Amadou

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by Amadou 14y ago
Attribution is a pretty standard component of the moral rights associated with copyright in many non-US countries. In the US, moral rights (versus economic rights) are hardly protected at all. For the most part they are limited to riding
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by Amadou 14y ago
I think that this consistent misunderstanding that she is "only trying to make money" is itself significantly more worrisome than her specific case. I think it speaks very poorly of our profession that so many HN readers have a really hard
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by Amadou 14y ago
It isn't that most of the people in the program are or are not rich, it is that most of the rich in the country are in the program. In other words -- anyone who is (a) likely to be annoyed by the inconvenience AND (b) powerful enough to do
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by Amadou 14y ago
I don't think you understand - the images (at least the ones that got through my adblockers) are hosted on her website. Which is exactly what is needed to illustrated the work in the review. The part that isn't necessary for reviewing is
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by Amadou 14y ago
I think it is the opposite, he makes journalism look like smears. I pretty much agree with him 100% on the issues but 0% on the presentation -- I can't stand to read his articles because they drip with vitriol. Over the years I've grown u
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by Amadou 14y ago
Not even the TSA believes that. That's why they have "TSA Precheck" - pay $100 and submit to a "background check" and you will almost always skip the molestation. TSA Precheck is a program explicitly designed to placate the people with eno
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by Amadou 14y ago
No they aren't. The carrier is requiring that the customer purchase a very high interest rate loan in order to use their cell service. This situation is not unlike a credit card issuer requiring that you don't lend out the books you bought
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by Amadou 14y ago
Laws are fundamentally codifications of human nature. So a law that goes against the majority of people's natural inclinations (or to use your term, personal choices) is by definition immoral.
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by Amadou 14y ago
It may not invalidate the claim that piracy is wrong. But it certainly calls into question their suitability to enforce anti-piracy laws. As to orofino's claim that it doesn't make piracy any more morally right, I disagree. It is one more
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by Amadou 14y ago
There are a couple of more parts to that story that help to make it more persuasive. 1) Zero succesful airline attacks 2) Zero convictions for attempted terrorism of anyone detained by the TSA 3) Zero civilians killed in any form of (islami
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by Amadou 14y ago
IANAL either. BUT, I know a guy who had his car stolen through fraud. The fraudster gave him a bogus cashiers check (and his bank took over a month after deposit to alert him that the check was bogus). His car insurance paid out on a thef
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by Amadou 14y ago
I think "Sticky-D" is a much better interpretation. It is got "swag" or "je ne sais quoi" for the more literate crowd. But "stickied" makes me think of old ladies and post-it notes.
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by Amadou 14y ago
I'd rather use the back and sides as a "smart" chording-keyboard -- make the entire surface pressure sensitive with a decent enough resolution to map each finger and then automagically assign the right key to each finger based on the locati
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by Amadou 14y ago
Stories like this make me think there would be a market for low-volume, high-security email services. For example, a service that only accepts logins from pre-authorized devices, where any access pattern out of the ordinary is immediately