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Comment Re:You don't need 900 tabs (Score 1) 107

Just relabel bookmarks as tabs and there you go.

Its already treating them as bookmarks though.. I just wish mozilla would fix smaller things like giving a site storage size limit that actually worked and didn't just ignore it and also wouldn't churn disk as much for no reason at all.

Comment Re:Bullshit. This is just malware propaganda (Score 1) 55

Yes inherently its just running on the customers computer anyway, so they don't actually have control.

Not sending other players locations when not necessary etc would be cooler.

And you can cheat by off-device means anyway, you can do an aimbot that doesn't run any code on the computer now.

Comment you don't need massive amounts though (Score 1) 70

To teach you don't need massive amounts of content, lessons don't need to be superfacially unique at all, they're scalable on their own.

The need to make new books for schools etc every year is based just on the need to sell them too, basics of languages do not change every year, a student doesn't benefit from unlimited amounts of basic class learning material.

Comment Re:Yay! (Score 1) 37

Thats not entirely true. To update an old ios app to be uploadable into the store is significant amount of work due to apple themselves deprecating stuff and requiring you use a newer xcode. You can't just "update the api call" and expect it to be publishable.

Comment Re:This will just encourage more hacking (Score 5, Insightful) 73

You can only download, put it on the device and read it as long as they decide that they and by extension you have the right to read the book.

You're just renting an access to the book with the drm. Under terms that aren't clear to you since you don't know these dates and contracts that they have with the creator and publisher.

Comment Re:Copyright vs History (Score 1) 65

The US constitution's copyright clause says "Article I, Section 8, Clause 8: [The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." That is based on Queen Anne's Law from England, the worlds first copyright law, which was the ruling class' reaction to the Gutenberg press. That invention threatened their stranglehold over the flow of information. The original 1790 copyright law in the US allowed for a 14 year term renewable only once. They understood that this was locking up ideas as property, which is a form of censorship. That is why its length and scope were strictly limited. Now, it is nearly perpetual and covers all kinds of frivolous entertainment that is clearly not the useful arts. Popular Music, Hollywood movies and anything on the idiot box are only frivolous entertainment.

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