There's no way any member of Slashdot could do what he's done. We might be able to act like him, but that's just acting. Posting a message expressing frustration with the damage this guy has caused is constructive and not damaging to anyone's rights.
OK, but there are plenty of examples where it's ambiguous:
"My source code was stolen." = "My source code was copied without permission." or "My hard drive with the source code on it was stolen and I didn't have any backups. I can't build my project until I get it back."
If one wants to talk of theft of potential income, then anyone offering a product/service similar to my own is stealing my money since I would be making more if it weren't for them.
They probably need digital restrictions to make it harder to print fraudulent coupons, since the store wouldn't find that out until they sent them in, and it would be hard to trace who printed the coupon. Think of it as sort of like having ATM/credit card processing software running on your machine.
In summary, OSS creates more opportunities to sell services, but not products. When the product can be produced at near zero cost, only systems with artificial restrictions allow it to be sold for more.
And even if it were a law, it would not be the actual cause of the increasing performance, just a simple abstraction of whatever the real causes are. Put another way, massive objects attracted each other before we came up with the "law of gravity".
This is very much like what happens when people try to rate video game console emulator picture or sound quality; they rate based on what is most pleasing, rather than what is most accurate in comparison to how the original console looked/sounded. In this case, the comparisons should be to a calibrated high-end reference camera. If I want to degrade...ahem...enhance the image, I can do that to a copy of the original.
I get genuinely confused by misleading headlines like this. I keep reading for where the art was stolen (as in, art was stolen from a museum and can't be viewed until it is found). The original artist has not lost access to these works apparently, so the defining element of theft is missing: the lack of use by the original owner of the item stolen.
I was trying to print some online coupons recently and special software had to be installed. On the installation instructions, it said to run the intstaller than answer "yes" to the question it asked (obviously whether it should be allowed to modify system files). What's the use of OS security if users regularly install software which requires admin access? (due to some kind of Digital Restrictions Management scheme of course)
"Google's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick will give one company access to more information about the Internet activities of consumers than any other company in the world,"
So the situation before was that there were two or more top companies who each had equal access to this information? Otherwise, the argument is silly since there will always be one or more companies that have access to more information about X than any other company in the world!.
These companies only care about aggregate data, not your data. That use doesn't violate any individual's privacy. On the other hand, aggregate data is all about "violating" collective privacy, what people in general want, what will push their buttons to get them to buy/use something. Of course there are others who would be interested in data on individuals, but they probably have their own arrangements with ISPs already.
You're right. With black-and-white dangers, you can avoid them, and if you succeed, they have zero effect on you. WIth chemicals, you're always being exposed at some level, and the effects are often cumulative, so you have no way of entirely avoiding their effects.
Random is the only way to be sure that all proportions of subgroups are accurately represented (well, other than sampling every member). What you describe is a way to have the same proportions of subgroups that you think there are. Another way of describing random is that it's out of phase with everything, thus won't encounter any aliasing errors (an example of in-phase is sampling the temerature on Earth every 24 hours).
Bottom line, not enough people care that irradiation is different from flash heating. Fortunately, I can still get my organic cheese made from raw milk.
This would prevent minors from buying these games unless a parent bought it for them. If this law were in effect and the parent said no, it would be the parent exercising the restriction, not the government.
Yeah, as long as it's not too many. Otherwise we'd have to ban anything that's not metal/glass/ceramic.... oh, wait, those could cut someone, so we better ban them too. The question is not whether it's dangerous, it's how to balance the inherent tradeoffs between the various dangers.
"But the big seller for Adobe is the ability to include in Flash movies so-called digital restrictions management (DRM) -- allowing copyright holders to require the viewing of adverts, or restrict copying."
There, corrected it for you. Copyright was never about making the reader jump through hoops in order to access the material. This is not about rights.
"I'm not implying that GPL fans are also p2p downloaders; I'm pointing out that laws that protect your rights are the same laws that protect others' rights, and cannot be applied selectively."
I don't think most authors of GPL-licensed software would have a problem with copyright term going back to what it was originally, instead of the now effectively infinite duration due to continual term extension. Therefore, protesting companies who abuse these extensions is not hypocritical.
Yes, but the DVD Video standard has the equivalent of Java included with it, so it's like the web browser compatibility issues that occur continually: yes, the page had proper code, but it used some obscure aspect that the browser implemented incorrectly. Too bad all DVD players don't include a mode similar to a CD player, where you can play every damn track without any menus, just the track skip buttons. That's why it's so much more black and white with a CD player; either the disc is correct and will work on every CD player, or it's not and may not work.
"Stay away from PDFlib!" The real lesson here is, stay away from software you don't have the source code to and the legal ability to freely improve and distrbute changes to.
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There's no way any member of Slashdot could do what he's done. We might be able to act like him, but that's just acting. Posting a message expressing frustration with the damage this guy has caused is constructive and not damaging to anyone's rights.
"IBM scrapped a wii-mote enabled server consoles for the management of online worlds.
