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by flipbrad 16y ago
Whilst you're discouraged at all levels from applying to both Ox and Cam, I don't think it's true that you can't. But you're correct about the second interviews (at other colleges). This was actually pretty standard (for Biochem, at Oxford)
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by flipbrad 16y ago
maybe it was repurposed for Operation Payback?
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by flipbrad 16y ago
spot on! small world...
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by flipbrad 16y ago
even if you didn't read it, in the UK at least (L'estrange v Graucob, IIRC). Mind you, EU law (and hence, UK law) might strike out some terms as unfair. And public policy is also grounds for certain (extreme) contracts to be outlawed - for
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by flipbrad 16y ago
IANAL, but from what I see, in this case there is a contract, if the two of you started doing business. It might, or might not, be the one you handed that wasn't throw back in your face. if they filed it, still have it, refer to it in decid
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by flipbrad 16y ago
my Tort tutor (admittedly not a contract tutor, but...) boasted to the class about signing up for a blockbuster video rental card, handing in a signed T&Cs slip instore with the late fees clause blacked out. The acceptance of the slip (
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by flipbrad 16y ago
This deal comes 6 months after AOL (an experienced tech player, mind you) sells Bebo for about $10m rather than the $850m it spent to acquire it. The context is markedly different, of course, notably since Facebook was the reason for the
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by flipbrad 16y ago
unless, of course, it plays a useful role. an ecosystem can thrive with both predator and prey - even with paratism. Point here, expressed more eloquently above, is that free and unrestricted knowledge can be a tremendously beneficial thing
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by flipbrad 16y ago
author's rights / moral rights can subsist if copyright goes...
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by flipbrad 16y ago
not just simulated, but it's being actively extended in that way. the recent Blizzard v MDY touches on it, there's a SABIP report on contracts and copyright... lots of stuff out there. but it's not quite the same. By way of example, for bre
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by flipbrad 16y ago
you can presumably purchase before-the-event insurance anyhow. There just isn't a big market. But can you seriously EFF/etc to be that insurance, and have any money left over to lobby government (have you any idea what financial scale we ar
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by flipbrad 16y ago
i'm not sure that's true, necessarily. IANAL (yet), but unless I'm mistaken, a patent still has to be novel. So if they had publicly disclosed what they thought had no value... they could invalidate any later patent that tried to make it il
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by flipbrad 16y ago
I supposed it could be a big boost for FOSS if the remedy for IP infringement wasn't damages calculated on expected (lost) sales, but an account for profits; so you'd hand over the profit you made from infringing this patent (rather than -
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by flipbrad 16y ago
You didn't purchase a book. You licensed an ebook. Big difference, in Amazon's mind.
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by flipbrad 16y ago
I wonder whether this particular patent (and its licensing unavailability) is what is holding back micropayments?
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by flipbrad 16y ago
security of property. pff.
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by flipbrad 16y ago
TorrentFreak is well written and well research; its story selection is different to other more mainstream news sites. Much like al jazeera, this makes it an extremely useful and valuable news site. I do wish for a more mainstream name thoug
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by flipbrad 16y ago
i wish i was a US citizen so I could send him a note of appreciation and some chocolates, or a box set of mad men, or something... this bill would have gone global (and might do, one day)
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by flipbrad 16y ago
and a company whose business is bypassing privacy to learn about consumers, will have a record of all telecom between those consumers
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by flipbrad 16y ago
Quite. We're talking about a company that's under commercial pressure to systematically learn all it can about you, in other words, to bypass/do away with your privacy. And has a person at the helm with a revolutionary zeal that's perfectly
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by flipbrad 16y ago
I don't know what the wider stats are on conversation fragmentation, or deletion, but my relationships with my friends are diffused through more platforms than email. Much to the annoyance of people whose progress in life depends on knowin
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by flipbrad 16y ago
So according to their blog: “All of your messages with someone will be together in one place, whether they are sent over chat, email or SMS. You can see everything you’ve discussed with each friend as a single conversation. I’m intensely je
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by flipbrad 16y ago
it's an interesting point, that. should news aggregators consciously avoid paywalled articles, and if so, why? Do they increase the ratio of noise to signal her, because few people can benefit from them (hence they are pure noise to most pe
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by flipbrad 16y ago
oh but michael, you're forgetting: facebook has all those eyeballs!
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by flipbrad 16y ago
in what/which jurisdiction(s)?
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by flipbrad 16y ago
The fact that you aren't buying the e-book, but instead paying the fee for a very restrictive licence , needs to be made much clearer to e-book users. This would mean Amazon and Barnes & Noble using the wording 'license this book' inst
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by flipbrad 16y ago
perhaps all laws should be subject to the 'eat your own dogfood' principle in some shape or form.
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by flipbrad 16y ago
Good catch it seems. Mea culpa.
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by flipbrad 16y ago
no, a glance at the @Cookssource twitterfeed (referring, amongst other things, to Poe's Law) makes it clear that to a large extent this is an epic trolling. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poes_Law
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by flipbrad 16y ago
> No, you only get to delete copies you have control over. > so keeping a personal copy of something you saw online is an infringing act. In other words, I'm right that you think that more than issuing content on licences that are

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