It's a shame the word "anti-semitic" has been rendered virtually meaningless lately. It used to mean something about hating or discriminating against Jews.
Which in itself is a shame because being Jewish, on it's own, doesn't make one Semitic, and the Hebrew people aren't the only Semitic peoples who get hated and discriminated against. But don't tell an Israeli that. You'll be called anti-semitic.
The link you provided was to a description of a farmer getting sued for intentionally selecting the modified crops and replanting them to take advantage of the patented improvements.
It wasn't 'his normal crops' at all.
He was saving seeds produced by *his* plants. Monsanto couldn't control their crop and things cross-pollinated? Tough shit for Monsanto. It was his crop that was contaminated by theirs. He has every right to continue using the seeds. As for 'patented improvements', that's a load of horseshit too. They didn't invent anything. That's like design patents, a whole truckload of horseshit.
This lawsuit smacks of "Holy crap, our patents are about to expire and we've done nothing with them! Let's see if there's someone we can sue over them."
They may not take away scholarship funds but they take away enrollment slots in the school from someone who actually wants to be there to learn and not to place their entire future in the hands of professional sports scouts.
This is not a privacy issue. Your plate number isn't private, never has been, and never will be. If you don't want it seen and noted, anywhere, leave your car in the garage. This is like people who get pissed about cameras in public places taking their picture. Expectation of privacy ceases to exist in public spaces.
Really? I never saw the term "magical powers" anywhere in the summary, nor was it implied in any way. What was implied, and in fact outright stated, is that Google is being hypocritical. They are doing to others what they disallow being done to them.
And what's stopping other from disallowing the same thing? Nothing, that's what. All Google is doing is *dramatic gasp* protecting its users! They may not be doing it out of any altruistic motives, but it is what it is. If web devs are too damn lazy to use the Google APIs for accessing and displaying this data, too damn bad. There's nothing hypocritical about this story.
Maybe the citizens would actually win this shit if they cited the proper amendment in their cases? This is not a 5th amendment issue. This is squarely 4th Amendment and yet people keep using the 5th to fight this shit...are people really this dumb?
And Congress can write all the laws it wants, but *HE* still signed them and pushed for many of them. Do go on, though. What laws were written to wreck the economy, specifically?
Here is another hint as to who is responsible: In Jan 2007, the unemployment rate was 4.7% and $2.18 a gallon. Can you tell me what changed in Jan of 2007?
Do tell. Obama didn't take office til Jan '09. In Jan '07 there were still 2yrs of Bush Jr left.
The problem with your example is this: I make a work based on a work that is currently copyright protected, I can be sued for infringement by the owner. If I make a work based on a work where the copyright is now Public Domain, my work is now private copyright protected even though it's a derivative. My point is, if a copyright owner can shut down and claim ownership of derivatives, then derivatives of Public Domain should also be Public Domain. Having it only work one way doesn't encourage anything but Disney-like shenanigans.
You develop a piece of software, it's not somebody else's job to keep it from breaking on a new version. Either maintain it, or take it down. Letting someone else take the blame cause it stops working is a rather shitty way to operate.
How about they use better development practices such as not breaking plugins for people by bumping a version number for no reason?
Or how about plugin authors using the Beta or, better yet, the Aurora release to get their shit updated for the final release? God forbid the extension/plugin authors actually do anything to alleviate a problem with a simple solution. No, they'd rather bitch about having to update it instead.
Uhh... try the law?
Microsoft may have the technical ability to intercept private conversations, but it doesn't have the legal authority.
This should be no more worrisome than your telephone companies building in tapping capabilities, in order to comply with the federal CALEA law. And I'm writing this even though I think the CALEA law itself is a bad idea...
What it boils down to, is that it would almost certainly take law enforcement intervention in order to do a legal interception of a conversation. The fact that it is happening over the internet doesn't change any of the basic legal principles involved.
Because the Law was ever a deterrent to MS before. Good luck with that.
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It's a shame the word "anti-semitic" has been rendered virtually meaningless lately. It used to mean something about hating or discriminating against Jews.
Which in itself is a shame because being Jewish, on it's own, doesn't make one Semitic, and the Hebrew people aren't the only Semitic peoples who get hated and discriminated against. But don't tell an Israeli that. You'll be called anti-semitic.
The link you provided was to a description of a farmer getting sued for intentionally selecting the modified crops and replanting them to take advantage of the patented improvements.
It wasn't 'his normal crops' at all.
