Electronic communication can be...private... Twitter is not one.
Except the constitution was written to protect the people from an oppressive government. And that means it was written expressly to protect Malcolm Harris from persecution. There is a protection both for the "freedom of speech" and "privacy of correspondence". What more can you possibly ask for? Do you want the constitution to literally spell "privacy of tweets should not be infringed upon", or something?
What you advocate here is free speech Soviet Russia style! The speech is free, but then you get sent to Siberia labor camp or executed by a firing squad. No, I am not exaggerating, this is how it actually worked during Stalin times, and is happening in Russia today, in a different form. Today Russian journalists are being assassinated for free speech, because the government does not want to be involved directly.
Ahh, "satisfaction ratings". Do you know that their outcome magically shifts in the direction where the "rater" is inclined to shift it? Was this "rating" sponsored by Apple? Is there a way to verify this rating's "rates"? No? I though so.
How about a "people voting with their wallets" rating? Will you look at that, 59% Android vs 23% iOS. I guess Apple DOES have to worry about a thing or two, after all. Maybe it is because "you are holding it wrong" issue? khe hehehe
Please learn how patents really work. This is an article from 1990, but nothing has changed -- the patents are here to protect big corporation from competition, and serve no other purpose.
and just when it catches up and start making real money, see Google make the *very exact same thing*
Ok, here goes:
2. You hire a law firm with 6 layers, who ask a modest compensation of $200/hour * 6, and go to court
3. Google claims that they do not infringe because you patented "something great made out of steel" and their thing is "made out of steel with plastic inserts". They happen to have 20 lawyers on the case who know exactly what they are doing. Sorry!
4. Google counter-sues to recoup their expenses to feed 20 lawyers, plus finds about 15 patents where your "something great" infringed.
5. You file for bankruptcy
6. Google buys your patent at the auction. You know, just in case.
With these rules being enforced by ISPs and MAFIAA directly, I am afraid this is going to to be a cat-only game. Let me explain:
if (more than 100 mb downloaded) AND (not downloaded from one of the white-listed streaming sites)
{ ....strikes = stikes + 1; ....if (strikes == 6) ....{ ........disconnect the internet; ....}
}
Your guilt does not need to be proven in a court of law. If you want to dispute, you are the one who will need to prove your innocence. You use TOR? Freenetproject? They don't even need to figure out which one it was!
because that turns their whole business upside down.
Because that makes them a distributor in a world of free distribution, an expensive middle man when he is no longer required. That makes their business not needed.
I have not asked. However, as someone corrected down the thread, the law being enacted is not about H1B but about Green Cards. The end result is the same - they are opening the floodgates because the corporations asked (lobbied) for them to do it, and it is not just the PhD's who are coming.
Yes, because we want to EVERYONE from India to come AT THE SAME TIME! Do you realize that US citizens will quickly become a minority here? I am not even beginning to imagine what that will do to unemployment. Let's just say that "Occupy Wall Street" might shift to an armed uprising.
I am sorry man, but you have no idea about the reality of H1B workers. Most I have known are fairly smart people and they were already relatively well to-do by the standards of their country.
Please explain why 90% of taxi drivers in NYC became Indian in a span of only a couple of years? I think you are the one who does not know the reality. All levels are being replaced with H1B -- from drivers to PhD's! If they import enough workers the economy will drive our wages down to be comparable to that of China and India. Is that the globalization that you speak about? Somehow we did much better before it started.
NASA track record is not exactly stellar. 18 fatalities (5%?) -- if a commercial enterprise work like this they will go bust pretty quickly. I will take the lowest bidder, thank you.
Somehow this same dimwit managed to give proper eyes to nautilus though
Nautilus has a pinhole eye.If photo camera evolution err... design is of any indication, an eye with a lens is more advanced. Now, if someone developed all living beings in existence, then everything would use the same eye design -- to save on development costs, naturally! I mean why did Nautilus get the cheap pinhole version - was he trying to save on license fees or something? The supreme being should issue free upgrades to all the outdated species!
Perhaps someone should shove a stick of TNT up the anus of the head of the MAFIAA and light the fuse. Then rape with an electric hand mixer and murder the minions in Government whom are in collusion with the MAFIAA.
I did not read TFA, but since the video made the victim commit suicide implies that he was not just being videotaped: he was humiliated and harassed on a daily basis, the video was just an icing on the cake. These things are not restricted to gay, but any potential target of harassment, be it a race, disability, inferior social status, etc. And yes, if one harasses a person to the bitter end the law should "indiscriminately" shell out something heftier than 30 days.
