If you believe that by taking my money in exchange for something (let's put aside for now the fact that you may have actually created it rather than "stolen" it from someone else), you then have the right to control what I do, that I have sold my freedom to you in some way, then you are just plain wrong, woefully misguided. Any "rights" you think you assume by typing up a paragraph of claptrap and gluing it to your "product" is pure invention, sham, and a rip-off: you will only control me to the exent that you can convince the gullible that you've created rights for yourself that must be enforced - you have no natural sellers rights. Any right-thinking, clear headed nerd can plainly see the benefits of personal freedom over slavery to the seller. Let's kill the faux liberatian myth perpetuated by those putting personal greed over personal freedoms.
Let's see...Prices went up roughly 12% last year, and sales went down 9%. If they are predicting sales will be down 6% this year, then that probably means they are planning to raise prices, what, 8% or so? Hey guys, at some point it doesn't remain linear. Sales will crash. Let's see if you show us where that point is.
I'm brainstorming here; I have no experience with your needs, but maybe this idea helps. What I see from your summary is the need for reliable in/out door security that distinguishes between users without input from the users themselves. I remember an earlier Slashdot item about a pet door that was activated by a collar on the pet yet kept out racoons and other local pets but allowed the owner's pet to go through. You mentioned that the kids would lose or not secure a key; perhaps a wearable key like a bracelet or necklace might be more difficult to forget or exchange.
The marketplace falls apart when a key component is run by a cartel.
There are a limited number of publishers/distributors - sell your book to them and you must take what they give, or spend the money and time to self-publish and promote. The good news is that technology is making this easier to do, and the better news may be that those in the cartel are not "getting it".
But Lessig is spot on underscoring that copyright is limited by constitutional law (my interpretation: copyright is a priviledge extended in order to help foster innovation, it is not a right!), and that the framers understood that the common good eventually returns all ideas to the public for common use.
Extending copyright terms benefits only the publishers/distributors (who pay the legislators that extend them), while hurting all the rest of us by keeping the 98% of everything that is discontinued out of the public domain.
I'm tempted to say "Go Communism!".
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Here in Berkeley there's an Art car running around plated in CDs, shiny side out, so the car looks like it's got fish-scale skin. Of course you can't tell what kind of CDs they are since the labels are on the other side, but you gotta believe AOL provided a lot of the material.
A PPC-based tatoo robot would of necessity sync the graphic from a Windows machine, no question. The EULA for a PPC-based tatoo robot would require a royalty for every tat applied (the software would be licensed for X tattoos), and would add a Windows logo to the lower-right side of the graphic. And randomly, roughly every fourth tattoo would be a plain bright blue square. But when it worked, the colors would be fantastic.
What inconvenience, when it's "inconvenient" to market content that publishers cannot completely control? When this inconvenience comes before constitutional freedoms I sincerely hope they reject this inconvenience.
Inconvenience cuts both ways, and I say that with a large amount of lattitude.
I have heard a couple rumors that I've not been able to substantiate, and would appreciate feedback from someone with experience with these displays.
One is that the display has a useful life of only a few years (my source was not able to say what happens then).
The other is that they grow fuzzy after 2 - 3 years.
Now I would consider (just consider!) planning for one of these, but for multi kilobucks I would expect it to live at least as long as my trinitron-based TV, not less.
Thank you for your experiences!
You're right, convicted is the wrong legal term (sorry). In a lawsuit brought by the US Department of Justice against Microsoft, Microsoft was found to be a monopoly and in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, having acted illegally to preserve its monopoly. The original penalty ordered by the judge, the breakup of Microsoft, was overturned by the appeals court after talking down Judge Jackson for inappropriate comments; the Supreme Court picked Judge Colleen to revisit the penalty phase, and that's apparently where we are.
(thanks for the opportunity to re-educate myself in the details of the case)
MS has been convicted of being a huge monopoly, and monopolies survive by stifling competition and innovation that threaten them. So hamstringing a huge monopoly is beneficial to the economy - it lets in new players, new technologies, new industries that are kept out by the big guy. Those new competitors will force down prices by virtue of their competitive products (a MS OS and an Office suite can now set you back twice the cost of the PC hardware), people will buy more technology, the recession will end, there will be peace and dancing the the streets, and dinner will be hot and on-time every day.
