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by cbs 15y ago
>Encourage the death of all hard copies of media, even thumb drives This is a pipe dream that doesn't think more than 5 years into the future or understand the realities of distribution. The properties inherent to physical media are som
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by cbs 15y ago
The difference between the best and worst teams in a professional league is usually minute. Yes, when you compare the entire market to the NFL's Fortune 32, of course football is going to appear more based on luck that skill. You're forg
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by cbs 15y ago
If I was running a business which used Google Docs and Gmail as the center piece of corporate workflow, I would be very concerned about the ability of competitors to gather industrial intelligence simply by purchasing advertising. On the
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by cbs 15y ago
It is important that they're straying, I'm not particularly happy with it myself, but thats a somewhat separate issue because I hardly think that the criticism they've been getting from their main tech competitors is altruistic concern that
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by cbs 15y ago
Guys, unless you're actually a player, save yourself the headache and don't get caught up in this little valley tiff. I think SPYW is dumb, but google is trying something to improve search results, it happens to use data that they have on t
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by cbs 15y ago
What sort of twisty-turvy world have we found ourselves in? The same one we've lived in since Marbury v Madison. Judaical review and all that jazz. The legislature and executive are always trying to grant themselves more power, regardles
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by cbs 15y ago
Jon Stewart showed 4 people using the word 'nerd'. Three of them were anti-SOPA! so? I don't care that they were calling us nerds, but if someone does care do you really think the congressperson's interests temporarily lining up with thei
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by cbs 15y ago
I don't. I'd like to, but thats the reason I don't. If something done for my own good drives me to another product, what does that say about if it is actually for my own good? Thats my problem with the GP's post.
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by cbs 15y ago
Apple has draconian restrictions on stuff like iOS for the user's sake If its for my sake, why must they treat me like a child and not let me choose to have them remove that restriction on my device?
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by cbs 15y ago
>I say RAID is fine for a media NAS box In that case I still wouldn't call it a backup. I'd just say that the array itself was failure-resistant enough that you've chosen not to maintain a backup.
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by cbs 15y ago
RAID shares a single property with regular backups: it lets you recover from a disk failure. But backup is a separate copy of your data set aside for emergencies, while raid just increases the reliability of your one, in use, copy of the da
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by cbs 15y ago
Would the 'unreasonable search & seizure' amendment apply to people's files? I would speculate: no. Once something was uploaded to megaupload, it was made available for download to anyone with the url for the file. If the file is pub
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by cbs 15y ago
A body's biological soup doesn't care if it's Superbowl Sunday or a wedding or a funeral; when you intoxicate it with excessive quantities of alcohol, there will be effects. I don't think anyone is arguing that, his point seems to be that
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by cbs 15y ago
If they're taking that material down to stay legal, as far as the DMCA is concerned, when they become aware of information that makes it apparent the material is infringing they will lose safe harbor protections if they do not take it down.
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by cbs 15y ago
edit: A bit of context that I wasn't clear on in this post: Taking down files you are aware of, but before they've been found by a court to be infringing is the only way to maintain safe harbor protection. Acting on anything short of proof,
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by cbs 15y ago
Please, lets be reasonable here. You're drawing a gigantic false equivalency between the extradition process based on international agreements, and the North Koreans black-bagging someone. If every website suddenly has to obey the laws of
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by cbs 15y ago
I can see it causing a general lack of trust in SaaS for the average home user. As it should. Unfortunately, current tech isn't there for the regular user; it still isn't even there for the technically-inclined user who has a better gras
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by cbs 15y ago
Dicey indeed. They were playing very fast and loose with 17 USC 512(c)(1)(a)(ii), if not the takedown provisions themselves. The nature of their service makes no distinction between the recipients, regardless of link to the file, and the
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by cbs 15y ago
>From my perspective it looks like they were follow the letter of the law on all, or nearly all counts I used to see them as an agnostic upload bin, but I'm reading the indictment right now, and from my perspective, its certainly questi
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by cbs 15y ago
>Microsoft's HCCBs absolutely will not be replacing QR codes due to the fact that they are not an encoding format Exactly. It requires that microsoft's servers always be reachable (laughable for something you scan with your smartphone)
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by cbs 15y ago
I skipped it for the same reason. I knew it was a stylistic choice, but I still didn't care to read what he had to say. I probably would go back and put up with it if the comments here made it seem like he had anything new to say on the p
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by cbs 15y ago
I've did a bit of googling about this and ran across something that might work (but I haven't tried it), adjust the AllowClosedownGrabs option in your xorg.conf file.
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by cbs 15y ago
Ctrl-Alt-Multiply is a known key shortcut. Someone just has to know it exists and think "I wonder what happens if I use this while the screen is locked". You can get to that internal question many different ways, but its worth mentioning
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by cbs 15y ago
Yes they apply federally. However, back in the day the sheer distance from Hollywood to Edison on the east cost made it infeasible for him to bring court action needed to enforce the patents.
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by cbs 15y ago
Look at Special:RecentChanges nothings happening.
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by cbs 15y ago
>Even in the best case scenario where we have optimal innovation, piracy will require enforcement. I disagree. Copyright, at least in the US, was created as a tool to encourage innovation. If innovation is at its maximum potential, th
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by cbs 15y ago
O'Reilly is able to hold the position he does because he publishes high quality work. If you walk into a bookstore knowing nothing other than you need a book on Subject X, the book you walk out with will probably have a pen and ink animal
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by cbs 15y ago
The first time I run across a website using this on the 18th I'm going to drop the script it into adblock's blacklist and be done with it.
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by cbs 15y ago
This blows out all email validation out there You mean all half-assed email validation out there. They're broken to begin with, nobody does it right and the regex to match rfc822 addresses is big and ugly. Edit: found it: http://ex-parr
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by cbs 15y ago
If Google had to pay every web-service out there for the privilege to index their otherwise free content, that could cost Google more money than is possible for them to spend. It would also be a disturbing direction to point the web in.

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