chilldream

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by chilldream 13y ago
Not impossible, but you do have to do some brazen, easily-detected stuff like watch the table for awhile and refuse to sit down unless the count goes positive.
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by chilldream 13y ago
"addictions they choose"
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by chilldream 13y ago
The problem is that game mechanics aren't really copyrightable. Pac-Avoid was likely removed for its obvious trademark infringement (oh, the irony) but you can get away with some pretty blatant ripping off by changing all the copyright
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by chilldream 13y ago
> Both of those companies made prudent decisions about their brand trademarks by not treading on anyone else. Actually Apple ran into some trouble with, say, there already being software called IOS before any of the iThings existed. They
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by chilldream 13y ago
In my case we had a security code on an internal system that was updated in real-time. So the protocol was: "Hi I'm an employee calling from [X]" "OK, can I get the security code?" (caller gives security code) Any e
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by chilldream 13y ago
Why commit yourself to a stronger statement than necessary? As you probably already know, it's just to satisfy laws against recording a phone call without the consent of both parties. It's just a nicer way to say "we will pro
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by chilldream 13y ago
I suppose I could have hedged a bit with the usual "may depend on the institution" disclaimer, heh. Anyway, I was responding to the apparent belief that someone might look at the inbound number and think "no need to record th
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by chilldream 13y ago
- When I worked in a bank's call center, it would be impossible for such an attacker to gain any information without the (receiving) agent screwing up unless the attacker had already successfully phished a different employee. - The sit
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by chilldream 13y ago
At the cost of removing any buyer protection whatsoever.
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by chilldream 13y ago
That's not what "high-risk" means in this context.
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by chilldream 13y ago
One problem is that you can't really copyright game mechanics, at least in the United States. Games are still protected by IP laws in many ways but it's pretty easy to write a direct clone from scratch without infringing anything.
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by chilldream 13y ago
I think a better analogy might be if Fortune magazine tried to claim that because of their (valid) claim to the name "Fortune", no one should be able to start a magazine whose title starts with the letter "F".
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by chilldream 13y ago
This is but a handful of data points, but a lot of the rumblings I've heard about this whole trend have been coming from lawyers who take a specific interest in protecting free speech. This includes Marc Randazza, who was mentioned in
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by chilldream 13y ago
https://www.fpcomplete.com/ is trying to do this
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by chilldream 13y ago
One interesting angle some people have taken in the absence of RP-specific laws is to make copyright claims (since a lot of the pictures are either outright stolen, or self-taken and then later uploaded by angry exes)
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by chilldream 13y ago
Not a lawyer, but it seems like posting the content yourself could ruin a Section 230 defense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicatio... Also, I'm not sure why a quality-review process would
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by chilldream 13y ago
> all King is doing here is playing ball with current IP legislation Not exactly. Some of the trademark threats they're making are the kind that would probably go nowhere if they were against corporations who could afford to defend
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by chilldream 13y ago
-You're parsing that sentence wrong; note the word "ago". -"social network" is in quotes because while the social networks themselves have been around for awhile, they only became a buzzword and the kind of thing Go
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by chilldream 13y ago
Yeah, you really should have considered what Google would put on their social network when you signed up for an email account a decade ago before "social network" was even a thing.
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by chilldream 13y ago
I love the implication that having something auto-opt you into something and then doing it is the same thing as voluntarily doing it. Like we're supposed to be ok with the companies we do business with behaving like evil genies.
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by chilldream 13y ago
Far and away the biggest problem with all of this is that it's not opt-in. None of it. Not even the decision to have a G+ account at all, unless you posit that everyone who signed up an email account a decade ago before "social ne
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by chilldream 13y ago
I don't think this is the fault of sales. It's simply a statement that most games' "full" price is more than it would be rational for you to pay given your priorities.
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by chilldream 13y ago
Don't know enough to know that the current name is optimal, but at least "Monoid" correctly says to the initiated "you don't understand this yet." "Appendable" lies to you and says "you understan
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by chilldream 13y ago
In that specific case, I'd submit that the word "average" doesn't belong in a conversation attempting any level of rigor. It only encourages the confusion between median and mean.
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by chilldream 13y ago
To the first, it defaults to "anyone on Google+" To the second, Google+ is unique among social networks in that large swaths of its userbase didn't voluntarily sign up for it.
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by chilldream 13y ago
Facebook didn't staple their social network onto a non-social-network service after the fact, and then demand you sign up for it. Not everyone on Google+ actually wants to be on Google+.
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by chilldream 13y ago
Man, I hate Google+ as much as the next person, and I was this close to defending them here. They almost did it right. Almost. The problem is that it defaults to "Everyone on Google+" For those of you mystified that this is piss
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by chilldream 13y ago
I've finished about a dozen MOOCs, even TA'ed a couple and my story is similar. I'm usually enrolled in at least three courses with no intention of finishing all of them.
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by chilldream 13y ago
Yes, and even worse, there's no "Don't ask me again" button, which is actually enough to singlehandedly keep me from ever using G+ voluntarily.
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by chilldream 13y ago
Canned responses work wonders. For me, most of these appeals ended with "Sorry, don't carry cash."

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