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by bdowling 6y ago
> (Although, I'm sure practice, practice, practice is going to be the top suggestion) Start with traditional 60/40 tin/lead flux-core solder because it's much easier to work with. Once you have a feel for how solderin
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by bdowling 6y ago
A cheaper way for him to get started is to use his Super Serial Card with ADTPro ( https://adtpro.com ). ADTPro can be bootstrapped onto the Apple using just a null modem cable ($5-10) connected to his PC and a couple of console c
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by bdowling 6y ago
There are a few Super Serial Cards listed on eBay right now. Your deep regret can be fixed for about $20-60.
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by bdowling 6y ago
The discussion of electronic surveillance in the complaint may be of interest to the HN community. See, e.g., paragraphs 17-20, which discuss records of the defendant accessing various documents that were outside her work duties. https:&#x
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by bdowling 7y ago
> lacking in character and that savoir faire that came so easily to anyone who was not Jewish. Well done. I thought you were serious until that bit about savoir faire.
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by bdowling 7y ago
> I would prefer a device that supported network storage You may be able to do this using a Wi-Fi enabled SD card with a floppy emulator.
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by bdowling 7y ago
See CPLX’s reply. Fair use is irrelevant if Weird Al is paying for a license, even a compulsory license.
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by bdowling 7y ago
You’re right and I should have been more clear. Yankovic does need a license, but not permission because the compulsory license scheme for “covers” would suffice.
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by bdowling 7y ago
To parody without a license you can only take the minimum amount of the source to bring to mind the original. See, e.g., Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. , 510 U.S. 569 (1994). So, Yankovic probably does need a license from the owner of
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by bdowling 7y ago
I disagreed with GP's use of the term bricked to mean unrecoverable. You seem to agree with me because you wrote that a bricked device can be recovered with the proper tools/skills/training. I hadn't considered partially
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by bdowling 7y ago
> a brick, it cannot be recovered. A bricked device usually can be recovered using only software tools and sometimes a special cable. Sometimes those tools or cables are only possessed by the manufacturer, which frustrates consumers an
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by bdowling 7y ago
If the lawsuit gets past the pleadings stage, then relevant information would be subject to discovery. So the plaintiffs would be able to get and use that info in court, but Zoom would probably ask the judge for a protective order so that i
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by bdowling 7y ago
> No, but you need to give permission for anyone to run a credit check on you. Whether that is true will depend on your jurisdiction. In the U.S. at least, it is not true. In the U.S., a consumer report needs to be for a permissible purp
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by bdowling 7y ago
Calling this a blacklist is misleading. It's not a blacklist because it doesn't prevent anyone from extending credit to any reported person, as far as I can tell.
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by bdowling 7y ago
> Plenty of jurisdictions have suspended rent payments. Many jurisdictions where I am have suspended evictions for non-payment of rent, but not the rent payments themselves. Tenants are still liable for the rent and may be liable for a
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by bdowling 7y ago
Settlement is one type of resolution. A settlement is just an agreement for one party to drop claims against the other in exchange for something of value (usually money). Usually there is no admission of anything by any of the parties and t
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by bdowling 7y ago
> [3] The ruling[1], 2nd paragraph You cited the summary, which may be useful but isn’t legally binding. The actual opinion starts after “Justice Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court.” Also, Kyllo isn’t relevant to your concerns.
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by bdowling 7y ago
A patent must include enough information for the patent to be useful to a person of ordinary skill in the art, so applicants usually err on the side of including too much background information. It is always the claims at the end of the pat
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by bdowling 7y ago
> We need different lengths for different patents - we shouldn't treat how rectangular a phone is the same way as a life saving drug. We don't treat them the same. A design patent protecting an ornamental feature of a product h
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by bdowling 7y ago
The amount and substantiality of the copied portion to the work as a whole is one of the factors for fair use, an affirmative defense. Whether a work in question is even eligible for protection at all is a distinct legal question.
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by bdowling 7y ago
Exactly. Their work is not protectable under copyright because it is not a work of authorship, but an exhaustive list of all possible melodies.
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by bdowling 7y ago
> “ET phone home” Usually short phrases aren’t supposed to be protectable under copyright. However, when a defendant blatantly appropriates a well-known literary phrase for a commercial purpose like selling unlicensed merchandise, courts
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by bdowling 7y ago
> why not fold it all in the legal counsel's office? That would not help because an in-house lawyer represents the company and a lawyer can’t represent both sides in a dispute. In other words, company lawyers can’t represent a compl
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by bdowling 7y ago
If you’re interested in a quick crash course in film appreciation, I recommend the documentary series The Story of Film: An Odyssey [0]. The whole thing is 15 hours, but you can easily skip the episodes you’re not interested in and still
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by bdowling 7y ago
My comment was in the context of OP's video. The Youtube description of that video states, "I sat down to talk with Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin about their project to copyright every possible melody ." (emphasis added) The v
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by bdowling 7y ago
A listing of all the possible melodies of a certain length is a list of facts. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
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by bdowling 7y ago
The opposing argument would be that there are millions (billions?) of possible melodies, so selecting ones that are particularly pleasing is a significant creative act.
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by bdowling 7y ago
Lists of facts, where there is no creativity or originality in the arrangement of those facts, are not copyrightable. (See, e.g., Feist v. Rural , U.S. 1991 [0][1] (which found that a telephone directory "white pages" that listed
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by bdowling 7y ago
This. The ability for investors to fund risky business ventures without being personally liable for the debts of the venture is what enabled the industrial revolution and led to most of the other inventions on this list. Number two is casua
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by bdowling 7y ago
The burden of proof is on the plaintiff (patentee). The defendant can win by showing either invalidity or non-infringement. Theoretically, there is a presumption of validity of a patent because applications are carefully reviewed before iss

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