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Comment I wonder how long (Score 1) 66

The way it's primarily being used is important in its own right, although it might take 15 years to be a real treatment, but I'm thinking about the myelin regeneration. Because from what I remember of MS, it's characterized by striped myelin. So, if this gets to human trials, and if it works in a similar way, how long before people think to use it for other things?

Comment Re:First Sale Doctrine? (Score 1) 285

They definitely bought the retail version. I'm doubtful that they paid the retail price. I'm guessing they bought through a distributor similar to the way a big box store would.
For movies from other studios, it seems like their getting non-retail versions of the movies via their distribution agreements.

Comment On Key Combos (Score 1) 320

From: https://www.folklore.org/Story...

I added a feature that allowed the user to kill the current application if it was hung up, by monitoring for a specific key combination during the vertical blanking interrupt handler.

I knew that I had to pick a very rare key combination, because you didn't want users killing their applications accidentally. I decided on shift-command-option-period, four keys held down at once, which I thought would be pretty hard to stumble into accidentally. But I was surprised when I got a call from Jeff Harbers at Microsoft.

"Hey, I like that abort feature that you just added, but you're going to have to change the key combination, because we're using that in Microsoft Word.", Jeff told me. Microsoft Word was very complex, and it possessed an enormous range of keyboard shortcuts, way too many, as far as I was concerned.

"OK, suggest something for me to change it to and I'll consider it," I told Jeff.

Jeff didn't have anything specific in mind, so he told me that he would get back to me soon. I had to laugh when he called me back the next day, and told me that he wanted to withdraw his request and that I should keep shift-command-option-period as the abort sequence.

"OK, that sounds good to me, " I told him. "But why the change? Doesn't it still conflict with Word?"

"We'll change Word in the next release not to use it. The problem was that we couldn't find a safe sequence - I guess we're already using every key combination!"

Comment Re:Wow, talk about shitting on free speech (Score 1) 210

Oh, and you misspelled "civilised"

OED says both spellings are accepted, but the 'z' spelling is more common.
The American Heritage dictionary does not acknowledge the 's' spelling.
Google auto-corrects to the 'z' spelling.
Meriam-Webster doesn't seem to include the 's' spelling.
Wiktionary notes that the 's' spelling is "mostly British".

Comment Re:Goodbye, World Wide Web. (Score 1) 282

You want to show an image or video that someone else owns? You link to the page that they have made that embeds that image/video.

What's so bad about that?

From the ruling, "On 27 October 2011, an article relating to those photos of Ms Dekker, entitled ‘! Nude photos of [Ms] Dekker’, was published on the GeenStijl website, which included part of one of the photos at issue, and which ended with the following words: ‘And now the link with the pics you’ve been waiting for.’ By clicking on a hyperlink accompanying that text, users were directed to the Filefactory website, on which another hyperlink allowed them to download 11 electronic files each containing one of those photos."

Your suggestion is what was deemed a violating action.

Comment Re: Mall shooting in Germany (Score 1) 193

Also realize the rate of gun deaths typically includes people shot in self defense protecting their life or a family member.

Well it's a good thing this particular list is for intentional homicides, defense is excluded. See here for definitions: https://www.unodc.org/document...
That being said, the US is about double Belgium, and far less than South Africa or Brazil.

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