It is very sad that your are comparing fundamental laws of a country to a fairy tale story written 2000 years ago. Unfortunately, this is exactly how our state and police treat it: "leave the laws to "constitution literalists" to study, we can do whatever the fuck we want".
Unfortunately, our scientific institutions have been compromised by money interests just like (and often with the help of) the federal government. Just look at all those scientists denying global warming -- there is no doubt that most of them are connected by oil and coal-burning industries through a twisted mesh of money and power strings.
How about this: establish scientific evidence that fraking is safe BEFORE granting them an immunity from the clean air and water act. And by "safe" I don't mean the way Gulf oil drilling was, followed by "I am sorry we accidentally an ocean-sized ecosystem".
I think some researchers recently came to a conclusion that bees get wiped out due to widespread use of pesticides and insecticides. We might, of course, plop some bee-sized tinfoil hats and see how that works out:)
Commercially speaking, it is very much like land. Both have a high net value attached to it. Both can be rented out or leased for a profit. Except IP and other copyrighted material can only be rented out for a limited period.
IP "can only be rented out for a limited period"? On what planet? Everything you said is an MPAA's wet dream, fortunately we are not quite there yet.
Thanks to land ownership, people live separately in their own houses
House not equals land. If the land is common, I can have MY house on common land, and even have MY backyard. People lived in houses before land ownership laws existed. The argument behind "tragedy of the commons" has nothing to do with houses or personal security, look it up.
This discourages creators from investing more time and money into creating more goods.
True, but if the creations are perpetually locked up from humanity (as you suggest) then we can get by without "creators" as well.
10-50 dollars a month on books... is too much a burden for the common man...
And this is my point exactly. Who is this "common man" you are speaking about? Son of upper-middle class parents, like yourself? A dude who works in the salt mines? Well, I DID NOT have 10-50$ a month until I turned 19, and I doubt my parents could provide that, yet I am more educated than an average American. You effectively want to shut off children from poor families from knowledge, where they already have the biggest disadvantage. Meanwhile, some very famous people came from poverty, and even YOUR children (the rich dude who pretends to be a common man) will greatly benefit from access to knowledge when not restricted by "10-50$ a month" or whatever it is your are willing to spend on them, because in the information age, the knowledge is dirt cheap when not restricted by US laws: "oh but it is just like land ownership only better because I can make bazillion copies and get rich."
why can't copyright be infinite years? You can own land properties indefinitely.
Because IP is not land. You don't have less of it if you share. Land ownership was introduced to mitigate "the tragedy of the commons" - i.e. for common good. Land was not inherently private, and in some countries most of the land is still public: you can go for a walk in the forest - any forest - without "trespassing". With IP we have the opposite phenomenon - making it public IS the common good.
Because then books will be more like proprietary software -- once it is no longer profitable to the owner it gets ditched, so NOBODY can have it.
Infinite copyright would be culturally robbing the nation and the world. "Want to be literate - go work the salt mines to buy yourself a few books to read." Now compare this to the situation in Russia or China (probably the only places safe from US copyright dictatorship), where there is no IP rights and anyone who desires to learn has all the doors open. Suddenly, most our intellectual jobs flow overseas, or taken by work visa holders, while more and more Americans shifted to grocery checkouts and security guards. (Yes, there are other factors involved, but the pattern is present.)
Unfortunately, infinite copyright is what we have today in the USA. As soon as Micki Mouse approaches expiration it gets extended by another 20 years.
Wtf is "ads which are relevant to me" and how is this a good thing? These are the worst kind! When I want to buy something, I go for the best product for my needs, no the one -someone- wants me to buy. There is plenty of data on the web to find such a product myself, without being led astray by ads.Not to mention all the information pollution they create.
Honestly, I don't know. We observe that many government execs who are ex-Microsoft managers have a tendency to sign government contracts with Microsoft, with little regard for non-MS alternatives. See recent lawsuit brought by Google.
We don't know if MS "installed" him or if the board hired him in good faith, and he promptly proceeded to butcher all alternative product lines. As someone on/. previously pointed out, it is a lunacy for a giant like N. to put all eggs in one basket.
The market seems to agree with the "Slashdot analysts". Historically, Microsoft has a talent in making secret business arrangements that appear to be legally "in the clear", and we only find out about such deals when the shit occasionally hits the fan, in things like MS anti-trust trial, or BEOS trial that explained why Hitachi mysteriously backed out from installing it in the last minute.
So, as I say, as long as the right people got lubricated, it's business as usual.
