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by SEMW 13y ago
I was a bit confused by that part of the article. It mentioned "Rolex watches and expensive cars" as examples of the things bought to launder the money. But both of those have unique identifiers (rolex S/N, car VIN) which in both cases is r
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by SEMW 13y ago
We should be careful about conflating principle and evidence. That looks like an evidential test to help a court decide whether copying had taken place. If you turn up with what looks like a tweaked copy of Harry Potter claiming you wrote i
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by SEMW 13y ago
IMO, the length of utility patents should be guarded way more jealously than the length of copyright. Unlike copyright, a patent gives you a true monopoly over its subject - you can prevent other people from using an idea even if they came
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by SEMW 13y ago
> If artists are motivated by the economic incentive afforded by copyright, then the level of that motivation is variable based on the length of copyright. While that's undeniably true, I think the objection is to your leap from observi
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by SEMW 13y ago
> my coverage is maximum out of pocket per year $5-7k. It's very reasonable to assume HN readers make more than $50-70k/yr, so that's better than 10% of income for the same coverage You're not comparing like with like. Comparing a figur
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by SEMW 13y ago
Aah, missed that footnote. Thanks!
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by SEMW 13y ago
> By refusing to testify on the basis of the right to avoid self-incrimination, they effectively admitted on the court record that they'd committed a crime I'm not a US lawyer, or even from the US. But surely, if courts can draw adverse
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by SEMW 13y ago
For stereoblindness caused by cross-eyedness, as the author's is: if someone's happy to wear that sort of headgear, surely reparallelising their vision using prisms would be a more elegant solution than a camera and screens?
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by SEMW 13y ago
> Did Path sent texts without permission of the user? No. No? The permissions screen is shown in the verge article. It's labelled: "Find Your Friends: Path is more fun with friends. Find out who's already on Path." I interpret that as
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by SEMW 13y ago
> If the work is truly orphaned then no one will come after you. Of course. But it's almost impossible to know that for sure . The point of orphan works legislation is it lets people use works that they're pretty damned sure are orphan
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by SEMW 13y ago
To be fair, it's not been put up on legislation.gov.uk yet (though should be in the next few days). For HN's convenience, the section is: 116A Power to provide for licensing of orphan works (1) The Secretary of State may by regulations pro
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by SEMW 13y ago
You're probably thinking about the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_and_Religious_Hatred_Act... , which makes it an offence to incite racial or religious hatred. That's nothing to do with defamation law; they don't interact.
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by SEMW 13y ago
> Unless you're telling disparaging and outright lies about somebody in an absolute manner ... That... seems like a pretty accurate, if brief, summary of when defamation is actionable under this Act. (Disparaging - yup, s.1; outright l
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by SEMW 13y ago
That summary's no longer quite accurate, there were some last-minute tweaks to strengthen the defences. In particular: - The "responsible publication on matters of public interest" defence is now just "publication on matters of public inter
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by SEMW 13y ago
> I'm glad to see that stating the truth is a valid defense. Truth has always been an absolute defence; the Act doesn't change anything in that regard. (Several of the 'new' defences are just codifications or tweaks of existing defence
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UK Defamation Act 2013(legislation.gov.uk)
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by SEMW 13y ago
At the risk of stating the obvious: sudo apt-get autoremove unity && sudo apt-get install [xubuntu-desktop|kubuntu-desktop|lubuntu-desktop|etc.] Or just install the one you want in the first place: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ has i
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by SEMW 13y ago
That is and has always been a unity feature (or 'feature') - unity-lens-shopping. It's not even installed if you don't install unity, e.g. if you use xubuntu, kubuntu, lubuntu, etc.
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by SEMW 13y ago
Surely one of the main points of the exercise was that, precisely because there wasn't a curve, whole-class cooperation can result in everyone in the class getting a higher score (20% higher) than they usually would. Grading on a curve wo
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by SEMW 14y ago
I'm guessing you mean that having adverts shown to you might be good consideration? I guess it's possible that it might be held to be, but it's by no means a given. (I don't know any English cases on that, but there may be US ones I'm not f
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by SEMW 14y ago
They're hugely different. Whether or not you actually will sue, if you paid for services you have the power to sue (on the contract for services). And Google knows that. That gives you leverage that puts you in a much better position to
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by SEMW 14y ago
English law student here. This isn't legal advice. Generally, in common law countries, if you're not paying Google for the services, the legal system won't help you. Since you gave no consideration for the services you got, there's no legal
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by SEMW 14y ago
Market orders are relisted every ~10mins at the market price until fulfilled. If you want to sell at no less than some $X, that's what limit orders are for. You used a market order when what you wanted was a limit order; that's not Bitsta
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by SEMW 14y ago
IANALinguist, but like a lot of 'fun facts', I think that's only half true. Saying the 'z' spellings are invariably the originals is as wrong as saying that for 's' endings. The idea is that the words originally came from ancient Greek, whe
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by SEMW 14y ago
> Neither of those things are indigenous to the UK's government. The Human Rights Act 1998 enacted the ECHR into UK law. So what if the ECHR applies to a wider area than just the UK? The US constitution isn't indigenous to the state of
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by SEMW 14y ago
> The UK also does not have something like the 4th amendment, which means that things like the Terrorism Act 2000 pass without challenge. That's true, if by " does not have something like the 4th amendment " you mean "has Article 8 of t
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by SEMW 14y ago
Which is all well and good if the council replenishes their stock of council housing. I.e. if they use the sale money to buy or build more, so having it be a permanent mechanism to help people lift themselves out of poverty. But they didn't
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by SEMW 14y ago
How odd (from a British perspective). Successfully challenging an exam result here would involve going to the Examination Board with proof of extenuating circumstances. And never happens as a result of people disagreeing with how their exam
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by SEMW 14y ago
Not to mention "their logos and graphics"...
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by SEMW 14y ago
I think if any lecturers here assigned a problem set from a particular textbook (that the library didn't have enough of) without either photocopying it or putting up pdfs, conscientious students would complain to the students union about th

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