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by greyfade 15y ago
It's probably worth pointing out that EULAs are typically prosecuted in the US as contracts where "clicking agree" is equivalent to "signing" the "contract."
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by greyfade 15y ago
Yes, most implementations of x86 translate opcodes into equivalent RISC-like micro-ops. But this was necessary to achieve any kind of real performance with x86. It's a terribly-designed architecture where all of the instructions are scatter
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by greyfade 15y ago
My brow is now permanently furrowed and my heart has arrested. I am sad.
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by greyfade 15y ago
> Is the U.S. Over-Hyping the Risk of Cyber War? Yes.
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by greyfade 16y ago
The "bad thing" is that this is being done over the objections of the people, and working around the normal democratic process. Basically, the State's leaders are calling all of the shots, when their constituents are saying "no."
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by greyfade 16y ago
Given how well the Humble indie Bundles have done in the past (and how the current one is doing), I think their concerns over pricing are a bit overblown.
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by greyfade 16y ago
It prevents him from doing whatever's in the injunction order. ... Which is under seal, and will only ever be seen by the parties in the case, the Court clerk, and the Judge.
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by greyfade 16y ago
The law is not clear. Not on this matter, anyway. There's a lot of legal precedent in favor of Hotz, but not enough to conclusively say that what he did is, strictly speaking, legal or illegal. The fact of the matter is that because they
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by greyfade 16y ago
It would be interesting to get an update on their work, if any.
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by greyfade 16y ago
... With $1M left over to embezzle! :)
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by greyfade 16y ago
How did you do that? Last time I tried, it left Windows nearly unbootable.
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by greyfade 16y ago
> DHS as an organization is weak and unpopular right now. Gee. I wonder why.
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by greyfade 16y ago
If they were smart, they'd already be streaming everything on the web.
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by greyfade 16y ago
I've never owned a TV. So, I've never had any motivation to get cable television or an antenna for viewing local broadcasts. I don't even know what channels there are locally. But, I do watch a couple TV shows.... On the Internet. I can cou
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by greyfade 16y ago
Yes you can. Liquid-Fluoride Thorium Reactors can be started and stopped without incident, in a few hours. I believe their output can also be adjusted in operation. They're safe and efficient enough to build one into a 40-foot trailer that
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by greyfade 16y ago
What, exactly, is it that the author doesn't understand? It seems pretty clear to me that he's pointing out the ridiculous abuse of trademark law for something that should only be covered by Copyright.
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by greyfade 16y ago
One of the related links is Telephone Phobia. Something that I also "suffer" from. :) My phone stopped getting a signal in the last couple weeks and ... I didn't really notice. And I really, really don't mind.
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by greyfade 16y ago
Comments (on both questions and answers) cannot be edited by anyone except the author, but can be made at any time. Questions and answers can be edited by anyone with enough rep, and a clear and detailed edit history is shown, including t
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by greyfade 16y ago
That would only be possible if the framework of Gallium3D can be ported to use the Windows DDK. Gallium is pretty well tied to X11 and a few kernel features present on BSD and Linux kernels.
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by greyfade 16y ago
There's a menu? No, seriously. I've been using Vim for years and I've been recently trying to earn Emacs (and finding the tutorial to be atrociously unhelpful to me in that process), and all this time, I thought the menu was an XEmacs thing
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by greyfade 16y ago
Wow. You don't actually know what Godwin's Law is ? To paraphrase: > As the length of a discussion grows, the probability of there being a comparison with Hitler, or the Nazi party will approach one. It's an admonishment against exactl
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by greyfade 16y ago
MIT has an older video course taught by the authors of the text: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...
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by greyfade 16y ago
Indeed. I read the article (the whole thing!) hoping to get some discussion on the biological effects of sugars and all we get is an analysis of how much sugar content is in natural sugars. It doesn't answer the question posed in the first
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by greyfade 16y ago
One can only wish. Patent invalidation is not retroactive. RIM knows this all too well, after having paid over $600mn in a suit they lost, only to have the patent office invalidate it a few weeks later.
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by greyfade 16y ago
But publishers, prior to local Copyright laws, were more than willing to make hefty investments, even without protection. In fact, they competed to make the best offer to artists and authors. Read the book "Against Intellectual Monopoly."
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by greyfade 16y ago
Yes. The book "Against Intellectual Monopoly" details a significant number of cases dating as far back as the Statute of Anne and as recently as modern developing nations. In every single case, the evidence shows that the absence of Copyr
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by greyfade 16y ago
There are a few things: 1. Suppose the restaurant owner is not playing music that BMI/ASCAP are authorized to collect royalties on. What gives them the right to demand it? The answer is a law which effectively assumes the restauranteur is a
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by greyfade 16y ago
When words are many, transgression is inevitable. But he who keeps his peace is wise. Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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by greyfade 16y ago
Some registrars charge for the privilege. I know two of mine do.
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by greyfade 16y ago
His question is very telling: Most Christian children are brought up without one particular, very salient point being brought up about the religion's origins. That is, nearly everyone in the Bible is not white. That they are, in fact, of

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