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With the exception of, for some reason, Portal 2 which was an unreliable disaster of buggy DRM at first launch and still requires me to disable my anti-virus software in order to actually get it to pass the DRM check and start. (Also, if you're offline the first time you attempt to actually start Portal 2 and presumably other modern Steam DRM games it won't run.)
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Fair use IS a right to copy. Or more accurately, fair use is a limitation of the copyright holder's exclusive rights.

The term "affirmative defense" simply means the defendant "affirms" or acknowledges the action, but defends it on specific grounds (in this case, that the copying was a fair use and thus not a violation of copyright).

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
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"...the fair use of a copyrighted work...is not an infringement of copyright."

The devil (or the lawyer's profits or the danger to user attempting to make fair use of a copyrighted work) is in the details of considering and balancing those four points, and that is done at the discretion of the judge(s) hearing the case.

Other limitations to the scope of copyright:

§ 102. SUBJECT MATTER OF COPYRIGHT: IN GENERAL
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Fascinating. For discussions on similar questions do a search on HN for "Sapir Whorf":

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=sapir+whorf

In particular, we have:

How language shapes thought (scientificamerican.com) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2594625

Sapir-Whorf with Programming Languages (nklein.com) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2374796

In what language do deaf people think? (straightdope.com)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1505365

... and many, many more.

Sapir-Whorf has fallen out of favor, and perhaps in its original, or more correctly "more extreme" form it is not true, but there are so many studies and anecdotes that polyglots I speak with claim it's "obviously true. Sort of."

So this article is another piece of evidence in the attempt to construct a model of what's really true, and to avoid the unseemly trap of "linguistic relativism."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf_hypothesis
> I am also calling Apple and Google to remove support for the "experimental" versions of a property when the final one is implemented and shipped.

That is a terrible, terrible idea and will never (and should never) happen. Sure, add support for the un-prefixed property. But don't break existing sites.

That mentality is what gave us XHTML, and we all know how that went. I guess it is the IE6 days all over again after all...
"""We are deeply sorry if you were uncomfortable with how our application used your phone contacts."""

Or do they mean they are sorry you found out about it?
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> In my opinion, patent 'trolling' is a good thing, (as long as it doesn't happen to me). Why? because the harder they troll, the more obviously broken the system will be, and the more likely it is to get fixed.

Unfortunately this is not realistic. A major problem of the current patents system is the amount of money invested ("zillions" of dollars); every step towards reforming it is essentially equivalent to burning (some) people's dollars in flames - there may be a good reason behind, but it's very unlikely to happen.
Agreed but in turn you standards body should act a LOT more quickly in updating web standards.
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> Although come to think of it, that basically negates all business method patents.

You said that like that's a bad thing...
I agree that this flexibility is nice to have, and the comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek, because reading the spec felt like this:

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chars: Same thing as length, just with a new name oO
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a.k.a - the non-apology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-apology_apology
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Going off and fetching stuff that the user hasn't explicitly requested yet is icky.

For example, you connect your laptop onto your employers network, and want to look up several things about face detection. You start typing "face" and each time Chrome goes off and fetches your Facebook page. You get fired for repeatedly visiting Facebook at work. Thanks, Chrome!
The prefixes like -moz-, -webkit-, and -o- are specifically for NOT contaminating the DOM with objects that are not standard compliant. These prefixes mark proposed features that are still in discussion for W3C standardization and they are introduced so they can be tested in practice. Once they are standardized, the prefixes can be dropped. That is exactly how it should be.

The -moz- prefix was first, and -webkit- came later.
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The feature only sends the URL if its not in a known whitelist. But yes, unless you download very popular stuff, sending all your URLs to Google is exactly what it does.
You only need to that the first time. Once you have it set up it's just as fast and way cheaper for both merchants and buyers. There are plenty of payment services that take a percentage cut, Dwolla is the only one that doesn't.
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I'm happy to see someone ranting about this, I couldn't agree more.

This was solved years ago in the VoIP world by ENUM, but it didn't get enough traction because nobody can earn any money with it.

