Week In Review 2013W05
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.
