While I fully understand and agree with most of your points, you aren't addressing my argument, here.
Sure, copyright infringement could lead to people producing less of that medium. Or it could lead to an adjustment of the pricing mechanism or content delivery, so that there's more effort required to infringe than to consume legally (Netflix is a great example of this).
But copyright infringement is not theft, you are not physically removing something from someone's possession. They still have it; now, you just have it too.
Copyright infringement is not theft, nor is it "theft of potential", it's simply copyright infringement.
Just as a side note, I pay for everything I consume. I can afford to, and there are enough convenient delivery mechanisms to make it worth the payment.
Where's the theft?
If I steal your car, you no longer have the car. If I copy your album, don't you still have the album?
I hate how people paint copyright infringement as theft. I'm not making a moral judgement here, but call an apple an apple.
I don't know anything about living situations in space, but I can't imagine there would be a great deal of privacy. Maybe this is an elegant solution for people who need a degree of solitude, and might broaden the selection criteria for the space program?
Honestly, I think the whole point of Slashdot is to incite discussion. You get a lot of interesting insights from discussion topics that are only tangentially related to the opening post.
As a nerd who cares about stuff that matters, I'm personally not averse to articles like this appearing in the feed because half the time, there are cool little tidbits from readers buried in the comments.
Due to their impeccable, undying engines and shitty, vulnerable software, the cars will be hacked, modified and adopted by various militant groups and warlords around the world.
Sometimes I think caffeine is the only thing that lets me survive the office with my dignity and sanity intact.
Count yourself lucky, along with the other 95% of humanity that just gets a nice "pick me up" from caffeine. Unfortunately, I'm part of the estimated 5% of humanity that has adverse affects from any caffeine and is hypersensitive to it. Specifically, I get quite anxious when I drink ANY caffeine. For the longest time I didn't know what was wrong with me. After doing some self psychology observation, various experiments on myself (i.e. how do I react to one 20 oz soda a day...how do I react to two...how do I react to no soda, etc), I found out that I get quite anxious after ingesting any caffeine. So I had to go "cold turkey" on it, which was not easy. You find out just how addicting caffeine really is when you need to get off of it. Luckily, I finally got off of it and it's made quite a difference in my life. Like I said, for most of humanity, caffeine is quite harmless and a nice "pick me up" drug. But for a small subset of humanity, we can't have it. I just wish they could find us hypersensitive people before it really screws with our lives.
Gordon
That's quite interesting. I wonder how many people who experience some form of anxiety are unwittingly exacerbating their problem with caffeine intake.
You're making me want to temporarily sacrifice my sanity and dignity to see if I experience any positive affects from removing coffee from my diet!
Have you found a substitute? Do you even need one anymore?
I have a pet conspiracy theory that the political and business elite in the western world (okay, fine, the United States) engages in activities to keep its population intellectually sedate through its entertainment industry and overly calorie-ridden food (do you really need HFCS in your bread?).
When people get fat and lazy and distracted, they stop caring about things that require effort of thought and people in power can get away with whatever they want.
The finest trick of the terrorist is to persuade you to fear him.
When you have angry, disaffected young men who feel slighted by society/parents/whatever, they'll gravitate to anti-authoritarian entities. Usually these are individuals or groups that cause a lot of angst for people in power, and the knee-jerk reaction of the powerful is to speak out against them. This is the same as lavishing attention upon these groups, and makes them even more attractive to the disaffected.
I think the media probably needs to reassess the way in which it reports on extremist groups and terrorist events. It'll probably have knock on effects for the rest of the "propaganda war".
After all, the madman on the soapbox leaves when he realises there's nobody hanging around to listen.
So the guy's carrying a gun in a way that a kid notices, gets attention for it, and then creates this weapon so he won't feel awkward???
Rather than coming up with something that people will most definitely abuse, perhaps he should figure out a better way to conceal his lethal weapons. If he absolutely must carry them.
It's funny, I've been reading Foundation by Isaac Asimov for the first time, and it's helping me to understand why intelligent people might vote for our orange friend.
