It's not black and white. There was always going to be a counter-reaction, but these guys are making it stronger and sooner than it would've been, and handing the bad guys a cheap "think of the children" argument that'll stir up public sympathy way better than copyright moaning ever has.
Couldn't these guys have waited just a few years, until 3D printing is popular and ubiquitous? Instead, they've handed the feds a silver-platter excuse to preemptively regulate the hell of it while it's still a novelty item.
Thanks, assholes. You've destroyed a world-changing technology because you just couldn't wait one more second to own shitty, worthless plastic guns. Great job.
On a philosophical level, guns and bullets are just atoms. If a dude points a gun at you, he's only pointing atoms at your head! If he pulls the trigger, he's just putting some extra atoms in your body. If he was a doctor and you needed a medical implant, you'd pay him to do that! Why the double standard?!?!?!?!?!?
Because context matters, obviously. If the law criminalizes the possession of evidence of a crime, then that law is broken and should be changed. There's a huge bloody leap from there to "child porn should be legal to possess in all circumstances".
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Fast and cheap to buy a completely custom action figure? Yeah, I don't think they have those at Toys'R'Us.
One-step articulated toys have been my standard example of "really impressive shit 3D printing could someday do" for years. I just hope that Harvard's fucking patents don't prevent anyone else from doing it better and more affordably.
"In before some idiot posts AL GORE LOLOLOLOL," but there's 5 of those in 43 posts already. So...good to see Slashdot keeping consistent standards of "humor".
He doesn't know what he's talking about because he hasn't bought ATI in a while, but you're totally on top of things despite not using NVIDIA in over a decade? Uh, okay.
Did you read that page you linked to? "Of the thousands of websites founded prior to 1995, those appearing here are noteworthy for one or more of the following reasons..."
You interpreted it completely wrong. She's saying that agreement addresses some very important things, but also tries to assign the same importance to overhyped bullshit.
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It's not black and white. There was always going to be a counter-reaction, but these guys are making it stronger and sooner than it would've been, and handing the bad guys a cheap "think of the children" argument that'll stir up public sympathy way better than copyright moaning ever has.
Couldn't these guys have waited just a few years, until 3D printing is popular and ubiquitous? Instead, they've handed the feds a silver-platter excuse to preemptively regulate the hell of it while it's still a novelty item.
Thanks, assholes. You've destroyed a world-changing technology because you just couldn't wait one more second to own shitty, worthless plastic guns. Great job.
On a philosophical level, guns and bullets are just atoms. If a dude points a gun at you, he's only pointing atoms at your head! If he pulls the trigger, he's just putting some extra atoms in your body. If he was a doctor and you needed a medical implant, you'd pay him to do that! Why the double standard?!?!?!?!?!?
Because context matters, obviously. If the law criminalizes the possession of evidence of a crime, then that law is broken and should be changed. There's a huge bloody leap from there to "child porn should be legal to possess in all circumstances".
Not sure how listening to music prevents one from also looking out the windows.
"Movies looked great on my old TV, but terrible on my new TV. This can only be Hollywood's fault!"
That's an...interesting perspective. Kudos to Aquos' marketing team, though.
I suspect it's no more than the fact that humans get less interested in trying new approaches as we get older.
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Optical images. Scanning electron microscopes (what I assume you meant by "atomic scopes") are not optical.
Fast and cheap to buy a completely custom action figure? Yeah, I don't think they have those at Toys'R'Us.
One-step articulated toys have been my standard example of "really impressive shit 3D printing could someday do" for years. I just hope that Harvard's fucking patents don't prevent anyone else from doing it better and more affordably.
How the hell does a dude who makes ~$2/day have an Android phone?
The real message here is that it's getting old to have submissions in the form of a question, "Ask Slashdot" excepted.
That would be relevant if it wasn't mainly being referenced in Ask Slashdot threads.
Bleach also kills kids who swallow it. Should we ban bleach? Are people who sell bleach child-killing assholes?
Ahem:
the first two computer networks were connected together
"In before some idiot posts AL GORE LOLOLOLOL," but there's 5 of those in 43 posts already. So...good to see Slashdot keeping consistent standards of "humor".
I see what you did there.
Tetris itself is not new. It's based on a very old Russian toy/puzzle.
Source, please.
He doesn't know what he's talking about because he hasn't bought ATI in a while, but you're totally on top of things despite not using NVIDIA in over a decade? Uh, okay.
This is Slashdot. Anyone who runs a business on the internet is a sleazeball.
Fun Fact! No law actually prohibits discriminating against jerks.
Why can't we do both? It's not an either/or problem.
if you believe Wikipedia, there were only 50 websites to visit
Did you read that page you linked to? "Of the thousands of websites founded prior to 1995, those appearing here are noteworthy for one or more of the following reasons..."
Thank you for yours!
InB4 haters tripping over themselves to attack this despite knowing nothing about it. SHIT TOO LATE
You interpreted it completely wrong. She's saying that agreement addresses some very important things, but also tries to assign the same importance to overhyped bullshit.
WTFV. It's meant to fold while you're in it--makes it easier to get in and out.