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kevin_b_er

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    Comment #49000695

    This is a false statement. > Your use of the SAM Materials will not involve or encourage others to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the underlying components of the SAM Mate…

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    Comment #45561966

    By "class action" I presume you're referring to the US. If so, no, the courts of law are forbidden to you. You will instead go to a secret tribunal where the laws do not matter. Th…

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    Comment #44483267

    And that's where drones and robots come in. The goal is to make sure there's no more uprisings, ever again. You need only look at the US, where the rich are given all the benefits …

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    Comment #44285427

    That was written by you? I don't agree with this section: > The HDCP converter simply announces itself as a final video endpoint… yet still repeats the content to its output port. …

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    Comment #42900146

    Kalamazoo is the result of consolidation. The graph incorrectly just lists them as "Kalamazoo Tower", but its also a TRACON facility. They're handling multiple airports remotely. I…

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    Comment #42888020

    Because none of that is the purpose of cryptocurrency. It for tax evasion by the rich, and for the cryptocurrency to seize when its used for crimes or when its defrauded out of som…

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    Comment #42618317

    America loved to build _in the past_. Now the workers cost too much, even when paid poorly, and the top must profit on an exponential curve.

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    Comment #41657823

    The author intends it to be a modified Apache 2. 2. Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetu…

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    Comment #41185208

    That name is not in English, as evidenced by the non-English letter.

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    Comment #40745392

    > Its strange how much power we give employers over employees, and how regular people defend this, even when its actively working against them. "Because, one day, I will be a rich …

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    Comment #40745354

    You can read their Motor Vehicle Order Agreement. Mandatory Binding Arbitration. https://www.epi.org/publication/the-arbitration-epidemic/ https://centerjd.org/system/files/Arbitra…

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    Comment #40745223

    The case is already dead. If you bought a Tesla, you have no right to a court of law involving Tesla. It will go to arbitration, where the case will be secret, but Tesla will know …

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    Comment #40741049

    Full paper at https://www.cureus.com/articles/141805-zinc-supplementation-... and not this summary. Key limitations: They only used 5 papers > There were limitations to this study.…

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    Comment #40625271

    Neither hackaday.com nor gist.github.com seem to support ipv6, so this seems pretty ironic. Good for unique address assignments for IoT I suppose, but still seemingly terrible for …

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    Comment #40492852

    This is very light on the details of their batteries, unfortunately. Iron-air batteries have been known for awhile now, the challenge is making them commercially viable. If I recal…

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    Comment #40410892

    This will likely be canceled, like the previous iteration. It will just take months of arguments before the "amended complaint" is resolved. You have no rights against Tesla. All d…

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    Comment #40402253

    If it isn't about asset forfeiture, then what is the hearing about?

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    Comment #40374598

    Not "profit", but a duty to maximize shareholder value. eBay Domestic Holdings, Inc. v. Newmark A Delaware Corporation has a duty to maximize shareholder value. That's the majority…

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    Comment #40127135

    And when the politics of greed and the science of truth come to odds? Therein lies the rub.

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    Comment #39912657

    This looks like a tool for Google/Alphabet to use to improve ads or make it more difficult to use unapproved browsers under the guise of 'privacy'. An astroturf feature not unlike …

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    Comment #39867233

    Those tarballs are PGP signed, too..

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    Comment #39866707

    They appear to have moved carefully to set this up over the course of weeks by setting up the framework to perform this attack. I would now presume this person to be a hostile acto…

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    Comment #39726167

    Skyhook apparently threatens companies that try to crowdsource such things, case in point Mozilla. So, you're either paying off the patent troll or using their services.

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    Comment #39693432

    This is disingenuous take. We're not talking about the IRS, but the company they outsourced to that demands a lot from you. You lose the basic right to access courts of law, and ID…

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    Comment #39611173

    Are you sure you aren't thinking of HDCP? It is separate from HDMI, and DisplayPort does HDCP too.