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Helena Ravenclaw (daughter) †[6]
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NO LIFEEdit
- "Fair Ravenclaw, from glen […]'"
- —The Sorting Hat on Ravenclaw's birthplace.[src]
Rowena Ravenclaw was born sometime in the tenth century. She was from the glens of Scotland,[1] and was either born or married into the Ravenclaw family. She was a good friend of Helga Hufflepuff, from the Welsh valleys.[4]
At an unknown time and by unknown means, Ravenclaw acquired a wand.[7] It is possible she purchased it from the Ollivander family, who had been in the wand-making business since 382 B.C.,[8] or made it herself.
Founding of HogwartsEdit
- "You all know, of course, that Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago — the precise date is uncertain — by the four greatest witches and wizards of the age. The four school Houses are named after them: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin. They built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes, for it was an age, when magic was feared by common people, and witches and wizards suffered much persecution."
- —Cuthbert Binns.[src]
United by the common goal of creating the world's best magic school,[4] Rowena Ravenclaw and her good friends Helga Hufflepuff, Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin built Hogwarts Castle together and established Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry[3] sometime around 993.[9]
It is a popular historical theory that the location and name of Hogwarts were both chosen by Ravenclaw, who dreamt that a warty hog was leading her to a cliff by the lake.[10] Ravenclaw came up with the ever-changing floor plan.[11]
Ravenclaw selected her students according to intelligence and wisdom.[4] Ravenclaw House therefore values a sharp mind, wisdom, creativity, and cleverness in its members.[12]
At some point, Ravenclaw bore a daughter, Helena[6], who was taught by Rowena herself at Hogwarts.[13]
Later life and deathEdit
- "I stole the diadem. I sought to make myself cleverer, more important than my mother. I ran away with it. My mother, they say, never admitted that the diadem was gone, but pretended that she had it still. She concealed her loss, my dreadful betrayal, even from the other founders of Hogwarts. Then my mother fell ill — fatally ill. In spite of my perfidy, she was desperate to see me one more time. She sent a man who had long loved me, though I spurned his advances, to find me. She knew that he would not rest until he had done so."
- —Helena Ravenclaw's ghost to Harry Potter in 1998.[src]
At some point after her graduation from Hogwarts School, Helena stole her mother's diadem, which was said to enhance the wisdom of the wearer. Helena was jealous of her mother's famous intellect and took the diadem with her to Albania, far away from her mother's reach, in hopes of surpassing her. Ashamed of her daughter's betrayal, Rowena Ravenclaw opted to keep her daughter's treachery a secret from others, and denied it even from her fellow founders.[6]
Then, Rowena fell fatally ill. Disregarding her treason, she asked the Baron, who was in love with Helena, to go and find her daughter, merely wishing to see her one last time. He eventually tracked her to a forest in Albania but when she refused to return with him, the Baron flew into a fit of rage, furious at her refusal and envious of her freedom, and stabbed her. Immediately overcome with guilt, he then took his own life. The two would later become, respectively, Ravenclaw and Slytherin house ghosts.[6] Thus, Rowena did not get the chance to reconcile with her daughter before their untimely deaths (unless her daughter's ghost returned to the castle before Rowena's death).
Legend had it that a "broken heart" added to her early demise.[5] This story may have had origin in her estrangement with her daughter.
Physical appearanceEdit
From her statue in Ravenclaw Tower and Xenophilius Lovegood's bust of her, Rowena Ravenclaw was a beautiful yet austere-looking and slightly intimidating woman.[14][15] She was tall,[6] had long black hair and dark eyes,[5] and spoke in a pronounced Scottish accent. [16]
Personality and traitsEdit
Ravenclaw's most notable trait is her intelligence and creativity, and the fact that she valued the same in her students.[12][4] She also seemed strict and intimidating,[15] but despite this she seemed to be forgiving and loving, as shown by the fact that she was willing to disregard her daughter's betrayal just to see her one last time on her deathbed.[6] She was also very proud, not admitting that her daughter had run away with her diadem not even to her close friends, the other founders.[15]
Magical abilities and skillsEdit
Ravenclaw was described as the most brilliant witch of her time.
- Charms: Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem was a magical artefact that was bewitched, presumably by Ravenclaw herself, to enhance the wearer's wisdom.
- Magical arts: The founders taught no particular subjects to their students; they taught them a bit of everything. Thus, it is more than likely that Ravenclaw mastered all the basic branches of magic such as Transfiguration, Charms, Herbology, Potions and so on.
- Magical architecture: It is thought that Rowena Ravenclaw herself devised the ever-changing floor plan of Hogwarts Castle.
- Rowena is a Latinised form of an old Germanic name: "Fame" (cf. the Anglo-Saxon hrōd, or hrōð), and "Joy", (cf. the Anglo-Saxon wyn(n)), or "Friend", (cf. the Anglo-Saxon wine). Rowena, Queen of Britain, is a figure in Britain's traditional history; she was supposedly the daughter of Hengest and the wife of Vortigern.
- In Welsh poetry, Rowena is named "mother of the nation", which could link in to her being a founder of Hogwarts. She also is another character whose name surfaces in the great epic Ivanhoe.
- Ravenclaw is simply 'raven' + 'claw'. A raven is a large black bird that belongs to the crow family; however Ravenclaw's symbol is an eagle. In legend, ravens are known to be smart birds and quick learners; Ravenclaws are known to be also wise and quick learners.
Behind the scenesEdit
- Ravenclaw was featured as Rowling's "Wizard of the Month" for August, 2007: "One of the four famous Founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Rowena Ravenclaw was the most brilliant witch of her time, though legend has it that a broken heart — cause unknown — contributed to her early demise".
