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Compared to the same period in 2015, this represents a threefold increase.

Sounds like somebody's enjoying being in charge of the Deep State. Who could have guessed?

Sounds more like somebody linked to an article that references this article, but screwed up the numbers.

In its biannual transparency report, released on Thursday, Apple said it received between 13,250 and 13,499 national security orders, affecting between 9,000 and 9,249 accounts. In the first months of 2016, the company received less than a quarter of that: 2,750 to 2,999 orders affecting between 2,000 to 2,249 accounts.

Note that TFA from the submission managed to get the fucking timeframe wrong in addition to adding that "threefold" bullshit. All while hoping you don't actually check the original Apple report or the article they link to at the end they so expertly fucked up.

A troll who went by the handle Scott Nudds vehemently predicted that we would never see a PC with gigabytes of memory. He's not given credit, but I remember and here is the quote. The internet never forgets.

The problem is that a lot of companies (and, at their behest, some of the regulators too) are going for a slow takeover of driving by computers. Today they can do a little bit of driving mostly on the highway. Next year, they'll handle some city driving too. The year after that, they'll handle areas without good lane markings, the next year get a little better still, etc. But they still need a person there, because what if the car encounters a woman in an electric wheelchair chasing a duck around an intersection with a broom and doesn't know what to do?

This is one reason why Google's approach is better - build the car to handle everything, even things it has never seen before. Otherwise, you end up with a human who hasn't been paying attention for the past 15 minutes and is suddenly expected to come up to speed (or get his girlfriend's pubic hair out of his face) and take over driving in the next second in order to avoid an accident.

Printers with open ports were used to print material that universities with printers with open ports did not like. /.er wrote of his time at a university who were warned about the foolishness of open ports was told that they could not be closed because that would be like censoring the Internet and so they were left open. This is what happens when decisions are made by those who make pointless decisions because they are decision makers.

UC Berkeley and the printer "hack"

New Zealand, not Australia.

My conclusion after reading this. They didn't pay enough on lobbyists. This of course is scary once you see how much they already pay for lobbying and how fast its grown. Here's the question I pose to you. Is Google, the company of do no evil, doing evil by putting this many resources towards these efforts or is that just par for the course when you get that big?

and microsoft-beware-stephen-elop-is-a-flight-risk

That's an awesome article (with hilarious comments to boot).

Motives of Stephen Elop, doesn't own any Nokia shares, but hundreds of thousand Microsoft shares? Where is the loyalty?

From http://www.tracked.com/person/stephen-elop/

Aug 31, 2010: SOLD 23,250 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]

Jan 21, 2010: SOLD 8,434 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]

Sep 25, 2009: BOUGHT 136,308 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]

Sep 25, 2009: SOLD 12,422 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]

Aug 31, 2009: SOLD 11,614 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]

Sep 26, 2008: BOUGHT 51,301 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]

Sep 26, 2008: SOLD 4,675 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]

Aug 31, 2008: SOLD 6,939 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]

Aug 29, 2008: BOUGHT 76,141 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]

Jan 22, 2008: BOUGHT 62,520 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]

Nov 24, 2006: SOLD 1,315 ADBE shares [SEC Filing]

Oct 24, 2006: SOLD 1,315 ADBE shares [SEC Filing]

Oct 16, 2006: BOUGHT 100,000 ADBE shares [SEC Filing]

Oct 16, 2006: SOLD 100,000 ADBE shares [SEC Filing]

Oct 13, 2006: BOUGHT 116,124 ADBE shares [SEC Filing]

and microsoft-beware-stephen-elop-is-a-flight-risk

Ask Cnet about Eric's belief in privacy:

1. http://news.cnet.com/Google-balances-privacy,-reach/2100-1032_3-5787483.html?tag=nl
2. http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/05/technology/google_cnet/
3. http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2005/08/08/googles_hissy_fit_about_cnet.html

What would you expect from a company that has greed at its core from the top down. e.g. CEO lays off staff then takes pay bump

Third world upbringing and asian-american wife is a pretty much terminal combo as far as ones charity goes, and while I'm not saying it always takes a charitable person to do proper quality control and swallow the bitter pill of respins/delays/repairs when it is required, it certainly helps.

Anyone who expects a marvell product to be a quality one is off his rocker.

It's not false at all. Google pay the Mozilla foundation for each search that's made using that search box, just as Yahoo pay them for each search made on the Asian version of Firefox, which has a different default.

Sources: Here and here.

...that is the sole reason Mr. Khosla is interested. He is very VERY smart, and has made lots of money for himself and his venture firm (KPCB accounts for a significant percentage of ALL venture profits). KhoslaVentures,http://khoslaventures.com/resources .html> his new gig five and a half degrees apart from KPCB though they share office space, has some of his recent powerpoint presentations including the somewhat controversial ones on Ethanol. But if one goes through it rigorously, it can be seen that it is long on "collecting" other people's observations and short on brilliant insights contributed by Vinod Khosla. If I was to place a bet at this point in time, I bet he walks away having made a few hundred million $$ in 10 years time from this alternative/clean-tech investing. For more fawnish coverage on 'the man', see valley wag Om's http://gigaom.com/ and Matt Marshall's http://siliconbeat.com./

Exactly -- don't shoot the (yahoo!) messenger. Yahoo is just doing its job as a company -- failure to comply would get it booted from China -- something no business wants. What would happen if a similar situation happened here in the U.S. say... if the U.S. wanted information from Google (oh wait http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2006/01/18/goog les_privacy_fight_with_the_government.html hehe, sorry, I like to play devil's advocate. Telling the government "no" in the U.S. might work, but try it in China and see where it takes your business. Don't like what a company did because the government made it?... Attack the problem, not the effect.

