What you say is pretty much true. Sadly, that didn't happen because Shrillary is that good - it happened because congress are such pussified pretenders. Few congressmen seem to have any clue what life is like outside the United States. They are to busy sucking the corporate teats that keep them in power to pay attention to the real world.
We watch companies fail, then get bailed out by the government, after which CEO's still get astronomical bonuses.
Yes, the bonus system is detached from reality. Any CEO whose company fails as a result of his actions, inactions, and poor judgement calls should be sacked, then sued for dereliction of duty. Said CEO should never again have access to resources which he hasn't earned, himself. Let him push a frigging broom and mop for the rest of his life.
Those astronomical bonuses to which you refer have no place in a sane world.
"And I gather that it's effective in the US. Doesn't mean the rest of the world functions in the same way."
It seems to me that your statements are the underlying premise of TFA. Someone is attempting to manipulate your legal system in a manner similar to what the US tolerates - and the ISP is fighting back!
That's the reason a certain corporation published stories online, then "assigned" the right to "protect" that IP to another company. Then they sued anyone who used even a sentence from the articles as reference. Because they didn't care about settlements, right?
People defending their IP become trolls when they start with the millions upon millions of John Doe warrants.
To put things in perspective, when a burglar steals my precious (to me) thingamabob, it doesn't give me the right to perform an armed door-to-door search of my neighborhood, and my hometown. Nor does it give me the right to expand that search to neighboring towns, if I don't discover my thingamabob in my own hometown.
Further, the court cases make many of those "defenders" into trolls. In perspective, my precious thingamabob is only precious to me. Market value of my thingamabob is only ten bucks. You can get one at Wally's World of Whacky Weird Shit brand new for fifteen, and my used thingamabob is depreciated. The ONLY thing that makes it precious is, that it is MINE. So, if/when I discover the thief, comparable behaviour to these "defenders" would be to ask the judge to imprison the thief for life plus sixty years, to be served consecutively.
Jim Baen, of Baen books put things in perspective, when he said that "pirates" are comparable to children stealing penny candy. You don't gun down a child for stealing a piece of bubble gum! At most, you talk to the kid's mommy, and let her know how her little precious behaves when she is not watching.
Defending IP? No, not at all. If I had knowledge that I needed to defend, I'd lock it up, in my head, so that no one could take it from me.
The business model is broken, and a lot of very intelligent people have already made that observation. The people defending the business model are those who lack both intelligence and imagination.
I guess that justification works almost anywhere. Yes, I have had to stop. In Texarkana, there used to be a terribly unsafe junction at State Line Avenue. I'm a bold driver, some might say aggressive, but getting onto the interstate from north bound State Line onto east bound I-30 was almost suicidal. I did indeed stop there, twice. Then I decided to avoid that intersection, and drove to the Airport exit to get on the interstate.
Recently, that junction has been rebuilt, and it is much safer.
All the same, I've seen a large number of Virginians come to a stop at a yield sign when there was absolutely no reason to stop. The only reason to HAVE a 1/4 mile of acceleration ramp, is to accelerate up to highway speed BEFORE you need to merge into traffic. A driver SHOULD BE studying his mirrors and turning his head from the moment he gets on the acceleration lane, and adjusting speed to fit into his chosen hole in traffic.
"the overwhelming majority of people look awful enough wearing clothes, much less naked. "
You don't think that it's possible that you've been conditioned by the media? For some reason, your comment reminds me of all those campaigns to make women feel good about themselves. To many women beat themselves up because they can't look like Hollywood stars. Women spend fortunes in beauty parlors and spas, trying to look like the creatures we see on screen. Strangely, even the stars don't look like what we see on screen!
Training soldiers and sailors has ALWAYS been more expensive than equipping them. The only exceptions to those rules are pilots. But - if I extend the training to include not only the pilot, but all the support personnel required to arm, fuel, and maintenance the aircraft - then yes, training is still more expensive than the weapon.
Or, maybe you thought that an aviation electrician's mate was born with all that knowledge? Or an aviation ordnance man? Aviation structural mechanic? And, there's a whole boatload more support personnel!
