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IIRC, it takes just as much energy to reach L4 (or L5) as to reach the Moon--they're in the same orbit. If you've got settlers on the Moon, or beyond the Earth-Moon system, L4 is p…

That makes more sense, thanks.

Back at Netscape, Jim Barksdale hated the term "browser war", on the grounds that a war justifies extreme behavior. He didn't want us believing the browser war meant we should be b…

>Seriously if AT&T doing this, there is no reason to believe that other providers do not. The article says AT&T has the data for any telco that uses AT&T switches. This is a little…

ARM doesn't make anything physical--but neither do most software companies. ARM makes products that their customers actually want. Patent trolls don't.

If LR operated as described in the indictment, it didn't really have information about its customers, so those records might not have been all that useful.

paddy_m said browser engine, so Chromium doesn't count. And WebKit wasn't actually new; it was based on KHTML.

Isn't JS injection a copyright violation, since it creates a derived work? Or has that idea been shot down before?

Or as soon as the states close the loophole so that this program is treated the same as a lease.

It did have one, but it ablated.

"Neesh" is taught as Correct in the US, though it's not universally used.

I agree, except for the "focus" bit. The engineers that worked on this alleged feature would not have been much help signing new content distribution deals. (Well. I'm generalizing…

My main Netflix player is a Blu-Ray player from 2009. I don't think Samsung is going to push an update to add the Don't Share This button. I'm just not going to connect my accounts…

Doesn't that run afoul of the same problem as Righthaven? There is no bare "right to sue" that can be transferred without transferring the copyright.

>I'd apply the same copyright principle as phone books So would I—phone books are not subject to compilation copyright, because there's no editorial choice going on. That was settl…

And presumably the autistic community knows about ASL, and the children who can learn it, do—it'd be greatly preferable to carrying around a multi-thousand-dollar device. I think w…

Yes, but that sort of regulation doesn't require medallions.

> One may argue that Europe went too far with their "social" expenses (hence, the current financial meltdown). I'm not sure Greece in particular went too far, as such; isn't the pr…

Nor is "how not to be interrupted" covered in the CS curriculum.

Interesting; I've encountered "yak shaving" as meaning something slightly different: it's when your main task depends on a subordinate task which is long, difficult, and stupid --e…

They're not even using the Android sharing system. The only way to share from the Instagram app is to upload to Instagram, and optionally tell it to forward the photo to one or mor…

>And is there anything wrong with people feeling like they are creative? Yes, there is, when they aren't being creative. When they're just choosing a cookie cutter, telling them th…

I think ianterrell's idea was that, if you're going from, say, version 2 to version 3, you release version 3 for free, but all the new version 3 features are a single in-app purcha…

Yeah, but up here we're more likely to slip on ice and drop ourselves.

I'm getting the right cert.