"I've been hacking since 1974, and the concept and practice of open source was not new when I started."
This.
SHARE (www.share.org) was formed in 1955. It's goals were to share information among IT professionals. At least one of the subgroups, VMSHARE, had been sharing code (on tape) since 1973.
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"Too often they are too young to know how to teach effectively, or are too old to be able to see things from the kids' perspectives."
What sad pre-conceived notions you have.
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"If only there was some government sponsored secure key system for passwords"
I don't know how to express my unhappiness that someone actually thinks like this.
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"The original iPhone warranty was 9 months"
The leaflet that came in the box with my original iPhone (Summer 2007) says one year.
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From Google:
"Duplicate content on a site is note grounds for action on that site unless it appears that the intent of the duplicate content is to be deceptive and manipulate search engine results"
ie: the 'Average Joe' can scrape wikipedia all he wants and Google will not punish him unless his intent is to deceive. But thanks for the conspiracy theory attempt just the same.
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Stop parroting the same old argument that Comcast is making. Comcast isn't a peer, it's a large endpoint. One could claim that Comcast isn't carrying *any* traffic for Level3 - it's all to the benefit of Comcast (and their customers). One conclusion is that Comcast should pay Level 3 for the privilege of connecting to Level 3.
(I'm aware there is danger in oversimplification, but come on)
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Comcast has already been paid for that service by their own customers who are requesting the Netflix traffic. That's where the lie resides.
This.
One wonders why Comcast doesn't have to pay Level 3.
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"You can sue anyone for anything"
Of course in this case, apparently nobody is suing anybody.
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One must mention Russian Ark (2002), which is an entire movie done in one 96-minute take.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Ark
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(who didn't particularly like the movie)
"Spammers gather email addresses from the open internet. According to your argument it is ok to spam millions of email addresses."
Nope, Google didn't intend to collect this information, and didn't use it for anything.
"Also, I could stand across the street and watch you leave the house and take notes."
And it's perfectly legal for you to do so.
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In what (fantasy?) world of yours is this a new issue where someone expects to 'flip the switch tomorrow'?
Who in their right mind has been buying new IPv4-only gear in the past few years? All of my day-to-day machines, including my router, are waiting for my ISP to say "we're ready for IPv6". Aren't yours?
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Yes, it comes as no surprise:
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
-- Lord Acton, 1887
"Even a 100 ft rouge wave (which would be completely unheard of in a harbor) would have trouble significantly damaging one of them."
It's the ones with eye shadow that you have to worry about.
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The samples landed safely just outside of a small town in Arizona...
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Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
