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Unfortunately (or fortunately, really, from a broader perspective) you wouldn't be allowed to use the patent system to bar other people from asserting their rights in court.

Miners used to bring canary birds with them when mining. If they hit poisonous gas, the canary would die before the miners, alerting them to the gas. The government can issue secre…

I once looked into whether it was possible to get a ".ck" domain name, for juvenile and obvious yet potentially humorous domains. It turns out that that's Cook Islands' TLD, and th…

I think that statement asks that you let the parent have final say over how you interact with their children, not that you cater to their every whim because their child is disabled…

The first amendment does apply - just, it applies the other way around. The primary function of media sites is to broadcast their users' messages, and in doing so they're exercisin…

Or maybe it's a metaphorical expression of sadness over the recent death of a respected idol?

I don't dispute that. What I dispute is the implication that they had been instructed to do so by Google.

Of course it can. Taking this action against someone with a political stance opposite from yours may be a mistake you're more likely to make, but it's still a mistake. Besides that…

Eh. The explanation they offered that they were hiring a large mass of moderators and some of them made mistakes is more than plausible. When they add that many people it's really …

Sure, but what of significance has changed? Every time you run a program, you're trusting the developer not to do nefarious things like reading your Chrome credentials, because the…

"How do we know that FSLabs don’t use this, just because they say so?" How do you know the main executable doesn't do the same thing? How is trusting them not to run this .exe diff…

Businesses don't have to abide by EU law when doing business with EU citizens, but when doing business in the EU. It's a small, but sometimes meaningful, distinction.

Only if "as individually as possible" means perfect prediction. If you assume that there's a limit to how well the future can be predicted, insurance still has value. Also, car ins…

I looked up the case [1]. The copyright claims, as well as one of the claims for breach of contract, were dismissed without prejudice, which (as far as I understand) means he faile…

Not if laser guns are a part of the race. Then it's just competitive.

I don't agree with Trump either, I was trying to question the idea that American politics are based almost exclusively on image and that makes it impossible that this election coul…

>Since when were American politics about issues rather than image? Since today, apparently.

So the sites should drop the safety features because there exists a user who would not be personally inconvenienced by the theft of their credit card details?

She's claiming a physical reaction, not an emotional one. While we can't know if she's feeling nauseous, it's perfectly reasonable to doubt her conclusion that this is caused by Hu…

I disagree. That is, I agree that you should ultimately own your data and have the right to decide what Facebook is allowed to do with it, to have them tell you what data they have…

It does if you hit the submit button, but not if you just hit Enter.

And yet we're possibly about to throw out that model because something better might have come along.

Isn't solving problems they didn't create exactly what police work is all about?

I really did get stuck. http://imgur.com/syZX03k