I really can't tell if this is sarcasm, ironic flamebait or a serious post. I also don't know how the mods are interpreting it. I really hope it was intended and interpreted as sarcasm but other responses are certainly considering it a serious argument. Please tell me that the/. population in general, a community composed mainly of individuals who make a living by producing intellectual property, chooses to interpret this as sarcasm.
What we need is for "scientists" to find a correlation between fear and likelihood of committing terrorist acts. I'm always a little nervous going through airport security, probably because they make it a very stressful environment. I'm constantly reminding myself to suppress any sense of humor that has survived the baggage check process for fear of having a joke misinterpreted as hostility. They can already detain you if you look nervous (or insufficiently white).
As someone doing graduate work in quantum information I can say that the same old measurement jokes really just aren't funny. That's it. No meta-joke, they're just not funny.
I can also say that we really should invest much, much more money into quantum physics. Buckets and buckets of money.
No, not really. But the idea isn't to fight a war against Big Content, it's to raise public interest. The companies involved should look out only for their best interests. Who in those companies has the job of considering the public benefit? The board of directors? The CEO/CFO? Their jobs are to make buckets of money.
It's the elected officials who must be held responsible for balancing the rights of individuals against the interests of Big Content. What I was getting at (in a hyperbolic fashion) was to raise the issues into the sight of the general public. These issues just don't get coverage in mainstream media because people don't care. We need to make it clear what's at stake.
No one who is issuing false DMCA requests would win against teams of lawyers, the goal would be to piss off the public. Take down large numbers of popular YouTube videos for no reason; they'll be put back up soon enough but a few people will notice. Target videos that have nothing to do with Big Content to make the point that frivolous requests are possible under the current system. Simply make it clear that the current system fosters abuse.
No they don't. There was proposed legislation to make that happen, backed by Big Content. Just prior to the legislation being passed, however, Big Content started campaigning against it because they realized that it would, in fact, legalize p2p sharing in Canada. The legislation never got passed and there remains a bit of a legal haze around the issue.
Quite frankly, I don't think Big Content cares what happens in Canada when they can make their point using American law suits. International treaties, sure, but not Canada in particular.
I think it only applies to music that's put onto media covered by the levies, it's ambiguous whether it covers p2p downloaded content on your iPod and it remains illegal to upload music so no seeding.
Perhaps I wasn't clear. I meant to imply that people other than big media/advertising need to send false DMCA take-downs for legitimate content posted by big media. Not the other way around. I don't mean a few targeted attempts to support a particular personal agenda, I mean en mass indiscriminate take-downs.
mmmmmm...rotational symmetry. Anything 24V or below usually does use that kind of design. They're probably easier to short unless very well thought out (the live and ground have to be damn close together); there may be a real safety issue for higher voltages.
From TFA: "That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material." ISPs will be fighting this one pretty hard. There's no way they want to invest their resources to trying to patrol the internet. It's not their job, it's likely illegal and it's expensive.
I do, in fact, think that copyright holders have every right to defend their legal rights but they absolutely must not step on the rights of others in so doing. Take-downs without due process, ISPs acting as police and blanket anti-DRM-violation rules are all measures that stomp on the rights and freedoms of the public. This treaty will infuriate everyone other than the content producers and I think will spark some lobbying from groups that haven't previously been seen on the side of openness.
The general public (that means a broader public than/.) must become aware of the issues here. Most people simply aren't concerned with IP law even if it should concern them. That said, a threat to YouTube or Facebook or Twitter will spark a response. Here's what I propose: start a group that issues indiscriminate take-down notices of all sorts of media. If there is no punishment for frivolous DMCA notices then there's no risk. Start pissing people off, the service providers that have to deal with the requests and the content producers. Piss people off until legislation to prevent such action comes in, then we've own.
Firefox just doesn't go with a tweed jacket. A PC just doesn't say "indie" as loudly as a mac does. (Odd isn't it? You'd think an esoteric Linux distro would say indie better.)
By the time you're done compiling the next Ubuntu will be out and you can start the process all over again. (Sorry, mandatory compiling time joke for each post mentioning Gentoo).
