As long as it's a non binding opinion it might as well have been the mad ramblings of the local street hobo for the good it will do. This might even be detrimental since this makes the pro-patent lobbyists aware of the possibility that the case's conclusion might seriously affect their changes for having insane software and idea patent law put into permanent place so the scumbag lobbyists will work extra hard to get some legislation past or to have the cases conclusion narrowed and not have broad patent implications. Whatever happens you can trusts assholic institutions and corporations to work for the detriment of the public good.
What would you call cutting the heads off the French aristocrats?
A good start!
So it is also with patents (and not just software patents). After reading about patent lawsuits for years I have come to the conclusion that the whole patent system should go. I doesn't serve the interest of the majority of the human race. Barring that, shortening the life span of a portion would be a tiny hen step in the right direction.
How long is it until we can keep a local copy of all human culture and data on a thumb drive? A long long time ago, back in the dark ages of the intertubes called the 90's, people started downloading individual mp3 tracks. Then individual albums, then artist collections, then music video collections and soon entire genres. Of course now people don't bother much with downloading music and just stream it from wherever is convenient at the moment (youtube, music stores, illegal streaming sharing sites etc.). The same thing is happening with video of course. And the quality of the encoding is constantly getting better to the point of diminishing returns. How long until there will be a torrent of all human music collected by the sharing community on the Internet?
Another thing that I have sometimes wondered is: why can't you have a torrent of torrents? That is a torrent that redirects to a bunch of other torrent so as to make collecting larger data sets easier, to avoid repacking to some extend as well.
I know this rambling is a bit of topic, but I think that the speed of the Internet, the speed at which the human race is able to share is directly correlated to the quality of the human experience. That is why I love reading news like this.
This is really starting to irritate me. This isn't just my personal pet peeve anymore. It's become a major psychotic episode for me!
PC means: "Personal Computer"! Guess what; macs are PC's! Your mobile phone is a PC nowadays. My fucking calculator is a PC! Your god damn blinking sneakers might be a PC!
When makers of proprietary games say that their game will run on: "PC and mac" it sound just plain stupid. Oh? It will run on every personal computer I own including macs? Oh goody! I'm running the Ubuntu OS on my tower. I guess I'll run it on that then. Oh, and on my fucking android phone while I'm at it! After all, it will run on all all Personal Computers..........and macs!
Perhaps those publishers believe that the mac personal computers are so tied to apple that no can really own a mac; merely bask in the presence and glory of their macbooks and imacs that apple has allowed them to do for a short while; you know, like religious people believe about their brief existence here on earth!
A beautiful unique snowflake said this: "I don't own my macbook pro, it is only a visitor on our shores for a short while; and then.... it is gone!".
But back to the topic at hand.
Equating the term "PC" with the line of operating systems from Microsoft called windows also implies that operating systems are an inherit part of the computer that cannot be lodged out, you know, like a really bad tenet in a project! A permanent residence with an increasingly bad attitude. That the OS is burned into a ROM chip on the motherboard. That it's inside and has taken your computer hostage. You know, like consoles. Of course that's pure uncut bullshit. While not everyone is like me and often changes the operating system on a computer like they were changing a dirty diaper on a screaming child, everyone should not be lied to with propaganda like this. Everyone should at least be aware that an OS can be changed if they don't like it, like swapping out a used pair of underwear when it's just become too painful to have on any longer.
In conclusion: Don't say stupid things like: "I have a PC".
I guess I have more to say about macs in general and apple specifically, but for now I guess I'm done.
Because despite what Linux users say about wanting things like gaming every time I see someone actually try to support Linux by catering to them, like Cedega or Loki, they end up going tits up.
GNU/linux users paid more individually then both Mac users and windows users for the humble indie bundle 1 and 2 (which included the games from bundle 1 as well) and they were about 1/4 to 1/5 of paying costumers. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
You don't get convicted/punished until proven guilty, that doesn't mean they don't shut down the operation when it's obvious they are actively selling fake goods right now. It is the courts job to decide what criminal charges may exist. Perhaps the shop owner didn't know they were fake? Just because the owner may not be the person criminally liable, that doesn't mean you allow the operation to continue.
