I'm not an overclocker, or any kind of a hardware fiend. Do case manufacturers really publish data on the thermal properties of their products? If its just one or two manufacturers, can you give me links? Thanks.
Once, I was given a Microsoft Sidewinder gamepad as a birthday present. 'course, I don't play many games that would NEED a gamepad so I did the logical thing; I went and bought one:)
The game I chose was Super Bomberman for Windows. The box said it worked with joysticks and gamepads, on Windows. Well hell, all this stuff is Logo Compliant, so yeah it oughta work right? Wrong... The game was written to use analog joysticks and gamepads, while my gamepad was decidedly digital. It took me a while to figure it out, and I also tried to remap keys to buttons and such to make it work, but I couldn't play the game with my controller.
So I took the game back, knowing full well they would try to send me packin' with another copy of the same game, but I wasn't havin' it. I told the manager (MediaPlay, btw) that my game and my pad were incompatible. They had a standard line for that: We don't accept returns for compatibility. Too many people pirating Windows games by claiming to own a Mac? I dunno.
So then I showed him the box, where it said "works with joysticks and game pads". The box had lied to me! "This is false advertisement!" I said, and eventually the manager agreed to refund the purchase price, which I turned around and spent in the same store (on a game that didn't need a joypad anyway, Ultima Online).
All those protected CDs... They're not really CDs! If they claim to be, return 'em! It's illegal to label them as such.
How many times do you want to buy copies of Super Mario Brothers, Legend of Zelda, and Ms. Pac-Man?
Also, Nintendo isn't immortal - a couple bad years could decimate their bottom line. Sooner or later, the games WILL be abandoned. The earlier they are ripped and archived for posterity, the better.
It's the basic right-to-copy problem again. It's very hard to find a balance between the public good and fairness to the creator.
The first time an email worm hit my company was HELL. I had to shut down the email server and delete a few mailboxes. Every available pair of hands was walking around with an AV CDROM, scanning and cleaning all day long. The network was basically dead, flooded to destruction. Nobody got anything done for hours and hours. For days after that, people were afraid to check their email - nobody wanted to be the one who "started it" the next time.
That cost us in time, money, and training. After that, we got serious. Amavis + Sophos on the email server, virus scan installed locally on some of the PCs, and just recently I added a procmail recipe to drop anything that windows might execute.
Again, the company "loses" money by having to pay for all of this (my time, Sophos licensing, new beefed up email server) but that's better than standing idly by, paying people to sit there paralyzed in fear in the face of Outlook.
The threat to business from virii is very real, but once your defenses are in place you can usually kick back and relax. That is, after you've deleted all the P2P apps, chat programs, instant messangers, and other CRAP that they really shouldn't have brought to work.
The DMCA makes it illegal to crack, this new one makes it illegal to ship anything that doesn't need cracking.
Oh no, they're tyring to legislate Linux out of existance! They're going to take away my MP3s!
Well, yeah... But those are just side effects of the real intent of this bill: Turning the Internet into the next big broadcast media - making the internet another dollar generating machine for Big Content, locking out the little guys, forcing the old paradigm into the new media.
All arguments regarding fair use are moot - if you read Hollings' speech, it's clear that he believes fair use will be protected. I don't see how that will work in practice though. Say I pay for and download a Simpson's episode with DRM, and I want to do a screen grab to make a picture of the Simpson's family to hang on my wall. Is that fair use? Well, I paid for the image, and many thousands like it (the video stream), so probably yes. Will DRM allow a screen grab? If it won't, then they've violated fair use (I think, IANAL), but if it will then what's going to stop me from grabbing every frame in succession and piecing them back together later? Are they planning on degrading the quality of all these works with some kind of watermark to prevent copying? We already know that doesn't work.
Moving on... Will we gain access to their entire archives? Probably not. More likely, we'll be told to "tune in" to a URL on Sunday night at 9PM to catch the latest episode. You'll be allowed to keep a copy for your own use, but you won't be able to remove the commercials because you won't have access to edit the file.
If we do get access to the archives, which version will it be? The "first run" versions, or the ones they trim down for later reruns?
I use the net for entertainment because it's so far outside the candy-coated crap that TV spews. I have broadband because it's useful to me for gaming and for my work. I already have my MP3 collection built to a comfortable level, and the latest batch of hit singles isn't really enticing me to buy OR download. So basically, I'm the antithesis of a good consumer and nothing is going to change that - other than The Simpsons and Friends, they can keep their copyrighted drivel. Yes, keep it. Keep it off our net.
