except Slashdot is commercial enterprise, so its more like going to a friend's restaurant and complaining about the food that you ordered and paid for. They don't mind you paying to hang out, and they don't mind selling you dinner, but if you don't like whats being served - shut up or leave.
and hey... nothing says you can't do that.
But I would point out that the tag line ISN'T "News for Nerds (in the US). Stuff that matters (to nerds in the US)", and furthermore, that the site is built on and sustained by commentary, submissions and content from people ALL OVER the globe. ie. this "by Americans, for Americans" is pure BS.
thats a nice..but what in your analogy, were they TRYING to video ?
I've still not seen any valid reason put forward by Google as to how or why they were doing this, accident or otherwise... I'd be more interested in what Google SENT over these wi-fi hot spots, not what they received.
Seriously? Are you really that stupid? 3 divided by 2 is 1.5, which isn't even close to 50. What the hell do they teach kids in school these days?
So what you're saying is that only 1 and a half people (obviously 1 adult and 1 child) don't know math. In a population of over 6 billion, I'd say that's outstanding!
Given this, do we really need all those maths teachers ?? The stats would say no...
This is NOT insightful - and smacks of the "you've got nothing to worry about if you've done nothing wrong" mentality. Mostly Joe Public doesn't understand what the difference is between open/closed WIFI... certainly the guy at the shop he bought it from didn't explain it to him... he bought a device that allowed him to surf the net on from his couch. He plugged it in, followed the illustrated guide to set it up and it worked. end of story.
He did not knowingly provide unlimited access to his home network to his government, or any other lowlife company or individual seeking to take advantage of him limited understanding of technology.
GOOGLE, without a doubt, would have known that if they'd informed home owners of what they were doing, having explained exactly WHAT they were up to - by and large, the home owner would've told them to F^&* OFF! That should've been enough.
But to everybody's surprise, the iPod was insanely successful...
yes everybody's surprise. To this day I don't understand how the ipod/itunes bonanza occurred, given the prevalence of mp3s and availability of generic portable mp3 players. Every USB stick can double as a portable music library FFS!
Just goes to show that a "chic" product and clever marketing campaigns will always win out over practicality and common sense.
its a fair point... but wait for the scope creep. The black list will become the grey list, anonymous proxies and encrypted packets are next. The only reason they're not on Conroy's list is because none of his aides have explained them to him. NBN here we come... anyone know what the data charges are like via a sat. phone ?
so there are good drug dealers (your pharmacist) and bad drug dealers (your coke supplier)... sorry, but I don't have a problem bashing bad drug dealers - or bad (IP) lawyers who make gazillions of dollars arguing about who owns the air we breathe.
Let's just hope they aren't paying the price of an Apache helicopter for these robots.
Its the Australian Army. The only thing they're going to spend the "price of an Apache helicopter" on is an actual Apache helicopter - and even then, that'd be *one* Apache helicopter, and one only.
no way! Like the MPAA and RIAA before him. Rupert wants to have his cake AND eat it too. He wants Google to stop pinching his content - but DOESN'T want them to stop indexing his sites. He wants to stop others from pinching his content - but he WON'T stop pinching content from other FREE sites if it'll embellish a story. (eg. pics/quotes from Facebook tribute pages of people who've ended up in the news)
hang on.... multi-touch is a concept - and you can't patent a concept. What you can do, however, is patent the method you use to implement that concept.
If Apple is using the same technology to underpin its multi-touch functionality in both the MacBook and the iPhone, and that technology is shown to be infringing upon a patent held by ELAN, then it won't matter what device the technology ended up in.
What IT does is nowhere near as important as how it does it. "What it does" isn't patentable. "How it does it" most certainly is.
Instead of paper you could use water, hand (just use your other hand for eating) or cloth in the toilet. Ancient Romans used a cloth around a stick and it worked fine for them.
All of these are valid options, until you give people a choice. From that point its paper all the way. Just as you COULD travel from New York to Los Angeles via horse and cart - but most people choose not to.
It is time for a coordinated world-wide BOFH system shutdown in order to FORCE a review of IP laws and how they relate to technology.
