There is more to getting a new computer than filling out the change request and provisioning a new image. Computers cost money. If you are young startup that is expanding the capital may not be there for new IT purchases, especially for interns.
As the budget situation now is significantly worse than 15 years ago, it seems unlikely that Civilian employees will be made whole after the fact. I love the republicans talking about 'where are the jobs' and then deciding to furlough close to 4 times the number of workers that were added in the latest jobs report over the sum of ~$7B. If the government is closed for a week, that's less than the interest on the National Debt.
The Active Duty military people will be forced to remain, even those that fulfill office type jobs, and will be unpaid until a resolution comes.
This is worse than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. This is arguing deck chair arrangement theory.
I would also like to point at the convoluted/cumbersume checkout function of the android market. If I could buy a pre-paid card with cash at a retail outlet like Wal-Mart, Target, K-Mart, Lowes or any other major retailer like I can for apple, I would feel a lot better about buying that $1 fart app (not really but just go with me on this). The problem that I have to whip out my credit card and go through that hassle means I may as well just whip out my uTorrent and head over to the Pirate Bay. The problem lies in the ease of integration as well as the quality of apps, DRM and other factors. Further, there aren't many more closed systems than that of Apple, and some stats have their piracy rate very high as well too.
The problem however remains that the judge did not sanction the DA or AG who decided that this obvious abuse of the law was a good idea. This is easily rule 11 territory as any first year law student can tell you there is no privacy expectation in a public place. The fact remains is that this guy had to fight to get his rights vindicated and too often, fighting is too expensive.
Oh you mean how apple buys up startups to produce their products or how the iPod, iTunes, iPhone and iPad were really just incremental innovations of other services and products that people were already offering?! Yea, I agree. Apple is the greatest tech company, but lets be honest; they are more polisher than innovator.
About 15 years ago they made a long term investment to running their image into the ground so people would hate them so much that they would be willing to find the bugs for free. It's been working well for a long time, and at this point they have already written the check, why switch.
Microsoft sucks! I'll prove it, look at this random arbitrary glitch in the way they handle SMTP requests.
Why can't George Lucas die of a high cholesterol induced heart attack so I can stop worrying about Indiana Jones 5 and Star Wars 7 and go back to enjoying the memories of my child hood.
This is wrong. There are various ways of obtaining 'expunged' records. There is no delete button on your criminal record. Don't believe me, just ask anyone who has ever taken a bar exam, ever.
Let's just get it on the table, that if you chose to forgo a degree rather than get one, you are going to be fighting an uphill battle as to why someone should read your resume for the rest of your life.
Yes, part of getting a degree is simply showing an employer that you are willing to take shit for 4+ years, but to almost all of them, it's an important qualification. TFA is a neat story for sure, but don't decide to eschew college for entering the work force because you think you will be better able to get a job. College (and grad schools) are not a job security guarantee, but they do improve your odds. I for one would rather spend a few extra years racking up *reasonable* debt (thank you state schools) and have a better chance to get an interview than have to hope the HR manager isn't so short sighted that my resume just gets thrown away. You can't impress someone with your skills if they don't meet you. The degree is a better ticket in the front door.
All that said, I have finished 7 years of advanced education. My grand total (excluding room/board which I would have needed anyway) was $60,000. I have $10k in loans. I'll take 10k in loans and an advanced degree, thank you. Your perspective may be different if you went somewhere private like Harvard and owed closer to $300k Worse yet, if you went somewhere SHITTY and private and had a crap degree that no one heard of and $300k in debt.
I would tag this as a sudden break out of common sense, but I am not sure that it is. Yes, it's better in that I will be able to terminate my own video cables again, but how many cable standards do we need? I fully welcome our new Cat5e overlords but I just want the madness to stop.
To be fair, Apple lets you have porn on the iPhone too. They just want to protect you from paying for porn. News flash, there is a lot of free porn on the internet. There is even more 'free' porn if you know where to get it and don't care about copyright infringement.