However the prototype was destroyed in a freak bowling/mountain dew/pizza accident."
Add my monitor and keyboard suffering a similar fate.
OK, but there are plenty of examples where it's ambiguous:
"My source code was stolen." = "My source code was copied without permission." or "My hard drive with the source code on it was stolen and I didn't have any backups. I can't build my project until I get it back."
If one wants to talk of theft of potential income, then anyone offering a product/service similar to my own is stealing my money since I would be making more if it weren't for them.
It's real: http://www.coupons.com/
They probably need digital restrictions to make it harder to print fraudulent coupons, since the store wouldn't find that out until they sent them in, and it would be hard to trace who printed the coupon. Think of it as sort of like having ATM/credit card processing software running on your machine.
In summary, OSS creates more opportunities to sell services, but not products. When the product can be produced at near zero cost, only systems with artificial restrictions allow it to be sold for more.
And even if it were a law, it would not be the actual cause of the increasing performance, just a simple abstraction of whatever the real causes are. Put another way, massive objects attracted each other before we came up with the "law of gravity".
This is very much like what happens when people try to rate video game console emulator picture or sound quality; they rate based on what is most pleasing, rather than what is most accurate in comparison to how the original console looked/sounded. In this case, the comparisons should be to a calibrated high-end reference camera. If I want to degrade...ahem...enhance the image, I can do that to a copy of the original.
I get genuinely confused by misleading headlines like this. I keep reading for where the art was stolen (as in, art was stolen from a museum and can't be viewed until it is found). The original artist has not lost access to these works apparently, so the defining element of theft is missing: the lack of use by the original owner of the item stolen.
I was trying to print some online coupons recently and special software had to be installed. On the installation instructions, it said to run the intstaller than answer "yes" to the question it asked (obviously whether it should be allowed to modify system files). What's the use of OS security if users regularly install software which requires admin access? (due to some kind of Digital Restrictions Management scheme of course)
"Google's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick will give one company access to more information about the Internet activities of consumers than any other company in the world,"
So the situation before was that there were two or more top companies who each had equal access to this information? Otherwise, the argument is silly since there will always be one or more companies that have access to more information about X than any other company in the world!.
These companies only care about aggregate data, not your data. That use doesn't violate any individual's privacy. On the other hand, aggregate data is all about "violating" collective privacy, what people in general want, what will push their buttons to get them to buy/use something. Of course there are others who would be interested in data on individuals, but they probably have their own arrangements with ISPs already.
You're right. With black-and-white dangers, you can avoid them, and if you succeed, they have zero effect on you. WIth chemicals, you're always being exposed at some level, and the effects are often cumulative, so you have no way of entirely avoiding their effects.
Random is the only way to be sure that all proportions of subgroups are accurately represented (well, other than sampling every member). What you describe is a way to have the same proportions of subgroups that you think there are. Another way of describing random is that it's out of phase with everything, thus won't encounter any aliasing errors (an example of in-phase is sampling the temerature on Earth every 24 hours).
Bottom line, not enough people care that irradiation is different from flash heating. Fortunately, I can still get my organic cheese made from raw milk.
This would prevent minors from buying these games unless a parent bought it for them. If this law were in effect and the parent said no, it would be the parent exercising the restriction, not the government.
Yeah, as long as it's not too many. Otherwise we'd have to ban anything that's not metal/glass/ceramic.... oh, wait, those could cut someone, so we better ban them too. The question is not whether it's dangerous, it's how to balance the inherent tradeoffs between the various dangers.
I bet parties are a blast when you're around!
"But the big seller for Adobe is the ability to include in Flash movies so-called digital restrictions management (DRM) -- allowing copyright holders to require the viewing of adverts, or restrict copying."
There, corrected it for you. Copyright was never about making the reader jump through hoops in order to access the material. This is not about rights.
"What is toilet paper?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper
I went to that link and it simply said "See entry for Wikipedia."
"I'm not implying that GPL fans are also p2p downloaders; I'm pointing out that laws that protect your rights are the same laws that protect others' rights, and cannot be applied selectively."
I don't think most authors of GPL-licensed software would have a problem with copyright term going back to what it was originally, instead of the now effectively infinite duration due to continual term extension. Therefore, protesting companies who abuse these extensions is not hypocritical.
Yes, but the DVD Video standard has the equivalent of Java included with it, so it's like the web browser compatibility issues that occur continually: yes, the page had proper code, but it used some obscure aspect that the browser implemented incorrectly. Too bad all DVD players don't include a mode similar to a CD player, where you can play every damn track without any menus, just the track skip buttons. That's why it's so much more black and white with a CD player; either the disc is correct and will work on every CD player, or it's not and may not work.
"Stay away from PDFlib!"
The real lesson here is, stay away from software you don't have the source code to and the legal ability to freely improve and distrbute changes to.
a.out (er, a.exe?)
helloworld.exe
Robots that are smart enough to understand said laws are also only in books and movies.
How often do you change your slashdot userid?