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by flipbrad 15y ago
the US military invades Bin Laden's compound, calmly shoots him, searches the place, takes his body, disposes it at sea, whilst america's top brass follows... and the only recording of any of this is two DNA shots and a video taken from a d
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by flipbrad 15y ago
This article says saudis weren't offered the body, mind you - john brennan phoned "a former counterpart in Saudi intelligence" to ask if it was a good idea.
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by flipbrad 15y ago
It's generally held that if you serve a webpage you grant an implicit licence to do what's required to the incoming signal to it in order to enjoy what's served. I think it's wrong to think you even need a copyright licence to do it (see ab
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by flipbrad 15y ago
The ruling not only causes absurdity/doesn't work, it's wrong in law to boot. I hope this goes to the UK Supreme Court. It's very dangerous: it effectively means that if I look at a picture on the floor I'm not breaking copyright (because I
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by flipbrad 15y ago
"The lines on the ground are supposed to recall factory floor marking" >> Hay developerz: you're in a factory, now go make me some more highly personal, normally private data about teenagers! Now!
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by flipbrad 15y ago
they've been doing this regularly, I believe, in the UK, where the civil order sought (for disclosure by a third party) is either a Norwich Pharmacal Order or a CPR Part 37 ( http://www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/courts-and-tribunals/cour... )
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Link to original (french): http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2011/07/12/l-hado... 18 million observed instances of filesharing in supposed breach of copyright, not 18 million filesharers. Of a million lucky instances chosen at ra
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Not sure I'd want to be editing documents on my iPad on the subway and be inadvertently flicking / pouring my data to my neighbours every time the train hits a bump in the rails...
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by flipbrad 15y ago
it could be interesting to monitor the gradual disappearance of physical copies of books by (for example) monitoring the frequency of listings of that book on ebay, or the amazon marketplace (based on the assumption that books that perish a
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by flipbrad 15y ago
bistable molecules that can be switched by an external stimulus are absolutely not new. See for example how the eye senses light: http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=retinal+photoisomerisa...
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by flipbrad 15y ago
for me, the most important part of the story is left to the very end: "“But for some twist of fate in life, they’re the waiter and you’re the one being waited on,” Barnes says." And there you have it: the reason why one should be humane, p
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by flipbrad 15y ago
at the same time, you're describing an economy generating a whole lot of wellbeing and welfare. Unemployment and redundancy are dirty words, but if part of a stable economy generating what we need, perhaps we should reconceptualise redundan
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by flipbrad 15y ago
and a Mobile Diagnostics X-Prize to incentivise you to get there: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/37596/?p1=A4
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Can't wikipedia's heritage 'metric' also be a factor of hours humans have, in general, enjoyed it (in the broader sense, as in use, derive benefit from)?
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Most of the things you mentioned were a vast, designed effort by a society to build something grand and longlasting. Yet one isn't; instead, it's a commercially-minded platform for ephemeral individuals to waste time and stay very loosely i
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Nature Bioentrepreneur: What mergers can do for you(nature.com)
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by flipbrad 15y ago
hey grellas - I hope you don't mind tangential questions from a trainee. Whilst (clearly) none of us can do more than speculate as to the terms of the licence, I was wondering whether you thought it possible (in light of industry practice)
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Whoa, whoa - I actually agree with stuff you say, but you do yourself serious discredit by saying Ian Tomlinson was 'beaten to death by riot police' as if he was a protester somehow set upon by multiple officers with truncheons until he pas
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by flipbrad 15y ago
For a setup with conflicts of interest left right and centre, you end up adding another: a bank wanting to depress the share price once it hits a threshold. Who, if that were to happen, would buy a share knowing Goldman's eagle eyes are on
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Preparing for an IPO is tough enough on senior management at the company as it is, let alone having to arrange underwriting, vendor placings, etc, without qualified professionals holding your hand. Lawyers know the law, not the market. Also
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by flipbrad 15y ago
I want a version of this article based on the share price as I write this: not $45, but $108.
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Until the reviewing of service clauses become a normal part of product reviews (which it clearly should, in light of the PS3 OtherOS saga and current class action), most consumers simply aren't going to be properly exposed to this info unti
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Is this really surprising? Technocracy and the associated belief that you can sit down and design or direct societies seem to be prerequisites for what has passed as most "communist" governments to date, right - so why not expect them to em
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by flipbrad 15y ago
The other thing is that I frankly don't see many reports of people using out-of-date patents as roadmaps for anything!
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by flipbrad 15y ago
This would make the skype acquisition a great deal more interesting; from the synergies point of view, but also from the antitrust angle, too.
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My big question for apple and others is whether it's possible that by opting to not get a volume license the patent for downstream users of their platform, they might therefore face a suit alleging contributory or secondary patent infringem
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Assignment of IP to the employer is presumably a clause in just about every employment contract any founder ever imposes on new recruits to their startup - on pain of them leaving and trying to hold the startup hostage over their contributi
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by flipbrad 15y ago
That would probably depend on the terms of the IP licence. Does it cover downstream users, or not? If you're a platform, you get (hopefully, if you were properly advised) what you paid for. What you then represent to your downstream users t
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by flipbrad 15y ago
To what extent is this extortion? I mean, they have admitted to only selling to a government. That means they find and exploit vulnerabilities in software created by a private corporation, disclose the existence of a vulnerability publicly,
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by flipbrad 15y ago
The author is right to skewer the particular targets of his essay in this way (the so-called Bullingdon set), but please don't take this as a skewer of the Oxbridge system itself, or you risk dramatically underestimating what it demands and

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