I agree on the second argument. A copy-paste of something, even publicly published, requires a citation.
The amount of change required for something to be a different work is a gray zone and is very subjective (ever wondered why Lucas trademarks every name in his Starwars(c) tril..er saga ?) But I think it is commonly recognized that a rewording transforms sufficiently a work.
No, copy-pasting is a copyright violation. Rewording of sentences, while inacceptable practice for a professional journalist (in the case the sources aren't cites) is completly legal.
Furthermore, one could argue that an information published in an internet forum is public. I agree that a journalist have been unprofessional here, but I am surprised with most opinions expressed here, that tend to go against the "information wants to be free"/. dogma.
In the 20th century, dictators managed to get elected thanks to their understanding of the full power of radio or television. In this new century, the wide adoption of riggable and unaccountable election systems will become the tool of choice for all dictators wannabes.
it spread by floppy disks, which is a far cry from the network-aware worms of today.
"The first implementation of a worm was by two researchers at Xerox PARC in 1978. The authors, John Shoch and Jon Hupp, originally designed the worm to find idle processors on the network and assign them tasks, sharing the processing and so improving the whole network efficiency."
Oh, and this was filed in the U.S. but approved by a European patent office so I don't think it's fair for this judge to bash only us Yanks.
Unfortunately, I can't deny this fact but I would like to point a situation so weird that in comparison, US legal system would seem clean.
It is pretty clear according to the EU laws that a software or an algorithm can not be patented. It is written, it is a binding law of the European patent office. Despite of this, this office delivers software patent. Just like this. Politicians diplomaticaly call this a "gray zone" and nobody knows the true legal value of these patents.
We are not even asking for "releases". A public access to their CVS, or SVN or whatever source versioning tool they use would be fine !
The only cost is two minutes of the admin time to put a public account, and, maybe, one day to put this on a public server. That's not much considering that not doing this angries most of their target who are probably mostly techies.
That is something strange (and costly) in Europe, that this elected, well funded, widely publicized parliament can't do laws. Oh, of course, texts are voted there, but for it to become law, national parliaments have to adapt the text to their country's constitution and existing corpus of law and vote again to make it truely an enforceable law.
In France, they are currently debating over a 1994 european directive about copyright (it is a dmca-like law).
I like Europe but the current political system of the union is inefficient, heavy, slow, opaque and, sometimes, non-democratic. It is technocracy in its worse aspect.
At least have a lightweight static page stating that the site is overwhelmed by a hord of nerdy zerglings. A 500 byte message would do it.
And when you are a company which has a network business, with a reputation of networking skills, the least you could do is having a static version of your website and switch to this one when traffic goes high. We have even seen DSL box answering something even in the middle of a/.ing !
That, and I don't like the fact that more and more/. stories look like a disguised ad.
Maybe you'll want to know where Nike, Addidas, etc. produces its sports wear.
If you're a martial artist, take a look at your kimono's label, I bet it says "made in pakistan"
But of course, you have a point, demographics isn't everything (in the short term at least)
That is a common idea I keep hearing and re-hearing. First I found it to be quite appealing and plausible, but maybe you should consider the opposite : The growth of Chinese economy may well be the reason why their repressive government still lasts. Even in mainland China it is unpopular, especially among the educated population (a feeble 200 millions people). But, for now, they are the kings of the hill. You are less inclined to go fight for your rights on the streets when you have a well-filled wallet and an appartment in shangai which value raises 15% per year.
You have at least to acknowledge that their growth began when their communist leaders accepted to open their market and give a bit of freedom. They didn't provoke the growth, they let it happen. As another post pointed, it was doomed to happen, thanks to demographics. They did it in a socialist way, not in the wild capitalist way that could have happen. It has issues, but there were worse alternatives.
What I find interesting is that the government is forced to maintain a growth that keeps everyone happy, or to lower the number of points that opponents are growling about. I really hope they could achieve a democratic transition without the need of civil violence.
I'm feeling trollish, but I have to say it :
if you are new to linux, you won't touch emacs (nor vi, nor ed, nor...) you'll probably use a graphical editor which works 'out of the box' (or out of the emerge, or out of the apt-get) which has auto-highlight, the same shortcuts as windows editors. Of course they also have mouse wheel support since many years.
emacs is made to work in text-mode and use a lot of cryptic (let's get real) shortcuts that you just have to know. If you are ready to train a day or two memorizing them, you'll probably be comfortable and productive with it but if you are not, juste use kate, scite, etc... which are editors equivalent of your usual 30$ windows-shareware tool of choice.
I thought the campaign in the US has been the most expensive in the history of american politics ? BTW, I was speaking of his popularity worldwide. It was only a real life example that wide visibility != popularity.
The GP tended to say that even the news of MS loosing a trial would count as a commercial for it. I find it as misleaded as considering Farenheit 911 as a Bush's electoral advertisement because we see him so much in it.