Caldera claimed the helter-skelter of "confidential" stamps on hundreds of documents appeared to have been "done by monkeys."
That explains the code too.
Property is property, as far as I'm concerned. You can't have it both ways.
How many cars are sold at a discount with the caveat that you cannot resell this car to another party? TVs? Books?
Someday somebody will look back on these days and wonder how we all let ourselves agree to abide by these arbitrary, unfair, solely-for-profit license rules. Amazing.
If you read General Olson's (arguing the case against Lessig) defence or explanation of reasons why Congress should be allowed to extend copyrights to whatever time they see fit, he uses as justification that copyrights benefit not only the originator of the work, but publishers, disseminators, and etc., in effect an argument that as long as there is money to be made in a copyright, that copyright should be retained amd to hell with the public domain.
Every day we choose between a world designed to optimize the ability to make and retain money, or a world where we all try to get along together as well as possible. Thank you Larry for helping to fight for my world.
Like AIESEC mentioned above, IAESTE is a great exchange organization: International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience. Find the US site at http://www.aipt.org/subpages/iaeste_us/index.php
I got a summer exchange internship in Norway over 20 years ago with IAESTE, and met many current friends that were there with both IAESTE and AIESEC from around the world - that summer in Bergen alone there were exchange students from these organizations from France, Denmark, Scotland, USA, Canada, Nigeria, Yugoslavia (that was then), Greece, Turkey, Indonesia, England, Ireland, Italy, and probably more that I can't remember.
He says that the rules are not written, they are implied, and also that they are bad.
And while I agree with him that off-the-record speech does not equate unequivocally with bias, I really wish he had chosen another case to make his point. His actions gave the opposition (from my point of view) an opening to oust him, and they didn't hesitate - they never do.
We bought a couple at work over 2 years ago just to see what they could do. to my knowledge they were the first cheap consumer RF devices designed to forward-hop messages using intermediate idle devices in order to reach other devices out of range. I mean, the possiblities of such networks are enormous - what if every urban wireless phone, cell phone, car radio, etc. possessed the capability to forward packets or messages: could we bypass proprietary networks and exist for free in a dense environment using these ad-hoc networks? How dense? I know there are lots of questions and factors (bandwidth capacity, antenna visibility, range, density, packet length, amount of traffic, response time, etc.) but don't you want to know if it can exist? I do.
Does anyone know where more info on these kinds of networks might be found?
Oh - so what did we find playing with them? Well, 2 is not enough to play with the packet forwarding feature, the devices are maddeningly involved (lots of config parameters, lots of free games to play with and set up and lose parameters for when your batteries go dead), 100 feet or so of range is small, my kids love hacking around with them, the included pal finder game is interesting (that you set up by checking off attributes of yourself and your ideal "friend", and it buzzes when you get in range of someone who has set up their cybiko with those same attributes you admire) - endless play possibilities. I wish I had one in grade school.
This is another node for a Personal Area Network - Bluetooth headphones, a BT-enabled MP3 player (BT input and output - if only this existed yet!), and the independent storage module. BT microphone or BT-enabled phono plugs (to pop onto a stereo amp you just happen to be near) could in theory be used as a ripping/input path to the hard drive. As noted previously, bandwidth might choke - all this stuff would need to use the same limited ~700K of network bandwidth to route the audio through.
There's something attractively geeky about stuffing your pockets with all of this junk and having it work together.
It's more involved that how many bytes you need to store, of course. How fast do they come in and go out? How often do the bits turn over? How reliable does the data need to be, and how fresh the reliability (do you need to mirror it real-time at a remote, hardened site, or back it up once a month)? What systems does the data need to feed and be fed from? What are your labor costs (tape changers, administrators, etc.)? How much wood do you need to buy for office furniture ?
