This act, or one very much like it, will sooner or later pass. Frankly, given existing law, it hardly matters. If you want to consume or publish existing material whether original or modified, merged, reexamined, or what have you without giving a cut to rent-seekers, you're just going to have to go old skool, like Soviet-bloc "reactionaries" used to.
Naturally, it's a bit harder if you're putting a MAC, IP, or URL out there... so I guess there's a future in physical media after all, and non-pr0n uses for the dark web.
It's a bit of a meme among progressives and the harder left in the US that bullshit jobs were an invention by the capital owning class to tamp down what might otherwise develop into a tipping point of popular pressure to take ownership of the means of production away from them.
But, this gives the Captains of Industry more credit than they're due, because creating jobs is a PITA, and with actual revolutions too far in the past for them to have even heard stories of over cocktails, never mind experienced, I doubt they think there's any practical limit to how much they can screw the rabble (ie. you).
In fact, increased productivity of existing work merely makes nice-to-have stuff enterprises and people couldn't economically justify before affordable. Stuff you didn't even give a second thought about become a handy way to put some surplus coin to use, finally spiraling down to the point where mobile dog groomers, large HR departments, and conservative think tanks are a thing. That's where the bullshit work comes in.
We've been through rapid economic changes before, and the past may well provide a guide to the future. But, which past? The one where farmers became steel and automobile workers? Or the one where steel and automobile workers became Walmart greeters? And not so fast you programmers, escrow agents, insurance brokers, and day traders. When you get automated out of your current job within a matter of a couple of years, or months, then what? Exactly what sort of bullshit work are you, you Ayn Rand-worshipping, it-won't-happen-to-me, automation fodder, going to do, eh? Learn to use a dog brush?
At the smaller/individual development shop level, the idea that blowing off reacting to all but the most literal of copies of your work makes sense, and it's been a part of the lives of fashion designers since the beginning of time.
This is likely the primary driver for why fashion and fabrics change so fast, because fashion can't be copyrighted, and a successful design will attract knockoffs before a year is out.
My suspicion, based on the hassles s/w shops large and small have dealing with patent search and lawsuits, is that for the industry and its customers, fashion has it right. It sucks to have popular ideas ripped off, but it sucks even more for just about everyone to be prevented from exploiting ideas at all because of well heeled rent collectors.
To add a historical reference for a couple of software dev tools I thought were cool in the early '90s:
Mainstay Software released VIP Basic and C (Visual Interactive Programming) for the classic MacOS. You drew the flowcharts, they cranked out the source code. I have no idea what the quality of the code was, but for budding Mac devs, I'd guess it gave them a starting point.
Breaker, breaker, that'd be a big no on ditching the steering wheels, back up drivers, and reporting fack-ups, good buddy, over.
Fact is, autonomous driving systems aren't yet up to snuff to go the full monty. Until they prove out, they need a human with some skin in the game, and who's aware s/he's playing. And the state can't be sure how close to the tipping point we are without reporting.
On the flip side, I agree that allowing higher gross vehicle weights should be allowed, the better to test freight hauling.
A few comments make the claim that this suit will get thrown out, based on the idea that 1) the Indian outsource firms just happen to have younger workers, and 2) that these workers just happen to be Indian nationals with a number of India-sourced ethnicities.
That would be an interesting dodge, except for one wee obstacle: US labor law doesn't believe in coincidences. Rather, it focuses on disparate impact, and the plaintiffs have that in spades.
Compared to charitable support for domestic poverty relief, Federal programs are large and strongly counter-cyclical â" growing as the economy weakens. Unemployment assistance climbed from $33 billion in 2007 to $158 billion in 2010, before declining back to $68 billion in 2013. Food and nutrition assistance rose from $54 billion in 2007 to $110 billion in 2013, the Earned Income Tax Credit from $38 billion to $58 billion in 2013. These three programs alone total $236 billion, compared to $40 billion of private charitable giving to human services. While charitable support was at best stagnant during the recession, government safety net spending on these three programs increased 89% between 2007 and 2013.
Per TFA: "... arguing that the disclosure of the scale of surveillance by US and British intelligence agencies was not only morally right but had left citizens better off.
Based on what Ed has released thus far, the onus is on him to show that he didn't scoop up everything his could lay his file system on, and intends to make all of it public. On the face of it, he was no more focused on domestic intel gathering than Chelsea Manning, and not much more emotionally mature. What is his rationale for highlighting foreign intelligence gathering?