- It is possible that Ravenclaw is not Rowena's birth name, but her married name. This theory is supported by the fact that Ravenclaw is also her daughter's surname. This has never been confirmed by Rowling. Also even though the word "Raven" is in Ravenclaw's name, the crest of her house depicts an eagle. It is interesting to note that Albania is sometimes considered the "Land of Eagles" in the 16th century and that Rowena's daughter fled to Albania. It is therefore possible that Rowena's family or her husband's (father of Helena) came from Albania before settling into Scotland.
- Rowena Ravenclaw's Chocolate Frog Card, as featured in the PC video games of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Rowena is somewhat anachronistically depicted wearing sixteenth/seventeenth-century garments, while Ravenclaw lived in the tenth century.
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Harry has a vision of Hogwarts Castle, a woman, and a banner of Ravenclaw. Harry incorrectly identifies the woman as Rowena Ravenclaw, when it is in fact her daughter Helena.
See alsoEdit
- Godric Gryffindor
- Helga Hufflepuff
- Salazar Slytherin
- Hogwarts founders
- Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem
- Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Appears as statue)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game) (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7[17]
- Wizard of the Month
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Appears in portrait(s))
- Pottermore (Mentioned only)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Chapter 12 (The Triwizard Tournament), the Sorting Hat refers to Rowena as "fair Ravenclaw, from glen", which is likely a reference to Scotland. Furthermore, in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Ravenclaw's portrait speaks with a strong Scottish accent.
- ↑ Rowena fell fatally ill and sent the Bloody Baron to fetch her daughter in Albania after Helena's seven years at Hogwarts. Given the earliest she could have started at the school was around 993, the approximate year of the school's founding, the earliest year this could have taken place was 1000. It is likely Rowena died around this time.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Chapter 9 (The Writing on the Wall)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Chapter 11 (The Sorting Hat's New Song)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Wizard of the Month
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Chapter 31 (The Battle of Hogwarts)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Chapter 5 (Diagon Alley)
- ↑ Official timeline in the films' DVDs
- ↑ Fifth question of the Third W.O.M.B.A.T. at J. K. Rowling's Official Site
- ↑ "Rowena Ravenclaw" on Harry Potter Magical Trading Cards
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Chapter 7 (The Sorting Hat)
- ↑ "If a teacher is head of a house, can we assume that they were sorted into those houses when they were students at Hogwarts? Is that also true for the house ghosts? So was Snape a Slytherin?" on J.K.Rowling Official Site
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Chapter 20 (Xenophilius Lovegood)
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Chapter 29 (The Lost Diadem)
- ↑ The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
- ↑ Ravenclaw is available in the Nintendo DS version of LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7. For other devices, she is available in the "Downloadable Character Pack" DLC for the game.


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Today's vehicles are vastly more fuel efficient than their predecessors two decades ago. Yet, with increasing fuel prices and the upcoming fuel efficiency standard, fuel economy remains a key challenge for automotive engineers. While technologies such as variable valve timing, turbo-charging, new generation of transmissions promise efficiency improvement, they also add many more design parameters. The traditional method of experimenting with a couple of parameters at a time using prototype vehicles can be time consuming and may leave room for further optimization in the vehicle design.
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Figure 2. Cisco Nexus 5010, Supporting 20 Fixed 10 Gigabit Ethernet/FCoE Ports and One Expansion Module Slot
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Figure 3. Three Expansion Module Options Allow the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series to be Optimized for Specific Data Center Applications
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Features and Benefits
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Figure 4. Ethernet Host Virtualizer (EHV)
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The FBI's controversial decision in 2011 to label passionate fans of the rap duo Insane Clown Posse as a violent gang sprouted from a 14-month investigation by Salt Lake City's FBI field office.
According to documents published Thursday by the public information website MuckRock.com, the Salt Lake City office supplied the bureau with information about the loyal fanbase of the Detroit-based duo, known as Juggalos. There's no indication in the documents the FBI investigated the musicians themselves. The documents were released after MuckRock requested all public documentation the FBI had on Juggalos and the Insane Clown Posse, and its most prominent document was an investigative memo coming from the Salt Lake City field office.
The memo, dated March 15, 2011, described Juggalos as a "violent street gang" whose members "paint their faces to look like wicked clowns. Some continue the dress by carrying small axes, like the cartoon hatchet man associated with the band."
The investigation was closed in May 2012, and the FBI would later label Juggalos as a "non-traditional gang" in its October 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment.
The memo also states that some Juggalos in Utah have been associated with the local Crip gang known as the Salt Lake Posse and that criminal charges against Juggalos include discharge of a firearm, drug sales, drug possession and "many other crimes typically seen by gangs and gang members."
The Salt Lake City field office's purpose in investigating the group was to learn more about their organization and "identify all illegal activities which may constitute a pattern of racketeering activity ... and which may support prosecutions for federal violations."
The language of the memo seems to be laying the groundwork for federal prosecution of robberies. The memo also mentions an ultimate goal of getting a racketeering indictment against the Juggalos. Federal prosecutors in Utah have used RICO statutes to put gang leaders in prison in the past, most recently against high-ranking members of Salt Lake's Tongan Crip Gang in 2010.
In order to gather the evidence that division hoped could someday lead to racketeering indictment, the memo recommended that "investigators must start with and work at length at street level drug purchases or smaller amounts of drugs, surveillance, gang member debriefs, witness debriefs, confidential human source recruitment and other traditional or non-sophisticated techniques."
FBI Special Agent Todd Palmer of the Salt Lake City office declined to comment on the investigation, deferring to what had already been disclosed in the records release. Much of the investigation was conducted by members of the FBI's Violent CrimeSafe Streets Task Force, which includes members of the Salt Lake City Police Department. The department also declined to comment on the FBI documents.