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If you believe that by taking my money in exchange for something (let's put aside for now the fact that you may have actually created it rather than "stolen" it from someone else), you then have the right to control what I do, that I have sold my freedom to you in some way, then you are just plain wrong, woefully misguided. Any "rights" you think you assume by typing up a paragraph of claptrap and gluing it to your "product" is pure invention, sham, and a rip-off: you will only control me to the exent that you can convince the gullible that you've created rights for yourself that must be enforced - you have no natural sellers rights. Any right-thinking, clear headed nerd can plainly see the benefits of personal freedom over slavery to the seller. Let's kill the faux liberatian myth perpetuated by those putting personal greed over personal freedoms.
Let's see...Prices went up roughly 12% last year, and sales went down 9%. If they are predicting sales will be down 6% this year, then that probably means they are planning to raise prices, what, 8% or so?
Hey guys, at some point it doesn't remain linear. Sales will crash. Let's see if you show us where that point is.
Just to confirm:
You would think more of this guy's writing if he were related to another author who is more famous but who you have not read yet?
BTW, I quickly google'd that E.L. is not his father.
I'm brainstorming here; I have no experience with your needs, but maybe this idea helps. What I see from your summary is the need for reliable in/out door security that distinguishes between users without input from the users themselves. I remember an earlier Slashdot item about a pet door that was activated by a collar on the pet yet kept out racoons and other local pets but allowed the owner's pet to go through. You mentioned that the kids would lose or not secure a key; perhaps a wearable key like a bracelet or necklace might be more difficult to forget or exchange.
The marketplace falls apart when a key component is run by a cartel.
There are a limited number of publishers/distributors - sell your book to them and you must take what they give, or spend the money and time to self-publish and promote. The good news is that technology is making this easier to do, and the better news may be that those in the cartel are not "getting it".
But Lessig is spot on underscoring that copyright is limited by constitutional law (my interpretation: copyright is a priviledge extended in order to help foster innovation, it is not a right!), and that the framers understood that the common good eventually returns all ideas to the public for common use.
Extending copyright terms benefits only the publishers/distributors (who pay the legislators that extend them), while hurting all the rest of us by keeping the 98% of everything that is discontinued out of the public domain.
I'm tempted to say "Go Communism!".
To get all over every side.
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
Here in Berkeley there's an Art car running around plated in CDs, shiny side out, so the car looks like it's got fish-scale skin. Of course you can't tell what kind of CDs they are since the labels are on the other side, but you gotta believe AOL provided a lot of the material.
A PPC-based tatoo robot would of necessity sync the graphic from a Windows machine, no question. The EULA for a PPC-based tatoo robot would require a royalty for every tat applied (the software would be licensed for X tattoos), and would add a Windows logo to the lower-right side of the graphic. And randomly, roughly every fourth tattoo would be a plain bright blue square. But when it worked, the colors would be fantastic.
What inconvenience, when it's "inconvenient" to market content that publishers cannot completely control? When this inconvenience comes before constitutional freedoms I sincerely hope they reject this inconvenience.
Inconvenience cuts both ways, and I say that with a large amount of lattitude.
I have heard a couple rumors that I've not been able to substantiate, and would appreciate feedback from someone with experience with these displays. One is that the display has a useful life of only a few years (my source was not able to say what happens then). The other is that they grow fuzzy after 2 - 3 years. Now I would consider (just consider!) planning for one of these, but for multi kilobucks I would expect it to live at least as long as my trinitron-based TV, not less. Thank you for your experiences!
More U.S outhouses have moons on the door than copies of AdAge in them.
You're right, convicted is the wrong legal term (sorry).
In a lawsuit brought by the US Department of Justice against Microsoft, Microsoft was found to be a monopoly and in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, having acted illegally to preserve its monopoly.
The original penalty ordered by the judge, the breakup of Microsoft, was overturned by the appeals court after talking down Judge Jackson for inappropriate comments; the Supreme Court picked Judge Colleen to revisit the penalty phase, and that's apparently where we are.
(thanks for the opportunity to re-educate myself in the details of the case)
Sorry, your reasoning is counterintuitive.
MS has been convicted of being a huge monopoly, and monopolies survive by stifling competition and innovation that threaten them. So hamstringing a huge monopoly is beneficial to the economy - it lets in new players, new technologies, new industries that are kept out by the big guy. Those new competitors will force down prices by virtue of their competitive products (a MS OS and an Office suite can now set you back twice the cost of the PC hardware), people will buy more technology, the recession will end, there will be peace and dancing the the streets, and dinner will be hot and on-time every day.