How many billions (trillions?) of dollars have been wasted on lawyers and swapped between major industry players in the last 30 years over IP bitch-fighting !?
Not to mention that while the big guns are duking it out, the little guy (even the not-so-little guy) is absolutely screwed along with any form of innovation.
#$%^ all of these uber-corporations. Its seriously time to send a message to both governments around the world, and the people on the street, that the system is FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN...
Seems you're right, and yet no mention of this was made in TFA.
From TFA: "Got all that? In 12 years, we went from sculpture to photo to stamp, and Gaylord, who served as an Army paratrooper in World War II, got essentially nothing along the way, court records show."
I guess they we're referring only to the derivative works AFTER the original piece was created.
Personally, if I'd paid three quarters of million dollars for a design, and then another $5 mill to build it, it'd damn well better come with all IP rights included. My point remains - Stupid bureaucrats !
I don't get it. A post is marked "Interesting" for asking a question that is already covered IN DETAIL in TFA! The artist won a competition to design the memorial. At no stage was he paid, or contracts entered into...
FTA - noone actually ever paid the artist for the work, and I assume it wasn't stipulated in the rules of the competition (that the artist won) that the work, and any IP related to the work, would become public domain if he won.
Looks like a stupid oversight on behalf of the original organisers and the Postal Service for not enquiring about ownership. Due diligence on the part of the Postal Service wouldn't have gone astray either.
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.. get FUCKED! Because over the last 25 years, software patents have done nothing but FUCK this industry completey!
except Slashdot is commercial enterprise, so its more like going to a friend's restaurant and complaining about the food that you ordered and paid for. They don't mind you paying to hang out, and they don't mind selling you dinner, but if you don't like whats being served - shut up or leave.
and hey... nothing says you can't do that.
But I would point out that the tag line ISN'T "News for Nerds (in the US). Stuff that matters (to nerds in the US)", and furthermore, that the site is built on and sustained by commentary, submissions and content from people ALL OVER the globe.
ie. this "by Americans, for Americans" is pure BS.
thats a nice..but what in your analogy, were they TRYING to video ?
I've still not seen any valid reason put forward by Google as to how or why they were doing this, accident or otherwise...
I'd be more interested in what Google SENT over these wi-fi hot spots, not what they received.
Seriously? Are you really that stupid? 3 divided by 2 is 1.5, which isn't even close to 50. What the hell do they teach kids in school these days?
So what you're saying is that only 1 and a half people (obviously 1 adult and 1 child) don't know math.
In a population of over 6 billion, I'd say that's outstanding!
Given this, do we really need all those maths teachers ?? The stats would say no...
This is NOT insightful - and smacks of the "you've got nothing to worry about if you've done nothing wrong" mentality. Mostly Joe Public doesn't understand what the difference is between open/closed WIFI... certainly the guy at the shop he bought it from didn't explain it to him... he bought a device that allowed him to surf the net on from his couch. He plugged it in, followed the illustrated guide to set it up and it worked. end of story.
He did not knowingly provide unlimited access to his home network to his government, or any other lowlife company or individual seeking to take advantage of him limited understanding of technology.
GOOGLE, without a doubt, would have known that if they'd informed home owners of what they were doing, having explained exactly WHAT they were up to - by and large, the home owner would've told them to F^&* OFF! That should've been enough.
But to everybody's surprise, the iPod was insanely successful...
yes everybody's surprise. To this day I don't understand how the ipod/itunes bonanza occurred, given the prevalence of mp3s and availability of generic portable mp3 players. Every USB stick can double as a portable music library FFS!
Just goes to show that a "chic" product and clever marketing campaigns will always win out over practicality and common sense.
Yeah. VB, C++, Java, they all do PCL commands.
..but will it fit on a floppy ??
its a fair point... but wait for the scope creep. The black list will become the grey list, anonymous proxies and encrypted packets are next. The only reason they're not on Conroy's list is because none of his aides have explained them to him. NBN here we come... anyone know what the data charges are like via a sat. phone ?
