shakethemonkey

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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
Copyright infringement is a civil tort, not necessarily illegal. The law defines infringement but does not prohibit it, but merely provides mechanisms of civil remedy. Fair use is not infringement. You may be thinking of criminal copyright
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
That's true, but there is no legal requirement that Google accept DMCA notices electronically.
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
Google should raise the bar for those who abuse the DMCA system like this. Maybe require submissions to be in writing, and notarized.
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991)
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
The jQuery library is 45k, half that if gzipped. If it's taking 20 seconds to load, your birds are too slow.[1] [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
History was rewritten, then? You can't just un-co-founder someone. In unrelated news, we have always been at war with Eastasia.
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
Also I am not sure how this[1] fits in. I remember Paul Bohm being the founder or co-founder of Buttercoin, but his name is absent. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLoVikMXBeA
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
My point was more that it is highly unusual for GRAND juries to make these determinations.
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
That would be true if the actions presented accurately represent those which actually occurred. Normally such determination is left for a jury to decide, not a grand jury.
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
Except the "demand" is not a demand directed at anyone, but just the world in general -- since it's after the fact. They would dig up dirt on those who have already written negative articles. No demands are made of them. And
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
Fortunately this is self-selecting. The highly qualified people (quite often these are the very best people) who don't have credentials would never, ever want to work for you.
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
It's not blackmail by either the legal or common-usage definition of blackmail. Even if Uber followed through with such a sleazy plan, it would not be blackmail. For blackmail, a demand must be made, accompanied by a menace. Floating a
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
Developing for Android, the likelihood is actually they will be less efficient. Generally when developing for a target use the same tools that most people use for it; the probability of someone having encountered the your particular problem
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
I wanted to see how this app feels. Visiting the App Store, there is no app with this name. On my iPad, if I tap on your link, I am presented with (literally) a solid empty white square. Good job, Apple. So FYI for everyone else not in the
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
> They can't hold GT responsible for successfully delivering sapphire, but then simultaneously prevent them from having any authority over a vital component in the building of said sapphire. Yes, we agree. And exactly what you descr
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
Not true. If Apple took "100%" of the risk, GT would not be bankrupt. GT was a viable operating concern prior to these events. Taking only what's available in the article, GT's job included running the factory, part of t
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
If in fact the sentence I highlighted is true, it is very much heavy-handedness on the part of Apple. From the context, it is unlikely to be false, though possible.
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
Bankruptcy isn't "sour grapes", it is the expected result when Apple's concessions were insufficient to extricate the company from its troubles. From the reading of this article, it appears that Apple's terms boxed
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
Many complaints only some of which come to mind immediately. Presence/status -- can't set it. Will I annoy this other person if I send a message? In busy hangouts requires that I scrollback to new messages, having to remember the
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
How can you say this. Have you even looked at Hangouts?
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
Essentially every Android phone or tablet permits side-loading of apps, and installing third-party app directories ("stores"). People may not use such very much, but the freedom is still there.
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
It's AI in the sense that a pocket calculator from 1980 is AI. It doesn't know what it's doing, can only perform a limited range of calculations under tight constraints, has no awareness of whether or not the result is meanin
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
In this one particular case, yes. But not that they did not receive indirect remuneration (rate concessions) in exchange for unfulfilled broadband promises, possibly far exceeding $2B. I'm not sure why my comment was downvoted, as the
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
Perhaps that's not the best source to link to. But Bell Atlantic never did live up to promises it made in 1994 to build a fiber broadband network in exchange for permission to raise its rates. http://articles.philly.com&#x2F
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
State-by-state basis. Pennsylvania paid them $2.1B for fiber that never happened: In 1994 Verizon (then Bell Atlantic) struck a landmark deal with the state of Pennsylvania. The deal provided Verizon with hefty financial incentives if t
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
Absolutely correct. But we also know that the OCDE definition is a strict percentage which is so absurd it creates large middle classes in cultures which have absolutely no middle class. And events may unfold such that the definition may be
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
Unfortunately this is a terrifically bad definition of middle class, and may not match what people think of as "middle class" life. By this logic, 13th century feudal society had an ample middle class.
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
> The reason for the traditional division of labour between the sexes is rooted in biology In other words, sexism.
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
#1 reason is probably aging population. Young people, in particular young men, commit more crimes. A nice animation (though this is England/Wales): http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-18854073
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by shakethemonkey 12y ago
All should take this moment to remember how much money George Soros made when Britain tried to peg the Pound to the Continental currencies. [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday

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