shakethemonkey

Like the other Imperial units, Fahrenheit is also one designed to be pragmatic -- it is scaled so that most temperatures are two digits. 100°F is approximately body temperature, and 0°F is a temperature about as low as one might expect the weather to naturally exhibit.

However, since statistics cannot be copyrighted (at least in the United States), there is significant room for disruption. They only have contract law as a tool to prevent propagation of stats.

Yes, but not from the birth rate. The US receives well over 1M immigrants per year[1]

[1] http://www.pewhispanic.org/files/2005/09/2005-immigration-tr...

Likewise, the helicopter is a "Renaissance idea" (Leonardo da Vinci). In both cases, the underlying socio-technological substrate was insufficient at the time of the lofty idea.

It's not so much against the spirit of those laws, but an attempt by the EU to apply its laws outside the jurisdiction of the sphere of absurdity that is the EU.

This is not at all about "where the data resides", as you claim, because the EU is not attacking the data where it resides -- it leaves that alone, on their original servers -- but instead where the data is indexed.

They absolutely are enabled by default, running as active daemons which cannot be disabled by the device owner.

The circumstances by which they may be accessed include user agreement to "trust another computer", but may not be limited to that.

Because DROPOUTJEEP.

Courts have found that the Watchlist is not consistent with Constitutional design:

"The No Fly List, once distributed, clearly infringes upon a citizen's right to travel; and the Court cannot conclude based on the present record that there are no means less restrictive than an unqualified flight ban to adequately assure flight security, such as comprehensive preflight screening and searches. Second, the current record is inadequate to explain why judicial involvement before a person is placed on the No Fly List is either unnecessary or impractical, other than perhaps within the context of an emergency based on a specific, imminent threat that requires immediate action. Nor does the record conclusively establish that there cannot be any opportunity, either before or after an American citizen is placed on the No Fly List, to know of or challenge any of the information used to list him, even where such information could be summarized in a way that does not compromise sources or methods." [1]

[1] http://www.cair.com/images/pdf/Gulet-Order.pdf

You can safely disregard that part of the TOS. Because law:

(a) A transfer of copyright ownership, other than by operation of law, is not valid unless an instrument of conveyance, or a note or memorandum of the transfer, is in writing and signed by the owner of the rights conveyed or such owner's duly authorized agent.[1]

[1] http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap2.html

"what should i give?" answered with:

GRANT SELECT,UPDATE ON my_schema.* TO 'my_user'@'my_host' IDENTIFIED BY 'my_password';

There is, it's called "work-to-rule."

It would give me greater confidence if the first Dart example[1] on the official Dart website did not point to a 404 Not Found.

[1] https://www.dartlang.org/samples/

All android APIs tend to have a large number of methods, but there will be absurd omissions. Example, the WebView has no way to return its HTML contents. So it's difficult to implement your own caching mechanism. Or an even more absurd example, the android YouTube player has no .stop() -- it is simply inconceivable that a media player lacks a way to stop a video, but there it is.

Right, it doesn't search sub-categories, so while not completely useless, it's merely next to useless (no efficient way to search the corpus of public domain images on Wikimedia Commons).

The main issue with pointing to Wikimedia is that it seems to funnel people into Creative Commons licenses. Maybe that is not the intent, but that is what happens. I like the idea of a prominent place that encourages the Public Domain.

They are "free" but with significant strings attached. The key thing about Splashbase is the images have almost zero strings attached. I say almost because even public domain images will have caveats; for instance, one cannot make it appear that someone is endorsing a product when they did no such thing, etc.

This wouldn't fly in the USA:

"It is clear from the record that Google was never named as a party to the suit, was never served with process, never waived or accepted process, and never made an appearance in the suit before the expunction order was entered. Nothing in the record establishes that Google stands in privity to the commission or to Jackson. Accordingly, we hold that Google was not a party to the suit and that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to enter orders against Google." [1]

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140609/07402727525/texas...

They own a common-law trademark, which is perfectly defensible. Apple is in the wrong here.

For taxis, medallions are usually leased to drivers (few could afford one). This takes much of their revenue -- perhaps half or more surrendered to a medallion holding company just for the privilege of driving a taxi.

New York City presentation suggests a driver with $90k revenue has $41k expenses. [1]

[1] http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/downloads/pdf/presentation.pdf

Many people/companies built Hypercard applications that talked to backend databases. It wouldn't be difficult to build an email application.

Quite the opposite is happening in the long term throughout the Arab World and neighboring regions. As we speak, Iran (speaks Farsi) is presently at fertility rates below the rate of replenishment.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/david-ignatius-a-demo...

See figure 6 here:

http://www.aei.org/files/2012/03/21/-fertility-decline-in-th...

"Though Comcast doesn't disclose it specifically, analysts have estimated that Comcast's profit margins on broadband service are 80 percent or higher. In 2008, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analyst Craig Moffett estimated Comcast's data margins at 80 percent, and Credit Suisse reported in fall 2010 that Comcast's gross margins on high-speed data were 93 percent."

https://www.freepress.net/sites/default/files/resources/Comc...

No, it's only derivative in the sense of process. The video lacks originality; for the musical notes it is merely a mechanical reproduction of the punched holes. Similarly, a photograph of a public domain painting is also in the public domain. See: Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., 36 F. Supp. 2d 191 (S.D.N.Y. 1999). At least this is the law in the United States, which is sensible; absurdity of other jurisdictions may vary.

Apple's approach is still flawed, since if a user ever decides "No", it is next to impossible for mere mortals to figure out how to undo it.

Well, in that case: marriage is absolutely a polygamous institution; if a virgin is raped she must marry her rapist; a husband owns his wife's property; a wife may not assume any sort of authority over her husband, etc.

Being as they don't support Prime Video on any Android devices (with very limited exceptions), it's very easy to imagine them "stopping" support of it.

No, only those transactions over $600.

And you don't have to do it at all for payments tendered for merchandise, or almost any payment to corporations.

http://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1099msc/ar02.html

Graph Search is an answer to a question I've never had.

Those projects appear to be your clients. Clicking on a project video is absolutely the wrong answer.

Why isn't "Fundraising Platform" in the left column clickable? That should lead to expository text, but it isn't even a link.

Thousands of Wikipedia articles regarding US cities were originally written by a bot years ago. Most still retain this content or traces of it, Englished from US Census data.

#1 design flaw on Facebook: It should be dead easy to search my newsfeed. I saw something yesterday, or last week -- there's no way to see it again. (If there is, you've hidden this feature so well that you should get an award for obfuscation)

Google isn't trying to predict actual flu cases. They're trying to predict the CDC estimates.