Go Colleen!
Caldera claimed the helter-skelter of "confidential" stamps on hundreds of documents appeared to have been "done by monkeys." That explains the code too.
Property is property, as far as I'm concerned. You can't have it both ways.
How many cars are sold at a discount with the caveat that you cannot resell this car to another party? TVs? Books?
Someday somebody will look back on these days and wonder how we all let ourselves agree to abide by these arbitrary, unfair, solely-for-profit license rules. Amazing.
I have tried searching the net and can't find anything. It appears the new algoritm has been sufficiently tested.
If you read General Olson's (arguing the case against Lessig) defence or explanation of reasons why Congress should be allowed to extend copyrights to whatever time they see fit, he uses as justification that copyrights benefit not only the originator of the work, but publishers, disseminators, and etc., in effect an argument that as long as there is money to be made in a copyright, that copyright should be retained amd to hell with the public domain.
Every day we choose between a world designed to optimize the ability to make and retain money, or a world where we all try to get along together as well as possible. Thank you Larry for helping to fight for my world.
Like AIESEC mentioned above, IAESTE is a great exchange organization: International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience. Find the US site at http://www.aipt.org/subpages/iaeste_us/index.php
I got a summer exchange internship in Norway over 20 years ago with IAESTE, and met many current friends that were there with both IAESTE and AIESEC from around the world - that summer in Bergen alone there were exchange students from these organizations from France, Denmark, Scotland, USA, Canada, Nigeria, Yugoslavia (that was then), Greece, Turkey, Indonesia, England, Ireland, Italy, and probably more that I can't remember.
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Tear-free onion?
How about a heartless artichoke?
He says that the rules are not written, they are implied, and also that they are bad.
And while I agree with him that off-the-record speech does not equate unequivocally with bias, I really wish he had chosen another case to make his point. His actions gave the opposition (from my point of view) an opening to oust him, and they didn't hesitate - they never do.
We bought a couple at work over 2 years ago just to see what they could do. to my knowledge they were the first cheap consumer RF devices designed to forward-hop messages using intermediate idle devices in order to reach other devices out of range. I mean, the possiblities of such networks are enormous - what if every urban wireless phone, cell phone, car radio, etc. possessed the capability to forward packets or messages: could we bypass proprietary networks and exist for free in a dense environment using these ad-hoc networks? How dense?
I know there are lots of questions and factors (bandwidth capacity, antenna visibility, range, density, packet length, amount of traffic, response time, etc.) but don't you want to know if it can exist? I do.
Does anyone know where more info on these kinds of networks might be found?
Oh - so what did we find playing with them? Well, 2 is not enough to play with the packet forwarding feature, the devices are maddeningly involved (lots of config parameters, lots of free games to play with and set up and lose parameters for when your batteries go dead), 100 feet or so of range is small, my kids love hacking around with them, the included pal finder game is interesting (that you set up by checking off attributes of yourself and your ideal "friend", and it buzzes when you get in range of someone who has set up their cybiko with those same attributes you admire) - endless play possibilities. I wish I had one in grade school.
This is another node for a Personal Area Network - Bluetooth headphones, a BT-enabled MP3 player (BT input and output - if only this existed yet!), and the independent storage module. BT microphone or BT-enabled phono plugs (to pop onto a stereo amp you just happen to be near) could in theory be used as a ripping/input path to the hard drive. As noted previously, bandwidth might choke - all this stuff would need to use the same limited ~700K of network bandwidth to route the audio through.
There's something attractively geeky about stuffing your pockets with all of this junk and having it work together.
"Has anyone else noticed pushy Terms and Conditions like this on the web?" My browser and ISP both have ordered me not to answer this question.
...poor Rudolph, join in any brain gear games?
It's more involved that how many bytes you need to store, of course. How fast do they come in and go out? How often do the bits turn over? How reliable does the data need to be, and how fresh the reliability (do you need to mirror it real-time at a remote, hardened site, or back it up once a month)? What systems does the data need to feed and be fed from? What are your labor costs (tape changers, administrators, etc.)? How much wood do you need to buy for office furniture ?