What world is the article's author living in? Here in this office I have to bring my own wheel mouse to work because all the lame mice around here are plain 3-button mice (Compaq-rebranded logitech MouseMan mice). You must be on another planet!... How do I get there??:-D
Just an idea, as I said. I'm sure in the details it can be refined (re: stephen king situation). Copyrights could be inheritable - though then they would indeed have to be time-limited.
As for your right as a natural person, you have no rights. The only natural right you have is to attempt to survive, have sex, and get eaten by a bear or some similar sharp-clawed/toothed contraption. Ah, you mean the rights that society gives to you? Those are not natural rights, they're a bargain between you and the rest of the world. To call those "MY right as a natural person" is just showing gross incomprehension of the terms.
If the conclusion of the bargain is that selling your copyrights to corporations will hurt society as a whole, then the sad but utilitarian conclusion is that you should not have that right.
I said the reason why they were created, not the reason why they exist now, which are, obviously to anyone who has researched the subject, very different beasts.
Yes, you're right. Personally I don't think that the Statute of Queen Mary was really anything to do with copyrights, more with censorship.
If you look at the next big thing, from the US, it was designed to protect authors from rogue publishers (ie most publishers at the time) who printed novels and made lots of money without paying a cent to the authors. It's to remedy that unfortunate situation that copyrights were invented.
Just to be more precise, when I say "from malicious publishers" I mean from malicious publishers trying to make money out of your work without your consent and/or without giving you any. The primary reason copyrights were created was not to guarantee a revenue to authors but to at least guarantee that no one else will get a revenue from an author's work without their consent.
1) Non-transferrable copyrights, that expire when you die and cannot be owned by a corporation, only by humans (after all, corporations don't have ideas, humans do).
2) Required five-yearly renewal of copyrights to keep them active (would allow all sorts of untracked materials to fall into the public domain naturally, and still allow Disnazy and co. to keep their precious Mickey Mice).
3) Remove the "viewing/listening/reading" right from copyright law. The fact is, once you've released something into the wild you have no rights as to who may view it or listen to it. Return copyright law to its original purpose: protecting artists from malicious publishers, not from their audience.
Those are just of the top of my head, recalled from past discussions...
Most spammers use automated tools to fire off a huge amount of messages. They wouldn't likely bother with sending a message to themselves.
Actually I would think any half-arsed spam tool will periodically send messages to itself to check that the relay is still working... So this spamhole idea, while neat, won't work with any but the most basic of spammers.
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I think they should print all that out, and then dump it all on top of Darl McBride from a giant cargo plane (might need a flying oil tanker for so much content, though...). That'd teach him.
+1 insightful! What kind of thick imbecile doesn't realise the answer to that question within the first microsecond of starting to read it? Never mind that, how much time was wasted in writing this glorified platitude of an article?
What if you need to read and write? I am in the (sloowwwww) process of setting up an el'cheapo linux box which I'll stuff my drives into. Unfortunately they are 120Gb NTFS drives, mostly full, and I can't afford another drive to do the copying/reformatting (not to mention the time to do this...). Would this solution work for this problem? ie could I mount the drives directly with a read-write Samba share so that I can access them from my home network (Both for read and write..)??
Agreed on most RTS's. A big bright light for Warcraft 3 though. That one introduced many gameplay innovations, that made it a truly different game (yet still RTS). Not at all a stale rehash-the-same-game-with-different-graphics-and-p lot affair like the C&C's, Age Of XYZ, and other variations...
Funnily he received the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect, not relativity.
Because it was not considered a "proven" theory at the time. Mind you, his work on the photoelectric effect, setting the bases for Quantum Mechanics, was on its own enough to earn him a Nobel Prize.
Maybe advertisers will be forced to think up *gasp horror* interesting adverts that people will actually want to watch! What a concept... Brainwashing could maybe not be as easy to achieve anymore??...
Cheap sensor fields could also have many many more interesting applications... not the least of which would be helping those still rather clumsy robots move around in environments... the robots would have less trouble if they could rely on an imaging system that can see things from a lot of angles...
Yes, if you're gonna quote the title (in the story or the comments) do it the basic honour of remembering it!!! Those extra two letters make a lot of difference
The name of the rose of past times is just a name, but only names remain amongst us.
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What world is the article's author living in? Here in this office I have to bring my own wheel mouse to work because all the lame mice around here are plain 3-button mice (Compaq-rebranded logitech MouseMan mice). You must be on another planet!... How do I get there?? :-D
Daniel
How was that off-topic? It was plenty on-topic.
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bastard mods...
Daniel
I guess Darl McBride must be living surrounded by top models then...!
Daniel
It got an F.
Daniel
Just an idea, as I said. I'm sure in the details it can be refined (re: stephen king situation). Copyrights could be inheritable - though then they would indeed have to be time-limited.
