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by bdowling 6y ago
> They just seem to have a strategy of not wanting to sell their products to many people. Alternately, product designers and consumers seem to have a preference for LCD or OLED devices because they are better for common use cases and the
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by bdowling 6y ago
I found it interesting that Japanese people did better with traditional Chinese characters than with simplified Chinese. This makes sense because while some Japanese characters are simplified forms of traditional Chinese characters, they ar
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by bdowling 6y ago
Tesla isn't blaming the user or pretending it knew all along, it's trying to avoid a mandatory recall. The letter here [0] is a response to a letter from the National Highway Transport Safety Administration, which has the power to
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by bdowling 6y ago
There's no such thing as a free lunch. Processing registrations and maintaining a registry has significant costs. In 2019, the US Copyright Office made 547,837 registrations and received about $35 million in total fees. [0] In 2019, th
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Copyright is not meant to protect your profits. It's meant to encourage creative risk taking. Copyright encourages creative risk taking precisely by protecting the economic interests (e.g., profits) of those creative risk takers.
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by bdowling 6y ago
You seem to misunderstand how copyright works. Registration is not required and there is no comprehensive registry of everything copyrighted. Copyrights are created upon creation of the work and inure to the author. Registration merely gran
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Do I feel like the firm/judge was stupid to ask 6000 pounds upfront, because someone just sued you and make a ruling for 25000 afterwards? Totally. In the UK when you lose a lawsuit you are required to pay the other party's l
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by bdowling 6y ago
In US law this idea is called defamation per se . [0] If a statement is defamation per se, then the court can skip analysis of whether the statement is defamatory. Defamation per se statements are divided among several categories, one of w
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by bdowling 6y ago
> The fact is the judge put £6,000 costs on me before the case was even heard - I was literally priced out of justice. Wouldn't there be fee shifting in the UK? By that I mean that the losing party pays the winning party's lega
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Your comment appears to imply otherwise. Did I misread it? My comment wasn't very clear. Sorry about that. Usually we think of a judgment "on the merits" as one that occurs after considering both the law and facts of a c
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by bdowling 6y ago
This is correct. The problem above was conflating "on the merits" with determining facts by considering evidence.
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by bdowling 6y ago
The standard that a court uses when considering a motion to dismiss (e.g., Rule 12(b)(6)) is to first assume all of the facts alleged in the complaint are true . The judge then decides the motion as a matter of law. That is the exact oppos
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Before someone chimes in to say, "That's insane, why isn't it running an RTOS?" I'm chiming in to say that Windows CE is an RTOS. [0] [0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-version
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by bdowling 6y ago
> When cases are, as many of the Trump & allied cases were, thrown out for this reason, the court is making a finding on the merits ... That's not the way lawyers use the term "on the merits". See, e.g., [0]. [0] http
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Ham radio exam is not hard... Not only that, but every exam question comes from a published pool of questions [0]. If you can memorize the answers to those questions, then you don’t need to learn anything about how radio works at all.
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by bdowling 6y ago
There is at least one Youtube channel, Wham Bam Teslacam [0], dedicated to publishing Tesla camera recordings of thieves, vandals, and other incidents. [0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbMoDtZ6Ani-eyHzCvxeVCw
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by bdowling 6y ago
Technically, the code is alleged to violate copyright , not DMCA. A DMCA notice is just the process that copyright owners use to tell service providers about allegedly infringing content. The argument is for contributory copyright infringe
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Every patent that relies on another patent lists what those are. For this very reason. That’s not the reason for the list of references in a patent. The reason for the list is to identify relevant prior inventions that may be useful to
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by bdowling 6y ago
Proper citations would be prefixed with “35 USC”, for Title 35 of the United States Code. Title 35 contains most of the law regarding patents. Sections 101, 102, 103, and 112 are the most important ones concerning eligibility and validity.
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by bdowling 6y ago
> ... some other party may have been prevented from taking the idea beyond speculation, since they can't capitalize on it, right? That's not really true. Suppose my invention requires A, B, and C, but C doesn't exist yet.
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by bdowling 6y ago
> ... some entirely theoretical concept that can not be demonstrated by even the most highly skilled people... In that type of case, I would expect the patent to fail the utility requirement (§101). But attacking it on written descriptio
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by bdowling 6y ago
My favorite Tcl trick is a single-line template file processing system. puts [ subst [ read [ open [ lindex $argv 0 ] ] ] ] (Hint: `subst` applies Tcl's string substitution function, which substitutes variables like $varname
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by bdowling 6y ago
> There isn’t a clear and present external danger which requires all of us to stick together in unity. Do you consider China to be a rising totalitarian world superpower? Strength against foreign manipulation (e.g., markets, trade, diplo
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by bdowling 6y ago
> your fellow Floridians. I’m not the Floridian. I replied to your post because I thought you were overlooking how much federal law impacts daily life.
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by bdowling 6y ago
> How much is your daily life affected by Federal law? Some examples: Agriculture, Food and Drugs (FDA), Banking, investments (SEC), imports and exports (Customs), taxes (IRS), the internet and telecommunications (FCC), the interstate hi
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by bdowling 6y ago
It's uncommon, but the Supreme Court also has original jurisdiction, "In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party." U.S. Const. Art. III. Here, Texas attem
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by bdowling 6y ago
> because they didn't follow the protocol necessary Texas followed the protocol, which included filing a motion for leave to file a bill of complaint in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court, however denied the motion. https:/&
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Perhaps they have a strategic reason for going about this how they did One advantage may be that once the context is forgotten it will appear that Twitter has set a low bar for banning a powerful world leader from the platform.
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by bdowling 6y ago
> then someone could sue twitter Twitter is protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which states in relevant part, "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speak
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Corporations in the USA have the same legal rights as individuals... They don't. For example, 5th Amendment protections against self-incrimination do not apply to corporations. Also, corporations have a right to an attorney but on

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