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by drcube 15y ago
Sure, the difference is that if Congress mandates it, it IS censorship. Until then, it's just a bunch of different people advocating censorship and a bunch of other people opposing it. For "business" reasons. I could use emotional terms lik
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by drcube 15y ago
>If a problem seems hard, its because you don't have enough information or aren't seeing all possible solutions. Unfortunately, you are incorrect. There are problems that are impossible to solve, simply because there exist mutually inco
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by drcube 15y ago
Can't wait until SOPA lets us eliminate the RIAA from the internet without any due process at all.
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by drcube 15y ago
The whole point is that he IS a millionaire. It wouldn't be surprising if it was some poor college kid putting his work out there for cheap and refusing to treat fans like criminals. This guy is one of only a few millionaires doing anything
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by drcube 15y ago
I guess lying is bad for science. It's cool if you're just trying to make money. Seriously, advertising that isn't lying is called "information". And very very few advertisers stick to simply informing people about their product and its ver
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by drcube 15y ago
Advertising and marketing fails on all counts. "Truth in advertising" is the biggest lie of all.
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by drcube 15y ago
Way to miss the point. He's talking about making drivers obsolete, not banning everybody who doesn't drive perfectly from getting behind the wheel. It's about using technology to improve our lives, not burdening ourselves with bureaucracy.
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by drcube 15y ago
Why make any exceptions at all? If it's too dangerous, it's too dangerous. People who demand these laws just want to look down on others while not inconveniencing themselves.
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by drcube 15y ago
I agree. .08 is hardly tipsy. MADD is a powerful lobby.
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by drcube 15y ago
Eating while driving and driving while tired are just as dangerous as driving drunk. The fact that everybody does the former is why they are still legal. We simply have to face the fact that as long as people still drive themselves, roads a
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by drcube 15y ago
>And where/when did monopoly come up in this conversation? To my knowledge patents do not enable a company to a monopoly. That's exactly what a patent IS. A temporary monopoly, granted by the government.
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by drcube 15y ago
Patents don't last 100 years. Are IBM's 50,000 patents all current?
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by drcube 15y ago
Is a few bytes of text that expensive?? Why shouldn't they include an article about every person, place or thing someone cares enough to write about? It's not like it all has to fit in a volume on my shelf.
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by drcube 15y ago
Google doesn't include Bing in its flagship devices. That doesn't mean somebody can't install it later if they want to.
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by drcube 15y ago
How do they figure a review someone posts on the internet is under copyright by the party being reviewed? That point baffles me, and I'm used to copyright making no sense.
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by drcube 15y ago
>FB should not be blamed for sharing information that others freely share with FB Your bank should not be blamed for sharing information that you freely share with your bank? Your doctor should not be blamed for sharing information that
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by drcube 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_Share_Ownership_Plan
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by drcube 15y ago
If you suck at math, you SHOULD get a math heavy degree if the subject interests you. That's what I did, with my EE degree. To be fair, it isn't that I sucked at math so much as I didn't know very much of it. Still, I think you should look
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by drcube 15y ago
This is going to sound ignorant, but can somebody tell me the reason for TLDs in the first place? I understand they originally were supposed to segregate the internet into governmental, commercial, organizational, etc spaces. But no restric
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by drcube 15y ago
Centralized --> distributed seems like an overarching trend the past fifty years or so. I think this is the right direction. I'm unsure of the technical merits of Convergence, but the sentiment (moving away from a few "trusted" centrali
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Convergence is a secure replacement for the Certificate Authority System.(convergence.io)
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by drcube 15y ago
It did, for a hundred years. Professional athletes (outside of a few rare "rock stars" like Babe Ruth) often had to get second jobs in the off season up until the 1970s. If they wanted to continue playing sports professionally, they were at
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by drcube 15y ago
I supposed "diversity" doesn't include diverse standards of humor? "Let's not offend anybody" is a losing game. Somebody WILL be offended, so my advice is to ignore the offenderati and communicate your own way. People will listen or not, bu
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by drcube 15y ago
Euler's formula is much cooler and more useful than Euler's identity: e^ix = cos(x) + i*sin(x) Because you can actually DO something with it, including visualize complex numbers and use them as the foundation of electrical engineering.
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by drcube 15y ago
"You" started out plural. "Thou" was the singular version. Then "you" started being a form of respect, similar to the royal "we" or the Spanish "usted". Finally, we all became "you"s, sort of how we all became "sirs and madams" and "ladies
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by drcube 15y ago
It could very well just be the people I know. It isn't meant to be sexist. My point is that people enjoy putting effort into their public persona and appearance, and put up with a lot of crap to perfect it.
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by drcube 15y ago
Funny, how soon we forget that shit work is what Myspace was all about. That was the use case. Typing in a giant, unstructured list of your favorite artists or installing some way-too-busy image as your profile background in order to impres
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by drcube 15y ago
This is the same Apple that was sued by Apple Music (the Beatles' record company) and promised not to enter the music business. Then came itunes, and Apple Computers was rich enough to settle with Apple Music for millions. Maybe this "apple
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by drcube 15y ago
"grep" came from ed: g/re/p "global regex print". It's much older than vi (1976 vs 1973): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep
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by drcube 15y ago
"A National Security Letter (NSL) is a form of administrative subpoena used by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation and reportedly by other U.S. Government Agencies including the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department o

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