I'm holding out for Elon Musk's satellite internet. Broadband here in Australia is Cretaceous, and what passes for government seems incapable of delivering a better solution.
Banning computer games will put a stop to the legal development of games pretty quickly. So you'll see all the major gaming companies throw in the towel, and the only games that will be viable would be the indie ones. So you'll see a marked drop in production values, and as a result, a drop in the number of gamers.
But I'm all for gameplay over graphics, so maybe a ban might be a good idea?
I love it when something bad happens and people just look around for someone or something to pin the blame on. And when they find that something, they waste resources, time and lives in combating this something.
Who makes these violent games? Game developers! They're corrupting the good people, sowing seeds of evil throughout society! We must tie game developers at the stake, and set them alight. If they burn, they're guilty but if they emerge from the flames unharmed, God has shown us they are righteous!
Some people have mental problems (and some of these mental problems are socially acceptable), and then go and kill someone. It's a fact of life.
I wonder what happens if someone walks between the player and the TV/console... or even if you scratch a random body part without thinking. And unlike the Wiimote, it'd probably only be useful for some games (dance games come to mind).
The Wii actually has the tactile feature, so if you're playing golf, you're actually holding onto a stick. What about this 3DV thing? You hold onto nothing? You hold onto anything that's vaguely stick shaped?
And what about action/adventure games? How are they going to incorporate the whole run&gun thing?
Questions, questions...
Slashdot Mirror
It's comparing Netflix USA and Comcast.
Around the world, Netflix has over 75 million subscribers, and it's only growing.
As a non-American who often hears of Comcast related issues, I hope Netflix paves the way for better competition and service in the US.
Where's the theft? If I steal your car, you no longer have the car. If I copy your album, don't you still have the album?
Also, if I screw your wife, you still have a wife.
...yes...? So what's your point, exactly?
Saying something designed to be inflammatory =/= providing a counter-argument.
While I fully understand and agree with most of your points, you aren't addressing my argument, here.
Sure, copyright infringement could lead to people producing less of that medium. Or it could lead to an adjustment of the pricing mechanism or content delivery, so that there's more effort required to infringe than to consume legally (Netflix is a great example of this).
But copyright infringement is not theft, you are not physically removing something from someone's possession. They still have it; now, you just have it too.
Copyright infringement is not theft, nor is it "theft of potential", it's simply copyright infringement.
Just as a side note, I pay for everything I consume. I can afford to, and there are enough convenient delivery mechanisms to make it worth the payment.
Where's the theft? If I steal your car, you no longer have the car. If I copy your album, don't you still have the album? I hate how people paint copyright infringement as theft. I'm not making a moral judgement here, but call an apple an apple.
It's a sly scheme to improve Bitcoin uptake.
It won't be long til we see PRINCE2 for Cybercrime, with strong focus on ITIL methodologies.
Only PM professionals with 5+ years experience in cybercrime need apply.
Is this ransomware named after the antagonist in the movie "Saw"?
If so, maybe we're seeing a new trend of naming viruses after movie villains, and they might even share some characteristics!
I'm hanging out for the Mugatu virus.
I don't know anything about living situations in space, but I can't imagine there would be a great deal of privacy. Maybe this is an elegant solution for people who need a degree of solitude, and might broaden the selection criteria for the space program?
Maybe they should just build a big wall.
Honestly, I think the whole point of Slashdot is to incite discussion. You get a lot of interesting insights from discussion topics that are only tangentially related to the opening post. As a nerd who cares about stuff that matters, I'm personally not averse to articles like this appearing in the feed because half the time, there are cool little tidbits from readers buried in the comments.
Would a successful xenotransplant result in a xenomorph?
So the FBI must see itself as Moses!
Due to their impeccable, undying engines and shitty, vulnerable software, the cars will be hacked, modified and adopted by various militant groups and warlords around the world.
Wonder what we'll have (or stuff in our trouser pocket) 20 years hence?
You might want to stay away from tomatoes and cheese then!
Sometimes I think caffeine is the only thing that lets me survive the office with my dignity and sanity intact.
