Linux kernel: 9 million lines of code Hotspot: 250k lines of code
This is a bullshit statistic. A great majority (I estimate over 90%) of LOCs are device drivers, filesystem drivers and firmware images. The core kernel is MUCH smaller.
And we didnt even hit multi monitor with playing h.264 on one and wow on the other like some people do.
You won't remember anything from the movie, and you'll suck in WoW (unless it's to amuse yourself while grinding). Why the hell anyone wants to do this? You have only one pair of eyes.
Add to that the fact that you would need either very educated customers who would bring you a properly formatted PDF file each time (pure science fiction) or very educated employees who would be able to reformat the book in minutes to the customers satisfaction (also science fiction).
Uh... I understood that the PUBLISHER will be supplying the PDF file in Blackwell's business model.
Until we start denying care to everyone over, say 50 years of age, the US will not be moving to any sort of "universal single-payer health care."
Yeah, let's ignore human rights, the meaning humanity, and revert to what amounts to barbarism... This proposition reads like something taken straight from a dystopian novel. I'm not defending the fight for a few more months of life no matter the cost, but your idea is way overboard.
Mod parent insightful. Same goes for movies: "Hollywood accounting" is a term for unethical accounting measuers to reduce reported profit for a reason.
We've also all seen the classical antidepressant commercial.
I haven't. In my country, it is illegal to advertise prescription-only drugs in the TV, radio, newspapers and on outdoor billboards (not sure about the Internet). I think it should be this way everywhere, for the reasons mentioned in your post.
In my country there doesn't exist a word for tethering - if you have Internet access in your phone, everyone takes it for granted that you will be using that access from your computer rather than from your phone. That's why I wondered what the hell tethering is, and when I learned I was horrified.
On the other hand, 70% of WiFi access points in public places like galleries belong to one of the two big operators, and they charge batshit insane prices (~$3 for 1 hour of use) if you don't buy their monthly "mobile Internet" plan.
What part of your solution would stop everyone from filesharing everything, and hence getting everything for free? 5% of $0 is $0.
You missed one thing: the ISP is also offering a profit generating scheme based on copyright. Put a levy on consumer Internet service, e.g. service for anything that is not a corporation or a company. Currently copyright levies (like those on CDs) are resented, because they are based on an assumption of guilt, but if copying was legalized, then levies on consumer Internet use would be perfectly acceptable.
ISP should be required to put an allocation system in place that allows to tell you which artists you want your levy to go to, otherwise it gets distributed uniformly. Such a system is already implemented in my country with regards to 1% of income tax which you can allocate to a charity of your choice by putting its name and registry number on the tax form. (The only difference is that if you don't put in a name, the 1% goes to the state).
It doesn't work like that: the studios don't hand out "cuts" like thugs after robbing a bank. Profits of the marketers, distributors, cinameas, etc. are included in the budget, because all those people don't get "cuts" - they offer services and the studio buys them. It is not the job of the studio to ensure they get profit.
Sorry, but this sort of talk is just a weak attempt to cover up the fact that big studios are literally wading through cash, and their arguments about piracy hurting them stem from pathological greed.
1. No one will bother doing this specific exploit on a desktop computer. 2. I didn't hear about any massive pwnages of Linux servers due to an exploit, so your claim is at least disputable. 3. This is a hardware exploit, not an OS exploit.
If linux were to have the same desktop market share, the default install would have to only create a root account
This is just nonsense. It is not inherently necessary to run as everything as root to conveniently operate a computer. The only programs I run as root are: 1. CLI commands, when I do something advanced 2. Synaptic
I doubt the author is planning to die. However even if he were, the fact that his kids will be provided for is as much (or more) of an incentive to create as getting the money himself.
While we're at it, we could provide him with 100 virgins to increase the incentive. The point is whether the bargain is acceptable to society. The untimely death factor would be catered for if copyright was tied to publication date: even if he died before the book was published, his relatives could inherit the income, while preventing unreasonably long copyright terms.
Pity about your shitty upbringing, if that's the reason you don't grok human nature.
Your ad hominem is rather tasteless. I just don't buy into purely emotional arguments often presented by copyright advocates.
That plugin does not work on Linux. The point is not to implement Google Earth as a plugin. It is to implement it using Web standards (VRML, HTML, JavaScript, etc.). It's the same as using SVG + JavaScript + SMIL instead of Flash, or Google Maps which doesn't use any plugins. If they manage to pull it off, it's going to be interesting.
Maybe when you die you won't care if you leave your kids with anything
I'd rather put money in the bank while I was alive rather than leave them at the mercy of the society's interest in my works. Copyright is NOT supposed to be a life insurance.
An even better solution would be to tie copyright to first publication date instead of the author's death date. For instance, it would be MUCH easier to determine whether a given book is in the public domain, because the first impression's publication date is usually printed on the second page. The authors' death dates on the other hand may be unobtainable, especially for obscure works.
I mean, the guys not even in the ground yet and suddenly his life's work should be free?
