njharman

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by njharman 11y ago
In usa everything that is copyrightable, becomes copyrighted at moment it is created. For instance that sentence, and this on, are protected works owned by me. The only reAson HN can legally use then is cause I gave them license, buried s
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by njharman 11y ago
Gag order isn't over publicizing being sued it's over claims of slander etc. There are many rectrictions, civil and criminal, on free speech. But, yeah litigant is kinda fucked even if they win case.
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by njharman 11y ago
Trot out expert witnesses (on web dev). "Sir, have you ever "forgot" the setting?" No, and it's ridculous to think anyone would. "Is it generally know by web devs the dangers and circumvention ability of this
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by njharman 11y ago
Yeah I spent 10min looking and couldn't find anything. Maybe I'm remembering a "what if" from early days cypherpunk stuff. Prosecutors never (want to) just charge one thing. They want a laundry list of dozen or more crim
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by njharman 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction Read it and weep.
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by njharman 11y ago
> Nowadays, the lies would have to be pretty nuanced to have an effect. You mean like "Iraq has weapons of Mass Destruction, honest! So USA must preemptively invade a sovereign nation." Or, "Obama is a Muslim!" whic
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by njharman 11y ago
No content is being given or taken. This is restriction on distribution / copying. Massively different ethics than stealing despite what the Copyright Cabal wants you to think. The only loss is the energy/bandwidth/cycles WSJ
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by njharman 11y ago
Good luck arguing that in court. Esp against the multiple lawyers a corporation will be able to afford. If you don't get it, court doesn't care about what's reasonableness, technically correctness, etc. Only if your lawyers
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by njharman 11y ago
TSR was notorious for throwing stuff away. Like all the original artwork for many classic modules and manuals. This was also well before era of digital.
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by njharman 11y ago
I "learned" assembler (and a lot about CPU/Computer architecture) reading my dads Z80 Microprocessor book. The 80's were cool!
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by njharman 11y ago
> The locals() function itself could for instance have been replaced by something else So could .format, or any|everything. Also, where do you think Python looks for {foo}? I'll give you a hint, it starts with "l" and end
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by njharman 11y ago
If you can't handle LoC/CC (and you obviously can't if you've collected so many debts that you struggle to manage them), it makes sense to pay off and close small ones. Because the risk you will run up those lines is wo
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by njharman 11y ago
> why do people buy things they can't afford and most often don't need Advertising. Most people are afraid?/too proud? to admit or even consider they may not be 100% rational or 100% in control of the own actions despite n
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by njharman 11y ago
Governments have seized servers, governments have hacked servers, governments have had colocation companies provide them with access to servers, governments have gotten warrents to enter private residence fuck with computer and then leave w
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by njharman 11y ago
Just driving a car requires a license.
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by njharman 11y ago
I'm all for ad blocking. But I'm even more for net neutrality. ISP blocking ads is tiny step away from "blocking all ads expect the ones ISP is paid to let through" and selectively blocking any other kind of content. IS
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by njharman 11y ago
That's not even that high of rent for SF.
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by njharman 11y ago
If you read the letter, they already said they have, do and will aid law enforcement in any lawful way they are able. They question the lawfulness of this particular request.
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by njharman 11y ago
Um, is the price really $4,000!? Am I the only one that thinks nothing costing that much is a "travel camera"? The one of several cameras I own that I toss in my bag when I don't want or need capabilities of my "expensi
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by njharman 11y ago
People, maybe not you or OA, have learned how to "scale" every commonly used web dev language. Your error with that, not usiing the common definition of scale, and balls ludicrous assertion that the most, big E Enterprisey languag
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by njharman 11y ago
How many people got lost and died or whatever before GPS navigation? How many people have been lost in dangerous situation but were able to get to safety due to GPS navigation? How many people are balls stupid and will win a Darwin Award re
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by njharman 11y ago
I'm very much against modern IP/Copyright. But calling that barbaric is absurd hyperbole. It casts people wanting copyright reform as fringe extremists. When when I explain how much copyrights actually cover, for how long, and the
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by njharman 11y ago
So, If, the king, reserves all the political power to themselves you would not join (and expect your children) to not join in a revolution against them? If corrupt gov officials & cronies. keep all the food/medical aide for themsel
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by njharman 11y ago
I disagree that that is a good source of guidance. Even if we take that as a given, OF COURSE few organizations promote breaking the law (sometimes a crime it self). Although, many, many push to change the law / restrictions put on sc
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by njharman 11y ago
I agree completely. We should also start owning the term and framing the debate around it. Cast it in positive anti-establishment terms. Like pirate radio, Robin Hood, V4vendetta. Lone, beleaguered hero(s) fighting for the peoples against
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by njharman 11y ago
Teh typos bothered me inordinately.
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by njharman 11y ago
No. They hope to force people to turn off their ad blockers.
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by njharman 11y ago
There is more value in tracking, web bugs, etc. then actually showing you the ad.
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by njharman 11y ago
Sure, but people died in forest fires, from bee stings, mountain climbing/cross country skiing, in aircraft. It's just you're not personally sensitive to those images.
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by njharman 11y ago
> creation of content is still just as difficult. True and exactly! The same difficulty which is "not that difficult". And I'm 80% against expansion of Copyright and patent, only a small portion against TM et al. Tradition

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