People don't even uncheck a box when it says "It's OK to contact me periodically(6 times a day)"
Less than 10% change default states whether they are opt-in or opt-out.
How About "The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nation" It is a nice counter to Charles Mackay. It's funny how people like to say crowds are morons and then try to prove it Scientifically like Francis Galton did with his Ox Experiment. If a crowd is so stupid why is the Mean of Francis' experiment within 1 pound of the weight of the Ox? From what Fark is ranting about he seems more irked about his crowd not self organizing when he wants it to. Wikipedia and Youtube self organize not just because of leadership but because the crowd wants to organize. If you have a meaningless concept that doesn't have the interest of the crowd then it wont self organize. And just because a group of people can be tricked like in the many witch burnings doesn't mean they have more or less wisdom then the individual since I've seen individuals go far more mad than that.
I wish I had a [blink] tag. Selection bias. You run a site about inane bs. perhaps those who comment about the inane bs will be commenting... inane bs!
You are aware that that is basically how the patent system works.
You pay based on your application and the calculated prosecution complexity. You get so many claims for a fee and the more complex above that basic level you pay more. Then if (or more likely when) your application gets rejected you file a response. When you screw that up, you pay more money and file some more. The examiners also get paid for doing rejections.
The reason shit like this gets through is largely in part due to the fact that because of the backlog the PTO had billions in cash sitting around. What happens when a government organization has billions in cash reserves? Other government agencies borrow from it to meet their budgeting shortfalls. So, as filings have rocketed up, the backlog has gotten worse because they don't have enough money to get new examiners and are grossly overloaded. The response should be to give the patent office MORE money, not less. MORE money might actually allow them to spend more than 45 minutes looking for prior art.
The (free) press has already been asaulted by the bankruptcy laws. I don't mean to be overly 'Rupert Murdoch owns everything and is using it for Faux News' but more of a practical argument that the idea of a healthy and effective press has long since been an ideal not based in reality.
Even discounting the TMZ effect of publishing trash instead of news, the financial realities of the traditional media and the practicalities of the new media have simply diluted the ability of people to hear a message and organize change. The press corps of one have caused so much fragmentation that stories aren't able to gain the critical mass to affect change. This (public photography) has been a big internet WAAAAAAAMBULANCE issue since about 2002, yet it seems from the discussion here that even the generally liberal crowd on here hasn't even heard about this yet.
If you think TFA was bad, take your camera to a public park and take pictures of kids playing in that public place. Bonus points if you do it with a trench coat and a big white Canon 300mm F/2.8L
These are two different things. The problem is not that they have designed something that interoperates but the fact is that it accesses their server. Under the CFAA, it is illegal to access a system without authorization. It is immaterial that the system is public and freely available. AOL, NullSoft and LamaEnterprises are free to set the terms for freely and publicly accessing that system and if you don't comply with the terms you run afoul of the CFAA, a felony. This is actually far worse than Civil Liability possible under copyright because AOL simply has to complain to the federal government and they will prosecute VLC with tax dollars and possibly send coders/officers to jail.
Some are stuck in corporate environements where they can install plugins to their browser but can't change their default browser or still need to use ie. I specifically need to use an IE browser for work and my attempts at using Firefox and Chrome (my personal choice) don't work. This is a good thing that doesn't really help Google that much, but doesn't require a lot of effort to make things better.
I agree with you in alternate-1985-what-should-happen reality. But in this reality we have tried that and failed miserably. Metrification I can quickly convert all of the basic weight, distance, volume measurments in my head, and most can too if they would unlearn their learned ignorance but if we are wishing for impossible things, I'd rather wish for something totally awesome like a time machine or totally useful like a cure for cancer.
TFA: $1.5T; 200m downloads @ $750 per
That's not how copyright statutory damages work. It's per work infringed not number of times the work was infringed. You would have to cite that you owned 200,000,000 (or at the very least 600,600) works and that all of them were copied illegally by the proposed system to get that far. Even then it's pretty remote for vicarious/inducement liability. Copyright has statutory damages due to the general rules against presuming damages. Statutory damages are your option if you wish to not prove the exact damages. I wouldn't be surprised if Limewire made a Rule 11 (b) motion to sanction this pleading. It's REALLY POOR. The UPPER limit of the presumable damages for this action are the 30 songs named in the complaint times the ~$250k in statutory damages available. That's ~$7.5M.
