throwawaykf02

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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Would think so, but IANAL and I'm not sure about the legality of it. Infringement occurs whenever you make, sell or use the invention without license. Distributing plans seems like it would contribute to infringement, so some enterpris
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
> We do what Andrew Auernheimer did. You mean, exploit a weak access control scheme, fail to disclose the exploit properly, instead use it to download private data in bulk, make unwise brags to reporters about potentially misusing that d
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
I had to scrounge through forests worth of magazines and shopping catalogs to collect my measly pile of cut-outs of barely risqué pictures. In the snow! Both ways! Darn kids these days have it easy... (grumble grumble)
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Giving plans away for free would not make it any more difficult to sue somebody for infringement. More likely, the patent holders simply didn't see it as a threat to their business (yet) and let it slide.
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Your reddit and wired links are about copyright litigation regarding things made with 3D printers, not patent litigation concerning the 3D printers themselves.
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
The story of patents holding up steam is a myth, one that I believe was more recently spread by Boldrin & Levine's "Against Intellectual Monopoly" book. Here is a paper comprehensively busting that myth: http:/&#x2F
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Where does speech end and "aiding and abetting" begin? Another way to think about it this: you have some property that has now become a haven of illegal activity (through no participation of your own) that is disrupting the local
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Hmm, I guess I'm looking at the wrong time frame. Do you know what sales were like from launch until they subsidized it? I remember tracking its progress from announcement through launch and until a couple years ago, and as I recall it
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Anecdotal, but, I know a bunch of good developers at Microsoft, and I've never heard any one of them complain about that before. They complain about a bunch of things, many of them related to upper management, but that "lost decad
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Oh for Microsoft, maybe. I'd love to have rounding errors like that! A more salient question for now is, is that a rounding error for Amazon, Rackspace, Heroku, etc. as well?
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Half-agreed. I still like him because he's the only rich and powerful person who would do that ridiculous dance on stage for the whole world to see, only in the name of people like me, me, me! But "bad CEO"? Come on! If you l
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
That chart shows cumulative sales only until early 2008, before the 3G was introduced. This does not show the most interesting aspects of iPhone growth. The subsidy model existed, but it did not apply to the iPhone. Here's a more revea
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
I thought they're already making a billion a year on Azure? Xbox could be seen as a loss-leader to grab a place in the living room, where they've done better than most other players in the space.
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Whenever people mention Microsoft as only a "Windows and Office" company, I know they have a very outdated perspective of the company. Look at all the billion dollar divisions they have that are not Windows and Office. Sure, alm
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Android proves nothing of the sort. People don't necessarily buy Android because they like it, but more because because it is pushed to them by the parties that directly make money off it: the carriers and their data plans and contract
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
I think I know what you mean, but really, there must be a much better way to express this. For instance, instead of being quantitative, be qualitative. Don't say, "no more than 12 years", but say something like, "but sti
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
But of course! All the other Android manufacturers must be absolutely blind not to try all these things as well! That must be the reason they are all struggling so much and Samsung is stomping all over their profits! Or maybe... Could it
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Not comparable to Cyanogenmod, but Microsoft at one point officially supported the WP jailbreak tool and its developers, Chevron. The logic was, of course, to get more apps developed for WP. Unfortunately, after a while, they found out no
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Well if we're trading anecdotes, my sister-in-law (a serious geek type herself) wanted a MacBook and I convinced her to get a Windows PC instead. And of the several computing devices in my house, Apple products outnumber those running
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
To me, choosing one and focusing on it seems the only rational choice, rather than making two halfhearted forays. Say Nokia did choose both. They'd have invested a huge amount of money and resources (comparable to what they invested fo
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
But how would they differentiate from Samsung? Replacing stock Android UI with a custom skin, a practice that everybody seems to hate? Installing specific apps, which too, are often derided? The one Nokia app that is significant is Drive, b
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
They did have significant distinguishing features previously, specifically their Nokia-specific apps like Nokia Drive and Nokia Transit. Drive for one, I speculate, drove a lot of adoption for Nokia within the WP market. It has received s
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
> economical with the truth That could be said about pretty much any article about patents that gets posted to HN. Or heck, most of tech media. It's unfortunate that so-called geeks and hackers swallow it without the least bit of cr
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Note that STUN itself does not do traversal for you - it simply gives you enough information to do it yourself.
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
I'm not sure what OP has against UPnP port mapping. It's not an ideal option and certainly not the best-designed specification, but it's a way to explicitly tell the NAT to do what we want, rather than having to trick it into
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
I know there has been tons of see-thru-the-walls work done over many years... But that used UWB and required specialized equipment and antennas, IIRC, whereas this uses "commodity" USRPs. Could you provide examples of the type of
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Actually, this is similar work but by different people. The links you posted are about work at University of Washington, whereas the OP is work done at MIT.