Well said. The act of uploading recorded events makes the recorder/uploader a journalist. The media is the message, and the message defines a journalist?
"jonfromspace" "Fair use and fair compensation are.
Perhaps the US should look into fixing its corrupt entertainment industry before worrying about what other contries allow or do not allow citizens to do with content./soapbox."
I'd expect someone from space to have an aloof, and condescending remark. There you are, above everyone else looking down at us...
You're thinking too short-term. We may not be able to get to Mars and live there reliably for another 500 years, but if we don't keep working at it now, we probably will delay the time we can do it, past the life ending event on Earth.
Both Alberta and Saskatchewan have recycling fees collected, and programs in place to collect old printers, monitors (TVs too) and computers. http://www.sweepit.ca/ is one site with more information on the fee, which is paid by consumers, since industry started the program after being approached by the government.
I think industry should be picking up the tag, and including it in their delivery price, so that consumers still pay, but industry has an incentive to make products with a longer shelf, and durable life.
Because if you leave comments open to anyone, and ask for their honest opinion, then you owe it to the commenter to leave their feedback in view with everyone else's, so long as the comment is lawful.
To demonstrate, I invite Slashdotters to head over to my site [abandonedstuff.com] and make me look bad if you think that I really am bad in a justifiable way. So long as you're making *me* look bad, and not making yourself look like a dick who is mean, I'll leave the comment in place. I may even leave it if you're just making yourself look bad.
The purpose of libraries in modern times may change to offer that sort of science service. My area's library has a list of online databases they pay for, and offer to everyone with a library card [which is free where I'm from] to access them. Perhaps ask your local library what databases and journals/periodicals they offer to you at no cost online.
... Which would explain why we have sex, and invented latex and hand cuffs.
This DNA modification sounds scary though. Are we not going to unleash a superbug when we cause an encoding error while trying to write Grandma's canning process on bacteria?
It was just an example, I would have used a better one had I thought of it. Yes edible "cars" have their place in the future, we just won't base our transportation on them now that we can efficiently burn bio-fuels, and generate energy from sun and wind.
"What about our current Constitution? It's over 200 years old and a proven system. Would you replace it and start from scratch as well?"
Perhaps, it does have a lot of ammendments. Plus, things Bush has done, and legislated into existence, violate the spirit and wording of the Constitution. Yet most Americans support Bush, right;-)
Seriously though, the Constitution is the supreme law in the land, and is a philosophy for all laws under it. The patent system is based on a philosophy that may not apply in a world with digital copies, and global instantaneous communication, and off-shore manufacturing.
You seem to write english pretty well, maybe you'd consider coming to Canada instead? We just struck down the laws you're saying are too harsh in Germany, and many, many Canadians came from Germany.
I bought the Bare Naked Ladies' new albums on USB key, called Bare Naked on a Stick. The USB memory key is of low quality, but I eventually got it into a port just right that I could copy the MP3s and videos off of it, and saved money over buying the CDs in the store.
I wish more bands used this distribution technique, but they need to use better quality USB sticks.
I hadn't heard of those DMCA exclusions before. Still, it's a pain that they have to make a "but not really" clause to make fair use legal, after flipping most cases into the illegal position.
And I don't think the word OWN is the key word in that line. The key words are ON DVD, TODAY. That means you own it on DVD now, but tomorrow when they decide to stop selling DVD players, you have to buy it on whatever the new medium is, because you don't own the movie, you own the DVD which is just the medium.
"Most of the people in this country live outside of them because they can reach their services in reasonable time by cars."
That's true. However, the major centers were picked for their locations due to ports, railways, and waterways from before the 20th Century. There are places like farms in areas where they exist today, because of both cheap gas, and the proximity to earlier settled centers.
Now the challenge is to make Internet as widespread as radio, but bidirectional in the distribution of information (unlike radio). Getting the signal for broadband to traverse existing wiring would be the ideal solution, so long as wireless solutions have interference and lag problems on top of extreme cost.
Cheap gas wasn't really the factor for settling the country, as it happened for the most part before gasoline was invented. Things like agriculture and waterways played the main role.
Today it makes American [and rural Canada] the prime regions to build up an Internet infrastructure, but we're lagging. Wireless options might start filling the gap this decade, but with large lag times for satellite Internet, I don't foresee it taking over before ground based [or balloon based] wireless does.
It's so frustrating that there is so much great content out there, but it will barely survive the passage of time in the best of cases. DRM makes content survival much shorter though, as there are more points of failure in the ability to access the content on the media. With the cracking of BluRay, HDDVD's AACS, and DVD's CSS, it's a damn shame that content that should be simple to backup and modernize through the ages, will be stuck in the late 20th Century model of limiting access through a keycode.
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Well said. The act of uploading recorded events makes the recorder/uploader a journalist. The media is the message, and the message defines a journalist?
"jonfromspace"
/soapbox."
"Fair use and fair compensation are.
Perhaps the US should look into fixing its corrupt entertainment industry before worrying about what other contries allow or do not allow citizens to do with content.
I'd expect someone from space to have an aloof, and condescending remark. There you are, above everyone else looking down at us...
Yes I'm kidding.
What does America make?
War.
Money.
In Soviet Russia jokes.
Etc.
I think Wilkins ought to keep his trap shut about what Canada's laws ought to be, if he wants our politicians to stay out of American business.
You're thinking too short-term. We may not be able to get to Mars and live there reliably for another 500 years, but if we don't keep working at it now, we probably will delay the time we can do it, past the life ending event on Earth.
