The folks I worry about with copyright are small artists who either themselves make a living off of their work, or who have living relatives who do so. These are the people that copyright needs to protect, and these are the same people who cannot afford to pay to extend that protection.
Yeah, and from what I understand about the current state of copyright law, it's also pretty hard to write a check when you've been fucking dead for 70 years.
Making software free, but only for folks with enough money to buy first class hardware is an interesting concept. Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5..
Now then, I would think that a pretty big portion of being considered The Man(tm) in you field is to be able to predict with at least some degree of accuracy where the world is headed. Anyone remember what kind of box they had in '97?
Let's just say, if you were one of those kids who couldn't color inside the lines with your Crayola's, don't try unlocking your AMD Athlon with a Bic.5mm pencil.
I think it's totally worth the risk. The problem with science/research is that no one sees the value of it until it's been done, only after the seemingly pointless work. I'm not surprised everyone thinks it's not worth the risk. But I'll bet if you resurrected the crew of the Columbia, they'd tell you it was worth it.
Great achievements are never born of safety and cautious steps. The argument about whether or not our research is worth something is a valid one. We're definitely politicking NASA's cash away on some of the shuttles' payloads. But we shouldn't stop just for the fear of death. I'd risk death to help the cause of human progress. I'm not sure i can agree with anyone who values their life more than that.
If Linux had an exploit that allowed someone to ssh into your box, su to root, then fsck your harddrive, and a patch wasn't released yet, would you be pissed off that bugtraq posted the code to exploit the bug?
Well, idunno about the whole su to root thing, but it certainly gives me piece of mind that someone out there is willing to check my hard drive to make sure no files have become corrupted.;-)
Granted, I've never been a fan of the whole All-American aspect of superman of Superman. You get the idea that he was the bully getting cheerleader action behind the bleachers while giving Super-wedgies to the geeks in school. But the guy is a fucking alien, so of course he's going to win in a fight against anybody who isn't made of some sort of wierd ass rock;-)
Look at it this way, who wins in all those alien vs. human stories you hear about? The human, or the anal probe?
Funny. Barbie is a disproportionate doll. If she were a "real" woman, she would be something on the order of 42-DD (I can't remember the exact proportions). And yet, most parents have no trouble buying these blatantly sexist dolls for their little girls.
Now, this begs the question: Which object does more harm to women? The game that is played by teenaged boys looking to see a girl in daisy dukes bounce her well rendered boobies up and down while holding firearms, or the toy that teaches impressionably young girls that, when they grow up, they should be thin, blonde, and busty or else they're not worth a shit.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
So, this obviously means we can give the authors of works sole custody of their intellectual property for a "limited" period of time. That being said, how is it possible to give an individual that no longer exists a copyright? Better yet, what would we have done if Walt Disney had specified in his will that everything having to do with Mickey Mouse be buried with him, so that it would effectively never enter the public domain. Certainly this would not promote the progress of art or science. The issue here is that Congress believes the words "limited time" are based on the timeline of the universe. I don't think the framers of the constitution meant this "limited time" to be relative to the duration of earth.
Based on the congretional interpretation of this clause, you would think it might read something more like:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors, Inventors, [and their heirs and estates] the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
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Most underappreciated Steven King movie ever!
They're killer trucks damnit!
Now you can't win any money if you "Beat the Greeks"
I refuse to buy a product from a company that codes their website so that when you hit the "back" button, it just refreshes the site.
of course it's St. Patricks day and I'm lit. Maybe I just confused the refresh and back buttons (they both haef arrrowz dnot tehy?)
Playstation 9!
A 300 GHz computer with 64 GB of RAM that won't skip or delay even if it wanted to.
I think Moore's law will put you around 1.5THz in 2013.
But your system will still skip and delay because you'll be running Windows 2013.
This could be a huge boon to open source. Companies like Red-Hat could run promotional campaigns based on being the software of choice in TX.
Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox could become the de facto pioneers of a whole slew of software designed to speed the execution of retarded prisoners.
I think you're missing the point.
The folks I worry about with copyright are small artists who either themselves make a living off of their work, or who have living relatives who do so. These are the people that copyright needs to protect, and these are the same people who cannot afford to pay to extend that protection.
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Yeah, and from what I understand about the current state of copyright law, it's also pretty hard to write a check when you've been fucking dead for 70 years
just my
Leading authority my ass.
