the-cakeboss

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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
How is wanting to protect your IP ( whether or not you agree with the very notion of IP ) being greedy?
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
Using AdBlockPlus I've just added the rule to block everything from meta.wikimedia.org which is the domain that loads the script to blackout the site. ||meta.wikimedia.org Seems to be working so far.
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
Perhaps I should rephrase my previous comment to reflect some vagueness associated with the subject. While in a sense rights can exist for all things of all circumstances, they effectively do not exist for the those who cannot utilize them.
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
>My rule of thumb though? If you think a piece of paper is something that grants you a right, then it's clearly not a fundamental right. All rights, natural or legal only exist so long as they are protected. The Bill of Rights is a prom
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
The argument he was responding to was unsound. The parent comment attempted to refute the claim that piracy is a legitimate problem by pointing out the ease at which it is done. Jayzee's analogy was never meant to compare shooting someone w
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
Forgery has neer been seen as a legitimate undertaking in the world of painting. While pieces of art have always been heavily derivative, it has never been common for artists to forge. The first reason for this being the ethical implication
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
Yes, thats what I see in this. While getting this information is fairly trivial, having a service to actually derive meaning from those metrics is valuable. One of the most interesting future for mobile computing is the prospect of contextu
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
>How many people in other industries voluntarily embark on pet projects or hobbyist experiments that involve the same things they do at work? Well this behavior isn't limited to those involved with software development. I'd say that thi
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
Are you thinking of a site for this instance alone? If I were to try something to serve this market I would create a site aiding with forms of all sorts.
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
I wasn't doing either at 14...
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
Well I think you'd be hard pressed to find a hunter in the US that hunts only for the food gained. Maybe spending 70,000 dollars is sick, but I would hardly call those who hunt for "sport" sick. I myself have never hunted, but I imagine it
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
>GoDaddy has served media-companies and politicians, and not their customers. I don't understand this claim. Since the beginning of this whole fiasco, I've wondered exactly how SOPA would in any way benefit GoDaddy. But do you seriously
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
So you are offended by the intention? Plenty of people enjoy hunting. Does that make them bad people worthy of contempt? This whole elephant thing is ridiculous.
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
Perhaps this question is beyond your area of knowledge, but has the much talked about aging of Japan proved to be a significant detriment its economy? Could you see it being one in the future?
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
I believe that this is the case. There are already provisions in place to deal with sites within the juridiction of the DoJ. The primary affect of the bill is to give powers to those 'injured' parties seeking recourse against those sites th
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
From what I've been reading, the bill grants the DoJ power to combat sites outside of US jurisdiction. See title I sec 102. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c112:1:./temp/~c1124uh... : Is this only a piece of the larger picture? edit:
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
I don't understand why this should be downvoted. Are those downvoting it suggesting that the government does indeed want to see these sites go? Or that they will go? One thing that has been confusing me during the course of the proceedings
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
For anyone else looking for an online alternative: http://keepthewebopen.com/sopa
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
There's actually been much debate towards whether pornography can even be considered art, thus calling into question whether a Hitchcock or Coppolas of the Adult Film Genre can even exist. I personally am of the belief that porn isn't art,
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
I generally have trouble judging the use or viability of services like this. My first reaction was to call it useless because I doubt that I will ever use something like this. But I've said the same thing about other services, most recently
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
A deep understanding allows one to deal with problems that they have not only been explicitly taught, but those they have also never encountered. I don't think your example regarding libraries really applies well here. I think a more approp
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
Yeah, that is what I perceive as the greateset failing of modern math education. More emphasis on memorization rather than a deep understanding.
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
Really a poor definition to be honest with you. Ignoring the questionable premises listed there, it also fails to fully encompass art. For instance, Are forgeries art? Are movies art? Is literature art? Is pornography art? Is a pianist play
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
Just as is the case with many things, ability comes with experience. Design, while dealing with many concrete and quantifiable considerations, still relies heavily on a distinguishing and trained eye. It's what separates the Jakob Nielsens
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
Pretty poor showing of projects to be honest. My entry for coolest Arduino project ( which was notably absent from that list ) : http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page .
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
Why wouldn't you work there? Does trying to protect your IP and business ( albeit in a completely inappropriate and detrimental way ) indicate a poor employer?
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
Maybe someday, but I just can't see a web app that could seriously compete with the likes of Adobe or Autodesk in the foreseeable future. While there are online services that provide some of the features found in applications like photoshop
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
Possibly to drive more revenue towards iTunes and whatever other online initiatives they have in the works. While they themselves aren't being heavily affected by copyright infringement they do have an interest in more people turning toward
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
While I didn't look at how he did it, if I were to write something to do this, I would first locate each slice of the image. This could be accomplished using a rudimentary edge detection algorithm ( ie starting from the left, compare each c
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by the-cakeboss 15y ago
Surely you don't think that having arbitrary code placed within the IOS AppStore isn't a security risk do you? Once malicious code has been approved in the store an attacker need only find a way to break out of the sandbox, which I am sure

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