Hmmm, sorry, forgot that/. doesn't support the sarcasm tag. I believe I did point out that a variety of fonts are a powerful tool when used by those who have some design sense. That's illustrated very well in the video posted in TFA. This will undoubtedly make more pages look damn fine but I also think we have some crap to look forward to.
I'm sure cold operation has some uses but my fingers stop working somewhere around -10C so I wouldn't know what they are. On the other hand, I suspect that the reason that the battery died on my Asus laptop was walking home in -30C weather with the laptop in my backpack.
You know what else the Internet needs more of? Blink tags. In the right hands, fonts are marvelous tools for graphic design and aesthetics. In the hands of the average user or amateur web designer...shit. It's a good thing this is happening well into the Web 2.0 era. Can you imagine if this had been around in the days of Geocities.
As a few other have pointed out, it could lead to a lot more clients supporting the Skype protocol. Integration into the Linux desktops and their messengers/VOIP clients could be a real advantage. I certainly wouldn't mind dropping one extra piece of software in favor of a more integrated approach. It may also provide some useful code for webcam interfaces since they can still be patchy on Linux machines.
The government does have to notify Google/Yahoo/etc., it doesn't just scan all correspondence without warrant. What it does mean, is that it can read your e-mail by issuing a warrant to Google without ever notifying you. Google complies promptly with all warrants issued but is not in the habit of forwarding correspondence to the FBI just for fun.
The key here is not to treat any information stored on remote servers as belonging to you. Anything on your computer is in your possession but the moment you send it into the aether it is potentially in the possession of a third party that can do whatever they want with it (read the privacy policies!). If you want to keep your e-mails secure, encrypt them; try gnuPG.
Just checked the online stores of MS, EA Games, Steam, iTunes and, interestingly, Autodesk. All of them just say "buy" or "purchase" unless you go into the fine print (which I think is misleading).
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I really can't tell if this is sarcasm, ironic flamebait or a serious post. I also don't know how the mods are interpreting it. I really hope it was intended and interpreted as sarcasm but other responses are certainly considering it a serious argument. Please tell me that the /. population in general, a community composed mainly of individuals who make a living by producing intellectual property, chooses to interpret this as sarcasm.
What we need is for "scientists" to find a correlation between fear and likelihood of committing terrorist acts. I'm always a little nervous going through airport security, probably because they make it a very stressful environment. I'm constantly reminding myself to suppress any sense of humor that has survived the baggage check process for fear of having a joke misinterpreted as hostility. They can already detain you if you look nervous (or insufficiently white).
Ha ha, more like Ramen noodles and rent money.
As someone doing graduate work in quantum information I can say that the same old measurement jokes really just aren't funny. That's it. No meta-joke, they're just not funny.
I can also say that we really should invest much, much more money into quantum physics. Buckets and buckets of money.
You really think that will work?
No, not really. But the idea isn't to fight a war against Big Content, it's to raise public interest. The companies involved should look out only for their best interests. Who in those companies has the job of considering the public benefit? The board of directors? The CEO/CFO? Their jobs are to make buckets of money.
It's the elected officials who must be held responsible for balancing the rights of individuals against the interests of Big Content. What I was getting at (in a hyperbolic fashion) was to raise the issues into the sight of the general public. These issues just don't get coverage in mainstream media because people don't care. We need to make it clear what's at stake.
No one who is issuing false DMCA requests would win against teams of lawyers, the goal would be to piss off the public. Take down large numbers of popular YouTube videos for no reason; they'll be put back up soon enough but a few people will notice. Target videos that have nothing to do with Big Content to make the point that frivolous requests are possible under the current system. Simply make it clear that the current system fosters abuse.
No they don't. There was proposed legislation to make that happen, backed by Big Content. Just prior to the legislation being passed, however, Big Content started campaigning against it because they realized that it would, in fact, legalize p2p sharing in Canada. The legislation never got passed and there remains a bit of a legal haze around the issue.
Quite frankly, I don't think Big Content cares what happens in Canada when they can make their point using American law suits. International treaties, sure, but not Canada in particular.
Maybe if we develop a longevity vaccine within your natural lifetime you will.
There's an independent organisation to distributed the levies to big content producers. They'd be pissed if the government spent the money first.
