26 Monday Dec 2011
Stories from the Week that Was – 12/18-12/24/11
Dear Internet: It’s No Longer OK to Not Know How Congress Works
In the eyes of the law, are we all public figures on Facebook?
“The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.” – Eric Allman
11 Sunday Dec 2011
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Stories from the Week that Was – 12/4-12/10/11
Carrier IQ Drops Empty Legal Threat, Apologizes to Security Researcher
Seasteading: Cities on the ocean
‘Eat More Kale’ trademark flap more complex than simple slogan
Bob Marley Heirs Sue Half Brother Over Name Use
“It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.” – Clive James
04 Sunday Dec 2011
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Stories from the Week that Was – 11/27-12/3/11
USPTO releases 2011 Performance and Accountability Report
Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything
US judge orders hundreds of sites “de-indexed” from Google, Facebook
Governor Brownback apologizes to Emma Sullivan over Twitter tiff
The Copyright Industry – A Century Of Deceit
Teen Tweeter Won’t Apologize To Kansas Governor
“As we’ve seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture.” -Lawrence Lessig
29 Tuesday Nov 2011
Posted in Indianapolis, Tech Developments
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Purdue University is home to one of the fastest supercomputers in the country and the 54th most powerful in the world, according to the international Top500.org list. The twist is that the system uses Intel chips that haven’t been released to market yet and aren’t expected until next March.
The new supercomputer, nicknamed “Carter,” for Purdue alumnus Dennis Carter, is an HP Cluster Platform 3000 SL6500. It features Intel Xeon E5 “Sandy Bridge” eight-core, 2.6 GHz processors, which haven’t yet been released to market, along with HP ProLiant servers and Mellanox FDR Infiniband cluster interconnects. The system has a total of 10,368 cores and runs the Linux operating system.
Read more at Campus Technology.
20 Sunday Nov 2011
Stories from the Week that Was – 11/13-11/19/11
Press Russia on intellectual property: US lawmakers
Criminal Case Glut Impedes Civil Suits
Picking Brand Names in China Is a Business Itself
The Entrepreneurial Generation
The NLRB’s Obsession with Social Media Continues
Viacom so devastated by piracy that CEO gets $50 million raise
Woman decapitated after anti-crime blog, police say
Attorneys seek to auction Righthaven copyrights
Artists Sue CBS, CNET, for Promoting and Profiting from Piracy
SOPA and Protect IP: What Legal Nightmares Are Made of
Number of 90-plus people likely to quadruple by 2050
Are Digital Resale Markets Legal? Should They Be?
“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
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