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Pwnguinz
15y ago
Sometimes you have to retreat and live to fight another day. With the labels pressuring, they would have had to risk litigation to protect one specific vendor, something I'm pretty sure they weren't willing to do. With this, they have the c
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15y ago
In Elon Musk I Trust.
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15y ago
They have a significant stake in the DMCA and what its legislation protects. If the DMCA is allowed to erode too easily by MPAA & Co., Google's many businesses may be threatened either directly or indirectly. Google is looking out for
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15y ago
Just to add on to what hendzen said, they are already rather expensive as it is: $15,000 for 20 years (in Canada, where I'm from). Hardly affordable for the average small-time inventor. A friend of mine whom just patented a method of preven
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15y ago
I think that's an approach that--on the outset--anyone can agree with. But the problem is that any decent professional of a field capable of doing that are also not the ones willing to sit in the patent office merely reviewing applications.
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15y ago
Not true in the slightest. Many chapters in textbooks used post-secondary education institutes are either regurgitating things you already knew from pre-req classes or things you don't need (i.e. not part of the course curriculum). While in
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15y ago
The irony she brings up has been something that's been bothering me for quite some time--namely, why do institutions that study how we learn not apply those learnings? Granted, large institutions usually do go with the path of least resis