Meanwhile admirers of the shoe attacker showered the anonymous young man with promises of everything from Nike trainers to replace his lost footwear, to iPads, sex and jobs."
So all one has to do to get free sex in China is build a Great Firewall?
That's what people need to be aware of with this. It's not about the cost, it's about controlling the flow of information and stifling technological progress to secure corporate profits. And nobody should stand for it.
Never thought I'd see the day when people thought being in front of the boob tube was progress.
Some of you may remember that graf_chokolo promised if he was pushed, that he would release all of his PS3 hypervisor knowledge to the world. He kept good on this promise, releasing what is being dubbed as the Hypervisor Bible.
And we have the beginnings of the SONY religion.:)
"Refining an existing technique that's been used to successfully recover fingerprint detail from smooth objects such as glass and plastic, forensic scientists have managed to create a kind of photo negative of fingerprint impressions on fabric. It's a bit hit and miss at the moment, but even when clear ridge detail isn't retrieved, the technique could still prove useful to investigators looking for other evidence."
Your Honor I didn't grab her 'couch'! Oh wait, wrong prints.
I think of Baen Books, for example, which doesn't put any DRM restrictions on its content but is one of the least pirated book publishers.
So we've developed an accurate method to measure piracy rates and it's subsequent consequences?
"Ambiguity surrounds the real impact of digital book piracy, notes Brian O'Leary in an interview with O'Reilly Radar...
Oh, wait, no we haven't. Might it be better to wait till we can accurately measure something before we start proclaiming one should do this or that? I know it makes some feel better to reiterate tired cliches but the potential consequences of piracy are too big for such.
“You leapfrog over the need for fixed lines,” said Adam Kendall, head of the sub-Saharan Africa power practice for McKinsey & Company, the global consulting firm. “Renewable energy becomes more and more important in less and less developed markets."
Much like wireless "leapfrogged" the need for a heavy infrastructure.
Yet while these off-grid systems have proved their worth, the lack of an effective distribution network or a reliable way of financing the start-up costs has prevented them from becoming more widespread.
which, it plans to restrict, if they can go along with their anti net neutrality move. turn the internet into cable tv for dozens of millions of people.
Thankfully wireless isn't the only way to get online, and even wired AT&T isn't the only one.
Apparently "giant" has a new definition, anyway I feel sorry for all the people who spent $249 for the required device. Speaking of which how many new devices will have to be purchased to utilize this "new" spectrum?
"File-sharers aren't motivated by financial gain, but by altruism, according to an economist. Joe Cox, of the Portsmouth Business School, said those uploading content for others to share don't see what they're doing as illegal, meaning current tactics to deter piracy are doomed to fail. 'The survey data suggested there was a deep-seated belief that this type of activity shouldn't be illegal, that there was no criminal act involved.'"
There's a word for individuals who practice altruism with creative content. It's called open source and unlike the "altruism" practiced by copyright infringers, it's done with the permission and respect of all parties concerned. Truly the distinction between selfish and unselfish. The "I made that's" versus the "I copied that".
Clearly that doesn't fit the situation. But you know, we are told since childhood that being honest to others in your dealings and relations is the best policy.
Wife: Honey, does this dress make me look fat? Husband: No honey, now let's have sex.
My question is, do we want DRM on the platform? Slippery slope here -- First it will be to protect movies. Then it will spread to apps, and then to critical parts of the Android OS, which makes it easier for cellular carriers to force device makers to lock their phones down.
Considering how cellular networks work with their "always necessary"* connections DRM would be more effective. And even setting aside that the carriers already have a degree of control over who connects to their network. So in other words the slippery slope was already part of the design and the remaining question is how far does the powers that be want to push it.
Technically they weren't violating the GPL, but if you remember back when this came to light on Slashdot, it was the "spirit" that was being violated. Much like technically there's isn't theft, but the spirit in which artists release their works are violated. Of course all this is a bunch of hooey if there's no such thing as the "spirit" of an agreement. I'll leave it up to the audience to discuss the ramifications of that.
Also the one I responded to missed the point as well. It's the inconsistency of the use of the concept "stolen" that the OP was pointing out. Also while claiming others work as one's own is plagiarism, I believe it's also a copyright violation as well.
There's touches of irony as well when one looks at the thread referenced and the present thread not just in the moderation, but the fact that one is a pseudonym and the other is an AC. Guess slashdot was correct in keeping the AC designation.
Of course, producing the very first copy is not nearly free. From an economic standpoint, the market SHOULD be coming up with a way for people to pay for that first copy to be created directly rather than greatly overcharging for the copying but paying nothing for the part that is actually worth something. That process is being delayed as distributors cling desperately to the old now broken model using increasingly draconian laws and ever more complex and expensive DRM to create an artificial scarcity their model needs.
There already is a process and has been working since the Industrial Revolution. It's called mass production and while it's best known for producing physical goods, the same economic principle of distributing the total cost over enough items to make the price affordable for the masses still holds for digital goods. The thing that's changing is distribution and is what some are attempting to refer to when using the "old and busted" model argument.
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PayPal Accuses Google of Poaching Mobile Payment Trade Secrets, Personnel
So Paypal doesn't want Google lightly cooking their eggs...or personnel?
Maybe Radio Shack can become the new Sharper Image?
Incredible Universe
The only thing it means is that the word "open" has lost it's meaning.
When was the last time anyone flew an airplane into an American skyscraper?
Meanwhile admirers of the shoe attacker showered the anonymous young man with promises of everything from Nike trainers to replace his lost footwear, to iPads, sex and jobs."