It doesn't matter, because there is no rationale that keeps him out of pound-me-in-the-arse prison. He needs to remain an example of how emotional immaturity and naivete is rewarded in his line of work.
As a part of a comparative languages class in my comp sci program in the '80's, I look ExperTelligence's ExperLogo for a spin on the Mac. I ended up having to drive up to their offices in Goleta, CA to pick up a copy. I liked the syntax, and using what I suppose was a JIT compiler, it was reasonably quick. But, there was no way to create standalone binaries, ExperTelligence didn't stick with it for long, and Logo as a whole didn't get a shot at going beyond a classroom tool.
Kudos to Dr. Papert and Mr. Feurzeig for their contributions to comp sci and education.
I'd think the more "DOS-like" way to multitask would be to launch DESQView from FreeDOS and spawn processes from that. While DESQView can be freely downloaded and passed around, I don't believe Symantec has ever released the source to this bit of Quarterdesk flotsam. Bummer.
Why more "DOS-like"? DESQView sucks up 150KB, plus 30KB per task. IIRC, about the minimum Linux memory overhead from among the low footprint Linux distros is about 7MB, although perhaps one can do better with Linux From Scratch. But then who's got less than 7MB nowadays?;-)
There was a time when Seattle seemed to be headed towards a Boeing economic mono-culture of sorts, and when company employment cratered in 1970, the whole region felt it. At such point as something awful happens to Amazon - say, shareholders demanding a reasonable profit - it could get a bit dark in the CBD.
TL:DR, Ed will not be pardoned, as an object example to a potentially very leaky age.
Per TFA: For the first 80 years of its life, it was used almost entirely to prosecute spies. The president has prosecuted more whistleblowers under the Espionage Act than all president before him combined. His Justice Department has vastly expanded the scope of the law.
There's a good reason for this. The digitization of most current technical, planning, organizational, and intelligence information means that it can be distributed in mass in ways detrimental to the interests of the United States by any metric. Manning and Snowden have demonstrated the risk from users inside the system. One can lock down systems, but all for not unless the vast majority of users elect not to try. Like so many aspects of criminal law, so many perps slip through without justice being meted out, that those who do get caught, tried, and convicted oftentimes get the book thrown at them as an example to others. "See Dick do something bad? Don't be a Dick." This isn't going to change in the foreseeable future.
So, while Chelsea and Ed may have provided a degree of public service by bringing to light certain practices "we" as a body would prefer the government not engage in, they also dumped boatloads of information that do nothing - much less than nothing - to protect the liberties of Americans. So, Ed will remain a wanted suspect, and if caught and convicted like Chelsea, will do hard time.
1) try the link, sometimes the paper turns out to be free to read;
2) hit the university home pages of the authors, who often have at least the final draft as a free to read PDF;
3) punt...
But not this time. I surfed directly to the sci-hub home page, and stuck the paper title into the search box. Success! Having RTFP, I could follow up in discussion with a better idea of what the hell was going on. Whether I should have left it at punting this time is another discussion.
Abstract: the water may have just been treated for bacteria, and that hasn't cut it for urban effluent for at least a decade.
I've read the paper, and I was disappointed to find that the researchers didn't provide any context regarding the type(s) of treatment used on the wastewater before it was dumped into the irrigation systems.
I followed up with one of the footnotes: Wastewater treatment and use in agriculture - FAO irrigation and drainage paper 47, where I find in section 2.3 that for water to be recycled for crops that were likely to be eaten uncooked, the FAO is just talking in terms of stabilization ponds for killing off the microorganisms. That's not enough. It also needs to be filtered, as if they were dealing with brackish or seawater.
I'd been to a couple of American Water Works Association conferences in the aughts, so I know the treatment industry has been aware of and has the techniques for clearing what goes into our toilets out of the waste water at manageable costs. As of the 2007 conference, the main concern was to avoid loading up the critters downstream from the waste water plants with caffeine, birth control hormones, pain relievers, and recreational drugs.
But, given the anticipated growth in water reuse for both irrigation and drinking, water system managers were already anticipating the need to do better. In this case, the Israelis obviously need to do better.
Full disclosure: I served on a water supply board for 5 years.
I suspect the reason(s) why the Administration doesn't declassify the redacted pages of the 9/11 report has to do with intel sources and methods, rather than any smoking gun.
