Matt Williams’s Comments

• Sep 3rd, 2019 @ 6:46am

  (untitled comment)

  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 26th, 2016 @ 8:52am

  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 11th, 2014 @ 2:57am

  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 23rd, 2013 @ 2:12am

  Look Around You

  on Modest Proposal: Going Piracy Neutral
  I think someone's clearly been watching Look Around You.
• Feb 8th, 2013 @ 9:08am

  (untitled comment)

  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 23rd, 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 29th, 2012 @ 2:59am

  Colonists

  on In The UK They Jail People For Being Obnoxious Jerks On Twitter?
  They're:not:that:silly:
• Mar 13th, 2012 @ 3:33pm

  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 21st, 2011 @ 1:30pm

  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 18th, 2011 @ 2:10pm

  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 14th, 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 8th, 2011 @ 2:08am

  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.