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by lotu 14y ago
Does Facebook actually have offices in Germany? If not does Germany really have jurisdiction.
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by lotu 14y ago
> If I am doing a desktop search for local files Part of the issue is that many users do not understand the concept of "local files". For example my mother when looking for papers for her class will do a search through the universities
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by lotu 14y ago
But the same thing could be said for things like gmail. A person might assume that the mail messages they send are private but Google "reads" them and shows relevant ads next to your mail.
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by lotu 14y ago
You can do things for more than one reason. They can think these results will be beneficial to users and help keep Canonical solvent.
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by lotu 14y ago
I don't like it because it makes it sound like they are running stuff on my machine. Which sounds like hacking to the layman. Cookies are closer to name tags than bits of code.
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by lotu 14y ago
Actually I think we giggle a little too. But, while we may never make watching advertisements an enjoyable experience that is rewarding in of it self. I do think that we can make them less annoying. For example when watching television a
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by lotu 14y ago
> I would think that a replaceable battery also extends the life of the device in general for people who don't necessarily need the latest and greatest every year or two, since it's easy to just buy a new one and pop it in when the old
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by lotu 14y ago
Typically large companies won't bother sending a lawyer if you sue them in small claims court. It's not worth the trouble for them. So as long as you are coherent and have a reasonable argument you will win by default.
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by lotu 14y ago
The little franchises that actually did this don't have millions of dollars which limit the maximum payout of the lawsuit.
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by lotu 14y ago
> photographers in Canada: as of today, you now officially own the copyright to all your photographs regardless of whether they were commissioned. Dosen't this make it impossible to hire a photographer to take photos for you?
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by lotu 14y ago
The problem is he was also selling short. If you pick stocks randomly and randomly pick to buy or sell you shouldn't make money, ever.
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by lotu 14y ago
> I'll self-appoint as an intelligent voter. I think you might be one too. The problem is that not everyone is. That sounds like a dictatorship. > Steven Hawking --or someone like him-- could never become president. FDR and polio. A
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by lotu 14y ago
I need to save this and use it the next time an article comes out like this.
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by lotu 14y ago
The thing is the cost of text-books can vary a lot. Very often you can get a used text book, or even a new one for cheaper than advertised by going online. Students can and do share textbooks. So publishing a total price is very impracti
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by lotu 14y ago
Many people in large technology companies are threatened by software patentes, and spend lots of time and money defending and preparing to defend against them. Were these people (who are among the richest in the world) left out of the cont
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by lotu 14y ago
I doubt Google would be willing to do 30 minute release cycles. Like any large piece of code search needs to be tested before it is released, the tests alone probably take 30 minutes to run. Google probably could not update their code mor
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by lotu 14y ago
As a CS student who has done some AI research I can tell you strong AI is not around the corner.
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by lotu 14y ago
Nothing involving rocketry is trivially easy implement. To my knowledge building a centrifuge to produce artificial gravity has never been attempted, it would take years of work and tens or hundreds of million dollars to design, prototype,
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by lotu 14y ago
While Apple may only have 30% of the smart-phone market, they make around 70% of the profit in the that market. I hardly call that punishing.
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by lotu 14y ago
Fashion has been around for a little bit longer the computer programs, the courts have had more of an opportunity to understand and make reasonable decisions about it. See what you think in 2112.
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by lotu 14y ago
> When this happens, I have to dispute the claim. In one case [1], the rightsholder confirmed ownership--even though the video is me programming and the only audio is my voice--and now I have no recourse. You do have a recourse, a DMCA
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by lotu 14y ago
Many of the the Kickstarter projects are projects that could not get funding outside Kickstarter. For example the DoubleFine project had repeatedly tried to get funding from publishers but failed.
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by lotu 14y ago
Land is cheaper when you are running though developed areas. But these areas of Alaska and Canada are desolate, you would first have to develop them and that is way more expensive then running undersea cable. Also, I speculate that underse
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by lotu 14y ago
Couldn't the same thing happen with a drone? After all they are being controlled by someone one the ground. If you notice it behaving erratically or ATC notices and contacts you about it you could correct the issue. In fact that is exact
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by lotu 14y ago
Why not Apple has plenty of lawyers and wants to disuade other people from trying the same thing?
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by lotu 14y ago
This sounds like some butt-hurt gamers, passing a law because they don't like Diablo III.
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by lotu 14y ago
Also the personal information is more limited. At first the only "personal" information was my name and the name and phone numbers of my friends. This information is available (in theory) in a phone book.
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by lotu 14y ago
Question, every Apple store I've ever seen is crazy crowded all day, do you frequently re-adjust screens durning the day (I've never seen you do that) or is this just a start of the day trick?
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by lotu 14y ago
Right context is king. For example, "don't desert me here in the desert." English is littered with example of writing and speech this ambigus in isolation, but we don't be come confused in our daily lives because the context makes it clea
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by lotu 14y ago
Remember how computer were last decade, and you need to buy a new one every year and a half? Well that's tablets and smartphones now.

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