This is one of the biggest problem with the DMCA. You have given all the power to the big conglomerates without making them risk anything in return. They just indiscriminately fire C&D letters like shotgun blasts and use them to anti-competitive effect. The only thing Tetris has is their trademark claim and a prevention on decompiling/copying their code or graphics in an exact manner. Feist We need a broader application of Assessment Technologies.
I'd be less critical of the DMCA if they had a penalty, $10,000 plus costs, for reckless or malicious take-down notices. You wouldn't get companies sending 25,000+ a day for 2 seconds of their content used in a fair use manner. This is what scares me so much about the MPEG 7.
Patents are not copyrights. This is not alleged copyright infringement, it's alleged patent infringement. I hate to defend big content, but can we at least call it the right thing. There is a serious difference between copyright infringement and patent infringement.
If WB stole the idea but implemented it in a non-infringing way, that's OK under patent law. The functional implementation is important.
"Warner Bros. Accused of Pirating Anti-Pirating Tech"
Great for a headline, bad if you actually know what the hell any of these words mean.
Interestingly though, unlike copyright which only penalizes per-work copied, patent law is concerned with the quantity and scope of the copies. Under copyright theory, one billion copies of one song is one infringement.
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There is more to getting a new computer than filling out the change request and provisioning a new image. Computers cost money. If you are young startup that is expanding the capital may not be there for new IT purchases, especially for interns.
THEN I might believe that we give one tenth of one shit about efficiency, as a whole.
We are scientists. We speak in scientific units. 1/10th of 1 Shit is equivalent to .001 Al Gore (or 1 mAG).
As the budget situation now is significantly worse than 15 years ago, it seems unlikely that Civilian employees will be made whole after the fact. I love the republicans talking about 'where are the jobs' and then deciding to furlough close to 4 times the number of workers that were added in the latest jobs report over the sum of ~$7B. If the government is closed for a week, that's less than the interest on the National Debt.
The Active Duty military people will be forced to remain, even those that fulfill office type jobs, and will be unpaid until a resolution comes.
This is worse than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. This is arguing deck chair arrangement theory.
I would also like to point at the convoluted/cumbersume checkout function of the android market. If I could buy a pre-paid card with cash at a retail outlet like Wal-Mart, Target, K-Mart, Lowes or any other major retailer like I can for apple, I would feel a lot better about buying that $1 fart app (not really but just go with me on this). The problem that I have to whip out my credit card and go through that hassle means I may as well just whip out my uTorrent and head over to the Pirate Bay. The problem lies in the ease of integration as well as the quality of apps, DRM and other factors. Further, there aren't many more closed systems than that of Apple, and some stats have their piracy rate very high as well too.
The problem however remains that the judge did not sanction the DA or AG who decided that this obvious abuse of the law was a good idea. This is easily rule 11 territory as any first year law student can tell you there is no privacy expectation in a public place. The fact remains is that this guy had to fight to get his rights vindicated and too often, fighting is too expensive.
Oh you mean how apple buys up startups to produce their products or how the iPod, iTunes, iPhone and iPad were really just incremental innovations of other services and products that people were already offering?! Yea, I agree. Apple is the greatest tech company, but lets be honest; they are more polisher than innovator.
For those of you who are new to the tubes, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Nomad, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PressPlay, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_pc
Yes, Apple's products did improve upon all these ideas, but they weren't earth shattering. They just used Apple's "size and distribution channels to scale up the innovations" and bring it to the masses.
About 15 years ago they made a long term investment to running their image into the ground so people would hate them so much that they would be willing to find the bugs for free. It's been working well for a long time, and at this point they have already written the check, why switch.
Microsoft sucks! I'll prove it, look at this random arbitrary glitch in the way they handle SMTP requests.
