How long before they start hitting up specific distributions with their claims? Does any of this "established precendent" matter? Will it just be enough to scare off PHB's who don't know any better from Linux? Can they be sued or otherwise complelled to provide the exact patents in their claims? If any of those patents are found to be valid and distributions write them out of their repositories how liable are they for the past infringment? Software patents hurt innovation.
The situation we find ourselves in right now is that the Internet is something we've never seen before. Existing law is a shitty fit for it, it needs to be torn down, rethought, and rebuilt. It is exactly the situation like when automobiles were first introduced and laws requiring a flag person to run ahead of the car to warn of its coming existed. The law is stupid. Everyone is arguing from stupid positions and instead of fitting the law properly to the new situation we have initiatives like ACTA which seek to cement the stupidity even further.
Exactly, if "they" want to misappropriate words then I shall too. Imagine if every slashdot story concerning the latest copyright travesty led off with the words "Citizen financially raped by corporation..." Newspeak all around if the corporations insist on it.
When will it finally be seen that the effect civil law has when applied to criminal cases is really rape? The civil law if I'm not mistaken was for big counterfeiters and other corporations screwing each other over. If copyright is never to be reformed then at least apply criminal law against music file sharers: 24 songs -> 1 CD = $20 = $200 fine, move along. Not $1.92 million rape judgement. And yes, rape is a strong word but so is what American courts are doing to their citizens at the behest of a minority of corporations.
You're right, they do buy it by the week. However, when I buy the game I'm stuck with it forever - so you know what, I'm not going to buy their games. If I want it I'll try it out later anyway: that is the market in action.
And heres why: the checks for Internet are already broken just substitute them as checks for the disc and you can see this. What does this leave? The crackers just need to write some save and load game routines that go local instead of cloud. So, in effect instead of having a copy that doesn't have stupid digital restrictions the day it is released you will have it a week after its released. And who suffers? Not the pirates, the people who bought the game. Luckily for me there is nothing in Ubisoft's upcoming lineup that I'm interested in anyway but if other publishers decide to follow this stupid anti-customer lead then I'm just going to go outside and take up baseball. You know, real baseball, in real life.
Because not matter the cause of the blip we now have a self-reinforcing cycle of methane release from our permafrost that will have effects. I'm all for our winters not sucking as much as they used to, I just hope the rest of the world fares as well.
Remember what used to be the mythical North-West Passage? I hope to be wrong but there is now ocean where you can sail ships through that used to be a global ice cap.
The cause is up in the air and that what is making the issue cloudy. The effects however are not: I live in Canada, we have a lot of permafrost here. That permafrost contains millions of years worth of methane thats been sequestered naturally. It is starting to melt, it never used to. That methane is a vicious greenhouse gas, it makes carbon dioxide look like nothing. With this feedback cycle, we have a practically limitless supply of methane to be released, Canada is going to be a tropical country in fifty years and the US where it is not irrigated will be desert.
Every year for the last ten years has been setting record temperatures. Global warming, you are correct, may be a result of a cycle in the sun itself. I don't know if I fully subscribe to that, I think that perhaps our industrial greenhouse gases were just enough to warm the planet to release further gases such as the methane (THAT is a wicked greenhouse gas) that is now beginning to be released from permafrost that used to never melt.
That is why I said "Here is how I see it." See, I was already modded down for holding an opinion. For a place that obstensibly decries censorship slashdot sure provides the means to easily do so with a "-1 Overrated." But please, add your opinion: I'd like to hear it and if we both don't get modded into oblivion perhaps everyone can refine their opinion further as well.
Here's how I see it: Something is causing the environment to change. It may not be all us but it is very likely that we are contributing in a significant amount. Individually we need to be responsible to the environment and that means that the one thing in our direct control, our car, is the place to start. Cars are necessary, we don't know what we would do without them. That doesn't mean we can't point to them as an issue. The effect of climate change is that people who do not matter will die. Here in the first world we have technology and more importantly infrastructure to deal with the changes that are happening. In the third world millions of people who are already on the edge will be pushed over by drought. But in the end, they don't contribute to the bottom line anyway and its much easier to drive the SUV and make it someone elses problem.
Why is it my problem again that they through short-sighted-ness and not sending their products to appropriate markets (I'm sure CRT's still rule in the third-world) that they aren't making the profit they would like? I'm supporting the flat-panel factory and saying I also have to pay for the CRT factory corrupts the mechanisms of capitalism. It distorts the market and prevents efficiency. I don't want a buggy-whip, stop making them: idiots.
