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by udpheaders 14y ago
What if we looked beyond the Swartz case? Then what do you think about these types of TOS? Maybe another example would be more interesting. Say you have a choice between an API that allows a "reasonable" number of requests in any 24 hour
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by udpheaders 14y ago
Nice explanation. Thanks for this.
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by udpheaders 14y ago
You are jumping around a bit. We were talking about TOS and now we're in a court room and using the words "judge" and "dumb" in the same sentence. I was kidding about doing research. Humor. We all know what he was doing. But the truth
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by udpheaders 14y ago
If I can use my own bootloader with Surface, I'd buy one.
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by udpheaders 14y ago
So if I understand correctly, the answer is no. Is there some sort of iTunes kiosk, a publicly accessible device with iTunes installed where a customer could purchase songs, download them to removable media and then move the songs from the
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by udpheaders 14y ago
I'm not sure if I am interpreting your last sentence correctly. Can you rephrase it?
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by udpheaders 14y ago
"The problem is the price is not right for me at this stage." Well, I'm pretty sure Whitney's enlightened path to k went through LISP, so maybe the author will get there one day. And LUSH seems a pretty nice choice of LISP's to work with -
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by udpheaders 14y ago
As if Python was the most powerful language, heh. :) Maybe he was going for a world record of most citations in a single paper. Who's to say he wasn't just doing research? How many downloads is too many? I would be willing to bet that th
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by udpheaders 14y ago
So true. It's not like publishing your paper on your lab's website will satsify the "publish" requirement for obtaining tenure. Why can't we separate the process of peer review from the process of letting a journal handle distribution of
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by udpheaders 14y ago
So if I purchase some songs from this store (e.g. someone gives me iTunes credit as a gift) I can still play them without iTunes? I don't need iTunes installed anywhere?
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by udpheaders 14y ago
It's just mathematical notation. Why is that insane? What is computing at its most basic level but maths? If you can handle working with symbols, more power to you. If you can't, move on. It's like calling mathematicians insane because y
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by udpheaders 14y ago
Working with limitations is what yields creativity. But unlike the limitations of computing's yesteryear, the limitations of the iPad seem artificial. OSX is built from BSD UNIX, and iOS is built from OSX. Why should it be so limited? W
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by udpheaders 14y ago
Would HN actually affect the price of AAPL though? Why would they care about HN if HN readers are not all Apple worshippers?
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by udpheaders 14y ago
"the exclamation point implied" Well, if it did it wasn't intentional. I am always editing. It's just how I write. HN faux pas I guess. I'm not sure I follow the rest of your comment. I was not suggesting the author of the article was arg
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by udpheaders 14y ago
"as if we should assume" Whoa. Where are you getting that? I will let the @strawman take it from here. Because that's who I think you are trying to argue with. :)
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by udpheaders 14y ago
I'm surprised you would actually take the statistics seriously. At face value, the article is pure entertainment. I would not consider an evaluation of a lawyer as a liability or an asset to be something that can be measured objectively.
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by udpheaders 14y ago
You are the type of customer I want to sell my stuff to. Form is important. But not more important than function. But do others share your view? There's no reason you shouldn't have the full uncrippled power of UNIX in the palm of your han
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by udpheaders 14y ago
For many a sensible person, lawyers seem to be more a liability than an asset. Rightly so. Indeed they are more often than not rent-seekers, and the rent is sky high. That is, until you are faced with a serious problem. Imagine you are f
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by udpheaders 14y ago
So Gruber is some kind of paid blogger for Apple? His stuff always ends up on the front page of HN. What's up with that?
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by udpheaders 14y ago
Here's how it's done, in simple terms. This is not some new thing. IBM was doing this before there was a Microsoft and before there was a WWW. If you amass enough vague patents, any one of which on its own isn't worth the paper it's print
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by udpheaders 14y ago
If there's a third party doing store and forward or even just forwarding traffic, it is not "p2p". At least, not as I understand what p2p means. So any service that purports to be peer-to-peer ("p2p") should be able to show you exactly ho
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by udpheaders 14y ago
But the inventors don't work for them and they didn't file these patents nor were they assignees. They acquired the patents from someone else for a price.
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by udpheaders 14y ago
Think about it. What would happen if they were cheap? Anyone could amass a large portfolio. We could all block each other's every move. No one would have any leverage. But the second question you have to ask is what does it cost to sue?
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by udpheaders 14y ago
There are exceptions, and as you might guess they tend to be interpreted quite broadly. ;)
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by udpheaders 14y ago
It is not ridiculous. But it does not solve the problem. It plays right into the problem. What you are describing is already done, and has been done for many years, in one form or another, between corporations e.g. in the semiconductor i
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by udpheaders 14y ago
Yep. One of the co-founders is a former lawyer who in fact coined the term "patent troll". Now they are world leader in patent trolling. "If you can't beat `em, ..." It's great lesson in copouts. Instead of using your resources (e.g. a
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by udpheaders 14y ago
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Clown College It was worth the read just for that alone.
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by udpheaders 14y ago
"A plurality of personas" The patent system has become a joke. Only because of how it is being used, and it's one industry that is driving things to the point of absurdity. There is no integrity to the system, no matter how well-designed
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by udpheaders 14y ago
There's actually a technique to this, going back to Usenet. You can draw out the answer you want this way, by saying something technically incorrect as if it were correct.
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by udpheaders 14y ago
Nope. (Granted, this is possible if the domain name resgitrant designates an open resolver as authoritative but almost no one does that. The reasons should be obvious.) How much time have you devoted to learning how DNS works?

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