Did you perhaps mean that you'd like to see a new copyright statute that modernizes and/or widens the applicability of statutory fair use provisions?
Thanks for the strawman with red herring sauce. Tasty. The problem with Fair Use is that it's an affirmative defense without being well-defined. This means it can still be expensive and risky to defend oneself rather than being able to rely on definitions clearer than parody, commentary and criticism. Modernization would be nice, but clarifying existing (potential) uses is where I'm coming from.
But a judge telling a firm that they can't do it any more isn't NEARLY as good as congress making it a big ol' Federal No-No. So, c'mon, Pelosi. Reid? Where's all of that protect-the-little-guy stuff?
It would be like saying that since Richard Carmona was appointed Surgeon General from his position as chairman of the State of Arizona Southern Regional Emergency Medical System (ASREMS) that the ASREMS has political appointees in it. Absurd.
This may be news to you, but merely saying something is absurd doesn't make it so. It would be like me calling you stupid. As to your assertion above, it's not where you're from, it's where you're at.
That may be so, but it doesn't speak to the fact that this move is designed to remove domestic surveillance from judicial review. If the NSA gets it, nobody will ever find out about any abuses, not to mention that the NSA is a policy agency and this kind of "protection" would be better put to a military arm of the government.
It's only copyright if it's copied, not if there are coincidental similarities between two works.
How about if someone takes the 40 most common styles of C&D's and prints them in full-page ads in the New York Times? The 40 would be infringing on previous letters only if those previous letters were copyrighted, since history is full of derivatives that get the full protection of copyright law.
One interesting thing is that as far as I can tell, this will become a crushing burden on IE development.
From another perspective, this is exactly what's needed to foster dependence on Microsoft. The more complicated it is to develop for the dominant platform, the less time can be spent on compliant code.
Maybe we can see Vista as really "Vista ME" and over the next couple of years they'll delay a service pack or two so that they can roll it all up into a retail product, "RealVista" or something like that. They've done it before.
Hand counting is not quick, and human error can enter into that. Hand counting with lots of observers can be pretty time consuming in terms of man-hours.
This brings up one of the consistently-unasked questions in debates over electronic balloting: what's the hurry? I don't mean "It would be nice if we knew sooner," but what is it about an election requires that this stuff be done quickly?
A second unasked-question would be, "what makes hand-counting errors less desirable than electronic-counting errors?"
...in a story where an AT&T executive is asserting it "listens" to its customers, and no wisecracks about NSA wiretapping?
This is because the interview is predicated on not listening. The "interviewer" on Slyck's side did not ask any of the obvious followup questions that would have addressed most of the highly-rated comments here. It wasn't an interview, it was a "give us your spin" questionnaire.
that must be a ton of competition with Verizon, Time-Warner and Comcast all charging sky high rates for ISP service.
This is what has been termed The Big Lie, which if you sidestep the Godwinian implications allows AT&T to assert its barely bearable level of competition like Microsoft does with its own form of stiff competition. What they're competing against is "lack of complete domination," which is retarded in the broadest sense and an impossible Utopia in the specific.
That's if the RIAA loses, you need to read the rest of the story. If the RIAA wins, everybody gets a coupon for $2 off the latest DRM-laden Britney CD.
3. There was fear that there could have been "accidents" (ie fights). The police assures they were able to ensure that the place was safe for the Pope. 4. He said "No, thank you."/i
The Pope elected to silence himself. In some circles this is referred to as "being a pussy."
...turning home only after selling everywhere else and some may say after failing to realize the volume is certainly not patriotic.
Uh, where does this "patriotic" business come from? On one hand it seems you're saying that Americans deserve first crack at the OLPC just like everything else that winds up famous. On the other hand, you sound a little butthurt from your experience in trying to acquire a Wii. Which is it, or is it another explanation?
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Did you perhaps mean that you'd like to see a new copyright statute that modernizes and/or widens the applicability of statutory fair use provisions?
Thanks for the strawman with red herring sauce. Tasty. The problem with Fair Use is that it's an affirmative defense without being well-defined. This means it can still be expensive and risky to defend oneself rather than being able to rely on definitions clearer than parody, commentary and criticism. Modernization would be nice, but clarifying existing (potential) uses is where I'm coming from.
But a judge telling a firm that they can't do it any more isn't NEARLY as good as congress making it a big ol' Federal No-No. So, c'mon, Pelosi. Reid? Where's all of that protect-the-little-guy stuff?
It's in the same place the FTC went when they were looking for a club to use against these guys.
Articles...they's good for readin', Jethro!
More important than being in favour of P2P - he's in favour of Fair Use.
Is he willing to codify Fair Use into law instead of letting it remain a nebulous "defense?" If not, then it's just so much hot air.