Are they going to escape injustice nation wide and be allowed to marry? Actually, scratch that, allowed to get life insurance on their parters? If you'd like to conflate issues further keep posting;)
Hopefully, if I am accused: and eventually exonerated it will result in a civil suit against the accusee where the lawyers get rich as usual and I get a pittance. Enough of those costs is called a "feedback" mechanism. Something that appears to only be in favor of one party right now: corporations.
OK, this got modded down to oblivion but think about it: the video is *back up*, millions of slashdotters going there to see the "video is no longer available" message just got rick-rolled. Even if unintentional. This single comment just made my day;)
Whatever is in that document, thank you Microsoft for 100% confirming it is what you said. Now, http has heads. You *can* cut them off. Where there is a disconnect between morality and law however is called corruption and that needs to be measured in each case: anyone care to measure here? So, you can cut off all the http heads. What good will that do you? You think Cryptome doesn't have contacts? Doesn't have people who are in the know and know what they are looking for? Microsoft just gave them some free advertising that they have it. Everyone who wants it already does have it by now. And in a shortish while after some corrupt wrangling the http head will come back up and start serving again until the next grand advertisement occurs. But always, occuring in parallel to all this are the things without heads: it will take a great deal more corruption in law to silence those.
They don't give a shit of what we think. Months or even years from now when this issue is before some little corner of government that corner will not have heard of or even care about slashdot. They will only care that they go through the machininations of government. Checkbox, checkbox, action. Go home sleep. Did we organize enough money to get a checkbox? No? Fuck off.
Cathedrals are susceptible to top-down error. You know, the idiot at the top who doesn't know he's an idiot and leads the whole company into ruin over a few decisions. The bazaar of Linux is much more resilient to this at the cost of speed. Also you have not touched on the Freedom aspects (capital F) at all which for most, including myself, is the real reason to use F/OSS.
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How long before they start hitting up specific distributions with their claims? Does any of this "established precendent" matter? Will it just be enough to scare off PHB's who don't know any better from Linux? Can they be sued or otherwise complelled to provide the exact patents in their claims? If any of those patents are found to be valid and distributions write them out of their repositories how liable are they for the past infringment? Software patents hurt innovation.
You deserve to be heard over me, you obviously have seen more plain old crap than I have.
The situation we find ourselves in right now is that the Internet is something we've never seen before. Existing law is a shitty fit for it, it needs to be torn down, rethought, and rebuilt. It is exactly the situation like when automobiles were first introduced and laws requiring a flag person to run ahead of the car to warn of its coming existed. The law is stupid. Everyone is arguing from stupid positions and instead of fitting the law properly to the new situation we have initiatives like ACTA which seek to cement the stupidity even further.
Exactly, if "they" want to misappropriate words then I shall too. Imagine if every slashdot story concerning the latest copyright travesty led off with the words "Citizen financially raped by corporation..." Newspeak all around if the corporations insist on it.
When will it finally be seen that the effect civil law has when applied to criminal cases is really rape? The civil law if I'm not mistaken was for big counterfeiters and other corporations screwing each other over. If copyright is never to be reformed then at least apply criminal law against music file sharers: 24 songs -> 1 CD = $20 = $200 fine, move along. Not $1.92 million rape judgement. And yes, rape is a strong word but so is what American courts are doing to their citizens at the behest of a minority of corporations.
You're right, they do buy it by the week. However, when I buy the game I'm stuck with it forever - so you know what, I'm not going to buy their games. If I want it I'll try it out later anyway: that is the market in action.
And heres why: the checks for Internet are already broken just substitute them as checks for the disc and you can see this. What does this leave? The crackers just need to write some save and load game routines that go local instead of cloud. So, in effect instead of having a copy that doesn't have stupid digital restrictions the day it is released you will have it a week after its released. And who suffers? Not the pirates, the people who bought the game. Luckily for me there is nothing in Ubisoft's upcoming lineup that I'm interested in anyway but if other publishers decide to follow this stupid anti-customer lead then I'm just going to go outside and take up baseball. You know, real baseball, in real life.
Because not matter the cause of the blip we now have a self-reinforcing cycle of methane release from our permafrost that will have effects. I'm all for our winters not sucking as much as they used to, I just hope the rest of the world fares as well.