To summarize the position advocated in your multiple links:
"I don't have the balls to defend myself effectively, so it's necessary that we restrict any people who might have the balls to defend themselves effectively!"
You can't exactly "uninstall" the browser, but you can remove it from the installation media, thereby preventing it's installation. But, you knew that, right?
I saw that. I thought, "Hey, I could be a grammar nazi here." Then, I thought, "Yeah, but why be a douche?" Then, I found your post. So, yeah . . . whatever . . .
I've driven everywhere in the US. The one place that has an insane practice that really pisses me off, is Virginia. Those people simply do not understand what a yield sign means. They want to STOP! What's really crazy is, the same people will do a rolling stop at a stop sign in a school zone, but they think they need to stop at a yield sign on the interstate. I damned near ran a couple of those dummies over before I adjusted to it.
Agreed. I've screwed up behind the wheel. I've scared myself shitless a couple of times. I've never blamed it on other people though. I know that I screwed up, I knew it immediately. Self examination and honesty helped me to LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES, and I became a better driver.
Chumps who blame other fools for their own inadequacies never learn, and they can't improve their performance.
Such people will probably become a statistic some day. The only bad side is, they may well cause someone else to become another statistic, at the same time.
The "border" is much larger than you seem to imply.
Every airport at which international flights routinely land is also a "border". And, if a small plane from Mexico or Canada can land at a small airport, then that would be declared a "border" as well. And, if you have a few acres of land near you where an illegal flight MIGHT land, it's only a little bit more of a stretch to say that it could be an airport.
This is the slippery slope by which DHS can barge into any home in America. Any. No one is safe.
Actually, your sarcastic statement may be more true than you suspect.
Merely skinning another phone company's Android wouldn't do much for Blackberry, or any other phone company. But, if all the stupid shit that has been added on by the phone companies were dropped, and Android were recompiled and built FOR SECURITY - then it just might have been a better Blackberry OS.
You will note, please, that I'm not stating that as a certainty. I'm merely pointing out that Android has been mismanaged by almost everyone, for their own profit. Linux is always a good starting point for a good operating system. But, any idiot with root can destroy the best of operating systems.
I disagree, in that a lot of those videos are indeed fair use. Corporate America has been working to redefine fair use, but recording yourself doing something, such as playing a game, is fair use.
The problem with North Korea's video is that it isn't for "personal use", but for commercial and/or political use. There is a huge difference between private, personal use and political use. A foreign government can't just take your stuff and apply it to their political goals, without permission and or compensation. Not unless they have the political and/or military power to back up that seizure.
If millions of users need an app, or a functionality, that is only available at prices up to ten thousand dollars per seat - you can expect an open source alternative to spring up, sooner or later.
Yeah, call it spite. Or, you could say, "It's the economy, stupid!"
If it can be demonstrated that people can teach an animal to roll over and play dead, should everyone in the world who wishes to do so have to pay ten, fifty, or maybe a thousand dollars to the guy who figured out how to do so?
I say no.
In the case of Microsoft, they taught computers how to blue screen and play dead. I'm not willing to pay for that privilege, thank you very much. Ditto with Autocad, Dragon Naturally Speaking, and the hundreds of other useful things that a person can do with a computer. My computer serves ME, not some faceless corporation amassing unmeasurable fortunes in offshore accounts.
Yes, and most of those "defensive offensive" suits are filed in East Texas, coincidentally, right?
Come on, think. Why do the more legitimate corporations NEED a defense? The only reason they need defenses, is because there are scumbags out there trying to get rich off of other people's work, and other people's investments. There are predatory people who have incorporated themselves, with the sole purpose of finding, and acquiring useless, stupid, obvious patents, for the purpose of raping legitimate businesses.
If you can't name a patent troll in less than two minutes, then you're not competent to use Google.
The best thing that could happen to businesses, worldwide, is that tomorrow morning, all software and process patents were declared null and void. Real patents all downgraded to ten or fifteen years duration, preferably ten.
Copyright law needs to be stood on it's head as well.
