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by athms 6y ago
According to you, if somebody is on the lam for so many years, the government should drop all charges. By the way, it has been eight years; January 2012 is when he was arrested in New Zealand for extradition.
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by athms 6y ago
Yes. Dotcom ran a business that had operations in the US. It makes no difference where somebody resides or if they have ever been to a country. If I live in France and hire a team of people to rob a bank in the US, I have committed crime in
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by athms 6y ago
They could have continued to develop and sell WebObjects, a Java based application server and framework. It was amazing for what it did at the time and many major companies were using it. They were leaders in that market. Unfortunately, it
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by athms 6y ago
You are confused. There is lottery for the Diversity Visa program, but that is not the only path to permanent residency and there is no cap on the number of applications for permanent residency. The H1-B has always used a lottery when there
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by athms 6y ago
Big companies are dependent on small companies for much of the innovation in computer engineering and information services.
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by athms 6y ago
Are you hard of hearing? The link you posted has the filing clearly visible in the video. I read it. All claims are based on actions taken in 2019. Not one mention of the youtube-dl DMCA violation.
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by athms 6y ago
That isn't a counter claim, it is a lawsuit by a company that isn't affiliated with youtube-dl and the claims of the suit predate the youtube-dl incident. In 2019, the RIAA got a court order to have Google remove the Yout domains
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by athms 6y ago
I suspect the problem is the counter notice. You must agree to be held to US law and the maintainer resides in Germany. According to the DMCA, the entity that files a counter notice consents to jurisdiction of the US district court of their
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by athms 6y ago
Idaho is experiencing what California had in the 1970s and 1980s, with the influx of people from other states. I remember the bumper stickers, "Welcome to California, now go back home" and "Welcome to California, now get the
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by athms 6y ago
I lived in Southern California (Orange County) in the 70s and 80s. We called I-5 the 5. Same for the 405, the 101, the 15, the 10, the 99. Also, we called State Route 1 (aka Highway 1) PCH no matter where it was located in the state, even t
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by athms 6y ago
Only 0.002% of estates pay the tax every year. The best way to avoid paying the tax is to reduce the wealth of an estate by transferring it to insurance or separate entities like a foundation, limited liability company, family limited partn
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by athms 6y ago
GitLab has used Google Cloud since 2018 and Microsoft Azure prior. Both cloud providers are required to comply with sanctions. >Why doesn't Gitlab simply host their services outside US jurisdiction? Because GitLab is a US company. T
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by athms 6y ago
Only 0.002% of estates pay the tax every year. Among the wealthy that are close to retirement or death, the smart ones transfer their wealth to insurance or separate entities like a foundation, limited liability company, family limited part
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by athms 6y ago
Apple 2FA only use SMS if there isn't a more secure method available and it must be explicitly selected when enabling 2FA. From 2016, the default is trusted Apple devices (running a minimum of iOS 9 or MacOS 10.11) or web browsers that
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by athms 6y ago
It doesn't. My comment was about the word tiny" and 65 is tiny especially when compared to Google.
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by athms 6y ago
>...don't Group Policies simply apply registry values? Yes, but these are part of the Global Policy Object (GPO) and Windows Home disables GPO.
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by athms 6y ago
There was on-going litigation and cross license negotiations at the time Steve Jobs became CEO, after Apple's the purchase of NeXT. The $150 million investment in stock by Microsoft was part of the settlement.
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by athms 6y ago
I used DDG as my primary for a full year (2019) after using it on and off for several years, but I went back to Google and Bing this year. DDG has terrible results and about half the time I ended up using Google anyways. Image search is a t
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by athms 6y ago
>It's inaccurate to characterize them as a "tiny startup." YouTube had 65 employees when they were acquired. I do agree that they were not a startup. This word should only be used for companies that are starting up; gettin
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by athms 6y ago
Irrespective of what is printed on the artistic work, the copyright is automatic (from 1976 onward) and belongs to the author(s) or their heirs. If there is a question of ownership, a court would need to decide.
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by athms 6y ago
You didn't specify which parts of my comment you wanted a citation, therefore I directed you to the entire code on copyrights. These are federal statutes. The document has chapters and is easily read.
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by athms 6y ago
>John Gruber shills for Apple... A shill is a person who pretends to give a neutral endorsement but has an interest in the deal.
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by athms 6y ago
Spunk seems to be spreading everywhere.
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by athms 6y ago
https://www.copyright.gov/title17/title17.pdf
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by athms 6y ago
>Does Tom effectively still hold some rights In the United States, copyright is automatic and exists until expired. Nothing in the federal statute allows an entity to terminate copyright, effectively putting works in the public domain. T
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by athms 6y ago
>Tom Lehrer releases song lyrics to public domain Wrong. An author (or heirs) cannot put creative works in the public domain. There is nothing in the statute that allows this. Only after the expiration of the copyright does the work go i
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by athms 6y ago
Aluminum oxynitride was patented in 1986.
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by athms 6y ago
> It's hard for me to see how "Java" and "cloud" go together. Why? From its release, Java has been used for SaaS. SAP runs its cloud services using Java and this includes subsidiaries Ariba, Concur, and SuccessF
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by athms 6y ago
>Section 230 was supposed to make social networks public squares Wrong. There is nothing in the statute that implies neutrality. Section 230 was to enable online platforms to engage in good-faith community moderation without fear of taki
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by athms 6y ago
>I don’t see the problem? Is this a question or statement? Chrome is only valuable because it is intertwined with Google properties. Outside of Google, with proprietary code removed, it is nothing more than a skinned Chromium and we have

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