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by iwwr 15y ago
Nobody is talking about reneging legal obligations. Also, the 'you' being referred should be directed at the government and not the parent post.
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by iwwr 15y ago
It's quite interesting to see a successful political movement not just unwedded to the IP establishment, but against it.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Being a private establishment, they have a right to kick you out for whatever reason. That said, some supermarkets do publish their prices online and openness should be encouraged.
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by iwwr 15y ago
I wonder about the implications of this WRT free speech in general. While ostensibly, free speech is a pillar democratic societies, not all forms of expression are actually allowed (think: porn or public nudity). This implies that free spee
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by iwwr 15y ago
Untangling code none dared untangle before.
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by iwwr 15y ago
This is where the abstraction leaks through. In Eve, death is just a minor setback, losing a ship may mean a few minutes to hours of work. It's still a game and people do things in games that may be objectionable in real life (see: shooter
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by iwwr 15y ago
So they got around 1 trillion ISK, or around $21K worth of game-time cards (30 days each). For comparison, it costs around 80 billion isk to build the largest ship in the game. For that money they can pay for a large-ish military campaign l
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by iwwr 15y ago
There's also the possibility of a much larger universe filled with "cells" of matter and antimatter. While there would be annihilation at the boundaries, it would be very tenuous, as the radiation would push both regions apart (in the same
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by iwwr 15y ago
Infrared probably due to the limits of manufacturing (1/25th human hair diameter, or about 2 micrometers). Not sure what percent of the whole spectrum energy is possible to absorb.
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by iwwr 15y ago
You can actually build a bomb out of thorium.
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by iwwr 15y ago
He knows how to use a razor, he just choses not to.
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by iwwr 15y ago
There are creative interpretations of existing works (or parodies) or simply sampling for electronic music. Creation involves some degree of imitation.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Comparing the two is kind of pointless. Cybercrime involves actual theft, fraud or vandalism, while those problems of "drug trafficking" are merely a consequence of some drugs being illegal.
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by iwwr 15y ago
What music from the 1940es is such a great moneymaker today that copyright holders can't bear to lose distribution privileges? Rarely are even 2 year old tunes really big sellers.
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Young programmers should take up enterprise software(theregister.co.uk)
4 points by iwwr 15y ago|5 comments
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by iwwr 15y ago
CA certs are currently the only widely available web technology against MITM attacks. The alternative is to build your own web of trust.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Being at the mercy of government organization is not a better prospect, though.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Job creation is just about the worst 'benefit' that can be ascribed to a project. Practically any expenditure can be tied to it. Using this argument just puts your project on par with digging ditches and filling them back again. This is not
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by iwwr 15y ago
Or the auto giants... But practically every state will lobby for their large companies.
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by iwwr 15y ago
This is not new. Staedler has had something like this for some time http://www.staedtler.com/digital_pen.Staedtler On the other hand, I'd like to hear some impressions from people who tried this themselves.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Storing nuclear material ('waste') is only a problem because it's not processed or exploited economically. Well, with the thorium cycle there is the possibility of burning a large proportion of existing waste and with electricity generation
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by iwwr 15y ago
Metallic hydrogen, presumably.
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NASA to build solar sail, communications laser for outer space(nasa.gov)
4 points by iwwr 15y ago|0 comments
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by iwwr 15y ago
It's the lack of a trading option. You can't give your games to someone else once you're bored with them. There are also geographic restrictions, the games you bought in the US you may not be able to play in the EU or vice-versa. Technicall
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by iwwr 15y ago
Two human crew return missions from the ISS were also partial failures. http://www.astronautix.com/articles/thespace.htm (the bottom 2 entries)
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by iwwr 15y ago
They also lost 3 navsats (Glonass) in December last year http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-russia-satellites-orbit....
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by iwwr 15y ago
Speaking in the context of a city-state/small-state fragmentation of the larger African states.
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by iwwr 15y ago
"a few of which will be well run?" A few of which will serve as an example for the rest. But this: "Merging Africa into a few gigantic balkanized states [...] or splitting it up" is part of the reason they're doing badly. Being a battlegrou
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by iwwr 15y ago
Interestingly, diamonds are a recent mass-market phenomenon, mainly post WW2. Diamonds for marriage were invented by De Beers in (possibly) one of the most successful marketing campaigns in history. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arch
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by iwwr 15y ago
Another reminder on why it's bad to rely on just a central information hub. Wikileaks is not 'freeing information' as much as drumming up publicity for themselves (and Assange).

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