Thank you very much, fixed. Next!
Crazy like a fox (news anchor).
There's never a theoretical particle physicist when you need one. (Never thought I'd say that phrase)
Why can't George Lucas die of a high cholesterol induced heart attack so I can stop worrying about Indiana Jones 5 and Star Wars 7 and go back to enjoying the memories of my child hood.
This is wrong. There are various ways of obtaining 'expunged' records. There is no delete button on your criminal record. Don't believe me, just ask anyone who has ever taken a bar exam, ever.
This needs more +mod points. If I had them today, I would give them to you.
Let's just get it on the table, that if you chose to forgo a degree rather than get one, you are going to be fighting an uphill battle as to why someone should read your resume for the rest of your life.
Yes, part of getting a degree is simply showing an employer that you are willing to take shit for 4+ years, but to almost all of them, it's an important qualification. TFA is a neat story for sure, but don't decide to eschew college for entering the work force because you think you will be better able to get a job. College (and grad schools) are not a job security guarantee, but they do improve your odds. I for one would rather spend a few extra years racking up *reasonable* debt (thank you state schools) and have a better chance to get an interview than have to hope the HR manager isn't so short sighted that my resume just gets thrown away. You can't impress someone with your skills if they don't meet you. The degree is a better ticket in the front door.
All that said, I have finished 7 years of advanced education. My grand total (excluding room/board which I would have needed anyway) was $60,000. I have $10k in loans. I'll take 10k in loans and an advanced degree, thank you. Your perspective may be different if you went somewhere private like Harvard and owed closer to $300k Worse yet, if you went somewhere SHITTY and private and had a crap degree that no one heard of and $300k in debt.
I would tag this as a sudden break out of common sense, but I am not sure that it is. Yes, it's better in that I will be able to terminate my own video cables again, but how many cable standards do we need? I fully welcome our new Cat5e overlords but I just want the madness to stop.
To be fair, Apple lets you have porn on the iPhone too. They just want to protect you from paying for porn. News flash, there is a lot of free porn on the internet. There is even more 'free' porn if you know where to get it and don't care about copyright infringement.
/Ret con.
People don't even uncheck a box when it says "It's OK to contact me periodically(6 times a day)" Less than 10% change default states whether they are opt-in or opt-out.
The only exception is the Do-Not-Call registry
How About "The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nation" It is a nice counter to Charles Mackay. It's funny how people like to say crowds are morons and then try to prove it Scientifically like Francis Galton did with his Ox Experiment. If a crowd is so stupid why is the Mean of Francis' experiment within 1 pound of the weight of the Ox? From what Fark is ranting about he seems more irked about his crowd not self organizing when he wants it to. Wikipedia and Youtube self organize not just because of leadership but because the crowd wants to organize. If you have a meaningless concept that doesn't have the interest of the crowd then it wont self organize. And just because a group of people can be tricked like in the many witch burnings doesn't mean they have more or less wisdom then the individual since I've seen individuals go far more mad than that.
I wish I had a [blink] tag. Selection bias. You run a site about inane bs. perhaps those who comment about the inane bs will be commenting... inane bs!
You are aware that that is basically how the patent system works.
You pay based on your application and the calculated prosecution complexity. You get so many claims for a fee and the more complex above that basic level you pay more. Then if (or more likely when) your application gets rejected you file a response. When you screw that up, you pay more money and file some more. The examiners also get paid for doing rejections.
The reason shit like this gets through is largely in part due to the fact that because of the backlog the PTO had billions in cash sitting around. What happens when a government organization has billions in cash reserves? Other government agencies borrow from it to meet their budgeting shortfalls. So, as filings have rocketed up, the backlog has gotten worse because they don't have enough money to get new examiners and are grossly overloaded. The response should be to give the patent office MORE money, not less. MORE money might actually allow them to spend more than 45 minutes looking for prior art.