It would be like saying that since Richard Carmona was appointed Surgeon General from his position as chairman of the State of Arizona Southern Regional Emergency Medical System (ASREMS) that the ASREMS has political appointees in it. Absurd.
This may be news to you, but merely saying something is absurd doesn't make it so. It would be like me calling you stupid. As to your assertion above, it's not where you're from, it's where you're at.
"Multitasking is different than singletasking."
There are no -- as in none -- political appointees at NSA. Not a one.
I think it's a quibble to say that politics haven't played a role in the nomination and confirmations of Negroponte and McConnell, among others.
NSA is DOD Agency
Staffed and run by a lot of political appointees.
The NSA's probably the most qualified.
That may be so, but it doesn't speak to the fact that this move is designed to remove domestic surveillance from judicial review. If the NSA gets it, nobody will ever find out about any abuses, not to mention that the NSA is a policy agency and this kind of "protection" would be better put to a military arm of the government.
It's only copyright if it's copied, not if there are coincidental similarities between two works.
How about if someone takes the 40 most common styles of C&D's and prints them in full-page ads in the New York Times? The 40 would be infringing on previous letters only if those previous letters were copyrighted, since history is full of derivatives that get the full protection of copyright law.
Unless this is a typo, it seems perfectly sensible,
It's not a typo, it's editorializing on Slashdot's part. Notice where the quotation marks are.
What does that mean? CPAN is infinite? Or not infinite?
It means it's an exaggeration for effect, that if it isn't infinite it may as well not exist.
In other news, chickens rarely cross the road with a knowable intent.
Of course they promise they'll look into it now, because it doesn't matter anymore.
Should be fruit of the poisoned tree. Every law that touched that figure should be automatically repealed. If it isn't that way, it should be.
One interesting thing is that as far as I can tell, this will become a crushing burden on IE development.
From another perspective, this is exactly what's needed to foster dependence on Microsoft. The more complicated it is to develop for the dominant platform, the less time can be spent on compliant code.
Maybe we can see Vista as really "Vista ME" and over the next couple of years they'll delay a service pack or two so that they can roll it all up into a retail product, "RealVista" or something like that. They've done it before.
Hand counting is not quick, and human error can enter into that. Hand counting with lots of observers can be pretty time consuming in terms of man-hours.
This brings up one of the consistently-unasked questions in debates over electronic balloting: what's the hurry? I don't mean "It would be nice if we knew sooner," but what is it about an election requires that this stuff be done quickly?
A second unasked-question would be, "what makes hand-counting errors less desirable than electronic-counting errors?"
...in a story where an AT&T executive is asserting it "listens" to its customers, and no wisecracks about NSA wiretapping?
This is because the interview is predicated on not listening. The "interviewer" on Slyck's side did not ask any of the obvious followup questions that would have addressed most of the highly-rated comments here. It wasn't an interview, it was a "give us your spin" questionnaire.
> It has the effect of not providing the service paid for.
WHAT?? Was it written in the ISP subscription forms that you are not supposed to use p2p?
Not only that, but it'll be news to a lot of people that their residential connection has an SLA.
that must be a ton of competition with Verizon, Time-Warner and Comcast all charging sky high rates for ISP service.
This is what has been termed The Big Lie, which if you sidestep the Godwinian implications allows AT&T to assert its barely bearable level of competition like Microsoft does with its own form of stiff competition. What they're competing against is "lack of complete domination," which is retarded in the broadest sense and an impossible Utopia in the specific.
in my scenario, the reseller WOULDN'T give buyers access to the source
Yeah, you might want to mention that up front next time.
When a mind possessed of analytic capacities such as Fischer's turns those powers on the world, the result is inevitability some kind of psychosis.
A friend once relayed a possibly-apocryphal quote, "Insanity is a logical response to a world that doesn't make sense."
But if they lose, why do we get punished?
That's if the RIAA loses, you need to read the rest of the story. If the RIAA wins, everybody gets a coupon for $2 off the latest DRM-laden Britney CD.
3. There was fear that there could have been "accidents" (ie fights). The police assures they were able to ensure that the place was safe for the Pope.
4. He said "No, thank you."/i
The Pope elected to silence himself. In some circles this is referred to as "being a pussy."
The blog makes a big deal out of getting the 'M' in LAMP. I think they want to be known as the dot in .com again, the place to go for web solutions.
I'm guessing it'll be just a small twist on the old BASF ad campaign, something like, "We don't make websites work, we make websites work...better."
...turning home only after selling everywhere else and some may say after failing to realize the volume is certainly not patriotic.
Uh, where does this "patriotic" business come from? On one hand it seems you're saying that Americans deserve first crack at the OLPC just like everything else that winds up famous. On the other hand, you sound a little butthurt from your experience in trying to acquire a Wii. Which is it, or is it another explanation?
I'm a level 5 vegan. I eat animal products so that other people can't.
Level 5 poseur.