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by conover 17y ago
I wonder... If there were really "countless internal YouTube communications" endorsing infringement, wouldn't this case be over already? As in Summary Judgement over? Doesn't the very fact that this case is still being litigated indicate th
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by conover 17y ago
I'm shocked that people are shocked that the party in power will bend the rules to serve their own ends. I'm sure if you look back to the heady days of the Bush administration, you would find opinion pieces written in the New York Times rai
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by conover 17y ago
So, nearly limitless freedom gives everyone the option of looking the same.
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by conover 17y ago
The Electronic Frontier Foundation does it to browsers pretty easily. http://panopticlick.eff.org/ And according to another article by them, all you need is zip code, gender and birthday to identify someone with a high degree of certainty
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by conover 17y ago
The implication being that a lot of company hire people as contractors when they are really employees and a database like this would instantly eliminate all the underhandedness. It's a favorite pastime of labor lawyers to beat companies ove
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by conover 17y ago
Maybe it should be a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy type situation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_The_Hitchhiker%27...
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by conover 17y ago
Voltaire summed it up by saying: "The perfect is the enemy of the good."
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by conover 17y ago
I wonder how far non-sponsor items goes. If I bring a Pepsi to the games and Coca Cola is an official sponsor, are they going to make me throw it away? What about clothing?
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by conover 17y ago
Does The New York Times really care about being first to report hockey news? I thought they were more about investigative reporting and analysis. It would be stupid, in my opinion, for them to try and compete with Twitter on this front.
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by conover 17y ago
I was watching the interview on 60 minutes and it seems like they edited out something that was said about "solar". As if he probably qualified that answer but the producers decided that it wasn't really relevant.
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by conover 17y ago
I agree this would be bad if Apple significantly strengthened their position but I think the market would push back if it really got bad. People love their porn.
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by conover 17y ago
They are the gatekeeper in the markets tied to their devices. However, there are many other competing devices and content providers. They are not the universal arbiter of all content streaming into your life. If Apple doesn't carry a movie
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by conover 17y ago
Techcrunch is trying to equate this to an ISP censoring pornographic material. Apple it just not that kind of commodity carrier. While a small portion of the content Apple offers is exclusive, most of it can be had elsewhere. If you don't l
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by conover 17y ago
Exactly. I would say the story about the California Highway Patrolman and his family being killed in a rental car really got the media avalanche moving.
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by conover 17y ago
This always reminds of me of Dijkstra's quote: Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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by conover 17y ago
While the pictures are cool, I feel that using them as the background for some of the slides distracting. For instance, on the slide that says "26 billion tons of CO2" with the sun peaking around the earth, does the background picture reall
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by conover 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_budget Isn't that what a classified budget is for?
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by conover 17y ago
Wouldn't it make spam impractical because you would all of a sudden need much more processing power to encrypt the messages (especially millions of them)?
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by conover 17y ago
That's what I thought as well. Putting a clause like that in contract says to me, "It's possible we'll do this so badly you will sue us." I'm not sure I'd want to do business with a company like that.
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by conover 17y ago
I wonder at what point you can give the police a pass for missing something? What is the threshold of reasonable? Based on this article, I guess we are at a point now where there is no threshld. Everything is a serious security threat. Rath
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by conover 17y ago
https://fedorahosted.org/suds/ Suds is the only decent Python module for SOAP that I've seen. I've never been able to get ZSI or others to work very well.
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by conover 17y ago
Wow. The project is $7.5b over budget. That seems like an unbelievable number for a military "transport" aircraft. It's good news for American defense contractors I suppose. They are probably going to get a bunch of extra business from thi
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by conover 17y ago
Exactly. Why not rate a company's financial transparency like bonds are rated? The market can factor that rating into the valuation.
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by conover 17y ago
You ignore this political negotiation challenge of analytics at great peril to your project. It is an order of magnitude bigger issue than actual analytics on the data. This is absolutely true. For many projects, more time is spent negoti
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by conover 17y ago
While I agree that Sarbanes-Oxley Act is a tremendous burden on business, Enron was criminal fraud perpetrated by the company's executives and the accounting firm that was supposed to be overseeing them. When a company fails transparently,
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by conover 17y ago
We don't correlate or combine your information from these logs with any other log data that Google might have about your use of other services, such as data from Web Search and data from advertising on the Google content network. After kee
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by conover 17y ago
I agree that there is almost certainly not going to be some mass revolt but people are generally unhappy when they don't have jobs (as evidenced by the current political climate in the U.S.). My only point is that a significant portion of t
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by conover 17y ago
"...The Asian gaint..." Anyway, I wonder what China is going to do when they have difficulty developing a domestic market for all the goods they are producing. Because of the recession, U.S. consumers are buying less and saving more which h
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by conover 17y ago
I believe that was because many people never bothered to change the default password for the OpenSSH app. It's seems like that kind of thing could be exploited regardless of venue.
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by conover 17y ago
For some reason I can't get to the article. Anyway as another anecdotal data point: We have a few Google Search Appliances where I work. When one of them broke (rather catastrophically) Google Support was on top of it and the problem was fi

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