Cushman

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by Cushman 14y ago
Millions of normal not-too-savvy folks use GoDaddy because to them it's synonymous with domain registration. They profoundly do not deserve their sites to be down for that. For shame.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Is that the Assassin's Creed logo?
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by Cushman 14y ago
If you'll read my comment again, you may notice I'm talking about the specific claim that child pornography laws enable child rape . That is a claim I feel is without basis in fact. The issue you're talking about is one I agree with, as I'
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by Cushman 14y ago
Presumably the standard would be, as with pornography, that the media in question must have some literary or cultural value apart from its illegal content.
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by Cushman 14y ago
The author's case in claiming that is hilariously weak. He presents a ludicrously tromped-up stranger-rape scenario where the rapist gets off scott-free because of child porn laws. But wait, he says this isn't some "far-fetched science fict
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by Cushman 14y ago
Maybe. They seem to handle copyrighted content pretty well.
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by Cushman 14y ago
One of few completely valid points the author makes is that there is such a thing as victimless child pornography. In fact, since the advent of webcams, it's probably come to outnumber the bad stuff 10 to 1. Under the law, every time a high
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by Cushman 14y ago
Presented as a reductio at the end of the article: It’s not illegal to film a murder. It’s not illegal to possess a film of a murder. But one has to wonder: What if it were? What if YouTube had a button for "Report Illegal" that fo
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by Cushman 14y ago
Uh huh. Scientist: "As you can see here, we've demonstrated quantum teleportation across an unprecedented--" Journalist: "Teleportation?! Like in Star Trek?" Scientist: "Uh, no. *Quantum* teleportation is a different--" Journalist
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by Cushman 14y ago
Do you also get upset when biologists talk about "cloning" because they don't mean duplicating an adult like in the movies?
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by Cushman 14y ago
What cases are you talking about when you say "like this one"? There absolutely is no statutory fair use protection for mashups in the general case, and I'd be shocked if the case law is anything but subjective.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you feel qualifies it as fair use? That's a fairly specific doctrine (in the US, at least).
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by Cushman 14y ago
If only everyone who was a jerk to anyone would try weed. We'd be a lot better off.
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by Cushman 14y ago
If you're an adolescent, if you are pregnant or nursing, if you are predisposed to heart disease, stroke, or psychosis, if you use heavy machinery frequently or work in government, then occasional cannabis use may not improve your quality o
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by Cushman 14y ago
He's not doing this because he's Steve Jobs, he's doing it because he has a reason for doing it that Steve Jobs had first. Cue joke about "A system and method for dressing a human being." And man, I just don't know about the rest of that. I
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by Cushman 14y ago
I didn't mean to imply modern Arabic script came to be then -- it wasn't what we'd call Arabic today before the Quran -- only that evolution from inscribed block capitals to written script was happening at around the same time as that trans
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by Cushman 14y ago
Ah, I see. I think you may have it backwards, though: script Arabic developed around the same time as lower-case letters in Greek and Latin (very roughly 0CE), coinciding one presumes with growing use of paper for writing. While Latin event
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by Cushman 14y ago
Not sure if "modernized" is appropriate in this context, since productive abbreviation in western languages dates to antiquity, i.e. Latin.
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by Cushman 14y ago
My understanding is that there are a handful in common use, but the process is not productive as it is in most Latinate languages.
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by Cushman 14y ago
It looks like if you add Arabic as a language in Chrome, domains aren't converted. (And actually it will change http://xn--ggblala6cyf.xn--wgbh1c/ to ستفتاء.مصر in the address bar.)
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by Cushman 14y ago
It's interesting that the Arabic TLDs aren't abbreviated the way Latin and semi-Latin (.рф) country codes are. I wonder if that's reflective of anything besides that abbreviation of words is not as common in written Arabic.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Hilarious as this is, it's a bit baffling that so many people seem to think it "serves them right" when in fact it makes the perfect case for why design patents exist. If you're the sort of person who thinks a rounded rectangle shouldn't be
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by Cushman 14y ago
Maybe this is a stupid question, but what does a lawsuit settled in 2012 have to do with an announcement made in 2010?
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by Cushman 14y ago
What makes you so sure we're not witnessing it right now? During the recession, millions of people lost their jobs. If you look at the numbers, those companies are doing all right again, so why haven't those people all been hired back?
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by Cushman 14y ago
Are you talking about AntiSec, or the FBI?
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by Cushman 14y ago
If there are a lot of replies in a short time, the reply link goes away for a bit to moderate the discussion. You can always reply from the comment's permalink.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Not eating one piece of a $300 sushi meal would be like throwing out a whole plate at a pretty fancy restaurant... lots of chefs would be upset by that.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Only if Q is knowable.
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Or indeed the traffic light itself.
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Sorry, it's not clear to me which one of those patents you feel is prior art for Apple's specific claim of a method for scrolling on a touch-screen display where a distinct area past the edge of the document is displayed and then removed wh

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