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by roc 14y ago
Then they'll just shuffle wording to ensure the changes are however-many-pages they need to be so that no-one reads those either. In general: people who don't take the time to read or consider their Terms of Service are not going to take th
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by roc 14y ago
> "why not stamp it all out at once? Or, work with it!" You can't work with it, because of liability. If you bless Dropbox and champion it to the rest of management, it becomes your problem when the inevitable data breach happens.
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by roc 14y ago
True, but money you can plan for as a cost of doing business. Unlike shakedowns, which hit at unpredictable times for unpredictable amounts. It wouldn't be the solution, but it could be an improvement for small and medium-sized software v
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by roc 14y ago
What about Wordpress? (snark about technical messes aside) It's as easy as it can possibly be to get a hosted blog up and running -- even with your own domain -- via their forms. But, unlike Facebook, if you don't like their service, or nee
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by roc 14y ago
One avenue would be a non-profit organization that takes membership fees from software firms and uses the pooled money to fight these legal battles, or make collective licensing agreements. The shakedown side of the troll business model rel
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by roc 14y ago
> "Friedland isn't sure how word of the settlement leaked to Troll Town, but he says that after he paid the fee, he was inundated with infringement letters from trolls." NPE's are, almost by definition, shell companies for larger inte
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by roc 14y ago
Generally, the people who deal with Goldman don't care if Goldman rips off the rubes. As long as they believe they're not being played for a sucker, they see Goldman's otherwise-questionable activities as just part of the game. The fact
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by roc 14y ago
And the current economic situation is an aberrant special case; it isn't implicit or ever-present. And, even still: I think anyone whose annualized rate of return on savings -- over the last, say, ten years -- has fallen below the rate of i
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by roc 14y ago
> "Breakfast food programs originate" Ok? I mentioned breakfasts because it's a successful program that's delivering results and underscores the distinction between what can look, on paper, like "Administrators want to throw more hour
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by roc 14y ago
Sure. I agree with that general notion. I'm just of the mind that many more people will get an education in a directed experience than in a self-taught manner. It's rather like the famous anecdote of the would-be musician who asks a famous
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by roc 14y ago
Last I dug into the studies, the 'problems' in US education seemed most-tightly correlated to social problems revolving around social-economic class, available services, etc. Which is to say: the low-scoring kids in the US are living in pov
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by roc 14y ago
Haven't studies shown that even subsistence farmers do better with education? As far as I've read, more education is good for anyone who can afford it. (Even at its inflated prices, a college degree remains a good investment for most.) It
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by roc 14y ago
> "Given the fact that you are losing value on savings due to the central bank increasing the supply of money, you also have to take into the account the amount of time it took you to save up the 100K." Presumably the hypothetical sub
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by roc 14y ago
Obscurity. It's not like these machines are clearly marked with signs and access points as with Airports. So the challenge is on par with saying "find a particular unsecured box on the internet". Without per-target research, you don't h
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by roc 14y ago
I'd agree, but disagree. There are people asking that question, it just doesn't get press. Because the reality is quite likely that there are solid business reasons for some access and the real problem is piss-poor security on that a
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by roc 14y ago
If they do offer a display, it's almost certainly going to be in addition to the set-top box. A sort of "this is how it should be" offering that's tightly integrated and reasonably high quality, that competes in the segment of the displa
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by roc 14y ago
To be fair, Sandy-related grid repair needed loaner crews because damage was widespread. An electronic attack would only need loaner crews if they could exploit things to the point that equipment was damaged. The more likely case is that p
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by roc 14y ago
You may be under-appreciating the interconnected nature of the power grid. A huge swatch of the north-east US lost power for a couple days, not all that long ago, because of a tree branch. And efforts to contain the problem were hampered by
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by roc 14y ago
I think 'eating' into may be mischaracterizing things. A decrease in Apple's profit share when total profits are increasing doesn't necessarily mean Samsung is taking anything away from Apple. It's entirely likely that Samsung is simply do
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by roc 14y ago
You'd think if they could identify 'suspicious' clicks, they could just ignore them: don't hold the impressions/clicks against the ad-buyer, don't reward the ad-bearing site operator. Problem solved. If it's an honest misunderstanding: no
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by roc 14y ago
BoA got 20B in TARP funds specifically to offset that loss. It's hard to know how much of their further 118B of Federal guarantees against losses and Geithner-knows how much free money from the discount window and Fed purchases of terrible
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by roc 14y ago
Having seen Autonomy's products and support in action, I can vouch for their seemingly preternatural ability to brush off problems as if they didn't exist.
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by roc 14y ago
I can't see Apple following Microsoft into a UI language that dispatches with affordance to the point that users are confused as to what's an actionable UI element and what isn't. I agree they're going that way ; to a definitely more-moder
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by roc 14y ago
Abandon, no. But they can be expected to push back a bit more on decrees and pressure from Redmond that they not push Linux/Android as equal citizens. Acer probably has less lattitude in this regard, but HP and Dell have non-trivial inroad
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by roc 14y ago
When they piss off their OEMs with a little surprise, like the Surface was, there's more at stake than just whether that particular hardware succeeds.
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by roc 14y ago
> "the idea that absolute fidelity to some Platonic ideal of an image is an end in and of itself is purest bafflegab" Particularly in artistic media, where emotion and tone are regularly conveyed through distortions. 48/60p may be gre
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by roc 14y ago
"Loudness" is an orthogonal debate revolving around mixing (pop music). There's nothing about the various media that requires or prohibits one from mixing 'loud'. vinyl vs CD, tube vs solid-state/digital -- those are more similar to film's
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by roc 14y ago
> "The main issue here is that it's legislation covering cases not covered by the 4th amendment" The cases are only uncovered by the fourth if we accept a narrow reading which somehow determines that "your papers" only applies to phys
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by roc 14y ago
I understand how business reality requires Apple to push at least some of the carriers' bullshit onto the customers. But the second a device is "unlocked", all this nonsense needs to be removed from it. There's no defensible reason for a
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by roc 14y ago
Further along these lines, as a publicly traded company, isn't any cooking of the books a criminal act, regardless of the HP/sale angle?

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