Honestly I don't understand how they "loose" 1 Billion in ad revenue due to fraudulent clicks. In fact they don't loose anything. If the clicks were a fraud, then they weren't earned. This is the same kind of funny logic that is used to say that piracy costs billions. There some weird assumption that if this fraud click didn't happen that a legitimate click would happen. In a world with no scarcity ("selling" a click does not prevent selling another click). There is no loss due to clicks that shouldn't count.
We have followed this advice in USENET for quite some time. Don't feed the troll, it's what they want. (Terrorists are just real world trolls if you think about it)
Funny that your DRM example actually proves the opposite. If we didn't have DMCA regulation, copyright, patent, and other "IP" laws then your scenario wouldn't matter, we would just crack the DRM and move on, thus removing the artificial monopoly built by technology.
Enjoy! I can do soooo much more with my myth box than a cable or sattelite provided pvr. I can store to DVD, I can watch from multiple networked locations, etc.
This whole conversation is somewhat interesting. I fall into the camp of not caring too much about my grammer. I probably make many more spelling mistakes than actual grammer mistakes, but regardless I usually don't notice them in others written material as well.
Also, I often do take the 20 seconds to re-read what I had written, but many times the odd grammer mistake misses my 20 second check as well. I think it's a mental style that leads those to focus more on the concepts and less on the structure of those concepts. I've noticed this style in many people who might be considered "nerds". In this way I think this style definatly fits here at Slashdot. Is this not "news for nerds"?
In all seriousness it looks like TFA might have made this mistake. Near the end it talk about walmart.com actually running on a.net server. Not really sure what that means and I leave open the possiblity that they are talking at MS.net rather than the domain name. (walmart.com clearly has it's DNS entry in.com)
If Copyright infringements were made illegal and cause of criminal action, wouldn't that take away some of the power of the RIAA? They would have to convince a government employeed attorney to press charges? Not that that would be too hard, but could chane the ball game.
Actually in response to this, I currently play world of warcraft on both my linux and windows partitions. Other than a few bugs in the cedega emulation, the game plays better in linux than windows. (NTFS just doesn't give the performance of a ext3). Also 512 Gig of RAM just goes a lot farther in linux than in windows, I have signifigant paging when I move around in windows, no paging at all in linux.
Well I think it won't speed adoption of HD compatable DVD players (HD-DVD) or Blu-Ray. But what it will do is format lock people who buy these DVD's into the HD-DVD format. When they do decide to buy an HD capable DVD Player, they will be predisposed to buying the HD-DVD Format over others.
That is if they can sell these dual format disks at the same price as current DVD's and replace current DVD's with these disks. Any increase in price or a corresponding decrease in the DVD only formats will reduce this effect.
I think the poster is on to something. BTW, adblock with filterset G http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/ doesn't block the google ads on the right, but does take care of all the rest. It greatly enhances my Internet experience!
I agree with the parent. Taxes are needed by government, but I think towards the end of the message we begin to understand what they accomplish.
I agree with the first poster as well that taxes are not necessary to "FUND" government since they could fund themselves by printing more money. But this would affect all owners of money the same. That is, the inflation caused by overprinting of money would harm all holders of money equally since all holders of money would suffer the same inflation.
What taxation does is redistributes the "hurt" of government spending based on the tax policy. In the US an progressive tax exists so those who have more money have a harder hit. Those who have little money feel no hit (or if you factor in tax credits, many get a NEGATIVE hit, in otherwords they recieved MORE money).
Everything else is just a matter of deciding who gets the biggest hit. What taxes do is allow the government to play around with who pays and who recieves.
The other thing to realize about used cd purchases is that they do not fund any lawsuits since the recording industry (aka the RIAA) does not recieve a red cent from these transactions.
It's the only ethical way to buy music that I can do and still wake up in the morning and look at myself in the mirror. I can't support these lawsuits against music fans by buying new cds.
I think the problem is that while AMD is a fine chip maker (I run an AMD processor proudly), they are essentially similar to the Intel processor as they were initially clones of the Intel x86 line.
I think what people are worried about is that we will loose some of the diversity of research without chips like Alpha that have a different base architecture than the Intel Chip
Of course I hope I just didn't put my foot into my mouth, I'm not an electrical engineer or anything. Can someone expound or clarify?
I don't really understand why this is news. TCP RST attacks have been a built in "feature" of several hacking tool kits. It's just another vulernability that coupled with a virus/trojen could be used for DOS.