..................
A couple additional points, harvested from the previous discussion:
1) Big Content has never tried to go after the individuals, even though they have said they would do so if left with no other recourse. Doesn't their refusal to go after people who are actually doing the pirating (vs. attacking businesses whose otherwise legitimate tools enable it) constitute some sort of admission that the works are public domain? Like the rules that stipulate that if you don't defend your trademark, you lose it. Same for copyright, or is it different? If it's the same for copyright, then anything that's ever been traded P2P is now public domain and Big Content will just have to suck it up.
2) You'll obviously have to identify yourself to pay for downloadable content, which is absolutely unprecedented. The only content consumers who are currently violated (in the most personal sense of the word) in this way are those who sign up for the privilege of participating in The Ratings. What's to stop them from using my personal information for marketing or whatever? There are huge privacy concerns that no one in congress is addressing.
3) Final word on the matter... One poster (and I'm sorry for the lack of attribution on all of these points, but the comments are still available with the other story) mentioned that this bill will likely die due to senate politics. Seems that Copyright is NOT the commerce committee's ballpark, and the guy in charge isn't too happy about this bill.
The EFF site has a list of companies will match employee contributions.
CBS, 20th Century Fox, HBO, and Disney were on the list, and that's just a quick visual grep. If you work for Big Media, talk to HR and join EFF for maximum irony.:)
*** Mundie said Microsoft is aware of the power of licensing pacts, but it is treading lightly for now. "If you stand in our shoes, we get enough flak just trying to get people to register their software," he said. ***
Is that so... Well, maybe people would register their software if they had some assurance that the info would only be used to send patches out. Some of the junk mail MS has sent me is just incredible. I'd bet they're selling the info too.
<HANK HILL>If you can't remember a time when your only "font" was burned into an EEPROM, boy I feel sorry for you. Back in my day, we could do all sorts of things that just don't work with those bastard TrueType fonts. We made our window frames out of pipes and underscores and that was good enough to show to your Mother. Just today I used Lynx on the console and it loaded a damn sight faster than that Mozilla thing, I'll tell ya what.</HANK HILL>
.....
Basically you clear your mind of thoughts... and start to compose a peice of music. For me clasical music seems to work best... The music for me ends up being pretty complex.
.....
I just imagined that I went to a doctor and he said I had a brain tumor.
(Thank you. Another show at 10 and 12. Tip your waitress. If you don't get the joke, don't mod it - I took off the +1 already!)
...Cut...
Depends if players would care. Something tells me that I wouldn't get anything more for "Sycraft's Keen Asterite Hammer" than a normal keen asterite hammer. Remember: What made rare Magic cards form things like Alpha and Beta worth a lot was that people collected Magic cards. Not only did they play magic, but they had cards just ot have them. I don't think this is the case in online games. People buy items/characters because they are good, and they want the abilities. They don't care what it's called so long as it has certian stats.
...Paste...
I agree with the rest, but this is wrong. Played UO lately? All of the items that one could feasibly sell on ebay (and they don't much, other than piles of gold or real-estate) are totally useless within the rule-system. For instance, there's the graphic of "a frying pan" which is identical to the cook's tool known as "a skillet" except that one of them can be crafted by players while the other can only be picked up once a month. The rare version doesn't convey any special ability and only a fool would actually cook something with it - items used as tools wear out over time. So these items are just like your M:tG cards.
Contrast with a useful but slightly-less-than-semi-rare item... Say a very powerful weapon: a Surpassingly Accurate Silver Katana of Vanquishing (katana, +9, +5%, +100% vs Undead). The sword might go for a million gold (and that might cost you $20 on ebay depending on the age of the server) but you won't find the sword itself on ebay except as pot-sweetener from someone selling his whole account.
(Side note: When UO started making all the graphics on the CD available in the game, they made an attempt to preserve the rare item market by relabelling things. I'm split on this: on one hand I think the pixel-crack dealers need to get some fresh air and sunshine - myself included, but the secondary market does keep things lively. Either way, stupidity should be painful, so there's nothing wrong with selling someone anything they're willing to pay for.)
(Moderators: I have +1 and didn't use it. Consider this post already modded down.)
