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by sunir 14y ago
No, because that is an idea and not a specific, fundamental expression of an idea. Only a specific software is copyrightable. Is the portion of software that "write[s] value X to byte offset Y to switch the device into state Z," copyrightab
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by sunir 14y ago
I'm sorry, that's not correct. You can copyright a play because it has a script; the public performance is a specific (copy)right granted on the script. You can also separately copyright a recording of a play. The main thing is there has to
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by sunir 14y ago
You can't copyright RESTful APIs as a class, just like you can't copyright leather-bound books as a class. You can only copyright a specific expression of an idea or collection of ideas. The novel printed inside the leatherbound book is cop
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by sunir 14y ago
Protocols are processes and need to be patented. An API is literally a description and therefore should be copyrightable. [edit: iphone typo]
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by sunir 14y ago
Except that isn't a good analogy. It's much more like copyrighting the Burger King menu, which is the interface to ordering services from Burger King. By the way, you can copyright restaurant menus.
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by sunir 14y ago
Business cycles and political (mis)intervention in the market are orthogonal concepts.
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by sunir 14y ago
Careful. I count 5. Some people did more than one thing.
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by sunir 14y ago
Procrastination. The contest deadline could have been a motivator.
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by sunir 14y ago
As it turns out, they don't have a real plan to mine asteroids. It is just a big hairy audacious goal. Their actionable plan is more realistic (cheap telescopy). Making a spectacular but unprovable and therefore undeniable goal is an effect
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by sunir 15y ago
A lot of people here are arguing the emotional moral reason for donating, but businesses don't have emotions. The functionalist view of donating to charity is you donate when you want to build your community, however you define your communi
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by sunir 15y ago
The Podio guys are great. Congrats!
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by sunir 15y ago
We all pay for the gift of life with death. All living beings suffer. Perhaps it is how you deal with that truth that limits you.
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by sunir 15y ago
I would like to share the relevant part of my comment here as well. I want to caution that it is still better to update on Tuesday morning in case the update fails. Updating before or on the weekend can lead to your releases spiraling out o
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by sunir 15y ago
I'm interested in what happened when I only partially folded the items. What's intriguing about using 3D this way is that, like a zoomable user interface, it can reduce the visual space that lower priority visual items take up but still hin
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by sunir 15y ago
I agree this is a good approach for any open source project leader to have. It's valuable to let rookies argue small debates so they can learn the ropes and get a feel for the community; it's even more valuable for the veterans and leadersh
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by sunir 15y ago
The exact opposite. They lack any financial security or a society that protects then so they must hustle to survive. In Star Trek they live in a society with abundance and so the state can provide everything.
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by sunir 15y ago
Does anyone else wonder why they need to actually fly the devices instead of just extrapolating from the electromagnetic interference test results required by the FCC? It feels as if they believe in voodoo rather than physics. Is there a re
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by sunir 15y ago
You don't. You use QUnit and move on with your life.
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by sunir 15y ago
People write and play with test frameworks because they are procrastinating from writing actual tests. Think about it. Just use Test::Unit and move on with your life. Write some tests. That's what counts.
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by sunir 15y ago
Apparently, recent changes hold that you can't go over on an L if you are a significant shareholder in either entity. Otherwise that would be a cheap loophole to get through the door.
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by sunir 15y ago
Canada has a public health insurance program. Medical services are privately provided except for hospitals which usually are partially government subsidized on top of the health fees due to the high capital costs of building them.
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by sunir 15y ago
That's truly begging the question. Wikipedia is a survey of secondary sources, but it's much too much to claim that all encyclopedias need to be. As others have pointed out, many encyclopedias include references to primary research and prim
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by sunir 15y ago
That's not true at all or even how Canada usually works. The bill is very balanced because it has been years in the making, taking consultation from many sides. It also hasn't passed the Senate yet as far as I understand. Write your MP and
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by sunir 15y ago
It's possible the government wants to ratify a broken bill to satisfy their treaty rights to the WTO, with the hope and expectation it will be squashed by the courts soon after. Canada gets the law that makes sense without the associated tr
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by sunir 15y ago
I'm working on a letter to my MP and Senator to fix the digital lock issue. This is the argument I'm fleshing out. Feedback is appreciated: Regarding digital locks, in an earlier version of the bill called C-60, they had the completely reas
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by sunir 15y ago
The downside is that it diminishes the economic value of titles with long trailing demand, so books go out of print faster. This reduces the economic value of copyright as well because although the publisher has a monopoly right to print an
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by sunir 15y ago
Having read fully the exceptionally well written legislative summary, http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/LOP/LegislativeSummaries/41/1/... I see now that they have made it illegal to break a digital lock ("technical protection measure") in all
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by sunir 15y ago
They still take bills to committee for review and amendment in a relatively functional process. Further, the bill has to undergo review by the Senate before it is passed. You can write your Senator and the Senate committee to reconsider the
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by sunir 15y ago
You don't have to assume anything. The Act is publicly accessible. You can read it yourself. There is even a very honest description of this history and interests of the Act here: http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/LOP/LegislativeSummaries/41/1
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Jim Balsillie, Mike Lazaridis out, Thorsten Heins in as new RIM CEO(theglobeandmail.com)
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