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by yew 13y ago
More or less. NewEgg are calling it a patent on menus and they're not far off.
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by yew 13y ago
We know what it's supposed to do. We don't know what it's actually doing - and neither do the people who built it, not with any certainty. This is a relatively ill-understood discipline and a very fragile machine. 'Take it apart and loo
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by yew 13y ago
The patent (US #5649131, there's a link in the article) covers a general scheme for standardized communication between a server and client (the patent refers to 'host' and 'terminal'). Specifically, the server and client agree on a set of d
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by yew 13y ago
If you disagree with what this anti-piracy group is doing, how is it fair to apply the standards they support? I prefer to ask you, how isn't it fair? You are free to believe that 'You either think they're right or they're wrong'. I am
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by yew 13y ago
I should hope so! The government is rather more regular than a particularly noisy lab experiment. Now, as to what it meets the hurdle for statistical significance for . . . well, I personally prefer to avoid conspiracy theories when possi
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by yew 13y ago
Granted - even if it had been literally blank ;)
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by yew 13y ago
It proves that they responded to this FOIA request by releasing a blank document. There are many different possible reasons why they released a blank document, but that's another question. (One which we can hopefully answer by examining t
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by yew 13y ago
The entire point of FOIA requests is to allow access to previously undisclosed documents that aren't legally considered secret. The notably weird thing here is that they released a completely redacted document rather than just declining t
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by yew 13y ago
There are already hundreds of thousands (millions, really) of quality works in the public domain. From a pop-cultural perspective the difference between twenty-year-old music and fifty- or hundred-year-old music isn't large. Too, many 'ab
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by yew 13y ago
You're right that I mischaracterized the legal status of the issue - though I think saying that this 'might be' the basis for a civil suit is seriously understating things, given the degree of incompetence demonstrated by AT&T in securi
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by yew 13y ago
You seem to be assuming the direction of causation there. Not that you're wrong, necessarily, but you never can be sure.
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by yew 13y ago
In any other context we'd be calling this "victim blaming." You might. 'In any other context' we would do no such thing. And I am quite happy to hold both parties to account for negligence and no small degree of (in AT&T's case
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by yew 13y ago
Odd. It works fine in the stock Android browser. It actually renders faster than on my desktop. Maybe Firefox has a higher per-frame delay?
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by yew 13y ago
That's the 'suggested fix' for this issue. It doesn't actually fix anything, obviously - it just makes everything transparent.
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by yew 13y ago
A lot of professional mathematicians are considering the idea that it might all be nonsense. Popular writing on anything technical is not always representative of what's actually going on behind the scenes. At the same time, it's importan
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by yew 13y ago
It provides an equally special incentive to comply with users; the safe harbor has two sides. It provides very nearly no incentive whatsoever to comply with users. What provisions it does provide are practically unenforceable due to absur
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by yew 13y ago
The DMCA is still responsible for its unintended consequences. I'm in complete agreement. But fixing that issue will be more difficult than fixing this one, in my opinion. Getting this bill passed would do some good even if it is overstat
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by yew 13y ago
The DMCA takedown procedure (including that safe-harbor provision) provides a special incentive towards compliance with 'content owners' (who may or may not actually own the content in question), apart from but dependent on litigation
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by yew 13y ago
The issue is that liability is in practice equivalent to a large monetary penalty because of the ease of rapid and continuous litigation. So in practice the DMCA takedown procedure provides a method of immediately (and sometimes permanent
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by yew 13y ago
I definitely wouldn't say that this bill 'fixes the DMCA', but it certainly corrects some of the most gratuitous issues. The DMCA doesn't explicitly affect linking to infringing content - that's mostly on the courts that have made that inte
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by yew 13y ago
Note that they've just released a new patch for Psychonauts on Linux, if you have it from a previous bundle or buy it now. It's dated 2013-05-06. I'm downloading now so I haven't tested it yet.
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by yew 13y ago
I hope you know what Desktop Linux is . I don't care that you don't use a Desktop distro because I use Gentoo and XMonad and am generally quite comfortable with both. As for complicated well, that depends - complicated for who ? There a
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by yew 13y ago
startx is a shell script. The vast majority of distributions don't use it at all - they use a display manager that then does most, but not necessarily all, of what the xinit system does (plus some extras, depending on the DM). startx from a
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by yew 13y ago
Modern Desktop Linux is very fragile because everything has to be configured and managed automatically. You haven't been able to startx without a lot of reconfiguring for years. Ideally you want a full Desktop environment, but at a minimu
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by yew 13y ago
Sound isn't a problem for me . I just use ALSA and everything works (I haven't edited a single configuration file, actually). The sound-server wars are still ongoing but I've personally never had any cause to touch anything besides ALSA or
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by yew 13y ago
I'd be less worried if this seemed like a one-off thing (or if math professors were obligated to drive exclusively on bridges designed by their own students, heh). As it is, this is one case among many (not all about grade schoolers and not
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by yew 13y ago
Some people are arguing about whether 'cut into two' might really mean 'cut two off'. So I think your answer makes three interpretations (and nicely demonstrates that you do indeed have to specify things like "cutting is abstract and all
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by yew 13y ago
I actually like it quite a bit . . . The lack of triple-nested faux windows is nice and I usually set things to display compactly anyway, so there's that. It looks like some people are having font issues, though. I'm not seeing any overlap
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by yew 13y ago
Most 'totalitarian states' aren't as Bond-villain-esque as their image in the popular imagination and most 'dissidents' aren't as heroic. You just have to convince yourself that the situation is grey (which is mostly true) and that everyone
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by yew 13y ago
In all seriousness though: Google does things their own way, and that's fine. But design policies (policies in general) tend to migrate between business domains. Pointing out that you're personally not a fan of some particular policy (provi

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