Fuzzy recollection from a book I read once; I think it was about RTM's case. The prosecutor made a statement about "the hacker/terrorist/ you see before you" and the defense's objection was sustained - a passenger jet with some connection to the city had fallen victim to terrorism within the last few weeks. "Terrorist" was seen as too harsh a word to use against someone who hadn't taken a single human life.
Wow. Read the first story, then the update... Then go back to the first story... Wow... I guess a gullible nature is the natural result of interacting more with technology than with people.
I think the first mistake was taking the letter at face value, and it didn't help much that it played on a theme that's all too common around here. Add up enough unfounded assumptions and eventually you'll get a pile of hate mail.
One good thing; the DA's office at least got enough mail to notice the geek outcry. We'll call this one a false alarm - any good security system is gonna have false alarms - and hope that the outcry is that much bigger when it's really needed.
Sendmail -> AMaViS -> Sophos Sweep... Does the job VERY nicely! I'd recommend Sophos to anyone!
Barely related, but another nice mail server addon is "Drac". It hooks into qpopper or cucipop and uses RPC to update a database of IP addresses allowed to use your relay. Successful auth while checking POP gives your IP a half hour relay window. Others are denied.
The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
From the company reps lips: "Cocaine has never been an added ingredient in any Coca Cola product."
Technically, they're right. It wasn't an/added/ ingredient, though it certainly tagged along as part of their coca leaf flavoring. It was later replaced with caffeine, but Coca Cola still has a grandfather clause allowing them to import "denatured" coca leaf extract.
Anyway, that's where "Coke" as dual use street slang came from.
The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
USENET old timers are used to people claiming the net will die. "Emminent death of the internet predicted!" But it keeps not happening.
But it makes Slashdot because 1) it has to do with Microsoft 2) it's a followup story 3) someone in a tie wrote it so it must be true. But that suit just trolled you better than theElectron.
The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
Compulsory Licensing makes a helluva lot more sense when you stop thinking of Corporations as People who deserve Constitutionally Guaranteed Freedoms.
If you're a Natural Person, then you deserve access to whatever is in the Public Domain in addition to what you pay for. If you have to break encryption, compress, expand, xor, rot13, format-shift, time-shift, or export to another country then it's your skills against theirs sans DMCA, and we all know how that one ends.
If you're a FAKE Person (a Corporation), then you deserve access to nothing unless you have explicit permission in the form of a license (which will probably cost you several bags of moolah).
If you're a Natural Person, you deserve the right to safeguard your IP for a limited time, after which it becomes public domain.
If you're a FAKE Person, you deserve the right to NOT complain about ANY of these issues because YOU DON'T EXIST. You deserve the right to go about your business in a peaceful manner until such time as We The People decide we don't like you anymore. And we will tell you so, in no uncertain terms, when we YANK YOUR CHARTER.
The catch is: If you're a FAKE Person, then you DO NOT have access to the public domain. Only the PUBLIC gets that, see?
I'm thinking this ought to apply more to Copyright than Patent. Someone else will have to write those rules. And anyway, if Corps aren't people and can't hold rights, then there's probably no need for Compulsory Licensing in the first place. Mickey Mouse was just ink on paper until we made Disney Corp a Person. Now he's a commodity that should have reverted long ago.
(All copyrights mentioned in this post are the property of their respective holders, though I think they ought to all be tarred, feathered, and run out of town.)
The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
Spice Girls - If You Wanna Be My Lover : you gotta get with my friends? If I'm reading that right, then they're proposing a gangbang.
Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle : No one who watches that video is thinking about Disney's Alladin.
Britney Spears (I probably spelled it wrong, but SHE DOES TOO:) ) - Hit Me Baby One More Time : on its surface, encourages violence towards females. Underneath, encourages females to gravitate towards men who've mistreated them in the past.
Forget the image files, at least you can take those at face value: it's either sex or it's not. If it is, it can be explained to the child in rational/biological terms. You should LISTEN to your child's MUSIC! That's where most of their twisted ideas are coming from!
The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
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I'm not an overclocker, or any kind of a hardware fiend. Do case manufacturers really publish data on the thermal properties of their products? If its just one or two manufacturers, can you give me links? Thanks.
(no news here, just an anecdote, move along)
:)
Once, I was given a Microsoft Sidewinder gamepad as a birthday present. 'course, I don't play many games that would NEED a gamepad so I did the logical thing; I went and bought one
The game I chose was Super Bomberman for Windows. The box said it worked with joysticks and gamepads, on Windows. Well hell, all this stuff is Logo Compliant, so yeah it oughta work right? Wrong... The game was written to use analog joysticks and gamepads, while my gamepad was decidedly digital. It took me a while to figure it out, and I also tried to remap keys to buttons and such to make it work, but I couldn't play the game with my controller.