Both Alberta and Saskatchewan have recycling fees collected, and programs in place to collect old printers, monitors (TVs too) and computers. http://www.sweepit.ca/ is one site with more information on the fee, which is paid by consumers, since industry started the program after being approached by the government.
I think industry should be picking up the tag, and including it in their delivery price, so that consumers still pay, but industry has an incentive to make products with a longer shelf, and durable life.
I am the top hit, beating MSNBC even, for http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&saf e=off&as_qdr=all&q=%20%22i%20am%20special%2C%20i%2 0am%20special%22
"I am special, I am special" - an apparently well sung song in daycares these days.
If citations determine truthiness, then Colbert is right.
Because if you leave comments open to anyone, and ask for their honest opinion, then you owe it to the commenter to leave their feedback in view with everyone else's, so long as the comment is lawful.
To demonstrate, I invite Slashdotters to head over to my site [abandonedstuff.com] and make me look bad if you think that I really am bad in a justifiable way. So long as you're making *me* look bad, and not making yourself look like a dick who is mean, I'll leave the comment in place. I may even leave it if you're just making yourself look bad.
The purpose of libraries in modern times may change to offer that sort of science service. My area's library has a list of online databases they pay for, and offer to everyone with a library card [which is free where I'm from] to access them. Perhaps ask your local library what databases and journals/periodicals they offer to you at no cost online.
I guess "plain" text seemed too plain for the legislators. Better to make a law with a hard coded computer language, than a flexible variable.
"If only you'd written "open sauce" I'd have modded you +1 Funny. ;)"
You think you're soya funny, don't ya?
... Which would explain why we have sex, and invented latex and hand cuffs.
This DNA modification sounds scary though. Are we not going to unleash a superbug when we cause an encoding error while trying to write Grandma's canning process on bacteria?
It was just an example, I would have used a better one had I thought of it. Yes edible "cars" have their place in the future, we just won't base our transportation on them now that we can efficiently burn bio-fuels, and generate energy from sun and wind.
"What about our current Constitution? It's over 200 years old and a proven system. Would you replace it and start from scratch as well?"
;-)
Perhaps, it does have a lot of ammendments. Plus, things Bush has done, and legislated into existence, violate the spirit and wording of the Constitution. Yet most Americans support Bush, right
Seriously though, the Constitution is the supreme law in the land, and is a philosophy for all laws under it. The patent system is based on a philosophy that may not apply in a world with digital copies, and global instantaneous communication, and off-shore manufacturing.
"It's a proven system, over 200 years old."
Using that logic, we should all be using horses as our primary mode of transportation. Just look how proven and older that locomotion model is!
Why don't we use evidence from the world since the Internet was invented, and base our new system upon the modern world?
You seem to write english pretty well, maybe you'd consider coming to Canada instead? We just struck down the laws you're saying are too harsh in Germany, and many, many Canadians came from Germany.
We don't call DRM Defective By Design, because it works all of the time ;-)
DRM, is there anything good that it can't break? It bugs the heck out of me that only "legit" services use DRM.
I bought the Bare Naked Ladies' new albums on USB key, called Bare Naked on a Stick. The USB memory key is of low quality, but I eventually got it into a port just right that I could copy the MP3s and videos off of it, and saved money over buying the CDs in the store.
I wish more bands used this distribution technique, but they need to use better quality USB sticks.
If he keeps changing jobs, making 40% increases each time, he'll wind up a millionaire in a year or two unless he was making $10/h to start.
"I still clunk away at my IBM model M keyboard every night...
Only problem is my neighbors complain of the noise"
How do you get your keyboard to moan, "oooh, oooh, like that, give me more?" That's quite the hack.
So Columbia survived a half a ton of rain in its fragile shield, but was brought down by scarring foam. How odd space flight can be...
"Own it on DVD today."
I hadn't heard of those DMCA exclusions before. Still, it's a pain that they have to make a "but not really" clause to make fair use legal, after flipping most cases into the illegal position.
And I don't think the word OWN is the key word in that line. The key words are ON DVD, TODAY. That means you own it on DVD now, but tomorrow when they decide to stop selling DVD players, you have to buy it on whatever the new medium is, because you don't own the movie, you own the DVD which is just the medium.
What about Access Copyright? Are there fees charged to places like libraries with a photocopier, an OK for people to photocopy books?
"Most of the people in this country live outside of them because they can reach their services in reasonable time by cars."
That's true. However, the major centers were picked for their locations due to ports, railways, and waterways from before the 20th Century. There are places like farms in areas where they exist today, because of both cheap gas, and the proximity to earlier settled centers.
Now the challenge is to make Internet as widespread as radio, but bidirectional in the distribution of information (unlike radio). Getting the signal for broadband to traverse existing wiring would be the ideal solution, so long as wireless solutions have interference and lag problems on top of extreme cost.
Cheap gas wasn't really the factor for settling the country, as it happened for the most part before gasoline was invented. Things like agriculture and waterways played the main role.
Today it makes American [and rural Canada] the prime regions to build up an Internet infrastructure, but we're lagging. Wireless options might start filling the gap this decade, but with large lag times for satellite Internet, I don't foresee it taking over before ground based [or balloon based] wireless does.
It's so frustrating that there is so much great content out there, but it will barely survive the passage of time in the best of cases. DRM makes content survival much shorter though, as there are more points of failure in the ability to access the content on the media. With the cracking of BluRay, HDDVD's AACS, and DVD's CSS, it's a damn shame that content that should be simple to backup and modernize through the ages, will be stuck in the late 20th Century model of limiting access through a keycode.