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by drcube 15y ago
You're in luck: https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-piracy-doesnt-affect-us-... news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3577076
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by drcube 15y ago
What an author charges for their book on Amazon doesn't have anything to do with copyright. You can charge a million dollars for a public domain work if you want. I believe a lot more content creators are on my side than you seem to think.
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by drcube 15y ago
"But I didn't need a bogus technical argument to oppose this flavour of enforcement. SOPA-activists shrieked that web blocking broke DNS, which is a falsehood. Several European countries already implement DNS-level blocking of sites for cop
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by drcube 15y ago
I agree we have a long way to go, and I don't know enough about the state of the art to say whether we're heading down the wrong road or not. But I'd like to point out an something that made an impact on me. Thomas Nagel's essay "What is it
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by drcube 15y ago
>But we can be certain it doesn't appear in purely deterministic machines who's every >parameter can be assessed at the fine grain level. I don't know why you think this statement doesn't apply to humans. We're deterministic machin
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by drcube 15y ago
This would be a lot better without pie charts.
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by drcube 15y ago
I read your words, but all I hear is "I want to use the police and courts to demand income in perpetuity because I thought up something somebody thought was clever once." "I don't think you should restrict sharing" is not the same thing as
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by drcube 15y ago
So instead of an address book, we add telephone-dns and then we have a list of bookmarks? What's the upside again? Personally, I'm rethinking this whole DNS thing. I already have a huge list of bookmarks, I don't see why there couldn't just
729.
by drcube 15y ago
Get rid of patents. Simple, effective. Nothing convoluted about it.
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by drcube 15y ago
That neglects to mention the inefficiency in distributing gasoline via gas-powered vehicles to hundreds of millions of drivers.
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by drcube 15y ago
Wikipedia says: "Even when aided with turbochargers and stock efficiency aids, most engines retain an average efficiency of about 18%-20%." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_engine Wikipedia again: "Typical thermal efficiency for electrical
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by drcube 15y ago
The lesson here is to buy used phones outright for cheap and hasten the decline of carrier lock-in. That's what I got out of the article at least. The difference in depreciation between iphones and androud seemed pretty small to me, and pr
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by drcube 15y ago
Iphones run on oil too (and coal, gas, nuclear energy, and various renewable fuels). It's just that giant synchronous generators are more efficient than a million internal combustion engines, so they burn the oil at a central location and p
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by drcube 15y ago
I agree. My point was that you don't know what they're doing. It probably isn't as bad as "nothing at all", but you can't say where along the spectrum between that and "rock solid" they actually lie without taking a peek under the hood. W
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by drcube 15y ago
At my school, yep. There were two tracks: Physics for scientists and engineers, which used calculus, and physics for arts/humanities, which was "algebra based".
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by drcube 15y ago
Seems to me like they would also get a competitive edge by ignoring the expensive antivirus programming and just sending the occasional false alert to the user to make them think their software is actually doing something. When they get a r
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by drcube 15y ago
No mention in the article about people who overflow their seats. I personally don't care whether the person beside me is 6'7" and 220lbs. But I do care if they're 5'0', 220lbs and half of their body is on my lap. Prices should rise with ave
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by drcube 15y ago
I know nothing about antivirus software, but isn't security software supposed to be open? Otherwise, it's just security through obscurity. It sounds to me like Symantec just wants to hide all their vulnerabilities.
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by drcube 15y ago
>Short of passing a law that allows the actual blacklisting of websites like China and Iran, there is no legislative solution. There's more to the internet than the web. This would break the web, but wouldn't put a dent in piracy.
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by drcube 15y ago
>The notion that this growth is unsustainable is scare mongering. Exponential growth makes this statement as wrong as it can be. It may be scaremongering to say it is unsustainable in the short term, but eventually that growth will have
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by drcube 15y ago
They bleeped out names of alleged Anonymous members. Sort of protecting their own. Did they also bleep out FBI agents' names?
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by drcube 15y ago
The OP said that it's illegal to offer something for free if it costs money to make. I guess Richard Stallman is public enemy #1 in France?
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by drcube 15y ago
Most of this stuff applies to the Military and FBI. Guess they're all terrorists. Or maybe you're only supposed to care about encryption and privacy when you work for the government?
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by drcube 15y ago
List of lists of lists of lists: https://www.google.com/search?q=lists+of+lists+of+lists
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by drcube 15y ago
I can't tell if this is supposed to be surprisingly high or surprisingly low. Either way, it is worth pointing out (perhaps to the choir) that the stereotypes of dumb jocks and fat nerds are not realistic, if they ever were. Strong minds co
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by drcube 15y ago
KDHX here in St. Louis. Check it out online: http://kdhx.org/ NPR and KDHX are the only radio stations I listen to. The rest of them are literally unbearable. edit: I used to really like XM radio a few years ago, but it was a subscription
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by drcube 15y ago
My understanding is that they are non-existent, and people are still arguing over the design and implementation details. But if you've got the skills, you can help. You know what it's supposed to do. Chances are, whoever stops bickering and
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by drcube 15y ago
Didn't Google stop operating in China a few years ago because they'd rather lose business than support censorship? Then they said, "ah, fuck it, censorship's cool if your country has a billion ad-watching eyeballs". Now this is like the "
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by drcube 15y ago
Wholeheartedly agree. I hate oppressive American laws as much as German, Saudi, Chinese, et cetera. On the other hand, refusing to do business in oppressive locales is not the same as extraditing foreign nationals for breaking laws they had
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by drcube 15y ago
You can only take this so far. What if your company were required to kill innocent people in order to operate legally in another country? Would you do it, lest you be seen as meddling in local affairs? Saying "I won't be part of your censor

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