Disallow corporations to own copyrights. Require that they be in the name of actual persons and make it so they can only be leased to a corporate entity. That way the corporation is beholden to SOMEONE.
Oh, wow. I like that.
Get rid of Micky Mouse copyright.
That has two possible meanings, and I like them both.
If they do a reboot, they could bring in Arnie in a small role. Make him a military leader responsible for pushing through Skynet, rewarded for his years of service to the country by being the first 3D model used to create a humanoid Terminator. That could work. It would even explain why he's 60-65 years old, yet the Terminator looks half that age.
As an autistic person, I think that "person first" language is offensive. Saying "person suffering from autism spectrum disorder" implies that autism is not a fundamental part of who I am, but is instead something inhuman that should be removed from me.
No, person-first language is something that parents insist on. These are the same type of parents who post YouTube videos about "what autism is like", when in reality, they've never experienced autism, but instead have only experienced interaction with an autistic person. Autistic people don't suffer from autism. They suffer from other people.
As for whether autism is real, it absolutely is.
I am not a child. I exhibited the symptoms of autism long before the world wide web existed, so I didn't and my parents didn't get a fad diagnosis. We didn't know what it was. Everyone just thought that I was a genius, because of teaching myself to read and do math and memorize large amounts of information and fix things, but most people didn't realize that I had severe sensory issues and overwhelming social cognitive deficits. This is not just normal what people call "shyness" or social anxiety. Throughout my life I have had major issues because, far from trying to handle social situations and failing, there have been a lot of times when I didn't realize that I was supposed to interact, and there have been many types of social interaction that I didn't even have concepts of. When I was very young I was considered absolutely brilliant, but I also did a lot of things completely incorrectly. For example, I attended the wrong classes for a significant part of a school year because I never communicated that I was in the wrong classes, so none of the teachers realized it. I didn't understand that people formed networks with each other or attempted to socialize outside of school. I attended high school and college and never asked anyone for a reference, not because of fear, but because I didn't know that anyone did, and didn't have any concept of why they would.
And then they write them down, stick them on sticky notes, and put them under their keyboards, or in their drawers, completely destroying the security, but maintaining the administrators' beliefs in it.
It's almost as good of an idea as making people change their password once a month, which also encourages people to write them down, re-use their weak passwords or choose passwords that are easy to guess.
And how about those password retrieval questions?
What's your favorite color or your mother's maiden name? No one can guess those.
Asperger's is a lot more than being a "very shy child". There are sensory issues, prosopagnosia(the inability to recognize faces), and obsessiveness.
And the "shyness" you described comes not from normal apprehensiveness or from past social failure but from a (sometimes complete) lack of social understanding, or a complete lack of social intuition. It's not that people with Asperger's or Autism want to be sociable and am just afraid to, or that they want to be sociable and don't know how. Sometimes autistic people don't understand that they're expected to interact in particular ways, or don't understand that they're supposed to interact at all. I can't explain how shocking it is every time I find out that other people have been interacting in ways that I had never conceived of.
If only it was shyness, that would make things so much easier. It's not. Saying that Asperger's Syndrome is just being very shy is exactly the thing you're complaining about, identifying a symptom but missing its cause.
Except that every Fox story is something like "Is Barack Obama the antichrist?" or "Do Democrats want to kill your grandmother?" or "Are liberals spineless cowards?" or "Is global warming actually good for you?"
It may be that they only answer the question with opinion and not facts 55% of the time, but 99% of their headlines are in that form, "asking a question" to make a statement.
Imagine I brought you on a show, and you didn't know what for, and then you found out the discussion of that episode was "Have you stopped beating your wife?" You can answer the question in a non-biased way, but the question was asked in a biased and leading way. MSNBC answers their questions in a biased way, absolutely, but the last time I checked(and admittedly it's been many years since I was a regular viewer), they were still asking real questions.
I turned on MSNBC just a minute ago. The question on the screen said "Can Mark Sanford win over family-values Republicans?" Then I turned on Fox. The question on the screen said "Automatic gun ban fail: Did the press pass on the news?" One of those is a real question, and one of those seems to be trying to put an answer in your head.
