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by drtillberg 9y ago
I think Mozilla's boldness in stating the plan to systematically leak user information, is a tipping point. Will increase usage of Opera, Midori, Chromium. As for Tor integration with Firefox, that really is a shame, I hope Tor integ
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by drtillberg 9y ago
Echoes of "Pictures Don't Lie" by Katherine MacLean (1951)[1][2]. In that story, aliens sent a TV signal that was more easily, but less correctly, decoded. [1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51193/5
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by drtillberg 9y ago
"Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of their importance... but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment.&
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by drtillberg 9y ago
This is systematic semi-blind guessing at what other people will guess in the future are good investments. It sprays investment capital equally at companies that are not in any way equivalent. Hypothetically, just because two companies bo
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by drtillberg 9y ago
If blocking the domain grants access to the material, somewhat like a door that opens when no key is presented, it would seem unclear how this is an "effective[]" technological control. Also, the DMCA (Section 1201(i)) permits blo
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Why We Can’t Have the Male Contraceptive Pill(bloomberg.com)
46 points by drtillberg 9y ago|70 comments
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by drtillberg 9y ago
But it would be an act of faith and patience to redact and docket-file high-tech versions-- that is seamless for the low-tech PDF, which was pen-signed and docket-friendly. The PDF was even pulled from the docket and re-posted on scribd, w
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by drtillberg 9y ago
It's sedentary, statistically significant increase in risk of heart, circulatory problems. Interesting comparison.
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by drtillberg 9y ago
Most interesting part of DOJ letters: "[Y]ou should not provide information ... that would disclose the content of any electronic communication." "Subject lines of e-mails are content information and should not be provided
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by drtillberg 9y ago
The JAMA data tables [1] also covered military service, with a high incidence of CTE there (5 mild, 45 severe). Both of the kicker/punters in the study also had mild CTE (did they kick with their heads?). Really leads to wonder about
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Accounts of the financial crisis leave out the dollar swap deals between banks(prospectmagazine.co.uk)
80 points by drtillberg 9y ago|9 comments
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by drtillberg 9y ago
Lawyering done with a high degree of skill and latitude involves none of these things. I recognize the critique, at least from a distance, as a dysfunction caused by practicing in a high-stakes environment without the ability to persuade c
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by drtillberg 9y ago
The Google Analytics scripts runs on a page that appears to be a system/UI page in Firefox, when you search for new add-ons. The response from Mozilla about Piwik being too much work is concerning. The optional NoScript add-on does st
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by drtillberg 9y ago
This is a dysfunction in the patent and legal processes that cannot be fixed by even more dysfunctional tactics deployed against the NPE. The rules against champterty (buying a cause of action) have been relaxed considerably to the exten
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by drtillberg 9y ago
Instead of an Article III court, that sounds like an ex parte conversation predating the matter, which the judge is using to decide the matter, which is not ok. If this really is required by Congress, judges ought to give serious thought t
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by drtillberg 9y ago
The August 1982 registration discussed in the article was entitled "Computer program for electronic mail system." There are many subsequent registrations for things named "email." The copyright office catalog has 1977
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by drtillberg 9y ago
The individual that is the subject of the article is mixing terms, which is curious for one with ready access to counsel. A "copyright" registration does not indicate that one is an "inventor." One way to look at his o
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by drtillberg 9y ago
Gold glitters like pyrite, but the latter is not scarce and therefore not valuable. For both gold and ETH, it is scarcity, in combination with the network effect, that is critical. For gold, scarcity is enforced by laws of nature, which en
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by drtillberg 9y ago
Been using openSuse for years for personal device OS, highly recommend it. I would part ways about Snapper though, by default it periodically fills the root partition, preventing normal booting ... took a while for me to figure that one ou
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by drtillberg 9y ago
Maybe less so if the employee cannot securely pursue any line of work at all.
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by drtillberg 9y ago
Kudos to the court clerks who are making the public data available. So refreshing. On the other hand, in Massachusetts, progressive in so many ways, the clerks treat court databases as proprietary and unavailable to be copied. And the dat
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More Robots, Fewer Jobs: capital vs. labor in production(bloomberg.com)
108 points by drtillberg 9y ago|122 comments
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by drtillberg 10y ago
What is special about atomic theory is the supposition that there is an endpoint to recursive reduction. That at some point you cannot find anything simpler.
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by drtillberg 11y ago
If the government can require Microsoft to break the contractual and fiduciary commitments to customers to protect data and report on what happens to it, can the government also require individual employees to break their commitments to the