The documents also include mostly-redacted e-mails from FBI agents to law enforcement in New Mexico, California, Texas and Illinois. Reports from other FBI offices also are included, as well as copies of news articles about Juggalos from across the country.
The FBI's designation of an entire subculture of music fans as a street gang was met with hostility by the band and its fans, who often said they simply were fans of music and didn't appreciate being called a gang based on the actions of other individuals.
People who have identified themselves as Juggalos have sometimes popped up in high-profile crimes in the Salt Lake City area. In 2009, two men who police described as Juggalos attacked a 17-year-old with a knife and battle-ax. They were later convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to three years to life in prison.
However, Psychopathic Records, the Insane Clown Posse's record label, has started pushing back against the gang label leveled by the FBI and other states, including Utah. In January, the company launched a website called Juggalos Fight Back, which asks for accounts from Juggalos who say they obey the law but have been unfairly judged by police or others and includes a downloadable pamphlet called "We are Not a Gang, We are Family!"
The Insane Clown Posse and its record label have filed a lawsuit against the FBI, claiming the bureau "violated the rights of Juggalos on the mistaken belief that they are 'gang members,'" according to a statement on the website.
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Reflecting on the successful year that has passed, I cannot help but have a deep sense of gratitude. Thank you. To our clients, thank you for the faith you have placed in us. We will never take it for granted. And to my colleagues, thank you for your passion and commitment to our enterprise. It inspires me each day.
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The world's most valuable company established a record high stock price Tuesday, as Apple neared a $600 billion valuation ahead of the expected introduction of a new iPhone.
The Cupertino company closed with a 1.4 percent increase at $100.58, topping the previous highest closing price for Apple of $100.30 — after adjusting for a recent 7-for-1 stock split — set in September 2012, when Apple introduced the iPhone 5. Shares came up just short of Apple's split-adjusted intraday record of $100.72, moving as high as $100.68 during the day's trading session.
After the iPhone 5 pushed Apple to its previous record prices, the stock plummeted as much as 40 percent as investors doubted Apple's ability to push into new product categories under the leadership of CEO Tim Cook, who took over for Steve Jobs just ahead of the Apple co-founder's death in 2011. Cook, however, has guaranteed that Apple would enter new product categories in 2014, and analysts of late have been offering cooing reports about Apple's prospects for growth.
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"Apple shares do not price in upcoming hardware, software, and services innovation, in our view," Huberty wrote, explaining that her expectations of a larger-screen iPhone 6 would grow Apple's sales of its most profitable product.
Huberty's rosy view of the possibilities of a larger iPhone has been voiced by many analysts — just a day earlier, RBC Capital Markets analyst Amit Daryanani predicted that Apple could sell 70 million to 80 million new iPhones by the end of the year, a much better performance than previous iPhone launches.
"We think this iPhone cycle will be more material than prior ones largely because an increased screen size should drive a material upgrade cycle and position Apple to pick up share vs. the Android ecosystem," Daryanani wrote.
Huberty also predicted Tuesday that Apple would release an iWatch in 2014, reporting that Apple would be able to sell as many as 60 million of the long-rumored wearable devices in the first year, while charging $300 a pop.
"We see iWatch as an important barometer of the company's innovation capabilities under the leadership of Tim Cook," Huberty wrote, adding that the additions of top management talent in fashion and consumer-product design would help Apple take advantage of its potential.
Huberty also pointed out several other reasons to believe Apple stock will rise higher, including CEO Cook's massive stock-repurchase plan, which seeks to buy $90 billion in Apple shares, as well as additional spending on research and development as well as acquisitions.
Morgan Stanley seems to be putting its money where its analyst's mouth is, adding 2 million shares to its Apple position in the second quarter, according to documents filed with the SEC on Friday.
Apple is preparing to debut the newest iteration of its popular smartphone on Sept. 9, according to multiple reports. Apple's stock has now increased more than 25 percent so far in 2014, but its market cap of $597.3 billion at the end of Tuesday trading is still lower than record levels reached in 2012 due to the smaller number of shares available to the public.
SV150 market report: Google celebrates 10 years as public company
Apple's rise helped boost Wall Street to gains Tuesday, with Silicon Valley tech stocks jumping faster as Google celebrated the 10th anniversary of its initial public offering.
Ten years after its IPO, search giant Google increased 0.7 percent to $597.11, giving it total gains as a public company of more than 1,300 percent. While impressive, the Wall Street Journal pointed out that nine companies had produced better annual returns for investors over that time, and four of them are Silicon Valley tech firms: Apple, Netflix, Intutive Surgical and Salesforce. Google continues to transform itself despite its success, and the Mountain View company is reportedly preparing to make two more big changes to its services, with a YouTube streaming-music subscription offering called YouTube Music Key and accounts for children younger than 13 years old.
Redwood City data-center security company Imperva had the second largest percentage leap in the SV150 on Tuesday, improving 8.3 percent to $29.80 after replacing its CEO with an executive well-versed in selling software companies. Facebook gained 0.9 percent to $75.29 as more parents avoid posting their children's info on the site, and Twitter dropped 0.1 percent to $45.09 while codifying its attempt to place tweets from unfollowed accounts into users' streams. Netflix increased 0.5 percent to $468.15 as CEO Reed Hastings decried the interconnection fees his Los Gatos company pays Internet service providers, even as GigaOm discovered that Netflix had entered into a deal with yet another ISP, Time Warner. eBay improved by 1.2 percent to $53.75 while unleashing one-touch PayPal payments for mobile use, and Hewlett-Packard added 0.4 percent to $35.48 a day ahead of its earnings report.
