If there's one area where I think Eminent Domain applies, it is to this sort of "property." If the pharmaceutacals "own" a cancer drug, an AIDS drug, a heart valve palsy drug, then fucking TAKE it from them and give it to the world. If they have to be compensated under eminent domain laws, then give them a twenty year extension on their stupid penis pills, their fat-buster pills, or their toenail fungus cures. If they can do it with your house to make a bypass, then they should be able to do it with something that will really benefit society.
Everyone thinks that transparent displays are a really cool idea until they try to actually look at one in uncontrolled lighting situations. Minority Report displays weren't real, folks, and the special effects crew could ignore physics to make it happen. The key to being able to see things is contrast. If this thing isn't actively both shadowing and emitting, the display will be totally useless in light areas or dark areas or both.
Finally, there won't be any more error messages when Joe CEO sends that funny PowerPoint with the Aflack duck stealing money out of the lady's purse, the photo of the lady's car precariously "parked" between the marina and a yacht, and a movie clip copy of the FedEx caveman commercial. Isn't progress wonderful?
While you're technically right, anything in the mainstream press which simply associates DRM with BAD is fine in my book. The rootkit is just one form of DRM, and that form is demonstrably worse than others, but a huge majority of people can't distinguish levels of badness. Since R in DRM is also about my rights, not just theirs, I think that the elected legislature and appointed independent courts should be the arbiters, not corporations. This is another part of what comes from treating the customer as a consumer.
If you see a monster, throw the Wiimote directly at the monster. Depending on your aim, the monster will die in a shower of bright sparks and crackly noises, or the monster will hurl various objects back at you such as books, chunks of plaster, ceiling fan blades, or your little brother's eyeball.
The term 'effective' in this situation does not mean what Webster says it means. Its legal usage is different from its street usage. To us, 'effective' means it can do the job, but if it can be cracked and lawsuits ensue, it wasn't effective, was it? To a lawyer, 'effective' means you took documented steps to effect it (not affect it): we're discussing a silly example but if you can prove that you actually ran cat myfile | rot13 | rot13 > myfile.txt, then you would be a protected rights holder under the DMCA.
Under what authority can the US Mint create new law? The US Mint, the Secret Service and the Treasury are all in the enforcement, not the legislative branch.
Some AC said it was illegal to mutilate or deface paper money. Uh, no, it's not. It's also not illegal to cut up a US coin in some artistic fashion and sell it for a higher amount; this is done all the time. In terms of defacement, you can't stick a picture of Kennedy on a quarter and try to redeem it as a half-dollar, and the same goes for gluing a "20" on the corner of a one-dollar bill. That's simple fraud, in this case called counterfeiting.
This shouldn't be a part of the core kernel code. However, the companies providing commercial support may, of course, include such a restriction in their kernels. This would just be a step further from "we don't support your kernel if it is flagged as tainted." The user can remove them if they want, with the same consequences as removing those foil "WARRANTY VOID" stickers hiding the screw holes on electronics devices.
First, the original shipment of Windows 95 did not contain anything related to ftp, http or smtp.
Let's just take email as an example. Since the late 80s at least, every single person at Microsoft had an email address which was accessible globally by the Internet. Mine was edh@microsoft.com for example. It was touted as THE next thing in business, the thing that Microsoft *knew* had the power to reinvent business communication.
Microsoft had a group turning the internal Windows 2.x and Xenix tools for handling email into a full-fledged email juggernaut. They over-engineered and under-performed with OLE but didn't offer anything email related in Windows 3.1 (no TCP/IP stack), Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (win32s winsock), Windows 95 (win32 winsock). They finally came out with something to let their customers play with email in 1996 or so, which was what, a decade after they knew what email was?
Fast forward a mere three years later, and Netscape had products that offered everything Microsoft hadn't been offering, yet was on the ropes thanks not to technical capability, but to OEM per-CPU deals.
Um, the term "Open Source" was in use in the business information and intelligence communities for a long time before someone decided to use it for computer source code and all-around informatic hippy-ness. Anything that's known on the street, published in a newspaper or magazine, is open sourced; this is the opposite condition of something which is secret or privileged. And by the way, who the hell made you the language police?
