You don't OWN the music because you bought the CD, you own a single copy of the music. And not the right to make more copies.
No. Fair Use.
You own that copy and are given the right to make as many copies as you'd like. You aren't allowed to distribute them to anyone else... that is the job of record companies. Let's not get our lines crossed.
No matter, Macrovision has no right to disrupt Internet communications at all.
If Macrovision feels they're not profitting richly enough, they're free to screen their customers more carefully or raise the price of their product. Deliberately flooding networks with extraneous junk is no better than flaming tires thrown on the freeway.
Here is the irony: Macrovision's customers are those who would like their copyrights/material strongly protected. Macrovision exists to prevent software "piracy", VHS & DVD bootlegging and generally makes a profit from selling peace of mind. Macrovision has failed over and over on all of these fronts.
The simple fact that they are moving into P2P "Interdiction" means that they should just stop now. I would hope their customers (Sony, Disney, Paramount, software developers...) see that their tactics aren't working and cut Macrovision out of the picture. Less money spent towards Macrovision's IP folder would mean a lower cost to manufacturers and maybe the consumer could benefit. An overall drop in movie or software prices would help spur sales. At least that is what Econ 101 tells me.
Macrovision, using patents to protect their failed business.
You can't vote for buying armor to protect our soldiers in battle and against this Real-ID thing when they're both the same bill and you only get one vote!
Yes, you can vote against both. During your debate time mention that you will vote against it because of the rider, simple enough. It only takes 40 senators to say "no, we don't accept the bill as is - re-write it!".
The Congress is a lot more complicated than you want it to be. Sometimes you have to "vote for the $87 billion" before you "vote against it". I mean, let's look at that statement by John Kerry. He tried to tell everyone that situation wasn't as clear cut as they thought, the 'Hill isn't full of clear cut business. (However, most Senators voted against before they voted for....)
Really though, people that have been paying attention know that we've waited until now to armor our vehicles in combat... even re-writing the bill to remove the rider wouldn't have taken this long (3 years!). It's the Pentagon who has failed to equip or men and women in battle...
Now, we can't go attacking the way branches of governement work everytime we don't get our way. That seems to be the easy thing to do. Attack the electoral college because the election doesn't go our way and attack the judiciary because a few cases are decided on the "wrong" side. Republicans attacked Clinton when he was the most powerful because they had no other recourse.
What we need to do is engage those who either disagree or those who are falling in line with this terrorism/illegal alien scare. We don't need a Nation ID system, we don't need these anti-terrorism reforms, we don't need to be so scared all of the time. We need to tell our idiot in-laws or neighbors that they are wrong sometimes.
I disagree with this approach on my privacy and overall rights to freedom, but I don't blame the way it was passed. I blame them for passing it. I don't care what it was attached to, if enough people loudly objected Senators from everywhere could remove this "post-it note". I'm telling my favorite Senator/President's-to-be that I won't forget this treachery.
If we spoke up more often we could get our way. Let's stop being afraid to do it.
There is a huge market for the right tablet product. Everyone talks about the tablet being a niche only market but they are always talking about current machines and the horrible way they are used in the "enterprise" marketplace.
Tablets today are not great.
Give us a tablet that we can lounge around with and we'll be happy. I hate be tied to my desk and would like a ~$1000 machine to sit on the couch, lay in bed or go to the bathroom with. Yes, a laptop could do the job but tablet's are so much sexier. Plus, I'd use it for more reading than writing....
Tablets of the future is what all true nerds should have.
Not easier to remove at all. It is always a matter of locating the content, removing it and rebooting. Windows has a number of third party tools that will do the work without a reboot needed.
Let's be fair, all Ad/spyware sucks. It shouldn't be tolerated at all and offenders should be blacklisted for life. No one should put/run code on my machine but me!
You know I went with my friend to pick up his marriage license today and I saw no religious symbols in the office. It was all about judges, clerks and other arms of the federal, state and local governments. The contract is between the state, the bride and groom and that is it.
So, why don't we tell these pastors to butt out of secular affairs?
Tell that to the City of Cincinnati... up until last year it was the only place in America where it was legal to discriminate against someone based on their sexual proclivities. Oddly no one ever tried to keep heterosexuals out of the workplace - something I pitched to many employers who were against the law.
The whole thing passed based on the idea that we shouldn't give "special" rights to gays. In other words, gays don't deserve the same rights. Many a smart man was fooled by their propaganda campaign. Oddly enough the law was passed under a gay (female) mayor!
it would seem that India would be an ideal place for most such companies, as they can operate over there with out fear of patent litigation.
