flipbrad

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by flipbrad 16y ago
not to get too 'cooksource' or bolshy on you but why on earth would you have moral rights? why is this an issue of 'win'? you publicised your content, technology made a million copies of it, people found it useful to them to communicate it
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by flipbrad 16y ago
Supplying the torrent isn't directly commercial but upping others' content with your own ads, is. And should be subject to claims to account to claimants for income received unless they published under a wide enough copy-left licence. Howev
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by flipbrad 16y ago
It's advisable to learn to spot a publicity troll when you see one.
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by flipbrad 16y ago
Well, I don't. Whether it's the BBC, ITV, iPlayer, 4OD for video, or Le Canard Enchaine for press, or the stuff in my RSS feed, I'm only paying one way or the other.
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by flipbrad 16y ago
for me, wealth is potential for future freedom from constraints on life choices. Money is one format, relationships, friendships and favours owed are another; education also counts, as do health, fitness and certain key possessions (but not
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by flipbrad 16y ago
Firstly, it's disgusting that some cretin with a TV screen gets to see these, only so that he can ask himself whether I am a wrongdoer (and whatever other inappropriate question floats through his brain) Secondly, it's not in my best intere
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by flipbrad 16y ago
I have been dreaming for a long time of a site where groups could form around issues, put together a bounty, and administer it collaboratively. I think it was tried once, called bigcarrot.com, and hasn't really taken off. Sad to read at the
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by flipbrad 16y ago
absolutely. but groupthink is a well-known phenomenon. hackers are very original people, and originality tends to get lost in large groups, no?
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by flipbrad 16y ago
I don't consider myself a hacker, so am not best placed to pass judgement, but... it seems like the true hacker ethos is not to swim with the stream, and yet here is pretty clear proof that hnews has formed its own stream. How many hackers
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by flipbrad 16y ago
are you worried about copyright infringement suits?
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by flipbrad 16y ago
it's not just task management: as a newbie to the legal world, I would like to learn about software development / good coding practice to improve my contract drafting (which, not being a coder, I think of in the following terms: define the
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by flipbrad 16y ago
Does a domain name sale attach capital gains tax? because it really must be monstrous, if so. Can't imagine that many exemptions apply, and assuming the value at purchase was ~$10... or is it not that kind of asset?
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by flipbrad 16y ago
That's absolutely true. Rather than give up copyright, it's now very slowly turning to releasing stuff under open licence, the Open Government Licence (OGL): http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/uk...
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by flipbrad 16y ago
I love that you did that. What I would love even more is a project where people just post descriptions of ideas, publicly, so that a year or two down the line, patents can be blocked. What a service to the world: force companies to only get
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by flipbrad 16y ago
the possibility of it sinking BP's Deepwater Rig was interesting, not something I had considered before reading it in the Q&A
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by flipbrad 16y ago
what will the response to this be? Could the site host set a cookie that then (from the server) is read and the content reported directly to the advertiser?
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by flipbrad 16y ago
strange data on the pie chart for september, unless I'm misreading it or toxie is magic... the percentages add up to 150%, don't they?
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by flipbrad 16y ago
Mulve: a RIAA lobbyist's wet dream, and a Spotify killer. Wonderful. Was the current piracy regime so badly broken that this needed to happen? The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the Gallo report, the UK's Digital Economy Act, a
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by flipbrad 16y ago
When I worked a summer in a management consultancy we produced powerpoints for the BBC showing that it was a waste of money. but don't let that trouble you.
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by flipbrad 16y ago
little people will get hurt. Apollo Global and co will haemorrage hard, and both it and its backers (like the Carlyle Group) will just continue to turn to other countries they can lobby to set up the same system they have in the US: privati
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by flipbrad 16y ago
Quite the contrary, the way I'm reading it. on one reading, for example, the previous policy limited future changes to 'minor' ones; this is important because honestly., who ever revises their opinion on their use of a site based on their m
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by flipbrad 16y ago
If you want in-depth analysis of why this is a completely mad bubble (hopefully with an imminent prick coming from the legislature or government rolling back the lobby-led liberalisation of the Bush years) you could do far worse than a fant
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by flipbrad 16y ago
Ivan Illich, in his writings on Deschooling Society, would have been immensely proud - especially once this gets truly p2p. Being able to get an education, without being institutionalised, on demand not force-fed - what a beautiful counterp
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by flipbrad 16y ago
I should maybe elaborate. You claim for weeks that you fear being the target of a smear campaign. How better to protect yourself from one, than to vaccinate the entire public? Find two accolytes to report the alleged rape and molestation on
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by flipbrad 16y ago
what if it was self-generated?
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by flipbrad 16y ago
My phone is going to need a 'private' toggle just like it has a 'silent mode' toggle - right on the home screen, or physical.
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by flipbrad 16y ago
are there any search engines out there that ignore robots.txt, that this could be done with?
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by flipbrad 16y ago
you could try NOFORN
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by flipbrad 16y ago
They will still be learning a lot about users, just not adding that to their otherwise neat idea they have about who you are. You have two identities; they can track, study and serve each one, no probs.
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by flipbrad 16y ago
If I have an issue with this article, it's that it reaches a crescendo of Obama-worship by the end (celebrating healthcare reform with a depiction of a White House martini-on-the-balcony scene worthy of a crap James Bond ending) - clearly,

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