Up: GoPro, Oracle, Juniper, Yelp, AMD, SunPower, Adobe, Apple, eBay, Yahoo, Intuit, SanDisk, Salesforce
Down: SolarCity, Tesla, LinkedIn, NetApp, Symantec, Pandora, VMware, Intel, Twitter
The SV150 index of Silicon Valley's largest tech companies: Up 13.3, or 0.84 percent, to 1,600.67
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Up 19.2, or 0.43 percent, to 4,527.51
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Up 80.85, or 0.48 percent, to 16,919.59
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Up 9.86, or 0.5 percent, to 1,981.6
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All kids like to color, but there are important reasons to encourage and guide this activity beyond the simple hedonistic impetus to have fun.
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Perhaps the biggest benefit children get from coloring pages of animals or their favorite cartoon characters is the development of fine motor skills. This includes learning the proper way to hold the crayon, marker or colored pencil they are using to draw with. When supervising young children learning how to color use gentle instructions to encourage them to hold the writing implement near the tip, cradled between the tips of their thumb, index finger and middle finger. Many children grab the crayon in their fist. Correcting this improper usage is an important first step towards real penmanship.
Beyond the skill of holding a crayon or pencil properly, learning to keep the lines drawn on the coloring pages is another example of fine motor skills. This is a more advanced concept, and may well take several years for the child to fully be able to accomplish, so only positive comments should be made on your youngsters coloring attempts in this regard. It is better to have them enjoy coloring and want to do it often then become discouraged by negative feedback and harsh criticisms.
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Christian parents can easily find many free Bible coloring pages online. Even if your family is not religious it is important for children to understand religious concept, icons, and events from the Bible. This is an issue cultural education, not just a moral foundation. In a broader perspective these images can be used as a starting point for conversation on moral topics in general. Of course coloring pages depicting Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist and even Humanist principles are freely available online. Beyond these simplistic and often jingoistic sources, a foundation for a broader moral education can be found if parents use a little creativity in their search. Many state government departments offer free couloring sheets promoting good citizenship. For example the State Department of Environmental Protection might offer activity pages promoting keeping the environment clean. Other important civic and moral lessons that can be taught via coloring are sharing, loyalty and self-discipline.
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A MAME (arcade) cabinet will easily cost you several hundred to several thousand dollars. But one modder used a little ingenuity to take an old PowerBook with snapped hinges and fit it into an IKEA RAMVIK shelving unit. The result is a tabletop arcade machine á la Galaga and Pac-Man that fits in a modern home. Here's the funny shot that tells you it's an Apple:
But the best part may be what the designer used to create the sleek black frame around his computer screen-it's just plain old black cardboard. And to further the simple mod theme, the joystick simply pulls out from the table's built-in drawer. There's no mounting, but maybe that's actually a good thing. [Mamebook cocktail via Unplggd]


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Apple fans, getting their hands (some real, some virtual through blogs and tweets) on the newest iPad (to avoid confusion, to be referred to here simply as "iPad."), with its improved retina screen, more powerful camera, and faster chip.
If you, too, want to get your hands on the iPad, but recently bought another tablet computer, eBay has an offer you may not be able to refuse. For a short time (through the 10th of March), the San Jose online auction giant is offering what it calls its electronics trade-in program.
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Basically, this gives you a window to make some decent coin off your old mobile device. Say you have an iPad2, 64GB with Wi-Fi and 3G. You can, if it's in working condition, get as much as $475. Not bad, considering that the newest model starts at $499.
But the eBay deal doesn't just target iPad users. That used Motorola Xoom can earn you as much as $240; as much as $225 for a solid Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 32GB.
I should mention that eBay is far from alone when it comes to trading in your used iPad. Gazelle, Amazon, Glyde - all among the places offering to give you some cash if you plan to upgrade. The best advice? Compare, and ask yourself: Do I really need that retina screen?
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UK spy agency GCHQ has reportedly harvested webcam images - including sexually explicit material - of millions of internet users.
In its latest report on files leaked by US whistleblower Edward Snowden, the Guardian newspaper claims a surveillance programme operated by GCHQ, with aid from America's National Security Agency (NSA), collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats.
Between 3% and 11% of the Yahoo webcam imagery stored by the Cheltenham-based listening post contain "undesirable nudity", the previously top-secret documents reveal.
Internet giant Yahoo reacted furiously to the claims, branding them a "whole new level of violation".
Revealing that sexually explicit pictures proved to be a problem for GCHQ, the leaked document said: " Unfortunately... it would appear that a surprising number of people use webcam conversations to show intimate parts of their body to the other person.
"Also, the fact that the Yahoo software allows more than one person to view a webcam stream without necessarily sending a reciprocal stream means that it appears sometimes to be used for broadcasting pornography."
Codenamed Optic Nerve, the operation saved images to agency databases, regardless of whether individual users were suspected of wrongdoing, The Guardian said.
Rather than collecting webcam chats in their entirety, the program saved one image every five minutes from the users' feeds, the newspaper added.
Dating between 2008 and 2010, the GCHQ files reportedly show in one six-month period alone, the agency collected webcam imagery - including substantial quantities of sexually explicit communications - from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally.
Optic Nerve began as a prototype in 2008 and was still active in 2012, The Guardian said.
The system was used for experiments in automated facial recognition, to monitor GCHQ's existing targets, and to discover new targets of interest, the newspaper added.
A Yahoo spokeswoman said: " We were not aware of, nor would we condone, this reported activity.
"This report, if true, represents a whole new level of violation of our users' privacy that is completely unacceptable and we strongly call on the world's governments to reform surveillance law consistent with the principles we outlined in December.
"We are committed to preserving our users' trust and security and continue our efforts to expand encryption across all of our services."
