To Police By School Headmaster For File Sharing Acquitted By Court
Last week, there was a lot of attention to criminal charges brought against a 15-year-old kid in Sweden, after his school’s headmaster turned him over to the police after discovering some downloaded films and file sharing software on his computer. It… Continue reading
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Java Posts of Interest – 30 August 2011
There has been another flurry of interesting posts related to Java in recent days and weeks that I want to capture brief references to in this post. I narrowed down the list for this post to JVM Language Summit 2011, NetBeans, Scala for the Impatient, … Continue reading
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Java Posts of Interest – 30 August 2011
There has been another flurry of interesting posts related to Java in recent days and weeks that I want to capture brief references to in this post. I narrowed down the list for this post to JVM Language Summit 2011, NetBeans, Scala for the Impatient, … Continue reading
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Pure Awesomeness: Two Chat Bots Talking To Each Other
Okay, a few folks have been sending this in (and I see it’s been getting some attention on the Twittertubes as well). Some folks at my lovely alma mater, Cornell, decided to see what would happen if they set two chatbots up to talk to each other, and … Continue reading
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Pakistan Officially Bans All Encryption Online
This was rumored about a month ago, but now reports are coming out that the Pakistani government has issued orders to all ISPs in the country, telling them to block any user from using any “technology that would allow them to privately browse the inter… Continue reading
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AnythingZoomer Plugin
My AnythingZoomer jQuery demo has been plugin-ized by Mottie (who also maintains the AnythingSlider). It has some new features and is easier to work with by nature of being a plugin.Direct Link to Article — PermalinkAnythingZoomer Plugin … Continue reading
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DOJ: This Case Has Nothing To Do With Puerto 80; Now Here Is Why Puerto 80 Is Guilty
Following Puerto 80’s motion to dismiss the attempt by the US government to forfeit its domains, the Justice Department has filed its response (pdf) in which it more or less mocks Puerto 80’s lawyers for “not understanding” what they’re fighting about … Continue reading
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Verizon Removes FTP Access For Security… Well, Security Of Its Revenue At Least
It’s really amazing that companies don’t recognize that taking away features to charge for them almost never goes over well. Adding features that can be charged for will work, but removing features that were free and widely used is rarely a good idea…. Continue reading
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