kmeisthax

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3601.
by kmeisthax 6y ago
Apple's cryptographic lockout of unsigned software and refusal to authorize any non-App Store distribution defacto forces people who want to publish iPhone software to agree to Apple's terms. I'd also argue that there are no
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by kmeisthax 6y ago
Is it ordinarily the case for competition law in Australia to require someone with monopoly power to do business with someone when their prices increase dramatically?
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by kmeisthax 6y ago
They're doing the techie thing of hilariously misrepresenting copyright law so badly that it seems morally indefensible to have one at all. Sort of like how sovereign citizen movements misrepresent traffic law and the tax code. I cri
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by kmeisthax 6y ago
Internet Archive doesn't have "anti-artist hatred", they think you should have first sale rights on digital versions of physical books. They have a legal argument for it, which I think is stupid, but it's a bit different
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by kmeisthax 6y ago
Book stores do not violate copyright law when you read a book on their premises without paying for it. Copyright law specifically concerns who is allowed to make copies. Yes, TPB can serve the same purpose as a physical library, but the law
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by kmeisthax 6y ago
Not if they pre-registered their copyrights - and I'd be shocked if they didn't, as you can't even sue anyone without a valid registration. If the infringement happens after the registration then you don't have to calcul
3607.
by kmeisthax 6y ago
The 13th Amendment would not come into play here, unless you can somehow prove fictional characters are sentient, or whole-brain emulation becomes a thing and people's brain scans start getting copyright ownership attached to them. Tho
3608.
by kmeisthax 6y ago
The mechanism is that the software is developed and released under GPLv2+ terms and that Microsoft doesn't completely control ownership over the software. Ergo, there's no "extinguish" step. They can't make their ch
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by kmeisthax 6y ago
Limiting the question specifically to "can you record your own phone calls for your own use", and ignoring questions about what you can do with the recordings (which is where things like CCPA or GDPR would apply), there are two re
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by kmeisthax 6y ago
Interestingly enough the EU is looking at that. Also, the US FTC threatened to investigate Apple over the "no third-party tools" thing they imposed on developers alongside "Thoughts on Flash". That's why they never
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by kmeisthax 6y ago
The system was imposed upon them by 1) licensing agreements with major content companies and 2) EU Copyright Directive Article 17. Actually, EUCD17 is a bit more insidious: it's a sliding scale of "best practices", which mean
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by kmeisthax 6y ago
That's included in the phrase "standalone movies". I'm so used to working with SWFs that I call all of them "movies" even if they're entirely a single frame with everything handled in ActionScript.
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by kmeisthax 6y ago
"RISC" isn't a single architecture, it's a philosophy for designing architectures. The "RISC" Apple was using before x86 was called PowerPC, and it was designed mostly by IBM. It was also a horrible piece of ov
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by kmeisthax 6y ago
Did you happen to be there for Adobe's "premium licensing" debacle? I'd like to know exactly what the execs were thinking trying to charge Unity developers for something the web could already do (WebGL + emscripten).
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by kmeisthax 6y ago
I think that by "Flash ban" Dotnaught means "Apple's ban on third party development tools" which was specifically intended to ban the iOS packager tool Adobe had started shipping.
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by kmeisthax 6y ago
Flash became a mobile web non-citizen when the first iPhone released, back in 2008 when Flash was still popular enough for people to complain about it not being on the iPhone rather than to be happy that it was gone. "Thoughts on Flash
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by kmeisthax 6y ago
In Adobe's defense, they kinda did try that: AS3 was supposed to become JS2/ES4 and they also released a bunch of somewhat-useful documentation on the SWF file format. They even released AVM2 as free software (called "Tamarin
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by kmeisthax 6y ago
There are a few features of Flash that require either filesystem access or TCP/UDP sockets, which we are never going to be able to support while interoperating with native Flash Player. We can at least hypothetically emulate RTMP and s
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by kmeisthax 8y ago
No. Memory-aligned means that instructions can only exist on certain addresses. (It also implies a minimum instruction length.) On most RISC architectures, instructions are also a constant size, with the same alignment. For example, a MIPS
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by kmeisthax 11y ago
Or, just use a DNS nameserver that can emulate an apex CNAME, if you are that concerned about letting a third-party renumber their servers at the drop of a hat. I know CloudFlare can do this and it's a feature that standalone DNS names
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by kmeisthax 13y ago
Keep in mind that the whole office still had the fear of Steve Ranking, i.e. the fact that Steve Jobs was a dictatorial asshole who just so happened to also have good design sense. More importantly it's very dangerous to start generali