Remember what used to be the mythical North-West Passage? I hope to be wrong but there is now ocean where you can sail ships through that used to be a global ice cap.
The cause is up in the air and that what is making the issue cloudy. The effects however are not: I live in Canada, we have a lot of permafrost here. That permafrost contains millions of years worth of methane thats been sequestered naturally. It is starting to melt, it never used to. That methane is a vicious greenhouse gas, it makes carbon dioxide look like nothing. With this feedback cycle, we have a practically limitless supply of methane to be released, Canada is going to be a tropical country in fifty years and the US where it is not irrigated will be desert.
Every year for the last ten years has been setting record temperatures. Global warming, you are correct, may be a result of a cycle in the sun itself. I don't know if I fully subscribe to that, I think that perhaps our industrial greenhouse gases were just enough to warm the planet to release further gases such as the methane (THAT is a wicked greenhouse gas) that is now beginning to be released from permafrost that used to never melt.
That is why I said "Here is how I see it." See, I was already modded down for holding an opinion. For a place that obstensibly decries censorship slashdot sure provides the means to easily do so with a "-1 Overrated." But please, add your opinion: I'd like to hear it and if we both don't get modded into oblivion perhaps everyone can refine their opinion further as well.
Greenhouse gases follow some formulas. We can argue with math all day. Which class in the world is the primary source of greenhouse gases?
Here's how I see it: Something is causing the environment to change. It may not be all us but it is very likely that we are contributing in a significant amount. Individually we need to be responsible to the environment and that means that the one thing in our direct control, our car, is the place to start. Cars are necessary, we don't know what we would do without them. That doesn't mean we can't point to them as an issue. The effect of climate change is that people who do not matter will die. Here in the first world we have technology and more importantly infrastructure to deal with the changes that are happening. In the third world millions of people who are already on the edge will be pushed over by drought. But in the end, they don't contribute to the bottom line anyway and its much easier to drive the SUV and make it someone elses problem.
Why is it my problem again that they through short-sighted-ness and not sending their products to appropriate markets (I'm sure CRT's still rule in the third-world) that they aren't making the profit they would like? I'm supporting the flat-panel factory and saying I also have to pay for the CRT factory corrupts the mechanisms of capitalism. It distorts the market and prevents efficiency. I don't want a buggy-whip, stop making them: idiots.
;) and some filler to make up a minimum character limit =)
Are they going to escape injustice nation wide and be allowed to marry? Actually, scratch that, allowed to get life insurance on their parters? If you'd like to conflate issues further keep posting ;)
.... For now.
D'oh! accuser!!! ;) Open mouth, insert foot :D
Hopefully, if I am accused: and eventually exonerated it will result in a civil suit against the accusee where the lawyers get rich as usual and I get a pittance. Enough of those costs is called a "feedback" mechanism. Something that appears to only be in favor of one party right now: corporations.
OK, this got modded down to oblivion but think about it: the video is *back up*, millions of slashdotters going there to see the "video is no longer available" message just got rick-rolled. Even if unintentional. This single comment just made my day ;)
But it's called FTP ;)
Whatever is in that document, thank you Microsoft for 100% confirming it is what you said. Now, http has heads. You *can* cut them off. Where there is a disconnect between morality and law however is called corruption and that needs to be measured in each case: anyone care to measure here? So, you can cut off all the http heads. What good will that do you? You think Cryptome doesn't have contacts? Doesn't have people who are in the know and know what they are looking for? Microsoft just gave them some free advertising that they have it. Everyone who wants it already does have it by now. And in a shortish while after some corrupt wrangling the http head will come back up and start serving again until the next grand advertisement occurs. But always, occuring in parallel to all this are the things without heads: it will take a great deal more corruption in law to silence those.
They don't give a shit of what we think. Months or even years from now when this issue is before some little corner of government that corner will not have heard of or even care about slashdot. They will only care that they go through the machininations of government. Checkbox, checkbox, action. Go home sleep. Did we organize enough money to get a checkbox? No? Fuck off.
Cathedrals are susceptible to top-down error. You know, the idiot at the top who doesn't know he's an idiot and leads the whole company into ruin over a few decisions. The bazaar of Linux is much more resilient to this at the cost of speed. Also you have not touched on the Freedom aspects (capital F) at all which for most, including myself, is the real reason to use F/OSS.