tobylane

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by tobylane 15y ago
I don't like their assumption of 50% profit margin (including nothing but hardware). They have the manufacturing cost and the retail cost, why not use the american manufacturing cost to think up a real retail price?
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by tobylane 15y ago
Business-level support, like 24/7 phone service.
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by tobylane 15y ago
Acta is a worldwide treaty that probably adds to the Bern convention's law nearly ten years ago. It's a global worry, the equivalents of the MPAA are probably lobbying for it in each country. Pcopa (or the better name I can't find that was
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by tobylane 15y ago
It's been said it'll be attached to the back of an anti-child porn bill so it can't be opposed next month.
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by tobylane 15y ago
Is there any limit to what it does past this? If the intention is to fit in with the worldwide agreement by doing what you describe, it should be written in a way that it can't be used to extend Mickey Mouse's protection or something shortl
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by tobylane 15y ago
He is protesting against the overly difficult DRM in an otherwise desirable product. It's easy to skip all the annoying parts, with so few if any downsides. It's the Windows version of the DVD flow diagram[1] that explains why a pirated mov
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by tobylane 15y ago
Often when other countries take the US's lead it's for an advantage, or by force (see Bush-Blair and the recent Spanish thing). I'd be interested to know what the international pressure people are doing now or after Sopa is abandoned, if th
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by tobylane 15y ago
The extradition treaty is widely thought to be very biased to the USA, legal wording of [1]. The USA DA's office can withhold evidence, and only need to provide reasonable suspicion, but CPS need to provide probable cause. It's difficult to
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by tobylane 15y ago
Dropbox's idea of the cloud is file based. Apple's idea of the future of computing (iOS and iCloud) is no files, you just assume apps will use the cloud. It's clunky because it's not what we are used to, nor the app makers.
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by tobylane 15y ago
True, but that would seem an overreaction to people who are only finding out about it on the blackout day.
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by tobylane 15y ago
ICT is learning how to use computers efficiently, how to do a non-computer job like accounting on computers., basically how to use Office. Computer Science is different, and now that home computers are common enough could easily be done at
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by tobylane 15y ago
They have a uniquely high level of internal debtors, the government bonds were bought by Japanese people much more so than other citizens buying their countries' bonds. I didn't understand why this made a difference though.
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by tobylane 15y ago
It sounds like it is trying to make laws fuzzy, because you can't make it outright unbalanced to the copyright owners, but the same owners are lobbying for more law in their favour. Laws have been declined or overturned for being fuzzy, I h
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by tobylane 15y ago
Useful foreign sites? BBC accepts user comments in some areas, someone posts copyrigh material to one of them and a court order is issued before a BBC mod takes it down? If a DNS block is made then, how long will it last, and how many peopl
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by tobylane 15y ago
Sopa isn't copyright enforcement, its so much more, it's all the weapons the content holders could ever wish for. Plus there's a certain amount of inevitable piracy. But mostly it's the bought-out politicians who are just trying/lying too h
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by tobylane 15y ago
Clickable http://www.battlestox.com You ask for a lot of personal data, what is it used for? I would rather be able to give you only basic details and upload my contact book/befriend strangers, or connect to facebook where you get all you
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by tobylane 15y ago
A hash would be better, it's decentralised, somewhat prevents someone reselling someone else's work, and can be used to check the book is as it was. Downsides - Different versions don't appear related by the hash.
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by tobylane 15y ago
Nope. They have an exclusion, they must have spent ages and a lot of money getting it. http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/sopa-hearing-wi... Bottom of two PgDown for me.
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by tobylane 15y ago
CorsixTH is a remake of Theme Hospital. The only C coder so far is the creator, and he's busy at Cambridge. We'd like your help, theres a page on what could be done. The other language involved is Lua, the parts in Lua are active. https://
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by tobylane 15y ago
Patent trolls can scare off competitors, Sirs just mean they led a publicly useful, honorable British-started life.
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by tobylane 15y ago
It's prestige without power, pointing out the lack of power lowers the prestige.
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by tobylane 15y ago
What about a refurbished macbook and iphone, or ipod touch and dumbphone?
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by tobylane 15y ago
Something will be centralized, a weak point politically. I'm surprised how quiet DARPA, CERN and Verisign have been so far, as they are very important. ISPs and Godaddy don't matter as much.
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by tobylane 15y ago
I haven't used CS, but I expect its JS output to be more verbose than if someone had written the JS themself. This means the people trying to contribute with CS-JS will be adding longer code that doesn't fit with the coding style of the pro
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by tobylane 15y ago
Android is full of possibilities, but the carriers are often the ones doing something with this, making it worse for the majority of users. If every Android user got the next version as quickly as iOS users get their next version, and it wa
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by tobylane 15y ago
You sound sensible, not republican. Even sensible right-wing isn't republican. Maybe mention something about lobbying, it shouldn't cover over people's voice/rights.
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by tobylane 15y ago
Who will lobby for it? No company cares anywhere near as much as Disney, the music labels and so on. Even if a clever, up to date congressman did get a sensible bill written, it'd be completely weakened by the time the others were done with
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by tobylane 15y ago
Microsoft and Apple would never even make it even a non default option (not for fear of breaking a law, just general fear) and I doubt they'd even like something so p2p, so uncontrolled. Without them you'd struggle to get anywhere near 1%.
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by tobylane 15y ago
I wouldn't mind (and do intend to, even for a school website) having so much javascript on a page that it looks different, even broken without it, but I wouldn't load the content with javascript like Twitter do, that's too far (and may well
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by tobylane 15y ago
Is there a specific timeframe where you think the US had that monopoly?

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