If the wave of the future for "intellectual" works of art is to protect it via DRM and such, then I think copyright protections have outlasted their usefulness.
Here's what I'd like to see:
Either rely on existing copyright protections that allow for fair use; or use technological measures to lock up your content from all use you don't authorize, but don't expect copyright protection from the law.
In other words, let DRM be an estoppel against claiming copyright protection, because DRM is circumvention of the social contract provided by copyright protections.
But... that cacaphony of LEDs isn't useless! Certainly Dick Cheney instructed Halliburton to require that all LED's be secretly modulated with brainwashing signals. The more LEDs, the better it works!
Technology will continue to advance; the ads WILL be bypassed.
If they want people to keep watching ads, they'll have to integrate them into the show somehow, in such a way that skipping past them also skips past stuff you want to watch.
Actually, this has been done for years already with "product placement" in movies and TV shows. Now they'll have to figure out how to move it to the next level of obnoxiousness.
My God, people! Don't you know that nearly 100% of hardened criminals and drug and alcohol abusers started out by drinking milk? That's what she was drinking in that photo, right?
The Internet is just like the global telephone network, except that instead of you talking into your telephone, your computer screams funny noises into its communication line (which can be your phone line!).
But that would imply that Math is a more valuable skill than Basketweaving, which would open up the door to paying teachers different salaries, depending on what skills they teach.
The Basketweaving teachers would complain, and the teachers union won't allow it.
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Dick Cheney and Halliburton are in charge of the Democrats too?
What is a "drive in theater"?
... project that Microsoft started years ago to track email.
Don't worry about it. They'll pay $5 for every site they track you as visiting.
the Leather Goddesses of Phobos?
> Anyone would be able to create Mickey Mouse material...
Hmm. I think that would fall under trademark law, not copyright law.
Perhps you menat anyone would be able to use Mickey Mouse material.
If the wave of the future for "intellectual" works of art is to protect it via DRM and such, then I think copyright protections have outlasted their usefulness.
Here's what I'd like to see:
Either rely on existing copyright protections that allow for fair use; or use technological measures to lock up your content from all use you don't authorize, but don't expect copyright protection from the law.
In other words, let DRM be an estoppel against claiming copyright protection, because DRM is circumvention of the social contract provided by copyright protections.
Just kidding...
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I prefer to grind my coffee beans very finely, and use the drip method of brewing.
Of course, you have to choose the coffee beans too. Personally, being from New Mexico, I like light roasted pinyon blend coffee....
I was interested until I realized it was an 'H' not an 'M'...
But... that cacaphony of LEDs isn't useless!
Certainly Dick Cheney instructed Halliburton to require that all LED's be secretly modulated with brainwashing signals. The more LEDs, the better it works!
I, for one, welcome...
If there was no reason for that damn useless CAPSLOCK key, it wouldn't be there.
Oh, wait....
'Specially since MTV doesn't broadcast music videos any more.
It was PO Box 1663, Santa Fe, NM
Some peoples birth certificates list them as being born at PO Box 1663.
Today, LANL still uses PO Box 1663 as it's official mailing address, although at the Los Alamos Post Office, instead of Santa Fe...
Technology will continue to advance; the ads WILL be bypassed.
If they want people to keep watching ads, they'll have to integrate them into the show somehow, in such a way that skipping past them also skips past stuff you want to watch.
Actually, this has been done for years already with "product placement" in movies and TV shows. Now they'll have to figure out how to move it to the next level of obnoxiousness.
... to encourage underage drinking.
My God, people! Don't you know that nearly 100% of hardened criminals and drug and alcohol abusers started out by drinking milk? That's what she was drinking in that photo, right?
Millersville is a fundie university?
The labels have already loosed the DRM.
We want them to lose the DRM.
get fired from my job? I was just bypassing the stupid webwasher so that I could view pr0n...
No.
The fungus was dispersed in chemtrails by Halliburton, as ordered by Dick Cheney.
The word is "quash", not "squash".
Squash is a vegetable.
The Internet is just like the global telephone network, except that instead of you talking into your telephone, your computer screams funny noises into its communication line (which can be your phone line!).
But that would imply that Math is a more valuable skill than Basketweaving, which would open up the door to paying teachers different salaries, depending on what skills they teach.
The Basketweaving teachers would complain, and the teachers union won't allow it.
Ah, DiHydrogen MonOxide.
It's such awful stuff!
Yeah, but a Computer Scientist (is it really science?) doesn't necessarily have to do the code-monkeying.
There's a lot of stuff that has to be done before the programming gets underway, like specifying the problem to be solved, developing algorithms, etc.
The programming itself can be outsourced to India, you know.
..if Commodore hadn't stolen the Amiga from them.