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by elipsey 11y ago
>> in order to acquire a patent you have to give details of how to perform it Software patents don't have to include code, and generally are not useful to a skilled practitioner in actually creating software. The are written in l
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by elipsey 11y ago
Pharma patents are less abstract. They patent a product, not the idea of making a product. Changing a pallete was a solved problem. "Doing something when it's a time" was a solved problem. But if you change a CLUT "becua
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by elipsey 11y ago
Yep. They care so much about public helath that no one is allowed to be healthier with paying them. Classy move.
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by elipsey 11y ago
Exactly. There's a linux version too, but I won't use this because it's closed, not because it isn't free as in beer. I don't like breaking my OS with crappy vendor packages that only work on half the versions of ha
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by elipsey 11y ago
I agree that this seems likely. What if said "unauthorized crypto" will be illegal? E.g. you can use SSL for commmerce, but it's got to "approved", in other words either technically, or organizationally backdoored.
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by elipsey 11y ago
They can criminalize it, so that only criminals use crypto by definition. Think about tor. As a fraction of network traffic, almost no one uses it, so if you do you have singled yourself out. Running an exit node is already a great way to e
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by elipsey 11y ago
That was quick.
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by elipsey 11y ago
>> I would be interested to see what you would think of this, your statement, if you were holding the dismembered body of your father, mother, sib,ing or loved one in your arms. Dead. If that person died in some other unlikely way, I
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by elipsey 11y ago
He blogged about people being arrested by state security during the protests. It's not clear that he has been formally acussed of anything in particular beyond "treason". Detailed formal charges may be an unessecary formality
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by elipsey 11y ago
It's kind of odd that uranium smugglers write each other sales reciepts and label the samples. It seems like something you'd want to downplay in your paperwork... "The guard found a receipt, written in Cyrillic, for the purch
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by elipsey 11y ago
Please enlighten me, I'm not afraid to be wrong :) I thought an "Operational Definition" was "a result of the process of operationalization and is used to define something (e.g. a variable, term, or object) in terms of a
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by elipsey 11y ago
>> operational definition lacking It's seems like the dictionary pretty much covers it: "conservative adjective con·ser·va·tive \kən-ˈsər-və-tiv\ : believing in the value of established and traditional practices in politics
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by elipsey 11y ago
Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm just trying to think it through. It seems like it has to use the key you give it; it seems like the output stream has to be correct, or it just won't work. I'm not really sure how this wo
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by elipsey 11y ago
Should we trust the implementation of AES-NI in this context? http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/we-cannot-trust-inte...
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by elipsey 11y ago
This is not soley a trade off between job creation and "environmentalism", and resource extraction is not always net win for a local economy. Also, public land is involved, so consider that the public has a legitimate interest in
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by elipsey 11y ago
I totally agree.
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by elipsey 11y ago
No, of course not. I said that was the purpose intended by the guards. It costs them little to use solitary confinement liberally, so they do. If someone is inconvenient or troublesome, or just pisses them off, away they go. I also think th
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by elipsey 11y ago
The object is for the prison guards to have a way control dangerous or non-compliant prisoners. The prison staff do not have a stake in what happens outside of the prison. It seems like many or most Americans believe that the proper mandate
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by elipsey 11y ago
The question was: "does 1 job taken by an immigrant equal 1 job lost by a local?" So the answer is a ratio, and it's probably not 1:1. Maybe it's 1:.5, but it's almost certainly not as bad as the 1:1.
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by elipsey 11y ago
I think this is correct, but I'm having trouble finding proper peer reviewed publications on the subject. The search is very noisey for obvious reasons. Here's someone who says that immigration contributed moderately to the rise o
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by elipsey 11y ago
Only if you _never buy anything_. The supply of jobs is not fixed or finite. People, including you, both create AND consume valueble goods and services, wherever they are.
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by elipsey 11y ago
Hmm... I wonder if they peruse storage devices while they're at it?
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by elipsey 11y ago
I don't want more money; I want more democracy. Treating our highly skewed wealth distribution strictly as a matter of material welfare is a diversion from the fact that extreme income inequality is evidence of regulatory capture and r
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by elipsey 11y ago
Interesting, thanks. I didn't know about the details. Here's a story: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/us/politics/21detain.html Apparently, it would cost 80MM.
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by elipsey 11y ago
I totally agree in general, but I'm not sure anymore whether gerrymandering is unequivically evil. There are lots of apparently "unfair" ways to do apportionment, but finding a perfect one is sort of harder than it looks at f
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by elipsey 11y ago
There really doesn't seem to be a "due process" cadidate, does there? Obama didn't close Gitmo, we still summarily execute american citizens (overseas drone strikes by exectutive order), summarrily confiscate property at
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by elipsey 11y ago
Resisting Arrest, or Assaulting a Police Officer. In many cities, (I believe DC, for example, is promenantly know for this), many people are charge solely with assaulting an officer. One would be led to believe that there are thousands of w
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by elipsey 11y ago
Problem: most regular users have horrible asymmetric internet connections, and it certainly has not improved at 50x/decade as stated. As I recall, I had 2Mbit/512kbit cable in 2000, and now I Have 10Mbit/1Mbit. "Youtube,
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by elipsey 11y ago
Surely you don't believe that subsistence farming is the maximally productive occupation for every homeless person! I agree that living in a city is not a “human right”. While, problems 1, 2, and 3 are apparently the most important pov
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by elipsey 11y ago
Sorry, I didn't really mean to say that Windows securtiy is inherantly worse, so I should probably rephrase. What I mean is I am more comfortable dealing with client security issues on Linux systems than with Windows. Of course you&#x2

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