So I took the game back, knowing full well they would try to send me packin' with another copy of the same game, but I wasn't havin' it. I told the manager (MediaPlay, btw) that my game and my pad were incompatible. They had a standard line for that: We don't accept returns for compatibility. Too many people pirating Windows games by claiming to own a Mac? I dunno.
So then I showed him the box, where it said "works with joysticks and game pads". The box had lied to me! "This is false advertisement!" I said, and eventually the manager agreed to refund the purchase price, which I turned around and spent in the same store (on a game that didn't need a joypad anyway, Ultima Online).
All those protected CDs... They're not really CDs! If they claim to be, return 'em! It's illegal to label them as such.
How many times do you want to buy copies of Super Mario Brothers, Legend of Zelda, and Ms. Pac-Man?
Also, Nintendo isn't immortal - a couple bad years could decimate their bottom line. Sooner or later, the games WILL be abandoned. The earlier they are ripped and archived for posterity, the better.
It's the basic right-to-copy problem again. It's very hard to find a balance between the public good and fairness to the creator.
>>Creating a Zero G device is like making love to a beautiful woman.
Thanks, Chef.
I am not a number! I am a man! And don't you ... oh wait, I'm #93427. Ha ha! In your face #93428!
Ha! In your face, beeotch!
The first time an email worm hit my company was HELL. I had to shut down the email server and delete a few mailboxes. Every available pair of hands was walking around with an AV CDROM, scanning and cleaning all day long. The network was basically dead, flooded to destruction. Nobody got anything done for hours and hours. For days after that, people were afraid to check their email - nobody wanted to be the one who "started it" the next time.
That cost us in time, money, and training. After that, we got serious. Amavis + Sophos on the email server, virus scan installed locally on some of the PCs, and just recently I added a procmail recipe to drop anything that windows might execute.
Again, the company "loses" money by having to pay for all of this (my time, Sophos licensing, new beefed up email server) but that's better than standing idly by, paying people to sit there paralyzed in fear in the face of Outlook.
The threat to business from virii is very real, but once your defenses are in place you can usually kick back and relax. That is, after you've deleted all the P2P apps, chat programs, instant messangers, and other CRAP that they really shouldn't have brought to work.
In the Bible, God says "Go forth and multiply." He doesn't specify HOW.
>dan
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>-- Don't trust anyone with a user number lower than 10,000.
You have defamed me for the last time, Dan! I will not stand for this sort of character assasination. I'll see you in court!
Where can I buy one RIGHT NOW? How much is it??? Can it run Falcon's Eye too?
The DMCA makes it illegal to crack, this new one makes it illegal to ship anything that doesn't need cracking.
Oh no, they're tyring to legislate Linux out of existance! They're going to take away my MP3s!
Well, yeah... But those are just side effects of the real intent of this bill: Turning the Internet into the next big broadcast media - making the internet another dollar generating machine for Big Content, locking out the little guys, forcing the old paradigm into the new media.
All arguments regarding fair use are moot - if you read Hollings' speech, it's clear that he believes fair use will be protected. I don't see how that will work in practice though. Say I pay for and download a Simpson's episode with DRM, and I want to do a screen grab to make a picture of the Simpson's family to hang on my wall. Is that fair use? Well, I paid for the image, and many thousands like it (the video stream), so probably yes. Will DRM allow a screen grab? If it won't, then they've violated fair use (I think, IANAL), but if it will then what's going to stop me from grabbing every frame in succession and piecing them back together later? Are they planning on degrading the quality of all these works with some kind of watermark to prevent copying? We already know that doesn't work.
Moving on... Will we gain access to their entire archives? Probably not. More likely, we'll be told to "tune in" to a URL on Sunday night at 9PM to catch the latest episode. You'll be allowed to keep a copy for your own use, but you won't be able to remove the commercials because you won't have access to edit the file.
If we do get access to the archives, which version will it be? The "first run" versions, or the ones they trim down for later reruns?
