If only we could replace eye witness testimony: it's notoriously faulty.
Wouldn't a properly formed DMCA complaint in this case be one of the few times you could commit perjury with one? There's no way they have any good faith belief they own the copyright to (or are authorized by its holder…
Your analysis ignores the key point that bacteria operate on simple rules based entirely on local concerns, which is not the proposed case in the sci-fi story.
There's a distinctly 21st century flavor to being able to store all the banal life mistakes indefinitely, to dig them up later if we ever need dirt on a particular person. Before it was varying levels of unprovable (ie,…
Except that the particular beams of light being discussed are intentionally meant by the broadcasters as resources for the public as part of fulfilling their deal to license the spectrum that beams of light useful for…
The military and government in general makes extensive use of contractors for specialized tasks, but manages to audit and limit their behaviors to the degree that they're performing work on behalf of the government,…
Haskell has a very neat interface for this, in that you build a special type which remembers the dimensions of a matrix as you build them, and then return either the result or a failure. It's very simple to build a…
Except the water is almost entirely less than 5 miles deep, which is a sliver when we're talking about something with a radius 1000 times that.
"We're almost certainly not trampling over your rights, citizen. Now why don't you mosey along and stop asking about it?"
What part of inviting a criminal you've gathered significant recorded evidence against (eg, their own telephone confession) to a place you can arrest him do you think violates due process?
The harm from the pervasive monitoring is greater than any benefit proposed: there's no need to run the trial to see if the benefit proposed is actually there, we already know it's outweighed by the harm.
My bank insisting on a hard-to-remember 8 character password isn't make it more secure than letting me pick a longer passphrase.
I think there's a second element to why a gallon of milk isn't $20: Walmart relies on not upsetting too many people, who collectively wield enough local political power to harm Walmart locally. It would only take a…
There are markets with no real viable alternative to Walmart, because Walmart used their scale to crush competition, and no has made it uneconomical to start a rival business, since they'll temporarily lower prices…
Except that the hurt is widely distributed at the higher price, but not at the lower price (where it's felt by a few large publishers). This kind of unequal distribution can cause the slight lessening of pain for a…
The point of my quotation is merely to show that as part of work activities, research on VR was being done at id (ZeniMax) prior to contact with Oculus, and that Carmack's work on the subject would thus fall under the…
ZeniMax was working on VR technologies before Carmack began interacting with Oculus, and has a reasonable claim to the fruits of his work on that (being that it was an assigned R&D project). Do you really think I should…
See my other reply for page cites and details, but it seems that ZeniMax was actively pursuing VR technology and that Carmac was part of that project prior to his work on Oculus. If I work for money developing a certain…
According to the lawsuit filing (page 8 of the PDF linked above), Carmac was researching VR at id under ZeniMax. So yes, I think projects you undertake at work for money belong to your employer, and that this is a…
> Their behavior is not unreasonable, but it is only possible because a prolific developer was not concerned about nuances of copyright law while collaborating with multiple companies. I expect that Facebook is going to…
I would. I don't understand why you're so surprised that a company sued after they were turned down for a settlement from a company they gave a bunch of key technology to under an agreement. I don't find that behavior…
This is just disgusting, on several levels. A 700% rise in incarceration alone should be a sign something has gone seriously wrong with our domestic policing.
I've heard tale that because of the lack of formal structure at Valve, you need political connections to actually get anything done. Perhaps even more so than places with a formal structure.
I mean, I don't have an option to switch away from Comcast because their internet service is bad. That's why they can refuse to upgrade their peering with Netflix in the first place, because they know I'm stuck with…
Your comments on this post are a great demonstration of the attitude that is driving me off Google properties, as quickly as I can find viable replacements.
If only we could replace eye witness testimony: it's notoriously faulty.
Wouldn't a properly formed DMCA complaint in this case be one of the few times you could commit perjury with one? There's no way they have any good faith belief they own the copyright to (or are authorized by its holder…
Your analysis ignores the key point that bacteria operate on simple rules based entirely on local concerns, which is not the proposed case in the sci-fi story.
There's a distinctly 21st century flavor to being able to store all the banal life mistakes indefinitely, to dig them up later if we ever need dirt on a particular person. Before it was varying levels of unprovable (ie,…
Except that the particular beams of light being discussed are intentionally meant by the broadcasters as resources for the public as part of fulfilling their deal to license the spectrum that beams of light useful for…
The military and government in general makes extensive use of contractors for specialized tasks, but manages to audit and limit their behaviors to the degree that they're performing work on behalf of the government,…
Haskell has a very neat interface for this, in that you build a special type which remembers the dimensions of a matrix as you build them, and then return either the result or a failure. It's very simple to build a…
Except the water is almost entirely less than 5 miles deep, which is a sliver when we're talking about something with a radius 1000 times that.
"We're almost certainly not trampling over your rights, citizen. Now why don't you mosey along and stop asking about it?"
What part of inviting a criminal you've gathered significant recorded evidence against (eg, their own telephone confession) to a place you can arrest him do you think violates due process?
The harm from the pervasive monitoring is greater than any benefit proposed: there's no need to run the trial to see if the benefit proposed is actually there, we already know it's outweighed by the harm.
My bank insisting on a hard-to-remember 8 character password isn't make it more secure than letting me pick a longer passphrase.
I think there's a second element to why a gallon of milk isn't $20: Walmart relies on not upsetting too many people, who collectively wield enough local political power to harm Walmart locally. It would only take a…
There are markets with no real viable alternative to Walmart, because Walmart used their scale to crush competition, and no has made it uneconomical to start a rival business, since they'll temporarily lower prices…
Except that the hurt is widely distributed at the higher price, but not at the lower price (where it's felt by a few large publishers). This kind of unequal distribution can cause the slight lessening of pain for a…
The point of my quotation is merely to show that as part of work activities, research on VR was being done at id (ZeniMax) prior to contact with Oculus, and that Carmack's work on the subject would thus fall under the…
ZeniMax was working on VR technologies before Carmack began interacting with Oculus, and has a reasonable claim to the fruits of his work on that (being that it was an assigned R&D project). Do you really think I should…
See my other reply for page cites and details, but it seems that ZeniMax was actively pursuing VR technology and that Carmac was part of that project prior to his work on Oculus. If I work for money developing a certain…
According to the lawsuit filing (page 8 of the PDF linked above), Carmac was researching VR at id under ZeniMax. So yes, I think projects you undertake at work for money belong to your employer, and that this is a…
> Their behavior is not unreasonable, but it is only possible because a prolific developer was not concerned about nuances of copyright law while collaborating with multiple companies. I expect that Facebook is going to…
I would. I don't understand why you're so surprised that a company sued after they were turned down for a settlement from a company they gave a bunch of key technology to under an agreement. I don't find that behavior…
This is just disgusting, on several levels. A 700% rise in incarceration alone should be a sign something has gone seriously wrong with our domestic policing.
I've heard tale that because of the lack of formal structure at Valve, you need political connections to actually get anything done. Perhaps even more so than places with a formal structure.
I mean, I don't have an option to switch away from Comcast because their internet service is bad. That's why they can refuse to upgrade their peering with Netflix in the first place, because they know I'm stuck with…
Your comments on this post are a great demonstration of the attitude that is driving me off Google properties, as quickly as I can find viable replacements.