The original framers of the constitution recognized this at the founding of the republic.
"The Congress shall have Power To...promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries...."
Nobody objects to people having the protection of a limited copyright so that they can profit from their ideas. Everyone - including, I'd argue, most copyright holders but excepting apparently their very successful lobbyists and tame congresspeople - agrees that "copyright" != "rights to exclusivity in perpetuity so that person and their heirs never have to work again".
You do realize that SCOTUS has ruled that limited times is subject to the "I'll know it when I see it" rule of being out of bounds. They have yet to see a number that they've declared limited. Of course, it's all about perspective. In a geologic time scale, then 100 years is very "limited".
What I would like to see is a "short-circut" timer based on dates of publication. If a work is not published at all (made available to the public in some form), then it gets a shorter protection time. Once a work is published, the date it is no longer available (ie, the book goes out of print, the software is no longer sold), then another timer starts - you have X amount of time to re-publish it (say 10 years) or it passes into the public domain.
I'd go further. The fact is, no one can make anything without the help of other people. It could be as simple as the fact that someone else grows your food, someone works in factories to package that food. Same with clothes. How about TV? No one comes up with ideas without input from other things around them. You can't write a book with out education, without experience stuff. Which requires other people.
The truth is, no one can make anything without the help of other people, and this is why stuff should go into the public domain after 14 years.
Why? Why the hell should that be the case? If I pour loads of MY time and MY effort and MY resources into creating something, then it's MY creation and I want to keep it then I can, because it's MINE.
Sorry, but it just boils my p**s that everyone these days just thinks they have a God*-given right for unfettered access to anything they like for free,
* other deities may be available
^^^ This is what is wrong with people. Greed. MY MY MY MY MINE noticed the capitalized words are just missing PRECIOUS.
Never quite understood this whole 'privacy of license plates' thing. If I look out the window right now I can see a dozen+ license plates. If I went for a walk I'd see hundreds. How is it private if there are two of them on every car for everyone to see?
It's not about making license plates more private, it's about limiting the places one can find instances of the plate. I wouldn't want someone to know that I was located somewhere at a certain time for whatever reason. What if I park somewhere and the guy that parks in the spot next to me does something stupid that warrants one of these images to be sent to the police department and my car happens to be visible in the picture?
I just dislike databases upon databases of our information that we can't control.
The only way to solve your paranoia is to take public transportation. The chances that someone might take a picture that has your car in it is very good these days. Probably still slim it will happen, but since most everyone has a camera on their cell phone, yes, the chances are greater.
But lets be real. No one gives a fuck about you, no one cares where you are at, and if they did, they wouldn't need random strangers to post pics of your car online, they'd just have someone following you.
Although I think that people doing interesting stuff getting double the attention because they're female, is a weird kind of inverted sexism.
It would be a travesty if women were put off innovating like this and following their technical passions, because of arguably-sexist backhanded putdowns, or neckbeards slobbering all over them merely because they're female.
Nintendo's problem is and always has been they put the bare minimum spec hardware in their devices, make a big fanfare of some gimmick, charge an arm and a leg for it and hope they can coast far enough for the next gimmick to show up....
Actually, you are very wrong. Nintendo put out a bunch of successful consoles, without gimmicks for decades. NES, SNES, Gameboy, N64, Gameboy Advance, Gamecube, Nintendo DS. During that time only 1 gimmicky item, the Virtual Boy. I wouldn't call most of those consoles bare minimum hardware specs either.
The Wii was the first "real" console with a gimmick, the wiimote. And underpowered hardware. And it did well. And Nintendo has been behind the curve since then.
IMO, Nintendo needs to get back to it's roots. A lot of it's fan base is older now. We don't want to jump around, or wave our arms to play games. We want to use a controller and have fun. We got big TV's that can really support 4 way and 2 way gaming at the same time. So you know, our kids (not that I have any) can play with us, and have fun with us.
And I'm going to keep saying this, where the fuck is my Pokemon MMORPG? The fact that there hasn't been one only shows how Nintendo doesn't understand the gaming market anymore (IMO).
