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by isamuel 16y ago
This is administrative rulemaking; perfectly ordinary. It could be set aside by a court if it were arbitrary or capricious, but that's pretty unlikely.
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by isamuel 16y ago
Nothing in this ruling (based on my relatively quick read) stops companies from implementing countermeasures. It's not illegal to make it hard to do something legal; for example, DVDs are protected by CSS, which although it's laughably easy
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by isamuel 16y ago
It's more that now legitimate businesses can do these things without fear of legal action. It's legal now for Google to post a custom app on the web that unlocks your iPhone and installs Google Voice. It's legal for T-Mobile to unlock your
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by isamuel 16y ago
It would now be perfectly legal for T-Mobile to offer a service where you walk into any T-Mobile store and they unlock your iPhone for you, to use on their network.
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by isamuel 16y ago
This is an enormous ruling. The full rulemaking order, which includes additional protections for DVD ripping and other things, is here: https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/dmca_2009/RM-2008-8.pdf
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Unlocking and jailbreaking are now legally protected in the U.S.(eff.org)
266 points by isamuel 16y ago|35 comments
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by isamuel 16y ago
Yep. You've got it absolutely right. I'm also amazed that people who write and edit words for a living go without keyboard shortcuts for delete word and delete sentence. Not to fetishize the tools or anything, but come on, I use those a tho
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by isamuel 16y ago
My undergraduate degree is in computer science. I discovered during my college days that I love the pursuit of hacking as a sort of art form; I love writing Lisp and I love making beautiful things. I don't love, at all, working as one coder
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by isamuel 16y ago
I eagerly await the public beta of Stack Overflow's "What Should I Start a Stack Overflow Clone Site About?" site. Seriously, this is getting silly. Some forms of knowledge are not best organized in a sprawling question-and-answer format.
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by isamuel 16y ago
Clever. I love how the code is itself prose, but is also executable and brings up the resume when you run it. Nice work.
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by isamuel 16y ago
Recursion!
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by isamuel 16y ago
A lot of your analysis applies with equal force today, and so has been falsified by intervening events. For example, you say: "Let's say that against all odds you get a few early adopters. To everyone else it will look like they are just se
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by isamuel 16y ago
Your blog post reads more like a wish than a prediction. "I want my Apple iPod to make phone calls for me, play video's for me, play J2ME games for me, be WiFi enabled so it can login to my corporate network and check my email on Exchange,
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by isamuel 16y ago
25% gold and 25% cash? I'm not an investment expert. But this seems like a pretty bad idea to me. For one thing, just holding currency is pretty much a guaranteed way to lose money, given inflation. And I always understood gold to be a sort
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Johnson (Smalltalk) and Armstrong (Erlang) on the state of OOP(infoq.com)
10 points by isamuel 16y ago|3 comments
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by isamuel 16y ago
What have you done to bring this to fruition? While not insurmountable, the current situation seems to be "I want to build space-based solar panels. I don't know anything about building them, I have no way to get the materials, and no way t
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by isamuel 16y ago
It's a mistake to think that pseudonymity inevitably leads to rudeness on forums. Plenty of pseudonymous forums are civil: HN, for one. Reddit also gets a really high quality of user discussion. If Blizzard wants respectful discussions on t
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by isamuel 16y ago
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-... Nothing much to it. Microsoft has been selling catalog titles via Xbox Live for a while now. edit: Here's a list of all the games available for full download. http://marketp
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by isamuel 16y ago
The right to sublease is guaranteed by New York's landlord-tenant law. "A tenant renting a residence pursuant to an existing lease in a dwelling having four or more residential units shall have the right to sublease his premises subject to
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by isamuel 16y ago
Here's Clifford Stoll's TED talk, which is about as well organized and carefully thought out as this article: http://blog.ted.com/2008/03/clifford_stoll.php
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by isamuel 16y ago
Steam doesn't even feel like DRM. The hallmark of DRM is always that there's some thing you run into that you want to do but can't: you can't play your music on THAT device, you can't convert your video to THAT format. But the only thing I
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by isamuel 16y ago
This exists. It's how I bought Mass Effect for the 360.
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by isamuel 16y ago
I wouldn't want to hire someone who was willing to compromise his ethics simply for a "very good salary and benefits."
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by isamuel 16y ago
Maybe not for most people. But there is a large segment of people (primarily younger than the readership of this site) who use iChat AV _all_ the time, and they wouldn't do so if they didn't all have Macs with iSight cameras and iChat AV. O
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by isamuel 16y ago
Yes. The technical requirements for a piece of commercial paper---sometimes called a "negotiable instrument," or a check---are that it be a writing, payable to the order of someone specific or simply the bearer, that it be signed by the mak
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by isamuel 16y ago
It would be a wee bit more accurate to say that Android phones fetched more ads on the AdMob network (which is owned by Google) than the iPhone did.
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by isamuel 17y ago
Right. My view is that Apple's resurgence was due to two factors: a radically improved product (the newer Macs, with MacOS X) plus persuasive evangelists (alpha geeks like you and me). The bet with the iPad appears to be that you can piss o
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What Jobs meant by "the progress of the platform"(iansamuel.com)
63 points by isamuel 17y ago|17 comments
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by isamuel 17y ago
Your method sounds good. Right now, I use paper. I do create backups (photocopies), although whether I'll buy another paper journal when I fill this one is an open question. One advantage that paper has is that, if properly preserved, it's
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by isamuel 17y ago
It's for exactly this reason that I keep a personal, daily journal. At the end of each day, just before I go to bed, I take a few minutes to reflect over what I did that day that I'd like to be able to remember in 5 or 50 years. I keep it m

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