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by SEMW 13y ago
I've never heard of it, but I wouldn't be surprised if we did. But: It's not clear to me that the rule is at all relevant to that scam. As you describe it, it's not that the victims reasonably appeared to be agreeing to
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by SEMW 13y ago
That's the beauty of using objective (rather than subjective) intent as the test. You don't need to prove belief. Subjective belief is irrelevant. What you need is objective facts, and a court that pretends it's a reasonable
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by SEMW 13y ago
I disagree. Penalty clauses* have been unenforceable at common law for long before actual consumer protection legislation was even thought of. I'd be pretty leery of destroying such a good principle, backed by centuries of common law c
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by SEMW 13y ago
At common law, the heart of a contract is consensus 'ad idem' - agreement to the same thing. I can only enforce a contract against you if a reasonable person in my position, at the time of contracting, would have believed that you
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by SEMW 13y ago
Of all the privacy intrusions you're subjected to, are you seriously making an issue out of optional, transparent, anonymized hardware reports, in a Free Software project, used to compile publicly available statistics[1] on what phones
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by SEMW 13y ago
Well, there are 4 now. But there's a public API (more precisely, 3 public APIs), so more'll start popping up soon enough. https://developers.google.com/cast/
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by SEMW 13y ago
The GoogleTV g+, twitter etc. feeds, previously pretty active, have been dead since January. My guess is the bulk of the GoogleTV engineering talent left it to make chromecast.
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by SEMW 13y ago
Apps which want to support this would add a 'stream to chromecast' button which would use the Chromecast android/iOS API. ( https://developers.google.com/cast/ ) It seems to not be possible to stream the w
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by SEMW 13y ago
> I'm missing the times when every release was a new sweet thing. There's never been a time when all point releases had a new codename. Eclair covered 2.0 and 2.1. Honeycomb covered 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2. I don't see any evide
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by SEMW 13y ago
Officially, the chromecast API only (so far) supports sender applications built on ios, android, and chrome ( https://developers.google.com/cast/ ). Unofficially, I'd be surprised if vlc hasn't found a way to b
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by SEMW 13y ago
> The bar for prior art is very high ... Even an actual real product made and sold by a company - not published. Even standard industry practise, established for years, if not written up and "published" somewhere, may not quali
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by SEMW 13y ago
> In what way do you think that patents are broken such that applying them to one field of human invention works, but applying them to another does not? Different fields of human invention have different economic characteristics. For a f
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Lawrence Lessig AMA - complete list of answered questions(reddit.com)
2 points by SEMW 13y ago|0 comments
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by SEMW 13y ago
You're a bit late, gnome 3.8 was released back in March. HN story at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5451646 . (FWIW, I've been running it for a couple of weeks, and rather like it. A couple of the
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by SEMW 13y ago
Yup. dconf-editor* -> org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences has focus-mode (click,sloppy,mouse), auto-raise (true,false), and auto-raise-delay (0-10000) keys, all seem to work fine. (focus-mode is also settable from gnome-tweak-tool's &#
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by SEMW 13y ago
> 1. You're not "giving up" the rights to your contribution, you are sharing the copyright with the organization. That is, your work is your work and you're still free to do whatever you want with it. Sorry, but - as
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by SEMW 13y ago
No. Jury nullification does not mean a jury gets to rule that 'thing X is not illegal'. Rather, it's a jury saying 'I know thing X is illegal (and I can't change that), but I'm going to say that the defendant
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by SEMW 13y ago
> ...argue this issue in front of a jury of their peers, and then be acquitted, establishing a precedent? This is conceptually confused. Juries aren't judges or lawyers. They don't get to rule on questions of law, and their ve
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by SEMW 13y ago
> The Guardian could at least "apologize" for using "scare quotes" in the process of walking back their claim. Seems to me that the claim from the article re scare quotes is nonsense. There are no scare quotes in the
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by SEMW 13y ago
The reason for all that creativity is to try and get around Apple's breathtakingly broad patent for unlocking a phone by moving along a "predefined displayed path". http://www.google.com/patents/US7657849
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by SEMW 13y ago
Microsoft and Palm have been building full-face touch-screen mobile devices since the late 1990s. Full-face Touch-screen PocketPC phones started coming out in 2002ish. Yes, they were resistive rather than capacitative touch-screens. That wa
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In Praise of Mediocrity (freakonomics.com)
2 points by SEMW 13y ago|0 comments
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by SEMW 13y ago
> Take a look at the text screenshot. It is hard to tell where I should touch to start typing. My guess is, the text box below the message list, which in the same place as it is in every sms app on every modern phone platform, and which
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by SEMW 13y ago
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wwdc-2013-live was one, but I've no idea if it'll be better for slow connections than http://www.ustream.tv/ltktv
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by SEMW 13y ago
Yeah, I think so. I've had a look through the other feeds on ustream, and haven't found one good quality as that one but that doesn't have annoying commentators talking over the presenter. Ah well...
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by SEMW 13y ago
Cheers, that's the right one. (Though cuts out every minute or so for me, anyone else?)
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by SEMW 13y ago
The keynote's started, and that link's still playing last year's.
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by SEMW 13y ago
Yes, but that you can identify one right that governments can/should afford non-citizens and citizens alike doesn't mean that's true of all rights. Venomsnake was trying to identify the kind of right that it should be true fo
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by SEMW 13y ago
> wouldn't a TRNG require infinite memory, ... etc.? One number generated may be 2 but the next number may be negative infinity. I may be misunderstanding you, but true randomness doesn't mean 'a distribution that's n
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by SEMW 13y ago
Both my country and the US are already signatories to various international treaties guaranteeing a human right against arbitrary interference with privacy and correspondence, e.g. the ICCPR. The US has declined to transcribe it into its ow

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