Since corporations are purely de jure entities, that only exist through fiat, through laws that state that they can exist and theoretically regulate how they can exist, how about additional rules that impose that fines and punitive damages are exclusively imposed on the part of their budget that's used for management bonuses?
There's that little matter of the ex post facto telecom immunity law passed back in 2008. Everyone gets off scott free. Even for criminal acts committed before the new law. It'll be a long, hard fight just to get this brought before the Supreme Court and there's no guarantee they will even give a shit about the US Constitution. And only then, can criminal trials commence.
Yeah, about that, aren't ex post facto laws strictly unconstitutional in the USA? I mean, in other countries it's not quite the case (France allows them, for example, but only in mitius - i.e. if the new law is more lenient) but I seem to remember that in the USA it's supposed to be very strict.
The real problem is the USA's voting system is so broken that the only thing such a candidature can achieve is giving the GOP a chance. And I'm saying this as someone (not a US citizen) who has deep respect for Lessig's views.
Can you link to a source for that? There's universal health care in France, too, yet liability insurance is still mandatory.
Liability insurance is a matter of tort law, it has nothing to do with the availability of health care. Ultimately, the health care agency becomes the demander, because free health care isn't actually free, and assholes have to face their responsibilities, or have to be made to.
There's something to this kind of news... Why do they even put an operating system on such a specialized device, that is dedicated to only one task? The point of an operating system is to be able to run different programs on the same machine. It's certainly easier to build over one, but is it worth the trouble?
I don't care if journalists have an agenda (they all have one) as long as they are upfront about it. Mike Masnick's main agenda is well known: a reform of copyright against its maximalist tendancies.
True. And a good solution against guessing attacks is to suspend login for incremental times after each failure. Not too inconvenient for occasional mistakes from the legit user, but quite disruptive of dictionary attacks and such. Heck, even a three seconds delay is disruptive to automated attacks, and is acceptable for the user.
Perfect for accounting? Nope. Good enough for most cases. When things get too complicated, better to go for a specialized tool. The thing about spreadsheets is that they are versatile and good enough for numerous problems.
I agree with your statement in general, and I think it's working in this particular case, but when you talk of oversight it reminds me that, by what I see in the news, it seems that the USA's national sport isn't football, nor baseball, nor basket-ball, but regulatory capture. Not that we are very bad at it in Europe, but the State's track record is impressive over the last few decades.
I remember reading of Warren Buffet pointing out, as an anomaly, that his personal secretary pays proportionally more taxes than he does - and he wasn't even factoring in sales tax, iirc.
I wouldn't trust the authority of a physics professor on statements that are completely external to his field. Economics and sociology are autonomous disciplines. As a physics professor, he's probably very smart, but that doesn't mean he can be trusted with, say, prescribing drugs against cancer.
They are different things, but they have something in common: registering isn't required, contrary to patents. But otherwise, you're right, the GP is full of shit.
Come to think of it: no matter what, if a company decided to sell boards strictly following the Arduino design specification as an "Arduino Clone", it would be completely unattackable on a trademark basis.
I'll add to this that, contrary to patents and copyright, which are government-granted artificial monopolies intended to favor invention and creation (debating if the employed means efficiently promote the claimed ends is off-topic here), trademark rights core basis is accurate information to customers about what they buy/use, and where it comes from. This is why Mozilla denied Debian the right to use the brands "FireFox" and "ThunderBird" for the custom builds that went by default with the distro, because they had no say on the modifications (I vaguely heard an agreement was being worked on, but I've had no news of it for a while).
Arduino is open-source hardware, its design covered under CC BY-SA 2.5. Which is actually a funny situation: the BY clause of Creative Commons imposes attribution. If the Schmuck Company sold Arduino-designed boards under the name Schmuckware, without referring to Arduino, it would infringe on the CC license. But now companies fight for the right to use Arduino as a brand. For the exclusive right to do so, in fact. Looks like something has been overlooked when Arduino has been made open-source: CC doesn't cover trademark issues.
Honestly, I think Smart Projects has the best legal grounds for claiming the trademark but, legal matters aside, this situation is quite ridiculous. To stay in spirit with the fact that it was made open-source, and avoid those legal turmoils, an association enforcing the standard, and the trademark, should have been established from the very start. Something similar to the SD-Association for SD cards, maybe.
Ditto. I use ThunderBird (well, IceDove these days), and I kinda love it, but I'm well aware that e-mail clients have been relegated to oddities. And I do have my complaints about ThunderBird, by the way. I'm tempted to browse the whole of its source in order to track down the line of code that makes it open any message at random when you open a directory, then file a patch to eliminate it.
E-mail clients could be so much more than they ever were, though. And without breaking any protocol. But e-mail itself has lost a lot (not all) of its relevance because of spam, despite there existing protocols specifically aimed at killing the latter. Inconvenient for base users, yeah, but that's where clients could have provided facilitating tools. That's why fenced environments gained traction, again.
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Since corporations are purely de jure entities, that only exist through fiat, through laws that state that they can exist and theoretically regulate how they can exist, how about additional rules that impose that fines and punitive damages are exclusively imposed on the part of their budget that's used for management bonuses?
There's that little matter of the ex post facto telecom immunity law passed back in 2008. Everyone gets off scott free. Even for criminal acts committed before the new law. It'll be a long, hard fight just to get this brought before the Supreme Court and there's no guarantee they will even give a shit about the US Constitution. And only then, can criminal trials commence.
