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Are there any well known service policy descriptions that cover various aspects of services like privacy, eula etc?

Well known named licenses like Apache, GPL, BSD etc. have helped in quick identification of how a software can be used, distributed etc. Pervasiveness of such licenses makes it easy for individuals and organizations to define a policy on what licenses are acceptable to them. Having named service policy descriptions would provide a similar benefit in the service/SaaS world as well.

Some (most?) of the national democratic constitutions were written right after or during the periods of distress, and under some urgency, perhaps skipping some cool headed debate/discussions. Amendments to a constitution are supposed to correct issues with them and keep it up to date according to cultural shifts and scientific discoveries. But even then some aspects would be mediocre given the involved lobbying, trade-offs, vote-gathering etc. Are there any academic efforts of creating new democratic constitutions, which has gone through the rigor of peer reviews and validations against the known forms of inequalities, corruption, injustices, new techinical capabilities etc? Or is a constitution too context (read culture, mindset, economy) dependent or philosophical that such an effort won't be fruitful?

Some (most?) of the national democratic constitutions were written right after or during the periods of distress, and under some urgency, perhaps skipping some cool headed debate/discussions. Amendments to a constitution are supposed to correct issues with them and keep it up to date according to cultural shifts and scientific discoveries. But even then some aspects would be mediocre given the involved lobbying, trade-offs, vote-gathering etc. Are there any academic efforts of creating new democratic constitutions, which has gone through the rigor of peer reviews and validations against the known forms of inequalities, corruption, injustices, new techinical capabilities etc? Or is a constitution too context (read culture, mindset, economy) dependent or philosophical that such an effort won't be fruitful?

Consider the following search results: http://imgur.com/a/TYym7 (same thing flobots lyrics) and http://imgur.com/a/mAqjM (believer imagine dragons lyrics). Both search results have direct embedding of the lyrics, but have different templates. While the latter is from play store and has a link to visit the site, the former has no reference to the source at all. Any ideas on why the source reference is missing in the first link?

Consider the following two stories about Project Loon based on the same announcement:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-16/alphabet-scraps-plan-to-blanket-globe-with-internet-balloons -> projects a negative tone of Project Loon's cost cutting.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/16/google-x-boasts-big-improvement-in-project-loon.html -> projects a positive change in Project Loon.

On reading the first story, I more or less felt that Project Loon is on the way to a cut, until I read the second version. Typically, what should one focus on while reading an article so as to stay away from writer's opinion?

A link was shared here about a year back or so. about a website which had some small-lengthed tunes which one could mix and play. They had an awesome shuffle mode. On adding a tune a sketched cowboy would get added to the screen, who would seem to be playing the tune. (options were like whistling, reggae etc). Can someone please provide the link. They had released a second version of their website.

PS: I know this was idiotic, but the tunes are stuck in my head and I am not able to remember the website.

Watson was created by IBM a long time before Siri's origin. Had IBM patented Watson (I am not sure if it did so or not), could it sue Apple for Siri on grounds that they copied their idea? I am just trying to figure out the extent to which a patent can be used to defend one's IP.

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

Currently I am trying to use syntaxhighlighter following http://blog.cartercole.com/2009/10/awesome-syntax-highlighting-made-easy.html Usage issues (specific to blogger): a)Difficulty in giving the clipboard path string. Blogger encodes it.(Currently using //<![CDATA[ <code> //]]> syntax to write the javascript code) b)Copy to clipboard is not being shown. c)If the syntax highlighted code is manually selected to be copied, then on pasting stray characters are being introduced. (for now I am suggesting usage of linux tr command to replace them on my blog).

Replacement to the syntax highlighter would also be appreciated. As a sample problem try copy-pasting the code at http://pareshverma.blogspot.in/2012/02/datac-miller-rabin.html and running it directly.