FUNKY GREEN: 10/12/13

Saturday, 12 October 2013

Iconic Homebrew Computer Club to Reunite Thanks to Kickstarter

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Nombres de máquinas

Serversrack

Si eres de los que tiene la sana costumbre de ponerle nombres propios a los servidores, equipos informáticos personales, unidades de disco y demás –eso de «Mi PC» o «HDD» queda un poco viejuno ya– te vendrá bien Hostnames una lista de categorías y nombres muy resultones –y clásicos– para que no tengas que estrujarte el cerebro.

Algunos ejemplos son los nombres de calles, lagos, planetas, lunas, dioses griegos y romanos, el alfabeto fonético internacional, personajes de Los Simpsons, unidades del Sistema Internacional, prefijos métricos… ¡Anda que no hay ideas!

En algunos entornos como las redes locales o corporativas es normal además combinar esta selección de una categoría con las letras alfabéticas, de modo que además las iniciales indiquen su antigüedad. Se eliges «personajes mitológicos» la lista podría ser Aquiles, Baco, Cassandra, Dédalo, Electra… etcétera.

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Alt-week 10.12.13: water found in deep space, lonely planets and Juno's fly-by

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Ditto Defeats Patent Claim After Teaming Up With A ‘Troll'

Earlier this year, I wrote about a startup called Ditto, which launched a campaign on Indiegogo to fund patent battles against 1-800-CONTACTS and Lennon Imaging Technology — or, as Ditto characterized it, to “save” the startup from “patent trolls.”

Since then, Ditto’s story has taken a couple of turns. Over the summer, the company partnered with IPNav and its founder Erich Spangenberg. Spangenberg is an odd ally, since Ditto co-founder and CEO Kate Endress described him and IPNav as “one of the largest patent trolls in the country.” However, as outlined in an IndyStar article, he reached an agreement with Endress where IPNav is paying for Ditto’s legal costs, and if it wins, it gets a $1 million stake in the startup.

Endress said this approach seems to be working, with Ditto scoring a victory this week. As I mentioned above, the company was actually facing two suits, including one from Lennon, which is a “non-practicing” company that owns intellectual property but doesn’t offer any products or services of its own. A judge has granted Ditto’s motion to have Lennon’s lawsuit dismissed — I’ve embedded the motion and the court order granting the dismissal at the end of this post.

That still leaves Ditto’s case against 1-800-CONTACTS (which is owned by WellPoint). Endress has pointed out in the past that the larger company is suing her startup over a patent that it didn’t acquire until its CEO had visited the Ditto website. The Electronic Frontier Foundation said 1-800-CONTACTS was “little better” than a patent troll, while a company spokesperson sent me a statement claiming that 1-800-CONTACTS “offered to discuss an amicable resolution to the lawsuit through licensing or other options.” (Both sides accuse the other of misrepresenting their discussions.)

So the startup isn’t out of the woods yet. But when I spoke to Endress yesterday, she sounded optimistic — she noted that not only has partnering with Spangenberg given Ditto more resources for its legal fights, but it has also freed the Dittos team’s time to actually focus on building the business (a site where shoppers can virtually try on eyeglasses) again.

And although the Indiegogo campaign only resulted in about $10,000 of funding, Endress said that talking about her story has “resulted in nothing but good things” — she’d encourage other startups facing patent threats to follow Ditto’s lead rather than staying silent.

Oh, and when I asked about how Spangenberg feels about being called a troll, so Endress noted that when asked about using patents to attack other companies, he told the IndyStar, “I don’t stand accused. I stand guilty of that.”

“He’s not doing this out of the goodness of his heart,” Endress said. “He sees a big opportunity here.”

Ditto Motion To Dismiss by TechCrunch

Ditto Court Order by TechCrunch

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Ask a Dev: What Are the Best Android Tutorials for New Developers?

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Nexus 5 prototype shown from all angles in leaked video

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FISA court renews NSA permission to collect call metadata

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Apps Crash Twice As Often on iPhone 5S Compared to iPhone 5

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Watch the SpaceX Grasshopper Reach A New Record-Setting Height

Russia Launching New Search Engine 'Sputnik' to Compete With Google

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Top 10 Tech This Week

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El año 2000 visto por un chocolatero alemán

Tren de control del tiempo

Allá por 1900 la fábrica alemana de chocolate Theodor Hildebrand und Sohn produjo una serie de ilustraciones que acompañaban a sus productos sobre cómo iba a ser el año 2000.

Hoy sabemos que en muchas cosas no acertaron, como en este tren de control del tiempo o la preponderancia de los dirigibles en el transporte aéreo, pero con otras como el teatro a distancia se acercaron mucho.

Teatro a distancia

En What The Future Looked Like In 1900 hay unas cuantas más de estas ilustraciones.

(Vía MetaFilter).

El asombroso mundo del futuro (del año 2000), un vídeo que se toma esto con buenas dosis de ironía.

Arthur C. Clarke prediciendo el futuro allá por 1964 en la BBC, mucho más en serio.

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Hands-on with GestureWorks' Gameplay virtual controller (video)

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43 Grupo, in memoriam

Desde sus primeras operaciones en 1971, aún dentro del 803 Escuadrón de búsqueda y rescate, los ahora miembros de 43 Grupo de Fuerzas Aéreas se juegan el tipo todos los veranos para apagar los incendios que arrasan los montes.

En estos 42 años han sufrido nueve accidentes graves, el último de ellos en 2003, en los que en total perdieron la vida 15 tripulantes.

Este vídeo quiere ser un homenaje a las víctimas de estos accidentes.

(Vía Maqui).