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by greyfade 14y ago
I could be mistaken, but I believe the Federal rule sets the age at 18 for defining child pornography, and I believe that rule preempts state rules. So even if it's legal to have sex with a 16-year-old in Texas (under State law), it's illeg
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by greyfade 14y ago
That part of the DMCA, sadly, doesn't exist. The only penalties it gives are for the infringement and for the failure to take content down when given a valid request. There's nothing for false claims. In fact, I don't think there are any pr
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by greyfade 14y ago
This is probably why my history teacher was following it back when he told me about it. He was a huge fan of the Amiga and got me interested in platforms that weren't PC-compatible. I now look back on my experience with REBOL as some of the
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by greyfade 14y ago
In fact, it's something that should be pounded into the skulls of programmers at every opportunity. It's something we tend to forget often enough (if we learned it) that we should be reminded of it frequently.
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by greyfade 14y ago
Not all NAS applications require a gigabit LAN.
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by greyfade 14y ago
You presume that relatively soft plastics are the only things you can print. Remember that there are strong ceramics and metal alloys that can be easily powder-printed or laser-sintered. There are also strong plastics and epoxies that can b
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by greyfade 14y ago
Copyrights are for the expression of ideas. Patents are for the implementation of ideas. Trademarks are for the names of ideas. See the difference?
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by greyfade 14y ago
It did not evolve from property law. It evolved from monopolies granted by kings, and the desire to control who could publish and how extensively. So-misnamed "intellectual property" never had anything to do with property laws until very re
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by greyfade 14y ago
> Google is not "playing the game" they are abusing the system far more than Apple does. Since when? I have not seen a single case where Google has offensively litigated any patent prior to their purchase of Motorola Mobility. And thi
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by greyfade 14y ago
$25/mo is a lot easier to manage and justify, especially since it's a guarantee of free access for at least 6 years past the last payment.
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by greyfade 14y ago
I hope they've got a way to keep squirrels off the lines.
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by greyfade 14y ago
Not if they use OpenSPARC. That's GPL'd.
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by greyfade 14y ago
I'd imagine they are, since they're all 2-3 generations old and relegated to the "USED" bin.
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by greyfade 14y ago
Intel has been doing graphics parts for ages - going back to their i740 in the '90s all the way through their GMA family of northbridges. They've always been equivalent to low-end previous-generation parts from ATi and NVIDIA. They've nev
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by greyfade 14y ago
If that's what he meant, that's what he should have said. The rest is complete nonsense.
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by greyfade 14y ago
> It depends on the bitrate. A 1500kbps FLAC will definitely sound multitude levels better than an 800kbps FLAC. The same is the case for any other lossless container. The bitrate matters. Simply by listening to lossless music you won't
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by greyfade 14y ago
If I were any more discriminatory about my work, I'd not be able to find any.
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by greyfade 14y ago
Unfortunately, no one else will see it that way. The person responsible for the bad design will probably raise hell, the project manager might raise hell about changing the architecture without review, and the Management will do everything
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by greyfade 14y ago
Yeah, that's pretty dubious. I was under the impression that all video players do that anyway - that video is encoded in the YUV color space and always converted to RGB on playback. To blame that for their poor performance suggests that the
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by greyfade 14y ago
Yes?
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by greyfade 14y ago
In the US (where the RIAA operates), the levy only applies to CD-Rs that are labeled as being for "Music." Standard CD-Rs and DVD+/-Rs, and so forth aren't covered.
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by greyfade 14y ago
> 1) anecdotal self praise. That a startup (one!) that got acquired used Lisp doesn't prove anything. Many many more succesful startups did not. And its not like it was the most intriguing technologically or acquisition-value wise. That
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by greyfade 14y ago
> 1. They get paid to do it. Historically, someone has realized that Java development was easier/faster/more stable than Lisp development. http://paulgraham.com/avg.html > 2. Java has hella libraries. I mean hella. You can find a
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by greyfade 14y ago
> If there are people who can't solve fizzbuzz that are getting programming jobs, what do they do at work? http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Brillant_Paula_Bean.aspx This is just one example, but it's a very accurate description of
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by greyfade 14y ago
... Or the King. Depends on which countries we're talking about.
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by greyfade 14y ago
Completion in Zsh alone made it worthwhile for me. The completion scripts for Zsh are worlds more powerful and complete than anything I've found for Bash. And, there's even a script that offers Fish-like syntax coloring for Zsh: https://gi
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by greyfade 14y ago
And the excuse for keeping it is compensation of the original creators. Funny how lies work.
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by greyfade 14y ago
I like this font, but its hinting on Linux sometimes makes it unusable. I keep jumping between Inconsolata-g, Clean, Consolas, Anka/Coder, and Andale Mono, because each one of them has something that just bugs the hell out of me. I'm still
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by greyfade 14y ago
Trouble is, broad patents effectively outlaw competition.
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by greyfade 14y ago
I would say no: The short patent period will force them to improve on their inventions at a rapid pace to keep ahead of their competition. It might mean a two-year development cycle, but technology will progress rapidly. That, as oppose

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