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by GHFigs 16y ago
Apple: Customers purchasing a subscription through the App Store will be given the option of providing the publisher with their name, email address and zip code when they subscribe. The use of such information will be governed by the publi
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Currently, Android Market doesn't support subscription billing. Please note that collecting payments through your application is not allowed under the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement. -- http://market.android.com/support/
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by GHFigs 16y ago
An enormous and unwarranted sense of entitlement. Edit: Man goes to store to buy cereal. Buys milk, too. Cereal company asks store owner "But what do we get?"
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I'm assuming they're talking about NSLs They're are not talking about the number of NSLs issued, they're talking about potential violations of the law, some of which involve NSLs. That's the confusion. Incidentally, the link you posted is
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I think I'd much sooner take EFF's word than the FBI's word, about the number. I don't think you understand what's going on here. There is no official number from the FBI that the EFF is somehow contradicting. What you might be mistaking
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by GHFigs 16y ago
The number was 40,000 4-5 years ago Source?
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by GHFigs 16y ago
The "40,000" figure isn't any less made up than it was two weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2159444
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by GHFigs 16y ago
The lack of awareness and discussion about that area and the lack of access to it by everyday Japanese spoke tons about the Japan-U.S. relationship. I should hope so, given that it's the US Embassy.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
At worst, the established interests will refuse to license to you, because they don't want a competitor. Hence patent pools, in which participants who are often direct competitors agree to license to each other and anybody else on the sam
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Think tanks: are they just PR firms? This person with important title from important-sounding organization says yes. Critics like this other guy say no. The more important person says the critics are wrong. The only thing that is certain is
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by GHFigs 16y ago
You don't have to be exceptionally smart, only persistent and willing to eschew the trappings of leadership in favor of playing the "Anonymous has no leaders" game. Anonymous craves leadership but resents authority, so it's crucial to appea
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by GHFigs 16y ago
If you look at the targets for Anonymous in terms of political uprisings... ...you engender such a large selection bias that I remain as convinced as ever that you're simply projecting your own beliefs onto something considerably more nih
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I'm not sure why you're addressing that to me. You said it was a political movement that you supported. It's entirely reasonable to ask you what that movement stands for. (Hint: The reason you're finding that a difficult question is that
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by GHFigs 16y ago
At the risk of becoming too meta, I'd like to ask anybody who is about to bookmark this "for later" to consider what would happen (viz. procrastination) if you didn't.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Here's an idea: let's pick out one provision of the bill that sounds sketchy when summarized and whip ourselves into a massive rhetorical frenzy over it in lieu of reading so much as a word of the rest of it and considering ways it could be
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by GHFigs 16y ago
You mean... No. I mean that the above comment seems to be suggesting that a company that reaches a certain level of success (e.g. Apple's user base) is in the wrong if it doesn't share that success on equal terms with any competitor that
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Is there a precedent for conditions of a uniform voluntary agreement being considered "predatory"? Edit: The parent comment did not deserve downvotes, folks.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
It sounds like you're suggesting that successful companies should help their less successful competitors rather than competing.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
the sooner government steps in and clips Apple's wings the better What exactly do you want the government to do?
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by GHFigs 16y ago
At this point Apple is such a big buyer of flash memory that for a supplier to cut them off would mean either cutting production or depressing prices, neither of which is good for them. I'm not sure how different it is for SoCs.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I'm not clear on why your made-up number is better than their made-up number, but I agree that even a smaller number of that third category is too many. Specifically, I'm hesitant to assume that the proportions of the EFF's sample are repre
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Is Norway evil? Finland? Brazil? South Korea? Taiwan? Germany?
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by GHFigs 16y ago
The documents the EFF obtained are from those investigations.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Take with a grain of salt. The "40,000" figure the EFF mentions is entirely their own. The number of potential violations actually described in the documents they have is 768. Is it reasonable to assume that the actual number is 50 times hi
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by GHFigs 16y ago
It's still strange to me that the press and discussion sites all over the web are directing a lot of attention towards the idea that the US (or European democracies) would do this to itself (for reasons continually left unstated) while the
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by GHFigs 16y ago
They say it's to protect against cyber-warfare And if it is?
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Going back to OS-specific codecs would limit codec choice to what the OS vendor considers kosher. Not true. e.g.: http://xiph.org/dshow/ http://xiph.org/quicktime/ Why am I not free to do this with h.264 in "open" browsers?
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by GHFigs 16y ago
help HTML5 <video> see better overall adoption Who says it needs help?
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The browsers that do support it run on the platform by the same vendor. I don't understand the significance. The same APIs are accessible to any other browser. If someone has evidence that Mozilla, et al. have been technically locked out
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by GHFigs 16y ago
web codec development would move at the same glacial pace as Windows version updates I'm not convinced that that is the case, but even if it were, the state of things with bundling codecs is being limited to what Google and Mozilla say is

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