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extension · on July 23, 2012

the standards body was forced to adopt h.264

The WHATWG did not adopt h.264 as a standard, nor any other codec.

extension · on July 22, 2012

So, if you want to cover up something bad you've done, just make sure you get charged with a crime, and the court will protect you? Strange system.

extension · on July 9, 2012

Yes, many people see it this way, while many see it as black and white in the other direction: CL doesn't own the content on their site (this is a fact) and thus has no say in how others use it (debatable).

Mix black and white together, and you get... gray!

dpcan · on July 9, 2012

If I throw diamonds from the street onto your front yard, then I just walk away and leave forever, who owns those diamonds? Can your neighbors storm your yard and take them, or are they yours?

Can you now defend your property and keep people away from those diamonds?

If they get them, can you fight to get them back? They were taken from YOUR property after all.

What if I threw them right into your living room?

extension · on July 9, 2012

Not a lawyer, but I would be really surprised if that sort of copyright shenanigans held up against any legal challenge. I don't think you can sneak copyrighted stuff into non-copyrightable stuff in order to protect it.

extension · on July 8, 2012

According to his website, the police came to arrest him a few days ago, and if he hadn't been out at the time, he would be in jail now. So, this has gone beyond "possible charges". The church is dead serious about charging this man with the crime of letting them know that they were drinking sewage.

extension · on July 1, 2012

SEEKING WORK - Toronto or remote

http://github.com/jedediah

13 years as a working programmer, 10 more as a kid hacker. Lots of web, some mobile, a little game dev, many platforms and languages. Also make music, comedy, stay fit, long walks on the beach, etc.

noahjsmith · on July 13, 2012

What's the best way to contact you? Shoot me a note: noah at dwelleo.com

extension · on July 1, 2012

When we figure out how to do that, we won't want to call it AI anymore either. AI is human mental tasks that we haven't figured out how they work yet.

extension · on July 1, 2012

As with the web, it's not the shoehorned apps that are leading the charge on mobile. It's the totally new kinds of apps that didn't make sense until this platform came along.

extension · on June 22, 2012

Since they are not told, in any reasonably accessible way, what is going to happen when they click "like", they have grounds to complain about anything that does.

MichaelApproved · on June 22, 2012

You have to assume anything you do is public and can be used in anyway possible, unless you've been told otherwise.

Right or wrong, that's the nature of these things.

jfoutz · on June 22, 2012

That's not entirely true. I don't think "You ass anything you do is pubic" is a valid MichaelApproved quote. Now, i don't know how you could misrepresent a like, but i don't think substantial misrepresentation (like my ridiculously juvenile example) is allowed.

extension · on June 23, 2012

Whether it's right or wrong is exactly the issue under discussion.

extension · on June 4, 2012

From what we've seen, these cyberweapons take a long time to work their way behind enemy lines and must evolve as they do so. If it's hidden in a shoe then it's not really a useful cyberweapon.