2011-06-21, 01:46 | Link #14301 |
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Judge Rules Reposting Entire Article Is Fair Use
"A federal judge ruled Monday that publishing an entire article without the rights
holder’s authorization was a fair use of the work, in yet another blow to newspaper copyright troll Righthaven. It’s not often that republishing an entire work without permission is deemed fair use. Fair use is an infringement defense when the defendant reproduced a copyrighted work for purposes such as criticism, commentary, teaching and research. The defense is analyzed on a case-by-case basis." See: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...r-use-defense/ |
2011-06-21, 01:50 | Link #14302 |
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There's a distributed protocol ensuring that the total supply of bitcoins is predictable (and slowly rising toward some limit), and that users can securely trade them. IIRC, for a transaction to be considered valid, both parties have to agree to it, and it must be witnessed by several other... bitcoin clients (electronic signatures are involved). And everyone keeps track of where every bitcoin is... (Or at least where every bitcoin they touched goes, for several exchanges)
They're not issued by any government, so I guess they're a bit like WoW money? |
2011-06-21, 06:36 | Link #14304 | |
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2011-06-21, 07:32 | Link #14305 | |
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2011-06-21, 11:14 | Link #14307 |
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AP IMPACT: Tritium leaks found at many nuke sites
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2011-06-21, 11:28 | Link #14308 | |
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Frankly, I'm watching SONY to see if they start pulling more control and management *back* to Japan and less to "American grown" (i.e. screw the company, I'm taking the loot) management since the large part of the fiasco happened under years of infrastructure neglect in the US. The government hits are similar with an added "there's no authority if there's no credibility" angle. The big problem is I'm not sure you want to embarrass these guys - they tend to punish without reflecting on *why* the eggs were thrown.
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Though US might end up looking like what XKCD prescribed.
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2011-06-21, 12:57 | Link #14311 |
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Yeah, I've seen Bill Gross's comments elsewhere and he absolutely nails it on the head. I just don't think we (the US) are going to pull out of this tailspin - mostly because NONE of the major players are using the right words in a sentence. Perhaps we (the peasants) can construct a new plane out of the bits remaining on the ground but it may be a half-century or more.
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2011-06-21, 13:11 | Link #14312 | |
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It was the recent republican administrations that messed this up. |
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2011-06-21, 13:47 | Link #14313 | |
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So if you want bitcoins, you pretty much have to convince someone to give you some (with money, goods, service, or maybe as part of some promotional operation). Kinda makes me wonder how people will beg if we ever switch entirely to electronic money. Though I guess before that happens, they'll have to make it easy for money to go from hand to hand. |
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2011-06-21, 14:38 | Link #14314 | |
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2011-06-21, 15:46 | Link #14316 | |
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That said the guy is right that anti immigration trends in the US could hamper that, but it hasn't done so yet. |
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2011-06-21, 15:59 | Link #14317 |
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Man robs $1 from a bank to get medical care in jail
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theloo...l-care-in-jail
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2011-06-21, 16:26 | Link #14318 | |
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make sense in a way, If you are a few years form social security and medicare and can't find a job. Just need to make sure it is a federal crime as the federal prison are much better then state prison.
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2011-06-21, 16:27 | Link #14319 | |
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2011-06-21, 19:50 | Link #14320 | |
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Both Parties have been steering this ship into the ditch that it currently is residing in, and I don't see either of them getting us out of this mess. |
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