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  1. Nobody understands the issue because there are different ideas on how the "creative" process works. It taks time to fist produce a work and some people are faster than others. What are they actually doing? Is it just mining where they aren't actually coming up with something that is uniquely theirs, or is there something more that justifies that monopoly. I don't believe there is an I resent my freedom of expression being trampled upon by bad law.

  2. What is "creation" really anyways? Can anybody do it or do we really need that specific first person?

  3. Re: Not an unexpected ruling on Copying Photos Found on Internet is Fair Use, Virginia Federal Court Rules (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't make it right.

  4. Comcast already uses chatbots for customer service without warning. I asked If I had the pleasure of talking to one. The person on the other end did not deny being one.

  5. We are all the same person meeting up in the wrong order sorting each other out.

  6. Re: Usernames should NEVER be reused anywhere on Should GitHub Allow Username Reuse? (donatstudios.com) · · Score: 1

    In that case, not even by the same person for more than one transaction. This is pointless.

  7. Why are we hurting people again?

  8. Re: Super-slow news day? on GTA Online Is Full Of Abandoned Modes (kotaku.com) · · Score: 0

    Anything that's news for nerds is habitually a first world problem

  9. Do we want Knight Automated Roving Robot. Because this is how we get Knight Automated Roving Robot.

  10. The Company is not the same thing as the meme.

  11. Re: I'm torn on this issue on Linking Is Not Copyright Infringement, Boing Boing and EFF Tell Court (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Show us on the doll where Boing Boing hurt you.

  12. Re: Microsoft AI to the Rescue on Microsoft Tries To Write the Book On AI (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    But Zo is nothing like that!

  13. There are these things called pipes and technology called agriculture. The same processes we use to do the studies are the same processes we use to fix the problems the studies uncover.

  14. Of course they exist. Everything must exist.

  15. Re:19 Gal/day is not out on Will Cape Town be the First City To Run Out of Water? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well they have centralized water treatment plants, but then the water is usually released to a river, where it usually flows to the ocean. I suppose there's any number of areas where the amount of energy could be lowered to make the water suitable for reuse and lowering your standards is also an option, the one you've chosen.

  16. Re:As someone who is trying to wipe out DRM on Studios Sue Dragon Box in Latest Crackdown on Streaming Devices (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Also important is the idea of derivative works, hampered by DRM.

  17. We had a nearly full employment economy, nearly, and now "employees" with very little consumption desire are coming in.

  18. But if you can't survive off them you can't make it to a higher paying job.

  19. Looking at this the wrong way. Those children are proto-cyborgs and those smartphones are prosthesis.

  20. Copyright reform on Spotify Hit With $1.6 Billion Copyright Lawsuit (spin.com) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully this will spur copyright reform that takes away the fiction that art is created in a vacuum.

  21. Mankind isn't rediculoulsly wealthy on Google's 'Dutch Sandwich' Shielded 16 Billion Euros From Tax (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    We should be riding around in our own personal larger on the inside time machines by now. Something went wrong. This is not the great and bountiful human empire.

  22. Re:And suddenly... on 2018 Is the Last Year of America's Public Domain Drought (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as a unique work all works are derived. Nothing comes from nothing. Nothing ever could.

  23. Ask Zo on Ask Slashdot: What Would an AI-Written Poem Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Zo can write poetry, so ask her. She is also working with Poppy. #amidoingthisright

  24. Mesh networking on Iran Cuts Internet Access and Threatens Telegram Following Mass Protests (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mesh networks implemented properly are much harder to shut down.

  25. Re: State should honor the tickets on A Glitch Stole Christmas: S.C. Lottery Says Error Caused Winning Tickets (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That's what everyone does. Nobody can afford to get the whole story straight the first time so they skim and fill in parts from their own personal history. We all carry our own contexts around with us.