As for your right as a natural person, you have no rights. The only natural right you have is to attempt to survive, have sex, and get eaten by a bear or some similar sharp-clawed/toothed contraption. Ah, you mean the rights that society gives to you? Those are not natural rights, they're a bargain between you and the rest of the world. To call those "MY right as a natural person" is just showing gross incomprehension of the terms.
If the conclusion of the bargain is that selling your copyrights to corporations will hurt society as a whole, then the sad but utilitarian conclusion is that you should not have that right.
Daniel
I said the reason why they were created, not the reason why they exist now, which are, obviously to anyone who has researched the subject, very different beasts.
Daniel
Yes, you're right. Personally I don't think that the Statute of Queen Mary was really anything to do with copyrights, more with censorship.
If you look at the next big thing, from the US, it was designed to protect authors from rogue publishers (ie most publishers at the time) who printed novels and made lots of money without paying a cent to the authors. It's to remedy that unfortunate situation that copyrights were invented.
Daniel
Just to be more precise, when I say "from malicious publishers" I mean from malicious publishers trying to make money out of your work without your consent and/or without giving you any. The primary reason copyrights were created was not to guarantee a revenue to authors but to at least guarantee that no one else will get a revenue from an author's work without their consent.
Daniel
Several ideas...
1) Non-transferrable copyrights, that expire when you die and cannot be owned by a corporation, only by humans (after all, corporations don't have ideas, humans do).
2) Required five-yearly renewal of copyrights to keep them active (would allow all sorts of untracked materials to fall into the public domain naturally, and still allow Disnazy and co. to keep their precious Mickey Mice).
3) Remove the "viewing/listening/reading" right from copyright law. The fact is, once you've released something into the wild you have no rights as to who may view it or listen to it. Return copyright law to its original purpose: protecting artists from malicious publishers, not from their audience.
Those are just of the top of my head, recalled from past discussions...
Daniel
Most spammers use automated tools to fire off a huge amount of messages. They wouldn't likely bother with sending a message to themselves.
Actually I would think any half-arsed spam tool will periodically send messages to itself to check that the relay is still working... So this spamhole idea, while neat, won't work with any but the most basic of spammers.
Daniel
I think they should print all that out, and then dump it all on top of Darl McBride from a giant cargo plane (might need a flying oil tanker for so much content, though...). That'd teach him.
Daniel
Come to me, I'll eat your delicious flesh.
Daniel
+1 insightful! What kind of thick imbecile doesn't realise the answer to that question within the first microsecond of starting to read it? Never mind that, how much time was wasted in writing this glorified platitude of an article?
Daniel
No. This one.
Daniel
What if you need to read and write? I am in the (sloowwwww) process of setting up an el'cheapo linux box which I'll stuff my drives into. Unfortunately they are 120Gb NTFS drives, mostly full, and I can't afford another drive to do the copying/reformatting (not to mention the time to do this...). Would this solution work for this problem? ie could I mount the drives directly with a read-write Samba share so that I can access them from my home network (Both for read and write..)??
Daniel
If you don't buy CD to hurt the RIAA and you buy DRM music instead you're a few sandwiches short of a picnic...
Daniel
Agreed on most RTS's. A big bright light for Warcraft 3 though. That one introduced many gameplay innovations, that made it a truly different game (yet still RTS). Not at all a stale rehash-the-same-game-with-different-graphics-and-p lot affair like the C&C's, Age Of XYZ, and other variations...
Daniel
Funnily he received the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect, not relativity.
Because it was not considered a "proven" theory at the time. Mind you, his work on the photoelectric effect, setting the bases for Quantum Mechanics, was on its own enough to earn him a Nobel Prize.
Daniel
All TV advertising is using devious techniques comparable to subliminal advertising anyway. More info here.
Daniel
Maybe advertisers will be forced to think up *gasp horror* interesting adverts that people will actually want to watch! What a concept... Brainwashing could maybe not be as easy to achieve anymore??...
Daniel
Cheap sensor fields could also have many many more interesting applications... not the least of which would be helping those still rather clumsy robots move around in environments... the robots would have less trouble if they could rely on an imaging system that can see things from a lot of angles...
Sounds like a great idea. Kudos to intel.
Daniel
Looks like the hosting server definitely is gone caca... slashdotted already :-(
Daniel
Yes, if you're gonna quote the title (in the story or the comments) do it the basic honour of remembering it!!! Those extra two letters make a lot of difference
The name of the rose of past times is just a name, but only names remain amongst us.
Daniel
I was going to say that, but I see someone already said it.
I'll just add that it wasn't 2:30am, it was 5:30am, actually.
Daniel
You impostor! You're not God! God is an AC!
Daniel