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by nkw 11y ago
I disagree. I work in a law office. Almost everyone is issued a laptop, desktop, and, if they want, an iPad. iPad is fine for reading documents or e-mail, but awful for actually creating anything. Our office has found the keyboard is terrib
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by nkw 11y ago
A good post. Especially this point: "Get a lawyer that understands startups. It's important to find someone with experience. Not only can a good lawyer explain what's going on with terms of your agreement, he/she can tel
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by nkw 11y ago
I'm glad someone wrote about this. I have a deposit on a Model X, and this is the single largest issue that is making me lean towards not buying the vehicle. I occasionally enjoy doing my own maintenance or repair on stuff I own and my
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by nkw 11y ago
Not any better, arguably worse: https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/ "We may change, discontinue, or deprecate any of the Service Offerings (including the Service Offerings as a whole) or change or remove features or
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by nkw 11y ago
Ha! Interesting question. I just ran an all state/federal Westlaw search for "IANAL" and didn't hit any case law. Two or three briefs, a couple of scholarly articles, but no court opinions. I also searched for "I am
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by nkw 11y ago
I think it may stem from laws and rules related to practicing law, but there is certainly not any "requirement" to stipulate you are not a lawyer when speaking about legal things. However there are a few things to be mindful of: I
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by nkw 11y ago
Promises to do something for a year which you can change or withdraw after 30 days are really promises for 30 days: "Google may make changes to this Agreement, including pricing (and any linked documents) from time to time. Unless othe
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by nkw 11y ago
Now that Amazon is shipping more and more with USPS with their pitiful tracking and erratic delivery, I really don't know why I have prime. It certainly isn't for videos, music, or whatever else they have piled on to it lately. No
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by nkw 11y ago
Those guys do really good work. It would be nice if this effort (the Harvard one) coordinated with the Free Law Project.
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by nkw 11y ago
>- IMEIs are used to track targets. Can IMEIs be spoofed? Yes. Relatively trivially.
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by nkw 11y ago
I am interested in this too. I would be very interested in a more detailed write up of the issues you encountered or things you learned.
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by nkw 11y ago
I believe vyatta is their base.
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by nkw 11y ago
Congrats! I think there is some awesome opportunity in this space. Best of luck!
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by nkw 11y ago
... and people should also be aware those patents might be invalidated by re-examination or an action in federal court. I don't know why you aren't allowed to disclose who now 'owns' the patent you refer to. It is trivia
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by nkw 11y ago
For a speech centered on UK banks, I found this article surprisingly interesting. Especially two concepts it discussed: 1) The possibility of structuring CEO compensation to be aligned with debt-to-equity ratio instead of stock option grant
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by nkw 11y ago
I went back to look at this and noticed from your comment history you are a lawyer, so disregard my comment about getting one on board. :) I was going to show your app/site to someone but noticed it is now locked down and just has &#
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by nkw 11y ago
Interesting article. If anyone hasn't read it, James Halperin's Truth Machine (1997) is still one of my favorite books. It is an interesting take on technology which can reliably determine veracity and what could happen if it has
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by nkw 11y ago
Cool. I think there is some real potential in this area. Just be careful and get a lawyer on board to guide you through the sticky issues.
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by nkw 11y ago
You're right. Excuse me while I go order a set scalpels and a surgical mask off eBay. Where can I pickup those big cylinders of anesthesia? edit - actually the comment you were responding to was pretty asinine re: reporting them to the
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by nkw 11y ago
I like the 'keeping your legal documents organized'. What is up with the pre-loaded "industry standard" templates? Are you guys a law firm? Do you carry malpractice insurance in case these "industry standard" t
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by nkw 11y ago
Nice work finding this.
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by nkw 11y ago
Well that took about 2 seconds to delete..
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by nkw 12y ago
Neat. I fondly remember the trick on the Apple IIgs to get 3,200 colors on the screen at one time[1]. The VGC chip had a 320x200 video mode with 16 color palettes. The VGC could hold 16 palettes in memory at a time, but you could swap palet
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by nkw 12y ago
> What do you think we have now? A robust ecosystem of carriers? No, not at all. I think we pretty much have a duopoly with the cable company (Comast+TW) and the phone company (AT&T) as the only realistic choices for the vast majorit
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by nkw 12y ago
That isn't the worst by a long shot. I'm all for net neutrality, but Title II classification for ISPs really worries me. I was co-founder of a VOIP startup in 2003, and a significant percentage of our time and resources was spent
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by nkw 12y ago
You got it.
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by nkw 12y ago
This has gone both ways so far in cases in the United States[1]. One of the fundamental questions is whether or not you giving up the key is testimonial or not. There is a litany of things which have been held to not be testimonial, and thu
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by nkw 12y ago
No. But if you say "I forget" and "they" don't believe you and a judge/jury doesn't believe you then you can likely be convicted and imprisoned for perjury and/or criminal contempt.
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by nkw 12y ago
> The 5th amendment protects US citizens from being forced to reveal their encryption keys. This is far far from decided or well settled. I can think of countless instances where it is likely false.
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by nkw 12y ago
IAALBIANYL, so I will leave whether or not this would be operationally useful to those smarter than me, but from a legal standpoint, one should be aware that operation of a system like this as far as the United States would likely result in

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