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by drucken 14y ago
I believe your interpretation is correct. In the UK, it is illegal to lend copyrighted works, with exceptions for some public transfers (18A of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/sectio
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Dengue, aka "Breakbone Fever", Is Back(slate.com)
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Facebook tests charging $1 to send messages to strangers(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by drucken 14y ago|2 comments
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by drucken 14y ago
My point is that there are security products with configurations where the keys are cleared from RAM when the system is not running (including hibernation modes). Therefore, in those configurations they are at most only vulnerable while the
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Trojan-horse therapy 'completely eliminates' cancer in mice(bbc.co.uk)
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Would you wear a 'Twitter dress'?(bbc.co.uk)
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by drucken 14y ago
There are more secure tools than the ones mentioned available, and have been for a while. For example, Bestcrypt from Jetico ( http://www.jetico.com/encryption-bestcrypt-volume-encryption... ) supports two-factor authentication with removab
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by drucken 14y ago
Thanks for this. It is a lot more informative and accurate than the Extremetech article while remaining greatly more accessible than the original Nature journal paper. In particular, the fractional quantum states/excitations aspect was comp
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MakerBot pulls 3D gun-parts blueprints after Sandy Hook(bbc.co.uk)
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by drucken 14y ago
It's effectively the same under ECB's monetary policy mechanisms. Those bank debts are used as collateral for borrowing from the ECB or the Eurozone inter-national bank payment processing system (called TARGET2) or Eurozone creditors. Imagi
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by drucken 14y ago
Note. That's a technical default or externally-led debt restructuring. It is not within full control of the Greek state as it would be under its own currency. For example, a price for remaining within the Eurozone was for ensuring none of t
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by drucken 14y ago
"... if they return to the Drachma and then devalue their currency, their debt goes up even more!" The point of exiting the Euro and reintroducing a state's own currency is because they can then fully choose what to pay back, i.e. to defa
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by drucken 14y ago
Because as part of the Eurozone your national bank and sovereign state has monetary and fiscal obligations to the ECB and Eurozone creditors. From a naive perspective, reneging on any of these obligations would put your Eurozone membership
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by drucken 14y ago
USPTO trying damage limitation exercises against their awful prior art screening. Pretty pathetic, really. Software patents should not exist, period.
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by drucken 14y ago
"Where does it say he watched 3DHFR twice?" - author's reply in the 7th comment of the post (on the post's website).
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by drucken 14y ago
Almost every aspect of your post is wrong (regarding the author and the post) or irrelevant (regarding the content). The author is a filmmaker and was comparing film formats. He watched the Hobbit multiple times on the same night at a state
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by drucken 14y ago
Do we need a new term for these? Like "Insta-mob" or "Privacy mob"? I guess one good thing has come out of this...
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by drucken 14y ago
So, this "decree" has no meaning even if fought in a German legal court?
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by drucken 14y ago
You glibly ignore the previous paragraph that references the section which establishes the rights for Instagram/Facebook to do whatever it likes with the Content. And since when is "intent" ever part of US law (especially with regards to IP
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Virus rebuilds heart's own pacemaker in animal tests(bbc.co.uk)
32 points by drucken 14y ago|7 comments
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Has World War II carrier pigeon message been cracked?(bbc.co.uk)
16 points by drucken 14y ago|6 comments
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by drucken 14y ago
In banks, especially those with large capital market or investment banking arms, you WILL risk losing your job if you try to work around corporate IT. It is basically a guilty-until-proven-otherwise perspective. I have seen it happen multip
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by drucken 14y ago
So ... automated content aggregation in book format? Is it it just me or does it seem odd that the agents with the most, * technology * resources (spanning all non-technology areas including business and legal) * digital content access * fa
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Two hands writing two different languages [video](bbc.co.uk)
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by drucken 14y ago
The EU will end up with almost exactly the same problem - just at a slower pace. The only difference after 1-Jan-2014 will be the lack of "legal arbitrage" across states which makes a mockery of many laws in the US. But legal arbitrage is t
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by drucken 14y ago
That's probably the longest lucky streak, if not more luck, than most ever have in a lifetime!
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Downward mobility haunts US education(bbc.co.uk)
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by drucken 14y ago
Surprised this hasn't got more attention...
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by drucken 14y ago
I'd be interested to know what they used before gyp, which is relatively new compared to Bloomberg.
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by drucken 14y ago
The UK has an unwritten constitution...

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