The (free) press has already been asaulted by the bankruptcy laws. I don't mean to be overly 'Rupert Murdoch owns everything and is using it for Faux News' but more of a practical argument that the idea of a healthy and effective press has long since been an ideal not based in reality.
Even discounting the TMZ effect of publishing trash instead of news, the financial realities of the traditional media and the practicalities of the new media have simply diluted the ability of people to hear a message and organize change. The press corps of one have caused so much fragmentation that stories aren't able to gain the critical mass to affect change. This (public photography) has been a big internet WAAAAAAAMBULANCE issue since about 2002, yet it seems from the discussion here that even the generally liberal crowd on here hasn't even heard about this yet.
If you think TFA was bad, take your camera to a public park and take pictures of kids playing in that public place. Bonus points if you do it with a trench coat and a big white Canon 300mm F/2.8L
These are two different things. The problem is not that they have designed something that interoperates but the fact is that it accesses their server. Under the CFAA, it is illegal to access a system without authorization. It is immaterial that the system is public and freely available. AOL, NullSoft and LamaEnterprises are free to set the terms for freely and publicly accessing that system and if you don't comply with the terms you run afoul of the CFAA, a felony. This is actually far worse than Civil Liability possible under copyright because AOL simply has to complain to the federal government and they will prosecute VLC with tax dollars and possibly send coders/officers to jail.
I'd call this a don't be evil move.
Some are stuck in corporate environements where they can install plugins to their browser but can't change their default browser or still need to use ie. I specifically need to use an IE browser for work and my attempts at using Firefox and Chrome (my personal choice) don't work. This is a good thing that doesn't really help Google that much, but doesn't require a lot of effort to make things better.
I agree with you in alternate-1985-what-should-happen reality. But in this reality we have tried that and failed miserably. Metrification I can quickly convert all of the basic weight, distance, volume measurments in my head, and most can too if they would unlearn their learned ignorance but if we are wishing for impossible things, I'd rather wish for something totally awesome like a time machine or totally useful like a cure for cancer.
TFA: $1.5T; 200m downloads @ $750 per
That's not how copyright statutory damages work. It's per work infringed not number of times the work was infringed. You would have to cite that you owned 200,000,000 (or at the very least 600,600) works and that all of them were copied illegally by the proposed system to get that far. Even then it's pretty remote for vicarious/inducement liability. Copyright has statutory damages due to the general rules against presuming damages. Statutory damages are your option if you wish to not prove the exact damages. I wouldn't be surprised if Limewire made a Rule 11 (b) motion to sanction this pleading. It's REALLY POOR. The UPPER limit of the presumable damages for this action are the 30 songs named in the complaint times the ~$250k in statutory damages available. That's ~$7.5M.
100% unless the police department has someone smart enough to know about UDRP in which case they will likely get it back without it.
Hopefully he isn't stupid enough to offer to sell it back to the police station (which would sink his UDRP case).
This is one of the biggest problem with the DMCA. You have given all the power to the big conglomerates without making them risk anything in return. They just indiscriminately fire C&D letters like shotgun blasts and use them to anti-competitive effect. The only thing Tetris has is their trademark claim and a prevention on decompiling/copying their code or graphics in an exact manner. Feist We need a broader application of Assessment Technologies.
I'd be less critical of the DMCA if they had a penalty, $10,000 plus costs, for reckless or malicious take-down notices. You wouldn't get companies sending 25,000+ a day for 2 seconds of their content used in a fair use manner. This is what scares me so much about the MPEG 7.
Patents are not copyrights. This is not alleged copyright infringement, it's alleged patent infringement. I hate to defend big content, but can we at least call it the right thing. There is a serious difference between copyright infringement and patent infringement.
If WB stole the idea but implemented it in a non-infringing way, that's OK under patent law. The functional implementation is important.
"Warner Bros. Accused of Pirating Anti-Pirating Tech"
Great for a headline, bad if you actually know what the hell any of these words mean.
Interestingly though, unlike copyright which only penalizes per-work copied, patent law is concerned with the quantity and scope of the copies. Under copyright theory, one billion copies of one song is one infringement.