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Comment: Re:People underestimating? (Score 1) 312

by sofar (#38439888) Attached to: Smallest space my belongings could fit (unbroken):

> My car is around 20 cubic meters,

Not unless you drive a medium sized truck (not pickup). Assuming your "truck" is 2m wide, you have a 5m long chassis and 2m high ceiling in your truck. That's enough to haul 20 cows or so around comfortably.

A normal car is about 1.6m wide, 4-5m long, although usually 2 of those are the hood and tail, and not more than 1.5m high in most places.

Evening that out a bit, and your car only is about what, ~8m3.

Most car loads are under 1m3, people highly overestimate the storage size a car can fit in their trunks, even SUV's only store about 1.5m3.

Three car loads of that, and you're still under 5m3.

You're completely overestimating sizes. Your hamper is probably more like 0.1m3. Really, 100l is big for a hamper.

Comment: Re:UMG is screwed (Score 1) 392

by sofar (#38403540) Attached to: Google Deal Allegedly Lets UMG Wipe YouTube Videos It Doesn't Own

In essence, you can't sue them for -not-hosting- content, but, because the safe-harbour provisions fail when content is actively policed, they can be sued for full copyright damages by anyone, without first having to file DMCA takedown notices.

So, a copyright holder can establish a pattern of abuse on youtube where their copyrighted content is posted without permission, sit back, watch UMG take down other stuff but not the copyright holders' content, and -not- file DMCA takedown notices for a while, and then file a massive copyright infringement claim, with a relief request that effectively shuts down youtube entirely.

The only way out for youtube is to terminate the agreement with UMG.

Oh, also, UMG wins both ways. With youtube gone/sued, they'll have a great time in the press declaring it a rogue platform, as now confirmed by the courts.

Comment: Re:The world needs patent reform (Score 1) 316

by sofar (#36956478) Attached to: Apple Blocks Sale of Galaxy Tab 10.1 In Australia

prior art for "slide to unlock" - go to your local hardware store and get a "door chain" type locking device.

prior art for "hit over the head (...)" was posted in floppy.c from Minix: http://www.raspberryginger.com/jbailey/minix/html/floppy_8c-source.html#l00979 [raspberryginger.com]

However, just for kicks, I'll take one if you do indemnation for repercussions of using the patented invention.

Comment: Re:We had this happen at a previous job (Score 1) 519

by sofar (#36935238) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Dealing With the Business Software Alliance?

you're suggesting that leaving the invalidly licensed software on the machines is a better course of action? LOL

Seriously though, hit "uninstall" and claiming in a court later that there was an accidental issue, you discovered it and fixed it, seems a LOT smarter than telling the court that "for three years after sent notice, defendent continued to operate illegally licensed software".

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Amazon Named the "Most Reputable Company" 199

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An anonymous reader writes "Amazon has been named the most reputable company in the US this year (up from 21st place last year), according to the sixth annual list of the 150 Most Reputable Companies from advisory firm Reputation Institute (RI), in partnership with Forbes Media. The list is based on RI's US RepTrak Pulse Study, which measures trust, esteem, admiration, and good feelings consumers have towards the largest 150 companies based on revenue in the US. The ratings are analyzed from nearly 33,000 online consumer responses taken in January and February."

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