I approve of both patents, and copyright. If they were fixed, I would begin to respect the legal systems that surround them. As things stand, I have zero respect for any of it. Zero.
Good question - ASSuming that the XP box is the only box they own, how can they discuss their problem on an internet forum? It's not like XP owners are likely to live near a library, or have a relative, or an internet cafe nearby. None of them live near a campus with internet access. Geeez, this is an insurmountable problem, isn't it? Unless, of course, someone actually does backups, and restored his system to a pre-update status.
Among other reasons, he's already posted on slashdot. One geek or another who happens to be in favor of the other guys will carry the tale of this entire discussion back to the other company's forum. At which time everyone in the world with even the slightest interest will log in or read anonymously to offer their opinions. Any potential claim of ignorance is gone with the wind.
Wait, wait, wait. CAT people? As in "Cat Power"? Why on earth would anyone WANT a diesel engine if it's not a Caterpillar? You've lost me here - few people even try to argue that Cat is the best, and most of those work for Cummins or Detroit. The rest are from Europe.
No citation? I'm with wierd_w here, I learned the same thing he's learned. If the problem were in the cortex, some of my own observations would be invalid.
I can pick up something, and it looks black, or blue, or whatever, depending on it's actual color. Carrying that item out into bright sunlight can sometimes reveal that it's some kind of purple. The sunlight doesn't help me to actually say what color it is, only that there is red in it.
While still in high school, I bought a very shiny black car. My Mama said it wasn't black, but maroon. I had that car for more than a week, before a bright sunshiny day allowed me to see the red. Apparently, the brain can process the red and the green, if the eyes are supplied with enough of it.
Of course, those are just personal observations, with no "science" behind them.
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What you say is pretty much true. Sadly, that didn't happen because Shrillary is that good - it happened because congress are such pussified pretenders. Few congressmen seem to have any clue what life is like outside the United States. They are to busy sucking the corporate teats that keep them in power to pay attention to the real world.
We watch companies fail, then get bailed out by the government, after which CEO's still get astronomical bonuses.
Yes, the bonus system is detached from reality. Any CEO whose company fails as a result of his actions, inactions, and poor judgement calls should be sacked, then sued for dereliction of duty. Said CEO should never again have access to resources which he hasn't earned, himself. Let him push a frigging broom and mop for the rest of his life.
Those astronomical bonuses to which you refer have no place in a sane world.
"And I gather that it's effective in the US. Doesn't mean the rest of the world functions in the same way."
It seems to me that your statements are the underlying premise of TFA. Someone is attempting to manipulate your legal system in a manner similar to what the US tolerates - and the ISP is fighting back!
Two thumbs up!
That's the reason a certain corporation published stories online, then "assigned" the right to "protect" that IP to another company. Then they sued anyone who used even a sentence from the articles as reference. Because they didn't care about settlements, right?
Maybe you're not keeping up with current events?
People defending their IP become trolls when they start with the millions upon millions of John Doe warrants.
To put things in perspective, when a burglar steals my precious (to me) thingamabob, it doesn't give me the right to perform an armed door-to-door search of my neighborhood, and my hometown. Nor does it give me the right to expand that search to neighboring towns, if I don't discover my thingamabob in my own hometown.
Further, the court cases make many of those "defenders" into trolls. In perspective, my precious thingamabob is only precious to me. Market value of my thingamabob is only ten bucks. You can get one at Wally's World of Whacky Weird Shit brand new for fifteen, and my used thingamabob is depreciated. The ONLY thing that makes it precious is, that it is MINE. So, if/when I discover the thief, comparable behaviour to these "defenders" would be to ask the judge to imprison the thief for life plus sixty years, to be served consecutively.
Jim Baen, of Baen books put things in perspective, when he said that "pirates" are comparable to children stealing penny candy. You don't gun down a child for stealing a piece of bubble gum! At most, you talk to the kid's mommy, and let her know how her little precious behaves when she is not watching.
Defending IP? No, not at all. If I had knowledge that I needed to defend, I'd lock it up, in my head, so that no one could take it from me.
