How is that not a transfer of an asset? The only thing that they are not getting is the ability to revoke the license, which is moot of the licensee and licenser are owned by the same person/group.
In one sweeping stroke he forces them to choose between their IP or their tax liability. His supposition of "arms length" puts them in an awkward position. If they do still have standing to sue using the IP, then the tax evasion methods are almost certainly illegal. If the tax evasion methods are legal, then they don't have standing to sue.
My favorite part is where he obliquely mentions that if they do take him to court and try to bleed him dry he'll kindly foward along their sham company tax shelter methods to the IRS that they use to avoid paying income tax on their Intellectual Property. That's gotta scare the hell out of most companies.
1. Stealing from the "rich", (theoretically).
2. Giving to the "poor", (theoretically).
3. Discerened by the angry mob.
4. Done on the basis that people have a moral right to what other people earn.
Sounds a lot like Communism to me, and we all know how well that worked out.
Ummmm... without landline infrastructure, how do you plan on conveying that VoIP data?
Unless what you really meant was get rid of all telephone lines (and by proxy DSL), presumably to make way for direct fiber, which sounds like a whole lot of billions of dollars to me if we're going to go ahead and do the whole system at once.
Every year, some new, faster tech comes out. You want to rewire the entire country every year or so? Not gonna happen.
Do they seriously come up with a completely new type of fiber every single year? Or were you extending what you know about Dell computers to network topography?
I find it remarkable that people honestly believe a company like Sony can hide payments of over a half billion dollars fromt heir financial statements to shareholders.
Most business people know instinctively that the more dirty tricks a vendor pulls, the more likely their own product is to suck. MS's antics are getting large enough and frequent enough that people outside of IT who don't read/. or groklaw are starting to notice.
That happened here in Portland, OR. About eight years ago, Microsoft announced that they were going to audit the ENTIRE school district and charge fines for each machine which wasn't correctly licensed, despite the fact that the district spent millions a year on MS liscenses.
The district's response was: "If you audit, we're moving to an entirely Linux desktop and curriculum, including educating our students on how to use Linux on the desktop, the home and the workplace."
Thats complete bullshit. Go take a look at an XBR4 playing BluRay, or a Samsung 71F playing BluRay and try to tell me that HD makes no difference. I can barely fuckign stare at my 36" piece of crap after seeing what a real TV looks like.
The big step up for HD is not Resolution, it's Resolution + Refresh rate + audio. That 120Hz screen makes a TON of difference.
This assumes that the government would be able to brute force the right PGP password only at the very end of the time period every single time. As I understand it, a brute force attack is basically an automated guess-and-check.
In reality, you have a fair chance of getting it within half the time, and it's still cost effective to go for a 33% chance.
Oh please. Sony unveiled this game for the first time ever about nine months ago. Who is honestly going to give Sony shit over taking more than nine months to get to a publicly available demo of what looks to be one of the best done games on consoles in the last five years?
Props to Sony for giving the game time to be done right instead of looking at their hardware numbers and demanding a half-asses solution immediately.
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How is that not a transfer of an asset? The only thing that they are not getting is the ability to revoke the license, which is moot of the licensee and licenser are owned by the same person/group.
The point I was making was two fold:
In one sweeping stroke he forces them to choose between their IP or their tax liability. His supposition of "arms length" puts them in an awkward position. If they do still have standing to sue using the IP, then the tax evasion methods are almost certainly illegal. If the tax evasion methods are legal, then they don't have standing to sue.
My favorite part is where he obliquely mentions that if they do take him to court and try to bleed him dry he'll kindly foward along their sham company tax shelter methods to the IRS that they use to avoid paying income tax on their Intellectual Property. That's gotta scare the hell out of most companies.
1. Stealing from the "rich", (theoretically).
2. Giving to the "poor", (theoretically).
3. Discerened by the angry mob.
4. Done on the basis that people have a moral right to what other people earn.
Sounds a lot like Communism to me, and we all know how well that worked out.
Unless what you really meant was get rid of all telephone lines (and by proxy DSL), presumably to make way for direct fiber, which sounds like a whole lot of billions of dollars to me if we're going to go ahead and do the whole system at once.
I think it's fitting that Captain Obvious replied to a post quoting Captain Obvious.
Wait a minute, now you're just leading me on! There's only two planets orbitting Alpha Centauri!
I find it mildly desturbing that the parent was modded "Informative" by anyone.
Why? I mean, yeah, some ads are more annoying/deceptive than others, but how do you expect anyone to promote their product without advertising?
Your opinion seems just as rediculous as Microsoft's spyware-ish opinion, just in the opposite direction.
I find it remarkable that people honestly believe a company like Sony can hide payments of over a half billion dollars fromt heir financial statements to shareholders.
Sony won. Get the fuck over it.
How long until someone trys to say that this is really a front operation from Microsoft?
The district's response was: "If you audit, we're moving to an entirely Linux desktop and curriculum, including educating our students on how to use Linux on the desktop, the home and the workplace."
And Microsoft cancelled the audit.
One would think that using a web cam to cut undersea fiber might be somewhat selfdefeating...
Both Opera and Apple were part of the original working group, and I believe that Mozilla is onboard now.
I browse slashdot, modding everything -1 Overrated!
If AOL moving to XMPP is hell freezing over... MSN moving to XMPP would be putting hell in an Einstein-Boseman state.
I other words, not bloody likely.
So I guess since no one reads TFA anyway the link wasn't included...
I think you need *at least* a four digit account for that joke to be "funny".
;)
In which case you should probably be welcoming our low-digit-Slashdot-commenter Overlords.
He's been in politics 30 years, and the best they can smear him with is a newsletter that he neither wrote nor editted? Sign me up.
I think Sony decided they would take the "CD Key" approach to DRM.
Thats complete bullshit. Go take a look at an XBR4 playing BluRay, or a Samsung 71F playing BluRay and try to tell me that HD makes no difference. I can barely fuckign stare at my 36" piece of crap after seeing what a real TV looks like.
The big step up for HD is not Resolution, it's Resolution + Refresh rate + audio. That 120Hz screen makes a TON of difference.
This assumes that the government would be able to brute force the right PGP password only at the very end of the time period every single time. As I understand it, a brute force attack is basically an automated guess-and-check.
In reality, you have a fair chance of getting it within half the time, and it's still cost effective to go for a 33% chance.
Oh please. Sony unveiled this game for the first time ever about nine months ago. Who is honestly going to give Sony shit over taking more than nine months to get to a publicly available demo of what looks to be one of the best done games on consoles in the last five years?
Props to Sony for giving the game time to be done right instead of looking at their hardware numbers and demanding a half-asses solution immediately.