I wonder how the Hawaiians will feel about this 200 years from now. At one point, the Holy Roman Church declared the Earth to be the Center of the Universe, and the Sun -like everything else- revolved around it. Not many, if at all, still believe that. Cultures and religions change over time.
To work for the Evil Empire? Have you seen what your employer and their cronies in the MPAA wanted to do to the Internet and companies like Google? Do you feel grossed out by that?
Unfortunately it really looks like Google is indeed just "defending" certain videos rather than take the 'bad faith' accuser for every penny they've got ('bad faith' is e.g. taking down a video that has a recording of birds singing).
Hooray for Hollywood used to mean something positive. Now it refers to the copyright industry destroying the Internet bit by bit. Anyone thinking that Australia decided to do this all by themselves without massive pressure from the US Gov't = USTR = Hollywood, please read up.
These devices are nothing more than cash registers. I remember there being a site in The Netherlands or Belgium, that showed pictures and made fun when people decided to attack these devices; sometimes with gasoline-filled car tires, taking them down like trees with angle grinders, using heavy fireworks, etc. Because of the locations these devices were most profitable weren't of course really busy, chances of getting caught were slim (and potential witnesses might even cheer the perpetrators on). Went on wayback machine and voila an example.
Indeed. This sounds like a piracy honeypot... think CBS is teaming up with some sleazy dirtbags ^L^L^L^L^L lawfirm and "monetizing" their "assets" that way?
The Germans say: "Totgesagte leben länger", in English there's life in the old dog yet (or, to misquote Twain: "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated"). Are there things wrong at NASA? Of course, you can read that on/. at least once every month and range from being a giant bureaucracy to being politicized (rotten) to the bone.
Maybe you are right. Maybe NASA it its current form should die, so a New NASA can rise like a phoenix from its own ashes. Leaner, meaner, and a-political. But that's just a dream. Senator X from Y needs to make sure the industry in Y gets part of the pie, so does Congressman M from N for N's industry.
But the main point is: NASA needs to find something the American people can rally behind. That's Mars. Whether that takes us to the Moon first, and Phobos second, and Mars third doesn't matter. Whether it takes us until 2050 to set up all the infrastructure, digging the underground habitats, having the drones/rovers collect and move enough ice/water doesn't matter as long as there are defined waypoints with successes, a new Moon landing, a Phobos landing, etc. But you can't get the big budget if you're not with the popular crowd in the average American's mind.
Back in the time of the Apollo program, NASA was very popular. Today the Moon is been there, done that. Mars rovers? We currently have G3 roving around. G4 isn't going to generate tons of excitement. But going to Mars? To put, since it's NASA, good ol' American Boots on the soil of another planet? To be the first to have Real American Heroes planting the Stars and Stripes on the Red Planet broadcast "live" to a worldwide TV and streaming audience? That's going to generate a hype we haven't seen since, indeed, Apollo. Without sending Americans to Mars, NASA will only be of significance to the science community, with the associated budgets appropriate for that role.
What NASA can learn from the Mars One project is their idea to use tv coverage for funding. Set up a consortium of broadcast partners from around the world and negotiate. No need to give everything away for free.
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Every effort should be made to stop ratification. Unfortunately in Canada, Trudeau refused to really say anything claiming the text wasn't available (strangely enough the mainstream media all bought the excuse that he didn't know anything about the TPP, which strikes me as odd) so with the majority that can go any way. The top contenders in the US for president that are openly anti-TPP get attacked on all fronts. One of the minor parties pulling out won't stop the TPP, but two or three might.
In New Zealand we got Proportional Representation in 1996 which has given us a bunch of coalition governments.
The one issue all parties in Parliament seem to agree on is tougher copyright laws.
What's the situation there with "campaign donations"? How about pure and simple bribery, like recording industry execs and lobbyists taking politicians and their party (wives,friends,kids) on VIP-arrangements to concerts, including backstage meet-and-greets? Because it's not something that's going to make them very popular with their constituents, there must be another motive.
Wow. I guess a 20 year patent term, after which the invention joins the public domain and becomes part of our heritage, doesn't discourage inventors from inventing. Why wouldn't the same apply to creators if copyright is limited to 20 years?
It's called TPP, you can read the "IP" Chapter and find out who controls the Internet, all in the name of protecting the bottom line of huge Media Corps.
any 'intentionally designed' piece is worthy of intellectual respect
Guess what that "respect" actually means? (a) Critics should discuss the work of art and how it criticises society and condemns the status quo, and how the artists uses various means to do that or (b) lining the pockets by inventing some new copyrightable or trademarkable or designmarkable (what the heck do we already have nowadays?!?) thing?
