Google released a nifty looking macbookpro retina for use with Chrome which is a good reason to have retail stores.

Sony announced a new gaming PC.

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!

Google Play send app buyers details to developers. See google, that is totally not cool. Meanwhile, iOS 6.1 breaks the lock screen again. WTF Apple ?

You can’t really take the Microsoft out of Microsoft so retail copies of Office 2013 which people buy are tied to the machine they were first installed in. This is not software that comes bundled with the computer, this is software you pay full retail price for in the illusion it would be yours.

Cause Facebook isn’t creepy enough it may be working on a passive tracking app. And by passive the pundits mean passive for the user, it will be very active relaying data to Facebook.

A study finds computers are better than doctors at diagnosing and prescribing treatment. This doesn’t surprise me as diagnosing is a mechanical task of running down symptom lists and finding the most likely candidate. What the news doesn’t tell of course is computers are quite bad at getting at the symptoms. Their bed side manner is appalling, despite the great advances of siri and google natural language interfaces are still awful and computers fail at the most basic tests of detecting someone faking a cold to get out of work. So trying to get computers to diagnose people would end up in running full blood works and other such machine treatable exams for everybody.

The IIPA wants Canada and Spain in the special piracy watchlist. The reason ? My best bet is the IIPA is a bunch of terrorists.

Seems like the US doesn’t want anyone in the world to have privacy. Which is probably why there are giant camera adjustment test patterns hidden across the USA. I’m sure the cost of building those are nothing compared to the $5M NASA got to fund the ATLAS Meteor tracking system. You know, the thing that might save our collective asses when a giant rock comes hurling at us.

According to analysis Samsung is leaving Apple the hell alone but its killing everybody bellow them. I believe Michael Dell should just liquidate the company and give stockholders their share. And a Friend of Dell is pissed off they can’t profit from people’s emails like google. Or maybe they just sad everybody thinks the Surface Pro is a poor laptop and poor tablet. And speaking of Microsoft and tablets Nokia is keeping an eye on it. You know, just in case the tablet thing gets popular.

EU data protection law is being rewritten by the USA Chamber of Commerce and other lobbyists. Which is a good tell of much our MEPs are worth. Meanwhile the EU Court finds copyright doesn’t trump freedom of speech. Maybe that means people shouldn’t be thrown in jail for life or driven for suicide for liberating public domain information. And to wrap up the UK Court believes MPAA shouldn’t take profits from activities it believes are illegal and wrong. But hey, we gotta protect the author from damned pirates who steal their content right ?. Oh wait, what’s happening is the damn crooks are using the DMCA to screw real authors. And on local douchebaggery news, the association of consumer electronics informed local retailers the recent communiqué by the association that gets the money from copyright levies on electronics is kinda of a lie the law said association wrote isn’t a law quite yet. They also point out said the law drafted by the guys that get the money removed from the economy by the pornographic levies is against EU law has covered last week. Obviously, none of this will stop the current portuguese government now that all illusion of decency is gone.

Turns out the US government can legally and discretionarily have anyone killed. The reasons are kind of secret but they totally have people telling them it’s legal, ethical and wise. Probably the same people that tells them the US Government can search digital property of americans just cause they are at a border. And by border they mean 100m away from the border. Putting it all together Charlottesville decide to says get your drones off my lawn.

I kind of suspected it but now there’s proof global finance is run by incompetent morons who can’t take an average to save their lives. And speaking of finance another Paypal history that will end in tears and apologies.

According to FOX News USA gets less sunlight than Germany. Really, you can’t make this stuff up. This are probably the same lying douchebags that are searching for alternatives to evolution to teach in american schools.

Shockingly, a censorship law in Russia ends up in censorship.

You know a tablet is a dud when it comes with crap like a restore partition and the 64G only has 23GB available. Yes, you brand new Microsoft Surface Pro 64GB with Windows 8 comes with 20GB of crap and some more space used up for the when Windows wedges itself and needs to be reinstalled from the rescue image. It’s not a if, it’s a when. Meanwhile, Microsoft blames PC makers for Windows failure. And remember all those skills you have that allow to build games for Windows, Windows Mobile and Xbox ? XNA is being discontinued. Yes, PC makers alright.

Path has done it again. I guess they didn’t know what they were doing again while scanning your photos for embedded geo data.

China cracked into the New York Times. China cracked into the Washington Post. China cracked into the Wall Street Journal. The believe the chinese military is behind the intrusions. Eric Schmidt writes lack of rule of law gives chinese companies an unfair advantage. See a trend here ?

In a study commissioned by the EU regard taxation and levies towards artist remuneration we find taxes on computer equipment will result in double taxation as purchased media already payed the artist (portuguese link). When you buy music from iTunes or other online store you’re paying the artist. According to the media tax draft law written by the organization that collects media taxes you’d have to pay again for each device in which you store music you own and more absurdly you’d have to compensate artists when buying any equipment for any purpose. On other news of the retarded HBO asks Google to censor HBO and seeing US finds Antigua gambling illegal Antigua will find US copyright illegal. All legal too.

On an interesting intersection of “the authors and creators must be protected at all costs” and “the children must be protected at all costs” a public school district in USA is considering stealing the student’s work.

And on our continuing bankster series: how banksters fix borrowing rates and make off with billions

It finally happened, the US govt has opened fire on its own people using Apache gunships. Or that’s what you’d think if you were caught unaware by military exercises over residential Miami using blank rounds. The way I see it they’re just training up people for the real thing. On other wtf news UK police steal the identity of dead children to commit crimes while undercover.