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What if we looked beyond the Swartz case? Then what do you think about these types of TOS? Maybe another example would be more interesting. Say you have a choice between an API tha…

Nice explanation. Thanks for this.

You are jumping around a bit. We were talking about TOS and now we're in a court room and using the words "judge" and "dumb" in the same sentence. I was kidding about doing researc…

If I can use my own bootloader with Surface, I'd buy one.

So if I understand correctly, the answer is no. Is there some sort of iTunes kiosk, a publicly accessible device with iTunes installed where a customer could purchase songs, downlo…

I'm not sure if I am interpreting your last sentence correctly. Can you rephrase it?

"The problem is the price is not right for me at this stage." Well, I'm pretty sure Whitney's enlightened path to k went through LISP, so maybe the author will get there one day. A…

As if Python was the most powerful language, heh. :) Maybe he was going for a world record of most citations in a single paper. Who's to say he wasn't just doing research? How many…

So true. It's not like publishing your paper on your lab's website will satsify the "publish" requirement for obtaining tenure. Why can't we separate the process of peer review fro…

So if I purchase some songs from this store (e.g. someone gives me iTunes credit as a gift) I can still play them without iTunes? I don't need iTunes installed anywhere?

It's just mathematical notation. Why is that insane? What is computing at its most basic level but maths? If you can handle working with symbols, more power to you. If you can't, m…

Working with limitations is what yields creativity. But unlike the limitations of computing's yesteryear, the limitations of the iPad seem artificial. OSX is built from BSD UNIX, a…

Would HN actually affect the price of AAPL though? Why would they care about HN if HN readers are not all Apple worshippers?

"the exclamation point implied" Well, if it did it wasn't intentional. I am always editing. It's just how I write. HN faux pas I guess. I'm not sure I follow the rest of your comme…

"as if we should assume" Whoa. Where are you getting that? I will let the @strawman take it from here. Because that's who I think you are trying to argue with. :)

I'm surprised you would actually take the statistics seriously. At face value, the article is pure entertainment. I would not consider an evaluation of a lawyer as a liability or a…

You are the type of customer I want to sell my stuff to. Form is important. But not more important than function. But do others share your view? There's no reason you shouldn't hav…

For many a sensible person, lawyers seem to be more a liability than an asset. Rightly so. Indeed they are more often than not rent-seekers, and the rent is sky high. That is, unti…

So Gruber is some kind of paid blogger for Apple? His stuff always ends up on the front page of HN. What's up with that?

Here's how it's done, in simple terms. This is not some new thing. IBM was doing this before there was a Microsoft and before there was a WWW. If you amass enough vague patents, an…

If there's a third party doing store and forward or even just forwarding traffic, it is not "p2p". At least, not as I understand what p2p means. So any service that purports to be …

But the inventors don't work for them and they didn't file these patents nor were they assignees. They acquired the patents from someone else for a price.

Think about it. What would happen if they were cheap? Anyone could amass a large portfolio. We could all block each other's every move. No one would have any leverage. But the seco…