Yeah, about that, aren't ex post facto laws strictly unconstitutional in the USA? I mean, in other countries it's not quite the case (France allows them, for example, but only in mitius - i.e. if the new law is more lenient) but I seem to remember that in the USA it's supposed to be very strict.
The real problem is the USA's voting system is so broken that the only thing such a candidature can achieve is giving the GOP a chance. And I'm saying this as someone (not a US citizen) who has deep respect for Lessig's views.
Can you link to a source for that? There's universal health care in France, too, yet liability insurance is still mandatory.
Liability insurance is a matter of tort law, it has nothing to do with the availability of health care. Ultimately, the health care agency becomes the demander, because free health care isn't actually free, and assholes have to face their responsibilities, or have to be made to.
Okay, presented that way, it makes more sense to have an OS. More than in a voting machine anyway.
There's something to this kind of news... Why do they even put an operating system on such a specialized device, that is dedicated to only one task? The point of an operating system is to be able to run different programs on the same machine. It's certainly easier to build over one, but is it worth the trouble?
I don't care if journalists have an agenda (they all have one) as long as they are upfront about it. Mike Masnick's main agenda is well known: a reform of copyright against its maximalist tendancies.
True. And a good solution against guessing attacks is to suspend login for incremental times after each failure. Not too inconvenient for occasional mistakes from the legit user, but quite disruptive of dictionary attacks and such. Heck, even a three seconds delay is disruptive to automated attacks, and is acceptable for the user.
Where did I say spreadsheets are not suitable for finance or accounting?
Perfect for accounting? Nope. Good enough for most cases. When things get too complicated, better to go for a specialized tool. The thing about spreadsheets is that they are versatile and good enough for numerous problems.
I agree with your statement in general, and I think it's working in this particular case, but when you talk of oversight it reminds me that, by what I see in the news, it seems that the USA's national sport isn't football, nor baseball, nor basket-ball, but regulatory capture. Not that we are very bad at it in Europe, but the State's track record is impressive over the last few decades.
I remember reading of Warren Buffet pointing out, as an anomaly, that his personal secretary pays proportionally more taxes than he does - and he wasn't even factoring in sales tax, iirc.
I wouldn't trust the authority of a physics professor on statements that are completely external to his field. Economics and sociology are autonomous disciplines. As a physics professor, he's probably very smart, but that doesn't mean he can be trusted with, say, prescribing drugs against cancer.
Also, just because something is "your own work" in the sense that you created it doesn't necessarily make you the copyright holder at all.
Citation Needed.
They are different things, but they have something in common: registering isn't required, contrary to patents. But otherwise, you're right, the GP is full of shit.
Come to think of it: no matter what, if a company decided to sell boards strictly following the Arduino design specification as an "Arduino Clone", it would be completely unattackable on a trademark basis.
I'll add to this that, contrary to patents and copyright, which are government-granted artificial monopolies intended to favor invention and creation (debating if the employed means efficiently promote the claimed ends is off-topic here), trademark rights core basis is accurate information to customers about what they buy/use, and where it comes from. This is why Mozilla denied Debian the right to use the brands "FireFox" and "ThunderBird" for the custom builds that went by default with the distro, because they had no say on the modifications (I vaguely heard an agreement was being worked on, but I've had no news of it for a while).
Arduino is open-source hardware, its design covered under CC BY-SA 2.5. Which is actually a funny situation: the BY clause of Creative Commons imposes attribution. If the Schmuck Company sold Arduino-designed boards under the name Schmuckware, without referring to Arduino, it would infringe on the CC license. But now companies fight for the right to use Arduino as a brand. For the exclusive right to do so, in fact. Looks like something has been overlooked when Arduino has been made open-source: CC doesn't cover trademark issues.
Honestly, I think Smart Projects has the best legal grounds for claiming the trademark but, legal matters aside, this situation is quite ridiculous. To stay in spirit with the fact that it was made open-source, and avoid those legal turmoils, an association enforcing the standard, and the trademark, should have been established from the very start. Something similar to the SD-Association for SD cards, maybe.
Ditto. I use ThunderBird (well, IceDove these days), and I kinda love it, but I'm well aware that e-mail clients have been relegated to oddities. And I do have my complaints about ThunderBird, by the way. I'm tempted to browse the whole of its source in order to track down the line of code that makes it open any message at random when you open a directory, then file a patch to eliminate it.
E-mail clients could be so much more than they ever were, though. And without breaking any protocol. But e-mail itself has lost a lot (not all) of its relevance because of spam, despite there existing protocols specifically aimed at killing the latter. Inconvenient for base users, yeah, but that's where clients could have provided facilitating tools. That's why fenced environments gained traction, again.
Sounds like typical French more than European in general.
Don't explain the joke, you fun-killer! I mean, the GP was joking, right? RIGHT?
Don't forget regulatory capture.
I assume you meant "without" in your last sentence, but Holy Chao, what a hilarous typo!
Yep, sexism from the very beginning, with a side of slut-shaming. You nailed the issue pretty well.
For instance, Zoe Quinn here, ruined an actual event for female programmers trying to make games, because she didn't get her payoff.
Nope, she didn't. The actual events surrounding the Fine Young Capitalists scam are well-documented.
Plus, a landing on a non-cartographied object. All things considered, it's still amazing.