Humm, I'm sorry to barge in like this. I'm not a US citizen, I'm from one of the so-called PIGS:)
But it seems you had some people there shouting before those crisis happened, and all they got was embarrassment and getting laughed at. ( check "Overdose: the next financial crisis" on youtube). It really doesn't matter anymore. We're fscked anyway.
Well, that's the problem of being THE tool for presentations and aggressively market it like that. You don't make a presentation using a computer, you make a "Powerpoint". So, it's only to be expected that when shit hits the fan, it's not computer-based presentations that get it, it's PowerPoint.
No no no... I payed for the FREE access to the network when I purchased the PS3. It's NOT ok to change the terms after I already payed, just because you say so.
And no, I don't want to pay for the FREE access, because I ALREADY payed for that service when aquiring the PS3.
Well, then it's ok for you if they suddenly go and change the terms of service to, let's say, require you to pay a fee each time you log onto the PSN? After all, if you don't accept, you don't get to use it, f*ck you very much !
Of course, you are forgetting (or ignoring) that people do make buying decisions based on the service they are advertised. It's NOT ok to change them in the future and screw all the customers. People PAYED for the OtherOS support. Now, Sony is simply ripping them off of what they payed for. Everything else is secondary.
And that's EXACTLY why software patents are wrong and insane! A patent without full disclosure is not a patent, does not benefit society and innovation in exchange for the limited monopoly, and since full disclosure would break any sense in patenting software...
Well, that's another way of looking at the situation. Seems that "Western Democracies" are more and more a facade for corrupt interests. Media, of course, is not immune to this; in fact, I'd say it's one of the main vehicles of said interests.
Sad to conclude that it's really a global situation.
Dear Portuguese fellow countryman, our government in no better then others. In fact, I'd say it's probably one of the more corrupt govs in the so-called "Western World". I agree on the Streisand effect, but it simply has no consequences... I'd go as far as to say it's a void effect... you get all the shouting and media frenzy, but it's all quickly forgotten and swept under the rug (normally by said media).
And you'd have to agree... it's a damn selective effect... and the ones who select the causes normally are the ones that benefit most of it.
Let me just remind you about our great ID Card scheme, about our chipped car tags, about all the security hype...
We have almost no real free media here! Remember the suspicious cancelling of Friday Special News on Channel 4?
Yes, I could agree with you. If the world was as sane and balanced as you color it, I'm sure we all could agree on some sort of balanced system. But you know damn well, contrary to your soft words, that it's none of that, it's completely shifted towards big protection and even bigger and insane restrictions.
Perhaps, just perhaps, if the level of protection was really intended to be fair and not to fill up large multinational and individual pockets, much more people could benefit from the advances in science / tech. Do you think Intel would simply cease to exist if the laws were more balanced? Again, who do you think invents / develops / creates out of the void?
Yes. All of those went fine without copyright for centuries, thank you very much, specially art, wich seems to be the more controversial one lately. Granted, much less grand-grand-sons would continue to profit from work they never did, but I really have no sympathy for them.
If you don't want others to "use" your work, keep it to yourself! Lock it and throw away the key. Everybody "uses" work from others, or do you come up with your "work" completely out of the void?
While you say you can see the problems that can arise from such law, surprisingly you don't see that laws like this are completely redundant and unneeded. Many would agree with you that those groups of individuals you mention should get no pity, and should be handled by the law; but they should be punished for train-derailing, or for foreigner-smashing, or for hate-mongering... not by being labeled a "terrist group" or something similar. These laws, while adding too little, can bring all sorts of wrongs within.
I'd mod you up, had I the points to do it! Excellent points you make. Of course, you're putting the finger on the wound there, and basically explaining why it will never be done as it should: the whole world (and the US above all) is geared in other directions. We have the constant wars of "democracy spreading", we have the "global warming", and most of all we have the banking systems pulling us all in the wrong directions. Unfortunately, it will never happen as it should. At least for the time being.
Addresses are not personal. They can be connected to you in some ways, but are not personal per se. For instance, when you get a bill by mail, you have the mail address AND the person name to whom the service is registered. Imagine a situation like this: gunshots are reported as being shot from address x; does that automatically implies the owner did the shooting?
License plates and phone numbers are more or less the same. I'm sure you can come up with some examples of your own to illustrate.
As for your email, that one is on a diferent level. With email you're supposed to have identification AND authentication. (name + password)
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Well, go tell that to the air traffic controllers in Spain ... it was not tanks, I know, I know...
Well, you were going so well, but your last sentence really ruined it ....
That is why, under the rule of law, we have trials.
And, under a sane democratic lawful state, at least in criminal cases, we have "innocent until proven guilty".
Nope, he's not a combatant of any kind ... he's a TERRIST!!!!!!
Humm, I'm sorry to barge in like this. I'm not a US citizen, I'm from one of the so-called PIGS :)
But it seems you had some people there shouting before those crisis happened, and all they got was embarrassment and getting laughed at. ( check "Overdose: the next financial crisis" on youtube).