However, for the purpose of GP, the lack of long-term interest in corporation is the plague of all publicly-owned businesses everywhere. Why invest in long-term research and growth if you are only going to be a CEO for a few years? Why should investors care if they can dump company stock at the first opportunity?
Slashdot Mirror
Electronic communication can be ...private... Twitter is not one.
Except the constitution was written to protect the people from an oppressive government. And that means it was written expressly to protect Malcolm Harris from persecution. There is a protection both for the "freedom of speech" and "privacy of correspondence". What more can you possibly ask for? Do you want the constitution to literally spell "privacy of tweets should not be infringed upon", or something?
If you cannot handle the outcome
What you advocate here is free speech Soviet Russia style! The speech is free, but then you get sent to Siberia labor camp or executed by a firing squad. No, I am not exaggerating, this is how it actually worked during Stalin times, and is happening in Russia today, in a different form. Today Russian journalists are being assassinated for free speech, because the government does not want to be involved directly.
How about cancer?
How about a "people voting with their wallets" rating? Will you look at that, 59% Android vs 23% iOS. I guess Apple DOES have to worry about a thing or two, after all. Maybe it is because "you are holding it wrong" issue? khe hehehe
and just when it catches up and start making real money, see Google make the *very exact same thing*
Ok, here goes:
2. You hire a law firm with 6 layers, who ask a modest compensation of $200/hour * 6, and go to court
3. Google claims that they do not infringe because you patented "something great made out of steel" and their thing is "made out of steel with plastic inserts". They happen to have 20 lawyers on the case who know exactly what they are doing. Sorry!
4. Google counter-sues to recoup their expenses to feed 20 lawyers, plus finds about 15 patents where your "something great" infringed.
5. You file for bankruptcy
6. Google buys your patent at the auction. You know, just in case.
This will become a cat-and-mouse game.
With these rules being enforced by ISPs and MAFIAA directly, I am afraid this is going to to be a cat-only game. Let me explain:
....strikes = stikes + 1;
....if (strikes == 6)
....{
........disconnect the internet;
....}
if (more than 100 mb downloaded) AND (not downloaded from one of the white-listed streaming sites)
{
}
Your guilt does not need to be proven in a court of law. If you want to dispute, you are the one who will need to prove your innocence. You use TOR? Freenetproject? They don't even need to figure out which one it was!
because that turns their whole business upside down.
Because that makes them a distributor in a world of free distribution, an expensive middle man when he is no longer required. That makes their business not needed.
I have not asked. However, as someone corrected down the thread, the law being enacted is not about H1B but about Green Cards. The end result is the same - they are opening the floodgates because the corporations asked (lobbied) for them to do it, and it is not just the PhD's who are coming.
kills the entrepreneurial spirit
Yes, because we want to EVERYONE from India to come AT THE SAME TIME! Do you realize that US citizens will quickly become a minority here? I am not even beginning to imagine what that will do to unemployment. Let's just say that "Occupy Wall Street" might shift to an armed uprising.
I am sorry man, but you have no idea about the reality of H1B workers. Most I have known are fairly smart people and they were already relatively well to-do by the standards of their country.
Please explain why 90% of taxi drivers in NYC became Indian in a span of only a couple of years? I think you are the one who does not know the reality. All levels are being replaced with H1B -- from drivers to PhD's! If they import enough workers the economy will drive our wages down to be comparable to that of China and India. Is that the globalization that you speak about? Somehow we did much better before it started.
NASA track record is not exactly stellar. 18 fatalities (5%?) -- if a commercial enterprise work like this they will go bust pretty quickly. I will take the lowest bidder, thank you.
Observational science doesn't disprove
Russel's Teapot -- There is a teapot orbiting the sun, somewhere between Mars and Jupiter. Go ahead, prove me wrong!
Somehow this same dimwit managed to give proper eyes to nautilus though
Nautilus has a pinhole eye.If photo camera evolution err... design is of any indication, an eye with a lens is more advanced. Now, if someone developed all living beings in existence, then everything would use the same eye design -- to save on development costs, naturally! I mean why did Nautilus get the cheap pinhole version - was he trying to save on license fees or something? The supreme being should issue free upgrades to all the outdated species!
Perhaps someone should shove a stick of TNT up the anus of the head of the MAFIAA and light the fuse. Then rape with an electric hand mixer and murder the minions in Government whom are in collusion with the MAFIAA.
You mean we should start a Communist revolution?