I say this with experience: this is what Microsoft has pretty much *always* been, by design. Except for the guy with the lousy haircut, Microsoft intentionally divided into business units that were to behave as independent "companies." Each had their own vision, their own agenda, their own tactics on how to get there. Just trying to get an App's new feature melted into the System side of the house for anyone to use... it was like murder. Nevermind a Systems guy telling the Apps folks why they shouldn't rely on the broken older features like metafiles. And then as the antitrust issues were creeping in, everyone saw this Chinese Wall between the Apps and Systems divisions as a *good* thing. Of course, that meant that they couldn't turn and leverage new trends like modems and ftp and this newfangled http thing, but they figured that once it became ubiquitous, everyone would just naturally buy Microsoft products on inertia alone. We see how that's worked out...
Sadly, although Arecibo Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico does a lot of "space weather" kinds of analysis, its funding is in danger of being reduced to begin paying for other observational projects that are still in development. I just visited ARO last week, it's mindboggling to look at the spherical primary reflector which covers nearly twenty acres of land, and to think it might be mothballed in the near future, just as people realize the importance of space weather in their daily lives.
Funny, when I heard "small animal," I assumed something on the order of protozoa and bacteria. Something down where it's a little harder to discern from plantlife and viruses, unless you refamiliarize yourself with the actual criteria for the animal kingdom.
"Animals are a major group of organisms, classified as the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. In general they are multicellular, capable of locomotion and responsive to their environment, and feed by consuming other organisms. Their body plan becomes fixed as they develop, usually early on in their development as embryos, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on. Biologically, human beings fall under the animal kingdom."
Check out the early Isuzu videos-- not the "Joe Isuzu" ones but the European stunt-driving series. Pretty nifty tricks with camera work, special mods and tightly synchronized timing. I wouldn't mind driving over Joe Isuzu though.
No doubt. The United Nuclear company is great, and this isn't the first time that fearmongering affects their very small and valuable business. That, and clueless frat boys who order the largest magnets they can find, just because it's fun to buy objects which have warnings with phrases like "serious injury will occur if you just carry this magnet through a room without planning your route carefully." Science is already being dumbed down by the nanny state; it's the reason that Mr. Wizard didn't endorse a modern update to his old chemistry sets. Timmy doesn't want to see what happens when boring baking soda mixes with boring tap water, but the school gets in trouble for anything more exotic and meaningful.
Does anyone have a link to that study where people were asked to press a button to "electrocute" other people, and how many were willing to do it as long as they were told by an authority figure it was ok? Were there also results regarding whether or not the subject could see the person being "electrocuted?"
No, but that's one of the best episodes of the original Twilight Zone... guy going around door-to-door, with a mysterious box and a dilemma: will you, miss, push the button, with the understanding that someone you don't know will die? She struggles through the idea until she gives in to her curiosity. Nothing appears to happen. Then he packs it up, and assures her that he's off to see someone else, someone who doesn't know her.
Like you, some of my first lessons in intellectual property considerations came from LEGO(tm) Brick toys. This is over thirty years ago. "Dad, what's that 'PATENT' or 'PAT PEND' stamp that I find hidden inside each brick?" Every set came with a pamplet that reminded folks about the proper trademark usage, "LEGO Brick" not "Legos," along with the possibly-fictitous contact name of Susan Williams for customer services in the USA. If they don't make a visible motion to attempt to enforce their trademark, they feel a legal risk of losing trademark protection status. It's the nature of the beast.
However, even if I'm a fan of LEGO, even if I think that Mega-Blox are plastic turds compared to the One True Brick, I do not feel obligated to become a part of LEGO Inc.'s trademark enforcement responsibilities. If *I* want to say "Legos", I don't feel guilty saying it. If I see other people saying "Legos", I don't feel obligated to deputize myself and serve legal papers on the errant kid or parent. Let it go, man. Play good.
The French have not settled on a Linux distribution yet.
Translation: We want to see what Microsoft's counteroffer will be; if it's too low, we'll state we're picking Ubuntu, and if Microsoft still hasn't given a huge keep-me deal, we'll say we probably want Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
If they routinely break phone features like user-mp3 so they can charge money for crappy ringtones, what kind of charge would there be for downloading a whole video? When I got my phone last year, even the little "wallpaper" background images were for-pay, and if you switched from image A to image B to image A, you'd have to buy image A twice! Who in their right minds would pay-per-view for 92x64 bitmaps?
As has been mentioned before, to legislators and industrialists, "online gaming" is part of the much older "gaming industry," which is the politically correct word for gambling. This article refers to "online computer games" which has an entirely different stigma involved. You have to speak with policymakers clearly, so they don't confuse tempt-husbands-to-wickedness gambling and train-kids-to-shoot-up-schools computer games.