It was obvious these sites were selling fake goods and distributing copyrighted works. They shut them down and the owner's get to plead their case about how they didn't know or whatever their case is. The site still gets shut down now if they are breaking laws now.
Fake eh? I have a copy of a digital file. The checksum is the same. Now tell me, which one is the "fake" one? You can't? Perhaps that's because equating the digital sharing of culture with "counterfeiting" is a false dichotomy. Digital copies are perfect and therefore the copy isn't defective in any way unlike when real counterfeiting takes place. Then it's quite possible that the copy might pose some sort of danger to it's purchaser or user which is one of the reasons why manufacturing needs to be regulated in the first place while. Remember, copyright exists for the "encouragement of the science and the useful arts". Not because control of our collective human culture is a good idea.
Microsoft loves open source (MS jury still out on Free software?)? Well then. Just point me to where I can download all the windows and office source code under a Free software license. Until the proof comes in the pudding then there is nothing to talk about. Actions speak louder then propaganda and lies.
You can bet your sweet ass that ass soon ass this software stack gets stable and usable for normal people there will be swarms of lawyers from the big telecoms attacking this project.
My fellow internet denizens.
It seems that every single day we are getting rammed by new legislation and international agreements that are so insane and ridiculously out of touch with where technology is actually taking us, mere words fail to properly describe my feelings on the matter. The quicker we are able to share/sync the entirety of human culture the less useful copyright becomes for the well being of the human race. How useful will copyright be for our race once the complete collection of all human culture can be synced or downloaded in mere seconds to your phone? It is our nature to share news, gossip and other bits of our collective culture where ever we go; and now that we have to ability to all talk with one another (or YELL!) through the internet the old gatekeepers of culture have collectively gone INSANE!
I could go on and on about how the old copyright deal with the public (authors get exclusive temporary right to copy their works and through greater incentive to create the public benefits from increased production of culture) is completely useless today but I am just too disgusted to bother right now. Besides, it's all been said before in all the other new stories about all the other recent times the keystone cops of copyright terrorized Gotham city while cackling insanely.
I guess what I'm really asking is: why is it that despite all the anger about these issues from those who are in favor of sharing, we are loosing ground so badly? Is there no one who writes legislation who agrees that easy sharing is good for the human race?
'From a technical perspective we're more than confident that if the government decided to roll out a mandatory Internet filter based on or around an Australian Communications and Media Authority blacklist or subset thereof, then it can be done without any impact whatsoever to the speed of the Internet,' [said Webshield managing director Anthony Pillion].
"From a technical perspective we're more than confident that if the government decided to roll out a mandatory train schedule for the jews around the third reich and and any subset thereof, then it can be done without any impact whatsoever on the speed of the rest of the trains in Germany", [said SS managing director Anofluthzen Pillikartoflen].
In all seriousness though. It just seems so strange to me how someone can talk about restricting the freedom of thought or speech with such glee. It's like ethics is an alien concept to these people. This guy completely misses the whole point. He seems to think that the problem with censorship is that it might affect how youtube videos with cute kitties in them perform and not that freedom is being curtailed.
Yes, yes. Godwins law bla bla bla. Knock yourself out.
There was a pre-showing here in Iceland that I attended and I can attest that this movie is great. I was expecting it to suck or at least to be so-so. I especially liked the witty dialog:)
I just can't stand one more bullshit copyright-gone-bat-shit-crazy story! What drugs are these copywrong thugs on anyways? It is is an intrinsic part of copyright to be able to borrow, give and/or lend copyrighted material. These people and organizations are such fucking hypocrites. When the law favors them they whine about how people aren't obeying the law, but when they don't like some new better organized way of sharing legally under fair use they complain because whey want to have their moneycake and eat it too.
Many moons ago I thought that it might to possible for the copyright-happy authors to make a new cultural-sharing bargain with the public. After all, that is supposedly what copyright is. Something to help enrich the common culture the fastest and best way for everyone.
Now, after an endless barrage of stories and every news outlet for all these years about how the copyright people are fucking over everyone in their hunt for the great big white whale of total control of culture I have had ENOUGH!
