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I'm perplexed how anyone could believe iOS is somehow different simply because Apple doesn't need to purchase a "rootkit" from a third party like CarrierIQ. Apple, a hardware compa…

I'm not making any such claim. But I'm curious why you want to see me as making that claim. Why would you be interested in evidence that open source projects produce generally/cons…

Having to defend against claims for damages that do not need to be supported by any proof of loss is itself a deterrent, whatever the amounts may be, in my opinion. Universal's act…

Not sure if it's a legitimate "problem" or not, but how about the availability of single chips, or 10-packs? Assuming someone wanted to produce a prototype board, but didn't want t…

I think it's safe to assume without digging up legislative history that those amounts represent a theoretical deterrent, not an estimated measure of lost profits.

Here are the questions I have every time I see these music lawsuits: How many of the people using this Grooveshark service are present/former/would-be Universal customers? How do y…

No fun!

Thanks for the reply. Did you notice my choice to use the words "can produce" (as in "sometimes") not the word "produce" (as in "always")? I would never make the later statement: o…

I am not a cypherpunk, but can/should we differentiate between 1. encouraging those running OpenSSL/TLS servers to use a. sane defaults that allow forward secrecy and b. ephemeral …

"broken proprietary software which the public isn't even allowed to fix." This is recurring theme that traces back at least as early as the 1990's. What's different now is that the…

Statically-compiled programs have no known predators. They typically die from old age.

This is the type of thinking that will hasten Facebook's demise. And it's a perfectly reasonable line of thought. The next time you hear the phrase "It doesn't scale" in reference …

The video is the asset. Many ways to serve it. Many ways to retrieve it. And many ways to convert and play it. The skills to do those things are perhaps assets. But the software is…

The price of using an iPad: No LaTex.

In my opinion, such a platform, or several, using an entirely different paradigm, already exist. To overtake Facebook, it is simply a matter of making it as easy to use as Facebook…

I see them as the same. It may take some years for non-nerds to see the "uncoolness" of FB, but I believe they will see it, in time.