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How Writers Can Get Paid Now: Adventures In Invoicing Your Copyright Violators(theawl.com)
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by jobu 13y ago
People hate DRM because it gives the content producers too much power, and then they treat consumers like muppets: http://neosting.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/pirated_vs_le... The Internet has shifted a huge amount of that power back
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by jobu 13y ago
I thought the government would understand The Streisand Effect by now.
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by jobu 13y ago
Seems to only run once per page load. You can reload to hear it again in case you missed it.
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by jobu 14y ago
The WWDC purchase process was _much_ less painful than the Google I/O process. I didn't get tickets for either, but at least the Apple process was done within minutes. Google took me nearly an hour of watching a progress spinner and retry
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by jobu 14y ago
swish.com appears to be completely down at this time.
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by jobu 14y ago
Shutting it down it the dumbest move ever. This story is all over the news and everyone wants to download it. Many developers pay a great deal to acquire more users, and Yahoo is just throwing this chance away.
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by jobu 14y ago
Much of it comes back as invesments in US businesses, real estate, and stock markets by these foreign subsidiaries. I don't think they're actually able to bring it back into the parent companies in the US, but with good accountants and lawy
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by jobu 14y ago
This is commentary, not reporting: "Opnionator - Exclusive online commentary from The Times". It's little more than a guy on a soap box or one of the talking heads on TV. Unlike the article, the study itself does appear to be legitimate h
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by jobu 14y ago
We've had business relationships with Yahoo in the past and everyone we dealt with there had a complete lack of accountability. No one seemed to care when we found problems, and it would take months for simple things to be fixed on their s
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by jobu 14y ago
Unlike TOML, most people are case insensitive.
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by jobu 14y ago
Fast forward to next week: "The White House announces a new threshold of 500,000 signatures before it will respond to online petitions." I was initially enthusiastic about these online petitions, but it doesn't seem like any of them have ha
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by jobu 14y ago
First I've seen this, but that donation jumped out at me immediately. How could a male circumcision program possibly use all of $18 billion?! 18 million makes much more sense.
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by jobu 14y ago
Few surprises for me about this whole deal: 1) Glee couldn't find a way to add any creative touches to the arrangement and actually make it their own. (They even included the duck!) 2) Glee doesn't acknowledge where they get their musical a
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by jobu 14y ago
It's too bad the donor money comes with so many strings attached. I wonder if the universities could get away with renting out some of the space in some of these buildings. That could at least cover some of the operating costs.
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by jobu 14y ago
I started having issues with ulcers and acid reflux in college, and for over a decade I took Prilosec (omeprazole) to control it. Last year I started drinking wheatgrass and other veggie shakes (and trying to eat a little healthier in gener
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by jobu 14y ago
Wow. I couldn't disagree more. The integration of the extra content to the context of the story really added another level for me.
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by jobu 14y ago
I was reading some of the other comments here and wondering if anyone else thought the multimedia content upstaged the writing. This is the better than any kind of storytelling I've ever seen. Videos that auto play as you get to them. 3-D
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by jobu 14y ago
Though they probably won't admit it, I'm betting Hanlon's Razor fits this situation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_razor ) After reading some of the TOS changes and this blog post it really seems like a case of overzealous lawyering
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by jobu 14y ago
The thing is I would actually favor software patents if it required the patent applicant to submit all related source code to the public domain. Software is the only medium of creation that is essentially a double-monopoly with copyright a
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by jobu 14y ago
Unfortunately I can't seem to find it, but I thought there was a quote from Larry in all the HP/Oracle mudslinging about Autonomy barely being worth $1Billion. That's pretty impressive forecasting given that HP now values them at about 1.5
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by jobu 14y ago
Sorry continuing this off-topic thread, but I'm actually curious what it takes to become 'hell banned'. I've noticed several banned users lately, and this is another case where none of the user's comments/submissions seem overly trollish o
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by jobu 14y ago
I would argue that Disney alone is more powerful than either political party. It's pretty well known that the copyright extensions have happened in such a way as to keep the movie Steamboat Willie (and therefore Mikey Mouse) under copyrigh
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by jobu 14y ago
It's pretty well known that the warrants issued in New Zealand were invalid, but I don't think it's widely known how weak the US warrents were. Here's an example of how far the government stretched the truth in order to get the warrant. A
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by jobu 14y ago
"to deliver a given amount of twisting force—or torque—a reluctance motor has to be larger than an equivalent permanent-magnet motor" Anyone know how much larger a reluctance motor would need to be? Seems like this would be a problem, sinc
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by jobu 14y ago
It's scary how much this sounds like the world envisioned by Daniel Suarez in Daemon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(technothriller_series) Google has diverless cars, Glasses that overlay information on top of reality, and now is ma
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by jobu 14y ago
That always irked me too. Now you can disable those little app notification badges in settings.
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by jobu 14y ago
Norway is highly regarded for it's approach to limited oil exploration: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/09/06/140110346/how-to-a...
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by jobu 14y ago
Good point. The article mentions pressure from Interpol as a reason for their outage. Is copyright infringement actually illegal anywhere in EU? I thought it was a civil issue in most countries. Also, I don't remember any of the previous
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This is not a solved problem. SpaceX is working on it, but they're currently around $6k per kilogram [1], with hopes to get to $1100 or less per kg [2]. Cost-to-orbit reduction is not a sexy or scientifically interesting problem to solve, b

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