The business model is broken, and a lot of very intelligent people have already made that observation. The people defending the business model are those who lack both intelligence and imagination.
I guess that justification works almost anywhere. Yes, I have had to stop. In Texarkana, there used to be a terribly unsafe junction at State Line Avenue. I'm a bold driver, some might say aggressive, but getting onto the interstate from north bound State Line onto east bound I-30 was almost suicidal. I did indeed stop there, twice. Then I decided to avoid that intersection, and drove to the Airport exit to get on the interstate.
Recently, that junction has been rebuilt, and it is much safer.
All the same, I've seen a large number of Virginians come to a stop at a yield sign when there was absolutely no reason to stop. The only reason to HAVE a 1/4 mile of acceleration ramp, is to accelerate up to highway speed BEFORE you need to merge into traffic. A driver SHOULD BE studying his mirrors and turning his head from the moment he gets on the acceleration lane, and adjusting speed to fit into his chosen hole in traffic.
"the overwhelming majority of people look awful enough wearing clothes, much less naked. "
You don't think that it's possible that you've been conditioned by the media? For some reason, your comment reminds me of all those campaigns to make women feel good about themselves. To many women beat themselves up because they can't look like Hollywood stars. Women spend fortunes in beauty parlors and spas, trying to look like the creatures we see on screen. Strangely, even the stars don't look like what we see on screen!
Just food for thought . . .
Billboards in Europe have penises? Interesting. Where would I have to look for vaginas? You've really got me curious now!
Training soldiers and sailors has ALWAYS been more expensive than equipping them. The only exceptions to those rules are pilots. But - if I extend the training to include not only the pilot, but all the support personnel required to arm, fuel, and maintenance the aircraft - then yes, training is still more expensive than the weapon.
Or, maybe you thought that an aviation electrician's mate was born with all that knowledge? Or an aviation ordnance man? Aviation structural mechanic? And, there's a whole boatload more support personnel!
To summarize the position advocated in your multiple links:
"I don't have the balls to defend myself effectively, so it's necessary that we restrict any people who might have the balls to defend themselves effectively!"
You can't exactly "uninstall" the browser, but you can remove it from the installation media, thereby preventing it's installation. But, you knew that, right?
http://www.nliteos.com/
It's been years since I used this, but it worked great back then!
I saw that. I thought, "Hey, I could be a grammar nazi here." Then, I thought, "Yeah, but why be a douche?" Then, I found your post. So, yeah . . . whatever . . .
"excites their target audience into high levels of self-congratulatory mental masturbation?"
Mental? Why would you throw such an extraneous word into that statement?
'Scuse me, I gotta get strokin'!
Never ask a man if he's from Texas. If he is, he'll tell you soon enough. If he's not, there's no need to embarrass him.
I've driven everywhere in the US. The one place that has an insane practice that really pisses me off, is Virginia. Those people simply do not understand what a yield sign means. They want to STOP! What's really crazy is, the same people will do a rolling stop at a stop sign in a school zone, but they think they need to stop at a yield sign on the interstate. I damned near ran a couple of those dummies over before I adjusted to it.
Agreed. I've screwed up behind the wheel. I've scared myself shitless a couple of times. I've never blamed it on other people though. I know that I screwed up, I knew it immediately. Self examination and honesty helped me to LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES, and I became a better driver.
Chumps who blame other fools for their own inadequacies never learn, and they can't improve their performance.
Such people will probably become a statistic some day. The only bad side is, they may well cause someone else to become another statistic, at the same time.
The "border" is much larger than you seem to imply.
Every airport at which international flights routinely land is also a "border". And, if a small plane from Mexico or Canada can land at a small airport, then that would be declared a "border" as well. And, if you have a few acres of land near you where an illegal flight MIGHT land, it's only a little bit more of a stretch to say that it could be an airport.
This is the slippery slope by which DHS can barge into any home in America. Any. No one is safe.
Actually, your sarcastic statement may be more true than you suspect.