G-fucking-WB didn't help his PR when he facilitated flying home members of the House of Saud and their retainers who happened to be in the US on 9/11. Sure, the King and lead princes were probably worried about Arabs being beaten in the streets of the US, and at that point not knowing whether or not one of their number had a direct hand in the attacks, whether family in the US would be rotting in jail during a prolonged investigation.
Plus, the extended Bush family and their Dallas cronies owe their personal connections to the Sauds for making buckets of money on SA business. The President should have sucked it up and reordered his priorities. Like I said, bad PR, at the very least, when he didn't know if the Royal family was involved.
Declassification or no, the real issue we already know: in the 1930s, the Royal family handed over the religious education and indoctrination of SA to the knuckle-dragging Wahhabi imams in exchange for keeping the S in SA, while cranking billions into foundations that have fed Wahhabi crap into generations of international Moslem youth.
Granted, it's a bummer that Apple hasn't tended to the Git client shipped with Xcode.
That said, I'd argue just about anyone who takes the trouble to install and use Xcode and the associated command line stuff that comes with it is going to know how to steer ($PATH) around (fink, macports) a problematic tool once informed about it.
She got this onto Slashdot, so the hard part is on its way to being handled: getting the word out.
"Of course, the hackers had no clue what they were modifying."
The report discussed the intruders having little apparent knowledge of what they were doing. The anonymous reader assumes this to mean that the intruders didn't know they were screwing with a water treatment SCADA system.
I think it just as likely that they had figured out they had tapped into a process control system, and were figuring out how to manipulate the system... driving by Braille.
The RISK report report authors could have summarized the situation by reaching back to the prophetic words of Simon & Garfunkel: Clowns to left of me, jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
You're right, he's bluffing, and bowlshyting. Mr. Puzder is trying to divert attention by blaming the Federal government for his problems, when what's really going on is the labor market: it's lost a lot of the slack Puzder and his ilk have been coasting on for six years, and thus he's looking at having to raise wages to get and retain staff.
If wage pressures become high enough, CKE Restaurants will invest in technologies to improve productivity members. This is a good thing, since if people were always cheaper than capital equipment, we'd still be using manual typewriters... if we had any time to spare after working the fields with a scathe. Taken at face value, that's the model Puzder apparently prefers.
DC Comics v. Towle at first appears to add to a slippery slope that would eventually see all car designs as copyrightable the moment they roll off an assembly line or a garage.
But, a closer reading of the decision seem to show that what's at issue isn't the shape of the car so much as the names it is marketed under. The 9th Circuit built their opinion atop Halicki Films, LLC v. Sanderson Sales & Mktg., to wit "an automotive character [Eleanor] may be copyrightable even if it appears as a yellow Fastback Ford Mustang in one film, and a silver 1967 Shelby GT-500 in another."
The Carroll Hall Shelby Trust arranged for a custom car shop to create and market Shelby GT-500 "Eleanor" replicas. If you compare a "stock" GT-500 to the relatively minor mods that make "Eleanor" in the Gone In 60 Seconds 2000 remake, Shelby probably would have been in the clear just selling cars "resembling Eleanor". But, by marketing it as Eleanor, not so fast.
I think this is even more clear with the Towle ruling. Making a Batmobile, probably fine. Marketing it as a Batmobile, with the likely-to-be trademarked Batman logo on the doors, rims, and steering wheel turns out to have been a risky move.
Beating the example to death: if I want to revive a style by assembling and selling Studebaker Avanti lookalikes, and market them as Indietro, I'm probably safe under both the US Copyright Office's definition of "useful articles" and parody case law. But, if I try to slap Avanti on the nose, I'd probably soon end up in hot water with whoever current holds the copyrights and trademarks of the former Avanti Motor Corporation.
Just an aside: If I hit a paywall, I usually made a sport of finding an unencumbered copy of a paper at an author's university home page.
In this case, it's not necessary. The full paper is available from the/. post's link. Once onto the Sage page, you'll find the links "Full Text" and "Full Text (PDF)" under the heading "This Article".
this seem to be linked to regrowth of political correctness and sheepish acceptance of so called 'liberal', elitist, ideology by the western young .
bankrupt irrational ideas can't tolerate humor that show their absurdity.
And the lickspittles of the conservative elite bleat whatever cliches their paymasters order up.
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This act, or one very much like it, will sooner or later pass. Frankly, given existing law, it hardly matters. If you want to consume or publish existing material whether original or modified, merged, reexamined, or what have you without giving a cut to rent-seekers, you're just going to have to go old skool, like Soviet-bloc "reactionaries" used to.
