molmalo

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by molmalo 15y ago
I have always wanted a more direct democracy, but I think the big problem with this is that a LOT of people just don't care about anything. When I asked a friend of mine, just before a presidential election, who was he going to vote, he ask
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by molmalo 15y ago
The reason this worked out right (still crossing fingers) in my opinion, was because much of the tech community were on the same side in this one. But there are other occasions where this would have been a mess. So, the message would not ha
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by molmalo 15y ago
The problem with movies is that even when the argument may seem very interesting at first, the realization can make it a disaster. That's what differentiates an awesome director from a bad one. That's why I see hard to visualize crowd-finan
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by molmalo 15y ago
Large games are still costing an enormous amount of money to make. Think in something like GTA 4, Skyrim, COD Series, WOW. Indie games have their market and can even become massive (Rovio?), but console and pc games in general are at a whol
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by molmalo 15y ago
That's the problem. We can't aim to make $200 M movies from the start. But I think it is pretty much possible to build a platform where we can finance a TV series like The Big Bang Theory, by charging only $1 per episode to the subscriber.
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Star Wars Uncut: Director's Cut Released(youtube.com)
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by molmalo 15y ago
But sadly, that would be used as an argument of why they need to pass new laws to protect them. And anyway, they would simply make the physical discs disappear earlier, so there's no borrowing anymore, replaced by something like Ultraviolet
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by molmalo 15y ago
You have a very valid point. I can't think of the enormous change the introduction of the home electric providers must have been. I mean, from candles to bulbs! But then again, I think that the main difference now is the current rate of ado
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by molmalo 15y ago
Exactly. Thanks for making it clear.
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by molmalo 15y ago
You are right. There we go, giving the SOPA supporters, some excellent excuses to picture the Internet as a wild land that needs to be civilized through more laws and control. When fighting in the politics game, you have to be VERY clever a
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by molmalo 15y ago
I think there is a simple solution for this: Just remove all the links to the file contained in public (shared) folders. If the file is in a private folder, maybe it's a private backup, so you should not delete it. You may even display an a
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by molmalo 15y ago
I think that the difference is that the RIAA can't look at your GMail account, so they can't know that you have that MP3. Therefore, they will not file a takedown notice. BUT... (there's always a but =P ), what happens if you upload a video
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by molmalo 15y ago
For your information, half of my father's family died in Auschwitz. Luckily, my grandparents came here before war started and they saved their lives. So that's why I have very present what that quote means. But I also live in Argentina, whe
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by molmalo 15y ago
You are absolutely right. But I didn't write that sentence, because I think it applies to everyone, not only American. In one example, take the Arab Spring for example, making governments fall thanks in part to the free flow of information
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by molmalo 15y ago
I think you don't realize that my comment was a response to noonespecial: First they come for the sites that are 90/10 pirate to legit. ... When will it be too much? When does it become unreasonable? So, I think the quotation was very f
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by molmalo 15y ago
Your comment reminds me of Martin Niemöller: First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist. T
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by molmalo 15y ago
There are a couple of problems with this: - Iran sending "moles" to spy Israel or other countries. - They would become terrorist targets (for being traitors to the regime). - Some of them, even when they are against the government, are also
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by molmalo 15y ago
It's interesting how many people read SOAP instead of SOPA. eg: "What does Wikipedia have against soap?", "Why doesn't Wikipedia want us to use SOAP anymore.", etc
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by molmalo 15y ago
Actually, I remember back in 2009 when there was an outcry because Microsoft launched an update wich could stop users from installing Linux on their Xbox 360 [1]. So, your comment does not apply to Microsoft. They can make their own hardwar
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by molmalo 15y ago
I think that having their own mobile os lets them keep the status quo. If apple changed google for bing, even when a lot of people would change back to google search, i bet that a big percentage would simply use the default (think about ie8
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by molmalo 15y ago
So, if Google makes money with Apple stuff (iPad, iPhone with search, maps, etc), and Microsoft makes money with Android... Let's close the circle! Let Apple make money with WP7! (C3 technologies for bing maps could do it...) And everyone w
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by molmalo 15y ago
I need to add that it was a private school (sadly, public school here is going down the tubes). And that CS subjects were additional to the standard subjects (maths, literature, geography, history, foreign language, philosofy, sports, etc).
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by molmalo 15y ago
I don't know if that's novel in the US, but this is pretty common here in Argentina. Secondary school here takes 5 years. Where I did it (1997-2001), before starting the 3rd year (14 years old), we had to choose the speciality (software eng
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by molmalo 15y ago
But it's still not a monopoly. If you want your ultrabook to run Linux, buy an x86 where you can disable secure mode. If you want an ARM, then Microsoft deserves the same treatment as the others. If Apple can lock its iPad, the same applies
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by molmalo 15y ago
Exactly, i thought the same thing. That would be the the ideal way of making this work. Because you let your users know about what's going on (if it were google, a number of them would search about sopa to learn more), and let them also coo
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by molmalo 15y ago
Wouldn't it be better if instead of going dark, every single page displays a full window message, explaing the situation about SOPA, showing the picture, name, phone number of the us representative for the area of the visitor (using geoip).
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by molmalo 15y ago
As a national of Argentina, I can say that the number of expats here is high, because our National Constitution states that it is "to all men in the world who wish to dwell on Argentine soil". And article 25 reads: "The Federal Government w
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by molmalo 15y ago
Hey, what about this? I think a very accurate, yet simple metaphor would be something like: Imagine this: If a man sings a Lady Gaga song in a park, then Universal Music Group will be able to close the park. (Turn it into: "If a girl sings