Merely skinning another phone company's Android wouldn't do much for Blackberry, or any other phone company. But, if all the stupid shit that has been added on by the phone companies were dropped, and Android were recompiled and built FOR SECURITY - then it just might have been a better Blackberry OS.
You will note, please, that I'm not stating that as a certainty. I'm merely pointing out that Android has been mismanaged by almost everyone, for their own profit. Linux is always a good starting point for a good operating system. But, any idiot with root can destroy the best of operating systems.
I disagree, in that a lot of those videos are indeed fair use. Corporate America has been working to redefine fair use, but recording yourself doing something, such as playing a game, is fair use.
The problem with North Korea's video is that it isn't for "personal use", but for commercial and/or political use. There is a huge difference between private, personal use and political use. A foreign government can't just take your stuff and apply it to their political goals, without permission and or compensation. Not unless they have the political and/or military power to back up that seizure.
Call it spite, if you like.
If millions of users need an app, or a functionality, that is only available at prices up to ten thousand dollars per seat - you can expect an open source alternative to spring up, sooner or later.
Yeah, call it spite. Or, you could say, "It's the economy, stupid!"
If it can be demonstrated that people can teach an animal to roll over and play dead, should everyone in the world who wishes to do so have to pay ten, fifty, or maybe a thousand dollars to the guy who figured out how to do so?
I say no.
In the case of Microsoft, they taught computers how to blue screen and play dead. I'm not willing to pay for that privilege, thank you very much. Ditto with Autocad, Dragon Naturally Speaking, and the hundreds of other useful things that a person can do with a computer. My computer serves ME, not some faceless corporation amassing unmeasurable fortunes in offshore accounts.
Open source for the win!
Yes, and most of those "defensive offensive" suits are filed in East Texas, coincidentally, right?
Come on, think. Why do the more legitimate corporations NEED a defense? The only reason they need defenses, is because there are scumbags out there trying to get rich off of other people's work, and other people's investments. There are predatory people who have incorporated themselves, with the sole purpose of finding, and acquiring useless, stupid, obvious patents, for the purpose of raping legitimate businesses.
If you can't name a patent troll in less than two minutes, then you're not competent to use Google.
The best thing that could happen to businesses, worldwide, is that tomorrow morning, all software and process patents were declared null and void. Real patents all downgraded to ten or fifteen years duration, preferably ten.
Copyright law needs to be stood on it's head as well.
I approve of both patents, and copyright. If they were fixed, I would begin to respect the legal systems that surround them. As things stand, I have zero respect for any of it. Zero.
Good question - ASSuming that the XP box is the only box they own, how can they discuss their problem on an internet forum? It's not like XP owners are likely to live near a library, or have a relative, or an internet cafe nearby. None of them live near a campus with internet access. Geeez, this is an insurmountable problem, isn't it? Unless, of course, someone actually does backups, and restored his system to a pre-update status.
Phhhht - silly questions form silly AC's.
Among other reasons, he's already posted on slashdot. One geek or another who happens to be in favor of the other guys will carry the tale of this entire discussion back to the other company's forum. At which time everyone in the world with even the slightest interest will log in or read anonymously to offer their opinions. Any potential claim of ignorance is gone with the wind.
Wait, wait, wait. CAT people? As in "Cat Power"? Why on earth would anyone WANT a diesel engine if it's not a Caterpillar? You've lost me here - few people even try to argue that Cat is the best, and most of those work for Cummins or Detroit. The rest are from Europe.
No citation? I'm with wierd_w here, I learned the same thing he's learned. If the problem were in the cortex, some of my own observations would be invalid.
I can pick up something, and it looks black, or blue, or whatever, depending on it's actual color. Carrying that item out into bright sunlight can sometimes reveal that it's some kind of purple. The sunlight doesn't help me to actually say what color it is, only that there is red in it.
While still in high school, I bought a very shiny black car. My Mama said it wasn't black, but maroon. I had that car for more than a week, before a bright sunshiny day allowed me to see the red. Apparently, the brain can process the red and the green, if the eyes are supplied with enough of it.
Of course, those are just personal observations, with no "science" behind them.