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by AimHere 12y ago
Your argument could apply to a book too; why should an author NOT be able to veto whenever a copy of his work changes hands, or gets lent to a library or ends up in a second-hand bookshop? But the law of copyright is clear when it comes to
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by AimHere 12y ago
A normal DMCA takedown request is taken under penalty of perjury (sadly, a lot of the big common carriers, like Youtube, have gentleman's agreements with Big Media, so they don't rely on formal DMCA takedowns), and knowingly and f
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by AimHere 12y ago
Aren't those about the philosophy of mathematics, rather than that of science? At this level, mathematics is a discipline that's entirely unlike science, in that (at least if you believe it's philosophers) science doesn&#x27
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by AimHere 12y ago
The bureaucratic misadventures at the start of the article sound like this is a bunch of people playing a LARP version of Papers, Please. Which, come to think of it, should be a thing.
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by AimHere 12y ago
See, this is why you should have been using emacs all along. Theological and ergonomic considerations aside, for your sanity's sake, GNU emacs comes with two IRC clients, a web browser, an email reader and a usenet reader to stave off
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by AimHere 12y ago
When I was stuck in a meaningless office job with too much time, I took to learning myself a perl (that was used for some login scripting so there was an interpreter lying about) using notepad to edit, and the windows cmd.exe to execute the
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by AimHere 12y ago
Well maybe there's room for mass action along these lines. If, some ISP, say, "Bombcast", decides to throttle some website, say "Slacker News" as part of an extortion plan, can't we have every other content-pro
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by AimHere 13y ago
Lost Coast is a standalone freebie tech demo; it probably was issued freely to owners of various other Source Engine games (or maybe even just to absolutely everybody). Apparently it was also given out to people who bought certain graphics
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by AimHere 13y ago
And risk alienating an entrenched and fanatical fanbase? Note the '2014' in the title; this is one of those regular sports games franchises, and it has been around since 1992 (For the first 10 years or so, it had the name 'Ch
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by AimHere 13y ago
>Terrorists don't use mobile phones anyway. There you go! Track all the phone users, and anyone who doesn't have one, and is therefore untracked, is probably a terrorist! Actually that's not far-fetched. I do recall, vague
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by AimHere 13y ago
Well there are possibly smaller studios and devs who perhaps don't have the resources to roll their own translation layers, for whom this might be a tipping point towards supporting SteamOS and/or Linux. Since Valve has already wr
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by AimHere 13y ago
>we have a system of mathematics built on a few basic principles (that you would not disagree with) and deductive reasoning I think it's even better than that; mathematicians don't necessarily care whether the reader 'agre
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by AimHere 13y ago
It's not yet ported to Linux.
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by AimHere 13y ago
Likely technical; the last three major source games to be ported were Dota2, this and Counterstrike: Global Offensive (as yet not running on Linux), which were their three newest games, and presumably used their shiniest, glossiest versions
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by AimHere 13y ago
I don't think it would make much odds for IMDB. Sure you'll maybe negate the overly high proportion of extreme votes, but I don't think that effect is large. I did once take the top films on IMDB and remove the extreme votes,
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by AimHere 13y ago
IMDB provides that by itself: http://www.imdb.com/search/title?groups=top_1000&sort=user_r...
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by AimHere 13y ago
One thing I was hoping this series would shed light on was an oddity in demographic voting patterns with the ratings system. From my own (anecdotal) observation, there's a class of films where the 'Females 45+' rating is a bi
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by AimHere 13y ago
Well LGS made about three games after Terra Nova, so maybe not. Their last full game was Thief 2 which I think made money but not enough to warrant them being kept alive in the wake of the Daikatana fiasco.
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by AimHere 13y ago
Right. Gabe isn't admitting to wrongdoing here, since Valve feels that the particular check was limited enough to be a reasonable countermeasure. According to Gabe, this module was not aimed at scraping anyone's web usage or brows
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by AimHere 13y ago
>I've poked around a few of the DLLs since I saw this and am unable to find anything even remotely close to what this does. This is part of the Valve anticheat system. I believe that the idea is that this sort of code is downloaded
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by AimHere 13y ago
I think that the original use of the term was as a synonym for anarchist, because anarchism had been outlawed. Libertarians have to call themselves something - I figure they can keep the word 'libertarian' and old-school libertari
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by AimHere 13y ago
The argument is more along the lines of 'the users for these systems use 1-based subscripts in their technical literature so we'll make conversion from formula-in-physics-paper to running code easier by having the corresponding da
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by AimHere 13y ago
He was a professor of physics at Edinburgh University, and he certainly showed up on the campus there. I saw him around, but I don't recall witnessing him doing any work since I didn't study much physics. I'm guessing what he
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by AimHere 13y ago
That's a possibility; or perhaps the OP is recruiting Hacker News as a vigilante mob to scare off the person whose code he ripped off; or perhaps this is an experiment or a prank to see what sort of internet vigilanteism can be whipped
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by AimHere 13y ago
>The number one economic fallacy is this: he claims that doing a job, all other things being equal, removes bread from someone elses mouth. This is 100% false. Russell agrees with you, through the medium of sarcasm and reductio ad absurd
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by AimHere 13y ago
>The theme was also propagated in the novel 1984,concept of equality among humans was/is going to be a big disaster. Not at all. If you want to mention an anti-egalitarian novel, Harrison Bergeron is probably the one to pick. Orwell
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by AimHere 13y ago
Heh, there's still time, you never know! Perhaps Friday's announcement is a cold HL3 product launch.
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by AimHere 13y ago
And right there you're going to need a sizeable chunk of X windows, and a C library, and network configuration utilities, hardware management tools (looks like this is aimed at commodity hardware + reference machines from Valve) and th
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by AimHere 13y ago
I think the reasoning behind using an RTS is likely that the company wants people to write inherently online games on their platform as part of whatever monetization strategy they have - and the other big alternatives are the MMO and MOBA g
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by AimHere 13y ago
It's likely they all are. If you read the article, the Koran is one of the items pre-stocked in the empty cells alongside toiletries, waste paper bin and a prayer cap.

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