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by gbhn 15y ago
My understanding is that wages owed is senior to any other corporate debt. Is this not true?
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by gbhn 15y ago
This is a really interesting case about how we need to confront the issue of rights when something is made public. It seems a little ludicrous to suggest that something like the Eiffel tower lights display is copyright, when it is obviously
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by gbhn 15y ago
Do most binaries have this high ratio of encrypted/obfuscated content? That is, would a checker which simply looked at high-entropy fraction of a binary be able to detect malware not in its database? Obviously this is trivial to defeat, but
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by gbhn 15y ago
I wrote my Congressman (Schiff, a SOPA cosponsor). I got a letter back making the claim that "it only creates tools that will allow the Attorney General, with an order from a Federal Judge, to take steps against foreign infringing sites." M
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by gbhn 15y ago
I think these were the same crowd drawing up plans to sell the government on how to crush wikileaks amid other miscellaneous dirty tricks. ( http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-02-11/tech/30050719... )
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by gbhn 15y ago
Unfortunately, this is becoming increasingly the enforcement reality in the United States -- the law at this level is used selectively as an intimidation weapon rather than being applied uniformly. Examples abound: which "leakers" are prose
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by gbhn 15y ago
As I recall, for Google Video Search, we used domains like "1.vgc1.com" "2.vgc2.com" etc for cookieless hosting. A short domain name (as opposed to 'cookieless.googleserving.googlevideo.com' or some such) saves bytes in the HTML, and cookie
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by gbhn 15y ago
You probably know better than me, but I thought the 25k limit was for songs in the "uploaded" category (i.e. your 5100 songs). IOW, you would still be far from the limit.
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by gbhn 15y ago
I'm not making any representations as to Raystream particularly, but it is not true that you can't make fancy encoding algorithms that will then run on a standard codec in a phone. Video standards are decoding standards, and specify what st
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by gbhn 15y ago
Agreed. A petition was worthwhile to elevate the attention given to the matter. It could be the response was a brush-off, but it might also be an invitation to the party. It's pretty hard to overestimate the impact that executive branch pol
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by gbhn 15y ago
I don't want to speak for anyone, but while Stallman definitely thinks that using work created from a differing ideological perspective is seriously problematic, one shouldn't assume the same from people who disagree with him.
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by gbhn 15y ago
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np This site records debt to the penny, daily. There's a fair amount of up and down in such a measure, as you might expect. There are certainly (long-ish) periods during Clinton's pres
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by gbhn 15y ago
One of the key things I feel like I learn from Steve Jobs is that while he may have been niche-focused at one time, he seems to me to have either intuited, or rapidly learned, that actually there's a very broad audience that values high-qua
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by gbhn 15y ago
As a Chrome developer, I'm biased, but I think a lot of very important and innovative work is happening on the web platform, and virtually all of it is open source.
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by gbhn 15y ago
I find this really interesting as well. I'd really appreciate a longer account of your thinking and the details, if you wouldn't mind. I've mulled over a similar idea, but done nothing with it.
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by gbhn 15y ago
When I ask "How much is a website?" what I mean is, more or less, "What's the average price of the last 100 websites you did, weighted a bit by where you are in the price curve? If you could toss in the stdev, that'd be awesome." Thinking t
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by gbhn 15y ago
Wow. So your pitch is "Your app sucks. Give me $1k and I'll tell you why"? Does this ever actually work?
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by gbhn 15y ago
For better or worse, courts are pretty immune to this particular form of induction. That's why you can copyright the sequential bits of a movie, but not the number "0110".
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by gbhn 15y ago
I can easily conceive of it. Where else are you going to put it? Europe? The interest rates are set at auction, and if the stock market is really sour, and European bonds are less attractive, capital will pour into US bonds no matter what t
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by gbhn 15y ago
"By 2025, CBO projections show that our total tax revenue will be entirely absorbed by interest payments and entitlements." That sounds worse than it is. Entitlement programs are major component of the budget. (The other is defense.) The re
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by gbhn 15y ago
BrowserID implements https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Identity/VerifiedEmailProtocol From that document: "destination.com retrieves Alice's public key from mailhost.com by using a webfinger lookup over SSL." So it looks to me that the system
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by gbhn 15y ago
Is the "teaching" requirement for a patent really weak in court? It seems to me most patents are obfuscated works of legalese and ought to be invalidated on that basis, by a relatively clear reading of the law. Or is it too easy to pay some
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by gbhn 15y ago
A really key part of intents is that they're locally resolved. For centrally-resolved links, urls already work really well with the DNS system. Of course, features that prevent abuse will be a key support element for browsers. That's part o
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by gbhn 15y ago
I've talked with Paul a bit about this. We've also mocked up using link tags, which carry a bit more metadata. Probably the most promising approach, though, is using other webapp manifest ideas to bundle intent provider installation with th
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by gbhn 15y ago
I got an iPad 2. It isn't "buggy as hell," but I think I'd accept 10 other bad bugs instead of the wifi connection bug the iPad has (and has apparently had for a year, reading the forums).
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by gbhn 15y ago
Definitely a prank. But the whole point of Banksy's career is to blur the lines between art and prank. And really, a found urinal that Duchamp autographed with someone else's name? That isn't even original at this point? That's not a prank?
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by gbhn 15y ago
The article argues that the Supreme Court interprets the Federal Arbitration Act as superceding state class action rules. It's a borderline thing, I suppose (5-4 decision), but it seems like a fairly straightforward ruling, predictable for
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A-Fund: Investors Bet $100 Million on Android Ecosystem(mashable.com)
5 points by gbhn 16y ago|0 comments
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by gbhn 16y ago
The OP is saying that with a #fragment, the browser wouldn't even need to send the server the doc contents. (Since they aren't used anyway, there's obviously no use in doing so.)
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by gbhn 16y ago
tl;dr: Java is the only viable web technology, and all frameworks except @ItsNat are discarded for reasons like "uses XML or declarative programming." It looks like the framework uses an in-server browser to do layout with Java-based event

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