Count yourself lucky, along with the other 95% of humanity that just gets a nice "pick me up" from caffeine. Unfortunately, I'm part of the estimated 5% of humanity that has adverse affects from any caffeine and is hypersensitive to it. Specifically, I get quite anxious when I drink ANY caffeine. For the longest time I didn't know what was wrong with me. After doing some self psychology observation, various experiments on myself (i.e. how do I react to one 20 oz soda a day...how do I react to two...how do I react to no soda, etc), I found out that I get quite anxious after ingesting any caffeine. So I had to go "cold turkey" on it, which was not easy. You find out just how addicting caffeine really is when you need to get off of it. Luckily, I finally got off of it and it's made quite a difference in my life. Like I said, for most of humanity, caffeine is quite harmless and a nice "pick me up" drug. But for a small subset of humanity, we can't have it. I just wish they could find us hypersensitive people before it really screws with our lives.
Gordon
That's quite interesting. I wonder how many people who experience some form of anxiety are unwittingly exacerbating their problem with caffeine intake.
You're making me want to temporarily sacrifice my sanity and dignity to see if I experience any positive affects from removing coffee from my diet!
Have you found a substitute? Do you even need one anymore?
So bee worker bees are addicted to caffeine in just the same way as human worker bees?
I'm not surprised. Sometimes I think caffeine is the only thing that lets me survive the office with my dignity and sanity intact.
I have a pet conspiracy theory that the political and business elite in the western world (okay, fine, the United States) engages in activities to keep its population intellectually sedate through its entertainment industry and overly calorie-ridden food (do you really need HFCS in your bread?).
When people get fat and lazy and distracted, they stop caring about things that require effort of thought and people in power can get away with whatever they want.
The finest trick of the terrorist is to persuade you to fear him.
When you have angry, disaffected young men who feel slighted by society/parents/whatever, they'll gravitate to anti-authoritarian entities. Usually these are individuals or groups that cause a lot of angst for people in power, and the knee-jerk reaction of the powerful is to speak out against them. This is the same as lavishing attention upon these groups, and makes them even more attractive to the disaffected.
I think the media probably needs to reassess the way in which it reports on extremist groups and terrorist events. It'll probably have knock on effects for the rest of the "propaganda war".
After all, the madman on the soapbox leaves when he realises there's nobody hanging around to listen.
So the guy's carrying a gun in a way that a kid notices, gets attention for it, and then creates this weapon so he won't feel awkward??? Rather than coming up with something that people will most definitely abuse, perhaps he should figure out a better way to conceal his lethal weapons. If he absolutely must carry them.
It's funny, I've been reading Foundation by Isaac Asimov for the first time, and it's helping me to understand why intelligent people might vote for our orange friend.
I'm holding out for Elon Musk's satellite internet. Broadband here in Australia is Cretaceous, and what passes for government seems incapable of delivering a better solution.
Banning computer games will put a stop to the legal development of games pretty quickly. So you'll see all the major gaming companies throw in the towel, and the only games that will be viable would be the indie ones. So you'll see a marked drop in production values, and as a result, a drop in the number of gamers. But I'm all for gameplay over graphics, so maybe a ban might be a good idea?
I love it when something bad happens and people just look around for someone or something to pin the blame on. And when they find that something, they waste resources, time and lives in combating this something. Who makes these violent games? Game developers! They're corrupting the good people, sowing seeds of evil throughout society! We must tie game developers at the stake, and set them alight. If they burn, they're guilty but if they emerge from the flames unharmed, God has shown us they are righteous! Some people have mental problems (and some of these mental problems are socially acceptable), and then go and kill someone. It's a fact of life.
I wonder what happens if someone walks between the player and the TV/console... or even if you scratch a random body part without thinking. And unlike the Wiimote, it'd probably only be useful for some games (dance games come to mind). The Wii actually has the tactile feature, so if you're playing golf, you're actually holding onto a stick. What about this 3DV thing? You hold onto nothing? You hold onto anything that's vaguely stick shaped? And what about action/adventure games? How are they going to incorporate the whole run&gun thing? Questions, questions...