Here is how it works: your phone "number" would be sip:saghul@domain.tld and you'd have a legacy alias which is a regular phone number, for example: +40317105163. Then someone which knows my legacy number may use DNS to get my SIP URI and call me for free:

dig NAPTR 3.6.1.5.0.1.7.1.3.0.4.e164.arpa
; ANSWER SECTION:
3.6.1.5.0.1.7.1.3.0.4.e164.arpa. 3600 IN NAPTR 100 5 "U" "E2U+web:http" "!^.*$!http://ag-projects.com!" .
3.6.1.5.0.1.7.1.3.0.4.e164.arpa. 10 IN NAPTR 100 5 "U" "E2U+sip" "!^.*$!sip:saul@ag-projects.com!" .
3.6.1.5.0.1.7.1.3.0.4.e164.arpa. 3600 IN NAPTR 100 5 "U" "E2U+web:http" "!^.*$!http://saghul.net!" .
3.6.1.5.0.1.7.1.3.0.4.e164.arpa. 3600 IN NAPTR 100 5 "U" "E2U+loc:http" "!^.*$!http://bit.ly/d41V3X!" .

You can put several things in DNS, the above example (real one) contains 2 websites, a SIP URI and a URL with location information (a link to Google Maps).

There is an Android application called ENUMdroid which will do a ENUM query for each number you dial and it'll present a screen with it's findings: http://saghul.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/CAP2010021...

Apple allows you to use FaceTime and iMessage with email-style addresses, lets see if they can push the model forward :-)
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The porn torrents are only hidden from naive searchers; all the pages for them are still accessible if you've got a direct link to them, so your scraper should've picked all of them up.
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sorry, I saw your post past the edit window. Any mod can feel free to do as the parent suggests, it's ok by me.

if you know who to mail who can do that go ahead
See Facetime and iMessage.

If Facetime worked for just voice calls, and over 3G, everything would be perfect.
Adding a DNS systems doesn't remove the phone numbers, not any more than DNS prevents you from typing IP addresses.

You could very well have it on smartphones and the likes without increasing complexity on either the actual phone network or the basic analog handsets.

EDIT: Personally, I think what Google Voice does - giving you a single number per person instead of per device/SIM card - fixes the major problem(s) without breaking backward compatibility. The only problem is the lack of international support.
I agree with helping Mozilla and Opera, because they are good citizens of the open web community. But I disagree with helping Microsoft. We should make sure the IE-nazism episode never happens again by forcing them to implement one of -webkit- -moz- -o-.
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Per notes elsewhere in this thread, I sold each (original, 3g, 3gs, 4) on eBay for more than full price, after the next model was out. I did unlock them before sale.
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The point is that O(log N/log log N) is not O(log N): they have broken the informatic-theoretic bound of O(log N) in linear space using "ordinary" operations. (Previous such works used exotic machine models that had little to do with how modern CPUs actually operate.)

Even for N=2^16, you could (in theory) get a 4-fold speedup.
>I don't understand how politicians in the free enterprise countries, especially American republicans with their distaste of market regulation, could consider extremely long copyright protection to be a net benefit to the market/country.

Copyright doesn't just protect entertainment content - it protects enlightening content, as well. Science and technology are the real industry markets that will 'benefit' from these copyright laws going through - Disney is just the soft glove over the iron fist that will make it 'acceptable' to the general populace to maintain control over information that can be used to disrupt existing technocratic class cultures.
I'm not sure whether you're saying the code is wrong or you can't understand how that code creates the circular reference. This problem was widely known and stopped being a problem in IE8 I believe. Maybe it was IE7. A while ago anyway. That code looks like the type of circular reference that would cause it. You used to be able to download tools to watch for the memory leak.

From what I remember the closure will keep a reference to el even though it will never use it, which means el won't be garbage collected when removed from the dom, which means the closure won't be removed from the onclick to free up el. Hence a circular reference. IE6's javascript garbage collector couldn't detect that.

The article is old. Here's an article from MS in 2005 describing the problem in more detail:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Bb250448

Apologies if you understood that and were just saying the code is wrong, but it looks right to me. Not that I can be bothered to fire up IE6 to test it out.

