See how much "better" the Copyright Industry has taken care of itself? First the term of copyright protection is many, many times that of the duration of a patent. For some unknown reason (which may include that there is none) the becoming freely available of an invention to benefit society as a whole after 2 decades of artificial monopoly is "good" but the becoming freely available of a creation is not. But this again, if you link to a page where there is a link to an unauthorized download of a copyrighted work, you YOURSELF are infringing (at least in the EU). Crazy isn't it? Wonder how all that came about... but yeah, if you ever have the chance to talk to a politician that is involved in these things, ask him/her to explain why it's great a brand-new invention becomes freely available after 2 decades, but a brand-new book, article, song, recording, movie, etc. will not in your entire lifetime and most of that of your kids. Any "argument" they use on behalf of the creator, ask why that doesn't equally apply to an inventor.
Let me guess... you're an intermediate to advanced user and do not let Google spy on you. Yeah, then they won't see how/what gets used by that class of users. Just Grandma going on facebook to see her grandchildren.
Don't say this won't happen! In Nova Scotia, there was outrage when a teenage girl, Rehtaeh Parsons, took her own life because of intimate photos that were shared on the Internet without her permission. These poor girls needed to be protected from the Evil Intarwebs! So the politicians reacted and came up with a Anti-Cyberbullying law ("Cyber-Safety Act").
Guess what poor little teenager's case was the first tried in court...
...are you still there? Right. It wasn't a teenage girl but some native band leader (counts as a politician) that complained someone had posted "abusive, obscene and defamatory comments about her and her family" on facebook.
Later on, it was decided the law was -in US terms- "unconstitutional" and was struck down. So yeah, expect specialized firms working on behalf of politicians, executives, celebrities, and the like to scour the internet for anything unflattering and using bills like these to get them removed and, more importantly and frightingly, erased from history.
Anyone able to explain why these agreements/demands are SECRET? There should be ("industry standard"?) nothing stopping WL from publishing them. In the interest of transparancy.
So for something completely non-nerdy: I like to sit in the sun and relax for a bit (cold beer optional). So when you come home after work (say at the fixed time of 5:00pm), you can still enjoy the warmth of the sun as it's actually "just" 4:00pm. So do I care about the very end of the day? No, not really. The morning? Nope. But the extra hour in the afternoon, before supper? Absolutely.
It's to be expected that for the first batch, QA standards aren't too stringent, as they need numbers, numbers, numbers, to get 3rd party buy-in. Early PSPs had some stuck pixels, but later ones were fine. None of my VITAs have stuck/dead pixels.
I was planning to wait for the Mario Bundle, I'm guessing with a Mario-Red and Luigi-Green joycon, as here in Canada the Switch debuts at $400 and there's not even a pack-in game included. Yeah, that's $400 CAD and it also proves that a low CAD vs USD might be 'good for the economy' but it's bad for consumers (e.g. you and me). Hopefully by that that time the Canadian Dollar regained some of its value.
The Copyright Industry ("*AA. * Software Association) has a very effective weapon, called the USTR. They also set up local affiliates. Politicians are constantly being, on the one side, being treated to "campaign donations", free "VIP packages" (free tickets, meet & greets, etc.), this is more or less Pay-to-Play. On the other hand they are also being told how bad it all is for the poor starving artists, and how gazillion-billions of (taxable!) revenue are being "lost". Law Professor Michael Geist had a series of articles what was bad with the "copyright reform" bill, including many items on the digital locks. Of course Money Talks, so the DRM stuff is there exactly as the copyright industry wrote it. And now we suffer. Thanks Steven Harper (less that 4 in 10 Canadian voters cast their vote in support of his party).
In case Sweden hasn't been paying attention, the Hollywood backed President together with his Best-Buddies-With-MPAA-Boss-VP are out the door. What they have now is a President that has been treated by Hollywood (right or wrong doesn't matter) with utter contempt and disrespect. So what happens if those same people come begging for "strengthening IP protections" and the usual demands? Stop kissing up the boss's behind for now.
