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by _stephan 8y ago
Is it a settled argument that the US statutory termination right applies to copyrights granted by the common open source licenses? Could you maybe point to a good legal discussion of this issue?
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by _stephan 8y ago
People obtaining the show from other sources before it is released on Netflix might be a reason for the show not doing well enough on Netflix to be worth picking up. Plus the marketing probably was only half-hearted, since Netflix doesn&#x2
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by _stephan 9y ago
I'm curious whether the Retpoline mitigation will still be necessary/recommended for user applications (that don't operate as a JIT or interpreter) once the kernel and CPU mitigations for Spectre that are currently in the wor
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China has deployed facial-recognition systems across the country(wsj.com)
4 points by _stephan 9y ago|0 comments
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by _stephan 10y ago
I just tried this again on the German Netflix website: Danish was listed and selectable for the audio track and subtitle of "Troll hunters" and "Tarzan and Jane" after switching the Kids profile language to Danish, but n
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by _stephan 10y ago
I suppose this is because they are afraid to upset certain segments of their users. In the German Netflix you'll often see angry comments in the review section of any show that isn't completely dubbed. Maybe they could avoid this
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by _stephan 10y ago
In Germany the Netflix app shows different available audio tracks and subtitles depending on the user profile language, at least for the "Netflix Originals". Have you tried setting the language of the kids profile to Danish (via t
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by _stephan 10y ago
The battery comparison with the 2015 MacBook Pro is not really fair, because he turns the brightness "all the way" up for his benchmark, even though the new models have screens with 500 nits brightness while the 2015 model only ha
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by _stephan 10y ago
If I understand "if they pre-install Google’s apps on any of their models, they must commit to install only Google’s standard version of Android on each and every one of their models" correctly, Google does not allow handset-maker
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by _stephan 10y ago
The legal question is whether the exclusivity terms in the licensing deals are anti-competitive given Google's dominant market share in Europe. "handset-makers that wish to pre-install Google Play must, among other apps, also add
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by _stephan 10y ago
An alternate point of view by the Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/business/21697193-european-com...
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Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses(nytimes.com)
328 points by _stephan 11y ago|282 comments
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Safe Harbor Agreement Between U.S. And Europe Is Ruled Invalid(nytimes.com)
2 points by _stephan 11y ago|0 comments
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by _stephan 11y ago
* no one can sue
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by _stephan 11y ago
If you "change the names and wording" you're actually copying and making a modification. However, if by pure chance you came up with some say detective story that has a plot very similar to one of the existing billion other d
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by _stephan 11y ago
Copyright and patents are not "fundamentally the same thing". A copyright gives you the right to exclude others from copying a work. A patent gives you more than that right, it gives you a monopoly over an idea (or at least a more
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by _stephan 11y ago
*can be commoditized
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by _stephan 11y ago
I'm less curious about infrastructure that be commoditized and more about things like shared source code and access to subject-matter experts working on various teams at Google.
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by _stephan 11y ago
Will the non-Google Alphabet companies still have access to Google's software engineering infrastructure?
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by _stephan 11y ago
Not any more?
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by _stephan 11y ago
It's a pity that the new AVX-512 SIMD instructions will only be available on Xeon Skylake chips.
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by _stephan 11y ago
What's the motivation behind this? It can't really be bandwidth cost savings for distributing updates, right? At least, I can't imagine that the savings outweigh the predictably bad press and the additionally required custome
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by _stephan 11y ago
See §94 of the German Criminal Code: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stg... "§94 Treason (1) Whosoever 1. communicates a state secret to a foreign power or one of its intermediaries; or 2
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by _stephan 11y ago
Currently netzpolitik.org doesn't seem to be able to cope with the traffic. The text of the page can also be read here: http://pastebin.com/kwUyafqi
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“Suspicion of treason”: German attorney general investigates journalists(netzpolitik.org)
162 points by _stephan 11y ago|27 comments
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by _stephan 11y ago
In Germany we have this law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law#Germany
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The Supreme Court just refused to review a disastrous ruling on API copyrights(vox.com)
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by _stephan 11y ago
As long as they serve as judges? Why should SCOTUS judges engage in stock picking?
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by _stephan 11y ago
Remote development sounds very interesting. If the IDE supports this directly, the user experience could be much better than the one you get when running an IDE over a remote desktop connection.
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by _stephan 11y ago
I suppose you're talking about the "Roboto" font in #737373. It's also hard to read with Chrome on Windows 7 and a standard 1920x1200 monitor. The same thing happened when Google Fi launched. Either they don't test

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