I strongly suggest that, in countries that will see their public domains turned back 20 years, electronic distributors of public domain works create a special "TPP Pack" -- a collection of works that are currently in the public domain, but will revert back to copyrighted status. This will give everyone enough time to download these packs before the TPP is ratified.
And I'm not getting any financial compensation for the fact that works I purchased, with the understanding that they would become public domain within the next two decades, will now not become so, and I'm sure that are those who are seniors and perhaps will never see those works enter the public domain during their remaining lifetime. Speaking of which, once those Generation Typewriter are removed from the voting constituents, perhaps Digital Issues will become more important and we will finally see copyright term reductions. Of course, retroactively, and without compensation as well.
PS why wasn't this included in the Canadian Government's "TPP summary"?
This will break the T-shirt business! All those whose living depends on selling t-shirts with DeCSS source code, "09 F9" AACS key, etc. as all we need now is a shortened url (white t-shirt + that marker that you have still have from freeing CDs from Sony's key2audio protection).
Indeed, but it has to do with the "me" that I perceive as being "me".
How about this argument: the captain Kirk that steps on the transporter pad isn't the same one as the one that materializes on the planet a short while later. It's a perfect, 1:1 copy, of the original captain Kirk. That captain Kirk will think it's the original, as his last memory is commanding the transporter chief to energize. But that was a different version, which has been destroyed by the destructive scanning the transporter does. Provided the process results in a perfect copy, the copy (nor anyone else) has no way to tell it isn't the original, so it believes to be the original. (Since this wouldn't go down well with the fans, there's some mumbo jumbo going on making the copy somehow the original, but if you think about it, there's only one conclusion.)
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This time it's really going to happen: 2016 is going to be the Year of Linux on the Server! Oh, wait...
I wonder how the Hawaiians will feel about this 200 years from now. At one point, the Holy Roman Church declared the Earth to be the Center of the Universe, and the Sun -like everything else- revolved around it. Not many, if at all, still believe that. Cultures and religions change over time.
It's called "speculative invoicing".
Why would you need a random .png from the Internet? Can't they just keep whatever part they need (header?) as part of the binary?
BMG is automatically spamming all possible claims; Cox is automatically sending them all to /dev/null; Neither of those are very helpful.
The problem as I understand it is the "settlement offers" (a/k/a copyright trolling a/k/a extortion racket) that are included in the "notices".
To work for the Evil Empire? Have you seen what your employer and their cronies in the MPAA wanted to do to the Internet and companies like Google? Do you feel grossed out by that?
You... you... you've insulted me. I'm hurt. I hurt, and my soul hurts!
Here's $15,000,000.00
Oh, now I'm OK!
Unfortunately it really looks like Google is indeed just "defending" certain videos rather than take the 'bad faith' accuser for every penny they've got ('bad faith' is e.g. taking down a video that has a recording of birds singing).
Hooray for Hollywood used to mean something positive. Now it refers to the copyright industry destroying the Internet bit by bit. Anyone thinking that Australia decided to do this all by themselves without massive pressure from the US Gov't = USTR = Hollywood, please read up.
These devices are nothing more than cash registers. I remember there being a site in The Netherlands or Belgium, that showed pictures and made fun when people decided to attack these devices; sometimes with gasoline-filled car tires, taking them down like trees with angle grinders, using heavy fireworks, etc. Because of the locations these devices were most profitable weren't of course really busy, chances of getting caught were slim (and potential witnesses might even cheer the perpetrators on). Went on wayback machine and voila an example.
Indeed. This sounds like a piracy honeypot... think CBS is teaming up with some sleazy dirtbags ^L^L^L^L^L lawfirm and "monetizing" their "assets" that way?
The Germans say: "Totgesagte leben länger", in English there's life in the old dog yet (or, to misquote Twain: "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated"). Are there things wrong at NASA? Of course, you can read that on /. at least once every month and range from being a giant bureaucracy to being politicized (rotten) to the bone.
Maybe you are right. Maybe NASA it its current form should die, so a New NASA can rise like a phoenix from its own ashes. Leaner, meaner, and a-political. But that's just a dream. Senator X from Y needs to make sure the industry in Y gets part of the pie, so does Congressman M from N for N's industry.
But the main point is: NASA needs to find something the American people can rally behind. That's Mars. Whether that takes us to the Moon first, and Phobos second, and Mars third doesn't matter. Whether it takes us until 2050 to set up all the infrastructure, digging the underground habitats, having the drones/rovers collect and move enough ice/water doesn't matter as long as there are defined waypoints with successes, a new Moon landing, a Phobos landing, etc. But you can't get the big budget if you're not with the popular crowd in the average American's mind.
