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by law 15y ago
I think it's more nuanced than that. Facebook's reputation and brand equity is perhaps their second most cherished asset (second to their user base). A move like blocking Google advertisements will result in even more bad press when they re
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by law 15y ago
If Facebook were confident that they make a better product, they'd embrace competition as a sort of self-check in the system. They'd spend a day or two to adapt their already-developed you-can-download-your-whole-account feature to allow cu
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by law 15y ago
tl;dr The court didn't "OK" the body scanners; they remanded the rule back to the TSA so that they can go through proper notice-and-comments by publishing the rule to the Federal Register. They (rightfully) ruled that there were no colorabl
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by law 15y ago
I didn't read the news article; I don't have time for sensationalist tripe. Instead, I went straight to the source: http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/0/B310047... Congress directed the TSA to "give a high priority to deve
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by law 15y ago
Yes, you are correct. Filing the RCE after filing a notice of appeal with the BPAI is the same thing as withdrawing your appeal and filing the RCE.[1] More than likely, we can all look forward to a final rejection by the examiner sometime a
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by law 15y ago
Step 1: Go to http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair Step 2: Enter the captcha Step 3: Type 11/696,104 as the "Application Number" Step 4: Click the "Transaction History" tab To summarize, the PTO issued a non-final rejection of the
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Project managers: what's your job like?
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by law 15y ago
I'll just chime in to post another point that was missed here. Arguably the most important (and controversial) principle in American jurisprudence is the freedom to enter into contracts. Dropbox has terms of service to which you manifest as
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by law 16y ago
There's something to be learned from that model, as well. What makes users want to pay for something instead of use a free/open alternative? From my experience, it's ease of use. Users don't want to waste time, so they try to find the quick
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Ask HN: What do you think about piracy-thwarting measures in software?
2 points by law 16y ago|3 comments
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by law 16y ago
This is an absolutely wonderful summary of jurisdictional issues facing courts in the United States. I really wish you had taught my civil procedure course! What's interesting about the original question, which pertains to standing in Frenc
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by law 16y ago
I'm not an attorney yet (another year), but I can give you a little more insight to that question, specifically. Absent a patent on the technology, reverse engineering is a completely acceptable way to learn the underlying facts and algorit
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by law 16y ago
I love when people tell me that they have the "next big idea," but that they can't disclose it. I lose interest the second someone tells me that, because if it were truly a great idea, they would instead be implementing it. If you have a 'g
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by law 16y ago
Merely removing one claim would be sufficient to avoid their patent. It gets tricky if you "change" a claim, because then you have to consider the substantiality of that change. For example, moving the "point escrow" of claim 9 would be suf
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by law 16y ago
> The best data is just hard to collect online. Photos of person in their social group to deduce personality type would probably fail since there are so many variables. The fact that there's so many variables isn't the reason such an an
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by law 16y ago
The victims are the users who mostly lack the technical fortitude to realize the perils of using a single user identifier/password combination across many different sites. The amount of identity theft that could occur by dint of PlentyOfFis
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by law 16y ago
I'm in Tallahassee, and meeting some local hackers would be really nice.
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by law 16y ago
Read Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma by Nick Morgan. It's a really good book, and touches upon that point very nicely. It might seem paradoxical, but EVERYONE who's in the spotlight is trained to act "genuine and charismat
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by law 16y ago
"Just paying the fine" undermines the entire argument about saving time. When a cop pulls you over for illegally driving in the carpool lane, he's not going to run out of his car, hand you the ticket, and run back. He's going to keep you th
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by law 16y ago
There's certainly a lot of merit to this article. I think it's important to remember that the "rich" aren't necessarily people as wealthy as Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. Moreover, while there are many people born into wealth, there are man
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by law 16y ago
> But yes, keep positive, assume you will soon be back in the game. You never left the game. Failed start-ups are as much a part of it as anything else; as long as you're doing the right things, you will always be +EV as time progresses
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by law 16y ago
Clearly.
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by law 16y ago
I bet Mark Zuckerberg made that post, masquerading as a hacker. It wouldn't be the first time he's pretended to be one.
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by law 16y ago
The same way companies contract with other service providers without disclosing secrets. Companies do this all the time: obviously they can't give away all the details about whatever it is they're doing, so they either do it in-house, or th
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by law 16y ago
It looks like everyone missed the point of this post. I'm advocating for transparency in the companies with which we contract regarding their day-to-day operations, their budgets, etc. For-profit corporations have an economic incentive to r
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by law 16y ago
So, do all the work for half the credit? SIGN ME UP!
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by law 16y ago
Right, I tried to make it clear that our current system is broken... the for-profit corporation approach absolutely can work with transparency.
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by law 16y ago
That was pretty much the point of my comment. Non-classified companies get that status because of their corporate structure. The hypothetical company that I referenced would be structured such that being classified would be impossible.
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by law 16y ago
Actually, this is a terrific idea from the oversight and human rights perspectives. Let's consider a hypothetical for-profit corporation to which the government would outsource these operations. Under a broken system (what we have now), the
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by law 16y ago
What I was trying to illustrate was that those reasons shouldn't be the only ones for starting your own business. I agree that those qualities may exist in many entrepreneurs, but they might actually be more of distraction than anything e

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