Honestly, couldn't a script be written relatively easily that would take an accepted story submission, download chosen media, automatically create a torrent, and replace the original link with the torrent link?
Is there such a thing as legitimate download of copyrighted material? For instance, if I own a DVD, would I be within my rights to go and download a rip of that dvd? If so, doesn't it become very difficult for authorities to prove who is and is not violating copyright by downloading from services like Bit Torrent?
But unlike a fee, a tax is usually built on a sliding scale depending on who it is applied to. Thus, you with your single patent would pay a nominal tax, but IBM with their 10,000 patents would pay an assload!
Be realistic. Law != Engineering. The ammount of law and case history built on top of itself is mind-boggling. The fact of the matter is, there is virtually no chance of IP law being wiped and re-written in a more sensible way. Rather than calling the idea of an IP tax a band-aid, I would prefer to think of it as an amendment to the current system... allowing much of what we already have in place to work more efficiently and more as it was originally intended.
I don't know about you, but I have to pay property tax (quite a lot actually). That is a tax on a limited asset (much the same as an IP tax would be). Not that there are a limited number of ideas, but there certainly are a limited number of viable implementations in each specific field.
The idea of an IP tax is nothing short of brilliant. Providing patent holders with protection of their innovations is great, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with motivating them to use those innovations. And if an innovation is not of particular use to the patent holder, then it should be added to the public domain or sold to someone who will actively use it. The tax itself could be structured in MANY ways making it fair for individuals and those holding very few patents. I would imagine, for instance, there would be some sort of % increase as the ammount of IP holdings of an entity increased.
If they'd just cruise the baby around the world for a year or so I'm sure they could get a boat-load (ha) of programmers who'd be happy to work for a very low wage. I'd be tempted to work for low pay for a year in exchange for the opportunity to see the world and travel to exotic locations. Slogan: See the world, meet interesting people, and replace them with small shell scripts!
GTA should have about as much influence on kids as hardcore porn. That is, if parents are doing their job kids won't see it and thus won't be affected (or if they do somehow see it will be able to differentiate it from proper behavior)!
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You are a moron and are completely overcomplicating the issue! NAT is rather simple. With properly configured NAT it is impossible to initiate a connection from the outside of the NAT to the inside... PERIOD! Networking 101 my ass, more like you talking out of your ass. Go back to school (or maybe just to school).
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Wow, that comment is outrageous and dead wrong. NAT affords many advantages not the least of which is security. If IPv6 became a standard tommorrow and was available to everyone I guarentee you NAT would still be widely used! There is simply no need for every one of the hundreds of computers sitting in my office to its own public IP address... infact, it'd be a huge pain if they did.
Would it be possible for Google to simply disregard all 302 redirects that refer to a domain different than the document being crawled? In this way, all sites using 302 redirects legitimately (referring to their own content in another location on their domain) would be unaffected while the site hijacking scum would be eliminated.
Damn, hard drive costs are just coming down to a point where it is feasible to rip all your movies to disk without down-coding. Now with new HD video media that option will be right out the window! How am I supposed happily watch a movie when my anal-retentive freakish videophile nature keeps telling me I could be watching it in higher quality! ARGH!
"If you don't mind deleting spam manually, that's your prerogative, but don't complain about it. If your ISP doesn't do a good job fighting spam, then switch ISPs or install your own anti-spam software. There are a lot of choices out there."
How the hell do you think the national do-not-call list came about? Because people bitched and complained! I agree there are spam solutions out there but I still think there should be an easier, more fool-proof, and legally backed way of opting out of spam.
Let the race to be the first to circumnavigate the globe twice without landing begin.
Honestly, it's kind of a neat accomplishment but the usefulness seems less than staggering.
It goes into some detail on the subject of synthetic fingerprints and just how easy they are to make at home.
How easy is it compared to say, stealing someone's wallet and thus having their credit card to do with what you like? As far as I can see this technology is more like the signature on the back of your credit card that is supposed to be checked against your signature at check-out. The only difference being it seems much more accurate and wouldn't rely on a lazy store clerk.
The only true downside I can see is you have to submit your fingerprint and thus submit (at least partialy) to THE MAN!
For all those scolding IBM for not making their web tools cross-browser compatible, take a closer look! As an experienced intranet programmer I can tell you that many times it just isn't feasible to make something compatible with IE and Firefox because of the ridiculous ammount of redundant code you would need (not to mention spotty forward-compatible browser checks). The question then becomes, "which browser do I make my app compatible with?". And as much as I'd like to say Firefox every time (because 9 times out of 10 it conforms better to standards), when your entire office runs IE the answer is clear. If only IE (and firefox to a much lesser extent) would follow standards to the letter, perhaps web apps could be truely universal!
Step 1. Vaccinate all the children of the world. Step 2. Begin secret disease research. Step 3. Wait for new super-viruses to take hold. Step 4. Open Microsoft Pharmaceuticals, the only company with vaccinations to stop super-viruses. Step 5. Profit!
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Why no links to the pictures of the aforementioned Cuban ladies?
Honestly, couldn't a script be written relatively easily that would take an accepted story submission, download chosen media, automatically create a torrent, and replace the original link with the torrent link?