Indeed, that show made quite an impression on me as a child. I guess he didn't have the magic sack anymore... Note this is the original series, not the Greek Myths follow-up.
Just call it a parody highlighting the lack of plot and poor writing of Star Trek Beyond using contrast. Parody is largely protected from copyright and Paramount CBS can go suck eggs.
Hey that's an awesome idea, create a parody Star Trek movie short (29 min, 59 seconds) where the plot is that the "C.B.S. Enterprise" (Copyright Barristers' Ship), under captain T'Sapf enters the timeline from an alternate universe and sues the Federation for infringing 'their' IP rights (i.e. their continued existence) as per their "Paramount Directive". And as per Grand Council's order, are allowed to end their existence. Our hero (TBD) and his crew are to enter the alternate universe, navigate to their HQ (situated on the moon 'Ves', in orbit around planet Leslie) and resolve the issue.
Would we still have this issue if copyright term was limited to 2 x 14 = 28 years? I think not.
One should also carefully look at the meaning of 'they' -- if it means the player, while it was the casino (dealer) that rotated the cards, the player didn't DO anything.
Same thing happened here. Guess how much we're getting? I guess most Canadians are just too nice: sure neighbour, why don't you take all the money, and we... we'll.... we'll say "there! good for you!". And we'll just introduce a carbon tax to get money.
I use Firefox in several windows, each having several tabs. When I need to do a restart, all I do is kill firefox.exe, do stuff & restart, start firefox and all windows and tabs come back after I click restore. Now that's useful. Great things never last long, I guess.
Next time Nintendo complains about their financials (bla bla Piracy bla bla), remind them could've sold 10 times as many, just going by the lineups on launch day.
So now China is the 'bad guy' for blocking websites? The UK has been doing this for years and Australia is now following suit. Except it's not the Chinese government but the Hollywood Government that's behind it. More European countries now do the same thing. Soon you'll see first Canada, then the US do the same thing ("bla bla Internation standard bla bla").
It should be made a criminal offence, worded such that it can't be offloaded on the shareholders' pockets by means of a fine or settlement, to deter any security firm or white hat hacker that gives proper notification of a security flaw from publishing a security advisory after 90 days have expired from the moment of notification. That means responsible executives (or lawyers) will go to federal prison if this can be proven, whether they "knew about it" or not (to protect "junior staffers"). The public needs to be protected, this will force the provider to fix the issue within 3 months, or else the users will be informed... while also making the provider liable for potential losses (heh, borrowed that from the copyright industry) for as long as no effective fix has been published. Yes, the "potential losses" was no joke, as if an ATM network needs to be brought down for a week, that's a lot of potential losses right there at $2 / transaction. Effective fix means: mitigate the security threat but keep functionality, so a "just turn the damn thing off fix" is not a fix.
Correct. Windows 10 is dumbed down compared to Windows 7. Those with abilities hate it. Those who lack technical prowess love it, as it's right up their alley. It's too bad that "new" users will only experience dumbed-down and remain at that level. So it'll have to be dumbed down even further.
I forget which Sci-Fi story it was, but eventually society will transform into 2 classes: the tech-savvy sub-class minority that keeps things running, and the vast majority that's completely ignorant of anything "under the hood" (it just works! don't ask why! geez! just enjoy it!) and remain at a natural intelligence level of 12-year olds.
The Lost Levels is for gamers. Jumpy Mario is for idiots looking for a quick rush while it's popular, and do something else after 2-3 months.
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B. Irish is a race?
Ever since a court in the Netherlands ruled Moroccans to be a race.