I use the net for entertainment because it's so far outside the candy-coated crap that TV spews. I have broadband because it's useful to me for gaming and for my work. I already have my MP3 collection built to a comfortable level, and the latest batch of hit singles isn't really enticing me to buy OR download. So basically, I'm the antithesis of a good consumer and nothing is going to change that - other than The Simpsons and Friends, they can keep their copyrighted drivel. Yes, keep it. Keep it off our net.
..................
A couple additional points, harvested from the previous discussion:
1) Big Content has never tried to go after the individuals, even though they have said they would do so if left with no other recourse. Doesn't their refusal to go after people who are actually doing the pirating (vs. attacking businesses whose otherwise legitimate tools enable it) constitute some sort of admission that the works are public domain? Like the rules that stipulate that if you don't defend your trademark, you lose it. Same for copyright, or is it different? If it's the same for copyright, then anything that's ever been traded P2P is now public domain and Big Content will just have to suck it up.
2) You'll obviously have to identify yourself to pay for downloadable content, which is absolutely unprecedented. The only content consumers who are currently violated (in the most personal sense of the word) in this way are those who sign up for the privilege of participating in The Ratings. What's to stop them from using my personal information for marketing or whatever? There are huge privacy concerns that no one in congress is addressing.
3) Final word on the matter... One poster (and I'm sorry for the lack of attribution on all of these points, but the comments are still available with the other story) mentioned that this bill will likely die due to senate politics. Seems that Copyright is NOT the commerce committee's ballpark, and the guy in charge isn't too happy about this bill.
The EFF site has a list of companies will match employee contributions.
:)
CBS, 20th Century Fox, HBO, and Disney were on the list, and that's just a quick visual grep. If you work for Big Media, talk to HR and join EFF for maximum irony.
***
Mundie said Microsoft is aware of the power of licensing pacts, but it is treading lightly for now. "If you stand in our shoes, we get enough flak just trying to get people to register their software," he said.
***
Is that so... Well, maybe people would register their software if they had some assurance that the info would only be used to send patches out. Some of the junk mail MS has sent me is just incredible. I'd bet they're selling the info too.
<HANK HILL>If you can't remember a time when your only "font" was burned into an EEPROM, boy I feel sorry for you. Back in my day, we could do all sorts of things that just don't work with those bastard TrueType fonts. We made our window frames out of pipes and underscores and that was good enough to show to your Mother. Just today I used Lynx on the console and it loaded a damn sight faster than that Mozilla thing, I'll tell ya what.</HANK HILL>
.....
Basically you clear your mind of thoughts... and start to compose a peice of music. For me clasical music seems to work best... The music for me ends up being pretty complex.
.....
I just imagined that I went to a doctor and he said I had a brain tumor.
(Thank you. Another show at 10 and 12. Tip your waitress. If you don't get the joke, don't mod it - I took off the +1 already!)
...Cut...
Depends if players would care. Something tells me that I wouldn't get anything more for "Sycraft's Keen Asterite Hammer" than a normal keen asterite hammer. Remember: What made rare Magic cards form things like Alpha and Beta worth a lot was that people collected Magic cards. Not only did they play magic, but they had cards just ot have them. I don't think this is the case in online games. People buy items/characters because they are good, and they want the abilities. They don't care what it's called so long as it has certian stats.
...Paste...
I agree with the rest, but this is wrong. Played UO lately? All of the items that one could feasibly sell on ebay (and they don't much, other than piles of gold or real-estate) are totally useless within the rule-system. For instance, there's the graphic of "a frying pan" which is identical to the cook's tool known as "a skillet" except that one of them can be crafted by players while the other can only be picked up once a month. The rare version doesn't convey any special ability and only a fool would actually cook something with it - items used as tools wear out over time. So these items are just like your M:tG cards.
Contrast with a useful but slightly-less-than-semi-rare item... Say a very powerful weapon: a Surpassingly Accurate Silver Katana of Vanquishing (katana, +9, +5%, +100% vs Undead). The sword might go for a million gold (and that might cost you $20 on ebay depending on the age of the server) but you won't find the sword itself on ebay except as pot-sweetener from someone selling his whole account.
(Side note: When UO started making all the graphics on the CD available in the game, they made an attempt to preserve the rare item market by relabelling things. I'm split on this: on one hand I think the pixel-crack dealers need to get some fresh air and sunshine - myself included, but the secondary market does keep things lively. Either way, stupidity should be painful, so there's nothing wrong with selling someone anything they're willing to pay for.)
(Moderators: I have +1 and didn't use it. Consider this post already modded down.)
"Too much work at interrupt"?
