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Analysis of Federal Appeals Court Decision in Oracle v. Google(ebb.org)
11 points by biehl 12y ago|4 comments
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by biehl 12y ago
Wine is pretty good, and supports a surprising amount of windows applications. I am not sure why you call it a configuration nightmare. Have you tried Wine lately?
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by biehl 12y ago
And yet, how many of those things have a fixed monopoly prices, disconnected from marginal costs, that has been set to fit a market with consumers with a completely different median income than yours? Are you in a third world country eg.?
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by biehl 12y ago
I wonder how many NH readers would benefit from reading in that book (a lot I guess) and also how many have no immediate access or consider the asked price unreasonable (probably fewer, but still many).
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by biehl 12y ago
I salute your appropriate username.
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by biehl 12y ago
Impressive work! I guess I ought to FOIA some Danish universities...
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Flameeyes' chip'n'pin card analysis(blog.flameeyes.eu)
1 points by biehl 12y ago|0 comments
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by biehl 12y ago
TLDR; Damning with faint praise.
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by biehl 13y ago
Where I currently work, Grails is the default platform. This means that we have a landscape of 10-15 Grails apps. It is very nice.
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by biehl 13y ago
He did not ask for "abolishing patents" he asked for the more narrow "abolish software patents". There is no need to broaden the subject to all patents. (Edit: Then your statement still makes no sense. If you understand
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by biehl 13y ago
The CEO of Mozilla is the leader of a project that draws on goodwill of people for evangelism and support. Furthermore the whole philosophy of Free Software is based on the golden rule and doing social good - that is why there are high dema
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by biehl 13y ago
I think we agree that the law should be changed - the point I'm making is that companies that have lobbied are in no (moral) position to complain if the law is changed harshly in their disfavor.
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by biehl 13y ago
But it is morally completely different. If you only "work with the hand you are dealt", you can claim some innocence if that means you do something slightly bad. If you actively work to expand a harmful framework you deserve rough
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Microsofts Attempt To Convert Users From XP Backfires(hothardware.com)
1 points by biehl 13y ago|0 comments
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by biehl 13y ago
Exactly. It's a lovely meme.
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by biehl 13y ago
"You wouldn't [download] a car..." Why, yes - yes I most definitely would.
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Improving on “Access to Research”(cameronneylon.net)
1 points by biehl 13y ago|0 comments
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Bicycle Helmets and the law: a perfect teaching case for epidemiology(badscience.net)
45 points by biehl 13y ago|58 comments
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by biehl 13y ago
Because using "beta" features from Google is unthinkable? I think it makes perfect sense to laud even small steps in the right direction (beta-quality features etc.) and comment negatively on steps in the wrong direction (removing
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by biehl 13y ago
Well they certainly should. It would also be great if a rule was introduced along the lines of "willfull patent abuse" so that since Microsoft was aware of the prior art while still attempting to collect fees they should pay back
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by biehl 13y ago
It is. It is a point in favor - relative to countries of relevant comparison. Which is relevant since credit ratings and investment advice is always relative. And why do I think that the original post is relevant to HN - besides being inter
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by biehl 13y ago
Sorry to be pedantic, but your example doesn't support your claim (of not actual analysis, too little numbers and graphs, not rational). The relevant point of bringing up ageing is that this is an area that is often brought up as a med
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by biehl 13y ago
Did you not read the article? It has plenty of relevant numbers and relevant comparisons.
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by biehl 13y ago
Sorry, but you are mistaken. I have a wonderful piece of software on my disk that your are not buying. Are you "depriving" me of that payment? Even more - schoolchildren are regularly copying massive amounts of files - are you (ob
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by biehl 13y ago
How about "Copy this book" instead of the fake, dishonest "stealing" claim...
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by biehl 13y ago
A less misleading headline would probably be "Windows Phone sales in the last 3 months double in Europe. Share of new sales trails iPhone by only 1% in Germany"
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by biehl 13y ago
Touché :)
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by biehl 13y ago
Awesome. $20 to them. (And finally got around to renewing my FSFE support too!)
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by biehl 13y ago
Also, it was not a Qualcomm chip....
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by biehl 13y ago
How exactly has US society tuned the penalty for pilots that crash (fatally) with their airplanes?

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