Back in the time of the Apollo program, NASA was very popular. Today the Moon is been there, done that. Mars rovers? We currently have G3 roving around. G4 isn't going to generate tons of excitement. But going to Mars? To put, since it's NASA, good ol' American Boots on the soil of another planet? To be the first to have Real American Heroes planting the Stars and Stripes on the Red Planet broadcast "live" to a worldwide TV and streaming audience? That's going to generate a hype we haven't seen since, indeed, Apollo. Without sending Americans to Mars, NASA will only be of significance to the science community, with the associated budgets appropriate for that role.
What NASA can learn from the Mars One project is their idea to use tv coverage for funding. Set up a consortium of broadcast partners from around the world and negotiate. No need to give everything away for free.
Siri, how many calories are in a medium milk shake?
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Etc. etc.
Don't you just love those sneaky, sleazy, monopolist bastards? Big Pharma is also good at this, effectively extending their expired patents.
Every effort should be made to stop ratification. Unfortunately in Canada, Trudeau refused to really say anything claiming the text wasn't available (strangely enough the mainstream media all bought the excuse that he didn't know anything about the TPP, which strikes me as odd) so with the majority that can go any way. The top contenders in the US for president that are openly anti-TPP get attacked on all fronts. One of the minor parties pulling out won't stop the TPP, but two or three might.
In New Zealand we got Proportional Representation in 1996 which has given us a bunch of coalition governments.
The one issue all parties in Parliament seem to agree on is tougher copyright laws.
What's the situation there with "campaign donations"? How about pure and simple bribery, like recording industry execs and lobbyists taking politicians and their party (wives,friends,kids) on VIP-arrangements to concerts, including backstage meet-and-greets? Because it's not something that's going to make them very popular with their constituents, there must be another motive.
Seriously people still use the goto statement and love it? I have never meet anyone that loved the goto statement.
GOTO http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8199619&cid=50767419
Wow. I guess a 20 year patent term, after which the invention joins the public domain and becomes part of our heritage, doesn't discourage inventors from inventing. Why wouldn't the same apply to creators if copyright is limited to 20 years?
It's called TPP, you can read the "IP" Chapter and find out who controls the Internet, all in the name of protecting the bottom line of huge Media Corps.
any 'intentionally designed' piece is worthy of intellectual respect
Guess what that "respect" actually means? (a) Critics should discuss the work of art and how it criticises society and condemns the status quo, and how the artists uses various means to do that or (b) lining the pockets by inventing some new copyrightable or trademarkable or designmarkable (what the heck do we already have nowadays?!?) thing?
I strongly suggest that, in countries that will see their public domains turned back 20 years, electronic distributors of public domain works create a special "TPP Pack" -- a collection of works that are currently in the public domain, but will revert back to copyrighted status. This will give everyone enough time to download these packs before the TPP is ratified.
And I'm not getting any financial compensation for the fact that works I purchased, with the understanding that they would become public domain within the next two decades, will now not become so, and I'm sure that are those who are seniors and perhaps will never see those works enter the public domain during their remaining lifetime. Speaking of which, once those Generation Typewriter are removed from the voting constituents, perhaps Digital Issues will become more important and we will finally see copyright term reductions. Of course, retroactively, and without compensation as well.
PS why wasn't this included in the Canadian Government's "TPP summary"?
This will break the T-shirt business! All those whose living depends on selling t-shirts with DeCSS source code, "09 F9" AACS key, etc. as all we need now is a shortened url (white t-shirt + that marker that you have still have from freeing CDs from Sony's key2audio protection).
Indeed, but it has to do with the "me" that I perceive as being "me".
How about this argument: the captain Kirk that steps on the transporter pad isn't the same one as the one that materializes on the planet a short while later. It's a perfect, 1:1 copy, of the original captain Kirk. That captain Kirk will think it's the original, as his last memory is commanding the transporter chief to energize. But that was a different version, which has been destroyed by the destructive scanning the transporter does. Provided the process results in a perfect copy, the copy (nor anyone else) has no way to tell it isn't the original, so it believes to be the original. (Since this wouldn't go down well with the fans, there's some mumbo jumbo going on making the copy somehow the original, but if you think about it, there's only one conclusion.)
New Hampshire (AP) - According to several reports and eye witness accounts, confirmed by the Department of Homeland Security, New Hampshire roads and highways have been used by thieves in getaway vehicles to evade police efforts to apprehend them. Sources near the NH governors' office report a decree to close roads and highways are going to be closed to vehicular traffic indefinitely could be in effect as early as today. Story will be updated with further developments.