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Week In Review 2012W19

FB goes into the app business right when mainstream is reminded removing a FB app won’t magically delete the stuff they already know about you.
.secure ? I don’t think the internet works like you think it does.
Oracle is pushing its luck at court. Lets see how that works out for them.
It’s only been what ? 15 years since USB and Windows still can’t handle hotpluging
UK still always has been at war at the Olympics.

Week In Review 2012W18

On about the same week EU decided APIs can’t be copyrighted a court in USA decided Google violated Oracle copyright on Java APIs. The whole court thing seems to be a part of Oracle’s plan to kill Java.
You know what happens when you put yourself in the hands of a monopolistic company ? Price hikes as everybody knows.
Neelie Kroes clarified the political reality of ACTA in Europe in dead.
In IngSoc Pirate Bay never existed and neither will there ever have been porn. An so UK doesn’t feel alone Indian decided Vimeo is illegal along with Pirate Bay. If only all countries were democratic like Pakistan.
Canada continues on the US watchlist. Those damn evil canadians! You know who’s not pirates ? Hollywood is not not pirates just like the Brazilian MPAA are not not pirates. I’ve lost count of rights holders associations stealing from artists.
Wanna complain about being groped by the TSA ? There’s an app for that!
Religious sites are riskier than porn sites. That’s my story and I’m stikin to it!

Week In Review 2012W17

Crisis ? what crisis ? On the other side, Samsung staying classy.
CISPA passed the House but Obama will probably veto it maybe because it’s so bad even Microsoft is backing away from it.
Coubertin spinning in grave.
Groping a 4 year old, groping a 7 year old with palsy, could the TSA be in the news for something else ? Oh right, drug smuggling.
You know that cyberthreat from cyberterrorists cyberexperts are always talking about ? Maybe if someone would stop forcing backdoors on everything the threat would stop.
RIAA/MPAA should go after this guy. Maybe that would get a couple of battalions of pissed of Marines on their door step which would be really funny.
Relax, the stories about EVE Online economic attacks are grossly exaggerated. It’s a yearly scheduled event. On the other hand the news about UK Digital Economy act are very real.

Week In Review 2012W16

Facebook keeps turning into AOL. And turns out Facebook is getting the Netscape patents too. Seems like my generation is getting its chance at needing to invent something …
Nokia lost slightly less than the Microsoft Online Division.
Europe in the race to be USA’s errand boy. We’re pulling well ahead. On other news both Europeans that read ACTA are disgusted and Neelies Kroes speaks out against Internet disconnection again.
Apparently you don’t actually make any money unless you give RIAA/MPAA a cut. Copyright maths is confusing but hey I only have a degree in engineering.

Week In Review 2012W15

Iran does what RIAA/MPAA dreams about.
Tenessee goes in the direction of outlawing science. Arizona passes pregnancy before conception into law.
On a rather intriguing ruling a US court rules code is not physical property and so it can’t be stolen.
US Defense Dept is donating hundreds of surplus military robots to US Police. For starters, how the hell do they have hundreds of brand new surplus robots ? Did someone do a rounding error on an order ? Maybe they can send some to UK for Olympics Brand Police. Cause you know, the spirit of the Olympics is making sure there’s not a misplaced doritos bag.
The Iraqi defector who made histories about WMDs comes clean. If you’re a whistle blower, whistle blow on something that will start a gory war not on the gore of said war.
Slashdot, on the ball missreports just about everything about the portuguese terabyte tax. If you want to learn about it go back in my archives.

Week In Review 2012W14

Mainstream media is getting up to speed with Facebook. What’s that ? It’s the sound of people deleting their Instagram accounts.
Microsoft is getting the Netscape patents. You know what that means …
People likes Chrome for what it does, corp IT like IE for what it doesn’t.
US extends UK nofly list. Next up, bombing.
Freakin nuclear underground polar fortresses. What the hell will we be learning about in 50 years ?

Week In Review 2012W13

Facebook asserts trademark on “book” cause you know, there’s not enough deuchbaggery involved already.
Australian govt is banning Huawei due to security concerns. Symantec is pulling out of a jint venture with Huawei. And the US govt goes all out blaming China military industrial espionage, backdooring and crappy fake parts. This is a very strange Cold War we’re living where UK sides with China in civil liberties.
Hadopi is working great in France by lowering copyright industry revenues. Yhea, I guess copyright math works out that way.
USA is keeping all your data for 5 years. Just in case you turn into a terrorist or something. That’s the kind of thing that might get discussed at the TSA Congressional panel if TSA didn’t get Bruce Schneier booted off at the last minute ending with a panel where a TSA guy debates another TSA guy. Sounds like portuguese inquiry commissions!
Word on the street is NDS cracked other cable drm providers. Well, being a cable peep I’ve heard this stories about both sides for while and I can tell you this, some of the cracks weren’t pulled by kids in a basement. They involved the kind of equipment you only see in chip fabs and then some.
In NYC school tests won’t mention dinosaurs or witches cause that could upset people who believe in flat earth, creationism and witches.

Week In Review 2012W12

Apple is in hot waters in EU for pretending it doesn’t have warranty duties.
US carriers won’t brick stolen phones but they will brick jailbroken Android phones.
Remember how quickly UK will extradite a UK citizen to US for linking to content which isn’t even illegal in UK ? UK is just as slow to extradite a known portuguese crook to Portugal.
Poor Hollywood. Now even 20 year old English pubs infringe on their trademarks for new movies. Piracy indeed! Just like the growth of sales and subscriptions is driving the music industry into the ground. It all makes sense in copyright math.

Week In Review 2012W11

How do you know Windows 8 has issues ? Browsers need to be a special app.
I recommend you keep feeding your data into Facebook. How else could Walmart get to know your private stuff ?
Europe is 113% against copyright reform. Uh ? What ? Great, now we need to get the UN observers into the EU parliament votes.
Have I mentioned the world is royally messed up ? UK extradites one of its citizens to USA for running a link site inside UK. Speaking of which I learned today Portuguese, Spanish and French citizens can be extradited to China.
SABAM, probably out of money, is trying to extract money from volunteers that read to kids. Stay classy, copyright industry.
India seems capable of the best and worse. On the same week India decided its citizens should not die for greed it also decided Google and Facebook are the internet decency police. I guess Santorum would feel at home there-

Week In Review 2012W10

The new ipad. Yeah they ran out of names :) I need that screen. Really. Totally.
Google changed the name of market to store. I’m not exactly sure that will fix it. However you’ll be able to find there something that was bound to happen, a X Server for Android.
Facebook depends a lot on Zynga and Zynga is pulling away. You know what that means ? More ads!
In case you had any doubt the US govt can steal any com., .net, or .org.
You know, instead of ripping your DVDs you should take them to a store, pay to have it ripped, pay to have it uploaded and then pay to download a DRM laced file you can’t actually use. And that’s how Warner Bros plans on stoping piracy. It’s probably a good plan on the same planet where ACTA/TPP are in line with a transparent and open govt.