Switch to netgear cards / ng_tulip driver. I've never tried to gauge them for performance, but at least the driver is solid.
http://www.sheppyware.net/stories/telos.html
Time to Declare Independance.
Death to the Lameness Filter!
Fuzzy recollection from a book I read once; I think it was about RTM's case. The prosecutor made a statement about "the hacker /terrorist/ you see before you" and the defense's objection was sustained - a passenger jet with some connection to the city had fallen victim to terrorism within the last few weeks. "Terrorist" was seen as too harsh a word to use against someone who hadn't taken a single human life.
:(
We've come a long way.
Wow. Read the first story, then the update... Then go back to the first story... Wow... I guess a gullible nature is the natural result of interacting more with technology than with people.
I think the first mistake was taking the letter at face value, and it didn't help much that it played on a theme that's all too common around here. Add up enough unfounded assumptions and eventually you'll get a pile of hate mail.
One good thing; the DA's office at least got enough mail to notice the geek outcry. We'll call this one a false alarm - any good security system is gonna have false alarms - and hope that the outcry is that much bigger when it's really needed.
Sendmail -> AMaViS -> Sophos Sweep ... Does the job VERY nicely! I'd recommend Sophos to anyone!
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
Barely related, but another nice mail server addon is "Drac". It hooks into qpopper or cucipop and uses RPC to update a database of IP addresses allowed to use your relay. Successful auth while checking POP gives your IP a half hour relay window. Others are denied.
The real Threed's
--Threed
From the company reps lips: "Cocaine has never been an added ingredient in any Coca Cola product."
/added/ ingredient, though it certainly tagged along as part of their coca leaf flavoring. It was later replaced with caffeine, but Coca Cola still has a grandfather clause allowing them to import "denatured" coca leaf extract.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
Technically, they're right. It wasn't an
Anyway, that's where "Coke" as dual use street slang came from.
The real Threed's
--Threed
USENET old timers are used to people claiming the net will die. "Emminent death of the internet predicted!" But it keeps not happening.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
But it makes Slashdot because 1) it has to do with Microsoft 2) it's a followup story 3) someone in a tie wrote it so it must be true. But that suit just trolled you better than theElectron.
The real Threed's
--Threed
Compulsory Licensing makes a helluva lot more sense when you stop thinking of Corporations as People who deserve Constitutionally Guaranteed Freedoms.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
If you're a Natural Person, then you deserve access to whatever is in the Public Domain in addition to what you pay for. If you have to break encryption, compress, expand, xor, rot13, format-shift, time-shift, or export to another country then it's your skills against theirs sans DMCA, and we all know how that one ends.
If you're a FAKE Person (a Corporation), then you deserve access to nothing unless you have explicit permission in the form of a license (which will probably cost you several bags of moolah).
If you're a Natural Person, you deserve the right to safeguard your IP for a limited time, after which it becomes public domain.
If you're a FAKE Person, you deserve the right to NOT complain about ANY of these issues because YOU DON'T EXIST. You deserve the right to go about your business in a peaceful manner until such time as We The People decide we don't like you anymore. And we will tell you so, in no uncertain terms, when we YANK YOUR CHARTER.
The catch is: If you're a FAKE Person, then you DO NOT have access to the public domain. Only the PUBLIC gets that, see?
I'm thinking this ought to apply more to Copyright than Patent. Someone else will have to write those rules. And anyway, if Corps aren't people and can't hold rights, then there's probably no need for Compulsory Licensing in the first place. Mickey Mouse was just ink on paper until we made Disney Corp a Person. Now he's a commodity that should have reverted long ago.
(All copyrights mentioned in this post are the property of their respective holders, though I think they ought to all be tarred, feathered, and run out of town.)
The real Threed's
--Threed
Spice Girls - If You Wanna Be My Lover : you gotta get with my friends? If I'm reading that right, then they're proposing a gangbang.
:) ) - Hit Me Baby One More Time : on its surface, encourages violence towards females. Underneath, encourages females to gravitate towards men who've mistreated them in the past.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle : No one who watches that video is thinking about Disney's Alladin.
Britney Spears (I probably spelled it wrong, but SHE DOES TOO
Forget the image files, at least you can take those at face value: it's either sex or it's not. If it is, it can be explained to the child in rational/biological terms. You should LISTEN to your child's MUSIC! That's where most of their twisted ideas are coming from!
The real Threed's
--Threed