Naturally, it's a bit harder if you're putting a MAC, IP, or URL out there... so I guess there's a future in physical media after all, and non-pr0n uses for the dark web.
Obama won, twice. Get over it.
It's a bit of a meme among progressives and the harder left in the US that bullshit jobs were an invention by the capital owning class to tamp down what might otherwise develop into a tipping point of popular pressure to take ownership of the means of production away from them.
But, this gives the Captains of Industry more credit than they're due, because creating jobs is a PITA, and with actual revolutions too far in the past for them to have even heard stories of over cocktails, never mind experienced, I doubt they think there's any practical limit to how much they can screw the rabble (ie. you).
In fact, increased productivity of existing work merely makes nice-to-have stuff enterprises and people couldn't economically justify before affordable. Stuff you didn't even give a second thought about become a handy way to put some surplus coin to use, finally spiraling down to the point where mobile dog groomers, large HR departments, and conservative think tanks are a thing. That's where the bullshit work comes in.
We've been through rapid economic changes before, and the past may well provide a guide to the future. But, which past? The one where farmers became steel and automobile workers? Or the one where steel and automobile workers became Walmart greeters? And not so fast you programmers, escrow agents, insurance brokers, and day traders. When you get automated out of your current job within a matter of a couple of years, or months, then what? Exactly what sort of bullshit work are you , you Ayn Rand-worshipping, it-won't-happen-to-me, automation fodder, going to do, eh? Learn to use a dog brush?
At the smaller/individual development shop level, the idea that blowing off reacting to all but the most literal of copies of your work makes sense, and it's been a part of the lives of fashion designers since the beginning of time.
This is likely the primary driver for why fashion and fabrics change so fast, because fashion can't be copyrighted, and a successful design will attract knockoffs before a year is out.
My suspicion, based on the hassles s/w shops large and small have dealing with patent search and lawsuits, is that for the industry and its customers, fashion has it right . It sucks to have popular ideas ripped off, but it sucks even more for just about everyone to be prevented from exploiting ideas at all because of well heeled rent collectors.
To add a historical reference for a couple of software dev tools I thought were cool in the early '90s:
Mainstay Software released VIP Basic and C (Visual Interactive Programming) for the classic MacOS. You drew the flowcharts, they cranked out the source code. I have no idea what the quality of the code was, but for budding Mac devs, I'd guess it gave them a starting point.
Sometimes you're not paranoid, they really are fscking with you(r data). Slashdot, 12 Dec 2016, Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change
Breaker, breaker, that'd be a big no on ditching the steering wheels, back up drivers, and reporting fack-ups, good buddy, over.
Fact is, autonomous driving systems aren't yet up to snuff to go the full monty. Until they prove out, they need a human with some skin in the game, and who's aware s/he's playing. And the state can't be sure how close to the tipping point we are without reporting.
On the flip side, I agree that allowing higher gross vehicle weights should be allowed, the better to test freight hauling.
A few comments make the claim that this suit will get thrown out, based on the idea that 1) the Indian outsource firms just happen to have younger workers, and 2) that these workers just happen to be Indian nationals with a number of India-sourced ethnicities.
That would be an interesting dodge, except for one wee obstacle: US labor law doesn't believe in coincidences. Rather, it focuses on disparate impact, and the plaintiffs have that in spades.
Then there are the 800 gorillas of social giving: Social Security ($845B) and Medicare and Medicaid ($831B).
Compared to charitable support for domestic poverty relief, Federal programs are large and strongly counter-cyclical â" growing as the economy weakens. Unemployment assistance climbed from $33 billion in 2007 to $158 billion in 2010, before declining back to $68 billion in 2013. Food and nutrition assistance rose from $54 billion in 2007 to $110 billion in 2013, the Earned Income Tax Credit from $38 billion to $58 billion in 2013. These three programs alone total $236 billion, compared to $40 billion of private charitable giving to human services. While charitable support was at best stagnant during the recession, government safety net spending on these three programs increased 89% between 2007 and 2013.
Per TFA: "... arguing that the disclosure of the scale of surveillance by US and British intelligence agencies was not only morally right but had left citizens better off.
Based on what Ed has released thus far, the onus is on him to show that he didn't scoop up everything his could lay his file system on, and intends to make all of it public. On the face of it, he was no more focused on domestic intel gathering than Chelsea Manning, and not much more emotionally mature. What is his rationale for highlighting foreign intelligence gathering?