GCHQ declined to comment on the claims.
Mr Snowden originally leaked information last May to The Guardian, Washington Post, a location in Rio de Janeiro and another in Germany, which revealed mass surveillance programmes such as the NSA-run Prism and the GCHQ-operated Tempora.
Under the £1 billion Tempora operation, Cheltenham-based GCHQ is understood to have secretly accessed fibre-optic cables carrying huge amounts of internet and communications data and shared the information with the NSA.
Reacting to the latest disclosures, MP David Davis said: " We now know that millions of Yahoo account holders were filmed without their knowledge through their webcams, the images of which were subsequently stored by GCHQ and the NSA.
"This is, frankly, creepy.
"It is perfectly proper for our intelligence agencies to use any and all means to target people for whom there are reasonable grounds for suspicion of terrorism, kidnapping and other serious crimes. It is entirely improper to extend such intrusive surveillance on a blanket scale to ordinary citizens."
Critics have claimed Mr Snowden's disclosures have aided terrorists, while others believe the move could be illegal.
Earlier this year, MI5 director general Andrew Parker warned in a speech that revealing details about the work of GCHQ was a ''gift to terrorists'', while Sir John Sawers, head of MI6, said terrorists were ''rubbing their hands with glee''.
But supporters believe the leaks exposed an abuse of powers among the security and intelligence services in the UK and US and have contributed to a much-needed debate on their oversight and role.
Nick Pickles, director of civil liberties campaigner group Big Brother Watch, said: " Secretly intercepting and taking photographs from millions of people's webcam chats is as creepy as it gets.
"We have CCTV on our streets and now we have GCHQ in our homes.
"It is right that the security services can target people and tap their communications but they should not be doing it to millions of people.
"This is an indiscriminate and intimate intrusion on people's privacy.
"It is becoming increasingly obvious how badly the law has failed to keep pace with technology and how urgently we need a comprehensive review of surveillance law and oversight structures.
"As more people buy technology with built-in cameras, from Xbox Kinect to laptops and smart TVs, we need to be sure that the law does not allow for them to be routinely accessed when there is no suspicion of any wrongdoing.
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This week on Retro Game Master the Kacho takes on The Wing of Madoola.
Released in 1986 for the Nintendo Famicom,The Wing of Madoola is a side-scrolling action adventure tale of the Kingdom of Badham (nothing more dangerous than bad ham) and a magical statue that can bring peace to the world. So of course the Kacho will have to kill a lot of demons to bring peace to the land.
The show goes live only on Kotaku at 8 p.m. eastern this Thursday, followed by more weekly episodes "airing" on Kotaku at the same time and day through September. And unlike with television, these episodes will stick around on our site so you can watch them at your own leisure.
Game Center CX produced 15 seasons of gaming content in Japan, with Shinya Arino playing through dozens of Famicom, Super Famicom, PC Engine and Mega Drive games. These first U.S. airings of the episodes includes English captions for Arino and English dubbing for his off-camera announcer.
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This week on Retro Game Master the Kacho takes on 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō.
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First Brandeis multilingual video festival is April 25
The Foreign Language Oversight Committee (FLOC), a group consisting of representatives from each Brandeis foreign language program, will be hosting the first ever Brandeis Multilingual Student Video Festival in Shiffman 002 on Thursday, April 25, from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
Students from each language program at Brandeis (Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, and Russian) will present videos demonstrating their growth in their first year of language study at Brandeis.
In each participating language, all of the level-20 courses will select one video to represent their language group at the festival.
A jury panel consisting of faculty members, Senior Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences Elaine Wong, and the French and Spanish Undergraduate Departmental Representatives will select one video to be awarded the grand prize.
"The goal is to promote learning of foreign languages at Brandeis and showcase the amazing progress that our students make in only one year of language study," says Irina Dubinina, director of the Russian language program.
Faculty and students are encouraged to come attend. International desserts will be served.
The festival and grand prize is supported by the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences and the Foreign Language Oversight Committee.
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The Unbelievable Streak of Gil Velazquez
Here are the four most remarkable streaks in baseball history (in no particular order):
Cal Ripken's streak of playing in 2,632 consecutive games.
Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak.
Orel Hershiser's run of 59 straight scoreless innings.
Gil Velazquez's streak of never having complained in 13 minor league seasons.
(photos courtesy of Kelly O'Connor)
OK, I've only been around Gil for the last three years but I've never heard him gripe about anything.
You have to understand – minor league baseball players (and announcers) complain a bunch. The travel can be brutal . . . the schedule is unforgiving . . . and even though you are only one step from the big leagues, it can feel like you are light years from the show.
And yet, after playing 1077 games in the minors and only 9 in the majors, Gil Velazquez is always upbeat.
Consider his reaction to spending the first six weeks of this season at extended spring training recovering from a broken left thumb.
"It was tough, but I enjoyed working out with all of the young guys," Gil told me. "Hopefully, I set a good example for them that hard works gets you to higher levels and pays dividends in the long run. I had a good time being there."
Velazquez might be the first player in history to say he had "a good time" at extended spring training, where the Monday through Saturday schedule consists of an early-morning workout followed by an exhibition game at noon.
"It can be a grind, but I didn't take time to think about how hard it would be because I was focused on trying to get ready to get back over here," Velazquez said. "One of the hardest parts is playing in one of those games and not having anybody there to see you play. It's really fun when you take the field in a nice big ballpark and there are fans there to watch you. It gets the adrenaline flowing and it feels great to be out there in uniform. It's especially fun when you do well, but even when you have those tough days it's still a privilege to come out and play in front of a nice crowd."