I did not read TFA, but since the video made the victim commit suicide implies that he was not just being videotaped: he was humiliated and harassed on a daily basis, the video was just an icing on the cake. These things are not restricted to gay, but any potential target of harassment, be it a race, disability, inferior social status, etc. And yes, if one harasses a person to the bitter end the law should "indiscriminately" shell out something heftier than 30 days.
It is very sad that your are comparing fundamental laws of a country to a fairy tale story written 2000 years ago. Unfortunately, this is exactly how our state and police treat it: "leave the laws to "constitution literalists" to study, we can do whatever the fuck we want".
How about this: establish scientific evidence that fraking is safe BEFORE granting them an immunity from the clean air and water act. And by "safe" I don't mean the way Gulf oil drilling was, followed by "I am sorry we accidentally an ocean-sized ecosystem".
George Mason University curriculum:
"Lying About the Past" - a course for ex-Enron accountants, prerequisite for finding another job
"Lying About the Future" - strongly recommended for a successful career in politics
"Lying about the Present" - a required course for MBA majors
I think some researchers recently came to a conclusion that bees get wiped out due to widespread use of pesticides and insecticides. We might, of course, plop some bee-sized tinfoil hats and see how that works out :)
Commercially speaking, it is very much like land. Both have a high net value attached to it. Both can be rented out or leased for a profit. Except IP and other copyrighted material can only be rented out for a limited period.
IP "can only be rented out for a limited period"? On what planet? Everything you said is an MPAA's wet dream, fortunately we are not quite there yet.
Thanks to land ownership, people live separately in their own houses
House not equals land. If the land is common, I can have MY house on common land, and even have MY backyard. People lived in houses before land ownership laws existed. The argument behind "tragedy of the commons" has nothing to do with houses or personal security, look it up.
This discourages creators from investing more time and money into creating more goods.
True, but if the creations are perpetually locked up from humanity (as you suggest) then we can get by without "creators" as well.
10-50 dollars a month on books... is too much a burden for the common man...
And this is my point exactly. Who is this "common man" you are speaking about? Son of upper-middle class parents, like yourself? A dude who works in the salt mines? Well, I DID NOT have 10-50$ a month until I turned 19, and I doubt my parents could provide that, yet I am more educated than an average American. You effectively want to shut off children from poor families from knowledge, where they already have the biggest disadvantage. Meanwhile, some very famous people came from poverty, and even YOUR children (the rich dude who pretends to be a common man) will greatly benefit from access to knowledge when not restricted by "10-50$ a month" or whatever it is your are willing to spend on them, because in the information age, the knowledge is dirt cheap when not restricted by US laws: "oh but it is just like land ownership only better because I can make bazillion copies and get rich."
why can't copyright be infinite years? You can own land properties indefinitely.
Because IP is not land. You don't have less of it if you share. Land ownership was introduced to mitigate "the tragedy of the commons" - i.e. for common good. Land was not inherently private, and in some countries most of the land is still public: you can go for a walk in the forest - any forest - without "trespassing". With IP we have the opposite phenomenon - making it public IS the common good.
Because then books will be more like proprietary software -- once it is no longer profitable to the owner it gets ditched, so NOBODY can have it.
Infinite copyright would be culturally robbing the nation and the world. "Want to be literate - go work the salt mines to buy yourself a few books to read." Now compare this to the situation in Russia or China (probably the only places safe from US copyright dictatorship), where there is no IP rights and anyone who desires to learn has all the doors open. Suddenly, most our intellectual jobs flow overseas, or taken by work visa holders, while more and more Americans shifted to grocery checkouts and security guards. (Yes, there are other factors involved, but the pattern is present.)
Unfortunately, infinite copyright is what we have today in the USA. As soon as Micki Mouse approaches expiration it gets extended by another 20 years.
Wtf is "ads which are relevant to me" and how is this a good thing? These are the worst kind! When I want to buy something, I go for the best product for my needs, no the one -someone- wants me to buy. There is plenty of data on the web to find such a product myself, without being led astray by ads.Not to mention all the information pollution they create.
We don't know if MS "installed" him or if the board hired him in good faith, and he promptly proceeded to butcher all alternative product lines. As someone on /. previously pointed out, it is a lunacy for a giant like N. to put all eggs in one basket.
So, as I say, as long as the right people got lubricated, it's business as usual.
However, for the purpose of GP, the lack of long-term interest in corporation is the plague of all publicly-owned businesses everywhere. Why invest in long-term research and growth if you are only going to be a CEO for a few years? Why should investors care if they can dump company stock at the first opportunity?