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by SEMW 13y ago
> but they are clearly playing the game they are also trying to change, and this is hypocritical. No, it's practical. Playing by the rules of the game you're currently playing (rather than the rules of the one you wish you were
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by SEMW 13y ago
"the amount of energy released through the fusion reaction exceeded the amount of energy being absorbed by the fuel" isn't breakeven. The fuel doesn't absorb anywhere near 100% of the energy put in. They're nowhere
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by SEMW 13y ago
I could take issue with this implicit identification of 'democracy' with 'issue-by-issue 50%-majoritarian direct democracy' (i.e. the idea that democracy is whatever a >50% majority in a referendum would currently sho
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by SEMW 13y ago
> "X is a basic human right", then suddenly everyone who produces and sells X must sell it for government-imposed prices. Or has to go to jail. This is nonsense. The ECHR is enforceable against states only (it's a treaty,
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by SEMW 13y ago
> However, courts ultimately derive their principles of justice from the values and traditions of a people. That's a valid POV, but it can hardly be stated as fact. For example, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights owes its exi
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by SEMW 13y ago
> unelected judges to subvert democracy... If your definition of 'democracy' is a system of tyranny of the majority, where an elected government can do whatever it likes, create law in its own image without constitutional limit
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by SEMW 13y ago
FWIW, how true that is does depend where you are. Here in the EU, the CJEU rejected the 'it's only a licence' argument and characterised software downloads (that aren't explicitly limited to a fixed length of time) as no
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by SEMW 13y ago
We know it was rushed, and we know why. Scott Forstall (the architect of iOS 1-6) was fired, and Jonathan Ive promoted to VP of Design, on 29th October 2012, 11 months ago. 11 months -- really 7 months, as it had to be mostly done in time f
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by SEMW 13y ago
> (although the judge is given a great deal of latitude and only egregious cases would be overruled) This does depend on where you are, different jurisdictions will draw the line in very different places. E.g. England has particularly st
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by SEMW 13y ago
That's not really a fair way to present the situation. It isn't 'In the 21st century people couldn't imagine the universe could be curved, how terribly quaint!'. Rather, it's more like 'In the 21st century
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by SEMW 13y ago
> The European Union web page is europa.eu.int You're a little out of date there, I'm afraid. They officially switched from europa.eu.int to europa.eu in May 2006, after the EU's successful campaign to get their own .eu TL
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by SEMW 13y ago
> The Drive edits Doc/Docx files I've just tried it, and no, it can't. On the webapp, editing is done by converting to google docs format; that option doesn't seem to be available on mobile. It can't even view th
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by SEMW 13y ago
> If you read the app description, its for working with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Imagine explaining this to your insert-technologically-inept-relative-of-choice. "No no no, if it's a Word file you need to cl
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by SEMW 13y ago
> We need to make things such that this is no longer true Surely the obvious solution is costs awards - i.e. loser pays winner's legal fees. Instantly destroys the tactic of threatening suit for meritless claims, as if the defendant
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by SEMW 13y ago
> Numerous patent authors have put deliberate errors in the patent to prevent copying. Seems to me anyone discovered doing that should at the very least have their patent annulled and have to return all licensing fees they've made.
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by SEMW 13y ago
Steam is every bit as walled a walled garden as any other. Valve wants to build it on top of am open platform (Linux) because building a walled garden inside someone else's (MS's) walled garden is risky. But that doesn't make
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by SEMW 13y ago
> many open source licenses have exactly such terms in order to fight software patents This misses the point. If you want an atypically wide patent grant (covering not just patents infringed by your contributed code, but also to future c
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by SEMW 13y ago
Venturing just a little further than the title, into the first paragraph, we come across a (large, boldfaced) edited addition to the effect that "All of this applies to the regular Apache License (v2) as well".
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by SEMW 13y ago
> Is going to such an extreme... really necessary? Since Schneier's now doing analysis of unreleased Snowden documents for the Guardian, he now has reason to believe that the NSA has a strong motive to see what documents he's w
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by SEMW 13y ago
> As for voltage - 5V is universal with USB Nitpick for interest's sake: apparently there's a new (2012) 'USB Power Delivery' spec[1] which specifies two new voltage levels (12V & 20V) in addition to 5V, with high
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by SEMW 13y ago
> So to get the best deal, you have to buy in early. Thanks for the advice. I wouldn't want to give any more to the EFF, Child's Play, or Watsi than I absolutely have to. OK, apologies for the sarcasm, but, well— advice on how
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by SEMW 13y ago
Hey, here's a thought -- if we want the daily mail to change its position on climate change, all we need to do is tell them that we've discovered evidence that immigrants cause global warming. They'll reverse their 'scep
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by SEMW 13y ago
Not sure I agree with Nokia's formulation of the saying. I prefer "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery", which makes a lot more sense. Imitation isn't the best form of flattery - it's actually quite an irr
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by SEMW 13y ago
Full details of who's covered: http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/healthcare_e/healthcar... TLDR: all ordinary UK residents, non-ordinary-residents who've been living legally in the UK for >12 mont
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by SEMW 13y ago
That's fair enough. Cheers for the discussion.
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> our proposed attacker has the ability to embed malicious hardware and/or microcode in your CPU which can access to the full contents of RAM and all CPU registers If the threat model under which rdrand can achieve cancelling XORs i
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by SEMW 13y ago
As a bit of history, in case you're interested: Opera releases often used to be staggered, with Windows out first (since, as you say, they're the biggest), MacOS following, and Linux several weeks behind. Around Opera 10ish (I thi
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by SEMW 13y ago
Yes, of course. I don't think WalterBright was claiming that this method eliminates the theoretical possibility of all trusting-trust-type attacks entirely, only that it gives you a good shot at detecting the specific type that Thompso
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by SEMW 13y ago
No. In WalterBright's example, code C is the compiler (the one which you suspect may be backdoored), not the login program. A and B are also compilers, one of which is known-good. So: the difference you'll find isn't the lo
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by SEMW 13y ago
> there is no Linux release of Opera 17, but there will be Opera for Linux Yes, that's what they said for Opera 16, too, and 15. Last version of Opera to be released for Linux was the (pre-blink) 12. I'm sure they will get arou

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