Perhaps that comment makes it easy to understand why the Red Sox re-signed Gil after a tough 2009 season. While he is solid and versatile defensively, Velazquez struggled at the plate, batting .193/.240/.269 in 93 games with Pawtucket. Two years ago, Gil batted .260 with 10 HR in 350 at-bats.
"I've been swinging the bat pretty well since spring training – the ball has been jumping off my bat," Velazquez said. "I think my biggest problem is that my swing was long. I was drifting and getting out in front of a lot of pitches instead of using my lower half and staying short and through the ball. I worked hard in the off-season and so far, so good. I feel really good and hopefully I can do some damage at the plate this year."
Gil's biggest hope is to get called-up to Boston for the third consecutive year.
"One of the most important days of my life was that first call-up in '08 at the end of September," Velazquez said. "It's the best experience I've had in baseball. I spent 10 years in the minor leagues before I finally got to the big leagues and it's the best feeling I've had in baseball. I'm happy I stuck it out and got to accomplish my goal."
A goal he accomplished without complaint.
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While Velazquez has escaped extended spring training, Jed Lowrie remains in Ft. Myers recovering from the severe case of mononucleosis that he was diagnosed with in mid-March.
"Jed is doing better," Gil said. "He's starting to take ground balls, hitting, and getting his running in. I think he still has days here and there where he feels a little weak, but it's all going to come back. He was pretty sick and lost a lot of weight and strength so he's just trying to get back to where he was. Hopefully, he'll be back to 100% soon and can get back to playing on the field and helping the Red Sox. I just wish the best for him because he's a good ballplayer."
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Chalk up Sunday's doubleheader in Durham as one of the most unusual things I've seen in minor league baseball.
The PawSox were outscored by 16 runs . . . and still managed to split. They dropped the completion of a suspended game 18-1, but rallied to win the second game 1-0.
The second game marked the Triple-A debut of 22-year-old LHP Felix Doubront who got off to an impressive start by pitching a perfect first inning with 2 strikeouts. Unfortunately, there was a downpour in the 2nd inning and Doubront did not return to the mound after a 1:32 rain delay.
Chad Paronto (4 IP) and Fernando Cabrera (2 IP) did a tremendous job in relief and Gustavo Molina homered for the game's only run.
For the second straight year, the PawSox were the opponent on Negro League Night in Durham and wore vintage gray uniforms representing a variety of teams from that era. Here are a few of them, courtesy of Bulls' photographer Ashley Yarber:
Ramon Ramirez in a House of David uniform.
Josh Reddick in a Cleveland Buckeyes uniform.
Scott Atchison in a Baltimore Elite Giants uniform and Dustin Richardson in an Indianapolis Stars uniform.
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Torey Lovullo was saddened to learn about the passing of former All-Star pitcher Jose Lima, who died of a suspected heart attack on Sunday at the age of 37.
Lovullo said he had just been thinking about Lima a couple of days ago when the PawSox were in Norfolk, as he remembered a funny story about facing Jose at Harbor Park when he pitched for the Tides in 2006.
Lovullo was managing Buffalo at the time, and one night, Lima was dominating the Bisons as he allowed 1 run on 4 hits in 6 innings. It was vintage "Lima Time" as he celebrated his strikeouts and the final out of each inning with fist pumps and other emphatic gestures.
Torey was growing increasingly annoyed until the 5th inning when Lima surrendered a solid single to Buffalo's light-hitting shortstop Jose Flores. As the runner stood at first base, Lima stepped off the mound and tipped his cap toward Flores for getting a hit off of him.
When Lovullo asked Lima about it the next day, the veteran pitcher claimed he had intentionally grooved a pitch right down the middle to give Flores a chance. According to Torey, Jose then uttered this classic line:
"I wanted the kid to be able to call home and tell his Mama that he got a hit off of Lima Time."
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Is the Google analytic help you in taking marketing decisions? Do you know about the latest changes in Google analytic? Google has recently shift to secure search but marketers who are using the information to guide their content analysis & marketing, the loss of keyword data has been great.
In the recent times, Google has updated analytic with over 10 new features that are useful for business owners who take decisions on the basis of how their audience interacts with their social account and website. Read on to find out what's new in Google analytic and how you can leverage the most of the changes to benefit your business.
When you will log into the updated Google analytic account, you'll see that there have been a major change as traffic source analysis and content have been replaced by acquisition and behavior. This new acquisition section gives you two different views- overview and channel. The overview report helps in knowing which channels are bringing the maximum visitors and which channels are bringing in visitors who can convert into customers or email subscribers. While, the overview report helps in displaying the summary of data, the channel report gives a more detailed view of the visitor acquisition.
The most notable feature of this new acquisition report is that you can easily define the channel groupings, which help you in tracking different sources or media in a more customized and consolidated group. Moreover, if the default channel groupings are not generating the desired results then you can easily change them and add your sources of traffic in different groups.
One more crucial change in Google Analytic is the introduction of new analytic ABC reporting. With the help of this new report, it is possible to see the information about the acquisition of new visitors, how they are behaving and how they are converting into loyal readers. You can see the analytic ABC in action primarily in the overview report, under the head 'acquisition' but can also see in other reports, like location, demographics, etc. It means, now you can see a great variety of conversion data in the summary view of the report. Also, if you are tracking conversions for different goals, you can easily change the conversion goal in the conversion group. It means, it is possible to see the same report conversion data for various goals without putting lot of efforts.
Nowadays, segments in Google analytic have become easier for new users to navigate and are therefore, more powerful for advanced marketers. Along with a new user interface, it is now possible to segment your visitors and create segment templates. Either you can create your own new segment or can also import a predefined segment from the Google analytic gallery where you can easily find some of the most popular segments created by Google analytic team.