But as we have seen - countries can boycott those who don't fall into line. If India doesn't do what Europe and America is doing then they will have to survive a economic stand-off. If they can then they will change things. However I suspect if they don't adopt our view or accept our patents as protected ideas then our governments will put pressure on those who do business with them. Who knows, I'm really drunk. It isn't good news for those of us who still wish to enter the IT market in America.
No, I get that distribution and creation are two different things.
However, the Internet gives - not removes - my power as a creator to control *who* distributes. I can blacklist certain users, domains, IP ranges and user agents. It's all about control.
No matter, create your own data. Don't rely on AP for your news!
What India has over the United States is that they not only have our technical jobs but they also have no legal restrictions on taking any technology learned during that "cultural" exchange.
Technology is what keeps a superpower on top. The Masons knew it, that is why they exist(ed). (Technological) Secrets make a nation thrive and the fact that the United States and Europe will restrict software developers with draconian laws makes our chances nill. If we continue to lead the way in innovations they will be copied at will overseas making *only* our citizens the ones to pay the price for intellectual property. Where will that leave us?
Our patents won't mean a thing when India and China make up most of the computer/internet users and developers. I'm afraid that we will be trying to play fair while others won't - reminds me of the game show "Friend or Foe", everyone must agree or everyone loses. I'm drunk, but look more into China and Russia's copying of CDMA technology to learn more about how we can lose...
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You know, it's sad that the submitter has pointed us to his own blog which forces us to read an ad before seeing it's full blogger goodness!
I had the same problem, but I think it was because I went so far into Kentucky... where dressing up as anything is looked at as "queer"
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In Soviet Union, Government Clusters You!
You don't OWN the music because you bought the CD, you own a single copy of the music.
And not the right to make more copies.
No. Fair Use.
You own that copy and are given the right to make as many copies as you'd like. You aren't allowed to distribute them to anyone else... that is the job of record companies. Let's not get our lines crossed.
No matter, Macrovision has no right to disrupt Internet communications at all.
If Macrovision feels they're not profitting richly enough, they're free to screen their customers more carefully or raise the price of their product. Deliberately flooding networks with extraneous junk is no better than flaming tires thrown on the freeway.
Here is the irony: Macrovision's customers are those who would like their copyrights/material strongly protected. Macrovision exists to prevent software "piracy", VHS & DVD bootlegging and generally makes a profit from selling peace of mind. Macrovision has failed over and over on all of these fronts.
The simple fact that they are moving into P2P "Interdiction" means that they should just stop now. I would hope their customers (Sony, Disney, Paramount, software developers...) see that their tactics aren't working and cut Macrovision out of the picture. Less money spent towards Macrovision's IP folder would mean a lower cost to manufacturers and maybe the consumer could benefit. An overall drop in movie or software prices would help spur sales. At least that is what Econ 101 tells me.
Macrovision, using patents to protect their failed business.
There are pictures from around the world (although mainly the US and Canada) at Spaceweather.com
They have pictures from California, South Dakota, Kansas and Illinois. Actually, I now see two more pages of fantastic photos.
Here is the list of "Space Weather Alerts" they offer:
They'll call you with alerts 48-hours in advance when possible. Pretty cool for $4.95/month. Anyone want to buy it for me as a gift?
You can't vote for buying armor to protect our soldiers in battle and against this Real-ID thing when they're both the same bill and you only get one vote!
Yes, you can vote against both. During your debate time mention that you will vote against it because of the rider, simple enough. It only takes 40 senators to say "no, we don't accept the bill as is - re-write it!".
The Congress is a lot more complicated than you want it to be. Sometimes you have to "vote for the $87 billion" before you "vote against it". I mean, let's look at that statement by John Kerry. He tried to tell everyone that situation wasn't as clear cut as they thought, the 'Hill isn't full of clear cut business. (However, most Senators voted against before they voted for....)
Really though, people that have been paying attention know that we've waited until now to armor our vehicles in combat... even re-writing the bill to remove the rider wouldn't have taken this long (3 years!). It's the Pentagon who has failed to equip or men and women in battle...
Now, we can't go attacking the way branches of governement work everytime we don't get our way. That seems to be the easy thing to do. Attack the electoral college because the election doesn't go our way and attack the judiciary because a few cases are decided on the "wrong" side. Republicans attacked Clinton when he was the most powerful because they had no other recourse.