Let's stop this nonsense about judgement being 'free ads' and let me make a two-in-one Slashdot Special : MS and GWB bashing.
GWB got a lot of free advertisement in the arab world for the iraq war, strangely, I don't think it qualifies as "free ad campain" for Bush's popularity.
This works the same. A lot of people hear about MS with this in Korea, sure. But MS isn't your typical start-up struggling to be known. 90% of PC owners get a one minute MS add during their computer start up. Their name is known. But now it gets associated with "evil big corporation illegaly using a monopoly". Not the typical message marketing guys want to produce. Plus, it also informs less tech-savy users that alternative IMs and movie players exist and THAT is another thing MS would never put in an ad campain.
He doesn't plan to build one, he will just get a second-hand one. Not your usual ebay stuff though...
"Johns Hopkins University agreed to donate the used cyclotron, which is roughly six feet tall by eight feet wide, to Swank's business, Langdon Engineering and Management."
We hope you can get rid of your wannabee king, but the longest lasting democracy still lasts.
In a note of hope, Unesco noted that never, in human history, there has been so much democracies in the world and such a large portion of earth population (thanks to India) living under this government.
On a side note they also noticed that there has never been so few military conflicts and that they never made so few victims in average. Iraq war being an exception (*cough*)
To fool one, you just have to train a bit with the right equipement (ie the detector model that you want to fool). So basically, a well-trained terrorist would raise his chances of not being throughfully searched by passing this test. Great way to improve security!
Anyway, all these airport regulation begin to get on my nerves. Now that you have to register one hour before the flight, put off shoes, belt, nickels, face people who treat you like suspects in a police station, that freak out when you have a laptop with you, etc... Every time I have to go somewhere, I check if train is not an option. Even if it takes two more hours.
Yeah, the point I wanted to bring is "stop the pissing contest". Internet started with DARPAnet but it rapidly extended beyond the scope of the project.
And, well, for the "we paid for it" I suppose everyone can say the same about the IT infrastructure of his own country.
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I agree on the second argument. A copy-paste of something, even publicly published, requires a citation. The amount of change required for something to be a different work is a gray zone and is very subjective (ever wondered why Lucas trademarks every name in his Starwars(c) tril..er saga ?) But I think it is commonly recognized that a rewording transforms sufficiently a work.
No, copy-pasting is a copyright violation. Rewording of sentences, while inacceptable practice for a professional journalist (in the case the sources aren't cites) is completly legal.
/. dogma.
Furthermore, one could argue that an information published in an internet forum is public. I agree that a journalist have been unprofessional here, but I am surprised with most opinions expressed here, that tend to go against the "information wants to be free"
In the 20th century, dictators managed to get elected thanks to their understanding of the full power of radio or television. In this new century, the wide adoption of riggable and unaccountable election systems will become the tool of choice for all dictators wannabes.
it spread by floppy disks, which is a far cry from the network-aware worms of today.
"The first implementation of a worm was by two researchers at Xerox PARC in 1978. The authors, John Shoch and Jon Hupp, originally designed the worm to find idle processors on the network and assign them tasks, sharing the processing and so improving the whole network efficiency."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_worm
Not only was it a "network aware" worm, but also a rootkit and a crude "grid" implementation.
Oh, and this was filed in the U.S. but approved by a European patent office so I don't think it's fair for this judge to bash only us Yanks.
Unfortunately, I can't deny this fact but I would like to point a situation so weird that in comparison, US legal system would seem clean.
It is pretty clear according to the EU laws that a software or an algorithm can not be patented. It is written, it is a binding law of the European patent office. Despite of this, this office delivers software patent. Just like this. Politicians diplomaticaly call this a "gray zone" and nobody knows the true legal value of these patents.
We are not even asking for "releases". A public access to their CVS, or SVN or whatever source versioning tool they use would be fine ! The only cost is two minutes of the admin time to put a public account, and, maybe, one day to put this on a public server. That's not much considering that not doing this angries most of their target who are probably mostly techies.
Here you go : The Pointlessness of Current Videogame Journalism
... that you are supposed to buy DVDs, not watch them !
...for your vodka drink !
From what I know, the most vocal group "Sortir du nucléaire" want to immediately shut down nuclear plants and replace them with coal plants.
And yet, strangely, in France and Germany, ecologists want to revert to coal plants to prevent nuclear pollution.
That is something strange (and costly) in Europe, that this elected, well funded, widely publicized parliament can't do laws. Oh, of course, texts are voted there, but for it to become law, national parliaments have to adapt the text to their country's constitution and existing corpus of law and vote again to make it truely an enforceable law.
In France, they are currently debating over a 1994 european directive about copyright (it is a dmca-like law).
