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by unavoidable 14y ago
Would deduplication by technological means necessarily imply lack of security?
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by unavoidable 14y ago
You and the poster below mention Japanese as an example. I counter by saying that Japanese use of Kanji is very different than the Chinese use. I am a native Chinese speaker and have taken Japanese classes, and their vocalization in the lan
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by unavoidable 14y ago
Proof that you can read without subvocalization are ideographic languages such as Chinese (especially the traditional variety), where the written text and the 'vocalization' are not directly related - it is possible to understand a passage
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by unavoidable 14y ago
I wonder if the author knows that "Letterpress" is a rather popular iOS game.
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by unavoidable 14y ago
"iDevice" seems to be a useful word I hear a lot these days.
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Canadian court rules you have the right to Google for a lawyer(thestar.com)
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by unavoidable 14y ago
What you say is true. But most people also did not foresee the USSR collapse in the early 1990s. At least not with the speed at which it happened.
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by unavoidable 14y ago
Even a cursory Google search shows how false your assumptions are. There were many external factors which regular North Korean citizens had no control over. Most accounts of the 'origin' of North Korea involve to some degree the proxy war b
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by unavoidable 14y ago
Is it the institutions that cause divisions, or is it the divisions that cause the institutions? I don't think this answer is as clear as you suggest, because a great deal of beliefs and ideologies are passed down by institutions such as sc
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by unavoidable 14y ago
Wow. I was just thinking of making something like this yesterday. Guess great ideas don't last long. I was also interested in seeing how similar terms of services are. I've been working on a paper studying how boilerplate terms seem to be g
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by unavoidable 14y ago
Every time an article like this comes up, someone immediately pops up to say something like "the listed countries aren't multi-ethnic like the USA!" This is a meme that should die, because it isn't based in any fact, but is mere speculation
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by unavoidable 14y ago
I should add that substantively, the conclusion that programming languages can't be copyrighted is relatively well supported from past cases. Generally one can't copyright rules to a game or contest, and one can't copyright facts or algorit
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by unavoidable 14y ago
Your conclusion is sort of correct, but the devil is in the details. The reason that the judge says it is only his "provisional view" is that the issue of whether the SAS programming language can be copyrightable was never brought up at the
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by unavoidable 14y ago
No, I think you may be confusing some things here. Sometimes judges give juries instructions to ignore a particular part of a case when making findings for another part of the case. This makes it easier to rule on a case when it goes to app
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by unavoidable 14y ago
Then you have the reason why you haven't received an answer - your question is framed (almost deliberately) to have no answer. Copyright does not exist "in an object". It _is_ a state-enforced statutory right that "exists" in a "work" wheth
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by unavoidable 14y ago
Copyright subsists automatically in the 'work' provided it meets the definition in the Copyright Act. The license itself may be entirely separate from copyright. It can restrict your rights under copyright, or it can grant you more rights (
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by unavoidable 14y ago
This is indeed the 'correct' (or at least more correct) interpretation of what 'property' means in the digital context. On the other hand, I can't help but wonder whether Hollywood and BigContent is trying to have it both ways. A big part o
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by unavoidable 14y ago
The Verge had a great summary (as posted above) so I won't go into the actual 'law'. I don't even think the issue is really about what they can or cannot do in the license - Instagram is entitled to write whatever they want in the license a
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by unavoidable 14y ago
Just because the text of cases and legislation is easy to digitize does not mean the profession is. Your statement could perhaps be flipped on its head: "coding is easy to analyze with computers especially given the wealth of open source ma
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by unavoidable 14y ago
See the gist of the reply I made to the other commenter. The reason this arises is generally because of the back-and-forth between Parliament and the courts. When a court gives a restrictive meaning to a given provision, it incentivizes Par
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by unavoidable 14y ago
The reason it is so "complicated" is the court ruling I mentioned above along with its progeny - narrow interpretations of tax laws (i.e. a strict "letter of the law" interpretation that the UK has followed) necessitates more lines of law i
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by unavoidable 14y ago
Courts in the UK have historically had very narrow interpretations of tax laws. The classic example is a House of Lords case called Commissioners of Inland Revenue v. Duke of Westminster, where one of the judges gave this great judgment: "E
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by unavoidable 14y ago
If the guy has a halfway competent lawyer, that is not what the judge will think. This grossly oversimplifies the exigencies of law enforcement versus the courts. Law enforcement is forced to take down things like exit nodes because they ha
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by unavoidable 14y ago
What they're lacking is not professional management, but the rule of law.
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by unavoidable 14y ago
But this glosses over the undertones of the article - that is, the Obama campaign was able to attract these people precisely because the Democrats were more forward-thinking, more progressive, younger, and more open-minded. Are the Republic
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by unavoidable 14y ago
That is not the point of the article. The article is an in-depth exposition of the Obama campaign's tech team, along with how they faced difficulties, how they transformed their own culture to mesh with the traditional political world (and
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by unavoidable 14y ago
Although I would like to see that happen, I think the argument is a big stretch. The constitutional challenge depends on the assertion that there is a free-standing right to access information, even if it is privately produced. Geist and ot
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by unavoidable 14y ago
It's also not a copyright claim, but a trademark claim. Different type of lawsuit altogether.
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by unavoidable 14y ago
Somewhat related but lost in the cheering from the photographers is that this law also now makes the act of defeating DRM systems illegal (or more precisely, it is copyright infringement simply to get around DRMs or to distribute tools that
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by unavoidable 14y ago
I've always wondered - why isn't source code disclosed in a software patent? In most other mechanical inventions or even pharmaceutical ones, the type of disclosure required does include a fair bit of detail - perhaps blueprints of some sor

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