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Friday funnies – llamas
Friday funnies – llamas

Protect your hardware? Phone running low? Just charge it on a production server. #SnowOps pic.twitter.com/yvZwEJwJZX — Nick Craver (@Nick_Craver) January 30, 2015 Protect your source? Best reason to go off the record. pic.twitter.com/qi68vD8pxj — Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) February 25, 2015 In case you had something improbably more important this Thursday, a highlights review of #llamawatch….

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Friday funnies – seen on twitter
Friday funnies – seen on twitter

lol – perfect commentary on IoT pic.twitter.com/h6mH2Lg8ri — Stacey Mulcahy (@bitchwhocodes) October 1, 2014 wbm312 Oct 05, 1:19pm Data is vs. Data are: xkcd.com/1429/  || @Mallikarjunan @KateElliottSFF A sysadmin sees the inevitability that they all used a glass, even though what they needed was a mug. — Suzanne Palmer (@zanzjan) October 2, 2014 Love this. MT @joycecaroloates…

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Monkey selfies not protected by copyright!
Monkey selfies not protected by copyright!

Interesting legal discussions erupted over TechDirt’s 2011 fair use publication of an unusual self-portrait: see the 2011 article describing the image’s creation. Bizarre but true!  Because this photo (accidentally snapped by the macaque shown) had no human ‘creator,’ the US Copyright Office ruled that the camera’s owner could not claim copyright of the image. Ape rights…

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yet another example of “the patent system” being a punchline
yet another example of “the patent system” being a punchline

Tech Dirt brings us today’s joke – relevant to the legal domain – namely the Patent System.