But as we know, money corrupts everything. Don't count on common sense and good will once "shareholder value" plays a role. You could even get sued (by your shareholders) if you apply common sense.
The only direct solution is a big change to the patent system.
Indirect solutions include a change to our economic system (e.g. replacing our form of capitalism with something else or at least evolving it rapidly into something better).
Matter of principle: Advertisement is, by definition, subjective. I want objective information and decide upon pros and cons of products myself, or otherwise listen to recommendations of trusted sources.
Therefore, advertisement is a waste of resources. Time and money spent creating and consuming advertisements has a low value for society, it is almost wasted.
The worst thing is that the consumers are the ones paying for this misleading "information" themselves: you may think you get things for free (apps, television) paid by advertisement. But the cost of advertisement is part of the product prices, i.e. paid by yourself.
I think it is perverse to pay for misinformation (through higher product prices); a part of this money is then used to give away things for free or at a discount (every medium that contains ads).
Even if you are not using the stuff you get "for free", you still pay the advertisement tax in all product prices. Which is pretty awful if you think about it.
When talking about java in a browser executing remote code: agree, avoid it if you can.
When talking about java as platform (like.net or other platforms) for server side applications, then dumping java because of this bug is a bit drastic.
I'll vote for the pirate party or extreme left until this stops.
Sooner or later pirate parties and other opponents of intellectual property rights (or at least these rights getting more and more strict) will come to power in Europe, and actions of this criminal industry will come back at them like a boomerang.
They'll regret sentences like these when copyrights will be abolished. Looking forward to that day.
And then argue that the current laws apparently are insufficient, and re-introduce SOPA style laws. I have believed from the start that the whole Kim Dotcom fuzz was just started to prove the need for harsher laws.
Saving money is one of todays big challenges for states. Stop waisting money on "intellectual property" seems like an excellent plan to me.
Given the colleteral damage of limiting free speech, dangers of abuse and censorship, it is more than just wanting to download for free.
Another criticism is the one issue character of the pirate party. I fail to see what is wrong with that. In a democracy, if an issue is being ignored by established parties for a period of time, it is only right to start a party to change this and deal with the issue. Why should every party have a 100% "vision" for society, and not just be focussed to reach a particular goal which has the support of a majority of the population?
The time may not be far away where people would prefer to pick Chinese freedom over US freedom. Freedom in the US is rapidly becoming an empty word. More freedom in China is a likely (but not certain) future development.
Oracle Coherence (formerly Tangosol) is a distributed cache with queries too. It has existed for many years and does exactly this (and more). I don't think this is anything new.
Not yet, but wait until more "sources" are cut off for more people worldwide. It is likely that better distributed and harder to attack platforms will appear to replace todays torrent sites.
Which can be doubted in the US, for example, where money can buy political propaganda almost without limits, and lobbyists (i.e. in the end those with lots of money) can practically buy laws, it is questionable if you can
Finland got a nationalistic right wing government after the last election, like in more countries in europe.
People are afraid due to the uncertain economy. The reflex is to trust the political right more than the left in situations like this: fear often leads to xenophoby and calls for "law and order". As a side effect, all these right wing parties mainly serve the interest of the rich and vested interests, which leads to measures like limiting free speech and accepting all kinds of collateral damage in the name of "business friendly" policies.
Why do you think office-type documents are better at capturing know how than a wiki? My experience is different. Information locked in documents if often hard to retrieve and find. Information in wiki's is searchable, can be linked and connected; it is both easier to find and easier to maintain.
How about tab groups? Firefox has invented many things, tab groups being the latest. I do not think Firefox is merely copying features. They have been leading in features and have been copied by the others.
I see chrome using more memory than Firefox, both including an equivalent set of (the usual) extensions. Since version 7 and 8 I think Firefox has reversed the trend of becoming bigger and slower. And it still has some extensions and tab handling that is better than any other browser.
Maybe it doesn't win benchmarks, but it is fast enough for me.
