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by gph 14y ago
I may be way out of my depth on this, but isn't this project assuming that there is a 'normative' human brain, and that we all have the same neuron structure? I know we all have the same general brain regions, and in most of us they functio
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by gph 14y ago
Yea, you could. But, you aren't going to first of all. And secondly you are a drop in the bucket. Even if you put it on all the bittorrent trackers it's still not a dent in their overall market share. But if every subscriber could simply ri
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by gph 14y ago
What DRM-free Youtube videos? Youtube uses DRM-enabled flash player and locks down the ability of people to copy videos. Besides Youtube is a free service, that everyone basically assumes will continuously be there. You're bringing up non-r
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by gph 14y ago
Yea, but my point is different than a cracked version leaking into bittorrent. That doesn't have a drastically large footprint. If they streamed videos with no-DRM, everyone with a subscription would easily grab a copy of whatever they want
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by gph 14y ago
Care to elucidate that point? So if netflix streamed their content with no-DRM (which none of the content companies they license from would allow, but we'll skip that fact) you assume no one would just get a subscription, copy their entire
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by gph 14y ago
Guess outside of America that's how it works. Never really looked into it, I just knew that wasn't usually true here in America[1]. [1] http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/attorney-fees-does-lo...
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by gph 14y ago
I agree that would be a problem, but I understand there would be a way to implement the current proposal without requiring a browser to be closed source. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5232033 https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-
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by gph 14y ago
>We live in a world of government-granted monopolies given to companies like HBO. I don't even know how to respond to this... last I checked cable and Satellite companies don't force HBO on you. And while cable companies held a semi-mon
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by gph 14y ago
>Look, these media companies are looking to us for advice; We're doing both them an ourselves a disservice by continuing to sell them DRM snake oil. Seems to be working out pretty well for Hulu/Netflix. Or is releasing your $100 million
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by gph 14y ago
So there is another method of making money for Large Production Movie/T.V.? Please enlighten me. My citation is reality. Take a look around.
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by gph 14y ago
Are you sure you meant libertarians? I don't see how anything about Singapore would fit in with libertarian ideology...
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by gph 14y ago
>If you aren't developing software, your job will likely become obsolete someday. And, indeed, if you are developing software, and not keeping up with advances, yours will too. Even if you do keep up with advances, I don't doubt at some
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by gph 14y ago
So you've never bought a DVD or streamed anything through Flash or Silverlight by a major publishing studio? Never watched a music video on Youtube that it didn't allow you to directly download? If so, congrats on sticking to principles. Bu
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by gph 14y ago
I don't know, presumably they have a lot more money to put into a legal defence. Even if they lost, in the long run the other side would probably bankrupt themselves in the process. And it's doubtful that the judgement against them would be
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by gph 14y ago
>We should be paranoid. Media companies do not have our interests or the interests of an open web at heart. Give an inch and they'll take a mile. Why shouldn't they? The fact is that DRM benefits media companies almost exclusively while
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by gph 14y ago
> they need to adapt their businesses to the realities of this century's technology. You say this like it's immensely easy. So say you're head of HBO's original programming dept. It can cost over 100 million dollars to produce one seaso
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by gph 14y ago
>The web as a technology doesn't care about today's laws or profit motives. The web as a technology doesn't care about anything because it isn't a human being. Why are you anthropomorphising it and adding idealized moralities? If you ha
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by gph 14y ago
Yes, and let's tar and feather the Tax Collectors!!!
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by gph 14y ago
>HTML itself is a fundamentally open standard on which the entire op web is built. Adding DRM to that ends that. Period. No hysterics. Nothing about adding DRM will make HTML any less of an open standard. It will just be an open standar
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by gph 14y ago
>BBC, Netflix, MS, and--of all companies--Google should be ashamed to be involved in this. Why should any of them be ashamed? They all have copyrighted digital content or at least have sites that host copyrighted content. They all clear
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by gph 14y ago
Let's see what the statistics have to say, first for Singapore: "Total pedestrian fatalities dropped from 49 in 2011 to 44 in 2012" [1] Singapores' population is ~5 million[wikipedia], so the odds of being killed by a car for the total popu
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by gph 14y ago
Just to be pedantic for the hell of it, we're really in space-time, and it's that "time" dimension that makes "space" capable of reaching out and touching us :D
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by gph 14y ago
>According to unconfirmed reports, the meteorite was intercepted by an air defense unit Anyone else catch this? Is this just a bad translation and they mean to say that an air defense unit tracked the meteorite on radar? I wouldn't thin
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by gph 14y ago
> In the US, if you look at the last 40 years of flights, you are still more likely to die by accident than by terrorist attack. Alright so not a complete wash, but fairly close. I might go so far as to say the difference between ~4000-
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by gph 14y ago
> its statistically less likely to die from terrorism then it is from a normal plane crash, consider that. From a purely passenger point of view this might be true, but if you include the total deaths from WTC/Pentagon I bet it comes ou
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by gph 14y ago
>I'd probably shuffle off to a quiet, dimly lit corner somewhere with my headphones, and try to block out the intense primary colours and lack of sound insulation. Yea I'm with you on that. I'm not opposed to having workspaces more comf
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by gph 14y ago
>TL;DR 6 billion people don't act like a village. FYI, We're up to 7 billion these days by most estimates. This village just keeps growing :D
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by gph 14y ago
Yea, you're right it wouldn't be useful for much since it doesn't have any durability. But if they ever get around to making this durable in a construction environment it would save tons of money. Having done the bookkeeping for a small con
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by gph 14y ago
Are you implying that a museum dedicated to Jimi and owning the majority of the Northwests' sports franchises doesn't directly benefit all of humanity? Because that sir is something we will simply have to disagree on.
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by gph 14y ago
Those are good changes and hopefully they last. But to be bluntly honest I feel like all it will take is some time to pass and the next boom cycle to come and the same gunslinger-types will regain the management reigns with the same old out

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