That I consider the government of the United States of America supporting a monopolistic empire on intellectual property to be a "manifest injustice".
That I consider the intimidating tactics of this monopoly, used against those least in a position to defend themselves, with continuingly underhanded, dishonest, and otherwise manipulative tactics in an attempt to create an atmosphere of fear and deceit discouraging of the "theft" of words, of tones, of whispers left upon the wind to be a "manifest injustice".
That I consider the abidance of our elected officials of this monopoly and it's tactics in the hopes of gaining funding and not risking the ill tide of public support to be a "manifest injustice".
That I consider the appointment of federal employees and board members with tangible interests in the preservation of these monopolies and their profitability to roles in which they possess a supervisory power or the ability to further these practices and profitability to be a "manifest injustice".
That I consider the stifling of creative thought and expression and the chilling effect on free speech and free research by means of litigation to be a "manifest injustice".
That I could continue to write additional entries to this list upwards of twenty pages of considerations and opinions against the stupidity of this entire situation to be a "manifest injustice".
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Microsoft won't even follow it's own legalese anymore. That's good to know. Well, hey, good news is, there are shitball lawyers out there that aren't on Microsoft's payroll, perhaps one will bless us with a class-action filing...
Microsoft will split into 20 different seperate corporations, each for a tiny part of the business that Microsoft does daily, and each of them will sue another other for patent infringement.
What a very merry christmas that would be.
*Attorneys getting millions, *Patent reform instantly getting gallons of attention, *The EU being able to smash the pulp of each company for a fraction of the fine, them being too small to withstand intense govermental legal pounding, *States and Feds quickly getting cold feet about the stability of the Windows platform, *Tech stocks going into a brief chaos generating freefall and then building up around Open Source, Apple, and Web 2.0, *Richard Stallman laughing his living ass off, *The MPAA and the RIAA going "Oh Shit!" when PlaysForSure and WMDRM falls under patent litigation and likely makes them litigants by the same logic that SCO can sue random companies using Linux, *The State of Iowa becoming a hero in the 21st century, erecting a giant statue of every AG who helped the motion there and spreading out technical industry aside from being centered mostly in the West Coast and, to a lesser extent, the East Coast. (Sure, that's awesome, but it spreading out would benefit the national economy, even if Silicon Valley isn't the hottest place to say you live in anymore.)
*You took a one-way trip to assist in disaster aid in New Orleans or Thailand in the last two years, not knowing when you would be comfortable with/forced to leave the area. *You enjoy food from the Middle East (they probably have a Middle-Eastern mid-flight meal SOMEWHERE) after trying some at a small suburban restaraunt near your Pakistani coworker. *You paid in cash, since you recently went bankrupt and are moving somewhere that has a lower cost of living. *You refused to show your ID in the airport a few months ago because you packed your wallet in your checked bag by accident (Happened to me, it's tons of fun). *You checked out a book on Islamic extremism for your Current Issues class, for a Debate on the issue, or other such academia.
It's good to know our previous Congress was too busy pissing themselves post-911 to have a clear enough mind to see how freaking WRONG the Patriot Act was, and then kept being embarassed by the stain enough to extend it's duration.
...Make a new grading scale for suntan lotion? I mean, honestly, we've already got Sun Protection Factor, we don't need some retarded system like SenderID... Hell, we don't even need SPF, idiotic parents just can't think of their children and get the thick blue paste that WORKS instead of this new THE PURPLE FADES IN crap.
eDonkey's IP records are useless in any sort of legal action and will be so tainted by random internet traffic such as that generated by SlashDot that I will mock any fool who attempts to use that data in any productive way, targetted advertisement excepted.
On another note, a patch will be made for eDonkey within the day to allow all three people who still want to use the eDonkey network to do so. If there was some indexing server or such shut down by this, a new one will be emulated, and aforementioned patch will redirect queries to aforementioned emulated server.
Grover Venkatasubramaniam. I really like to play with small toy robots in my basement. I call them the Venkatasubramaniamators, and they fight each other up the basement stairs, which I call the Venkatasubramalifters. I also like to make small, tasty pastries (I call them Venkatasubramanies) and make them talk to me, as I'm fairly lonely with a name like Grover Venkatasubramaniam.
Until the Republican-slanted Supreme Court overrules that brave federal judge with a party-line vote, new guy Alito being the tiebreaker. This is a victory, but do not be mistaken, it is a hollow one.
I am perfectly content with the government and it's employees having access to records showing:
Every conversation I have ever taken part in.
Every place I have ever gone.
Every purchase I have ever made.
Every person I have ever talked to.
Every book I have ever read.
Every thought I have ever had.
It is required for the security of America and the World. The only people who resist the adoption of laws to allow the above are the people who have something to hide. Those who have something to hide are terrorists who wish to strip me of my "freedom".
Stupid movies tend to be funny. But they get there a insane director who thinks the movie is brilliant, or crazy script ideas picked at random. Not by intentionally trying to be as stupid as possible and hoping that the audience will like it. I'm going to be modded down. I don't care. I didn't like Napoleon Dynamite.
