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by bediger 15y ago
I'd give this one 10 points up if I could. Very worth-while read.
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by bediger 15y ago
Now why is it that we want the NSA and FBI (Hi there, Rights-abridging Feds!) to snoop on all our email, commentary and network transmissions? Sure, J. Edgar Hoover was a special case. Or was he?
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by bediger 15y ago
"At the end of the day this deal isn’t about royalties. It is about trying to kill Android." Tell me again about how patents give companies incentives to develop new things for consumers? How, exactly, do consumers (who seem to be voting f
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by bediger 15y ago
This is clearly bunk. It's just Janet Napolitano doing some scaremongering to get the US Congress to panic into giving her department more money, and a bigger headcount, and more purview.
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by bediger 15y ago
Very interesting from a number of viewpoints, but... They left off how such a joint would evolve. It's all nice and good to say that a screw-thread join allows better mobility in forest-floor-litter. But how does a clade go from ball-and-
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by bediger 15y ago
So, longer hours by lots more less qualified people? Because the USA isn't going to give up "Protecting" "Intellectual Property", or non-compete agreements and stuff like that. Without ditching "IP", the USA won't be competitive.
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by bediger 15y ago
I disagree. The Pope tweeting a bull or encyclical, that's like some 1951 version of The Future, where The Future is just like 1951 except everyone takes the Helobus to work. It's The Jetsons, nothing more. When The Future really gets her
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by bediger 15y ago
I'm amused that the author felt that he needed to put a disclaimer at the start of the article, that the article constitutes his views and experiences, and your views might vary. Would he have felt the same about coming out of the closet as
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by bediger 15y ago
Interesting concept, but they left out the punchline: Exactly what do newspapers really think? Do they have a liberal, conservative or corporate bias?
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by bediger 15y ago
OK. The late 80s, early 90s experiments with the cable company offering "interactive Tee Vee", a.k.a. "video on demand" never caught on. That was almost a cliche by 1995. So what's different now? Netflix on-line streaming videos is quite
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by bediger 15y ago
From the article: "I doubt anyone would argue that song composition is a lesser art or any less deserving of full royalties than other arts." Note that this viewpoint isn't historical: http://law.bepress.com/villanovalwps/papers/art31/
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by bediger 15y ago
First, neither you, nor I, nor, indeed lawyers, get to decide "fair use". It has to go to trial. That's part of the point of the article. Second, the test for fair use doesn't include some percentage of copying. Here ( http://arstechnica.
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by bediger 15y ago
The comments are priceless, so, you should read them. It is possible to do a positional system of numerals without a specific zero-digit: http://www.stratigery.com/crank.rant.html Clearly, the idea of zero still perplexes people.
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by bediger 15y ago
As Goethe once wrote, "Everything has been thought of once. The problem is to think of it again."
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by bediger 15y ago
Given that a vibrant "secondary market" often or even always increases the value of an item (video game, DVD, car, computer) because you can turn around an resell something if you no longer want or need it, why do some corporations insist o
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by bediger 15y ago
I bet that the "with cause" part would be pretty easy to find. Every company I've worked for that had official policies wrote them so vaguely and all encompassing that every single employee was in violation. Some of the "don't introduce 3r
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by bediger 15y ago
I'd argue that "copyright" isn't a natural right like possession of property, and therefore you really can't steal copyrighted material. If I grab your book while you're not looking, and xerox a few pages, I've copied some copyright materia
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by bediger 15y ago
The purveyors of ActiveX objecting to something on "security" grounds: that's almost too rich for words.
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by bediger 15y ago
Read Jan Chipchase's essay "The Rise of the Super Fakes" for a lot more background to this sort of phenomenon: http://janchipchase.com/content/essays/the-rise-of-the-super...
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by bediger 15y ago
These "viruses buried deep in the OS" are commonly known as rootkits. Looks like MSFT is trying to commercialize the research behind "Strider" ( http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/stri... ), but it's a bit hard to say f
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by bediger 15y ago
This is eweek's week-late coverage of something others have already covered, better: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2639543 It's just coverage of someone complaining that Google's "stack" isn't buzzword compliant. Given that software
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by bediger 15y ago
Wasn't WinFS one of those features that was supposed to appear in Chicago or Cairo or one of those code names? I seem to recall thinking it was a rehash when the Longhorn WinFS rumors of WinFS appeared.
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by bediger 15y ago
I agree that freedom comes accompanied with responsibilities, but not the simplistic, "don't rock the boat" type of responsibilities that 6th Grade teachers talk about. Thomas Drake had a responsibility to expose the NSA's massive waste. E
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by bediger 15y ago
"I love hearing ladies talk about circle-fill algorithms." Wow, there really is no bottom to human depravity after all.
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by bediger 15y ago
Note that these companies are not failing to profit, it's just that older drugs are "not as profitable". It's a business decision to stop making a smaller profit, and maybe having to compete with Fougera. Big Pharma, going out of its way t
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by bediger 15y ago
Google isn't using the buzzword-compliant technology under the covers. Big deal - it still works, doesn't it? If you just skip from buzzword-compliance to buzzword-compliance, you never fix the underlying problems. Also, according to Andy
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by bediger 15y ago
Absolutely not wrong: this is the kind of thing that drives progress. You may not get all that many takers, though
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by bediger 15y ago
The C Programming Language The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Lord of the Rings 1984
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by bediger 15y ago
Or it could be The Masons! Or the Bilderbergers, or Little Green Beings from Inside the Hollow Earth Controlled by Hitler's Brain! Or Ritalin-Infused Baboons with Titanium Snakes for Teeth. Get a grip, man.
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by bediger 15y ago
Does this mean that we're now nearing a solution to the Zombie Nutrition Problem?

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