That the term is too long overall is not a separate argument.
If you're concerned that older writers are unfairly disadvantaged because younger writers could sell the authority to use their creations for decades, then the solution seems obvious: Reduce the younger writers' ability to sell the authority to use their creations.
I am going to die at some point. I have no intention of leaving an heir. When I die, the idea that authority over the things I have created would somehow be held by some private individual instead of being available for the common good is not only not desirable to me, but I see it as really detrimental, and despicable that someone might hope to gain from my work by denying it to others.
A movie studio can make a billion dollars off of a movie in five years. Your objection would seem to point to copyright terms being too long in general rather than them being too short.
Corporations already routinely use things created by individuals and smaller companies regardless of copyright or patent. As long as their legal team has tens of billions of dollars behind it they can outspend you 100:1, they're pretty comfortable with the fact that they can litigate you until your bankrupt and then buy your patents or copyrights or just buy your whole company. Patents and copyrights do not really protect small inventors.
You can't do that. You signed away your right to class action lawsuit on the registration form for the site. You have to go through arbitration, which the business wins 97% of the time.
I remember using Lala, mostly at work. At the time it was much nicer to use than iTunes and Pandora.
I remember the day when I found out that Apple was shutting down Lala, and I was very disappointed, because Apple is very insistent that people only use technology in the way that Apple wants them to. I do generally like Apple's interface design, but Apple is very insistent that its way is the best, and they have been insistent even in the cases that they've been wrong.
Lala had then what Amazon, Google, and Apple have only recently added, which is the ability to basically mirror your library from their website, and when Apple bought the service it was a big loss. I think Google or Amazon would have actually built on the service, but Apple just killed it, and that sucked.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, wow. I like that.
That has two possible meanings, and I like them both.
Like this?
As an autistic person, I think that "person first" language is offensive. Saying "person suffering from autism spectrum disorder" implies that autism is not a fundamental part of who I am, but is instead something inhuman that should be removed from me.
No, person-first language is something that parents insist on. These are the same type of parents who post YouTube videos about "what autism is like", when in reality, they've never experienced autism, but instead have only experienced interaction with an autistic person. Autistic people don't suffer from autism. They suffer from other people.
As for whether autism is real, it absolutely is.
I am not a child. I exhibited the symptoms of autism long before the world wide web existed, so I didn't and my parents didn't get a fad diagnosis. We didn't know what it was. Everyone just thought that I was a genius, because of teaching myself to read and do math and memorize large amounts of information and fix things, but most people didn't realize that I had severe sensory issues and overwhelming social cognitive deficits. This is not just normal what people call "shyness" or social anxiety. Throughout my life I have had major issues because, far from trying to handle social situations and failing, there have been a lot of times when I didn't realize that I was supposed to interact, and there have been many types of social interaction that I didn't even have concepts of. When I was very young I was considered absolutely brilliant, but I also did a lot of things completely incorrectly. For example, I attended the wrong classes for a significant part of a school year because I never communicated that I was in the wrong classes, so none of the teachers realized it. I didn't understand that people formed networks with each other or attempted to socialize outside of school. I attended high school and college and never asked anyone for a reference, not because of fear, but because I didn't know that anyone did, and didn't have any concept of why they would.
And then they write them down, stick them on sticky notes, and put them under their keyboards, or in their drawers, completely destroying the security, but maintaining the administrators' beliefs in it.
It's almost as good of an idea as making people change their password once a month, which also encourages people to write them down, re-use their weak passwords or choose passwords that are easy to guess.
And how about those password retrieval questions?
What's your favorite color or your mother's maiden name? No one can guess those.
Wow.
Everyone thought this was a comment about blocking ads.
It was a comment about no one using Windows Phone.
So can 3-d printers print 3-d printer parts?
And how?
Asperger's is a lot more than being a "very shy child". There are sensory issues, prosopagnosia(the inability to recognize faces), and obsessiveness.