And it gives some peace of mind to use a browser that is not tied to a powerful company.
It seems that marijuana also has, very light, withdrawal symptoms. Not comparable to nicotine or cafeine, but still. Heavy users seem to feel a bit depressed and may have trouble falling asleep without.
I'm a moderate user myself, most days I'll take 1 'balloon' from my vaporizer using about 0.25 - 0.5 gram of (home grown) weed. Using this amount, I notice absolutely nothing when skipping use (e.g. when I go on vacation abroad for two weeks, not taking any weed): I look forward to go on vacation, but also have something to look out for when coming home:).
For me it is like computers or music: I can do without, but I'd rather not.
Dream on. How do you know how history would have evolved if "the socialists" would not have "improved"? If any, the US has seen too little improvements, not too many.
Although I am sorry for US citizens of good will, as a whole the influence of the USA in the world has been very detrimental lately. The issue of IP is just one example.
Therefore, I am quite happy with the self destructive ultra right wing tea party. It is the quickest way to get rid of the USA as a superpower. I can only welcome that.
I think the US is the only western "democracy" where the right to vote can be taken away from you. It is very undemocratic.
If a large group of people is against certain laws, such as the prohibition of certain plants, and they ignore these laws, a large group is citizens is incarcerated and they can never even get the required majority to change the law.
The incredible thing is, that the british electorate just gave away the chance to end the corrupt two party system. They rejected the voting law reform which would have led to more coalition governments that are usual in most north & central european democracies.
More party systems give more parties and new parties a realistic chance of getting to power and thus are a very good balance against the corruption of power.
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But as we know, money corrupts everything. Don't count on common sense and good will once "shareholder value" plays a role. You could even get sued (by your shareholders) if you apply common sense.
The only direct solution is a big change to the patent system.
Indirect solutions include a change to our economic system (e.g. replacing our form of capitalism with something else or at least evolving it rapidly into something better).
Matter of principle: Advertisement is, by definition, subjective. I want objective information and decide upon pros and cons of products myself, or otherwise listen to recommendations of trusted sources.
Therefore, advertisement is a waste of resources. Time and money spent creating and consuming advertisements has a low value for society, it is almost wasted.
The worst thing is that the consumers are the ones paying for this misleading "information" themselves: you may think you get things for free (apps, television) paid by advertisement. But the cost of advertisement is part of the product prices, i.e. paid by yourself.
I think it is perverse to pay for misinformation (through higher product prices); a part of this money is then used to give away things for free or at a discount (every medium that contains ads).
Even if you are not using the stuff you get "for free", you still pay the advertisement tax in all product prices. Which is pretty awful if you think about it.
When talking about java in a browser executing remote code: agree, avoid it if you can.
When talking about java as platform (like .net or other platforms) for server side applications, then dumping java because of this bug is a bit drastic.
I'll vote for the pirate party or extreme left until this stops.
Sooner or later pirate parties and other opponents of intellectual property rights (or at least these rights getting more and more strict) will come to power in Europe, and actions of this criminal industry will come back at them like a boomerang.
They'll regret sentences like these when copyrights will be abolished. Looking forward to that day.
And then argue that the current laws apparently are insufficient, and re-introduce SOPA style laws.
I have believed from the start that the whole Kim Dotcom fuzz was just started to prove the need for harsher laws.
Saving money is one of todays big challenges for states.
Stop waisting money on "intellectual property" seems like an excellent plan to me.
Given the colleteral damage of limiting free speech, dangers of abuse and censorship, it is more than just wanting to download for free.
Another criticism is the one issue character of the pirate party. I fail to see what is wrong with that. In a democracy, if an issue is being ignored by established parties for a period of time, it is only right to start a party to change this and deal with the issue. Why should every party have a 100% "vision" for society, and not just be focussed to reach a particular goal which has the support of a majority of the population?