It doesn't matter, because there is no rationale that keeps him out of pound-me-in-the-arse prison. He needs to remain an example of how emotional immaturity and naivete is rewarded in his line of work.
As a part of a comparative languages class in my comp sci program in the '80's, I look ExperTelligence's ExperLogo for a spin on the Mac. I ended up having to drive up to their offices in Goleta, CA to pick up a copy. I liked the syntax, and using what I suppose was a JIT compiler, it was reasonably quick. But, there was no way to create standalone binaries, ExperTelligence didn't stick with it for long, and Logo as a whole didn't get a shot at going beyond a classroom tool.
Kudos to Dr. Papert and Mr. Feurzeig for their contributions to comp sci and education.
I'd think the more "DOS-like" way to multitask would be to launch DESQView from FreeDOS and spawn processes from that. While DESQView can be freely downloaded and passed around, I don't believe Symantec has ever released the source to this bit of Quarterdesk flotsam. Bummer.
Why more "DOS-like"? DESQView sucks up 150KB, plus 30KB per task. IIRC, about the minimum Linux memory overhead from among the low footprint Linux distros is about 7MB, although perhaps one can do better with Linux From Scratch. But then who's got less than 7MB nowadays? ;-)
There was a time when Seattle seemed to be headed towards a Boeing economic mono-culture of sorts, and when company employment cratered in 1970, the whole region felt it. At such point as something awful happens to Amazon - say, shareholders demanding a reasonable profit - it could get a bit dark in the CBD.
TL:DR, Ed will not be pardoned, as an object example to a potentially very leaky age.
Per TFA: For the first 80 years of its life, it was used almost entirely to prosecute spies. The president has prosecuted more whistleblowers under the Espionage Act than all president before him combined. His Justice Department has vastly expanded the scope of the law.
There's a good reason for this. The digitization of most current technical, planning, organizational, and intelligence information means that it can be distributed in mass in ways detrimental to the interests of the United States by any metric. Manning and Snowden have demonstrated the risk from users inside the system. One can lock down systems, but all for not unless the vast majority of users elect not to try. Like so many aspects of criminal law, so many perps slip through without justice being meted out, that those who do get caught, tried, and convicted oftentimes get the book thrown at them as an example to others. "See Dick do something bad? Don't be a Dick." This isn't going to change in the foreseeable future.
So, while Chelsea and Ed may have provided a degree of public service by bringing to light certain practices "we" as a body would prefer the government not engage in, they also dumped boatloads of information that do nothing - much less than nothing - to protect the liberties of Americans. So, Ed will remain a wanted suspect, and if caught and convicted like Chelsea, will do hard time.
I first heard of sci-hub via a /. story not too long ago. Subsequently, when the "Prescription Meds Get Trapped In Disturbing Pee-To-Food-To-Pee Loop" story was posted a couple of weeks ago, linking to a paywalled academic paper, I followed my usual steps:
But not this time. I surfed directly to the sci-hub home page, and stuck the paper title into the search box. Success! Having RTFP, I could follow up in discussion with a better idea of what the hell was going on. Whether I should have left it at punting this time is another discussion.
Abstract: the water may have just been treated for bacteria, and that hasn't cut it for urban effluent for at least a decade.
I've read the paper, and I was disappointed to find that the researchers didn't provide any context regarding the type(s) of treatment used on the wastewater before it was dumped into the irrigation systems.
I followed up with one of the footnotes: Wastewater treatment and use in agriculture - FAO irrigation and drainage paper 47, where I find in section 2.3 that for water to be recycled for crops that were likely to be eaten uncooked, the FAO is just talking in terms of stabilization ponds for killing off the microorganisms. That's not enough. It also needs to be filtered, as if they were dealing with brackish or seawater.
I'd been to a couple of American Water Works Association conferences in the aughts, so I know the treatment industry has been aware of and has the techniques for clearing what goes into our toilets out of the waste water at manageable costs. As of the 2007 conference, the main concern was to avoid loading up the critters downstream from the waste water plants with caffeine, birth control hormones, pain relievers, and recreational drugs.
But, given the anticipated growth in water reuse for both irrigation and drinking, water system managers were already anticipating the need to do better. In this case, the Israelis obviously need to do better.
Full disclosure: I served on a water supply board for 5 years.
I suspect the reason(s) why the Administration doesn't declassify the redacted pages of the 9/11 report has to do with intel sources and methods, rather than any smoking gun.
