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Judge Invalidates Software Patent, Citing Bilski
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/mRxjWk0BS9k/Judge-Invalidates-Software-Patent-Citing-Bilski
bfwebster writes "US District Court Judge Andrew Gilford (Central District of California) granted a summary judgment motion in DealerTrack v. Huber et al., finding DealerTrack's patent (US 7,181,427) — for an automated credit application processing system — invalid due to the recent In re Bilski court decision that requires a patent to either involve 'transformation' or 'a specific machine.' According to Judge Gilford's ruling, DealerTrack 'appears to concede that the claims of the '427 Patent do not meet the "transformation" prong of the Bilski test.' He then applied the 'specific machine' test and noted that, post-Bilski the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences has ruled several times that 'claims reciting the use of general purpose processors or computers do not satisfy the [Bilski] test.' Judge Gilford analyzes the claims of the '427 patent, notes that they state that the 'machine' involved could be a 'dumb terminal' and a 'personal computer,' and then concludes: 'None of the claims of the '427 Patent require the use of a "particular machine," and the patent is thus invalid under Bilski.' DealerTrack apparently plans to appeal the ruling. Interesting times ahead."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/1218231/Judge-Invalidates-Software-Patent-Citing-Bilski?from=rss"><img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/10/1218231"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/1218231/Judge-Invalidates-Software-Patent-Citing-Bilski?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QrO04IA2Gy69FXOyynLAhMaQssc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QrO04IA2Gy69FXOyynLAhMaQssc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/mRxjWk0BS9k" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2009-07-10T12:47:00+00:00courtfirst-dominonews11,1,1,0,0,0,0http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/1218231/Judge-Invalidates-Software-Patent-Citing-Bilski?from=rssChinese "Web Addicts" Get Boot Camp, Therapy
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/qyG3BgxbAyE/Chinese-Web-Addicts-Get-Boot-Camp-Therapy
itwbennett writes "A large number of Chinese parents are finding their teenagers to be exhibiting such psychological symptoms as depression, antisocial behavior, and slipping grades. The cause: Internet addiction. World of Warcraft and Counter-Strike rank beside Chinese role-playing games as those that hook the most patients, says Tao Ran, the founder of a youth rehabilitation center on a Beijing army base. Online chat programs more often hook girls, who make up a handful of Tao's current 70 patients. The teens are subjected to a 'strict regimen of military drills, martial arts training, lectures and sessions with psychiatrists.' And, most importantly: no Internet."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/2312202/Chinese-Web-Addicts-Get-Boot-Camp-Therapy?from=rss"><img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/09/2312202"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/2312202/Chinese-Web-Addicts-Get-Boot-Camp-Therapy?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/M6S6PrB8PFc/Comcast-DNS-Redirection-Launched-In-Trial-Markets
An anonymous reader writes "Comcast has finally launched its DNS Redirector service in trial markets (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington state), and has submitted a working draft of the technology to the IETF for review. Comcast customers can opt-out from the service by providing their account username and cable modem MAC address. Customers in trial areas using 'old' Comcast DNS servers, or non-Comcast DNS servers, should not be affected by this. This deployment comes after many previous ISPs, like DSLExtreme, were forced to pull the plug on such efforts as a result of customer disapproval/retaliation. Some may remember when VeriSign tried this back in 2003, where it also failed."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1811249/Comcast-DNS-Redirection-Launched-In-Trial-Markets?from=rss"><img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/09/1811249"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1811249/Comcast-DNS-Redirection-Launched-In-Trial-Markets?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/3SRdWFVga8I/Murdoch-Paper-Reporters-Eavesdropped-On-Celebrities-Voicemail
Michael_Curator writes "Executives at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.-owned papers (including current Tory spokesman Andy Coulson) allowed reporters to hack into phone conversations of celebrities and then paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover it up. How did famously technologically-challenged reporters manage the feat without BT catching on? Voicemail." The New York Times says a preliminary investigation's been ordered, but the BBC's coverage indicates that a large-scale inquiry is unlikely.<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1740253/Murdoch-Paper-Reporters-Eavesdropped-On-Celebrities-Voicemail?from=rss"><img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/09/1740253"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1740253/Murdoch-Paper-Reporters-Eavesdropped-On-Celebrities-Voicemail?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/a1t2wc7CXJU/Video-Games-the-First-Amendment-and-Obscenity
An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from an article about how obscenity laws and the first amendment relate to modern games: "This question is a tough one, for the very good reason that no video game developer or publisher has ever been prosecuted for obscenity related to video games. As we have seen, if the medium of video games are held to the same standard as literature and film then, presumably, they can also be held to be obscene. One of the reasons for the lack of obscenity prosecution against video game developers and publishers is that the courts have limited obscenity to sexual content only. In fact, the courts have gone so far as to specifically reject calls to alter the definition of 'obscenity' to include violent content in video games. The other major reason is the vast majority of video games sold in the United States have only small amounts of sexual content thanks to the Electronic Software Rating Board."<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/164259/Video-Games-the-First-Amendment-and-Obscenity?from=rss"><img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/09/164259"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/164259/Video-Games-the-First-Amendment-and-Obscenity?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/OoCWff0UpZw/Judge-Rules-IP-Addresses-Not-Personally-Identifiable
