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by flipbrad 15y ago
No need for domestic human rights violations to trim an excess of zealous males; just launch infantry-heavy wars.
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Well, does it need to be property, or transferable? Is it not enough that it grants you a monopoly over doing stuff that will last you a very significant part of your working life? Why make is assignable in toto, rather than just licensable
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by flipbrad 15y ago
false: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Euro...
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by flipbrad 15y ago
It seems so improbable that they shot him if he was unarmed. If people knew he had been captured, securing his release by threatening future terrorist atrocities would become aim #1 for Al Qaeda, would it not?
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Will it blend? That is the question! http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video...
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Also competing with a relatively new feature - integrated with recent releases of Ubuntu (the linux OS) - called Ubuntu One ( https://one.ubuntu.com/ ) a cursory search for patents in this area turned up all sorts. it's a horrific mess of o
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by flipbrad 15y ago
I live in a fully mutual housing cooperative; we each own a share in the 'corporate' body that owns the land we live on. It does not exist to extract or "make" money from us: it exists to receive and hold our collective rent (at rates which
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by flipbrad 15y ago
In legal regimes where you don't have vicarious liability for any activity short of activity that is authorised or abetted, having an open wifi could actually be a useful legal defence, compared to a situation where even though there is sec
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Major ISP challenge to UK's anti-piracy law fails(slightlyrightofcentre.com)
1 points by flipbrad 16y ago|0 comments
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by flipbrad 16y ago
if the feature was opt-in it might, conceivably, be called awesome. But not being told that my iDevice will log my every move and leave this data open to the next johnny-come-lately to get his hands on my device? Terribly uncool. Logging
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by flipbrad 16y ago
be careful about laws making it illegal to obstruct the course of justice, destroy evidence, etc.
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by flipbrad 16y ago
The answer is: Grooveshark routinely has to take down (unlicenced, non-fair-use) copyrighted content, just like the others. That's the cost of DMCA safe harbour compliance.
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by flipbrad 16y ago
tl;dr: deciduous trees send 'scissor cells' to lop off the leaves as winter arrives. This disconnects the plant's "water pumps" (since evaporation through leaf stoma draws water through the plant xylem up from the roots). If the pumps were
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by flipbrad 16y ago
Can he not get a restraining order against CBP? I say this, obviously, in jest, but one wonders: how exactly does the rule of law protect against this?
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by flipbrad 16y ago
From the Wikipedia article [1]: "each gram of the offending zoanthid contained enough venom to kill at least 125 grown men" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoantharia
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by flipbrad 16y ago
Gee, is the nutshell really so small that it can only include your perspective of the debate, rather than the other side's views, or those of moderates? In fact, the piracy is theft misrepresentation is a core maxim of the pro-industrial st
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by flipbrad 16y ago
This is a big boy move: like the spectrum auction, it's win-win: if they win, they have a defensive portfolio; if they lose, they force higher bids from others, meaning that others are going to have to outlay a lot more cash just to get int
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by flipbrad 16y ago
No, the Bugatti driver's other pastime is punching jets on the nose.
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by flipbrad 16y ago
The Streisand Effect should be part of every law student's education. This attorney has received this lesson far too late in his (now stunted) career.
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by flipbrad 16y ago
The fool paid $750 to register (an invalid) copyright in a listserv one-liner! Amazing, even if you don't consider the hundreds of thousands of dollars expended on this lawsuit ($70,000 claimed by the defendants, and I assume he'd claim som
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by flipbrad 16y ago
Except you don't have ownership of digital content, you have a license. You have an open-ended rental on tough and seemingly conditions, and that's all you "have".
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by flipbrad 16y ago
best to ignore that protip or face horrible consequences. anyway, my understanding is that the lawsuit is still stuck at jurisdictional discovery, not full-on, let's find out if you did something naughty discovery. Which means they're looki
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by flipbrad 16y ago
Don't presume that it's just DNA degradation per se that gives rise to tumorigenic cells. (Mis)repair can be a key cause of cancer.
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by flipbrad 16y ago
Not really. It's a step closer to randomly dispersed neoplasia/tumours popping up around your body! step closer to have super hero mutant children, perhaps, if it's keeping your gonads alive but mutant.
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by flipbrad 16y ago
You probably meant "wary"... or maybe not.
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by flipbrad 16y ago
see the BRCA1/2 (myriad) debacle. horrible mess.
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UK startup, want to advise government about IP law reform?(survs.com)
1 points by flipbrad 16y ago|0 comments
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by flipbrad 16y ago
I doubt many japanese take those on the subway though! I don't recall seeing standard bicycles on the tokyo metro at all, in fact. To the person who said you prefer to lock it up outside a grocery store - what exactly stops you from doing t
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by flipbrad 16y ago
At least you own your books and can sell or pass them to others. Not so for eBook licences 'purchased' from Amazon: http://zine.openrightsgroup.org/comment/2011/the-dummy%E2%80...
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Open Rights Group will intervene in Digital Economy Act judicial review(openrightsgroup.org)
1 points by flipbrad 16y ago|0 comments

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