It really doesn't matter anymore. We're fscked anyway.
You forgot to check "Post Anonymously", troll.
Wish I had mod points now ... as I don't have any, congrats to your excellent comment! Insightful really fits it!
Welcome to the sad, sad reality of these days, my dear next-door neighbour :)
(Hint: I live next door, to the Atlantic side)
Well, that's the problem of being THE tool for presentations and aggressively market it like that. You don't make a presentation using a computer, you make a "Powerpoint". So, it's only to be expected that when shit hits the fan, it's not computer-based presentations that get it, it's PowerPoint.
Please mod him up! Where are the mod points when you need them ...
No no no ... I payed for the FREE access to the network when I purchased the PS3. It's NOT ok to change the terms after I already payed, just because you say so.
And no, I don't want to pay for the FREE access, because I ALREADY payed for that service when aquiring the PS3.
Oh well, trolls will be trolls ...
Well, then it's ok for you if they suddenly go and change the terms of service to, let's say, require you to pay a fee each time you log onto the PSN? After all, if you don't accept, you don't get to use it, f*ck you very much !
Of course, you are forgetting (or ignoring) that people do make buying decisions based on the service they are advertised. It's NOT ok to change them in the future and screw all the customers. People PAYED for the OtherOS support. Now, Sony is simply ripping them off of what they payed for. Everything else is secondary.
WOL is Wake-On-Lan. It involves waking up a remote (read:in the network) computer BIOS by sending a "magic" packet to its net address.
Jeez at least learn what you're talking about!
And that's EXACTLY why software patents are wrong and insane! A patent without full disclosure is not a patent, does not benefit society and innovation in exchange for the limited monopoly, and since full disclosure would break any sense in patenting software...
"However, that leads to a possible over accel condition..."
Ok, strap your seat-belts, here we goooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!......
Well, that's another way of looking at the situation. Seems that "Western Democracies" are more and more a facade for corrupt interests. Media, of course, is not immune to this; in fact, I'd say it's one of the main vehicles of said interests.
Sad to conclude that it's really a global situation.
Dear Portuguese fellow countryman, our government in no better then others. In fact, I'd say it's probably one of the more corrupt govs in the so-called "Western World". I agree on the Streisand effect, but it simply has no consequences ... I'd go as far as to say it's a void effect ... you get all the shouting and media frenzy, but it's all quickly forgotten and swept under the rug (normally by said media).
And you'd have to agree ... it's a damn selective effect ... and the ones who select the causes normally are the ones that benefit most of it.
Let me just remind you about our great ID Card scheme, about our chipped car tags, about all the security hype...
We have almost no real free media here! Remember the suspicious cancelling of Friday Special News on Channel 4?
Yes, I could agree with you. If the world was as sane and balanced as you color it, I'm sure we all could agree on some sort of balanced system. But you know damn well, contrary to your soft words, that it's none of that, it's completely shifted towards big protection and even bigger and insane restrictions.
Perhaps, just perhaps, if the level of protection was really intended to be fair and not to fill up large multinational and individual pockets, much more people could benefit from the advances in science / tech. Do you think Intel would simply cease to exist if the laws were more balanced? Again, who do you think invents / develops / creates out of the void?
Yes. All of those went fine without copyright for centuries, thank you very much, specially art, wich seems to be the more controversial one lately. Granted, much less grand-grand-sons would continue to profit from work they never did, but I really have no sympathy for them.
If you don't want others to "use" your work, keep it to yourself! Lock it and throw away the key. Everybody "uses" work from others, or do you come up with your "work" completely out of the void?
While you say you can see the problems that can arise from such law, surprisingly you don't see that laws like this are completely redundant and unneeded. Many would agree with you that those groups of individuals you mention should get no pity, and should be handled by the law; but they should be punished for train-derailing, or for foreigner-smashing, or for hate-mongering ... not by being labeled a "terrist group" or something similar. These laws, while adding too little, can bring all sorts of wrongs within.
I'd mod you up, had I the points to do it!
Excellent points you make. Of course, you're putting the finger on the wound there, and basically explaining why it will never be done as it should: the whole world (and the US above all) is geared in other directions. We have the constant wars of "democracy spreading", we have the "global warming", and most of all we have the banking systems pulling us all in the wrong directions. Unfortunately, it will never happen as it should. At least for the time being.
... will be named ... Wind-OS !!!!!
Addresses are not personal. They can be connected to you in some ways, but are not personal per se. For instance, when you get a bill by mail, you have the mail address AND the person name to whom the service is registered. Imagine a situation like this: gunshots are reported as being shot from address x; does that automatically implies the owner did the shooting?
License plates and phone numbers are more or less the same. I'm sure you can come up with some examples of your own to illustrate.
As for your email, that one is on a diferent level. With email you're supposed to have identification AND authentication. (name + password)
Oh man wish I had mod points right now!
iNuit ftw!