Yahoo! Southeast Asia has filed a memorandum of appearance with the courts to defend itself against allegations by Singapore Press Holdings that the digital media company had infringed on its copyright.
“We intend to vigorously defend ourselves against this suit,” said Yahoo! Southeast Asia Managing Editor Alan Soon. “Our editorial business model of acquired, commissioned and original content is proven.”
In its claim, SPH cited 23 articles which it alleged were reproduced from its stable of newspapers without permission. Yahoo! has denied the allegations in an earlier letter to SPH’s lawyers.
Looks like they’ve got bored with their old gun and found a new one. This will be an extremely interesting case—23 articles are alleged to be reproduced without permission. I’d like to see for myself.
Cryptography online course by Stanford University:
Cryptography is an indispensable tool for protecting information in computer systems. This course explains the inner workings of cryptographic primitives and how to correctly use them. Students will learn how to reason about the security of cryptographic constructions and how to apply this knowledge to real-world applications.
Apart from crypto, Stanford is also offering 10 other courses for the January 2011 term.
They include the following:
- Intro to Computer Science,
- Machine Learning,
- SaaS,
- Human–Computer Interaction,
- Natural Language Processing,
- Game Theory,
- Probabilistic Graphical Models,
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms.
The respective links are available at the footer of each online course offering. There may be more to come…
Go learn something if you aren’t that busy.
Parody Of Our Modern Church Service (by hawkwarrior7).
InfoWorld:
iOS 5 version of online course covers nuts and bolts of building an iPhone/iPad program and getting it distributed through the App Store
Awesome! Stanford is truly on its mission to educate the world. Read their press release.
A fantastic intermediate Git tutorial (largely on git graph manipulation, i.e. rebase and merge) that is very easy to understand.
Alex Au, writing about the attitudes of the police when dealing with the various kinds of crime:
The police say they fight crime — sounds obvious until we hear a story like this. What do they mean by crime? Not quite what you and I might understand by the term, nor even what our statute books say is a crime. ‘Crime’ seems to mean that which is at variance from political priorities and administrative fiat. If thugs help “cleanse” Singapore of “illegals” — social control being one of Singapore’s top priorities — thuggery and forcible detention are not crimes.
Bottom-line: Just don’t get cheated, and don’t rely on the police.
Internet Systems Consortium:
Organizations across the Internet reported crashes interrupting service on BIND 9 nameservers performing recursive queries. Affected servers crashed after logging an error in query.c with the following message: “INSIST(! dns_rdataset_isassociated(sigrdataset))” Multiple versions were reported being affected, including all currently supported release versions of ISC BIND 9. ISC is actively investigating the root cause and has produced patches which prevent the crash. Further information will be made available soon.
This is code-red zero-day crisis, affecting all systems administrators that operate BIND.
This proves that the Real Estate rights in Singapore are pretty much inexistent:
Land acquisition notices have been handed out since 12pm Tuesday and the Singapore Land Authority has gazetted the lands affected by the acquisition.
The government just takes and pays for whatever it needs.
Breathtaking submissions.
Tom Green, a Professor of Interactive Multimedia at the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning’s School of Media Studies, taught his students a valuable lesson the day Adobe announced Flash for mobile devices was dead:
Of course walking into this whole mess in today’s Flash class was a treat. The first thing I saw was a student holding up his iPhone and showing me a “Flash is dead” Tweet as I was going through the door. “So why are we here?”, he asks.
I waited for all of the students to get settled and it was an eerie experience. The room was silent and the students just stared at me .“Why the f@#k are we taking this Flash course if Flash is dead” was sort of the question being beamed at me. It was not what I was expecting.
Rather than become an Adobe apologist – which they sort of expected – I told them . “Welcome to your new careers. If you can’t deal with this sort of change on a regular basis … there’s the door. Go get a refund and go drive a beer truck.”
via Gus Mueller
(Source: chartier)
A great answer by Brandon Harris to the question posted on Quora:
Design is about understanding problems. When you understand a problem fully, the solution nearly always becomes obvious.
The road to becoming a good designer is the same path as becoming good at anything else: practice, practice, practice.
Give yourself design problems, both simple and complex. Think about re-solving things you encounter every day: Stop lights. Cross walk markings. Microwave oven panels. Automated teller machines. Point of sale credit card machines. Paperclips.
Rather good advice. Malcolm Gladwell’s 10 000 hour rule (Outliers) comes to mind. The other responses in the thread are similarly good.
Matthew Panzarino, The Next Web, on Nokia Lumia 800:
If you’ve been a mobile phone user for more than a decade, then you remember a time when Nokia made the best cell phones in the world. The landscape was smaller then, with Motorola and Nokia dominating most of the 1990′s.
Now, with its sidelining of the custom-built MeeGo OS, Nokia has joined forces with Microsoft to create the Lumia 800 in an effort to defibrillate its flatlining smartphone business.
In the process, Nokia has created something that is somehow greater than the sum of its parts, a feat that I have only seen matched by one other smartphone recently, the iPhone.
By reading the review alone, I was honestly tempted to give this phone, this OS a try. The hardware engineering and design looks very good, something very rare these days in the smartphone market.
Nonetheless, if I had to choose a phone apart from the iPhone, I’d go for Nokia’s WP7 smartphones.
Whether you’re a student or well along in your career, if your goal is to build a remarkable life, then busyness and exhaustion should be your enemy. If you’re chronically stressed and up late working, you’re doing something wrong. You’re the average players from the Universität der Künste — not the elite. You’ve built a life around hard to do work, not hard work.
A great article on what makes high achievers amazing.
