Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
Note: Just because I don't have any cases offhand of my friends fined for jaywalking, doesn't mean it isn't against the law. That's putting your arguments into the realm of faith. If those three citations are any indi
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by Amadou 13y ago
Yes. Downloading an album or movie without paying for it is illegal. This isn't in dispute. I think it is in substantial dispute. Can you cite a case of someone in the US being successfully prosecuted for downloading? Note that thi
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by Amadou 13y ago
That is indeed what anonymous US officials have claimed. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/porn-found-osama-bin-laden-evi...
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by Amadou 13y ago
Obviously it wouldn't work that way. They would arrange to have the incriminating information show up in a way that wasn't obviously linked to the great satan. Then they would have a double-agent positioned to take control once
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by Amadou 13y ago
Everyone should remember how the FBI tried to blackmail Martin Luther King. http://studentactivism.net/2012/01/15/the-fbis-attempt-to-bl...
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by Amadou 13y ago
Remember the unfortunately named us congressman Anthony Weiner? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Weiner_sexting_scandal... Ever wonder if maybe he didn't accidentally post that dick pic to his political twi
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by Amadou 13y ago
I guess that means you think non-consensual sex is perfectly fine! If there is one thing anyone else reading along should take away from this discussion, it is that you wrote the above. It perfectly sums up the intellectual rigor of the
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by Amadou 13y ago
I really don't understand why practically no other sites have adopted the slashdot moderation system. It isn't perfect, but it is by far the best moderation system that does not require large time commitments from the site owners
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by Amadou 13y ago
I am soooo going to plagiarize the crap out of that. I have my doubts that it was ever the way you described it. But given these discussions are often rhetorical I don't think that detracts all that much from the concept.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Oh nonsense. You're ignoring the legal system, which is hilarious, because you're talking about a LEGAL construct. Original poster called it an "an unavoidable fact" - that is a statement far in excess of "there
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'll just leave this right here: http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuck-everything-were-doing-...
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by Amadou 13y ago
There isn't a single model that will fit all cases. But for your specific example, micropayments. Advertising has kind of starved out the development of micropayment systems over the last decade, but it looks like bitcoin has a chance
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by Amadou 13y ago
Without "legal fictions", what's to keep someone more capable than you to simply take it from you? Laws don't keep people from taking tangible items, they only punish afterwards. The only thing that stops someone from
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by Amadou 13y ago
No mention of HIPAA in their privacy statement. A perfunctory google search found mumblings online about them not being covered by HIPAA. https://www.23andme.com/about/privacy/#Full
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by Amadou 13y ago
Even if they win, they've lost; the legal costs alone are silly and aren't paid for by the loser. You could have said the exact same thing when they first went to court and it would have been just as true. But that's why
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by Amadou 13y ago
I think most people would call the rock stars cashing out "talented." That is only a meaningful statement if you also believe the corollary - the people who aren't cashing out are not talented. And if you believe that th
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by Amadou 13y ago
RequestPolicy is a little bit of all those wrapped up into one plugin that does whitelisting. https://www.requestpolicy.com/
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by Amadou 13y ago
"Legal fiction" is the only thing that gives anyone any control over anything, tangible or otherwise. No, tangible items are inherently controllable because they are rivalrous and excludable. The law just structures how we deal
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by Amadou 13y ago
You probably just left it out, but what was the effect on traffic to the website and as follow-on, sales? I'm thinking the goal was not to have more email subscribers, the goal was probably to sell more stuff via the website.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Mozilla's argument is that all of that functionality is better left to plugins. People can make just as compelling arguments for all kinds of functionality and consequently firefox is moving in the direction of becoming a kitchen sink
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by Amadou 13y ago
It is not an argument, it is a statement of fact, like saying water is wet. There is an implicit assumption in your position that copyright based compensation is the only method of compensation. It isn't. It wasn't even the domi
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by Amadou 13y ago
I think it's an unavoidable fact that if you create something you are allowed to dictate the terms of using, consuming, or experiencing that thing. I have to disagree 100%. Once you publish something you lose all effective control
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by Amadou 13y ago
If such detection becomes commonplace, there will be escalation. Adblocker/replacer software will go the next step of downloading the ads, but then handing over appropriately sized transparent .pngs to the browser. Ultimately it is a
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Leader of the Daleks Gets Linkedin Account and 600 Automated Contacts(blog.marketing4restaurants.com)
2 points by Amadou 13y ago|0 comments
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'm sure that the vast majority of doctors, even in profit-making systems, are just trying to do the right thing. This 2009 article looks at what happens when doctors invest in medical facilities. It doesn't even have to be ove
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by Amadou 13y ago
I've been casually looking for confirmation of that one way or the other for a few months now and my google-fu was not up to the task - and reading the ACA isn't really an option either, because of length and my own lack of domain
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by Amadou 13y ago
If I were to ever use 23andme, I'd use a fake name, a disposable mailing address, a fake email address, and never, ever discuss it with anyone. That's not enough. Remember how netflix's "anonymized" data could be
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by Amadou 13y ago
Compare it with Carfax and similar "car history" reporting websites. A positive result is nearly always meaningful, but a negative result means nothing more than a lack of hits in a database that is well known to be incomplete.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Don't regret making works of art. It is all that succeeds us when we leave this realm. Until someone turns off the hosting servers.
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Proof of Concept for BadBios: Covert Acoustical Mesh Networks in Air(jocm.us)
3 points by Amadou 13y ago|0 comments

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