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by bediger 15y ago
At least with respect to grades in school, this is the same concept as Robert Pirsig discussed in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
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by bediger 15y ago
Hilarious. About flaws in Righthaven's court filings: I glossed over much of this criticism because these represent errors in execution, which can fowl up even the most well thought-out business models. Proofread much? The idiom is "fou
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by bediger 15y ago
For all intents and purposes all creation is incremental. In the sense that someone sees something, and says "Hey, that's a great idea, but it would be better if I changed it like this...". Prove this to yourself: find out who invented te
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by bediger 15y ago
Hey! Another PR hit for that Microsoft "Google Iceberg" infographic. Although this article didn't use the exact phrase "Google Tax", it still talks about it as such. The comments are quite humorous, even the potty-mouth-troll.
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by bediger 15y ago
I think that warrantless electronic surveillance very clearly violates USA Citizen's presumption of innocence and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure. It's fishing, plain and simple. The FBI knows what a warrant is, they should go
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by bediger 15y ago
The FBI, as an institution, can't feel shame or embarassment. But individuals employed by the FBI can feel shame. Don't they? Are all FBI agents who do this kind of un-american activity sociopaths, or do some of them feel ashamed at unde
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by bediger 15y ago
Yes, certainly it's disingenuous, but it also reinforces the theory that anyone spouting an "X tax" line is biased anti-X. It's a nice leading indicator.
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by bediger 15y ago
This isn't exactly from an unbiased observer: it's Ed Bott's "Microsoft Report" blog. The obvious question here is, "Why is Ed Bott covering Mac malware? Doesn't Windows have enough of that to keep him busy?"
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by bediger 15y ago
Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) had only a single question for Genachowski: net neutrality wouldn't prevent ISPs from blocking copyright content shared online, would it? With that concern addressed, Berman had nothing else to ask. Wow, what a g
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by bediger 15y ago
Warning: article is essentially legalese by Gene Quinn, a lawyer who's what you might want to call an "Intellectual Property Maximalist". Quinn bases his arguments on a totally legal view of things, divorced from empirical or moral or ethic
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by bediger 15y ago
This is substantially more sanitary than I believed when I first read the article's title.
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by bediger 15y ago
Shouldn't we just note the use of "X tax" as another indicator of what bias the author of a given article (anti-X) has? I mean, look at the example screenshots. Note who says "Mac Tax" and draw your own conclusions.
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by bediger 15y ago
I don't know what to make of this. On one hand, he says a lot that makes sense, but on the other hand, if Red Hat fought patents owned by patent trolls the courts would have to deal with the underlying issues (software is essentially math,
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by bediger 15y ago
Ironically, "This series is supported by Dell The Power To Do More".
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by bediger 15y ago
Indeed. Hard not to emphasize this point enough. Even calling the loathed method "Digital Rights Management" is disingenuous, because it's not your rights, it's someone else's rights over what you can do.
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by bediger 15y ago
This article is astonishingly biased. It brushes off the important "escape valve" of fair use like this: Eric Goldman, director of the high-tech law institute at the Santa Clara University School of Law, said reposting published material
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by bediger 15y ago
I t seems to me that the author of this article hasn't thought through the issues, and has some serious misconceptions. For instance: "the range of skills required by mainstream actors" seems quite naive. What about Keanu Reeves, who alw
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by bediger 15y ago
The bulk of economics is against you. In a competitive market, prices fall to the marginal cost of production. That's almost axiomatic. One only has to look to fashion markets, where the leading players have almost zero monopoly power an
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by bediger 15y ago
Wait, in the US, we have a "budget crisis" that's letting us seriously contemplate de-funding virtually all social programs, we're in 2.5 wars, and we've got money and time to waste on "intellectual property" and diplomatic arm-twisting? Wh
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by bediger 15y ago
Right. That's because a brick wall, marketing collateral and sewage or water or gas pipes are physical goods. You can in fact, "take" their products. Nobody can tell if you make a copy. In fact for digital music, technically speaking, co
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by bediger 15y ago
That's great: I'd love to see more "enterprise" software written this way. But isn't this just a plea for a small design document up front? Not a fluffy mountain of "Word" format piffle, but some plain language explanations.
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by bediger 15y ago
Well, that explains why virtually anyone busted for "computer crime" gets a child porn charge, too. The article does not explain why the FBI has such an emphasis. That would be interesting in context.
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by bediger 15y ago
Having lived through several predicted Apocalypses, Ends of the World, and Armageddons (the 1974 Jehovah's Witness prediction is the earliest I can definitely recall, and of course, there's Y2K and GPS rollover in July of 1999), I expect mo
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by bediger 15y ago
This is Mark Tilden's BEAM robotics ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_robotics ) in the real world.
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by bediger 15y ago
If the goal of the patent system is to encourage innovation and patenting software or math accomplishes it, then patent it. You assume that "patent(ing) it* will encourage innovation. I don't think that's in evidence. In fact, the exact
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by bediger 15y ago
How about mentioning that the movie and music-recording industries are pushing a concept called "intellectual property" that's probably false to fact. The consequences of their views of "intellectual property" have consequences to innovati
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by bediger 15y ago
As the owner and user of an Android phone, great, just great. Let's ask the so-far unasked question: Why? Both Google and Apple built in location-caching. Seems mighty suggestive of something, maybe something like the color printer Myster
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by bediger 15y ago
Two quotes from the article: 1. "the dealer is still involved and legally can’t be dis-intermediated in many states" 2. "In many cases it is a criminal offense for an auto manufacturer to sell a new car to anyone but a state-licensed car de
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by bediger 15y ago
Overwrought rubbish from a nearly dead newsmagazine, designed to get a few more pageviews before the whole thing folds. Unfortunately, it worked on me. Akin to the apocalyptic millienial predictions one used to read in 1998-99.
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by bediger 15y ago
Well, you make my "perverted" point for my by citing "cree.py" - "cree.py" -> "creepy", a synonym for slightly perverted. Even the author(s) of "cree.py" thought that tracking someone is a bit weird.

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