No news here.. move on folks
The original, overall point I was trying to make was that being "conservative" or "liberal" has nothing to do with one's thoughts on the state of intellectual property laws today. That point I'll stand by.;)
And on this point I will agree with you and so would Lessig. He goes to great lengths in Free Culture to point out the Left and Right reasons why you should agree with him on IP.
Well, we are discussing Lessig so I don't think this is offtopic. But to each his own.
... where does he claim that?
You are right, there is no sentence in the book that says, "I am a liberal" but it is implied a few times. However, I remember it being insinuated several times in the book, but in the preface (page xiv) he says:
If we understood his change, I believe we would resist it. Not "we" on the Left or "you" on the Right, but we who have no stake... This leads me to believe he identifies with the Left or with liberals.
I just don't know many liberal legal-types that would want to be their clerks, period.
Well I can't speak for Lessig, but I would bet that being a clerk for a Justice is more of who you know than who you agree with. I'm a security consultant and more than once had to implement what I consider draconian intrusion on my client's employee's privacy. It pays the bills and is good experience on the resume. Does that make me a mercenary? Maybe, but isn't it really the jobs of consultants (and perhaps lawyers) to do the will of those who pay them?
If I was an aspiring legal type, I'd probably clerk for just about any appellate level judge that would take me. The experience would be too good to pass up.
Which begs the question, why would an obviously talented legal thinker be passed over time and again for judicial appointments?
The problem is that he's just too liberal for the current conservative regime. I am a big fan of Lessig as well even though I usually vote Republican. I've read two of Lessig's books and while I might disagree with him on other things, he's dead right when it comes to intellectual property and presents a very informed opinion that I think most sane non RIAA or MPAA tainted people could agree with weather they are from a blue or red state.
I think it would be a great deal. Image getting rid of cable/DSL and telephone lines.
Switch to something like Vonage (or other VoIP carrier) if you really need a land-line or just user your cell phone.
$29.95 for 1Mbps (both ways!) that's right, fast peer-to-peer uploads and you could run 10 VoIP lines easily if you wanted to. All at the same time surfing the net. Sign Me up!
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Exactly.
Honestly I don't understand how they "loose" 1 Billion in ad revenue due to fraudulent clicks. In fact they don't loose anything. If the clicks were a fraud, then they weren't earned. This is the same kind of funny logic that is used to say that piracy costs billions. There some weird assumption that if this fraud click didn't happen that a legitimate click would happen. In a world with no scarcity ("selling" a click does not prevent selling another click). There is no loss due to clicks that shouldn't count.
We have followed this advice in USENET for quite some time. Don't feed the troll, it's what they want. (Terrorists are just real world trolls if you think about it)
Funny that your DRM example actually proves the opposite. If we didn't have DMCA regulation, copyright, patent, and other "IP" laws then your scenario wouldn't matter, we would just crack the DRM and move on, thus removing the artificial monopoly built by technology.
Linux already plays HD content. I have proof in my living room today.
See http://mythtv.org/ and http://www.pchdtv.com/
Enjoy! I can do soooo much more with my myth box than a cable or sattelite provided pvr. I can store to DVD, I can watch from multiple networked locations, etc.
This whole conversation is somewhat interesting. I fall into the camp of not caring too much about my grammer. I probably make many more spelling mistakes than actual grammer mistakes, but regardless I usually don't notice them in others written material as well.
Also, I often do take the 20 seconds to re-read what I had written, but many times the odd grammer mistake misses my 20 second check as well. I think it's a mental style that leads those to focus more on the concepts and less on the structure of those concepts. I've noticed this style in many people who might be considered "nerds". In this way I think this style definatly fits here at Slashdot. Is this not "news for nerds"?
The Sky is Blue!
Water is Wet!
Companies are about making money!
Zarus solves at least your OS problem. (Not the storage)
Well if they raise the price of online music, they automagically raise the number of money lost to piracy.
10 Million songs stolen valued at $1 = 10 million lost
10 Million songs stolen valued at $2 = 20 million lost
Brilliant!
In all seriousness it looks like TFA might have made this mistake. Near the end it talk about walmart.com actually running on a .net server. Not really sure what that means and I leave open the possiblity that they are talking at MS .net rather than the domain name. (walmart.com clearly has it's DNS entry in .com)
If Copyright infringements were made illegal and cause of criminal action, wouldn't that take away some of the power of the RIAA? They would have to convince a government employeed attorney to press charges? Not that that would be too hard, but could chane the ball game.
Actually in response to this, I currently play world of warcraft on both my linux and windows partitions. Other than a few bugs in the cedega emulation, the game plays better in linux than windows. (NTFS just doesn't give the performance of a ext3). Also 512 Gig of RAM just goes a lot farther in linux than in windows, I have signifigant paging when I move around in windows, no paging at all in linux.