What I find even more funny is that so may self-righteous Protestants will disparage the Mormon church on the basis of it's peculiar origins and unorthodox scripture but fail to recognize that in 2000 years time the book of Mormon will be as "proven" a text as the gospels are within their clade today.
I doubt it. In fact, the Mormon religion is the prime example why religious people should be killed. Here you have an offshoot of another religion, based on "texts" that only the founder could read/interpret. And oddly enough, a bunch of what he "translated" made life better for him. Only stupid people who can believe in "faith" falls for this crap. Anyone with half a brain sees it for what it is.
Which is the problem with religions, they require that you can't actually think for yourself.
The alternative could be assassination, and I don't mean by the USA. There are many groups active in Russia who would kill Snowden simply to make the USA look bad (if he dies, regardless of the circumstances, most people will assume he was killed by the US). Returning to the US would alleviate living under that kind of fear (assuming he recognizes it).
All nations with the resources do it for their National security - especially, if it means the difference between another nation gaining a technological edge or being able to cripple your own ability to defend yourself.
One of the best known examples? Read up on how the Soviets copied the B-29 to create the TU-4 - rivet for rivet. Very interesting how it was done.
The French have made it illegal to encrypt communications by companies operating within their borders. Makes the collection process all the much easier as there is no expectation of privacy.
How about the countries that are producing "brand" or cutting-edge drugs without recognizing the patents (nor paying subsequent royalties) owned the pharmaceutical companies in the interest of "National Security" or health?
To say this is a US only problem is simply naive.
Wow, using France as a comparison. You couldn't use a real country that anyone actually cares about?
These people are dangerous radicals if not in action then in concept. Their way of thinking... entitlement... and presumptions are dangerous.
We have people in SF that feel they're entitled to stop traffic to promote bicycles with some frequency. We have people that feel they're entitled to pour sugar in the tanks of industrial machinery for pretty much any construction project.
There is a strain of radical leftism in the SF area that really needs to get its public respect pulled. I am not saying pass a law. I am not saying persecute these people with government power. Rather, I am saying that they depend on a basic level on our acceptance of their behavior and we don't have to accept it.
Their actions are not respectable. It really should stop. Stop granting them respect for their behavior. Its unacceptable.
I don't agree. They are protesting what they think is unfair. How do you protest stuff you think is unfair, bitch about it on forums?
You may have forgotten how the first edition did have spec for all the major devils and demons. That's what freaked out short-sighted people. To them, it wasn't about how you were going to kick demon/devil butt, as much as the horror of seeing kids throwing scary names around.
When Harry Potter came out, an otherwise very smart engineer, who spent too much time in church, told me that they had a discussion about the books and their influence on children. They had a witchcraft specialist (I think he said a witch) comment on how the spells JKR wrote down were too close to the real magic and children shouldn't be familiar with them or run around casting them at each other. I honestly wish I was making this up.
So yeah, the bad rep of the game was because some people get scared at the mere mention of some dark elements of their religious mythos.
Ya, I was given a D&D set when I was like 13 back in the 80's and got it taken away when the church told my parents it was "of the devil".
Oddly enough, a couple years later I got a nice new wave hair cut with a tail, and my step mom cut off the tail because it was "of the devil".
I like this devil dude, he sounds like my kind of guy.
You are aware that the "carrots help you see in the dark" thing was a lie the Brits told to try to cover the fact that they had radar? As far as I'm aware there's zero evidence whatsoever that carrots or any nutrient in them does a damned thing for your eyes.
Carrots don't help you see in the dark, but they can prevent you going blind
And eating heavily processed sludge will be better for you?
You think you could wait until we get some evidence before you frame it as "sludge"?
We are supposed to be scientists, aren't we?
While I'm sure there are scientists here at slashdot, we are more programming/computer geeks then probably anything else. I would guess we have more shills here then real scientist also. So I'm thinking you don't realize what website you are posting on...
It reminds me of something you'd see in a 70's or early 80's British scifi TV show, like Doctor Who or Blake's 7. Some sort of plexiglass being used as a monitor.