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Making software free, but only for folks with enough money
to buy first class hardware is an interesting concept.
Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now
everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.
Now then, I would think that a pretty big portion of being considered The Man(tm) in you field is to be able to predict with at least some degree of accuracy where the world is headed. Anyone remember what kind of box they had in '97?
how about a beowulf cluster of PS2's running GNU/Got Gritsux 4.0 (Natalie).
Let's just say, if you were one of those kids who couldn't color inside the lines with your Crayola's, don't try unlocking your AMD Athlon with a Bic .5mm pencil.
Aparently I was one of those kids.
I think you're thinking of Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz and the "shakespeare" incident.
C:\>tracert life.liberty.pursuit-of-happiness
fluxrad@chef:~$ traceroute life.liberty.pursuit-of-happiness
traceroute: unknown host life.liberty.pursuit-of-happiness
Idunno. I think you were clicking the wrong link.
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I think it's totally worth the risk. The problem with science/research is that no one sees the value of it until it's been done, only after the seemingly pointless work. I'm not surprised everyone thinks it's not worth the risk. But I'll bet if you resurrected the crew of the Columbia, they'd tell you it was worth it.
Great achievements are never born of safety and cautious steps. The argument about whether or not our research is worth something is a valid one. We're definitely politicking NASA's cash away on some of the shuttles' payloads. But we shouldn't stop just for the fear of death. I'd risk death to help the cause of human progress. I'm not sure i can agree with anyone who values their life more than that.
Just my
You gotta love that one of the download links for eMule is hosted by Time Warner.
;-)
Can we take this to court as an implied acceptance of eMule filesharing?
kind of like how that blog link is coming up incredibly slow?
;-)
...Nintendo buying Campcom and Sega
Campcom? Must be a company founded by Counter-Strike players.
The highest "story id" consoletalk has in their news section is 145.
Gee, wonder why 146 doesn't work. Could it be because this story is bullshit?
Click the fucking links before you post the stories chris.
Two drops of pee just came out!
If Linux had an exploit that allowed someone to ssh into your box, su to root, then fsck your harddrive, and a patch wasn't released yet, would you be pissed off that bugtraq posted the code to exploit the bug?
;-)
Well, idunno about the whole su to root thing, but it certainly gives me piece of mind that someone out there is willing to check my hard drive to make sure no files have become corrupted.
As Robin watchest the fight from afar:
;-)
"Holy you-getting-your-ass-kicked batman!"
Granted, I've never been a fan of the whole All-American aspect of superman of Superman. You get the idea that he was the bully getting cheerleader action behind the bleachers while giving Super-wedgies to the geeks in school. But the guy is a fucking alien, so of course he's going to win in a fight against anybody who isn't made of some sort of wierd ass rock
Look at it this way, who wins in all those alien vs. human stories you hear about? The human, or the anal probe?
Maybe it's also because Women's Games basically suck!
I don't know about you, but I'm not eagerly anticipating the release of Sheryl Swoops' WNBA Live 2003!
Funny. Barbie is a disproportionate doll. If she were a "real" woman, she would be something on the order of 42-DD (I can't remember the exact proportions). And yet, most parents have no trouble buying these blatantly sexist dolls for their little girls.
Now, this begs the question: Which object does more harm to women? The game that is played by teenaged boys looking to see a girl in daisy dukes bounce her well rendered boobies up and down while holding firearms, or the toy that teaches impressionably young girls that, when they grow up, they should be thin, blonde, and busty or else they're not worth a shit.
...the surprising statistic that a large potion of computer gamers...
LAN Party in a bottle?
Funny, how is your interpretation literal?
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
So, this obviously means we can give the authors of works sole custody of their intellectual property for a "limited" period of time. That being said, how is it possible to give an individual that no longer exists a copyright? Better yet, what would we have done if Walt Disney had specified in his will that everything having to do with Mickey Mouse be buried with him, so that it would effectively never enter the public domain. Certainly this would not promote the progress of art or science. The issue here is that Congress believes the words "limited time" are based on the timeline of the universe. I don't think the framers of the constitution meant this "limited time" to be relative to the duration of earth.
Based on the congretional interpretation of this clause, you would think it might read something more like:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors, Inventors, [and their heirs and estates] the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;