Actually funny enough, the walmart ISP is owned by AOL ...
Well I think it won't speed adoption of HD compatable DVD players (HD-DVD) or Blu-Ray. But what it will do is format lock people who buy these DVD's into the HD-DVD format. When they do decide to buy an HD capable DVD Player, they will be predisposed to buying the HD-DVD Format over others.
That is if they can sell these dual format disks at the same price as current DVD's and replace current DVD's with these disks. Any increase in price or a corresponding decrease in the DVD only formats will reduce this effect.
I think the poster is on to something. BTW, adblock with filterset G http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/ doesn't block the google ads on the right, but does take care of all the rest. It greatly enhances my Internet experience!
I agree with the parent. Taxes are needed by government, but I think towards the end of the message we begin to understand what they accomplish.
I agree with the first poster as well that taxes are not necessary to "FUND" government since they could fund themselves by printing more money. But this would affect all owners of money the same. That is, the inflation caused by overprinting of money would harm all holders of money equally since all holders of money would suffer the same inflation.
What taxation does is redistributes the "hurt" of government spending based on the tax policy. In the US an progressive tax exists so those who have more money have a harder hit. Those who have little money feel no hit (or if you factor in tax credits, many get a NEGATIVE hit, in otherwords they recieved MORE money).
Everything else is just a matter of deciding who gets the biggest hit. What taxes do is allow the government to play around with who pays and who recieves.
Mod parent up!
The other thing to realize about used cd purchases is that they do not fund any lawsuits since the recording industry (aka the RIAA) does not recieve a red cent from these transactions.
It's the only ethical way to buy music that I can do and still wake up in the morning and look at myself in the mirror. I can't support these lawsuits against music fans by buying new cds.
I think the problem is that while AMD is a fine chip maker (I run an AMD processor proudly), they are essentially similar to the Intel processor as they were initially clones of the Intel x86 line.
I think what people are worried about is that we will loose some of the diversity of research without chips like Alpha that have a different base architecture than the Intel Chip
Of course I hope I just didn't put my foot into my mouth, I'm not an electrical engineer or anything. Can someone expound or clarify?
I don't really understand why this is news. TCP RST attacks have been a built in "feature" of several hacking tool kits. It's just another vulernability that coupled with a virus/trojen could be used for DOS. No news here .. move on folks
Actually with Linux the Devs ARE the enthusiasts, that's what makes Linux different.
And on this point I will agree with you and so would Lessig. He goes to great lengths in Free Culture to point out the Left and Right reasons why you should agree with him on IP.
Well, we are discussing Lessig so I don't think this is offtopic. But to each his own.
You are right, there is no sentence in the book that says, "I am a liberal" but it is implied a few times. However, I remember it being insinuated several times in the book, but in the preface (page xiv) he says: If we understood his change, I believe we would resist it. Not "we" on the Left or "you" on the Right, but we who have no stake ... This leads me to believe he identifies with the Left or with liberals.
I just don't know many liberal legal-types that would want to be their clerks, period.
Well I can't speak for Lessig, but I would bet that being a clerk for a Justice is more of who you know than who you agree with. I'm a security consultant and more than once had to implement what I consider draconian intrusion on my client's employee's privacy. It pays the bills and is good experience on the resume. Does that make me a mercenary? Maybe, but isn't it really the jobs of consultants (and perhaps lawyers) to do the will of those who pay them?
If I was an aspiring legal type, I'd probably clerk for just about any appellate level judge that would take me. The experience would be too good to pass up.
Which begs the question, why would an obviously talented legal thinker be passed over time and again for judicial appointments?
The problem is that he's just too liberal for the current conservative regime. I am a big fan of Lessig as well even though I usually vote Republican. I've read two of Lessig's books and while I might disagree with him on other things, he's dead right when it comes to intellectual property and presents a very informed opinion that I think most sane non RIAA or MPAA tainted people could agree with weather they are from a blue or red state.
Fair use is not a constitutional right; it's granted by a specific piece of legislation.
...
Actually Fair Use is common law, not positive law
I think it would be a great deal. Image getting rid of cable/DSL and telephone lines.
Switch to something like Vonage (or other VoIP carrier) if you really need a land-line or just user your cell phone.
$29.95 for 1Mbps (both ways!) that's right, fast peer-to-peer uploads and you could run 10 VoIP lines easily if you wanted to. All at the same time surfing the net. Sign Me up!