Everytime a patent/Napter/e-book or other intellectual property-related story comes up, I see a great deal of posts that indicate the poster leans against strong IP protection. I wonder - how many slashdotters, like myself, think IP is a bogus concept altogether?
Did we slashdot google? All I'm getting when I try to stalk people this morning... I mean do research on legitimate queries... is an error. Just tried again... google's not even responding now.
Are you nuts? You'd gladly have people vote the party line on issues they know nothing about???? How about this - if you know about the issue, vote on it. If not, abstain. If you don't know about the issue, but you have a shitload of letters coming your way from constituents, or have other reason to believe it's an important one LEARN ABOUT IT.
When the reasonable meats the unreasonable halfway, the result is something still somewhat unreasonable.
The copy protection legislation is wrong for several reasons - it restricts fair use, it prevents you from controling your own physical property, it harms content producers who aren't part of the media cartels but distribute via the same recordable media, etc, etc, etc - its been done to death on slashdot and elsewhere.
Getting a copyright term akin to what the founding fathers envisioned DOESN'T make up for the loss. It's clear to many the existing copyright term is far too long - correcting that would be just. Correcting that at the expense of other liberties would be aking to making a deal with the devil.
Also good in central Jersey is 90.5, The Night, based out of Brookdale in Lincroft. There's a lot of good progressive rock, folk, blues - nothing too hard, but an interesting and eclectic selection. Early in the morning and during the afternoon drive they've got NPR on, but the rest is mostly music - and the DJ's aren't as amatuerish as on some college radio stations.
Bullshit. I AM a reporter, and I'd be honored for the opportunity. If someone is willing to me with information so substantial and so credible that I'm willing to print it without namnig my source, that person has instilled a deep trust in me amd I WILL respect and honor that trust.
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"We're in trouble either way" is a bit of an overstatement.
If Intel or anyone else does this voluntarily, than we can still buy from other companies. They may be cheapo knock-off companies with crappy products, but we'll have the option since they'll have the option to produce DRM-agnostic products under the law. And in 5 years Intel would still have the option to change it's mnid, if it sees fit. And open source software doesn't run into the legal hassle.
If this becomes enforced by law, we're SOL. We'll not only have to accept technologies we don't want (or ethically support), but we'll have to pay higher product costs because DRM will take a shitload of money to impliment on this scale. And we won't have anywhere - anywhere at all - to turn for alternatives.
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"This CPU runs with a 400MHz Front Side Bus at 2.2GHz ..."
Now -that's- overclocking.
He's full of something ...
D'oh, then Madonnna will sue you for infringing on her original masterpiece!
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Cast: None
Director: None
Writer: None
The Scoop: This long-rumored project is well past its prime.
If you've got a direct line the the main coder, I'd like a few choice words with her ...
Everytime a patent/Napter/e-book or other intellectual property-related story comes up, I see a great deal of posts that indicate the poster leans against strong IP protection. I wonder - how many slashdotters, like myself, think IP is a bogus concept altogether?
If you go to Princeton, I hope you're smart enough not to.
A c64 Emulator and a copy of Crazy Taxi is all I'll ever need.
Hey, Taxi!
The series aside, I kinda like hot gel-showering hot chicks.
Did we slashdot google? All I'm getting when I try to stalk people this morning ... I mean do research on legitimate queries ... is an error. Just tried again ... google's not even responding now.
Is this us?
The folks over at the desktop-linux friendly (mostly mandrakian) pclinuxonline.com are encouraging a boycott of SCO over this.
That's what we need. -More- secrecy in government. You just don't see enough of that these days.
I think we just slashdotted Jeff Goldblum.
10 bucks says the first target is France ... a nation with a lot of French people ...
Are you nuts? You'd gladly have people vote the party line on issues they know nothing about???? How about this - if you know about the issue, vote on it. If not, abstain. If you don't know about the issue, but you have a shitload of letters coming your way from constituents, or have other reason to believe it's an important one LEARN ABOUT IT.
Jeeeeeeez.
This .... IS ... a troll, right? right?
When the reasonable meats the unreasonable halfway, the result is something still somewhat unreasonable.
The copy protection legislation is wrong for several reasons - it restricts fair use, it prevents you from controling your own physical property, it harms content producers who aren't part of the media cartels but distribute via the same recordable media, etc, etc, etc - its been done to death on slashdot and elsewhere.
Getting a copyright term akin to what the founding fathers envisioned DOESN'T make up for the loss. It's clear to many the existing copyright term is far too long - correcting that would be just. Correcting that at the expense of other liberties would be aking to making a deal with the devil.
Also good in central Jersey is 90.5, The Night, based out of Brookdale in Lincroft. There's a lot of good progressive rock, folk, blues - nothing too hard, but an interesting and eclectic selection. Early in the morning and during the afternoon drive they've got NPR on, but the rest is mostly music - and the DJ's aren't as amatuerish as on some college radio stations.
Oh, and they also webcast - wbjb.org.
Bullshit. I AM a reporter, and I'd be honored for the opportunity. If someone is willing to me with information so substantial and so credible that I'm willing to print it without namnig my source, that person has instilled a deep trust in me amd I WILL respect and honor that trust.
I'll be impressed when the G4 C64's finally go on sale.
And if you act now, we'll get it to you gfor just three EASY payments of $19.95! Call while supplies last!
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"We're in trouble either way" is a bit of an overstatement.
If Intel or anyone else does this voluntarily, than we can still buy from other companies. They may be cheapo knock-off companies with crappy products, but we'll have the option since they'll have the option to produce DRM-agnostic products under the law. And in 5 years Intel would still have the option to change it's mnid, if it sees fit. And open source software doesn't run into the legal hassle.
If this becomes enforced by law, we're SOL. We'll not only have to accept technologies we don't want (or ethically support), but we'll have to pay higher product costs because DRM will take a shitload of money to impliment on this scale. And we won't have anywhere - anywhere at all - to turn for alternatives.