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If there's one area where I think Eminent Domain applies, it is to this sort of "property." If the pharmaceutacals "own" a cancer drug, an AIDS drug, a heart valve palsy drug, then fucking TAKE it from them and give it to the world. If they have to be compensated under eminent domain laws, then give them a twenty year extension on their stupid penis pills, their fat-buster pills, or their toenail fungus cures. If they can do it with your house to make a bypass, then they should be able to do it with something that will really benefit society.
Everyone thinks that transparent displays are a really cool idea until they try to actually look at one in uncontrolled lighting situations. Minority Report displays weren't real, folks, and the special effects crew could ignore physics to make it happen. The key to being able to see things is contrast. If this thing isn't actively both shadowing and emitting, the display will be totally useless in light areas or dark areas or both.
Like a college course? WD201? It's just like ESR to post something so sophomoric as this.
Exoskeleton loaders are also in Matrix II and III.
Finally, there won't be any more error messages when Joe CEO sends that funny PowerPoint with the Aflack duck stealing money out of the lady's purse, the photo of the lady's car precariously "parked" between the marina and a yacht, and a movie clip copy of the FedEx caveman commercial. Isn't progress wonderful?
While you're technically right, anything in the mainstream press which simply associates DRM with BAD is fine in my book. The rootkit is just one form of DRM, and that form is demonstrably worse than others, but a huge majority of people can't distinguish levels of badness. Since R in DRM is also about my rights, not just theirs, I think that the elected legislature and appointed independent courts should be the arbiters, not corporations. This is another part of what comes from treating the customer as a consumer.
I thought the Wiimote worked like this:
If you see a monster, throw the Wiimote directly at the monster. Depending on your aim, the monster will die in a shower of bright sparks and crackly noises, or the monster will hurl various objects back at you such as books, chunks of plaster, ceiling fan blades, or your little brother's eyeball.
The term 'effective' in this situation does not mean what Webster says it means. Its legal usage is different from its street usage. To us, 'effective' means it can do the job, but if it can be cracked and lawsuits ensue, it wasn't effective, was it? To a lawyer, 'effective' means you took documented steps to effect it (not affect it): we're discussing a silly example but if you can prove that you actually ran cat myfile | rot13 | rot13 > myfile.txt , then you would be a protected rights holder under the DMCA.
Under what authority can the US Mint create new law? The US Mint, the Secret Service and the Treasury are all in the enforcement, not the legislative branch.
Some AC said it was illegal to mutilate or deface paper money. Uh, no, it's not. It's also not illegal to cut up a US coin in some artistic fashion and sell it for a higher amount; this is done all the time. In terms of defacement, you can't stick a picture of Kennedy on a quarter and try to redeem it as a half-dollar, and the same goes for gluing a "20" on the corner of a one-dollar bill. That's simple fraud, in this case called counterfeiting.
This shouldn't be a part of the core kernel code. However, the companies providing commercial support may, of course, include such a restriction in their kernels. This would just be a step further from "we don't support your kernel if it is flagged as tainted." The user can remove them if they want, with the same consequences as removing those foil "WARRANTY VOID" stickers hiding the screw holes on electronics devices.
First, the original shipment of Windows 95 did not contain anything related to ftp, http or smtp.
Let's just take email as an example. Since the late 80s at least, every single person at Microsoft had an email address which was accessible globally by the Internet. Mine was edh@microsoft.com for example. It was touted as THE next thing in business, the thing that Microsoft *knew* had the power to reinvent business communication.
Microsoft had a group turning the internal Windows 2.x and Xenix tools for handling email into a full-fledged email juggernaut. They over-engineered and under-performed with OLE but didn't offer anything email related in Windows 3.1 (no TCP/IP stack), Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (win32s winsock), Windows 95 (win32 winsock). They finally came out with something to let their customers play with email in 1996 or so, which was what, a decade after they knew what email was?
Fast forward a mere three years later, and Netscape had products that offered everything Microsoft hadn't been offering, yet was on the ropes thanks not to technical capability, but to OEM per-CPU deals.
CTCP is also a portion of the core IRC protocol, which was a goofy way to extend command set.
Um, the term "Open Source" was in use in the business information and intelligence communities for a long time before someone decided to use it for computer source code and all-around informatic hippy-ness. Anything that's known on the street, published in a newspaper or magazine, is open sourced; this is the opposite condition of something which is secret or privileged. And by the way, who the hell made you the language police?
