And that's how we fix it : Lawrence Lessig's fix Congress First. Reps or Dems, several politicians support the Fair Elections Now Act. Support them and outvote the others. Ask your candidates their opinions and the reasons they don't support it.
I don't see any hacker's solution a la GPL to get out of this situation (GPLv3 tries a bit but doesn't get the momentum needed. Maybe an LGPL version forbidding patents ?). So the only solution that I see is to do some politics. In US support Lawrence Lessig's efforts against lobbying (Fix Congress First) anywhere else, get involved in your local pirate party (International Pirate Party)
Also, studies show that contrary to popular belief, the crowd of smart and educated people grows every year. When 5 companies with teams of competent engineers have the same problems, they will logically come up with approximately the same solutions.
Common ? copyright infrigement is much more common that stealing. I think that the ideas your present are less prevalent than what you think. After all, the MPAA says it better : "you wouldn't steal a car".
I have been hoping similarly about Obama's choices in too many cases. Now it is settled : as long as he doesn't propose Lawrence Lessig or someone with similar views a job in government, I won't trust their intention on this "intellectual property" thing. Come on ! The people with common sense on these issues are not that uncommon, it is not like they would be hard to hire in an official position !
The sad truth is that most people don't want a full-featured computer and are dangerous with it. Give them a web-browser, an office suite, an email client, an IM and a picture manager. Full featured computer will become again the tool for the geek and the developper. The mainstream will go away as it came. It brought us cheap hardware and insecure environment. It was an interesting ride. Farewell and godspeed to you, have fun with your games and movies while I'll have my fun writing algorithms for them.
One of the things this model tries to prevent is an agreement on price fixing. However, it has been demonstrated that the sole ability to modify prices is a good enough communication medium to recognize calls for a price-fixing. Maybe it is time that we update these practices ?
You can either see it as a cycling metaphor or as a parametric curve : Y being knowledge acquired, X being the mastery it provides. But the thing is, most people don't know how to read graphics anyway so the cycling metaphor is your best bet.
The goal here is to show that one of the thousand of officials who have physical access to a huge quantity of machines before the elections can rig them. You know that when you don't look at them, officials love to stuff voting boxes with ballots. Suspecting they wouldn't do it with electronic machines is just weird.
We could use the Washington criterion : an industry-recognized standard is anything that generates enough money to be lobbied as such. There are things that are much loosely define in the law
Knowing a lot is very different from being a jackass, which is what is implied in the GP's answer.
That's actually a very good way to spot knowledgeable people. When you discuss something they don't know very well, they will ask you a lot of questions and not fear looking ignorant. You can bet that these types of profile know a lot more than others.
I thought I would never say that seriously on/. but : Won't someone think of the children ? What kind of world do you want them to grow into ? The read-only culture is not how our civilization was done. I'd like to raise kids that will become a bit more than consumers.
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And that's how we fix it : Lawrence Lessig's fix Congress First. Reps or Dems, several politicians support the Fair Elections Now Act. Support them and outvote the others. Ask your candidates their opinions and the reasons they don't support it.
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I don't see any hacker's solution a la GPL to get out of this situation (GPLv3 tries a bit but doesn't get the momentum needed. Maybe an LGPL version forbidding patents ?). So the only solution that I see is to do some politics. In US support Lawrence Lessig's efforts against lobbying (Fix Congress First) anywhere else, get involved in your local pirate party (International Pirate Party)
Also, studies show that contrary to popular belief, the crowd of smart and educated people grows every year. When 5 companies with teams of competent engineers have the same problems, they will logically come up with approximately the same solutions.
Keep it free, have users host it. That's what P2P was supposed to be about : shared hosting.
Amen
Actually, designating a target and launching a nuke isn't that hard. They plan on doing a lot more complicated things right now.
It shows it is possible. It shows reputation is the real money. I believe such a yearly/bi-yearly event could be held.
Which is not very different from the Mitnick-era mindset.
Common ? copyright infrigement is much more common that stealing. I think that the ideas your present are less prevalent than what you think. After all, the MPAA says it better : "you wouldn't steal a car".
I have been hoping similarly about Obama's choices in too many cases. Now it is settled : as long as he doesn't propose Lawrence Lessig or someone with similar views a job in government, I won't trust their intention on this "intellectual property" thing. Come on ! The people with common sense on these issues are not that uncommon, it is not like they would be hard to hire in an official position !
Irony was used.
Well, maybe it is time to stop laughing at the Pirate Party and join them then ?
the profits go back into research that is pooled into another patent pool for the next generation product.
...that is closely kept behind barriers to prevent any newcomer to trouble this cycle of profits with these pesky "innovations"
The sad truth is that most people don't want a full-featured computer and are dangerous with it. Give them a web-browser, an office suite, an email client, an IM and a picture manager. Full featured computer will become again the tool for the geek and the developper. The mainstream will go away as it came. It brought us cheap hardware and insecure environment. It was an interesting ride. Farewell and godspeed to you, have fun with your games and movies while I'll have my fun writing algorithms for them.
Apple will win exactly in the same way as the Mac won vs the PC.
One of the things this model tries to prevent is an agreement on price fixing. However, it has been demonstrated that the sole ability to modify prices is a good enough communication medium to recognize calls for a price-fixing. Maybe it is time that we update these practices ?
You can either see it as a cycling metaphor or as a parametric curve : Y being knowledge acquired, X being the mastery it provides. But the thing is, most people don't know how to read graphics anyway so the cycling metaphor is your best bet.
Generalized mobile high speed internet access is not a matter of technology at this point. It is all about politics.
The goal here is to show that one of the thousand of officials who have physical access to a huge quantity of machines before the elections can rig them. You know that when you don't look at them, officials love to stuff voting boxes with ballots. Suspecting they wouldn't do it with electronic machines is just weird.
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I'm just sick of this shit.
I'll vote pirate party. If it doesn't contain the madness, it will at least add some madness to my liking.
We could use the Washington criterion : an industry-recognized standard is anything that generates enough money to be lobbied as such. There are things that are much loosely define in the law
Knowing a lot is very different from being a jackass, which is what is implied in the GP's answer.
That's actually a very good way to spot knowledgeable people. When you discuss something they don't know very well, they will ask you a lot of questions and not fear looking ignorant. You can bet that these types of profile know a lot more than others.
femtotech for the win ! No one says we can't use gluons for that. We just don't understand them well enough.
I thought I would never say that seriously on /. but : Won't someone think of the children ? What kind of world do you want them to grow into ? The read-only culture is not how our civilization was done. I'd like to raise kids that will become a bit more than consumers.