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by bediger 15y ago
A paper that argues against any "fine tuning" of the universe to support life: http://search.arxiv.org:8081/paper.jsp?r=1101.2444&qid=n... I'm not sure how arxiv.org work, but the paper is arXiv:1101.2444 just in case.
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by bediger 15y ago
Of course it should! That way, they're more, um, pliable, when the FBI or NSA gets hold of evidence of some 2-sigma behavior on the part of a Senator or Congressman. No? Well, why do you think that FISA rubber stamps every single warrant
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by bediger 15y ago
OK, but only if we send all lawyers away for a 3 year holiday, too. "Intellectual Property" lawyers can stay away even longer!
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by bediger 15y ago
Unlike Anthony Weiner, LulzSec seems to handle the propaganda aspect of exposed logs pretty well.
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by bediger 15y ago
If Microsoft's app "eco-system" is any indication, people will allow Apple to do this to them for ever.
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by bediger 15y ago
I almost want to flag this: the article did not feature "gorillas", it featured fake buddhist monks. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke confusion of "guerilla" and "gorilla". Does such a pe
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by bediger 15y ago
I want to be this guy when I grow up.
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by bediger 15y ago
In about 48 hours, Silk Road will get used to justify the PROTECT-IP act that Sen Wyden of Oregon just put a hold on. "Intellectual Property" is not yet one of the Horsemen of the Internet Apocalypse, but Drugs still is.
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by bediger 15y ago
Different levels of US public schools date from different periods, and have different purposes. Grade school, grades 1-8: learn to read well enough to read the Bible, do simple sums so as to be able to do simple mechanical things on farms,
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by bediger 15y ago
I think you're missing something. Without wholesale deletion, we can't construct The Grand Truth about our past, like the textbooks in Junior Hi and High School "social studies" present to us. Without mass deletion, anyone, absolutely anyo
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by bediger 15y ago
You may want to re-examine your position that copyright is not bad. There's really not a lot of evidence that any "intellectual property" is good, where "good" is something like pareto efficiency. Any sort of "intellectual property" at all
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by bediger 15y ago
Well, yes, so we can assume that when this guy said "free-market" he meant more like "polite market, where everyone knows their place, and your place is to GIVE ME MONEY".
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by bediger 15y ago
My guess is that some psychological factors make them impossible to use. Maybe some combination of that bias where most humans won't wait some time for a larger reward later, and the amount of effort it takes to keep track mentally of wher
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by bediger 15y ago
Could someone please disassemble this and finally tell us why DOS strings end with '$'? In my copy of "Accidental Empires", one of the Robert X. Cringelys has Gary Kildall say that not even Bill Gates knows why this is true.
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by bediger 15y ago
I was inclinded towards that view myself, based on the date: 1992 was when the US DoD was still pushing Ada pretty darn hard. I personally found the story hard to believe, but I have no experience with DSP assembly.
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by bediger 15y ago
"what would have happened if Childs had been hit by a bus?" I call for the EFF, the ACLU and the FSF to create a "Programmer's Hit By A Bus" fund. We would all contribute, according to the degree of bus-danger we put ourselves in to. For i
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by bediger 15y ago
I don't know that the "market share" argument is unfalsifyable. The Witty Worm of 2004 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witty_(computer_worm) ) attacked a particular vendor's firewall implementation. It seems to have infected every one of the
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by bediger 15y ago
As far as predicting the market share at which Macs get malware, Adam J O'Donnell seems to have given a 5 to 10% of the Internet population estimate in this presentation: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/spamconf/SC2008/Odonnell_gamet... , wi
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by bediger 15y ago
Based on what's written in the article, this looks like another case of an "intellectual property rightsholder" placing the financial burden of enforcing strict copy protection on a third party. This is similar in action to the infamous CO
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by bediger 15y ago
Placing the liability for a link on the linker is more than just misunderstanding the nature of the web, it flies in the face of lots of other American principles. People commit serious crimes with all kinds of things, screwdrivers and wire
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by bediger 15y ago
Shades of localroger's "Passages in the Void" ( http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/12/21/17846/757 ). His planet Minerva orbits a free-roaming gas giant.
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by bediger 15y ago
My only wish: Groklaw had been around for the Micrsoft monopoly trial, the one litigated by David Boies in front of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. I say this because it's pretty obvious in retrospect that the mainstream media of the time d
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by bediger 15y ago
The current state of patent disclosure is such that your arguement makes little sense. Virtually nothing in software patent disclosures informs people about "how to do it". Almost all of the disclosures are vague and unspecific. If you,
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by bediger 15y ago
The current system, and all of the rather draconian suggestions for change, ignore the issue of independent invention. The only study done on this so far ( http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1270160 ) suggests that almost a
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by bediger 15y ago
How does any non-corporate website stay legal in this case? It looks like you can't link to something not under your control without a substantial risk of committing a crime. Without "blogrolls" it's hard to find related blogs. Without
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by bediger 15y ago
I don't believe you in the slightest. The people who wrote the bill in question either didn't think of what happens to Google, or they want it to happen to Google, or they consider it something like "you can't make an omelette without brea
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by bediger 15y ago
In the early 90s, IBM made classic "big corporation" mistakes, especially with respect to how wily Microsoft was. They also made classic "big corporation afraid to cannibalize it's old profits" mistake, and more arguably, they made some ick
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by bediger 15y ago
So you're saying this article is wrong on two counts: 1. Correlation is not causation 2. More exogenous variables than they consider exist. Sounds like an attempt to create yet another Horseman of the Internet Apocalypse.
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by bediger 15y ago
I believe the nature of software prevents such an application from existing. I would cite the complicated nature of all parser-generators as partial proof. WYSIWYG HTML generators may be as close as it gets, and that doesn't end up creating
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by bediger 15y ago
This is definitely a PR hit for Microsoft, and nothing else. The graph of market share seems like pure imagination, with a "hocky stick" for Windows Phone in 2012. The citations of "market research" seem mostly like wishful thinking to me,

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