yuna49 writes "Online Media Daily reports that a federal judge in Seattle has held that IP addresses are not personal information. 'In order for "personally identifiable information" to be personally identifiable, it must identify a person. But an IP address identifies a computer,' US District Court Judge Richard Jones said in a written decision. Jones issued the ruling in the context of a class-action lawsuit brought by consumers against Microsoft stemming from an update that automatically installed new anti-piracy software. In that case, which dates back to 2006, consumers alleged that Microsoft violated its user agreement by collecting IP addresses in the course of the updates. This ruling flatly contradicts a recent EU decision to the contrary, as well as other cases in the US. Its potential relevance to the RIAA suits should be obvious to anyone who reads Slashdot."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/08/1522247/Judge-Rules-IP-Addresses-Not-Personally-Identifiable?from=rss"><img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/08/1522247"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/08/1522247/Judge-Rules-IP-Addresses-Not-Personally-Identifiable?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/AziiaOYvb7Q/Cellphones-Increasingly-Used-As-Evidence-In-Court
Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that the case of Mikhail Mallayev, who was convicted in March of murder after data from his cellphone disproved his alibi, highlights the surge in law enforcement's use of increasingly sophisticated cellular tracking techniques to keep tabs on suspects before they are arrested and build criminal cases against them by mapping their past movements. But cellphone tracking is raising concerns about civil liberties in a debate that pits public safety against privacy rights. Investigators seeking warrants must provide a judge with probable cause that a crime has been committed, but investigators often obtain cell-tracking records under lower standards of judicial review — through subpoenas, which are granted routinely, or through an intermediate type of court order based on an argument that the information requested would be relevant to an investigation. 'Cell phone providers store an increasing amount of sensitive data about where you are and when, based on which cell towers your phone uses when making a call. Until now, the government has routinely seized these records without search warrants,' said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston. Last year the Federal District Court in Pittsburgh ruled that a search warrant is required even for historical phone location records, but the Justice Department has appealed the ruling. 'The cost of carrying a cellphone should not include the loss of one's personal privacy,' said Catherine Crump, a lawyer for the ACLU."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/2331254/Cellphones-Increasingly-Used-As-Evidence-In-Court?from=rss"><img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/07/2331254"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/2331254/Cellphones-Increasingly-Used-As-Evidence-In-Court?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/IaZodwzRCR0/BT-Drops-Phorm-Citing-More-Pressing-Priorities
Tom DBA notes a story up at The Register that begins "BT has abandoned plans to roll out Phorm's controversial web monitoring and profiling system across its broadband network, claiming it needs to concentrate resources on network upgrades... BT's announcement comes a day before MPs and peers of the All Party Parliamentary Communications Group are due to begin an investigation of Internet privacy. Their intervention follows the EU's move to sue the UK government over its alleged failure... properly [to] implement European privacy laws with respect to the trials, drawing further bad publicity to the venture." We've discussed Phorm many times in the past.<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/223251/BT-Drops-Phorm-Citing-More-Pressing-Priorities?from=rss"><img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/07/223251"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/223251/BT-Drops-Phorm-Citing-More-Pressing-Priorities?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/vbdhIcsxvC0/Toyota-Builds-a-Patent-Thicket-For-Hybrid-Cars
Lorien_the_first_one sends along a WSJ piece reporting on how Toyota is hoping to benefit from new Obama Administration regulations for automobiles here in the US. "Since it started developing the gas-electric Prius more than a decade ago, Toyota has kept its attorneys just as busy as its engineers, meticulously filing for patents on more than 2,000 systems and components for its best-selling hybrid. Its third-generation Prius, which hit showrooms in May, accounts for about half of those patents alone. Toyota's goal: to make it difficult for other auto makers to develop their own hybrids without seeking licensing from Toyota, as Ford Motor Co. already did to make its Escape hybrid and Nissan Motor Co. has for its Altima hybrid."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/237224/Toyota-Builds-a-Patent-Thicket-For-Hybrid-Cars?from=rss"><img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/07/237224"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/237224/Toyota-Builds-a-Patent-Thicket-For-Hybrid-Cars?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/K7SnD85UDJ4/Gaze-Tracking-Software-Protects-Computer-Privacy
Ponca City, We Love You writes "Two years ago computer security expert Bill Anderson read about scientific research on how the human eye moves as it reads and processes text and images. 'This obscure characteristic... suddenly struck me as (a solution to) a security problem,' says Anderson. With the help of a couple of software developers, Anderson developed a software program called Chameleon that tracks a viewer's gaze patterns and only allows an authorized user to read text on the screen, while everyone else sees gibberish. Chameleon uses gaze-tracking software and camera equipment to track an authorized reader's eyes to show only that one person the correct text. After a 15-second calibration period in which the software learns the viewer's gaze patterns, anyone looking over that user's shoulder sees dummy text that randomly and constantly changes. To tap the broader consumer market, Anderson built a more consumer-friendly version called PrivateEye, which can work with a simple Webcam to blur a user's monitor when he or she turns away. It also detects other faces in the background, and a small video screen pops up to alert the user that someone is looking at the screen. 'There have been inventions in the space of gaze-tracking. There have been inventions in the space of security,' says Anderson. 'But nobody has put the two ideas together, as far as we know.'"<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/1946217/Gaze-Tracking-Software-Protects-Computer-Privacy?from=rss"><img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/07/1946217"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/1946217/Gaze-Tracking-Software-Protects-Computer-Privacy?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/YUrAdS_qlsk/Prof-Nesson-Ordered-To-Show-Cause