Earlier, there was no demographic dataset in Google analytic. But now, data collected from double click third party cookies can be found in the new demographic report. You can see the useful information about your audience's interest, age and gender in few mouse clicks. In this way, you can improve your marketing campaigns in Google ad-words by creating different ads for specific segment of audience.
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You need to change the tracking code in order to support display advertising.
Do a regular updation of your privacy policy in order to comply with the policy requirements for display advertisement.
You will required to enable demographic data in the audience reports.
The Google tag manager updates have made measuring things like click on ads, calls to action with event tracking, easy by introducing the concept of auto-event tracking. It means, you don't need to worry about java script or HTML code during your setup. Google Tag manager is a free tool that helps in managing all the tracking codes from one place and you can also edit them.
Along with the interface changes, Google Analytic has also introduced some new and improved educational resources. They have introduced the analytic academy and different digital analytic fundamental course, which gives a viable foundation to marketers and business owners who want to get better understanding of the principles of analytic and improve their web business.


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Why doesn't Imprudence have multilayers, inventory links, or mesh rendering?
Other viewers have them, so why don't we? Why would a developer purposefully avoid such useful features–ones that users clearly want?
The answer is something of a mixed bag, and to get into it I'll first have to explain a little bit about licensing and how licensing works. If you already know this stuff, please bear with me as I'll get to my point soon.
As many of you know, Imprudence is licensed under the GPLv2+FLOSS Exceptions. The GPL is basically a software license that allows for free and open code. It's because of this that we can easily share our code and incorporate others' code in turn. Even so, the GPL doesn't allow us to do whatever we want. There are certain restrictions, such as:
- You cannot change the license of any line of code unless you are the original author, you hold copyright on that code, or the license permits it. When we get a patch submission, the author must license their code in a compatible fashion.
- You may not distribute works based on GPL code that violate any part of the GPL itself. Doing so leaves you open to legal action.
So, how does that impact us, exactly? Imprudence is opensource. Second Life is opensource. Why can't they work together? Here's where the restrictions of the GPL come in: a bit over a year ago, Linden Lab decided to change the license for the Second Life viewer from GPL+Exceptions to LGPL–a similar-sounding but ultimately different license. While the LGPL is compatible with the old license, there's no way to go from LGPL to GPL+Exceptions. This put a massive hurdle in our way as far as porting features from the Second Life.
For example, say someone submits a viewer 2/3-based patch to Imprudence.
While the GPL and LGPL are considered compatible licenses, we don't own the copyright on the LGPL code submitted to us. Thus, we cannot change the license of that source to include exceptions. Whatever code was licensed as LGPL must stay LGPL (or equivalent) and that distinction must always be made clear wherever that code is used.
This might not sound like much of a hurdle (and at times it isn't–we switched over to the LGPL version of our Quicktime plugin ages ago) but consider the Inventory Links patch that's currently in most other viewers. It contains ~43K lines of code, and is made up of an unknown mix of GPL+Exceptions viewer 1 code and LGPL viewer 2 code. The two licenses are not made distinct, so the patch is clearly a violation. There's no way we could legally use it as is.
However, if we could figure out which lines are compatible with Viewer 1 and which ones are compatible with Viewer 2, we could add the appropriate licensing and include the patch. Needless to say, this has felt like a daunting task to us, especially when we've been more focused on bug fixes and finalizing 1.4.0 (if you're using 1.4 and aren't on beta 2, I strongly recommend upgrading) as far as Imprudence goes. But, these are features you guys need. We want to include them.
My plan is to start looking at these patches one by one and sorting out which lines we can use and which lines need refactoring. As I mentioned in a comment on the beta 2 post, any volunteers who can help us with this process are welcome. Codie and I will be starting on this later tonight, and we'll see how far we get. If you'd like to join us, please email me at email@example.com and I'll tell you what you can do.
You might find yourself asking, why go through so much effort for something like a little licensing issue? Why be so concerned when the author of the patch didn't seem to be?
Our answer has always been–almost from the project's inception–that while sometimes doing things the right way isn't easy, these concerns are important to us. It's thanks to licenses like the GPL, as well as the rules that accompany them, that opensource software has matured to the level it has today. Free and open software gave us the ability to start Imprudence (and later Kokua). We feel an obligation to respect that.
Anyway, I hope this clarifies for people where we're coming from, and why we've done some of the things we have.
EDIT: I've updated this post a bit to try to make things clearer.


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Improving U.S. economic data, including today's strong personal income and spending report, has economists cranking up their forecasts for GDP growth.
However, the economy is nevertheless fragile and the risk of a recession is always within sight.
But what could cause the economy to tip into recession?
Some think that it could be premature tightening by the Federal Reserve. Or spillover from the euro crisis. Or a hard landing in China. Or turmoil in the Middle East.
Gluskin Sheff economist David Rosenberg thinks it won't be any of those. Rather, he thinks if we slip into a recession, it'll be Washington's fault.
From Rosenberg:
So the question is will we get a recession or won't we? Everything else is background noise. Well, there is no chance the Fed is going to be raising rates, let alone inverting the yield curve any time on the horizon. So if there is going to be a downturn, it is going to have to come from some exogenous negative shock — keeping in mind at the same time that there is precious little cushion with an underlying GDP trend of 1.5%. I don't see it from Europe, or China, or the Middle East for that matter. Housing is not capable of relapsing given its still-depressed state. The latest Fed loan officer survey does suggest that credit is available for creditworthy borrowers (the ones that actually don't need the debt.), so it hardly seems likely that we have a credit event on our hands. If there is a risk, it is probably on the fiscal front an that policymakers pull off some sort of 1937-38 stunt (the FDR recession) or the premature sales tax hike in Japan in 1997-98 which sent the economy back into a tailspin.