Well, I never did play Pokémon, but I have to ask: does one ever really outgrow Zelda? Maybe the new games don't do it for you, but don't you ever find yourself wanting to play Ocarina again?
I outgrew the Zelda games when I had to wave the stupid wiimote around like i was on crack.
Right, because the guy should have remembered being taught it before he was born rather than so late in the game as when he was a child.
If only we had places where information could be stored and searched so people who think they've figured out something new can actually look to see if it's new.
Wow, you know the article is full of shit when you come across "cloud based world wide web".
So let me guess. The robots have their own server where they can share info. So the cloud because a database on a server and the world wide web is actually just a database where they share info.
Guess the buzzwords do sound better.
I like how they say it can save computing power & battery life for the robots. Though I'm wondering, if a robot is just working 1 house, taking care of some old person, does it need to query the database (oops, i mean cloud) for the room dimensions, or is it smart enough to keep the info about the house it's currently in it's memory?
Of course, lets say the robot records the layout of the house, uploads it to the cloud. What is to keep another robot or even human from using this information to rob anyone? Seems to me like you have a great collection of information on people, places, schedules, etc that can be put to really bad use from the government, crooks and corporations.
According to TFA, a tiny transceiver can be built into the plastic plug base of a USB cord. Of course, one has not been spotted in the wild, but it sounds theoretically possible.
So logically, something a little bit less complicated, but using the similar small chips can easily be hidden. Put it in the right place, no one would notice.
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The original framers of the constitution recognized this at the founding of the republic.
"The Congress shall have Power To...promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries...."
Nobody objects to people having the protection of a limited copyright so that they can profit from their ideas. Everyone - including, I'd argue, most copyright holders but excepting apparently their very successful lobbyists and tame congresspeople - agrees that "copyright" != "rights to exclusivity in perpetuity so that person and their heirs never have to work again".
You do realize that SCOTUS has ruled that limited times is subject to the "I'll know it when I see it" rule of being out of bounds. They have yet to see a number that they've declared limited. Of course, it's all about perspective. In a geologic time scale, then 100 years is very "limited".
What I would like to see is a "short-circut" timer based on dates of publication. If a work is not published at all (made available to the public in some form), then it gets a shorter protection time. Once a work is published, the date it is no longer available (ie, the book goes out of print, the software is no longer sold), then another timer starts - you have X amount of time to re-publish it (say 10 years) or it passes into the public domain.
I'd go further. The fact is, no one can make anything without the help of other people. It could be as simple as the fact that someone else grows your food, someone works in factories to package that food. Same with clothes. How about TV? No one comes up with ideas without input from other things around them. You can't write a book with out education, without experience stuff. Which requires other people.
The truth is, no one can make anything without the help of other people, and this is why stuff should go into the public domain after 14 years.
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Why? Why the hell should that be the case? If I pour loads of MY time and MY effort and MY resources into creating something, then it's MY creation and I want to keep it then I can, because it's MINE.
Sorry, but it just boils my p**s that everyone these days just thinks they have a God*-given right for unfettered access to anything they like for free,
* other deities may be available
^^^ This is what is wrong with people. Greed. MY MY MY MY MINE noticed the capitalized words are just missing PRECIOUS.
Never quite understood this whole 'privacy of license plates' thing. If I look out the window right now I can see a dozen+ license plates. If I went for a walk I'd see hundreds. How is it private if there are two of them on every car for everyone to see?
It's not about making license plates more private, it's about limiting the places one can find instances of the plate. I wouldn't want someone to know that I was located somewhere at a certain time for whatever reason. What if I park somewhere and the guy that parks in the spot next to me does something stupid that warrants one of these images to be sent to the police department and my car happens to be visible in the picture?
I just dislike databases upon databases of our information that we can't control.
The only way to solve your paranoia is to take public transportation. The chances that someone might take a picture that has your car in it is very good these days. Probably still slim it will happen, but since most everyone has a camera on their cell phone, yes, the chances are greater.
But lets be real. No one gives a fuck about you, no one cares where you are at, and if they did, they wouldn't need random strangers to post pics of your car online, they'd just have someone following you.