Without saying anything as to the companies who do this, DRM, etc:
1. It makes everyone get easier and more streamlined access to content by sharing the bandwidth cost across the consumer base; By sacrificing some of your bandwidth, you in turn give whatever big media company is distributing the content less bandwidth needing to be purchased, which results in less overall cost, which results in savings passed to the consumer. 2. Distributed content distribution platforms such as Bittorrent renders those fiber owners who wish to enforce charge-for-priority services completely fucked. If it's all spread out, communicating peer-to-peer instead of peer-to-hub, it gets harder to identify the company behind the traffic so as to extort them... I'm having a hard time describing it correctly. You get the idea.
Mass delinking. Mass throttling. Mass glining and killing. Mass notices of DCC SEND. GNAA denying fault. Bantown claiming fault. The hilarity of not being auto-removed from #wikipedia thanks to a lack of ChanServ. Having up to 20 variations of one persons name. Lilo being killed off with a hilarious message. And the topic wars...
1. Other programmers I know in various fields. I happen to know quite a few. 2. The plethora of content Sun, Java, MySQL, Microsoft, Oracle, and many other high-profile "framework sponsors" push out on various developer networks, such as MSDN, DevZone, OTN... 3. Whatever the hell O'Reilly is making books about. 4. Seminars and conventions, often made/endorsed/branded by computer publishers such as O'Reilly and aforementioned "framework sponsors".
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"Sir, we need to upgrade our infastructure..."
"Why is that, Jenkins?"
"According to a new report, our profitability is directly related to our processing needs, sir."
"Well, I'm not seeing how our needs have increased enough to go over our yearly budget for hardware, Jenkins."
"Sir, having extra processing power will increase our productivity..."
"How's that, Jenkins?"
"Porn."
"Make it so, Number One."
That I consider the government of the United States of America supporting a monopolistic empire on intellectual property to be a "manifest injustice".
That I consider the intimidating tactics of this monopoly, used against those least in a position to defend themselves, with continuingly underhanded, dishonest, and otherwise manipulative tactics in an attempt to create an atmosphere of fear and deceit discouraging of the "theft" of words, of tones, of whispers left upon the wind to be a "manifest injustice".
That I consider the abidance of our elected officials of this monopoly and it's tactics in the hopes of gaining funding and not risking the ill tide of public support to be a "manifest injustice".
That I consider the appointment of federal employees and board members with tangible interests in the preservation of these monopolies and their profitability to roles in which they possess a supervisory power or the ability to further these practices and profitability to be a "manifest injustice".
That I consider the stifling of creative thought and expression and the chilling effect on free speech and free research by means of litigation to be a "manifest injustice".
That I could continue to write additional entries to this list upwards of twenty pages of considerations and opinions against the stupidity of this entire situation to be a "manifest injustice".
Zune terms of service:
==========
14. Content Usage Rules
All music you purchase or acquire on a subscription basis from the Zune Marketplace is subject to this agreement and any other applicable terms and conditions, including limitations imposed by the use of digital rights management (DRM) technology. Content may be used for personal, non-commercial use only.
14.1 Purchased Content Usage Rules. You are authorized to use the content that you purchased from the Zune Marketplace on up to five (5) total authorized computers.
You are entitled to burn purchased content, and playlists containing purchased content, to CD solely for personal, non-commercial use. There is no limit to the number of times you can burn an individual song; however, you may only burn the exact same playlist a maximum of seven (7) times.
==========
Microsoft won't even follow it's own legalese anymore. That's good to know. Well, hey, good news is, there are shitball lawyers out there that aren't on Microsoft's payroll, perhaps one will bless us with a class-action filing...
Microsoft will split into 20 different seperate corporations, each for a tiny part of the business that Microsoft does daily, and each of them will sue another other for patent infringement.
What a very merry christmas that would be.
*Attorneys getting millions,
*Patent reform instantly getting gallons of attention,
*The EU being able to smash the pulp of each company for a fraction of the fine, them being too small to withstand intense govermental legal pounding,
*States and Feds quickly getting cold feet about the stability of the Windows platform,
*Tech stocks going into a brief chaos generating freefall and then building up around Open Source, Apple, and Web 2.0,
*Richard Stallman laughing his living ass off,
*The MPAA and the RIAA going "Oh Shit!" when PlaysForSure and WMDRM falls under patent litigation and likely makes them litigants by the same logic that SCO can sue random companies using Linux,
*The State of Iowa becoming a hero in the 21st century, erecting a giant statue of every AG who helped the motion there and spreading out technical industry aside from being centered mostly in the West Coast and, to a lesser extent, the East Coast. (Sure, that's awesome, but it spreading out would benefit the national economy, even if Silicon Valley isn't the hottest place to say you live in anymore.)
Ah... One can dream...
*You took a one-way trip to assist in disaster aid in New Orleans or Thailand in the last two years, not knowing when you would be comfortable with/forced to leave the area.
