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• Sep 03, 2019 @ 06:46am
  on Pressured By 'Right To Repair' Movement, Apple Will Sell Parts To Independent Repair Shops

  What's stopping them from reselling the components to other repair shops for a markup?

• Sep 26, 2016 @ 08:52am

  Re:

  on The Weird Psychology Of People Fighting Those Who Resell Their Products

  The difference is how limited the good are. Ticket scalpers can apparently significantly reduce the amount of available 'stock' whereas arbitrageurs will seldom do so.

• Dec 11, 2014 @ 02:57am

  A month not a week

  on Elite: Dangerous Deletes Promised Offline Mode Just Before Release, Non-Committal On Kickstarter/Beta Refunds

  They announced the lack of an offline mode several weeks ago, about a month before release.

• May 23, 2013 @ 02:12am

  Look Around You

  on Modest Proposal: Going Piracy Neutral

  I think someone's clearly been watching Look Around You.

• Feb 08, 2013 @ 09:08am
  on Oh Wait: MIT Already Made All Its Research Open; So Why Was It So Against Aaron Swartz?

  It's worth noting that CERN and associated experiments require all research to be published as open access. See http://scoap3.org/

• Oct 23, 2012 @ 11:05am

  Full video

  on Mr. Bean: We Must Be Allowed To Insult Each Other

  Se his full speech at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gciegyiLYtY.

• Mar 29, 2012 @ 02:59am

  Colonists

  on In The UK They Jail People For Being Obnoxious Jerks On Twitter?

  They're:not:that:silly:

• Mar 13, 2012 @ 03:33pm

  The comedian

  on Dave Gorman, Victim Of A Bogus DMCA Takedown, Highlights Flickr's Horrible DMCA Takedown Policy

  And you are aware that it's this Dave Gorman, right?

• Jul 21, 2011 @ 01:30pm

  LHCb

  on Aaron Swartz Indictment Leading People To… Upload JSTOR Research To File Sharing Sites

  This is why I'm glad to be working on the LHCb experiment at CERN where it is a requirement of all papers published by the collaboration to be only published in a full open-access way (http://scoap3.org/).

• Jul 18, 2011 @ 02:10pm

  camera angles

  on What Idea/Expression Dichotomy? Microsoft Sued For Having Sorta Similar Commercials

  "camera angles"
  
  I'd be worried if they were getting too creative with the camera angles on the urinal ad.

• Jul 14, 2011 @ 10:51am

  Richmond

  on Swedish Occupational Psychologist First To Recognize The Debilitating Effects Of Heavy Metal Music

  Sounds a bit like the story of Richmond Felicity Avenal. Poor guy.

• Apr 08, 2011 @ 02:08am

  Ketchup

  on How Much Does Color Impact Taste?

  This reminds me of those novelty purple, green and blue tomato ketchups that Heinz brought out. Just the idea of putting purple ketchup on my food was enough to put me off buying it.

• Mar 17, 2011 @ 06:58am

  Streisand Effect

  on Barnes & Noble Forbids Photos & Word Of Mouth Promotion With Bogus Copyright Claim

  Maybe they're relying on a viral Streisand Effect to get even more publicity by blocking the first attempt to spread the good word. If I want a book about Ireland, I know where I'll be going... :)