If in fact we avoid a fiscal mistake, then the risks of a recession go down sharply (some Fed district banks peg the odds at a mere 6%) and what we are left with is what we have had all along, which is a muddle-through post-bubble deleveraging economy...
Policymakers will tighten fiscal policy and raise taxes in an effort to address budget deficit issues. However, if they do this when the economy is weak, they risk pushing the economy right into recession, which would actually decrease tax revenues and cause budget deficits to rise.
Here's a chart from Nomura's Richard Koo that Business Insider's Joe Weisenthal frequently references to demonstrate this point. Rosenberg refers to the Hashimoto fiscal reform. As you can see, tightening actually causes revenues to fall and deficits to expand:


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"The driver license is no longer a simple card that proves you are legally entitled to operate a motor vehicle," said Chief Martinez. "It is now the primary source of identification for most Americans and a source (breeder) document used for so many other pieces of identification."
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"I want to commend the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission for its hard work in the creation of this new Enhanced Digital Driver License, as well as the multitude of law enforcement agencies that will assist in the investigation of those who seek to fraudulently obtain this new license," Attorney General Dow said. "This cutting edge form of identification is one more tool available to all levels of law enforcement to stay one step ahead of criminals."
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"Strengthening document security remains a top priority for New Jersey's law enforcement and homeland security personnel," said Director McKenna. "The arrival of the Enhanced Digital Driver License will deter those who seek to fraudulently obtain a New Jersey driver license as part of their criminal activity, which may be connected to a domestic or international terrorism plot."
The new EDDL is also considered to be materially-compliant under REAL ID standards. The REAL ID Act of 2005 is a federal law that imposes certain security, authentication and issuance procedures for state driver licenses and state ID cards in order for them to be accepted for "official purposes" as defined by the US Secretary of Homeland Security.
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"Tastes like soda," commented Groom 4.0 when I had him try these cherry Coke cupcakes without knowing what they were. Score! Goal achieved. He went on to say that if Bride 4.0 didn't pick these as her choice for their wedding cupcakes, he would replace his selection, Piña Colada cupcakes, with these. He didn't need to worry – after two bites of these moist maraschino-filled cherry Coke cupcakes, Bride 4.0 was already picturing 80 of them on her wedding cupcake stand.
Cherry Coke cupcakes require an ingredient that you don't have and probably aren't going to be able to find at any store near you. Sorry! The good news is that it's cheap (just $5.95) and I'll tell you where to get it online (no, I'm not being paid to write this, and I get no kickback). The secret ingredient that is no longer a secret is Kool Kola extract from The Homemade Soda Company. While there are quite a few recipes online for cola-flavored cupcakes, what makes mine really pop (soda-pop that is) is the cola extract. I use it in the cake (in addition to actual cola) and to make frosting that tastes just like Coke without being watery. You could certainly try making cherry Coke cupcakes without the extract, but they just won't be the same.
Cherry Coke Cupcake Recipe
Cherry Coke Cupcakes with Cola Frosting
Cupcake Ingredients
- 1 C cola I use the Whole Foods house brand, 365
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 3/4 C sugar
- 1/3 C canola oil
- 2 tsp Kool Kola extract
- 1 1/3 C flour
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 44 maraschino cherries I know it sounds like a lot. I did four per cupcake. You could cut down on the number if you aren't a huge maraschino fan; or, leave them off entirely to just make Coke cupcakes.
Coke Frosting Ingredients
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1/4 C unsalted butter room temperature
- 2 C powdered sugar add more if you prefer a thicker frosting
- 2 tsp Kool Kola extract
Cupcake Instructions
- In a medium-sized bowl, combine the soda and vinegar and let stand for a few minutes.
- Add in the sugar and oil, whisking vigorously until slightly frothy.
- Mix in the Kool Kola extract, flour, baking powder, and baking soda until just combined.
- Fill cupcake liners approximately 3/4 of the way to the top.
- Drop 4 cherries with stems removed into each cupcake (I put them in a square pattern).
- Bake at 350 F for 20 minutes or until cupcakes bounce back when lightly touched.
Coke Frosting Instructions
- Beat cream cheese and butter.
- Slowly mix in powdered sugar until the mixture looks like frosting.
- Mix in extract.
- Spread or pipe on cooled cupcakes.
Recipe credits
I got the idea for putting the whole maraschino cherries directly into the cupcake from Annie's Eats. Her version of the cherry coke cupcake is definitely worth checking out.
The cupcake recipe itself is an adaption of the root beer cake that I used for my soda fountain cupcakes. That recipe originally came from BitterSweet.
The Cupcake Wrapper
Jonathan made these wavy Coke-inspired cupcake wrappers using our Silhouette (read my post on creating cupcake wrappers for more on how that works). He will not be making custom wrappers for the wedding (it would be way too much work, considering I'm baking cupcakes and he's the wedding photographer), but we really liked the way they turned out.


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Simie wrote:If i remember correctly the superpack came with the STFM machines
Simie wrote:This a page giving access to Atari patents http://www.jmargolin.com/patents/atpats.htm
If C-Lab bought the rights from Atari, to the Falcon then does that mean that Apple now own the rights to the Falcon ?
Correct me if I am wrong!
Simie wrote:If C-Lab became Emagic then this makes sense that Apple now own the patents to the Atari Falcon 030. This must be true if C-Lab purchased the rights from Atari for the Falcon. According to history Apple bought everything from Emagic and I have not found yet anywhere that states that it was made under licence.
This also means that Hasbro owned to rights to the other Atari computers, but why didn't they release it into the public domain like the Jaguar?
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