And the "shyness" you described comes not from normal apprehensiveness or from past social failure but from a (sometimes complete) lack of social understanding, or a complete lack of social intuition. It's not that people with Asperger's or Autism want to be sociable and am just afraid to, or that they want to be sociable and don't know how. Sometimes autistic people don't understand that they're expected to interact in particular ways, or don't understand that they're supposed to interact at all. I can't explain how shocking it is every time I find out that other people have been interacting in ways that I had never conceived of.
If only it was shyness, that would make things so much easier. It's not. Saying that Asperger's Syndrome is just being very shy is exactly the thing you're complaining about, identifying a symptom but missing its cause.
Autism is a disorder, yeah. Autism is definitely a disorder.
Sure it will.
When is the last time Microsoft named subsequent operating systems subsequently?
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11 for Workgroups
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7 (?!?!?!?!)
The next version of Windows may be called "Windows 8". But given their history, it just seems incredibly unlikely.
I'd expect the next version of Windows to be called "Windows Kumquat" or something equally nonsensical and meaningless.
Except that every Fox story is something like "Is Barack Obama the antichrist?" or "Do Democrats want to kill your grandmother?" or "Are liberals spineless cowards?" or "Is global warming actually good for you?"
It may be that they only answer the question with opinion and not facts 55% of the time, but 99% of their headlines are in that form, "asking a question" to make a statement.
Imagine I brought you on a show, and you didn't know what for, and then you found out the discussion of that episode was "Have you stopped beating your wife?" You can answer the question in a non-biased way, but the question was asked in a biased and leading way. MSNBC answers their questions in a biased way, absolutely, but the last time I checked(and admittedly it's been many years since I was a regular viewer), they were still asking real questions.
I turned on MSNBC just a minute ago. The question on the screen said "Can Mark Sanford win over family-values Republicans?" Then I turned on Fox. The question on the screen said "Automatic gun ban fail: Did the press pass on the news?" One of those is a real question, and one of those seems to be trying to put an answer in your head.
4.5 billion years.
Seagate bought Maxtor.
Free market, my ass.
You hypocrite.
You're adorable.
That the term is too long overall is not a separate argument.
If you're concerned that older writers are unfairly disadvantaged because younger writers could sell the authority to use their creations for decades, then the solution seems obvious: Reduce the younger writers' ability to sell the authority to use their creations.
I am going to die at some point. I have no intention of leaving an heir. When I die, the idea that authority over the things I have created would somehow be held by some private individual instead of being available for the common good is not only not desirable to me, but I see it as really detrimental, and despicable that someone might hope to gain from my work by denying it to others.
A movie studio can make a billion dollars off of a movie in five years. Your objection would seem to point to copyright terms being too long in general rather than them being too short.
I don't believe heirs should get any reward for your invention.
Corporations already routinely use things created by individuals and smaller companies regardless of copyright or patent. As long as their legal team has tens of billions of dollars behind it they can outspend you 100:1, they're pretty comfortable with the fact that they can litigate you until your bankrupt and then buy your patents or copyrights or just buy your whole company. Patents and copyrights do not really protect small inventors.
And copyright protections and patents are better deterrents to that than laws against murder?
Can someone explain why it's reasonable to have patents and copyrights continue to exist after the original author is dead?
I really never understood that.
You can't do that. You signed away your right to class action lawsuit on the registration form for the site. You have to go through arbitration, which the business wins 97% of the time.
They do?
Do what Lance Armstrong did with his chest full of "Lance Armstrong memorabilia": Go out and win the Tour de France.
I remember using Lala, mostly at work. At the time it was much nicer to use than iTunes and Pandora.
I remember the day when I found out that Apple was shutting down Lala, and I was very disappointed, because Apple is very insistent that people only use technology in the way that Apple wants them to. I do generally like Apple's interface design, but Apple is very insistent that its way is the best, and they have been insistent even in the cases that they've been wrong.
Lala had then what Amazon, Google, and Apple have only recently added, which is the ability to basically mirror your library from their website, and when Apple bought the service it was a big loss. I think Google or Amazon would have actually built on the service, but Apple just killed it, and that sucked.