*You enjoy food from the Middle East (they probably have a Middle-Eastern mid-flight meal SOMEWHERE) after trying some at a small suburban restaraunt near your Pakistani coworker.
*You paid in cash, since you recently went bankrupt and are moving somewhere that has a lower cost of living.
*You refused to show your ID in the airport a few months ago because you packed your wallet in your checked bag by accident (Happened to me, it's tons of fun).
*You checked out a book on Islamic extremism for your Current Issues class, for a Debate on the issue, or other such academia.
It's good to know our previous Congress was too busy pissing themselves post-911 to have a clear enough mind to see how freaking WRONG the Patriot Act was, and then kept being embarassed by the stain enough to extend it's duration.
CompUSA and Best Buy. Black Friday must be a living nightmare for the half-assed tech staff shopping stores must hire to some extent.
Surprisingly enough, Circuit City loaded perfectly fine. Does this say something about it's popularity, or it's hiring practices for IT?
...Make a new grading scale for suntan lotion? I mean, honestly, we've already got Sun Protection Factor, we don't need some retarded system like SenderID... Hell, we don't even need SPF, idiotic parents just can't think of their children and get the thick blue paste that WORKS instead of this new THE PURPLE FADES IN crap.
Honestly.
It's a cheap, buzzword-riddled, thirity-seven-years-behind ripoff of ARPANET.
Good to know.
You will now waste millions of the dollars of the rich in a fraud of the justice system to make a point.
eDonkey's IP records are useless in any sort of legal action and will be so tainted by random internet traffic such as that generated by SlashDot that I will mock any fool who attempts to use that data in any productive way, targetted advertisement excepted.
On another note, a patch will be made for eDonkey within the day to allow all three people who still want to use the eDonkey network to do so. If there was some indexing server or such shut down by this, a new one will be emulated, and aforementioned patch will redirect queries to aforementioned emulated server.
Grover Venkatasubramaniam. I really like to play with small toy robots in my basement. I call them the Venkatasubramaniamators, and they fight each other up the basement stairs, which I call the Venkatasubramalifters. I also like to make small, tasty pastries (I call them Venkatasubramanies) and make them talk to me, as I'm fairly lonely with a name like Grover Venkatasubramaniam.
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Until the Republican-slanted Supreme Court overrules that brave federal judge with a party-line vote, new guy Alito being the tiebreaker. This is a victory, but do not be mistaken, it is a hollow one.
"Pull a random holiday out of my ass" day!
Considering what a nice leap-forward in tech this is, Ricoh mysteriously says nothing about it in a press release or on another, more reputable site.
- Every conversation I have ever taken part in.
- Every place I have ever gone.
- Every purchase I have ever made.
- Every person I have ever talked to.
- Every book I have ever read.
- Every thought I have ever had.
It is required for the security of America and the World. The only people who resist the adoption of laws to allow the above are the people who have something to hide. Those who have something to hide are terrorists who wish to strip me of my "freedom".On useless, stupid, generic patents which are otherwise covered by prior art and have existed in some incarnation for years.
Of course, then every day would be a slow news day on Slashdot.
It's a bird!
No, it's a plane!
Wait...
It's a slashvertisement!
Stupid movies tend to be funny. But they get there a insane director who thinks the movie is brilliant, or crazy script ideas picked at random. Not by intentionally trying to be as stupid as possible and hoping that the audience will like it. I'm going to be modded down. I don't care. I didn't like Napoleon Dynamite.
Without saying anything as to the companies who do this, DRM, etc:
1. It makes everyone get easier and more streamlined access to content by sharing the bandwidth cost across the consumer base; By sacrificing some of your bandwidth, you in turn give whatever big media company is distributing the content less bandwidth needing to be purchased, which results in less overall cost, which results in savings passed to the consumer.
2. Distributed content distribution platforms such as Bittorrent renders those fiber owners who wish to enforce charge-for-priority services completely fucked. If it's all spread out, communicating peer-to-peer instead of peer-to-hub, it gets harder to identify the company behind the traffic so as to extort them... I'm having a hard time describing it correctly. You get the idea.
Or they might actually be able to enjoy their newfound freedom for the three days until it's plugged and they are subsequently arrested.
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Mass delinking.
Mass throttling.
Mass glining and killing.
Mass notices of DCC SEND.
GNAA denying fault.
Bantown claiming fault.
The hilarity of not being auto-removed from #wikipedia thanks to a lack of ChanServ.
Having up to 20 variations of one persons name.
Lilo being killed off with a hilarious message.
And the topic wars...
Good times.
Yes.
1. Other programmers I know in various fields. I happen to know quite a few.
2. The plethora of content Sun, Java, MySQL, Microsoft, Oracle, and many other high-profile "framework sponsors" push out on various developer networks, such as MSDN, DevZone, OTN...
3. Whatever the hell O'Reilly is making books about.
4. Seminars and conventions, often made/endorsed/branded by computer publishers such as O'Reilly and aforementioned "framework sponsors".