See how much "better" the Copyright Industry has taken care of itself? First the term of copyright protection is many, many times that of the duration of a patent. For some unknown reason (which may include that there is none) the becoming freely available of an invention to benefit society as a whole after 2 decades of artificial monopoly is "good" but the becoming freely available of a creation is not. But this again, if you link to a page where there is a link to an unauthorized download of a copyrighted work, you YOURSELF are infringing (at least in the EU). Crazy isn't it? Wonder how all that came about... but yeah, if you ever have the chance to talk to a politician that is involved in these things, ask him/her to explain why it's great a brand-new invention becomes freely available after 2 decades, but a brand-new book, article, song, recording, movie, etc. will not in your entire lifetime and most of that of your kids. Any "argument" they use on behalf of the creator, ask why that doesn't equally apply to an inventor.
Let me guess... you're an intermediate to advanced user and do not let Google spy on you. Yeah, then they won't see how/what gets used by that class of users. Just Grandma going on facebook to see her grandchildren.
Don't forget Venus. Maybe ESA and the Russians can work together to establish floating cities at the 1 atmosphere level.
Don't say this won't happen! In Nova Scotia, there was outrage when a teenage girl, Rehtaeh Parsons, took her own life because of intimate photos that were shared on the Internet without her permission. These poor girls needed to be protected from the Evil Intarwebs! So the politicians reacted and came up with a Anti-Cyberbullying law ("Cyber-Safety Act").
Guess what poor little teenager's case was the first tried in court...
...are you still there? Right. It wasn't a teenage girl but some native band leader (counts as a politician) that complained someone had posted "abusive, obscene and defamatory comments about her and her family" on facebook.
Later on, it was decided the law was -in US terms- "unconstitutional" and was struck down. So yeah, expect specialized firms working on behalf of politicians, executives, celebrities, and the like to scour the internet for anything unflattering and using bills like these to get them removed and, more importantly and frightingly, erased from history.
Anyone able to explain why these agreements/demands are SECRET? There should be ("industry standard"?) nothing stopping WL from publishing them. In the interest of transparancy.
So for something completely non-nerdy: I like to sit in the sun and relax for a bit (cold beer optional). So when you come home after work (say at the fixed time of 5:00pm), you can still enjoy the warmth of the sun as it's actually "just" 4:00pm. So do I care about the very end of the day? No, not really. The morning? Nope. But the extra hour in the afternoon, before supper? Absolutely.
It's to be expected that for the first batch, QA standards aren't too stringent, as they need numbers, numbers, numbers, to get 3rd party buy-in. Early PSPs had some stuck pixels, but later ones were fine. None of my VITAs have stuck/dead pixels.
I was planning to wait for the Mario Bundle, I'm guessing with a Mario-Red and Luigi-Green joycon, as here in Canada the Switch debuts at $400 and there's not even a pack-in game included. Yeah, that's $400 CAD and it also proves that a low CAD vs USD might be 'good for the economy' but it's bad for consumers (e.g. you and me). Hopefully by that that time the Canadian Dollar regained some of its value.
The Copyright Industry ("*AA. * Software Association) has a very effective weapon, called the USTR. They also set up local affiliates. Politicians are constantly being, on the one side, being treated to "campaign donations", free "VIP packages" (free tickets, meet & greets, etc.), this is more or less Pay-to-Play. On the other hand they are also being told how bad it all is for the poor starving artists, and how gazillion-billions of (taxable!) revenue are being "lost". Law Professor Michael Geist had a series of articles what was bad with the "copyright reform" bill, including many items on the digital locks. Of course Money Talks, so the DRM stuff is there exactly as the copyright industry wrote it. And now we suffer. Thanks Steven Harper (less that 4 in 10 Canadian voters cast their vote in support of his party).
Don't let DisneyCorp or the MPAA hear about this, they will claim Walt Disney is technically still 'alive' so the copyrights do not expire.
Masnick/Techdirt need to countersue (extortion or whatever) and NOT drop/settle that. Crowdfund and see it through until the end.
Would've been nice to add that little tidbit in the summary.
