Month: May 2012
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Moonlight kicked into touch
Wow, now this is a turn-around for the books – Microsoft bed-partner Miguel de Icaza saying that Moonlight development is being stopped specifically because a. Microsoft is concentrating on HTML5 and b. because Microsoft has imposed certain restrictions on Silverlight. Never thought I’d see the day … Hooray for the death of non-standard protocols and…
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Digital rights and your personal freedom
“We live in a democracy. Or so they told us.” If you take a look at democracies around the world today, you’ll find governments that behave in a completely undemocratic way. One just has to look at the lengths the US has gone to, in undermining the Bill of Rights in the pursuit of terrorism…
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WSBK Donnington
Wow! Race 2 for the Superbike class at Donnington will go down as probably one of the best I’ve ever seen. I remember Fogarty and Chili at Assen many years ago; add another 3 riders and you’ve got yesterday’s race 2. Haslam, Melandri, Biaggi, Rea and Sykes all jockeying for position over the 2nd half…
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Google and Oracle
I’ve been ‘watching’ the Google/Oracle trial since week – a very interesting trial which from Oracle’s viewpoint is not going according to plan. The initial suit was estimated at around $6 billion which is a considerable sum of money, even for Google. That figure has now been revised ( after a push from the judge…