FUCK COPYRIGHT AND FUCK THOSE PEOPLE!
If they don't want the public to disseminate their works I suggest they hide them where the sun don't shine and that way we, the "pirates" will never get our hands on them... ever.
Also, the tooth fairy isn't real. Sorry:-/
However! Don't you DARE insinuate that the holiest of holies, Santa Claus, is just a children's story! Your feeble words will only make my faith in dear Santa stronger! Evidence smevidence!
I think you are mistaking "microsoft completely compatible in in every detail" with "comparable features and extendability". Putting openoffice in the hands of a long time microsoft user who has "lived and breathed" microsoft all the way is like animal activists liberating a flock of chickens. They just don't know how to handle freedom. They have been in the matrix for too long and can't possibly bother to learn how to use anything that is in any way different from microsoft products.
Profiting from another persons crime? the sites^H^H^H^H^Hgoogles primary income is copyrighted content, and don't pretend otherwise. they know full well without that pirated content they wouldn't have a business, hence they aren't innocent.
Here is how you can use google to find files of the mp3 and ogg kind. Who knows what license those files have? Should google have to know? Is it their job to police all web sites and remove copyrighted material or only their own, like youtube?
If piratebay is guilty then google is guilty therefore by the "logic" of ifpi:
if you use teh googleh you ares terrorerist!
You might say something like: "Duh. The piratebay indexes mostly copyrighted stuff while google only indexes wholesome family entertainment. Also I am stupid."
So, if the piratebay had a bunch of legal material indexed like google then it's hunky dory? What should the ratio between those two be?
In fact the is a lot of legal material there.
In the end, almost all of this discussion is pointless because the real problem is that publishers and some authors still think that despite technology democratizing distribution of culture for everyone they still want to maintain their monopoly on it.
If we wish to live in a just society ruled by law and not by men then we have to be able to respect the law and feel that they are just for everyone.
"To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, servers to bring all law into contemt."
You can't respect the law if they don't respect you.
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Noooooooooooo!
I myself recommend a seven percent solution for the best effect.
As long as it's a non binding opinion it might as well have been the mad ramblings of the local street hobo for the good it will do. This might even be detrimental since this makes the pro-patent lobbyists aware of the possibility that the case's conclusion might seriously affect their changes for having insane software and idea patent law put into permanent place so the scumbag lobbyists will work extra hard to get some legislation past or to have the cases conclusion narrowed and not have broad patent implications. Whatever happens you can trusts assholic institutions and corporations to work for the detriment of the public good.
A good start!
So it is also with patents (and not just software patents). After reading about patent lawsuits for years I have come to the conclusion that the whole patent system should go. I doesn't serve the interest of the majority of the human race. Barring that, shortening the life span of a portion would be a tiny hen step in the right direction.
So uh, has wine been ported to windows yet? Just asking ;)
Another thing that I have sometimes wondered is: why can't you have a torrent of torrents? That is a torrent that redirects to a bunch of other torrent so as to make collecting larger data sets easier, to avoid repacking to some extend as well.
I know this rambling is a bit of topic, but I think that the speed of the Internet, the speed at which the human race is able to share is directly correlated to the quality of the human experience. That is why I love reading news like this.
Cheers everyone.
PC means: "Personal Computer"! Guess what; macs are PC's! Your mobile phone is a PC nowadays. My fucking calculator is a PC! Your god damn blinking sneakers might be a PC!
When makers of proprietary games say that their game will run on: "PC and mac" it sound just plain stupid. Oh? It will run on every personal computer I own including macs? Oh goody! I'm running the Ubuntu OS on my tower. I guess I'll run it on that then. Oh, and on my fucking android phone while I'm at it! After all, it will run on all all Personal Computers..........and macs!
Perhaps those publishers believe that the mac personal computers are so tied to apple that no can really own a mac; merely bask in the presence and glory of their macbooks and imacs that apple has allowed them to do for a short while; you know, like religious people believe about their brief existence here on earth! A beautiful unique snowflake said this: "I don't own my macbook pro, it is only a visitor on our shores for a short while; and then.... it is gone!".