What we need to do is engage those who either disagree or those who are falling in line with this terrorism/illegal alien scare. We don't need a Nation ID system, we don't need these anti-terrorism reforms, we don't need to be so scared all of the time. We need to tell our idiot in-laws or neighbors that they are wrong sometimes.
I disagree with this approach on my privacy and overall rights to freedom, but I don't blame the way it was passed. I blame them for passing it. I don't care what it was attached to, if enough people loudly objected Senators from everywhere could remove this "post-it note". I'm telling my favorite Senator/President's-to-be that I won't forget this treachery.
If we spoke up more often we could get our way. Let's stop being afraid to do it.
There is a huge market for the right tablet product. Everyone talks about the tablet being a niche only market but they are always talking about current machines and the horrible way they are used in the "enterprise" marketplace.
Tablets today are not great.
Give us a tablet that we can lounge around with and we'll be happy. I hate be tied to my desk and would like a ~$1000 machine to sit on the couch, lay in bed or go to the bathroom with. Yes, a laptop could do the job but tablet's are so much sexier. Plus, I'd use it for more reading than writing....
Tablets of the future is what all true nerds should have.
Not easier to remove at all. It is always a matter of locating the content, removing it and rebooting. Windows has a number of third party tools that will do the work without a reboot needed.
Let's be fair, all Ad/spyware sucks. It shouldn't be tolerated at all and offenders should be blacklisted for life. No one should put/run code on my machine but me!
You've Been Zonked!
now back to work...
http://www.mintruth.com/wiki/index.php?Al%20Gore%2 0and%20the%20Internet
He's not taking credit for creating the internet, although people are trying to falsely pin it on him
Even the inventors try to pin it on him!
Screenshots!
A story about desktops carry no weight with me unless there is pretty pictures.
Well, being open source it won't be hard to fork and then start working on creating the server and "core functionality".
This totally off the wall.
You know I went with my friend to pick up his marriage license today and I saw no religious symbols in the office. It was all about judges, clerks and other arms of the federal, state and local governments. The contract is between the state, the bride and groom and that is it.
So, why don't we tell these pastors to butt out of secular affairs?
Tell that to the City of Cincinnati... up until last year it was the only place in America where it was legal to discriminate against someone based on their sexual proclivities. Oddly no one ever tried to keep heterosexuals out of the workplace - something I pitched to many employers who were against the law.
The whole thing passed based on the idea that we shouldn't give "special" rights to gays. In other words, gays don't deserve the same rights. Many a smart man was fooled by their propaganda campaign. Oddly enough the law was passed under a gay (female) mayor!
More?
http://www.citizenstorestorefairness.org/
it would seem that India would be an ideal place for most such companies, as they can operate over there with out fear of patent litigation.
But as we have seen - countries can boycott those who don't fall into line. If India doesn't do what Europe and America is doing then they will have to survive a economic stand-off. If they can then they will change things. However I suspect if they don't adopt our view or accept our patents as protected ideas then our governments will put pressure on those who do business with them. Who knows, I'm really drunk. It isn't good news for those of us who still wish to enter the IT market in America.
No, I get that distribution and creation are two different things.
However, the Internet gives - not removes - my power as a creator to control *who* distributes. I can blacklist certain users, domains, IP ranges and user agents. It's all about control.
No matter, create your own data. Don't rely on AP for your news!
Cheap?
What about lives?
You actually have a good point though.
What India has over the United States is that they not only have our technical jobs but they also have no legal restrictions on taking any technology learned during that "cultural" exchange.
Technology is what keeps a superpower on top. The Masons knew it, that is why they exist(ed). (Technological) Secrets make a nation thrive and the fact that the United States and Europe will restrict software developers with draconian laws makes our chances nill. If we continue to lead the way in innovations they will be copied at will overseas making *only* our citizens the ones to pay the price for intellectual property. Where will that leave us?
Our patents won't mean a thing when India and China make up most of the computer/internet users and developers. I'm afraid that we will be trying to play fair while others won't - reminds me of the game show "Friend or Foe", everyone must agree or everyone loses. I'm drunk, but look more into China and Russia's copying of CDMA technology to learn more about how we can lose...
I smell another crash of DotCom proportions...
I smell a crash of Titanic or U.S.S. Cole proportions.
Welcome to a John Dvorak article, it's all made up and he gets paid a fortune to do it... Oh, and he kisses Microsoft's ass a lot.
Quoting Dvorak on Slashdot should be like quoting Fox News at a DNC meeting - shouldn't hold any water
Al Gore?