01.14.12
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Posted in Site News at 1:09 pm by Guest Editorial Team
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You really don’t know how good something is until you don’t have it any longer. … I was working in two applications at once, so instinctively I went to move the second application to a different workspace… Only to realize I couldn’t. … I went to find a copy and paste manager, there wasn’t one installed. So naturally I sought out the package manager to install one… Wait, there isn’t a package manager? Comon – even the smart phones most people carry around have a “App Store” … The biggest annoyance I ran into (and someone please let me know if I can make Windows 7 do this)? alt+left click to move a window.
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Hardware
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Environment/Energy/Wildlife
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Anti-Trust
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At the beginning of December, we warned the Copyright Office that operating system vendors would use UEFI secure boot anticompetitively, by colluding with hardware partners to exclude alternative operating systems. As Glyn Moody points out, Microsoft has wasted no time in revising its Windows Hardware Certification Requirements to effectively ban most alternative operating systems on ARM-based devices that ship with Windows 8. … Between Microsoft’s new ARM secure boot policy and Qualcomm’s announcement, this worst-case scenario is beginning to look inevitable.
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PR/AstroTurf/Lobbying
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Censorship
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No need to stop now though. While there’s plenty of well-founded skepticism about the effectiveness of the White House petition site, being able to point to a petition that has more signatures than pretty much any other petition on the site is a handy proof that the opposition to this amazingly ill-conceived legislation extends far wider than just a few self-interested Californian executives.
Please go sign it if you have not.
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Harry Reid apparently cannot hear you. He has come out with a statement saying that the cloture vote will continue on January 24th, despite the concerns of so many Senators (even co-sponsors of the bill) because it’s “too important to delay.”
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the Administration calls on all sides to work together to pass sound legislation this year that provides prosecutors and rights holders new legal tools to combat online piracy originating beyond U.S. borders while staying true to the principles outlined above in this response. We should never let criminals hide behind a hollow embrace of legitimate American values. … We expect and encourage all private parties, including both content creators and Internet platform providers working together, to adopt voluntary measures and best practices to reduce online piracy.
Written by the “Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator,” the president promises censorship instead of a veto and encourages private industry to get busy before legislation is passed.
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A rare good example as others try all means of censorship.
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