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by drucken 15y ago
Head of the Office of the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) is appointed by Obama and confirmed by U.S. Senate. The White House supports it because it is the White House.
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by drucken 15y ago
I was just going to post a comment about Goldratt's book. If you think the Beer Game is too simplistic, you really must read that book, it is eye opening - though it will feel a little slow to the HN crowd at first :)
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by drucken 15y ago
It does not matter how it is used now. The point is that it could be easily used by any state at any time for any purpose against any citizen. For example, someone carrying a laptop with any software installed on it, including bare operatin
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by drucken 15y ago
Unfortunately, Go with its mandatory GC is about as appropriate for systems programming as Java, regardless of how its marketed...
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by drucken 15y ago
If you think this has not already been implemented in the UK for a LONG time, i.e. pre-RIPA 2000, then you are very naive. Ask anyone who has ever worked on infrastructure at a large UK ISP or exchange (e.g. LINX). Copious secret services s
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by drucken 15y ago
This has to be one of the worst suggestions I have ever seen. Also, I cannot believe you would even consider asking a technical audience to just give up anonymity so lightly ("growing weary"?!) when they most understand its true value. Ther
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by drucken 15y ago
Hardly the most reliable or even useful of sites. 1. Completely anonymous - who is this person who has dedicated a site just to this topic? 2. Clearly neither German or even speaks German (using Google translation!) - so, we can rule out an
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by drucken 15y ago
"Most surprisingly, the city claims its IT department is fielding HALF as many (!) user complaints with Linux than with Windows, reducing another major cost forever." Uh, what? Complaints can change at any time and due even to "small" chang
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by drucken 15y ago
ASUS Zenbook UX31 or Toshiba Portégé Z835 or 13″ Macbook Air.
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by drucken 15y ago
It could be argued that it is you who needs to read the HN Guidelines. If anything, your comment directly contradicts the Guidelines, while the OP's post does not and has clearly garnered significant interest based on its content otherwise
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iTunes scam gang net GBP 500k (USD 790k+) in royalties(bbc.co.uk)
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by drucken 15y ago
You are wrong. And for simple reasons: 1. Society defines what is property and who has rights. This can change at any time. That is, there is no absolute notion of "property". Not too far back humans were property. Some would say the abol
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by drucken 15y ago
1. Thorium is a natural by-product, in fact it is in the waste slurry, from rare earth mineral mining. 2. Tiny amounts are required relative to uranium for electricity production. We have already mined in the West more than we will need for
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by drucken 15y ago
I agree with you regarding the former. However, the latter to me is just plain insanity. It is a serious flaw in that it is the opposite of WYSIWYG but applied to the most critical of institutions that forms the foundation of your society.
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by drucken 15y ago
Startling article! You would be eviscerated at every level if you tried to do this anywhere in the EU... Not sure how this is possible, even in the US, since it should be a large risk to the carriers.
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by drucken 15y ago
One more reason not to have a Facebook account, especially if you register a business...
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by drucken 15y ago
Perhaps its a compensation or cultural issue with medicine in the UK. But, as a doctor, changing careers and creating a startup, especially one on the other side of the planet, seems an extreme reaction with extreme risk. Why not go private
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by drucken 15y ago
Languages of the future will be written to VMs. The languages on top of the VMs will evolve fast while the VMs become progressively broader in scope. It has already happened for many languages and is already a route companies like Apple hav
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by drucken 15y ago
Thorium MSRs process nuclear waste from current production reactors too. Sorry, I assumed people reading about this article new that.
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by drucken 15y ago
It is not the ideal way, but would you rather they made a gamble and failed against the legal framework (their opponent is not really Yahoo after all), or spend some upfront capital now to protect both their customers, employees, shareholde
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by drucken 15y ago
Anyone know if this is a thorium-based Molten Salt Reactor? If so, why is the now quite well-known MSR advocate Kirk Sorensen not involved in this project, but instead started his own company (Flibe Energy) to design and produce a thorium M
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by drucken 15y ago
I would agree with every word you said, except failure rates on startups are very high (much higher than 50%). So, there is already a large opportunity cost due to the flat time and effort invested plus loss of corporate experience which ha
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by drucken 15y ago
TL;DR. Stop pleading. Start actually finding news! The final three paragraphs seemed like a plea for government or government-related funding. That is, for the public to pick up the tab because they do read news (just not from them). While
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by drucken 15y ago
I'm grateful for this case, if for no other reason, that wherever the US finally, eventually draws a line in ridiculousness with regards to "Intellectual Property", the rest of the world seems to have no choice but to adopt it as the least
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by drucken 15y ago
"The Abyss"? James Cameron literally takes it to another level... Anyone know if there is any additional risk of decompression sickness or other health issues merely from the speed of descent/ascent?
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Article summary: Go is a "better" Java. Why would it claim to be a systems programming language? It is a fair point. If anything it illustrates that Google have mis-marketed the product rather than anything else.
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by drucken 15y ago
This is one of those questions where the answers are only relevant and understandable to the candidate themselves and even the act of answering reveals only the work-life experience of the candidate. For the above reasons, it naturally favo
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by drucken 15y ago
Youtube version of same video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oEFwyoWKXo Yes, it is very informative/clarifying.
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That is interesting, I have had the exact opposite experience! I have never seen a PC keyboard with the backslash anywhere other than in the bottom LEFT corner next to your left smallest/pinky finger with one exception: in Germany and Franc
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by drucken 15y ago
To be honest, of the two comparison imaged displayed, the Samsung one seems a lot more informative, legible and quickly accessible, therefore useful. Though it is not possible to tell that much from the comparison since the screens seem to

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