The guy's family did not write the things that were under copyright. Giving them money for someone else's work will not cause them to create more, which is supposed to be the purpose of copyright. It may be cruel not to give money to a family in mourning, but this is what life insurance is for.
You have NO right to copy what and author/artist creates and publishes, only the author or their duly appointed agent who compensates the author for every copy of the author's work they produce based upon whatever agreement the author and agent make.
You need to grasp the fact that the "right to create copies" is actually a restriction the rest of the society, which chose to impose it on itself in order to reward the creators of valuable works. It is not a natural inalienable right. It was twisted beyond recognition and turned into a tool used to hoard knowledge and art. The current situation, when a scientific journal can ask for 40 dollars for 24 hours of access to a 40 year old publication with zero compensation for the publication's author or the author's institution, is just insane. Because the authers' end of the original bargain - the works lapse into the public domain after a reasonable period, and become free for everyone to copy and improve upon - is no longer respected, you should not be surprised that the society feels free to ignore their end as well.
why hasn't that model "won" in the marketplace by displacing the old business model?
Why wasn't slavery naturally displaced by voluntary labor?
Nobody is stipulating that removing copyright would make the authors richer. Rather, we would be better off as a society, because knowledge and art would be disseminated instead of hoarded.
The lossless audio compression worship happening on Slashdot is weird. I can understand it if you are supposed to edit or remix the material, where you'll be decompressing and compressing again several times, but for simple listening / watching, lossless formats are just a waste of bits. Anything above 256 kbps MP3 or 192 kbps Vorbis is a waste of bits too.
I'd substantially cut bandwidth costs by using 128 kbps OGG Vorbis.
(unlike in linux where you do sometimes need a recompile or even patches)
You need recompiles, because: 1. When a Linux shared library changes its functionality (even if it's still ABI-compatible), it changes its DLL name. That's actually good. 2. Linux apps never ship with all the libraries they use; those are expected to be provided by the system. 3. Because of point 2, every app needs to use the same shared library version.
You can create Linux binaries that don't need recompiles by linking statically, or by shipping your own shared libs (like everyone does on Windows); using repos works much better though.
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Linux kernel: 9 million lines of code
Hotspot: 250k lines of code
This is a bullshit statistic. A great majority (I estimate over 90%) of LOCs are device drivers, filesystem drivers and firmware images. The core kernel is MUCH smaller.
And we didnt even hit multi monitor with playing h.264 on one and wow on the other like some people do.
You won't remember anything from the movie, and you'll suck in WoW (unless it's to amuse yourself while grinding). Why the hell anyone wants to do this? You have only one pair of eyes.
Add to that the fact that you would need either very educated customers who would bring you a properly formatted PDF file each time (pure science fiction) or very educated employees who would be able to reformat the book in minutes to the customers satisfaction (also science fiction).
Uh... I understood that the PUBLISHER will be supplying the PDF file in Blackwell's business model.
Until we start denying care to everyone over, say 50 years of age, the US will not be moving to any sort of "universal single-payer health care."
Yeah, let's ignore human rights, the meaning humanity, and revert to what amounts to barbarism... This proposition reads like something taken straight from a dystopian novel. I'm not defending the fight for a few more months of life no matter the cost, but your idea is way overboard.
Mod parent insightful. Same goes for movies: "Hollywood accounting" is a term for unethical accounting measuers to reduce reported profit for a reason.
We've also all seen the classical antidepressant commercial.
I haven't. In my country, it is illegal to advertise prescription-only drugs in the TV, radio, newspapers and on outdoor billboards (not sure about the Internet). I think it should be this way everywhere, for the reasons mentioned in your post.
I'm glad this behavior is endemic to the US.
In my country there doesn't exist a word for tethering - if you have Internet access in your phone, everyone takes it for granted that you will be using that access from your computer rather than from your phone. That's why I wondered what the hell tethering is, and when I learned I was horrified.
On the other hand, 70% of WiFi access points in public places like galleries belong to one of the two big operators, and they charge batshit insane prices (~$3 for 1 hour of use) if you don't buy their monthly "mobile Internet" plan.
What part of your solution would stop everyone from filesharing everything, and hence getting everything for free? 5% of $0 is $0.
You missed one thing: the ISP is also offering a profit generating scheme based on copyright. Put a levy on consumer Internet service, e.g. service for anything that is not a corporation or a company. Currently copyright levies (like those on CDs) are resented, because they are based on an assumption of guilt, but if copying was legalized, then levies on consumer Internet use would be perfectly acceptable.
ISP should be required to put an allocation system in place that allows to tell you which artists you want your levy to go to, otherwise it gets distributed uniformly. Such a system is already implemented in my country with regards to 1% of income tax which you can allocate to a charity of your choice by putting its name and registry number on the tax form. (The only difference is that if you don't put in a name, the 1% goes to the state).
So the cited budget includes what exactly?
It doesn't work like that: the studios don't hand out "cuts" like thugs after robbing a bank. Profits of the marketers, distributors, cinameas, etc. are included in the budget, because all those people don't get "cuts" - they offer services and the studio buys them. It is not the job of the studio to ensure they get profit.