That is why we need replicants. They can withstand anything, even the C-beams that glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
In case Sweden hasn't been paying attention, the Hollywood backed President together with his Best-Buddies-With-MPAA-Boss-VP are out the door. What they have now is a President that has been treated by Hollywood (right or wrong doesn't matter) with utter contempt and disrespect. So what happens if those same people come begging for "strengthening IP protections" and the usual demands? Stop kissing up the boss's behind for now.
Alphabet - The New Evil.
Indeed, that show made quite an impression on me as a child. I guess he didn't have the magic sack anymore... Note this is the original series, not the Greek Myths follow-up.
Just call it a parody highlighting the lack of plot and poor writing of Star Trek Beyond using contrast. Parody is largely protected from copyright and Paramount CBS can go suck eggs.
Hey that's an awesome idea, create a parody Star Trek movie short (29 min, 59 seconds) where the plot is that the "C.B.S. Enterprise" (Copyright Barristers' Ship), under captain T'Sapf enters the timeline from an alternate universe and sues the Federation for infringing 'their' IP rights (i.e. their continued existence) as per their "Paramount Directive". And as per Grand Council's order, are allowed to end their existence. Our hero (TBD) and his crew are to enter the alternate universe, navigate to their HQ (situated on the moon 'Ves', in orbit around planet Leslie) and resolve the issue.
Would we still have this issue if copyright term was limited to 2 x 14 = 28 years? I think not.
One should also carefully look at the meaning of 'they' -- if it means the player, while it was the casino (dealer) that rotated the cards, the player didn't DO anything.
Same thing happened here. Guess how much we're getting? I guess most Canadians are just too nice: sure neighbour, why don't you take all the money, and we... we'll.... we'll say "there! good for you!". And we'll just introduce a carbon tax to get money.
I use Firefox in several windows, each having several tabs. When I need to do a restart, all I do is kill firefox.exe, do stuff & restart, start firefox and all windows and tabs come back after I click restore. Now that's useful. Great things never last long, I guess.
Just close it down, with a nice explanatory page about why and what needs to be done to get it back.
Next time Nintendo complains about their financials (bla bla Piracy bla bla), remind them could've sold 10 times as many, just going by the lineups on launch day.
So now China is the 'bad guy' for blocking websites? The UK has been doing this for years and Australia is now following suit. Except it's not the Chinese government but the Hollywood Government that's behind it. More European countries now do the same thing. Soon you'll see first Canada, then the US do the same thing ("bla bla Internation standard bla bla").
It should be made a criminal offence, worded such that it can't be offloaded on the shareholders' pockets by means of a fine or settlement, to deter any security firm or white hat hacker that gives proper notification of a security flaw from publishing a security advisory after 90 days have expired from the moment of notification. That means responsible executives (or lawyers) will go to federal prison if this can be proven, whether they "knew about it" or not (to protect "junior staffers"). The public needs to be protected, this will force the provider to fix the issue within 3 months, or else the users will be informed... while also making the provider liable for potential losses (heh, borrowed that from the copyright industry) for as long as no effective fix has been published. Yes, the "potential losses" was no joke, as if an ATM network needs to be brought down for a week, that's a lot of potential losses right there at $2 / transaction. Effective fix means: mitigate the security threat but keep functionality, so a "just turn the damn thing off fix" is not a fix.
Correct. Windows 10 is dumbed down compared to Windows 7. Those with abilities hate it. Those who lack technical prowess love it, as it's right up their alley. It's too bad that "new" users will only experience dumbed-down and remain at that level. So it'll have to be dumbed down even further.
I forget which Sci-Fi story it was, but eventually society will transform into 2 classes: the tech-savvy sub-class minority that keeps things running, and the vast majority that's completely ignorant of anything "under the hood" (it just works! don't ask why! geez! just enjoy it!) and remain at a natural intelligence level of 12-year olds.
The Lost Levels is for gamers. Jumpy Mario is for idiots looking for a quick rush while it's popular, and do something else after 2-3 months.