Fedora's Greg DeKoenigsberg has finally posted a explanation on why Redhat has now included Mono in Fedora Core 5:

Fedora and Mono and OIN -- clarifications
Sorry for referring to a magazine article that most people can't actually get to. My mistake.

Let me give a little bit more detail, for the benefit of those who can't read the article in Linux Magazine.

1. What is OIN, and why do they matter?

OIN is the Open Invention Network. Prominent members include Red Hat, Sony, Novell, IBM, and Philips. (If I've left out your prominent organization, sorry.)

The idea behind OIN: throw a bunch of patents in a pool. Make those patents available to open source developers, and to companies who support open source developers.

More importantly: pool those patents to counterattack companies who might accuse us of infringing *their* patents.

One of the biggest weapons in OIN is the set of Commerce One patents. Basically, Commerce One got lots of potentially scary patents on e-commerce stuff, and then they went bankrupt -- and the question "who's going to buy the Commerce One patents" was hot for a while. When a mystery buyer scooped them up, it was big news in certain circles.

Turned out that the buyer was Novell. And they turned around and contributed them to the OIN pool. Well-deserved kudos to Novell.

For those who prefer the "nuclear patent war" analogy: OIN is the NATO of software patents -- and the Commerce One patents are ICBMs.

2. Where does Mono fit in?

Mono is on the OIN list of "protected patents". Meaning, "if someone sues you for allegedly infringing a patent on this list, you can use any of the patents in OIN's arsenal to go after them."

3. Why couldn't you tell us this in January, when you first dropped Mono into Fedora trees?

The existance of OIN has been public knowledge for a while, but the specific applicatations that were to be protected were not. (And applicatations is a funny typo, so I'm leaving it in.)

We were waiting for OIN to publish their "protected list" of applicatations. We didn't want to jump the gun. We started putting Mono stuff into our trees in January with the belief that OIN would be publishing their "protected list" any day now... any day now... any day now. For whatever reasons (good reasons, I'm sure), that didn't happen as quickly as we expected. By then we were committed to putting Mono into FC5, though, and so we had to make an uncomfortable public statement about "certain business issues" and so forth.

I don't actually know whether OIN *has* published this list -- going to openinventionnetwork.com doesn't show this list anywhere -- but since our lawyer is now comfortable listing them in a magazine article, that's good enough for me. :)

Hope this clears things up a little.

Disclaimer: I AM NOT A LAWYER. I AM NOT GIVING ANYONE LEGAL ADVICE. I AM MERELY EXPLAINING RED HAT'S POSITION FOR OTHER LAYMEN LIKE MYSELF. MARK WEBBINK'S ARTICLE IN LINUX MAGAZINE IS MUCH BETTER, IF YOU CAN GET A COPY OF IT. SORRY FOR SHOUTING. HAVE A GOOD DAY.

Also see what Risk to USERS of open source from patent claims?

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From Craigslist...
http://forums.craigslist.org/?forumID=20040204

Digg's post...
http://digg.com/links/Craigslist_to_Charge_Fees

It's been talked about for awhile...
http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2005/01/12/crai gslist_and_fees.html [Jan. 12, 2005]

Now, I do admit I am a bit off on the fact myself and I do thank you for correcting me. I appologize. However it's evident that the Craigslist fee to post Housing Ads should put Craigslist directly responsible for the quality of the ads on Craigslist. For example, the job posting in NYC requires paying Craigslist fee, and that puts Craigslist directly responsible for ads violating "equal opportunity."

Further more, Chicago or not, it's the same service and there is no rule that prohibits anyone living abroad from looking for housing in Chicago even though posting ads in Chicago may be free. Therefore if Craigslist is charging fee for posting ads in NYC, the same quality control should apply to every housing posts in every city.

Well, it's not as if their founders aren't spending millions of dollars on a private 767 airplane. Oh wait, they are.

These are the same people who once touted the fact that they each drove a Toyota Prius to be environmentally friendly. Now they have a giant flying metal monster that is one of the most inefficient methods of transportation known to man. I'd consider that to be a little bit evil.

However, I never believed their mantra to "do no evil" anyway - they're a company who's primary product is advertising. In what way is advertising ever not evil? When it's pushed by Google? Er.. no. Advertising is still evil.

Anyway, with their unnecessary airplane purchase I guess they weren't meant to be rich - private airplanes aren't transportation favored by those who intend to keep their wealth. I remember Bill Gates saying when he was younger (but probably about where the Google founders are in terms of their company's success) that he (and all Microsoft executives) still flew on regular airplanes in economy class because anything else was going to be a waste of money (although even if they'd actually flown business class I wouldn't have faulted them).

This CNN article also says that the new IBM printer will lighten your wallet by $1 million dollars, although you can buy a "cheap starter" model for $500,000.

There is a report at Silicon Beat (http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2005/09/09/my_ jets_pretty_big_how_big_is_yours.html) that says the Google founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, are buying a Boeing 767 jet for their personal transportation. Perhaps they can install this printer on board to print their own Google Library books.

It's not that the food's bad. It's that their CFO left.