So all one has to do to get free sex in China is build a Great Firewall?
A finite price for something "unlimited"? Interesting. Tragedy of the commons comes to wireless.
That's what people need to be aware of with this. It's not about the cost, it's about controlling the flow of information and stifling technological progress to secure corporate profits. And nobody should stand for it.
Never thought I'd see the day when people thought being in front of the boob tube was progress.
Advertizing is not valuable to me. Therefore, I block it, just as I block any protocol that isn't valuable to me.
You block slashdot then? How about any of the other sites you use that use advertising?
Some of you may remember that graf_chokolo promised if he was pushed, that he would release all of his PS3 hypervisor knowledge to the world. He kept good on this promise, releasing what is being dubbed as the Hypervisor Bible.
And we have the beginnings of the SONY religion. :)
"Refining an existing technique that's been used to successfully recover fingerprint detail from smooth objects such as glass and plastic, forensic scientists have managed to create a kind of photo negative of fingerprint impressions on fabric. It's a bit hit and miss at the moment, but even when clear ridge detail isn't retrieved, the technique could still prove useful to investigators looking for other evidence."
Your Honor I didn't grab her 'couch'! Oh wait, wrong prints.
The CRTC has a fair number of ex-industry executives on the board.
Apparently none were ex-Netflix.
Open-source Challenge To Exchange Gains Steam
Wonderful. When did Valve get into Groupware?
I think of Baen Books, for example, which doesn't put any DRM restrictions on its content but is one of the least pirated book publishers.
So we've developed an accurate method to measure piracy rates and it's subsequent consequences?
"Ambiguity surrounds the real impact of digital book piracy, notes Brian O'Leary in an interview with O'Reilly Radar...
Oh, wait, no we haven't. Might it be better to wait till we can accurately measure something before we start proclaiming one should do this or that? I know it makes some feel better to reiterate tired cliches but the potential consequences of piracy are too big for such.
“You leapfrog over the need for fixed lines,” said Adam Kendall, head of the sub-Saharan Africa power practice for McKinsey & Company, the global consulting firm. “Renewable energy becomes more and more important in less and less developed markets."
Much like wireless "leapfrogged" the need for a heavy infrastructure.
Yet while these off-grid systems have proved their worth, the lack of an effective distribution network or a reliable way of financing the start-up costs has prevented them from becoming more widespread.
Microloans.
which, it plans to restrict, if they can go along with their anti net neutrality move. turn the internet into cable tv for dozens of millions of people.
Thankfully wireless isn't the only way to get online, and even wired AT&T isn't the only one.
Apparently "giant" has a new definition, anyway I feel sorry for all the people who spent $249 for the required device. Speaking of which how many new devices will have to be purchased to utilize this "new" spectrum?
Reason. Linux users refuse to pay for their software so it's not worth targeting it as a platform.
So what does the high piracy rate on the Windows platform say?
"File-sharers aren't motivated by financial gain, but by altruism, according to an economist. Joe Cox, of the Portsmouth Business School, said those uploading content for others to share don't see what they're doing as illegal, meaning current tactics to deter piracy are doomed to fail. 'The survey data suggested there was a deep-seated belief that this type of activity shouldn't be illegal, that there was no criminal act involved.'"
There's a word for individuals who practice altruism with creative content. It's called open source and unlike the "altruism" practiced by copyright infringers, it's done with the permission and respect of all parties concerned. Truly the distinction between selfish and unselfish. The "I made that's" versus the "I copied that".
Clearly that doesn't fit the situation. But you know, we are told since childhood that being honest to others in your dealings and relations is the best policy.
Wife: Honey, does this dress make me look fat?
Husband: No honey, now let's have sex.
My question is, do we want DRM on the platform? Slippery slope here -- First it will be to protect movies. Then it will spread to apps, and then to critical parts of the Android OS, which makes it easier for cellular carriers to force device makers to lock their phones down.
Considering how cellular networks work with their "always necessary"* connections DRM would be more effective. And even setting aside that the carriers already have a degree of control over who connects to their network. So in other words the slippery slope was already part of the design and the remaining question is how far does the powers that be want to push it.
*Yes I know about WiFi enabled phones.
Technically they weren't violating the GPL, but if you remember back when this came to light on Slashdot, it was the "spirit" that was being violated. Much like technically there's isn't theft, but the spirit in which artists release their works are violated. Of course all this is a bunch of hooey if there's no such thing as the "spirit" of an agreement. I'll leave it up to the audience to discuss the ramifications of that.
Also the one I responded to missed the point as well. It's the inconsistency of the use of the concept "stolen" that the OP was pointing out. Also while claiming others work as one's own is plagiarism, I believe it's also a copyright violation as well.
Is that what Tivo was doing? Presenting GPL code as their own?
There's touches of irony as well when one looks at the thread referenced and the present thread not just in the moderation, but the fact that one is a pseudonym and the other is an AC. Guess slashdot was correct in keeping the AC designation.
Of course, producing the very first copy is not nearly free. From an economic standpoint, the market SHOULD be coming up with a way for people to pay for that first copy to be created directly rather than greatly overcharging for the copying but paying nothing for the part that is actually worth something. That process is being delayed as distributors cling desperately to the old now broken model using increasingly draconian laws and ever more complex and expensive DRM to create an artificial scarcity their model needs.
There already is a process and has been working since the Industrial Revolution. It's called mass production and while it's best known for producing physical goods, the same economic principle of distributing the total cost over enough items to make the price affordable for the masses still holds for digital goods. The thing that's changing is distribution and is what some are attempting to refer to when using the "old and busted" model argument.