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by walid 13y ago
I think I found something to spend some time on!
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by walid 13y ago
You're missing the point. Patents are the scope of these laws, not general legal practice.
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by walid 13y ago
True, but that is the same reasoning that the law goes by when it is required to prove guilt rather than proving innocence. The legal system many times lets the bad guy walk to make sure that an innocent is not accidentally convicted or ove
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by walid 13y ago
I think you're getting it wrong. This doesn't make "Heightened Pleading" difficult. The whole idea is to say the defendant is infringing on such and such in their manufacturing process. It seems to me that this is the ex
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by walid 13y ago
> What this ends up requiring is that the plaintiff state specific factual allegations as to what the defendant is actually doing wrong. I'm not a lawyer but in the case of patent infringement I expect the plaintiff to be able to sh
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by walid 13y ago
Haaaaaaaahahahaha! The Internet sure makes me laugh more than any human being. Screw those guys called friends.
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by walid 13y ago
Nah, I think this is how Google is trying to make it less visible how they rank and what people search for. If you consider how Bing is gaining ground and that Yahoo may be inclined to build their own search engine and that such competitors
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by walid 13y ago
I'm not a marketer but this is a matter of knowing what people want so that they, marketers or their businesses, know what to work on making and selling. It isn't really a privacy issue since Google does track you and know who you
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by walid 13y ago
Actually in the early days of the iPhone even Engadget didn't count it as a smartphone because it didn't run apps. Of course this changed later. What was considered a smartphone was mostly a Palm Treo, Motorola or HTC device. Some
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by walid 13y ago
I also find that a lot of the problem is that many companies want a ready STEM worker. In other words someone who can get up and going immediately. Business plans require it but such a person is specialized and cannot have got up and runn
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by walid 13y ago
Thanks for sharing. I love to know about the early days of pioneers. It humanizes them and makes me feel what they did is something normal people, like me, can achieve.
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by walid 13y ago
The comparison between coding and computer science is kind of like saying that 10% of your code runs 90% of the time, which is usually true. Computer science is the 100% but coding is the 10% that gets to run on hardware.
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Dawn of a revolution(news.harvard.edu)
7 points by walid 13y ago|3 comments
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by walid 13y ago
I hate staring at a wall of text without being able to read it. I'll just have to learn Chinese. Googling right now.
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by walid 13y ago
It is so easy to make people with idealistic views switch those views. The reason being that such people attach their views to an unattainable standard clouding their judgement, then when they realize the flaws in their views they backlash.
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Gregory Szorc's Digital Home(gregoryszorc.com)
1 points by walid 13y ago|0 comments
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by walid 13y ago
While it is true that all countries will salivate at the opportunity to setup a surveillance apparatus that is made efficient by technology, our only hope is to safeguard our online lives by demanding policy change. Any technical safeguards
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by walid 13y ago
Why is this funny? If I had the choice of either parting with 30%-20% of what I make or supporting another platform that gives me back that 30%-20% I'd support that other platform. After all Valve is a business and it doesn't make
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by walid 13y ago
But this is the problem when the system you are using is controlled by someone else. You have to accept their terms whether you like it or not.
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by walid 13y ago
What is more detrimental is the uselessness of the phrase "classified" in the after math of leaks. When leaks show that a lot of classified documents are not really that important it will desensitize people to the word classified
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by walid 13y ago
What is strange is that the government used the classification of information as a way control it. But what stops others from conducting the same research? In fact I would argue that classifying info will result in people pursuing that info
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by walid 13y ago
As decentralized as WordPress. The project is open source.
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by walid 13y ago
> Frankly, I'm sick of people jumping on the "open-source" bandwagon and diverting resources from those who truly deserve it Is there a list of deserving people that gets curated by someone? I think that those who deserve
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by walid 13y ago
Reminds me of App.net but with many price points and a Bitcoin twist. I hope they succeed because we need all kinds of new ideas experimented with.
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by walid 13y ago
Actually the whole point of Firefox OS is that you don't target the desktop anymore. So the answer is that you can't do that in Firefox without actually releasing an app packaged to run standalone. Some other service that don&#x27
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by walid 13y ago
The weakness with such an approach is that it is not the browser itself pushing the apps through user discoverable means. You have to know about Pokki before hand in order to find it. I myself never knew such a service existed until now. In
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by walid 13y ago
Thanks for the reminder. I actually used some apps early on but there weren't many and somehow forgot about them. I'll use some of these desktop apps more especially Wikipedia and SoundCloud.
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by walid 13y ago
In reality Firefox/Firefox OS apps can run in other browsers as well and equally so in Chrome since it regular HTML/CSS/JavaScript. This has been one of the points Mozilla has been highlighting and sometimes they blog about i
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by walid 13y ago
IMHO the primary reason is for the heck of it. It is the most exciting thing to say that you develop an OS. The second reason is that some OSes serve a particular niche like ROS http://wiki.ros.org/ and they are obviously s
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by walid 13y ago
If you don't care about what a judge says in a privacy related situation, considering the privacy violations from the government, then what would you care about?

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