I think it only applies to music that's put onto media covered by the levies, it's ambiguous whether it covers p2p downloaded content on your iPod and it remains illegal to upload music so no seeding.
Perhaps I wasn't clear. I meant to imply that people other than big media/advertising need to send false DMCA take-downs for legitimate content posted by big media. Not the other way around. I don't mean a few targeted attempts to support a particular personal agenda, I mean en mass indiscriminate take-downs.
Well of course you want a good safety margin but 120V won't go through thin paint. You don't really have to worry about arcing.
mmmmmm...rotational symmetry. Anything 24V or below usually does use that kind of design. They're probably easier to short unless very well thought out (the live and ground have to be damn close together); there may be a real safety issue for higher voltages.
True, it looks (and is) identical but somehow it's just friendlier. It also has better healthcare.
for once.
From TFA: "That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material." ISPs will be fighting this one pretty hard. There's no way they want to invest their resources to trying to patrol the internet. It's not their job, it's likely illegal and it's expensive.
I do, in fact, think that copyright holders have every right to defend their legal rights but they absolutely must not step on the rights of others in so doing. Take-downs without due process, ISPs acting as police and blanket anti-DRM-violation rules are all measures that stomp on the rights and freedoms of the public. This treaty will infuriate everyone other than the content producers and I think will spark some lobbying from groups that haven't previously been seen on the side of openness.
The general public (that means a broader public than /.) must become aware of the issues here. Most people simply aren't concerned with IP law even if it should concern them. That said, a threat to YouTube or Facebook or Twitter will spark a response. Here's what I propose: start a group that issues indiscriminate take-down notices of all sorts of media. If there is no punishment for frivolous DMCA notices then there's no risk. Start pissing people off, the service providers that have to deal with the requests and the content producers. Piss people off until legislation to prevent such action comes in, then we've own.
Firefox just doesn't go with a tweed jacket. A PC just doesn't say "indie" as loudly as a mac does. (Odd isn't it? You'd think an esoteric Linux distro would say indie better.)
By the time you're done compiling the next Ubuntu will be out and you can start the process all over again. (Sorry, mandatory compiling time joke for each post mentioning Gentoo).
Hmmm, sorry, forgot that /. doesn't support the sarcasm tag. I believe I did point out that a variety of fonts are a powerful tool when used by those who have some design sense. That's illustrated very well in the video posted in TFA. This will undoubtedly make more pages look damn fine but I also think we have some crap to look forward to.
I'm sure cold operation has some uses but my fingers stop working somewhere around -10C so I wouldn't know what they are. On the other hand, I suspect that the reason that the battery died on my Asus laptop was walking home in -30C weather with the laptop in my backpack.
Oh. Shit.
You know what else the Internet needs more of? Blink tags. In the right hands, fonts are marvelous tools for graphic design and aesthetics. In the hands of the average user or amateur web designer...shit. It's a good thing this is happening well into the Web 2.0 era. Can you imagine if this had been around in the days of Geocities.
A machine that will be proud of us
We can never connect AI to the internet...
As a few other have pointed out, it could lead to a lot more clients supporting the Skype protocol. Integration into the Linux desktops and their messengers/VOIP clients could be a real advantage. I certainly wouldn't mind dropping one extra piece of software in favor of a more integrated approach. It may also provide some useful code for webcam interfaces since they can still be patchy on Linux machines.
The government does have to notify Google/Yahoo/etc., it doesn't just scan all correspondence without warrant. What it does mean, is that it can read your e-mail by issuing a warrant to Google without ever notifying you. Google complies promptly with all warrants issued but is not in the habit of forwarding correspondence to the FBI just for fun.
The key here is not to treat any information stored on remote servers as belonging to you. Anything on your computer is in your possession but the moment you send it into the aether it is potentially in the possession of a third party that can do whatever they want with it (read the privacy policies!). If you want to keep your e-mails secure, encrypt them; try gnuPG.
If they got $0 for the sale of the SUV I'd say they deserve a $25K idiot tax.
Just checked the online stores of MS, EA Games, Steam, iTunes and, interestingly, Autodesk. All of them just say "buy" or "purchase" unless you go into the fine print (which I think is misleading).
Yes; I really hope it's upheld in future rulings. Apple's hoping that it won't be in this case.