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Second Life Recognizes IP Of User-Created Objects
Thanks to TerraNova for pointing to a Yahoo press release revealing that "online world" Second Life now recognizes the ownership of in-world content made by subscribers. According to the press release, "The revised TOS allows subscribers to retain full intellectual property protection for the digital content they create, including characters, clothing, scripts, textures, objects and designs." As well as this, "Second Life has committed to exploring technologies to make it easy for creators to license their content under Creative Commons licenses", but, while these CC licenses are still being discussed, questions about the just-implemented IP issues are addressed at an official FAQ page on the Second Life site.
Insert standard SCO will sue reference.
...that's a terrible idea. Now you've just sucked your company into disputes between your your customers. Oh, and you get to pay your lawyers to defend your new digital licenses in court, when some bozo decides to challenge it.
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The Patriot Act Under SiegeAmericans need to understand it before we add to it.By Andrew C. McCarthy The Patriot Act's curious voyage has finally drifted into the estuary where hysteria meets abject ignorance in a pronouncement by none less than David Stern, commissioner of the National Basketball Association. Asked if league meal ticket Kobe Bryant should play despite the cloud of sexual-assault charges, Stern responded to the Los Angeles Times with bumper-sticker eloquence: "Absolutely," he blathered, because "[w]e don't have a Patriot Act in the NBA. That means that you're innocent until proven guilty."
The NBA being our pop panacea, Stern will doubtless instruct more Americans about the Patriot Act than attorney general John Ashcroft reached during his recent whistle-stop tour. Even if Ashcroft could be heard above the din, it hardly matters. After two years of mindless scalding by the organized defense bar and its law-school and media allies, the AG is radioactive -- they have made him Ken Starr II; the mere mention of his name provokes a Pavlovian reaction that overwhelms his message. That might be of little moment were this your average political catnip. But this is not about putting the Internet in every classroom (so your children don't have to do all their Eminem downloading at home), or "a thousand points of light" (so you'll know Republicans feel your pain too). It is about national security and what law enforcement must be able to do to ensure the order on which liberty depends.With an election year on the horizon, and opportunists cynically turning "Patriot" into a codeword for oppressive overreach, it has become critically important to raise public awareness about what the Patriot Act is and why its provisions are so necessary -- indeed, were such a no-brainer that they sailed through Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support. Educating the electorate about what Patriot actually does, moreover, is much more a priority for the Bush administration than dubious new initiatives like the three recently announced in conjunction with the September 11 commemoration. President Bush's steadfastness in battling forces that would destroy our way of life, and his gimlet-eyed recognition that international terrorism is primarily a military rather than a criminal-justice problem, are his most alluring assets. But when new measures will not materially advance national security, it is foolish to ignore their grave downside: occasion for further vent by polemicists. Manipulating public opinion, they spread the fallacy that our fundamental rights are under assault -- a fallacy that is fast becoming popular wisdom.Chill, Mr. Stern: The Patriot Act, enacted about six weeks after the September 11 attacks, has utterly nothing to do with the presumption of innocence. That is still fully intact -- as, plainly, is the First Amendment right to make a fool of oneself. Further, notwithstanding the ruckus of defense-bar caterwaulers; would-be presidential nominees playing fast and loose on the hustings; and the delusional Wahabbi lobby that reflexively casts every commonsense promotion of national security as an assault on Islam; Patriot has not resulted in star-chamber proceedings and secret detentions. The scores of people who were jailed immediately following the September 11 atrocities -- i.e., before there was a Patriot Act -- were held based on valid, then-existing law (and the misinformation jihad waged against those detentions could fill a book, let alone an essay). Finally, Patriot is not a transfer of power to latter-day Torquemadas at the Justice Department from the high-minded judiciary that is, we're told, the last faithful guardian of our freedoms. Patriot is lushly deferential to judges, providing for review at every important juncture, even where constitutional separation-of-powers principles might well counsel otherwise.So what, then, is the Patriot Act? Essentially, it serves two purposes. First, it removes obstacles that have for years prevented the law-enforcement and counterintelligence sides of the gov