I like Europe but the current political system of the union is inefficient, heavy, slow, opaque and, sometimes, non-democratic. It is technocracy in its worse aspect.
At least have a lightweight static page stating that the site is overwhelmed by a hord of nerdy zerglings. A 500 byte message would do it.
/.ing !
/. stories look like a disguised ad.
And when you are a company which has a network business, with a reputation of networking skills, the least you could do is having a static version of your website and switch to this one when traffic goes high. We have even seen DSL box answering something even in the middle of a
That, and I don't like the fact that more and more
Maybe you'll want to know where Nike, Addidas, etc. produces its sports wear.
If you're a martial artist, take a look at your kimono's label, I bet it says "made in pakistan"
But of course, you have a point, demographics isn't everything (in the short term at least)
That is a common idea I keep hearing and re-hearing. First I found it to be quite appealing and plausible, but maybe you should consider the opposite : The growth of Chinese economy may well be the reason why their repressive government still lasts. Even in mainland China it is unpopular, especially among the educated population (a feeble 200 millions people). But, for now, they are the kings of the hill. You are less inclined to go fight for your rights on the streets when you have a well-filled wallet and an appartment in shangai which value raises 15% per year.
You have at least to acknowledge that their growth began when their communist leaders accepted to open their market and give a bit of freedom. They didn't provoke the growth, they let it happen. As another post pointed, it was doomed to happen, thanks to demographics. They did it in a socialist way, not in the wild capitalist way that could have happen. It has issues, but there were worse alternatives.
What I find interesting is that the government is forced to maintain a growth that keeps everyone happy, or to lower the number of points that opponents are growling about. I really hope they could achieve a democratic transition without the need of civil violence.
I'm feeling trollish, but I have to say it : if you are new to linux, you won't touch emacs (nor vi, nor ed, nor...) you'll probably use a graphical editor which works 'out of the box' (or out of the emerge, or out of the apt-get) which has auto-highlight, the same shortcuts as windows editors. Of course they also have mouse wheel support since many years.
emacs is made to work in text-mode and use a lot of cryptic (let's get real) shortcuts that you just have to know. If you are ready to train a day or two memorizing them, you'll probably be comfortable and productive with it but if you are not, juste use kate, scite, etc... which are editors equivalent of your usual 30$ windows-shareware tool of choice.
... an internet browser written in Ajax ?
I thought the campaign in the US has been the most expensive in the history of american politics ? BTW, I was speaking of his popularity worldwide. It was only a real life example that wide visibility != popularity.
The GP tended to say that even the news of MS loosing a trial would count as a commercial for it. I find it as misleaded as considering Farenheit 911 as a Bush's electoral advertisement because we see him so much in it.
Let's stop this nonsense about judgement being 'free ads' and let me make a two-in-one Slashdot Special : MS and GWB bashing.
GWB got a lot of free advertisement in the arab world for the iraq war, strangely, I don't think it qualifies as "free ad campain" for Bush's popularity.
This works the same. A lot of people hear about MS with this in Korea, sure. But MS isn't your typical start-up struggling to be known. 90% of PC owners get a one minute MS add during their computer start up. Their name is known. But now it gets associated with "evil big corporation illegaly using a monopoly". Not the typical message marketing guys want to produce. Plus, it also informs less tech-savy users that alternative IMs and movie players exist and THAT is another thing MS would never put in an ad campain.
IP IS evil :
IP is obsolete
therefore
DESTROY IP
Somebody had to say it
He doesn't plan to build one, he will just get a second-hand one. Not your usual ebay stuff though...
"Johns Hopkins University agreed to donate the used cyclotron, which is roughly six feet tall by eight feet wide, to Swank's business, Langdon Engineering and Management."
He used the N...... word. People are scared. Nothing that can't be solved by a little explanation.
... and counting.
We hope you can get rid of your wannabee king, but the longest lasting democracy still lasts.
In a note of hope, Unesco noted that never, in human history, there has been so much democracies in the world and such a large portion of earth population (thanks to India) living under this government.
On a side note they also noticed that there has never been so few military conflicts and that they never made so few victims in average. Iraq war being an exception (*cough*)
To fool one, you just have to train a bit with the right equipement (ie the detector model that you want to fool). So basically, a well-trained terrorist would raise his chances of not being throughfully searched by passing this test. Great way to improve security!
Anyway, all these airport regulation begin to get on my nerves. Now that you have to register one hour before the flight, put off shoes, belt, nickels, face people who treat you like suspects in a police station, that freak out when you have a laptop with you, etc... Every time I have to go somewhere, I check if train is not an option. Even if it takes two more hours.
Yeah, the point I wanted to bring is "stop the pissing contest". Internet started with DARPAnet but it rapidly extended beyond the scope of the project.
And, well, for the "we paid for it" I suppose everyone can say the same about the IT infrastructure of his own country.