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by GHFigs 14y ago
I don't see how that answers my question. A non-zero risk does not mean "In all likelihood" things would unfold as you have depicted them.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
it's now being used to hold back society, via actually preventing people from accessing the copyrighted content What are you referring to here? When I think of the piracy debate, I think of the things that are most commonly pirated, and I
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Piracy isn't a morals problem, it's an economics problem. I find it difficult to reconcile this with the near-constant moral tirades about it, such as those which claim piracy is not about people being cheap, or those which claim rightsho
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by GHFigs 14y ago
What does "flagged off" mean? Where are you seeing the number of flags, and how are you concluding that flagging causes something to fall off the front page any faster than normal? AFAIK the front-page sorting has always been counter-intuit
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by GHFigs 14y ago
In all likelihood... What are you basing that on, exactly?
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by GHFigs 14y ago
From the paper: "Box office revenues of movies shown on the average number of screens and below were affected negatively, but the total effect is not statistically significant. For blockbusters (shown on more than 500 screens) the sign is p
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by GHFigs 14y ago
overtaking the biggest mobile OS You're mixing up evidence here. Android has the largest share of mobile units, but the comparison being made is web traffic. Android's share of mobile web traffic share is not the largest, being only a thi
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I have re-read this argument "design patents have a very limited scope" a few times over the latest Apple patent craze. It's not an argument, it's a fact. Design patents are not utility patents. Utility patents are not design patents. The
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I can't speak for anybody else, but I don't remember the last time I suffered for opting out of any portion of modern popular culture.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
You're sure?
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by GHFigs 14y ago
"Alas, this design patent appears to be quite narrow. According to Ars Technica, Wired and the wisdom of patent lawyer-cum-Internet commenters, the granted patent can really only be used for the precise design of that first iPad, so that no
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by GHFigs 14y ago
The reason you're happy with your platform is actually because they've locked you into it. I don't agree. Lock-in is when "I want to switch, but can't." Happiness is "I don't want to switch." Most users on most platforms are happy or at w
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by GHFigs 14y ago
You're assuming each user has only one device. No, I'm not. I said "platform". A single platform can encompass multiple devices. An Android user that likes Android is less likely to decide to buy an iPad than he is to buy an Android-based
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by GHFigs 14y ago
You're implicitly referring to the subset of end users that have chosen or would like to choose devices from incompatible ecosystems. I suspect this set of users is relatively small, given that it excludes what seems like the most common ca
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by GHFigs 14y ago
It's much easier to understand the EFF if you recognize them as a libertarian organization at heart.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
it doesn't address the content of the article I wholeheartedly disagree. The singing and dancing crap that people surround their text and images with is content. It's just crap content. Think about it the other way: if it's not content,
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Why does anybody get to vote in the first place?
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Do credit card dumps gratify one's intellectual curiosity?
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I'm not conflating the two at all. The point is that having rights over your own work implies other people have rights over theirs, too.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
You're confusing your own choice to give away your own work with the choice of many to take work of others not freely given. It's unreasonable to assume that everybody would make the same choice as you, which is why a creator's right to mak
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Both arrived at these solutions at the same time because the wide availability of capacitive touchscreens Strange conclusion, given that the original Microsoft Surface does not use a capacitive touchscreen.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
If Samsung didn't copy Apple, the best selling phone in the market would be worse. A worse phone would still be the best selling?
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by GHFigs 14y ago
As I said, he's awaiting trial, which has been delayed by both sides for various reasons. One of those reasons has been to gather evidence of the very things you're describing. Personally, I think this is a better way for a justice system t
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by GHFigs 14y ago
You're mixing up "mention" and "use", which makes it very hard to understand which you mean. Maybe what you're trying to say is that it would be outrageous if they invoked that statue.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
You're hiding highly relevant text behind that "[...]". "...for any term of years or for life, except that the sentence of death shall not be imposed unless the jury or, if there is no jury, the court, further finds that the offense resulte
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by GHFigs 14y ago
You're saying it's outrageous for the UK government to mention UK law in the UK, is that correct?
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Manning has been in jail for more than a year and hasn't even been sentenced yet That's because he's awaiting trial, which has been delayed by both sides for various reasons. This is normal judicial process.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Obama's DOJ has convened a secret grand jury investigating Assange under the Espionage Act. All grand jury proceedings are secret. This is a normal part of the US legal system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_juries_in_the_United_Stat
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Apple already eats up 71% of the mobile profits. You're making it sound like there's this big profit tree out there that everybody's supposed to get an fair share of. Nobody "eats up" profits. They earn them.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
they don't know how to succeed in the new marketplace Who does, in your opinion?

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