Yeah, sure I could. And when I get to the page with the checksums listed, there's a link to the.torrent / magnet right there on the same page. Searching a tracker is just duplicating my efforts.
No confusion here - I already concluded that copyright is not going to happen, so I brought up the next protection in the arsenal. It's a more valid claim than copyright ever could be.
Unless you're literally retelling the joke, you're probably making reference to the original joke in some sort of commentary/parody - which is protected as fair use.
i depend on bittorrent for my Ubuntu iso' As do I, but I'm not going to go to a pirate tracker to find it. I'd rather be sure to get a magnet/.torrent from Ubuntu and know that it's not tampered with.
But like recipes, there's no way you're going to copyright a joke. Not the structure and delivery - only the specific wording of one telling. That is OP's point.
What I don't understand is why recipes can't be patented. They are an implementation method for something novel (if it truly is novel and there is no prior art - like say the cronut).
But when you paraphrase a joke, it doesn't usually lose anything - the novel/creative part is in the structure and not the wording. No matter which way it goes, there are few original jokes. Yet an obvious rip-off from something recent should maybe have some merit as a violation.
Jokes are really a method more so than content. While you could copyright a particular implementation of wording, the method could possibly be patented - if it's a novel joke. Again, there's LOTS of prior art out there. But less than a couple decades of protection is much more fair.
I wonder how useful it would be for someone like the NSA or NRO for analyzing large datasets in near-realtime like, for instance, all the cellphone communications "metadata" (and contents?) in an area and cross check it against other datasets to destroy privacy, reveal networks of association of political/ideological opponents, etc etc? "Predict" crime a la 'Minority Report'?
Well, they did call it The Machine, so I assume they're trying to make it easy for the government to connect the dots on that idea.
My 2016 car's infotainment system. I use Android Auto and can still play whatever, but I can't load up a USB stick with my AAC files and have it just play them.
They could compete on price if they wanted to. If they were $10-20, I would buy one just to have dedicated hardware buttons and a separate screen. Maybe I'd own 1 or 2. As it is, I have no need. Your average $8 greeting card has as much horsepower as these things - they should just admit it and drop the price to where it belongs.
The NHS were paying for continued security updates for XP...until April 2015.... Then they decided it was too expensive to renew. They could have kept paying for patches - which would probably still be cheaper than migrating earlier than they were ready for.
My trick is to blur the image slightly before resizing, which is probably the same effect. It does get rid of most of the patterning, but it's nowhere near as sharp as native digital artwork.
Have you not seen the marketing phrase "Only in theaters" to induce FOMO and artificial scarcity? Nevermind that it's on DVD and Blu-Ray in 6 months. Most movies shown in theaters are exclusive at that time.
It's really the app store effect. Those two stores from the 80's were both curated (whether by a local expert or the big labels, depending on which you choose). Now, there's loads and loads of garbage mixed in. Finding the good stuff is much harder among the noise than ever before. Yes, there's more good out there, but if you have to find it yourself it's a lot of work.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, you could also Google the checksum you find on the Ubuntu web site and verify it before wasting the time and bandwidth to download.
We're not talking about fault, we're talking about justice.
Neither of those are alarms. Though they can function like alarms.
Yeah, sure I could. And when I get to the page with the checksums listed, there's a link to the .torrent / magnet right there on the same page. Searching a tracker is just duplicating my efforts.
No confusion here - I already concluded that copyright is not going to happen, so I brought up the next protection in the arsenal. It's a more valid claim than copyright ever could be.
Unless you're literally retelling the joke, you're probably making reference to the original joke in some sort of commentary/parody - which is protected as fair use.
i depend on bittorrent for my Ubuntu iso'
As do I, but I'm not going to go to a pirate tracker to find it. I'd rather be sure to get a magnet/.torrent from Ubuntu and know that it's not tampered with.
But like recipes, there's no way you're going to copyright a joke. Not the structure and delivery - only the specific wording of one telling. That is OP's point.
Sounds like this is a good parallel for jokes then after all.
What I don't understand is why recipes can't be patented. They are an implementation method for something novel (if it truly is novel and there is no prior art - like say the cronut).
But when you paraphrase a joke, it doesn't usually lose anything - the novel/creative part is in the structure and not the wording. No matter which way it goes, there are few original jokes. Yet an obvious rip-off from something recent should maybe have some merit as a violation.
Jokes are really a method more so than content. While you could copyright a particular implementation of wording, the method could possibly be patented - if it's a novel joke. Again, there's LOTS of prior art out there. But less than a couple decades of protection is much more fair.
even MORESO if oil prices tanked.
FTFY
I wonder how useful it would be for someone like the NSA or NRO for analyzing large datasets in near-realtime like, for instance, all the cellphone communications "metadata" (and contents?) in an area and cross check it against other datasets to destroy privacy, reveal networks of association of political/ideological opponents, etc etc? "Predict" crime a la 'Minority Report'?
Well, they did call it The Machine, so I assume they're trying to make it easy for the government to connect the dots on that idea.
Touch id maybe a new thing
It's a fingerprint reader. Same thing they've been calling it for years.
They're talking about the other patents - relating to the curved OLED screen at the Edge.
Without looking, I assume it's curving an OLED screen at the edge in both cases. A feature of OLED that has already been made into a gimmick on TVs.
My 2016 car's infotainment system. I use Android Auto and can still play whatever, but I can't load up a USB stick with my AAC files and have it just play them.
Because MPEG-2, Layer 3 is such a catchy name? If it becomes popular, marketing or fans will come up with something to call it.
They could compete on price if they wanted to. If they were $10-20, I would buy one just to have dedicated hardware buttons and a separate screen. Maybe I'd own 1 or 2. As it is, I have no need. Your average $8 greeting card has as much horsepower as these things - they should just admit it and drop the price to where it belongs.
The NHS were paying for continued security updates for XP...until April 2015.... Then they decided it was too expensive to renew. They could have kept paying for patches - which would probably still be cheaper than migrating earlier than they were ready for.
My trick is to blur the image slightly before resizing, which is probably the same effect. It does get rid of most of the patterning, but it's nowhere near as sharp as native digital artwork.
Have you not seen the marketing phrase "Only in theaters" to induce FOMO and artificial scarcity? Nevermind that it's on DVD and Blu-Ray in 6 months. Most movies shown in theaters are exclusive at that time.
Referring to movies as films is a bit like calling an mp3 a tape.
No, it's like calling a collection of MP3's an album. Which people do.
What's a "Palm d'Or" anyway? French for "Oscar"?
You're meant to type that into Google, not the comment box.
It's really the app store effect. Those two stores from the 80's were both curated (whether by a local expert or the big labels, depending on which you choose). Now, there's loads and loads of garbage mixed in. Finding the good stuff is much harder among the noise than ever before. Yes, there's more good out there, but if you have to find it yourself it's a lot of work.