But back to the topic at hand.
Equating the term "PC" with the line of operating systems from Microsoft called windows also implies that operating systems are an inherit part of the computer that cannot be lodged out, you know, like a really bad tenet in a project! A permanent residence with an increasingly bad attitude. That the OS is burned into a ROM chip on the motherboard. That it's inside and has taken your computer hostage. You know, like consoles. Of course that's pure uncut bullshit. While not everyone is like me and often changes the operating system on a computer like they were changing a dirty diaper on a screaming child, everyone should not be lied to with propaganda like this. Everyone should at least be aware that an OS can be changed if they don't like it, like swapping out a used pair of underwear when it's just become too painful to have on any longer.
In conclusion: Don't say stupid things like: "I have a PC".
I guess I have more to say about macs in general and apple specifically, but for now I guess I'm done.
Enjoy your fucking life. It won't last forever.
Roger Murdock: Flight 2-0-9'er, you are cleared for take-off.
Captain Oveur: Roger!
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Tower voice: L.A. departure frequency, 123 point 9'er.
Captain Oveur: Roger!
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Victor Basta: Request vector, over.
Captain Oveur: What?
Tower voice: Flight 2-0-9'er cleared for vector 324.
Roger Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence.
Captain Oveur: Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
Tower voice: Tower's radio clearance, over!
Captain Oveur: That's Clarence Oveur. Over.
Tower voice: Over.
Captain Oveur: Roger.
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Tower voice: Roger, over!
Roger Murdock: What?
Captain Oveur: Huh?
Victor Basta: Who?
Because despite what Linux users say about wanting things like gaming every time I see someone actually try to support Linux by catering to them, like Cedega or Loki, they end up going tits up.
GNU/linux users paid more individually then both Mac users and windows users for the humble indie bundle 1 and 2 (which included the games from bundle 1 as well) and they were about 1/4 to 1/5 of paying costumers. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Humble bundle
You don't get convicted/punished until proven guilty, that doesn't mean they don't shut down the operation when it's obvious they are actively selling fake goods right now. It is the courts job to decide what criminal charges may exist. Perhaps the shop owner didn't know they were fake? Just because the owner may not be the person criminally liable, that doesn't mean you allow the operation to continue.
It was obvious these sites were selling fake goods and distributing copyrighted works. They shut them down and the owner's get to plead their case about how they didn't know or whatever their case is. The site still gets shut down now if they are breaking laws now.
Fake eh? I have a copy of a digital file. The checksum is the same. Now tell me, which one is the "fake" one? You can't? Perhaps that's because equating the digital sharing of culture with "counterfeiting" is a false dichotomy. Digital copies are perfect and therefore the copy isn't defective in any way unlike when real counterfeiting takes place. Then it's quite possible that the copy might pose some sort of danger to it's purchaser or user which is one of the reasons why manufacturing needs to be regulated in the first place while. Remember, copyright exists for the "encouragement of the science and the useful arts". Not because control of our collective human culture is a good idea.
And how many years did it take to crack that? Won't they upgrade the drm every year or so?
Microsoft loves open source (MS jury still out on Free software?)? Well then. Just point me to where I can download all the windows and office source code under a Free software license. Until the proof comes in the pudding then there is nothing to talk about. Actions speak louder then propaganda and lies.
You can bet your sweet ass that ass soon ass this software stack gets stable and usable for normal people there will be swarms of lawyers from the big telecoms attacking this project.
Could everyone please stop equating PC with microsoft windows. PC is short for Personal Computer.
Wow.... the patent system is deeply broken.
And you're just figuring this out now? Well, better late then never ;-)
My fellow internet denizens.
It seems that every single day we are getting rammed by new legislation and international agreements that are so insane and ridiculously out of touch with where technology is actually taking us, mere words fail to properly describe my feelings on the matter. The quicker we are able to share/sync the entirety of human culture the less useful copyright becomes for the well being of the human race. How useful will copyright be for our race once the complete collection of all human culture can be synced or downloaded in mere seconds to your phone?
It is our nature to share news, gossip and other bits of our collective culture where ever we go; and now that we have to ability to all talk with one another (or YELL!) through the internet the old gatekeepers of culture have collectively gone INSANE!