Although I think that people doing interesting stuff getting double the attention because they're female, is a weird kind of inverted sexism.
It would be a travesty if women were put off innovating like this and following their technical passions, because of arguably-sexist backhanded putdowns, or neckbeards slobbering all over them merely because they're female.
You sound jealous.
They just haven't been forgotten yet.
Well, zombies were all the rage a few years ago, so it would make sense that MS is going zombie after everyone else...
Nintendo's problem is and always has been they put the bare minimum spec hardware in their devices, make a big fanfare of some gimmick, charge an arm and a leg for it and hope they can coast far enough for the next gimmick to show up. ...
Actually, you are very wrong. Nintendo put out a bunch of successful consoles, without gimmicks for decades. NES, SNES, Gameboy, N64, Gameboy Advance, Gamecube, Nintendo DS. During that time only 1 gimmicky item, the Virtual Boy. I wouldn't call most of those consoles bare minimum hardware specs either.
The Wii was the first "real" console with a gimmick, the wiimote. And underpowered hardware. And it did well. And Nintendo has been behind the curve since then.
IMO, Nintendo needs to get back to it's roots. A lot of it's fan base is older now. We don't want to jump around, or wave our arms to play games. We want to use a controller and have fun. We got big TV's that can really support 4 way and 2 way gaming at the same time. So you know, our kids (not that I have any) can play with us, and have fun with us.
And I'm going to keep saying this, where the fuck is my Pokemon MMORPG? The fact that there hasn't been one only shows how Nintendo doesn't understand the gaming market anymore (IMO).
Just because you're in an airport doesn't mean you're getting on a plane.
Ya, I was using the airport for free wifi, but now I'm going to reconsider...
What I find even more funny is that so may self-righteous Protestants will disparage the Mormon church on the basis of it's peculiar origins and unorthodox scripture but fail to recognize that in 2000 years time the book of Mormon will be as "proven" a text as the gospels are within their clade today.
I doubt it. In fact, the Mormon religion is the prime example why religious people should be killed. Here you have an offshoot of another religion, based on "texts" that only the founder could read/interpret. And oddly enough, a bunch of what he "translated" made life better for him. Only stupid people who can believe in "faith" falls for this crap. Anyone with half a brain sees it for what it is.
Which is the problem with religions, they require that you can't actually think for yourself.
The alternative could be assassination, and I don't mean by the USA. There are many groups active in Russia who would kill Snowden simply to make the USA look bad (if he dies, regardless of the circumstances, most people will assume he was killed by the US). Returning to the US would alleviate living under that kind of fear (assuming he recognizes it).
What groups?
This is a surprise? Why?
All nations with the resources do it for their National security - especially, if it means the difference between another nation gaining a technological edge or being able to cripple your own ability to defend yourself.
One of the best known examples? Read up on how the Soviets copied the B-29 to create the TU-4 - rivet for rivet. Very interesting how it was done.
The French have made it illegal to encrypt communications by companies operating within their borders. Makes the collection process all the much easier as there is no expectation of privacy.
How about the countries that are producing "brand" or cutting-edge drugs without recognizing the patents (nor paying subsequent royalties) owned the pharmaceutical companies in the interest of "National Security" or health?
To say this is a US only problem is simply naive.
Wow, using France as a comparison. You couldn't use a real country that anyone actually cares about?
These people are dangerous radicals if not in action then in concept. Their way of thinking... entitlement... and presumptions are dangerous.
We have people in SF that feel they're entitled to stop traffic to promote bicycles with some frequency. We have people that feel they're entitled to pour sugar in the tanks of industrial machinery for pretty much any construction project.
There is a strain of radical leftism in the SF area that really needs to get its public respect pulled. I am not saying pass a law. I am not saying persecute these people with government power. Rather, I am saying that they depend on a basic level on our acceptance of their behavior and we don't have to accept it.
Their actions are not respectable. It really should stop. Stop granting them respect for their behavior. Its unacceptable.
I don't agree. They are protesting what they think is unfair. How do you protest stuff you think is unfair, bitch about it on forums?
... Or are they able to avoid sale taxes on those groceries?