The time may not be far away where people would prefer to pick Chinese freedom over US freedom. Freedom in the US is rapidly becoming an empty word. More freedom in China is a likely (but not certain) future development.
Oracle Coherence (formerly Tangosol) is a distributed cache with queries too. It has existed for many years and does exactly this (and more).
I don't think this is anything new.
As soon as China starts to receive more royalties that it would have to pay, it will become in favor of tough IP laws.
Not yet, but wait until more "sources" are cut off for more people worldwide. It is likely that better distributed and harder to attack platforms will appear to replace todays torrent sites.
How bad does it have to get before Joe Sixpack wakes up and takes notice? How much more before we finally have that revolution?
Looking at history, I fear that once Joe Sixpack wakes up, it'll be too late.
Assuming we still have a functioning democracy.
Which can be doubted in the US, for example, where money can buy political propaganda almost without limits, and lobbyists (i.e. in the end those with lots of money) can practically buy laws, it is questionable if you can
Finland got a nationalistic right wing government after the last election, like in more countries in europe.
People are afraid due to the uncertain economy. The reflex is to trust the political right more than the left in situations like this: fear often leads to xenophoby and calls for "law and order". As a side effect, all these right wing parties mainly serve the interest of the rich and vested interests, which leads to measures like limiting free speech and accepting all kinds of collateral damage in the name of "business friendly" policies.
Why do you think office-type documents are better at capturing know how than a wiki? My experience is different. Information locked in documents if often hard to retrieve and find. Information in wiki's is searchable, can be linked and connected; it is both easier to find and easier to maintain.
I have two teenagers. But to my defence: when I joined slashdot in 1998, I didn't have any children yet.
How about tab groups? Firefox has invented many things, tab groups being the latest. I do not think Firefox is merely copying features. They have been leading in features and have been copied by the others.
I see chrome using more memory than Firefox, both including an equivalent set of (the usual) extensions. Since version 7 and 8 I think Firefox has reversed the trend of becoming bigger and slower. And it still has some extensions and tab handling that is better than any other browser.
Maybe it doesn't win benchmarks, but it is fast enough for me.
And it gives some peace of mind to use a browser that is not tied to a powerful company.
I was just thinking the same and shaking my head.
It seems that marijuana also has, very light, withdrawal symptoms. Not comparable to nicotine or cafeine, but still. Heavy users seem to feel a bit depressed and may have trouble falling asleep without.
I'm a moderate user myself, most days I'll take 1 'balloon' from my vaporizer using about 0.25 - 0.5 gram of (home grown) weed. Using this amount, I notice absolutely nothing when skipping use (e.g. when I go on vacation abroad for two weeks, not taking any weed): I look forward to go on vacation, but also have something to look out for when coming home :).
For me it is like computers or music: I can do without, but I'd rather not.
I agree. But in OSX you can use cmd+space almost like launchy.
And the windows vista and windows 7 start menu also can replace launchy.
Should windows 8 remove the start menu, I'll have to return to launchy.
Dream on. How do you know how history would have evolved if "the socialists" would not have "improved"?
If any, the US has seen too little improvements, not too many.
Although I am sorry for US citizens of good will, as a whole the influence of the USA in the world has been very detrimental lately. The issue of IP is just one example.
Therefore, I am quite happy with the self destructive ultra right wing tea party. It is the quickest way to get rid of the USA as a superpower. I can only welcome that.
Cygwin comes with a port of rxvt, which is much better than windows cmd. Works well with ssh and screen.
I think the US is the only western "democracy" where the right to vote can be taken away from you. It is very undemocratic.
If a large group of people is against certain laws, such as the prohibition of certain plants, and they ignore these laws, a large group is citizens is incarcerated and they can never even get the required majority to change the law.
The incredible thing is, that the british electorate just gave away the chance to end the corrupt two party system. They rejected the voting law reform which would have led to more coalition governments that are usual in most north & central european democracies.
More party systems give more parties and new parties a realistic chance of getting to power and thus are a very good balance against the corruption of power.