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by SEMW 13y ago
> “ignorance of the law is no defense” only applies to the "natural" crimes like murder or theft. It really doesn't (at common law, at least). If you don't believe me, try pleading ignorance of the law when you'r
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by SEMW 13y ago
> As for CC... why do you need it? Just add the address to the "To:" field. The result is the same. It's true that to a mail server routing the email, yes, the result is the same. That doesn't mean the distinction is
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by SEMW 13y ago
You're still focusing too much on the (rather misleading) "ban roaming charges" headline, instead of looking at what the proposed legislation will actually do (" push... roaming out of the market " by allowing peopl
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by SEMW 13y ago
> the actors in the environment needs to shift focus from improving their service and lowering price, to covering the lost revenue due to new legislation. That argument is sufficiently general that it applies to any measure that in some
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by SEMW 13y ago
> So long as governments allow adequate competition the markets will meet customer demands. Did you even read the article? The whole point of the new regulations is to allow competition between providers of different countries in a comm
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by SEMW 13y ago
> What is happening is you grant special benefits to the operators, so they are working in a protected environment. Of course they are going to charge extra if no-one is there to bid lower. If that is the disease that gives the symptom o
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by SEMW 13y ago
> " From 2014, customers would be able to keep costs down by selecting another provider for calls, texts and internet data services while travelling, if their own network charges extra for service abroad. They could do this without
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by SEMW 13y ago
My understanding is that, contrary to GP's comment, the EU didn't 'mandate microUSB'. The original MoU required the manufacturers[1] to get together to decide on a common external power supply "to allow for full com
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by SEMW 13y ago
> There is unlikely to be a high level of cooperation... without significant internal restructuring Internal restructuring like, say, Andy Rubin beyond deposed as head of Android and replaced by the guy in charge of Chrome (Sundar Pichai
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by SEMW 13y ago
Article says they're ditching the Nokia name for smartphones - more specifically, the Lumia line of smartphones running Windows Phone. Says nothing about ditching the Nokia name for the (much, much larger) Symbian-running feature pho
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by SEMW 13y ago
Am I missing something? What motive would the US have for raiding his house? It's not like the US is desperate to know what's in the documents. They already know what's in them. They're the US's own documents. They
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by SEMW 13y ago
You think no-one's tried recreating various distros' binaries from their published source, to check they're the same? E.g. Jos van den Oever did that for Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE here[1]. Which isn't to say that back
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by SEMW 13y ago
> But then what if Google pulls the rug out from under apps that rely on it As has been pointed out, it's open source (specifically, Apache 2.0)[1]. So, fork the code[2], if necessary find&replace any google trademarks, and repu
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by SEMW 13y ago
To be clear, I wasn't making any comment on whether IP rights are 'natural rights' or not, only on whether they're property rights (which ISTM is a much more concrete question). Apologies if I wasn't clear about t
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by SEMW 13y ago
AFAICS we just have different priorities in what we want the terminology to do. You're prioritising the impression that the term "intellectual property" creates in a layman, i.e. that it calls to mind an analogy (with tangibl
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by SEMW 13y ago
See https://lwn.net/Articles/559061/ for a recent discussion about the tone of LKML.
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by SEMW 13y ago
> Is a government granted monopoly "property?" Is a car red? Some cars are red, some aren't. Some red things are cars, some aren't. Government-granted monopolies can create property rights, sure. Other property rights
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by SEMW 13y ago
> The point of the people railing against the phrase "intellectual property" is that the phrase is misleading I venture you may have missed my point. The phrase isn't misleading, it's correct. Having the word "p
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by SEMW 13y ago
> The "property" part appears ... is a tendentious word added later, like "pro-life." Don't be silly. The word "property" in "intellectual property" is used in its legal sense: a particular an
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by SEMW 13y ago
> What decisions have been overturned by community feedback? A few, AFAICS. E.g. Gnome 3.10 is returning to a conventional multi-option power dialogue box[1], after the merging of 'suspend' & 'power off' into one
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by SEMW 13y ago
twelvechairs was explaining the etymology. As current usage goes, it's a British English / American English difference, as has already been pointed out. (And frankly, taking an arbitrary regional spelling difference and declaring
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by SEMW 13y ago
The purpose of the hashing work in bitcoin is to solve the Two Generals Problem. The purpose of widespread expensive encryption of emails is to make routine decryption impractical. Two different problems, which don't have much in commo
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by SEMW 13y ago
There is an a European body dedicated to civil liberties and human rights, and it isn't the EU. It's the Council of Europe, which is the body which coordinated the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) and runs the European C
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by SEMW 13y ago
It's just a style issue. From 2004 until very recently gay couples in England could only get a 'civil partnership', not a marriage; possibly because of that 'X is Y's partner' in the UK is these days understood
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by SEMW 13y ago
I've read your comment a few times, but I'm still failing to extract anything semantically meaningful from it. Could you clarify?
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The problem being there's no universal definition of "better". My guess is it's not a matter of "not being able to tell the difference" - it's putting bank statements in 'promotions' because peop
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by SEMW 13y ago
> How are you supposed to know that? I could be misremembering, but IIRC when the new inbox first appeared it featured a popover over my inbox explaining how to drag and drop a miscategorized email into a different tab to train it.
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by SEMW 13y ago
> They have been doing this since the beginning, with a web interface, with no delete button initially just archive, with no folders just tags and filters, etc. If that's the evidence for your proposition, it's a little hollow.
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by SEMW 13y ago
Exactly. It's possibly a bit disturbing that on hacker news, this thread consists of three people all complaining that, effectively, 'This bayesian filter doesn't quite do exactly what I want out of the box, so it's cl
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by SEMW 13y ago
> EDIT: Never mind, I get it. Removing the first "1" reduces the chances of getting the second "1", etc. That is a point, but it's not the point maxjus was making. Two different issues: First, whether order matte

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