GHFigs

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by GHFigs 15y ago
They're out in the open... They are not. You're thinking of the the torrent of public domain works released by Greg Maxwell, which isn't directly related. Aaron Swartz downloaded much, much, more, and according to JSTOR's statement: " We
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by GHFigs 15y ago
JSTOR is not just public domain works, and there is no indication that the downloading was limited to public domain works.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
I can vouch for Crusader Kings, Hearts of Iron, and Victora (all from the same developer as Europa Universalis: Paradox Interactive) as having the kind of beyond-Civ levels of depth and complexity you're looking for. Each is tailored to it'
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by GHFigs 15y ago
You have to do what in any case? Stop thinking for yourself? I disagree.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
I see the exact opposite. I see a call to stop thinking and align yourself with an ideology. e.g, "Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to us as you cannot arrest an idea. Any attempt to do so will make your citizens more angry until t
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Of all the indications that this is fake, the little-endian date is my favorite.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
This is what I mean by bonkers: nobody is "basing the legality on quantity". You made that up. I didn't say that. The indictment didn't say that. The law doesn't say that. As it seems your concern for fact starts and ends with the considera
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by GHFigs 15y ago
(8) the term “damage” means any impairment to the integrity or availability of data, a program, a system, or information; http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_0...
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by GHFigs 15y ago
if JSTOR serves 7000 institutions around the world, having that number effectively jump to 7100 I understand what you're thinking, but that's not what happened. He downloaded a hundred times MIT, not a hundred times the average institutio
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Frankly, I think most of the claims in your post are bonkers, but this one sticks out: This inconveniencing of other users could have been avoided and the blame for how JSTOR allocates resources lies with the architects of JSTOR. "During
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by GHFigs 15y ago
A detail you missed is that Swartz was not a student or faculty member at MIT. He was a fellow at Harvard.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Why did Aaron hack their system instead of working with them to further understand what were his needs that their system was lacking and how they could reduce that gap?
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by GHFigs 15y ago
This tragically recurrent idea that you can make up your own idea about what a patent covers without reading it is absolute fucking horseshit and should be abhorrent to anybody that values truth over ideology. No, Apple did not patent pot
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by GHFigs 15y ago
It is easier for me to believe that you haven't looked at the patent description at all than it is to believe that you actually think HTML or text adventures are prior art for it.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
used this particular patent to get the idea or work out how to implement it A patent protects the invention, not the text of the patent. The more realistic question is whether HTC's implementation was worked out by looking at how the feat
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by GHFigs 15y ago
The fact that you can't go around those patents The very first clause you quoted states that HTC says they can . You're citing the author's rhetoric as fact.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Again, there is no implication money is shifting hands. "It's actually a transfer of wealth from the coffers of Apple, RIM and MS to mostly developing-nation consumers..." -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2777354
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by GHFigs 15y ago
They were ignored by people who can't fit that into their narrative.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Would this post have been written if McDonald had installed the software on hundreds of computers in public libraries instead? How about if the software was a keylogger?
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Is it OK to complain about something you didn't make, didn't pay for, and don't use?
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by GHFigs 15y ago
How does Apple encourage people to define themselves by the things they buy?
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by GHFigs 15y ago
They changed iTV to AppleTV before the product launched, not after three years.
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A Rocket to Nowhere(idlewords.com)
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Consider:"Bing google engine, for all your googling needs. If you ever need to google something, use Bing!"
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by GHFigs 15y ago
It is surprisingly challenging. The mouse doesn't input position, it inputs movement, and not all movement, but movement of a specific point on a plane aligned to itself (not the screen, not the hand) and only if you slide it against a surf
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by GHFigs 15y ago
It's a PDF FlateDecode block, i.e. it's DEFLATEd. The actual payload within may be different, but this much has been used before. http://digdog.tumblr.com/post/894317027/jailbreak-with-pdf-f...
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by GHFigs 15y ago
with the argument that the UN allows evil countries to vote I won't vouch for their exact argument, but this was around the time Sudan was elected to the Commission on Human Rights.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
The first media business that figures out how to sell to this generation will get adoption quickly. It's too soon to tell, but the model Apple has taken with iTunes Match seems promising. Basically, instead of selling access to the media
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by GHFigs 15y ago
How does copyright fall under either immigration or customs? Think bootleg DVDs. According to the linked Guardian article, most of the domains ICE has seized were selling counterfeit physical goods.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
And it saves me money. You could save just as much money by not playing the game at all.

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