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by SEMW 13y ago
> The only records taken from Internet companies pertain to non-citizens living outside the U.S As a 'non-[US]-citizen living outside the US', I'm a bit disturbed by the implication that it's somehow less bad for the
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There's two answers to that. The narrow legal answer is: false advertising regulations generally only apply to commercial trade which doesn't include elections; wider fraud offences are (unlike false advertising) not strict liabil
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Misleading. Substantive protection of rights in the UK is, overall, as strong or stronger as in the US (weaker in some areas, stronger in others). That the sources of those rights (centuries of common law tradition, ECHR & HRA rights, t
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> a big shiny button... that will show me "Promotions" from Google Offers and Zagat No. It files all your emails that it classifies as promotional but non-spam. That won't include Google Offers and Zagat if you're not subscribed to Goog
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> it blurs the line between the "content" of my inbox and advertising Yeah. They used to automatically file non-spam promotional emails into a separate folder where you could safely ignore them, but now they just go into your regular in
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It's not difficult to construct a situation where dipole attraction would be unstable, but gravity isn't. E.g. an odd number of point particles evenly spaced in a circle. (Real answer: plausible-sounding explanations are ten a penny. Which
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> The jury’s verdict sets a major precedent in distinguishing between those producing and selling food to the public and those producing and distributing food through a private contractual arrangement (e.g., agreement with a food buyers
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" The Dear Esther Linux build on your download page was made by CodeWeavers, which means that it is based on a custom-tailored version of Wine ... [we] commission[ed] Ryan Gordon to create a fully-native version of Dear Esther, as well. ...
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It's not.
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> Or being used by an entity that creates a negative impact on the company's brand. " It looks like you're writing a letter. A letter critical of certain of our company's business practices. I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't let you d
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> But how come it makes sense for online services then? Because, as you just said, it's a way to deal with unforseen abuse situations. But that justification only works for online services (or other situations involving shared or limite
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> The company reserves the right, exercised in its sole discretion, to revoke your license at any time. That clause makes sense for online services. But for packaged software -- really? If I buy a piece of software, I don't expect the d
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> Service providers specifically go out of their way to avoid being seen as publishers, as that would make them liable for the content they authorize. So when facebook does take the extraordinary measure to remove content after the fact
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The argument isn't "Because facebook isn't a government entity it should censor things enough people don't like". It's "Because facebook isn't a government entity it should be able to decline to publish whatever it likes ". That including
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Yeah. An IP address is 32 bits long. It's usually represented as four 8-bit decimals (74.125.227.40), but it's perfectly valid to represent it as a single 32-bit decimal (1249764136).
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TLDR: someone's trying to sell their version of cpufreq_ondemand to people who don't realise it's built in to the OS. If anyone's wondering how they got their 30% power saved figure: their method for measuring power consumption without Gran
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by SEMW 13y ago
True. I was thinking of the submitter, though - it's not obvious to me that a court would consider a file uploaded to an anonymous file sharing site is part of the public domain (test: 'so generally accessible that it cannot be regarded as
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> I'm surprised no Microsoft alternatives are mentioned ... Also, Yahoo ... The author explains why he didn't consider them in his second paragraph: " Moving, for example, from Google Calendar to Yahoo Calendar solves very little in the
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That might need to be qualified: depending on jurisdiction, just because if you don't have a contract with Apple, you shouldn't necessarily assume you're safe from civil liability (if you use or pass it on to others, at least). Here in Engl
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When people say a quantity like $x is exponentially increasing, they generally mean it's going as $x(1 + k)^t for some k, not as ($x)^t. (And remember, any non-unitless quantity will be 1 in some units, nothing special about $1).
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> Surely something more is needed to make it immoral. Depends what you mean by immoral. A moral consequentialist might argue that negative externalities (like pollution) are inherently immoral - though that doesn't necessarily mean ev
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> a simple 2 words that I use most frequently...: GO! > Go = 2 Words that = the ultimate empowerment. Is it a bad sign when your CEO can't count to 1?
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No, it's a standalone app that's being delivered as an update to google talk. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
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Coverity has been reporting bugs it finds in the Linux kernel since ~2000.[1] That makes this comparison complete nonsense, surely? "Bugs found by static analyser X" is only useful as a metric for comparing software projects insofar as it's
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> You have to look at the DMCA as a system. I do? I was approaching this thread as being about the correctness of IP rights as a concept. Again, I'm not disputing the defects of the DMCA, only the use of DMCA abuse to imply that the who
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> Copyright law is also used to suppress anything that the Rightsholder doesn't like Neither of the examples you give really support that. GoPro was about trademarks (and was hopeless anyway - it's not really the fault of trademark laws
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> Is it fair to call copyright "a monopoly on an idea"? IMHO that's a fair description of patents, but not copyright. First reason: copyright doesn't give you a true monopoly, not in the same way that patents do. With a true monopoly o
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The problem here is that you (and mtgx) are using the word "property" in a different way to the way lawyers use it, which is the way it's used in "intellectual property". To a lawyer, some bundle of rights is a 'property' right if it has a
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For what it's worth, all android battery drain problems I've had have been solved by keeping wifi / mobile data off unless I'm actually using the internet. It's just easier (albeit possibly less satisfying) than identifying & fixing the
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You're right - if you define 'funded by corporations' sufficiently loosely (to include everything from governmental bodies to universities to charitable foundations) that the statement 'science is entirely funded by corporations' becomes a

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