"Intellectual property" is a silly and stupid idea. Cases like this only illustrate more obviously how bad an idea it is. It should be abolished as soon as possible.
Hmm so geeks are supposed to automatically distrust anything conservative? Most of us are libertarian, but often the conservatives have libertarian ideas. Both liberals and conservatives are groupthinkers unlike us intelligent libertarians, but there's no reason to prefer one to the other.
The US is pathetic. Using hexadecimal all the way through, a much better missle could be created by a smaller team. Decimal is dragging everything down.
What I'm really not impressed with is Intel saying desktop users don't need sixty-four bit. Well, we don't need gobs of cache. We need sixty-four bits.
In that new environment, P2P will rise again. Instead of wasting resources on hiding from the law, the true potential will be realized. Napster was much more elegant than Gnutella.
You'd just store all your games in a big card. But big, dumb, copyright interests want a "secure", unnatural way to prevent copying. Abolish copyright, and we won't have this problem.
I'm mainly sick of the copyrights and patents. I'd rather just deal with patients one on one than patent or copyright stuff all day (which I think is immoral). If the copyright and patent jobs go to India, that's fine--let them be immoral.
You could be. Just some huge catastrophe or war automatically invalidates copyright. You're not too worried about patents and copyright when you're just trying to survive every day.
They can use all the technology they want to keep the source closed--nothing to stop them from that, but someone else who keeps things open and more useful will beat them. Why even bother trying to crack the technology?
If copyright were abolished, there'd be no reason to be mad at either Kazaa or the RIAA. Kazaa couldn't charge for the software, and the RIAA couldn't sue for sharing information (which by nature is easily copied). Nobody confused and nobody sued. It will happen.
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That communist line is pretty old. Time to update your database--"terrorists" are the current enemy.
Simple as that. If there are no "intellectual property" laws, then this type of stealth cannot happen. Problem solved.
They are all on the same level. Some are just more obviously stupid than others.
"Intellectual property" is a silly and stupid idea. Cases like this only illustrate more obviously how bad an idea it is. It should be abolished as soon as possible.
Stupidity, purely for the unevolved. A libertarian is to a conservative or liberal as a human is too a chimpanzee.
Libertarianism is an ideal, not a group. So it can't be about groupthink--or else you're not really libertarian.
Hmm so geeks are supposed to automatically distrust anything conservative? Most of us are libertarian, but often the conservatives have libertarian ideas. Both liberals and conservatives are groupthinkers unlike us intelligent libertarians, but there's no reason to prefer one to the other.
What would be different to need a whole new case? The new Athlon 64's will be using the old case first.
The US is pathetic. Using hexadecimal all the way through, a much better missle could be created by a smaller team. Decimal is dragging everything down.
One day another large asteroid will hit the Earth. Both will happen. Who knows when.
What I'm really not impressed with is Intel saying desktop users don't need sixty-four bit. Well, we don't need gobs of cache. We need sixty-four bits.
But when you say "socialism", you assumed people would think it is a bad thing.
Plus it's patent free.
In that new environment, P2P will rise again. Instead of wasting resources on hiding from the law, the true potential will be realized. Napster was much more elegant than Gnutella.
Means secure digital. Secure for them, not you.
Well I suppose they're smart enough to go to something much more expandable. Just wonder how much legacy (ick) will still be stuck there.
You'd just store all your games in a big card. But big, dumb, copyright interests want a "secure", unnatural way to prevent copying. Abolish copyright, and we won't have this problem.
Sure I will be dealing with patented tools and medicines, but I won't be the one patenting the stuff.
Uh, then what happens when a company injects "copyright" code into your software and starts suing everyone. Ooops.
I'm mainly sick of the copyrights and patents. I'd rather just deal with patients one on one than patent or copyright stuff all day (which I think is immoral). If the copyright and patent jobs go to India, that's fine--let them be immoral.
You could be. Just some huge catastrophe or war automatically invalidates copyright. You're not too worried about patents and copyright when you're just trying to survive every day.
They can use all the technology they want to keep the source closed--nothing to stop them from that, but someone else who keeps things open and more useful will beat them. Why even bother trying to crack the technology?
If copyright were abolished, there'd be no reason to be mad at either Kazaa or the RIAA. Kazaa couldn't charge for the software, and the RIAA couldn't sue for sharing information (which by nature is easily copied). Nobody confused and nobody sued. It will happen.
Usually I don't even bother to reply to anons myself.
Money is, by definition, a scarce resource. Otherwise it would be useless. Information is not a scarce resource.