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Professor Charles Nesson, the Harvard law professor serving pro bono as counsel to the defendant in SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, has been ordered to show cause why sanctions should not be issued against him for violating the Court's orders prohibiting reproduction of the court proceedings. The order to show cause was in furtherance of the RIAA's motion for sanctions and protective order, which we discussed here yesterday. The Judge indicated that she was 'deeply concerned' about Prof. Nesson's apparent 'blatant disregard' of her order."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/1933219/Prof-Nesson-Ordered-To-Show-Cause?from=rss"><img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/07/1933219"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/1933219/Prof-Nesson-Ordered-To-Show-Cause?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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The NY Times has a blog posting on the occasion of the Internet advertising industry's release (PDF) of what it describes as tough new standards governing the collection and use of data about users' behavior. The Times' Saul Hansell describes these "new" standards as more of the same old status quo, and outlines four privacy-enhancing ideas, being discussed by Google, Yahoo, the FTC, and Congress, that the IAB has completely ignored. These principles are: every ad should explain itself; users should be able to see data collected about them; browsers should help enforce user choices about tracking; and some information (medical and financial) is simply too sensitive to track.<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/181256/Four-Missed-Opportunities-for-Privacy?from=rss"><img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/07/181256"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/181256/Four-Missed-Opportunities-for-Privacy?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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FishWithAHammer writes "Peter Galli of Microsoft posted a blog entry on Port25 today, regarding the explicit placement of C# and the Common Language Infrastructure (the ECMA standard that underpins .NET) under their Community Promise: 'It is important to note that, under the Community Promise, anyone can freely implement these specifications with their technology, code, and solutions. You do not need to sign a license agreement, or otherwise communicate to Microsoft how you will implement the specifications. ... Under the Community Promise, Microsoft provides assurance that it will not assert its Necessary Claims against anyone who makes, uses, sells, offers for sale, imports, or distributes any Covered Implementation under any type of development or distribution model, including open-source licensing models such as the LGPL or GPL.'" Adds reader anshulajain: "Understandably, Miguel De Icaza is jumping with joy."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/0434236/Microsoft-Puts-C-and-the-CLI-Under-Community-Promise?from=rss"><img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/07/0434236"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/0434236/Microsoft-Puts-C-and-the-CLI-Under-Community-Promise?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Jammie Thomas-Rasset has made a motion for a new trial, seeking to vacate the $1.92 million judgment entered against her for infringement of 24 MP3 files, in Capitol Records v. Thomas-Rasset. Her attorneys' brief (PDF) argues, among other things, that the 'monstrous' sized verdict violates the Due Process Clause, consistent with 100 years of SCOTUS jurisprudence, since it is grossly disproportionate to any actual damages sustained. It further argues that, since the RIAA elected to offer no evidence of actual damages, either as an alternative to statutory damages, or to buttress the fairness of a statutory damages award, the verdict, if it is to be reduced, must be reduced to zero."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/049252/Jammie-Thomas-Moves-To-Strike-RIAA-192M-Verdict?from=rss"><img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/07/049252"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/049252/Jammie-Thomas-Moves-To-Strike-RIAA-192M-Verdict?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/jrZcKGuaC8A/Social-Security-Numbers-Can-Be-Guessed
BotScout writes "The nation's Social Security numbering scheme has left millions of citizens vulnerable to privacy breaches, according to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, who for the first time have used statistical techniques to predict Social Security numbers solely from an individual's date and location of birth. The researchers used the information they gleaned to predict, in one try, the first five digits of a person's Social Security number 44 percent of the time for 160,000 people born between 1989 and 2003. A Social Security Administration spokesman said the government has long cautioned the private sector against using a social security number as a personal identifier, even as it insists 'there is no fool-proof method for predicting a person's Social Security Number.'" Update: 07/07 00:01 GMT by T : Reader angrytuna links to Wired's coverage of the SSN deduction system, and links to the researchers' FAQ at Carnegie Mellon, which says that the research paper will be presented at BlackHat Las Vegas later this month.<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/2215218/Social-Security-Numbers-Can-Be-Guessed?from=rss"><img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/06/2215218"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/2215218/Social-Security-Numbers-Can-Be-Guessed?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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