Sorry, but this sort of talk is just a weak attempt to cover up the fact that big studios are literally wading through cash, and their arguments about piracy hurting them stem from pathological greed.
1. No one will bother doing this specific exploit on a desktop computer.
2. I didn't hear about any massive pwnages of Linux servers due to an exploit, so your claim is at least disputable.
3. This is a hardware exploit, not an OS exploit.
If linux were to have the same desktop market share, the default install would have to only create a root account
This is just nonsense. It is not inherently necessary to run as everything as root to conveniently operate a computer. The only programs I run as root are:
1. CLI commands, when I do something advanced
2. Synaptic
I doubt the author is planning to die. However even if he were, the fact that his kids will be provided for is as much (or more) of an incentive to create as getting the money himself.
While we're at it, we could provide him with 100 virgins to increase the incentive. The point is whether the bargain is acceptable to society. The untimely death factor would be catered for if copyright was tied to publication date: even if he died before the book was published, his relatives could inherit the income, while preventing unreasonably long copyright terms.
Pity about your shitty upbringing, if that's the reason you don't grok human nature.
Your ad hominem is rather tasteless. I just don't buy into purely emotional arguments often presented by copyright advocates.
That plugin does not work on Linux. The point is not to implement Google Earth as a plugin. It is to implement it using Web standards (VRML, HTML, JavaScript, etc.). It's the same as using SVG + JavaScript + SMIL instead of Flash, or Google Maps which doesn't use any plugins. If they manage to pull it off, it's going to be interesting.
Vatican is not a nation state, because it does not represent any nation. It is a city state (like Monaco).
And you could witness the greatest building collapse in human history when the wind topples the tower, and the giant rotor crushes the city
If they lived in flimsy wooden houses with no insulation as most Americans do, they would.
Maybe when you die you won't care if you leave your kids with anything
I'd rather put money in the bank while I was alive rather than leave them at the mercy of the society's interest in my works. Copyright is NOT supposed to be a life insurance.
An even better solution would be to tie copyright to first publication date instead of the author's death date. For instance, it would be MUCH easier to determine whether a given book is in the public domain, because the first impression's publication date is usually printed on the second page. The authors' death dates on the other hand may be unobtainable, especially for obscure works.
I mean, the guys not even in the ground yet and suddenly his life's work should be free?
The guy's family did not write the things that were under copyright. Giving them money for someone else's work will not cause them to create more, which is supposed to be the purpose of copyright. It may be cruel not to give money to a family in mourning, but this is what life insurance is for.
You have NO right to copy what and author/artist creates and publishes, only the author or their duly appointed agent who compensates the author for every copy of the author's work they produce based upon whatever agreement the author and agent make.
You need to grasp the fact that the "right to create copies" is actually a restriction the rest of the society, which chose to impose it on itself in order to reward the creators of valuable works. It is not a natural inalienable right. It was twisted beyond recognition and turned into a tool used to hoard knowledge and art. The current situation, when a scientific journal can ask for 40 dollars for 24 hours of access to a 40 year old publication with zero compensation for the publication's author or the author's institution, is just insane. Because the authers' end of the original bargain - the works lapse into the public domain after a reasonable period, and become free for everyone to copy and improve upon - is no longer respected, you should not be surprised that the society feels free to ignore their end as well.
why hasn't that model "won" in the marketplace by displacing the old business model?
Why wasn't slavery naturally displaced by voluntary labor?
Nobody is stipulating that removing copyright would make the authors richer. Rather, we would be better off as a society, because knowledge and art would be disseminated instead of hoarded.
HTML and FLAC over HTTP for the win
The lossless audio compression worship happening on Slashdot is weird. I can understand it if you are supposed to edit or remix the material, where you'll be decompressing and compressing again several times, but for simple listening / watching, lossless formats are just a waste of bits. Anything above 256 kbps MP3 or 192 kbps Vorbis is a waste of bits too.
I'd substantially cut bandwidth costs by using 128 kbps OGG Vorbis.
Instead, we dump our shit in rivers.
"New upstream release" anyone?
(unlike in linux where you do sometimes need a recompile or even patches)
You need recompiles, because:
1. When a Linux shared library changes its functionality (even if it's still ABI-compatible), it changes its DLL name. That's actually good.
2. Linux apps never ship with all the libraries they use; those are expected to be provided by the system.
3. Because of point 2, every app needs to use the same shared library version.
You can create Linux binaries that don't need recompiles by linking statically, or by shipping your own shared libs (like everyone does on Windows); using repos works much better though.
If I want to 'pin' something in linux, its not nearly so simple.
Go to Synaptic, select the package to "pin", and then select Package->Lock Version
More like the Android approach...
Since pre-paid anonymous cell phones are almost always used for no good and legal purpose this sounds like a great idea for that kind of phone.
That's a very old and tired lie that "those with nothing to hide have nothing to fear"
http://www.biometricidentitycards.info/articles/NoHideNoFear.htm
What about whistleblowers, victims of abuse, or political dissidents? What happens when the government becomes a totalitarian regime?
Another powerful take on this:
http://tithonus.livejournal.com/339295.html