..once the filter kicks in the Internet will stop at your ISP... a bit like owning a ferrari in Antarctica
When Scientists act like politicians, I don't find it hard to believe that politicians will soon act like scientists.
Well duh! They've even got a course for that - its called Political Science ... sheesh.
so there are good drug dealers (your pharmacist) and bad drug dealers (your coke supplier)... sorry, but I don't have a problem bashing bad drug dealers - or bad (IP) lawyers who make gazillions of dollars arguing about who owns the air we breathe.
Also, never fart downwind of space balloon launches.
just fixed that for you...
Let's just hope they aren't paying the price of an Apache helicopter for these robots.
Its the Australian Army. The only thing they're going to spend the "price of an Apache helicopter" on is an actual Apache helicopter - and even then, that'd be *one* Apache helicopter, and one only.
no way! Like the MPAA and RIAA before him. Rupert wants to have his cake AND eat it too.
He wants Google to stop pinching his content - but DOESN'T want them to stop indexing his sites.
He wants to stop others from pinching his content - but he WON'T stop pinching content from other FREE sites if it'll embellish a story. (eg. pics/quotes from Facebook tribute pages of people who've ended up in the news)
You WILL submit!
hang on.... multi-touch is a concept - and you can't patent a concept. What you can do, however, is patent the method you use to implement that concept.
If Apple is using the same technology to underpin its multi-touch functionality in both the MacBook and the iPhone, and that technology is shown to be infringing upon a patent held by ELAN, then it won't matter what device the technology ended up in.
What IT does is nowhere near as important as how it does it. "What it does" isn't patentable. "How it does it" most certainly is.
...they don't run the site like this http://www.youtube.com/
(ps. If youtube's main page no longer looks like Http/1.1 Service Unavailable then this gag is past its usefulness)
Instead of paper you could use water, hand (just use your other hand for eating) or cloth in the toilet. Ancient Romans used a cloth around a stick and it worked fine for them.
All of these are valid options, until you give people a choice. From that point its paper all the way.
Just as you COULD travel from New York to Los Angeles via horse and cart - but most people choose not to.
...where the hell is my FLYING CAR !?
So that image burn on my old 17" Samsung CRT was all for nothing ??? Damn.. what a waste!
Mr Tenenbaum got what he paid for.
..which sums up the problem with this, and most every other case in a western legal system.
By and large, those who can pay - win.
FTS -
Approach the problem of dealing with malware infections like the healthcare industry...
I know most healthcare systems are BAD, but classifying them as malware is going a little far, isn't it ?
It is time for a coordinated world-wide BOFH system shutdown in order to FORCE a review of IP laws and how they relate to technology.
How many billions (trillions?) of dollars have been wasted on lawyers and swapped between major industry players in the last 30 years over IP bitch-fighting !?
Not to mention that while the big guns are duking it out, the little guy (even the not-so-little guy) is absolutely screwed along with any form of innovation.
#$%^ all of these uber-corporations. Its seriously time to send a message to both governments around the world, and the people on the street, that the system is FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN...
Seems you're right, and yet no mention of this was made in TFA.
From TFA: "Got all that? In 12 years, we went from sculpture to photo to stamp, and Gaylord, who served as an Army paratrooper in World War II, got essentially nothing along the way, court records show."
I guess they we're referring only to the derivative works AFTER the original piece was created.
Personally, if I'd paid three quarters of million dollars for a design, and then another $5 mill to build it, it'd damn well better come with all IP rights included. My point remains - Stupid bureaucrats !
I don't get it. A post is marked "Interesting" for asking a question that is already covered IN DETAIL in TFA!
The artist won a competition to design the memorial. At no stage was he paid, or contracts entered into...
FTA - noone actually ever paid the artist for the work, and I assume it wasn't stipulated in the rules of the competition (that the artist won) that the work, and any IP related to the work, would become public domain if he won.
Looks like a stupid oversight on behalf of the original organisers and the Postal Service for not enquiring about ownership.
Due diligence on the part of the Postal Service wouldn't have gone astray either.
I'm not sure where the outrage is coming from...