Is there such a thing as legitimate download of copyrighted material? For instance, if I own a DVD, would I be within my rights to go and download a rip of that dvd? If so, doesn't it become very difficult for authorities to prove who is and is not violating copyright by downloading from services like Bit Torrent?
But unlike a fee, a tax is usually built on a sliding scale depending on who it is applied to. Thus, you with your single patent would pay a nominal tax, but IBM with their 10,000 patents would pay an assload!
Be realistic. Law != Engineering. The ammount of law and case history built on top of itself is mind-boggling. The fact of the matter is, there is virtually no chance of IP law being wiped and re-written in a more sensible way. Rather than calling the idea of an IP tax a band-aid, I would prefer to think of it as an amendment to the current system... allowing much of what we already have in place to work more efficiently and more as it was originally intended.
I don't know about you, but I have to pay property tax (quite a lot actually). That is a tax on a limited asset (much the same as an IP tax would be). Not that there are a limited number of ideas, but there certainly are a limited number of viable implementations in each specific field.
The idea of an IP tax is nothing short of brilliant. Providing patent holders with protection of their innovations is great, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with motivating them to use those innovations. And if an innovation is not of particular use to the patent holder, then it should be added to the public domain or sold to someone who will actively use it. The tax itself could be structured in MANY ways making it fair for individuals and those holding very few patents. I would imagine, for instance, there would be some sort of % increase as the ammount of IP holdings of an entity increased.
If they'd just cruise the baby around the world for a year or so I'm sure they could get a boat-load (ha) of programmers who'd be happy to work for a very low wage. I'd be tempted to work for low pay for a year in exchange for the opportunity to see the world and travel to exotic locations. Slogan: See the world, meet interesting people, and replace them with small shell scripts!
Send complaints to: Joe Sixpack 324 Patriot Lane Bumblescum, TN 44125
Anything can be proven with statistics... 40% of all people know that!
GTA should have about as much influence on kids as hardcore porn. That is, if parents are doing their job kids won't see it and thus won't be affected (or if they do somehow see it will be able to differentiate it from proper behavior)!
You are a moron and are completely overcomplicating the issue! NAT is rather simple. With properly configured NAT it is impossible to initiate a connection from the outside of the NAT to the inside... PERIOD! Networking 101 my ass, more like you talking out of your ass. Go back to school (or maybe just to school).
Wow, that comment is outrageous and dead wrong. NAT affords many advantages not the least of which is security. If IPv6 became a standard tommorrow and was available to everyone I guarentee you NAT would still be widely used! There is simply no need for every one of the hundreds of computers sitting in my office to its own public IP address... infact, it'd be a huge pain if they did.
Would it be possible for Google to simply disregard all 302 redirects that refer to a domain different than the document being crawled? In this way, all sites using 302 redirects legitimately (referring to their own content in another location on their domain) would be unaffected while the site hijacking scum would be eliminated.
Damn, hard drive costs are just coming down to a point where it is feasible to rip all your movies to disk without down-coding. Now with new HD video media that option will be right out the window! How am I supposed happily watch a movie when my anal-retentive freakish videophile nature keeps telling me I could be watching it in higher quality! ARGH!
Now all I need is a 40 ft. long room to watch it in!
I think I speak for all of Slashdot when I say: Rabble Rabble Rabble Rabble!
"If you don't mind deleting spam manually, that's your prerogative, but don't complain about it. If your ISP doesn't do a good job fighting spam, then switch ISPs or install your own anti-spam software. There are a lot of choices out there."
How the hell do you think the national do-not-call list came about? Because people bitched and complained! I agree there are spam solutions out there but I still think there should be an easier, more fool-proof, and legally backed way of opting out of spam.
Let the race to be the first to circumnavigate the globe twice without landing begin. Honestly, it's kind of a neat accomplishment but the usefulness seems less than staggering.
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That's it. 8 times. Not even a single order of magnitude.
It's a single order of magnitude in base 8!
It goes into some detail on the subject of synthetic fingerprints and just how easy they are to make at home.
How easy is it compared to say, stealing someone's wallet and thus having their credit card to do with what you like? As far as I can see this technology is more like the signature on the back of your credit card that is supposed to be checked against your signature at check-out. The only difference being it seems much more accurate and wouldn't rely on a lazy store clerk.
The only true downside I can see is you have to submit your fingerprint and thus submit (at least partialy) to THE MAN!
For all those scolding IBM for not making their web tools cross-browser compatible, take a closer look! As an experienced intranet programmer I can tell you that many times it just isn't feasible to make something compatible with IE and Firefox because of the ridiculous ammount of redundant code you would need (not to mention spotty forward-compatible browser checks). The question then becomes, "which browser do I make my app compatible with?". And as much as I'd like to say Firefox every time (because 9 times out of 10 it conforms better to standards), when your entire office runs IE the answer is clear. If only IE (and firefox to a much lesser extent) would follow standards to the letter, perhaps web apps could be truely universal!
Step 1. Vaccinate all the children of the world.
Step 2. Begin secret disease research.
Step 3. Wait for new super-viruses to take hold.
Step 4. Open Microsoft Pharmaceuticals, the only company with vaccinations to stop super-viruses.
Step 5. Profit!
It could happen!
"92% of web searchers"
The way that is phrased would indicate to me that it was 92% of those surveyed that identified themselves as web users.