G-fucking-WB didn't help his PR when he facilitated flying home members of the House of Saud and their retainers who happened to be in the US on 9/11. Sure, the King and lead princes were probably worried about Arabs being beaten in the streets of the US, and at that point not knowing whether or not one of their number had a direct hand in the attacks, whether family in the US would be rotting in jail during a prolonged investigation.
Plus, the extended Bush family and their Dallas cronies owe their personal connections to the Sauds for making buckets of money on SA business. The President should have sucked it up and reordered his priorities. Like I said, bad PR, at the very least, when he didn't know if the Royal family was involved.
Declassification or no, the real issue we already know: in the 1930s, the Royal family handed over the religious education and indoctrination of SA to the knuckle-dragging Wahhabi imams in exchange for keeping the S in SA, while cranking billions into foundations that have fed Wahhabi crap into generations of international Moslem youth.
Granted, it's a bummer that Apple hasn't tended to the Git client shipped with Xcode.
That said, I'd argue just about anyone who takes the trouble to install and use Xcode and the associated command line stuff that comes with it is going to know how to steer ($PATH) around (fink, macports) a problematic tool once informed about it.
She got this onto Slashdot, so the hard part is on its way to being handled: getting the word out.
I don't always subject myself to AMC's crappy theaters. But, when I do, I use phone screens as spit wad targets.
The beauty is, the users night vision will be totally shot by their spit wad-smeared screens, and they'll never know where the goop is coming from.
"Of course, the hackers had no clue what they were modifying."
The report discussed the intruders having little apparent knowledge of what they were doing. The anonymous reader assumes this to mean that the intruders didn't know they were screwing with a water treatment SCADA system.
I think it just as likely that they had figured out they had tapped into a process control system, and were figuring out how to manipulate the system... driving by Braille.
The RISK report report authors could have summarized the situation by reaching back to the prophetic words of Simon & Garfunkel: Clowns to left of me, jokers to the right, Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
You're right, he's bluffing, and bowlshyting. Mr. Puzder is trying to divert attention by blaming the Federal government for his problems, when what's really going on is the labor market: it's lost a lot of the slack Puzder and his ilk have been coasting on for six years, and thus he's looking at having to raise wages to get and retain staff.
If wage pressures become high enough, CKE Restaurants will invest in technologies to improve productivity members. This is a good thing, since if people were always cheaper than capital equipment, we'd still be using manual typewriters... if we had any time to spare after working the fields with a scathe. Taken at face value, that's the model Puzder apparently prefers.
DC Comics v. Towle at first appears to add to a slippery slope that would eventually see all car designs as copyrightable the moment they roll off an assembly line or a garage.
But, a closer reading of the decision seem to show that what's at issue isn't the shape of the car so much as the names it is marketed under. The 9th Circuit built their opinion atop Halicki Films, LLC v. Sanderson Sales & Mktg. , to wit "an automotive character [Eleanor] may be copyrightable even if it appears as a yellow Fastback Ford Mustang in one film, and a silver 1967 Shelby GT-500 in another."
The Carroll Hall Shelby Trust arranged for a custom car shop to create and market Shelby GT-500 "Eleanor" replicas. If you compare a "stock" GT-500 to the relatively minor mods that make "Eleanor" in the Gone In 60 Seconds 2000 remake, Shelby probably would have been in the clear just selling cars "resembling Eleanor". But, by marketing it as Eleanor, not so fast.
I think this is even more clear with the Towle ruling. Making a Batmobile, probably fine. Marketing it as a Batmobile, with the likely-to-be trademarked Batman logo on the doors, rims, and steering wheel turns out to have been a risky move.
Beating the example to death: if I want to revive a style by assembling and selling Studebaker Avanti lookalikes, and market them as Indietro, I'm probably safe under both the US Copyright Office's definition of "useful articles" and parody case law. But, if I try to slap Avanti on the nose, I'd probably soon end up in hot water with whoever current holds the copyrights and trademarks of the former Avanti Motor Corporation.
Just an aside: If I hit a paywall, I usually made a sport of finding an unencumbered copy of a paper at an author's university home page.
In this case, it's not necessary. The full paper is available from the /. post's link. Once onto the Sage page, you'll find the links "Full Text" and "Full Text (PDF)" under the heading "This Article".
this seem to be linked to regrowth of political correctness and sheepish acceptance of so called 'liberal', elitist, ideology by the western young . bankrupt irrational ideas can't tolerate humor that show their absurdity.
And the lickspittles of the conservative elite bleat whatever cliches their paymasters order up.
Blow me, reactionary mouthpiece.