Week In Review 2013w08
Google released a nifty looking macbookpro retina for use with Chrome which is a good reason to have retail stores.
Microsoft sees the Oracle vs Google trial as a big threat to its data lock in business model. They feel if APIs stop being copyrightable their model of charging ever more for Office comes under scrutiny.
Today went online the privacy infringing system to detect private sharing on the USA. It works by having a private entity looking for copyrighted material such as US civil law that someone doesn’t want private citizens to share and then sending complaints to ISPs. ISPs will then voluntarily gradually force their costumers to stop giving them money. Speaking of piracy The Pirate Bay filed a police complaint about the filthy pirates who ripped off TPB site.
In another small step to cement internet access as a basic right a canadian court put telephone and internet rights on equal standing.
When the US DOJ makes a mistake booking someone they might as well send to jail for life or they look like fools. Or at least that’s what they’re saying now happened to Aaron Swartz.
Why should US taxpayers give banksters $83B a year ? And why is no one asking this in Europe ?
Rumors about a secret Vatican report about a sex scandal being the real reason Ratzinger abdicated ? Say it aint so!