He was saving seeds produced by *his* plants. Monsanto couldn't control their crop and things cross-pollinated? Tough shit for Monsanto. It was his crop that was contaminated by theirs. He has every right to continue using the seeds. As for 'patented improvements', that's a load of horseshit too. They didn't invent anything. That's like design patents, a whole truckload of horseshit.
You can use Google's Market on it. They removed the redirects in the 6.2.1 update that just came out.
This lawsuit smacks of "Holy crap, our patents are about to expire and we've done nothing with them! Let's see if there's someone we can sue over them."
They may not take away scholarship funds but they take away enrollment slots in the school from someone who actually wants to be there to learn and not to place their entire future in the hands of professional sports scouts.
This is not a privacy issue. Your plate number isn't private, never has been, and never will be. If you don't want it seen and noted, anywhere, leave your car in the garage. This is like people who get pissed about cameras in public places taking their picture. Expectation of privacy ceases to exist in public spaces.
Really? I never saw the term "magical powers" anywhere in the summary, nor was it implied in any way. What was implied, and in fact outright stated, is that Google is being hypocritical. They are doing to others what they disallow being done to them.
And what's stopping other from disallowing the same thing? Nothing, that's what. All Google is doing is *dramatic gasp* protecting its users! They may not be doing it out of any altruistic motives, but it is what it is. If web devs are too damn lazy to use the Google APIs for accessing and displaying this data, too damn bad. There's nothing hypocritical about this story.
Maybe the citizens would actually win this shit if they cited the proper amendment in their cases? This is not a 5th amendment issue. This is squarely 4th Amendment and yet people keep using the 5th to fight this shit...are people really this dumb?
East Texas Federal Court District already holds that nickname near and dear to it's heart.
The jet packs actually slow the ninjas down.
And Congress can write all the laws it wants, but *HE* still signed them and pushed for many of them. Do go on, though. What laws were written to wreck the economy, specifically?
Here is another hint as to who is responsible: In Jan 2007, the unemployment rate was 4.7% and $2.18 a gallon. Can you tell me what changed in Jan of 2007?
Do tell. Obama didn't take office til Jan '09. In Jan '07 there were still 2yrs of Bush Jr left.
Using the logic of the comments presented in tfa, we can sue every time an MMO shuts down if we paid for items in it?
You can even say "fuck" like a child if you wish.
Really?! fuuuuck. fucky fucky fuck fuck poop.
You had to bring German porn into it, didn't you?
The problem with your example is this: I make a work based on a work that is currently copyright protected, I can be sued for infringement by the owner. If I make a work based on a work where the copyright is now Public Domain, my work is now private copyright protected even though it's a derivative. My point is, if a copyright owner can shut down and claim ownership of derivatives, then derivatives of Public Domain should also be Public Domain. Having it only work one way doesn't encourage anything but Disney-like shenanigans.
Rule 16 is absolute!
It's 30yrs old. Everything sounded better in the old days. Haven't you ever listened to old people talk?
This undercuts Apples "App Store is short for Apple Store!" defense in the trademark case.
Care to cite something more recent than 1957 that still maintains this claim?
How does the Flash Destroyer actually help? I don't get it...
You develop a piece of software, it's not somebody else's job to keep it from breaking on a new version. Either maintain it, or take it down. Letting someone else take the blame cause it stops working is a rather shitty way to operate.
How about they use better development practices such as not breaking plugins for people by bumping a version number for no reason?
Or how about plugin authors using the Beta or, better yet, the Aurora release to get their shit updated for the final release? God forbid the extension/plugin authors actually do anything to alleviate a problem with a simple solution. No, they'd rather bitch about having to update it instead.
Uhh... try the law? Microsoft may have the technical ability to intercept private conversations, but it doesn't have the legal authority. This should be no more worrisome than your telephone companies building in tapping capabilities, in order to comply with the federal CALEA law. And I'm writing this even though I think the CALEA law itself is a bad idea... What it boils down to, is that it would almost certainly take law enforcement intervention in order to do a legal interception of a conversation. The fact that it is happening over the internet doesn't change any of the basic legal principles involved.
Because the Law was ever a deterrent to MS before. Good luck with that.
Ask the MS Word team
I can still load Word 95/97 docs in Word 2010. Try again.
Really. This is a stupid story. You might as well ask why you can't convert your car into a spaceship.
Or a 1986 Yugo into a Bugatti Veyron.