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by shasta 14y ago
We apparently had different interpretations of the color article. You seem to think the article was about there being two valid viewpoints (color exists and it doesn't), whereas I think it was just about trying to get the computer scientis
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by shasta 14y ago
> The anti-circumvention provisions criminalize the distribution of not just software that can be directly used, but anything that serves as a tool to violate copyright. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm going to speculate that if you upload im
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by shasta 14y ago
My summary was snarky, but "illegal number" is a silly term intended to emphasize that "it's just a number (so how could it be illegal?)", which is as sophisticated as the legal arguments "it's just a plastic disk with certain reflective pr
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by shasta 14y ago
Summary: "Illegal number" is a term that you use to refer to protected digital information when you also want to convey that you have no grasp of the legal issues involved.
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by shasta 14y ago
It at least affects maximum sentence, right?
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by shasta 14y ago
Legality of fraud should have nothing to do with whether the mail was used.
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by shasta 14y ago
I completely agree. If I follow an interesting link, read an interesting opening paragraph or two, and then hit a paragraph that completely changes the subject with something like "Paul Steve, a little hobbit of a man, sits before me sippi
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by shasta 14y ago
Rather than trying to tax companies based on some valuation, why doesn't the government just collect a small percentage of stock each year?
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by shasta 14y ago
I think he meant altitude at which he was slowed back to mach 1.0.
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by shasta 14y ago
Think how much they could have accomplished if they just worked 40 hour weeks!
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by shasta 14y ago
I hate all the existing OSes for this reason. Unfortunately, it's easier to crowd source a big pile of dung (sure you can help - just pick up a shovel!) than it is to build something elegant.
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by shasta 14y ago
No, that's a good sysadmin. Bad sys admins are indispensable.
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by shasta 14y ago
My horse is named Friday.
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by shasta 14y ago
And if you can't win on either, win on patents.
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by shasta 14y ago
Right. The effectiveness of student reviews needs to be studied in a context where the kids know the reviews are important. Might be a different result.
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by shasta 14y ago
Are you serious?
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by shasta 14y ago
Just to clarify, the idea of video in the browser wasn't novel. Your implementation was novel and might even have been the first instance of the general idea, but the only way you could claim such an obvious idea as novel would be to have
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by shasta 14y ago
This is a prototype of my perpetual motion machine. The batteries will not be required in the production version.
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by shasta 14y ago
This post was another success for you.
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by shasta 14y ago
I'm not familiar with the specifics in this case, but if it's like most other cases they're not pushing for 35 years. They're pushing for him to take a much shorter sentence by threatening 35 years. (It's still ridiculous, but my point is
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by shasta 14y ago
This is presumably based on the theory that your mind has a certain amount of "free space" and that you don't want to fill that space up with a bunch of trivia. Anyone know whether cognitive science supports this theory? Bonus points for
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by shasta 14y ago
Speaking of scope issues, you're missing a paren.
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by shasta 14y ago
In other words, acid doesn't produce profound thoughts, it just makes you think your thoughts are profound.
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by shasta 14y ago
You mean Go, right?
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by shasta 14y ago
Good luck with that. This foreman is probably in the 90th percentile for intelligence and education. Remember, the rest of the jury picked this guy to represent them.
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by shasta 14y ago
I assumed he meant HOV and autonomous. So that the HOV lane could go faster with higher density for example.
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by shasta 14y ago
A tree is a DAG that's simply connected.
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by shasta 14y ago
But surely Apple deserves to be compensated for all the development work they did. Who's going to develop the next iPhone caliber innovation if the only reward they'll receive is to become the wealthiest company in history? Oh wait...
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by shasta 14y ago
I see you have an odd number of bullets. You seem to have left off the one explaining how the lawyers lost.
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by shasta 14y ago
Surely the "inconsistent" questions are the ones that initially seem to be possibly tricky or subtle questions. This is not the same as contradicting the intuitive answer. For example, if you ask whether two masses fall at the same speed i

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