EDIT: Some more detail about the definitely historical leak from SO, it also turns out it was only partially fixed in IE7:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1999840/javascript-circul...
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Every business likes to buy from perfect competition and sell as a monopoly. This keeps input prices low and output prices high. This model is so profitable that companies bribe politicians to maintain it. Donating to a SuperPAC is more cost effective than R and D and has anshoeter payback.

I see 2 ways of fighting this:

1) Civil disobedience - Pirate everything and share while willingly accepting the consequences.
2) Shine lights on the evil doers. Support wiki leaks. Publicize. Organize voting drives.

I have bills to pay so I support number two. Great social change requires number 1.
Either the web is open for everyone (including Microsoft), or it's closed. There is no middle ground here.
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Shakespeare of course is a classic example of someone remixing the works of others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_plays#Source_ma...

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Right, and if I left alone everything that sucked in tech, I might as well be living on a farm without electricity.
I find it rather odd that they didn't group the codes.

Wouldn't it be better if they made something like this: [phone number].[area code].[country code]?

I mean, I don't really have much information on the E.164 standard, but the information o Wikipedia seems to show that at least the country code is separated from the other numbers, allowing each country to have its own structure.
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One more and then I'll shut up :)

It looks like my previous example was affected by eval.

The following reports foo's value as undefined while breaking for the debugger statement in Firefox and Chrome:

(function () {
var foo = "bar";
return function() {
debugger;
};
})()();

While the following reports foo's value as "bar" while breaking for the debugger statement:

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var foo = "bar";
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debugger;
return eval(_var);
};
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right but if that's "all of the pirate bay" why does it stop being so after one additional level of indirection, being likewise "just the hash to make it smaller"?

If we accept that the linked file is "all of the pirate bay" than isn't my comment just as equally "all of the pirate bay"? Haven't I just included "all of the pirate bay" in my comment?
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That's a phone book! We've solved the problem already.
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A lot of people have a problem with this as you are downloading something you haven't explicitly asked for. Would it be more appropriate if Chrome opened the TCP connection as you typed thus decreasing latency, but without actually downloading content?
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People using experimental features should be prepared for those features to break. Hopefully this allows people to be creative and inventive on their personal sites, without pushing experimental features through to big production websites.

Don't forget that those sites are already, by design of the owners, broken for any non-webkit browser.
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DNS is an automated phonebook, yes. I type a name, it figures out the number, 'dials' it for me, lets the network route my 'call' and poof I connect.

It's all about the automation.
And not only your and other Chrome users bandwidth. It generates unnecessary traffic and slows down the whole network.
On a related note, giving my contact information to you isn't a permission to forward it to someone else (granted in this case without your knowledge). I wish this aspect got more attention.
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This could work if and only if there weren't different syntaxes and implementations differences between prefixed properties with the same name.
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> You seem to think that it's optimal if it puts money in to developers pocket.

No, I'm saying that if no money flows to developers, it's suboptimal because consumers lose out too.

It has to be a balance, and IP has been a pretty good, if imperfect, way of achieving that balance.

That's not to say I don't think IP needs an overhaul. I do, however, think that IP is part of the solution and not just 'bad'.
Honestly highly unlikely unless the candidate is strong in unrelated categories. In essence a candidate putting down they went through Codeacademy is going to count for very little on a resume from my perspective. I'd view it the same as taking an intro class to programming or possibly less.
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Can you imagine something going wrong with your account and trying to contact Google support?

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> There should be fair reward for positive contributions to society.

That's hand waving. Specify how you propose to achieve this.
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Yes it is fascinating. And thanks for posting the link to Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. I never heard about this before.
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The absolute overwhelming majority of software produced is not affected by copyright, since it's never distributed, it's only used internally in companies.

There is also a large amount of BSD-style licensed software out there, that won't go away if copyright goes away, because it's already free.

Of course a part of the software industry is about producing proprietary software for sale, but that's a small part of the industry as a whole, and I'm sure some of those companies can find ways to survive in a world without software copyright.

So a small part of the programming workforce might be out of jobs, and an even smaller part of those might then in turn not be creating good software, so the total amount of good software produced might go down. But that's a lot of mights and ifs and buts. Perhaps the opposite is true, perhaps removing software copyright might lead to more good software being created, since everyone is free to re-use and re-mix and build upon all existing software, not just that which is currently OSS-licensed?