If they live in Washington State, then yes, they are able to avoid sales tax on groceries (like everyone else who lives here).
You may have forgotten how the first edition did have spec for all the major devils and demons.
That's what freaked out short-sighted people. To them, it wasn't about how you were going to kick demon/devil butt, as much as the horror of seeing kids throwing scary names around.
When Harry Potter came out, an otherwise very smart engineer, who spent too much time in church, told me that they had a discussion about the books and their influence on children. They had a witchcraft specialist (I think he said a witch) comment on how the spells JKR wrote down were too close to the real magic and children shouldn't be familiar with them or run around casting them at each other.
I honestly wish I was making this up.
So yeah, the bad rep of the game was because some people get scared at the mere mention of some dark elements of their religious mythos.
Ya, I was given a D&D set when I was like 13 back in the 80's and got it taken away when the church told my parents it was "of the devil".
Oddly enough, a couple years later I got a nice new wave hair cut with a tail, and my step mom cut off the tail because it was "of the devil".
I like this devil dude, he sounds like my kind of guy.
I did fuck some of my female players.
Wait... Were you on one of those "only men allowed" RPG groups?
Yes, i was. I'm glad to hear you got lucky at your Tranny RPG group.
You are aware that the "carrots help you see in the dark" thing was a lie the Brits told to try to cover the fact that they had radar? As far as I'm aware there's zero evidence whatsoever that carrots or any nutrient in them does a damned thing for your eyes.
Carrots don't help you see in the dark, but they can prevent you going blind
http://www.blindness.org/index...
http://www.goldenrice.org/Cont...
That's why I masturbate using carrots. Don't want to go blind!
And eating heavily processed sludge will be better for you?
You think you could wait until we get some evidence before you frame it as "sludge"?
We are supposed to be scientists, aren't we?
While I'm sure there are scientists here at slashdot, we are more programming/computer geeks then probably anything else. I would guess we have more shills here then real scientist also. So I'm thinking you don't realize what website you are posting on...
So, he's an even bigger nitwit: knowing it already means one thing, he appropriates it to mean another.
So he's just like the corporation's out there? Remember when Unlimited meant Unlimited? I do. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss the 90's now...
It reminds me of something you'd see in a 70's or early 80's British scifi TV show, like Doctor Who or Blake's 7. Some sort of plexiglass being used as a monitor.
Well, I never did play Pokémon, but I have to ask: does one ever really outgrow Zelda? Maybe the new games don't do it for you, but don't you ever find yourself wanting to play Ocarina again?
I outgrew the Zelda games when I had to wave the stupid wiimote around like i was on crack.
I'm going to bet that the Google Glass would drain the battery trying to record a 2 hour movie.
Nintendo has a kill app waiting to be made and it's called Pokemon MMORPG.
I would of been more impressed if she used the google glasses to prove she wasn't speeding.
Right, because the guy should have remembered being taught it before he was born rather than so late in the game as when he was a child.
If only we had places where information could be stored and searched so people who think they've figured out something new can actually look to see if it's new.
Wow, you know the article is full of shit when you come across "cloud based world wide web".
So let me guess. The robots have their own server where they can share info. So the cloud because a database on a server and the world wide web is actually just a database where they share info.
Guess the buzzwords do sound better.
I like how they say it can save computing power & battery life for the robots. Though I'm wondering, if a robot is just working 1 house, taking care of some old person, does it need to query the database (oops, i mean cloud) for the room dimensions, or is it smart enough to keep the info about the house it's currently in it's memory?
Of course, lets say the robot records the layout of the house, uploads it to the cloud. What is to keep another robot or even human from using this information to rob anyone? Seems to me like you have a great collection of information on people, places, schedules, etc that can be put to really bad use from the government, crooks and corporations.
According to TFA, a tiny transceiver can be built into the plastic plug base of a USB cord. Of course, one has not been spotted in the wild, but it sounds theoretically possible.
This is possible: http://bgr.com/2014/01/07/intel-edison-sd-card-computer/
So logically, something a little bit less complicated, but using the similar small chips can easily be hidden. Put it in the right place, no one would notice.