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There's a whole lot of people who don't have the luxury of just being able to assume a baseline level of trust, because they feel out of place for whatever reason. Think about what…

He's actually quite a nice guy. (Or is that just what he wants me to write? https://www.facebook.com/careers if you really want to find out!)

In the end they are set by politicians. Not for malicious reasons; politicians don't need to be malicious in order to make bad decisions, they have plenty of other reasons for that…

Irrelevant, though. Sure, there may be no copyright preventing anyone else from ripping off his reformatting work, but that doesn't prevent him from charging for it. He just has to…

Which is completely irrelevant because whoever does have the original copyright has already licensed them to everyone under publicly available conditions.

Doesn't work from here. Wonder if maybe the local DNS server isn't happy with it.

Been a long time since I last saw "cow-orker". Or USENET, for that matter...

Back when I did some small scale sysadmin work, I found that our CD/DVD burners were a lot more reliable as CD burners than as DVD burners. This seemed to be true both of the older…

"Crimes for which someone wronged can sue" are actually not crimes but torts. Copyright infringement is always a tort, but the conditions under which it becomes a criminal offense …

They already have.

Or better yet, the current annual price of the plan divided by the current yield on British consols.

Yup. Now as for damages, though, even though indeed they are supposed to cover your lost value and not the original price, the original price is going to set a point of reference t…

I am not a lawyer and the following is my oversimplified understanding of the law as an economist who has taken some law&econ classes. But... Just because you have a cause of actio…

Wow, that's an impressively well-researched piece.

The problem with translating law is that a lot of the time words are used as "terms of art" that have a special meaning based on tradition or, worse, precedent: some court at some …

The difference between civil and common law is an elusive thing. On the surface it is enormous, but the deeper you dig, the less you find. Sometimes it's claimed it's about precede…

English libel law is ridiculous, and yet it still hasn't gotten reformed. Remember the McLibel case? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLibel_Case ) I don't exactly sympathize with t…

You only need herd immunity. There is experience with vaccinating wild animal populations against rabies.

This is a classic example of a question that can only really be answered with data. Generic studies are good, but nothing beats data you gather about your particular UI.