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by wnight 15y ago
> Temporary monopolies. That's pretty key and you omitted it entirely. Oh yeah, never mind the government interference - it's only temporary. Never mind that it's still six times longer than the lifetime of the tech involved. Just like
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by wnight 15y ago
> Have you thought this through? [...] Are you aware of what happens ... Yes. That's why I want strong and definitive legitimate punishment. Because otherwise that's all we have left and as you say, it can get messy. > Just because
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by wnight 15y ago
You're asking if monopolies, on technical solutions, being handed out by necessarily under-skilled government bureaucrats, sound like they'd help spur innovation? Umm, no. Not in the slightest. Do you live in backwards day? If we wanted to
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by wnight 15y ago
Anyone has the right to download anything from anyone else. It's the content-provider's server and it's their job to tell it who it should and shouldn't give content to. Making content accessible is implicitly giving permission to download
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by wnight 15y ago
Thank you, the ps/pdf wall most research is behind greatly limits its availability. Wait until they've published and do it anyways. If they sue/etc you the Streisand effect should hopefully help your notability (and thus career) more than n
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by wnight 15y ago
Sure sure, that's terrible. But where is your concern for the legal staff and execs who conspired to trump up charge of hacking and lie to obtain an unjust extradition - nearly ruing someone's life and as pointed out above, only one "misund
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by wnight 15y ago
What is needed is to charge the company directly as well as any specific people. Nothing should happen without oversight and that's the company's responsibility, in the way a warranty return is the company's, not the mailroom guy's, respons
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by wnight 15y ago
Yeah, because someone downloading documents, at the rate supplied by your server(!), is obviously an attacker. For what it's worth, it would have been obvious they weren't facing a DoS.
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by wnight 15y ago
500 years, each, in prison for all who knew of it? Lovely. Unfortunately it wouldn't come with its own Kafkaesque implementation and thus wouldn't be half as frustrating as watching your company die while imprisoned half a world away from h
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by wnight 15y ago
> Reading your comment is just depressing and is a prime example of the Dunning Kruger effect. I have a PhD in economics. You must think you know a lot. > No other country has been responsible for lifting more people out of poverty
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by wnight 15y ago
Not at all. Those people were hurt by the corporation not securing their information. They were hurt the moment they used the service. The hack didn't open an otherwise locked door, it just made public (to the likes of you) what anyone with
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by wnight 15y ago
> Do I consider [Lulzsec's actions] vandalism, on par with graffiti? No. You speak of your disdain for them, though. Why do you even know about them? Banks are hacked regularly and it's not news at all, but leak a few documents and you
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by wnight 15y ago
You'd need to give it a distinct filename or something, but it's otherwise fairly reasonable. But I still wouldn't see it because I've got all external images turned off. And then you'd either need a redundant text sig or risk clients not h
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by wnight 15y ago
> Are you suggesting that my distain for LulzSec and its methods are some how the result of brain washing or extreme trama? Yes. Absolutely. If such an organization did not exist, such that you weren't conditioned to accept their abuses
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by wnight 15y ago
It'd be wonderful if those weren't trademarks. What if someone asks my to get them an all-bran cereal, then bring it to their holiday inn, the Hilton Beachside, for breakfast before a conference discussing network solutions, where we pitch
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by wnight 15y ago
Lose weight, then the exercise to actually build the abs might actually be fun. Do you know how many calories you ingest (eat and drink! ) in a day? If you eat out, or prepared foods, you could easily be getting five times what's recommend
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by wnight 15y ago
> He installed spyware on over 100 computers Get over yourself. He installed a simple app that takes and emails photos. He put it on computers that don't save state so there's no more clean-up then flicking the switch and rebooting them
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by wnight 15y ago
Are you trying to provide an example of the stupid things a lawyer could invent to blow this out of proportion, or are you actually arguing that there are any damages?
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by wnight 15y ago
No, it is a valid point. To lose sight of that is to forget they're a business. You don't pay them directly. Yes, they get paid based on your repeat usage, but they get paid by advertisers.
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by wnight 15y ago
Shack isn't a usual term for store, so it's less generic. Allowing generic words to be trademarked too easily causes problems. International Business Machines seems like a fine name right up until there are many multi-nationals making busin
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by wnight 15y ago
> not available to students Wow. I wonder if they understand the impact of that business decision? Were you unpaid? Or something, that changed your legal status in a relevant way?
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by wnight 15y ago
As long as the app stores aren't walled gardens it doesn't matter if there are a bunch - likely they'll all have 95% of the apps. It's only a problem when every second app is exclusive to a specific store.
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by wnight 15y ago
> but outside of the software industry, few referred to programs as 'apps' on a regular basis. So? Of those who did, nobody did it in a branded way. It's a generic term - an obvious shortening of an existing word and one many people had
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by wnight 15y ago
It seems Apple should lose automatically if a non-trivial number of people use the term generically. How much does this really matter in court? Can we cite examples to the court and have them toss the case out?
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by wnight 15y ago
No percentage? That's the crime. We talk about the RIAA abusing artists but as MS is showing these patents are worth billions to them. Engineers need to start demanding their worth, at least. If we're going to be DDoSed by patents we might
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by wnight 15y ago
> a large portion of windows users have a java quick launcher set to run on start up So in other words it's still slow but because of vendor pressure it's been lumped into "The OS" to hide that cost from the user? More overhead is a tra
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by wnight 15y ago
> We don't get any oil from Iraq. You're in control of it. Even if you don't buy it, specifically, you've inserted American companies into its production and can decide who receives it, what currency it's sold in, etc. > Absolutely
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by wnight 15y ago
> Your examples are from HUNDREDS of years ago. One example was from a current war, another from fifty years ago, another from one-hundred years ago, and the last from two-hundred or more. It shows a pattern. > A little out of date
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by wnight 15y ago
If sigil means non-ascii character, there are six. If you use it to mean name-modifier (changes what the following string means) there is one, the colon. What did you mean? And yes, colon is also the or in the ternary operator. But there
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by wnight 15y ago
> I'm not sorry because we haven't done anything. "You" have cooked up false evidence against Iraq, both in linking it to 9/11 and WMDs. In revenge for 9/11 you've killed over 500 times more innocent people. You've almost perpetrated a

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