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What if time didn't really flow forward at all? What if it jumped around unsequentially with no pattern. Just events occuring for us to put a time stamp onto, to make us feel like something in this world is happening, when nothing is happening at all. What if we just moved around without the hindrance of what we call "time". All time seems to be is a rationalization of immense movement of the universe and its assets, based on a loose interpretation of a pattern being formed that it follows. This pattern called time. What if there was no pattern? Just things happening. Religion would say it's God that makes things happen, and makes it so. We cannot understand it because our minds are bound to a pattern that all things we experience must be sifted through, called rationalization. But what if we simply threw away this pattern. Just simply look at the events occurring around you, knowing that God had a reason or maybe that things just happen for no reason at all. You cannot ever put a halter on water. Time is a weak attempt at this. The truth is, that the real time, is un-harnessable and incomprehensible. We must only swim through the water, and not try to put a halter on it, to control it. Time is infinite, and unbounded. The true time, that is. Not the time in our minds. When we think time is always the same speed, that is true. One second is always 1.0 seconds long, and so on, but if we are simply interpretting events like I said, who says the events we assume to be happening at an exact predictable constant interval, are not slowing or accelerating in relation to the next system of time? Maybethat is called a dimension. But dimensions in that case would only be division of the universe and all average out to be a single value. Maybe this calue is the interval at which time flows at in our, and every dimension, based on our interpretation of events happening within out dimension. Therefore I think it would caused the destruction of all dimensions if one dimension collided with another, by attempting to rationalize each other's frame of reference. Maybe this is what Einstein meant when he said the universe would be destroyed if we were to break the lightspeed barrier. The light barrier, I reason then, must be the edge of our dimension, and if we attempted to break out of this dimension, the second dimension would either be destroyed trying to find an equilibrium between each other for event frame of references, which could occur, then this change in the two dimensions would set off a change in the next dimension, because the dimensions would stabilize each other and be interconnected to other dimensions. But if this would be so, then dimension would be infinite because TIME is based on events happening at a set interval and since events do not occur at the same interval, infinite dimensions would be created to rationalize this imperfection of vent intervals and therefore extending the universe made up of dimensions to infinity. Bu if there were infinite dimensions and an infinately expanding universe ... no the universe would not be expanding at all the universe is set and will always be the same in property. So this would mean the dimensions are infinately dividing dimensions in the whole universe, because the universe started with onle one dimension that was split infinately time, make them all infinately smaller yet equal, and when these two dimensions would not split, but meld, then they would be the only dimension that is different causing an imbalance, and then the dimension that is different causing an imbalance, and the other dimensions to collide and cause negative infinity on the dimensions shrinking and shrinking the total amount of dimensions down until there is only one dimension in the universe and this would be the standard. The utter perfections of rationality and predictability. It would therefore be perfect within itself. But we know that our dimension is exactly the same as this. So what says that these two entities are exactly the same? Simply another infinite division of an infinately
You seem much more articulate than the standard troll, so I'm going to ask you:
What exactly is the purpose of comments like this? I mean, this is slashdot. If you don't like the average lifestyle (or the percieved average lifestyle) why post or read? If you're attempting to evangelize for real life, why not do it effectively? If you're trying to troll, can you at least try to make it interesting instead of trite?
Disclaimer: I spend 12hr a day on a computer, but I get paid for 9 of those. Most of the rest is playing with people in the same room, similar to console gaming with friends, only with better games.
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But , Oh m lord, didn't you even spell check your super statement. Your mission was to flame someone and you didn't even proof it?
If it's a world that you go into and assume the role of an on-line entity, then it definitely is and RPG. Let me school you on the meaning of an RPG... It means ROLE PLAYING GAME. Yes, that means playing any role for any type of entertainment.
RPG's come in many different flavours in the pencil & paper world, quite a few do not include elements of fantasy and killing. Your little rant about how this thing is *not* an RPG is completely inaccurate. RPGs do not need a plot, they just need an environment where you assume the role of something that is not yourself. If you are creating an avatar in this world, flying around and doing things that are not possible in this world, then you are indeed playing a role.
Calling Second Life an RPG or a MMORPG is fair and accurate.
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