I could go on and on about how the old copyright deal with the public (authors get exclusive temporary right to copy their works and through greater incentive to create the public benefits from increased production of culture) is completely useless today but I am just too disgusted to bother right now. Besides, it's all been said before in all the other new stories about all the other recent times the keystone cops of copyright terrorized Gotham city while cackling insanely.
I guess what I'm really asking is: why is it that despite all the anger about these issues from those who are in favor of sharing, we are loosing ground so badly? Is there no one who writes legislation who agrees that easy sharing is good for the human race?
One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=microsoft+fun&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
I don't know what happaned at Microsoft's headquarters in 2005 but I suspect that Steve Ballmer must have used it all up during this charming episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc
"From a technical perspective we're more than confident that if the government decided to roll out a mandatory train schedule for the jews around the third reich and and any subset thereof, then it can be done without any impact whatsoever on the speed of the rest of the trains in Germany", [said SS managing director Anofluthzen Pillikartoflen].
In all seriousness though. It just seems so strange to me how someone can talk about restricting the freedom of thought or speech with such glee. It's like ethics is an alien concept to these people. This guy completely misses the whole point. He seems to think that the problem with censorship is that it might affect how youtube videos with cute kitties in them perform and not that freedom is being curtailed.
Yes, yes. Godwins law bla bla bla. Knock yourself out.
There was a pre-showing here in Iceland that I attended and I can attest that this movie is great. I was expecting it to suck or at least to be so-so. I especially liked the witty dialog :)
Many moons ago I thought that it might to possible for the copyright-happy authors to make a new cultural-sharing bargain with the public. After all, that is supposedly what copyright is. Something to help enrich the common culture the fastest and best way for everyone.
Now, after an endless barrage of stories and every news outlet for all these years about how the copyright people are fucking over everyone in their hunt for the great big white whale of total control of culture I have had ENOUGH!
FUCK COPYRIGHT AND FUCK THOSE PEOPLE!
If they don't want the public to disseminate their works I suggest they hide them where the sun don't shine and that way we, the "pirates" will never get our hands on them... ever.
Thank you for your attention.
Also, the tooth fairy isn't real. Sorry :-/
However! Don't you DARE insinuate that the holiest of holies, Santa Claus, is just a children's story! Your feeble words will only make my faith in dear Santa stronger! Evidence smevidence!
I think you are mistaking "microsoft completely compatible in in every detail" with "comparable features and extendability". Putting openoffice in the hands of a long time microsoft user who has "lived and breathed" microsoft all the way is like animal activists liberating a flock of chickens. They just don't know how to handle freedom. They have been in the matrix for too long and can't possibly bother to learn how to use anything that is in any way different from microsoft products.
Profiting from another persons crime? the sites^H^H^H^H^Hgoogles primary income is copyrighted content, and don't pretend otherwise. they know full well without that pirated content they wouldn't have a business, hence they aren't innocent.
Here is how you can use google to find files of the mp3 and ogg kind. Who knows what license those files have? Should google have to know? Is it their job to police all web sites and remove copyrighted material or only their own, like youtube?
If piratebay is guilty then google is guilty therefore by the "logic" of ifpi: if you use teh googleh you ares terrorerist!
You might say something like:
"Duh. The piratebay indexes mostly copyrighted stuff while google only indexes wholesome family entertainment. Also I am stupid."
So, if the piratebay had a bunch of legal material indexed like google then it's hunky dory? What should the ratio between those two be?
In fact the is a lot of legal material there.
In the end, almost all of this discussion is pointless because the real problem is that publishers and some authors still think that despite technology democratizing distribution of culture for everyone they still want to maintain their monopoly on it.
If we wish to live in a just society ruled by law and not by men then we have to be able to respect the law and feel that they are just for everyone.
"To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, servers to bring all law into contemt."
You can't respect the law if they don't respect you.
Fuck the cultural monopoly.
but most of the third-party software which gets installed on top has been touched by the hand of gnu somewhere along the lines
I delight in reminding your that gnus don't have hands, they have hoofs!