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by law 15y ago
I only just started using LinkedIn. One of the major problems I've always had with the service was the fact that it would notify you that someone from some area had viewed your profile. This is a major intrusion into the seclusion of my vis
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by law 15y ago
I think by "free," Cassidy means "libre," in that adding bike lanes decreases the number of available parking spaces. If that's the case, Storbeck improperly challenged the basis of Cassidy's cost-benefit scrutiny. The value (intrinsic and
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by law 15y ago
They "lost" to D2L, but Blackboard appealed, both parties settled, and part of the settlement included vacating the district court's judgment.
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by law 15y ago
From Blackboard's patent pledge: "Blackboard hereby commits not to assert any of the U.S. patents listed below, as well as all counterparts of these patents issued in other countries, against the development, use or distribution of Open Sou
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by law 15y ago
I've done a lot of work on Elance, oDesk, and Guru as an employer. Generally, the quality of talent is very hit-or-miss, but it's nice to see that they are actively encouraging efficient resource management. Unfortunately, I think it's too
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Elance introduces a suite of productivity applications to promote efficiency(elance.com)
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by law 15y ago
Absence of malicious history/intent doesn't render them incapable of being (directly or indirectly) dangerous. One could easily pose a rational argument for users to take prophylactic measures (e.g., Facebook Disconnect, Ghostery, and the o
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by law 15y ago
Court isn't the only route to patent invalidation. When a plaintiff sues a defendant for patent infringement, there are usually two defenses brought up: "I'm not infringing on your patent" and "even if I were, your patent is invalid." Preva
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by law 15y ago
First to file vs. first to invent are procedural requirements that do NOT, in any way, alter the standards for patentability. In other words, you still have to prove novelty, utility, nonobviousness, and sufficiency of disclosure of an inve
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by law 15y ago
OP said this is for personal finance...very rarely would you need more precision than that. Also, 1 cent is the minimum that anything can cost . Do you happen to have any 1/10 cent pieces lying around? That's a financial fiction.
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by law 15y ago
> Great to see this discussion - I think that most contracts in many areas of law could be standardised. The same way that open source and creative commons licenses standardise those areas. In principle, this is a great idea. In practic
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by law 15y ago
You might want to check out the COPPA Safe Harbor Program at http://business.ftc.gov/privacy-and-security/children%E2%80%... (the list of approved safe harbors) and http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/coppafaqs.shtm This is one reason why many T
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by law 15y ago
Maybe he's referring to bitcoin :) But yes, money doesn't require floating point precision. Represent it as an integer (of cents) and add the decimal in yourself.
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by law 15y ago
Yeah, I'm not at all arguing that intellectual curiosity is bad , just that it's not always right , where what's "right" is parameterized on the inputs: your task, the expected output, the deadline, etc.
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by law 15y ago
> The person who grows up being intellectually curious will have a big heads up in the job market since they will have acquired more information than the other applicants. I unfortunately do not agree with you. Despite how much it kills
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by law 15y ago
Also, the U.S. Government Printing Office makes available bulk data for certain publications in XML format. See http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/bulkdata/ for more information.
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by law 15y ago
I really hope that this portends advances in other government agencies, as well. The judiciary, for example, is in massive need of an overhaul on this scale. Each of the 13 federal courts of appeals have their own methods for publishing opi
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by law 15y ago
This reminds me of CS229, of which there's an online version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzxYlbK2c7E It's considerable more focused in scope, presenting the mathematics behind some of the more popular algorithms extensively used in ma
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by law 15y ago
I just checked PAIR and as of March 5, 2011 it's with an examiner. Most recently, on June 12, it looks like the USPTO wants them to restrict the claims in the patent to a single independent and distinct invention; i.e., it doesn't look like
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by law 15y ago
Good question. Right now, Westlaw charges something like $100 per search in ALLCASES, which is their database of all federal and state court opinions ever written. Just to retrieve a single document by citation is something like $10. The ge
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by law 15y ago
I was referring to business method patents, not software patents. Art. 52 paragraph 3 clarifies what's in paragraph 2: (3) Paragraph 2 shall exclude the patentability of the subject-matter or activities referred to therein only to the exten
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by law 15y ago
I actually wanted to create something like this a few months ago, but the idea never got any momentum. Instead, I've been working on software that facilitates prior art search by semantically analyzing "literature," generally. I'm primarily
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by law 15y ago
Unfortunately, you still need to deal with this crap, thanks to the Patent Cooperation Treaty, and more broadly the Paris Convention. While it goes without saying that neither of these treaties means that a U.S. patent is enforceable in Eur
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by law 15y ago
Actually, with almost every publication agreement, you sign over any right, title, and interest in the copyrighted work to the publisher. So, the law isn't protecting "your" copyright; it protects the publisher's. But, a published academic
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by law 15y ago
Absolutely, especially if it integrates with already-existing applications. For example, I think there's room for a turn-key "plug-in" to phpBB that offers thread-specific advertisements. Same thing with wordpress.
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by law 15y ago
Because in real life, there are plenty of laws that prevent invasions into privacy. Also, the people capable of doing the same in real life don't have the tools to create truly personal advertisements. For example, a supermarket chain might
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by law 15y ago
What makes me really nervous is that we're nearing the point when Google's Prediction API and its knock-offs will increasingly pervade web sites much in the way that AJAX and other technologies have. While overuse of AJAX and the Facebook "
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by law 15y ago
See also http://blogs.forbes.com/johntamny/2011/07/17/a-decline-in-u-...
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Weakest growth in start-ups since the early '90s(usatoday.com)
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by law 15y ago
Right, Facebook is a business, and they were being paid to run an advertisement. It turns out that the ad (albeit indirectly) is for their competition. Blocking on the presumed basis that the advertisement may encourage users to leave Faceb

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