I say this with experience: this is what Microsoft has pretty much *always* been, by design. Except for the guy with the lousy haircut, Microsoft intentionally divided into business units that were to behave as independent "companies." Each had their own vision, their own agenda, their own tactics on how to get there. Just trying to get an App's new feature melted into the System side of the house for anyone to use... it was like murder. Nevermind a Systems guy telling the Apps folks why they shouldn't rely on the broken older features like metafiles. And then as the antitrust issues were creeping in, everyone saw this Chinese Wall between the Apps and Systems divisions as a *good* thing. Of course, that meant that they couldn't turn and leverage new trends like modems and ftp and this newfangled http thing, but they figured that once it became ubiquitous, everyone would just naturally buy Microsoft products on inertia alone. We see how that's worked out...
Sadly, although Arecibo Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico does a lot of "space weather" kinds of analysis, its funding is in danger of being reduced to begin paying for other observational projects that are still in development. I just visited ARO last week, it's mindboggling to look at the spherical primary reflector which covers nearly twenty acres of land, and to think it might be mothballed in the near future, just as people realize the importance of space weather in their daily lives.
Funny, when I heard "small animal," I assumed something on the order of protozoa and bacteria. Something down where it's a little harder to discern from plantlife and viruses, unless you refamiliarize yourself with the actual criteria for the animal kingdom.
"Animals are a major group of organisms, classified as the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. In general they are multicellular, capable of locomotion and responsive to their environment, and feed by consuming other organisms. Their body plan becomes fixed as they develop, usually early on in their development as embryos, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on. Biologically, human beings fall under the animal kingdom."
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnimalCheck out the early Isuzu videos-- not the "Joe Isuzu" ones but the European stunt-driving series. Pretty nifty tricks with camera work, special mods and tightly synchronized timing. I wouldn't mind driving over Joe Isuzu though.
No doubt. The United Nuclear company is great, and this isn't the first time that fearmongering affects their very small and valuable business. That, and clueless frat boys who order the largest magnets they can find, just because it's fun to buy objects which have warnings with phrases like "serious injury will occur if you just carry this magnet through a room without planning your route carefully." Science is already being dumbed down by the nanny state; it's the reason that Mr. Wizard didn't endorse a modern update to his old chemistry sets. Timmy doesn't want to see what happens when boring baking soda mixes with boring tap water, but the school gets in trouble for anything more exotic and meaningful.
The 1980s called. They want their 'hacker' vs 'cracker' argument back.
No, but that's one of the best episodes of the original Twilight Zone... guy going around door-to-door, with a mysterious box and a dilemma: will you, miss, push the button, with the understanding that someone you don't know will die? She struggles through the idea until she gives in to her curiosity. Nothing appears to happen. Then he packs it up, and assures her that he's off to see someone else, someone who doesn't know her.
Like you, some of my first lessons in intellectual property considerations came from LEGO(tm) Brick toys. This is over thirty years ago. "Dad, what's that 'PATENT' or 'PAT PEND' stamp that I find hidden inside each brick?" Every set came with a pamplet that reminded folks about the proper trademark usage, "LEGO Brick" not "Legos," along with the possibly-fictitous contact name of Susan Williams for customer services in the USA. If they don't make a visible motion to attempt to enforce their trademark, they feel a legal risk of losing trademark protection status. It's the nature of the beast.
However, even if I'm a fan of LEGO, even if I think that Mega-Blox are plastic turds compared to the One True Brick, I do not feel obligated to become a part of LEGO Inc.'s trademark enforcement responsibilities. If *I* want to say "Legos", I don't feel guilty saying it. If I see other people saying "Legos", I don't feel obligated to deputize myself and serve legal papers on the errant kid or parent. Let it go, man. Play good.
The French have not settled on a Linux distribution yet.
Translation: We want to see what Microsoft's counteroffer will be; if it's too low, we'll state we're picking Ubuntu, and if Microsoft still hasn't given a huge keep-me deal, we'll say we probably want Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Meanwhile, maintaining an upright position is still the recommended posture when asking people if they "want fries with that."
Verizon?
If they routinely break phone features like user-mp3 so they can charge money for crappy ringtones, what kind of charge would there be for downloading a whole video? When I got my phone last year, even the little "wallpaper" background images were for-pay, and if you switched from image A to image B to image A, you'd have to buy image A twice! Who in their right minds would pay-per-view for 92x64 bitmaps?
As has been mentioned before, to legislators and industrialists, "online gaming" is part of the much older "gaming industry," which is the politically correct word for gambling. This article refers to "online computer games" which has an entirely different stigma involved. You have to speak with policymakers clearly, so they don't confuse tempt-husbands-to-wickedness gambling and train-kids-to-shoot-up-schools computer games.