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by bediger 15y ago
Well, the issue probably isn't as clear-cut as the title implies. Very little is clear-cut when it comes to copyright. This iOS game might or might not infringe, but nobody knows, not Atari, not the game writer, until a court gives a verdi
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by bediger 15y ago
In this article, "value" means "perform standardized testing for". In that sense, we don't value much at all, because even the things we test for ("verbal", "math") we reduce to some inane blather for the purposes of testing. From a larger
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by bediger 15y ago
They don't practice what they preach, because they're not the kind of person they're preaching to.
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by bediger 15y ago
Once again, a non-US news site breaks the news that Lieberman wants to censor news for the USA. What does this say about the USA news sites? Nothing good, it just seems to confirm the "we're already self-censoring" suspicions that a lot of
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by bediger 15y ago
This leak isn't "stolen IP". At best, the leak might constitute infringement, which is not theft by any measure. We won't even know whether it infringes or not if and until it goes to trial, and a judgement is rendered. You can't inspect
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by bediger 15y ago
I would guess that some IT flight would occur, but mostly, SOPA will be (and it will pass) a bonus for lawyers. Nothing will happen for a while, some really egregiouis sites will get Great Firewalled. Then someone with really deep pockets
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by bediger 15y ago
What are the engineering standards around this? Like inter-request arrival time distribution, the elevator passenger's floor destination distribution, etc etc? Also, what about escalators? What standard arrival distributions do designers w
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by bediger 15y ago
And why should they? They bought this legislation fair and square!
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by bediger 15y ago
Got any examples of this? I mean, lots of stuff (gum and "People" magazine at the grocery store, screwdriver bits and flashlights at the hardware store) is priced at impulse levels in lots of stores, lots of types of stores. Whose bottom l
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by bediger 15y ago
But a copyright, even a traditional, pre-Berne convention US copyright is exactly and precisely a monopoly. A copyright is a state-granted monopoly privilege of reproduction. That's the definition of "copyright" used by everyone from lawye
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by bediger 15y ago
The whole "Intellectual Property" concept mixes patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and non-compete agreements. I grant that you're technically correct, but you're practically wrong: the US court system is breaking down the idea
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by bediger 15y ago
Said wiretaps have been used against the Olympic Committee: googling "Athens Affair" yields a nice story, http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/the-athens-affair There are rumors of the FBI's "Carnivore" (A.K.A. "DCS-3000" and "DCS-6
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by bediger 15y ago
Do you really think this is logical, or even probable, based on the FBI's past history with abusing "National Security Letters" and other forms of snooping? Note that FBI has a long-term problem with wanting to collect info on legitmate dis
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by bediger 15y ago
Exclusive control of your own work is one thing. Using that exclusive control for the detriment of everyone else is entirely another. That's what the article is talking about. First, let me say up front that I don't believe in "Intellectual
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by bediger 15y ago
Lame. Quoting an MPAA CEO as a source? Could you possibly find a more biases source, or one less attached to reality?
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by bediger 15y ago
I also use dnsmasq as a DNS aggregator and filter. I also have a number of domains (doubleclick, tynt, adbrite, tribalfusion and some others) set to have an IP address of 127.0.0.1.
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by bediger 15y ago
This might work as a DARPA project, but it won't work for real, non-DARPA projects for a large number of reasons. A few that spring to mind: 1. DoD spending is more political than military or technical. The US congress uses "defense
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by bediger 15y ago
I'm going to disagree with "getting things done". Three words: IBM Global Services.
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by bediger 15y ago
Here's a case of someone using double-secret information to play the market: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/20... I bet this sort of thing happens all the time.
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by bediger 15y ago
In that case, why not brag about cracking some code that's just too hard to crack? Make the enemy question the value of a difficult code, and put them through the expense of replacing code books, cypher machines, or at least changing out a
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by bediger 15y ago
Ever heard of Empire Building? It's a common problem in corporations. Mid-level managers become important by having a lot of underlings. I imagine this would be even more important in compartmentalized areas, as mid-level managers would
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by bediger 15y ago
This will never become very popular until they develop Hypocepts(TM) for "nice racks", "daisy dukes" and "mini-skirts".
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by bediger 15y ago
Let's flip that around: it makes it easier for "those above" in the hierarchy to deceive a whole pile of compartmentalized people into performing useless work, and thereby consuming lots and lots of government money.
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by bediger 15y ago
I had a "Secret" clearance twice upon a time. Absolutely nothing I saw while I had that clearance was of the slightest interest. In fact, everything that I knew that was classified ended up appearing in Aviation Week. And no, I wasn't th
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by bediger 15y ago
But isn't that what the Kissinger story was about? Getting the breadth of view, the knowledge, leads almost inevitably to (arguably) terrible arrogance about what you (the cleared) know vs what everyone else knows, and what you (the cleared
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by bediger 15y ago
Well, this sure puts a different spin on the arrogance of the US Government. The new Aristocracy, those with "clearances", receive and can act on information that the rest of us can't be allowed to have. The Fed's "We just know better th
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by bediger 15y ago
I flagged this: forgery is illegal in every country on earth, I imagine.
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by bediger 15y ago
But seriously, folks... What characteristics of someone appearing like this would make him or her (or it or them) believeable? How could you "prove" you actually arrived from The Future? A sort of corollary: what characteristics would some
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by bediger 15y ago
I'm suffering cognitive dissonance here. This is Nathan Myhrvold of "Intellectual Ventures" fame, right? Given that the state has granted him many, many intellectual monopolies, what gives him the brass to complain about styming innovation
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by bediger 15y ago
Unfortunately, the paper is under an embargo, or behind a paywall or maybe just not available yet, so nobody can really comment intelligently. If the authors of the paper did as described by Ars Technica, then this is very interesting, alon

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