That's what we're talking about here. It's not even right or wrong it's a lack of jurisdiction.
Actually that's not at all what the parent post is saying. The parent post which was modded "5" as insightful, argues that anything that can be copied for no cost should have no value, regardless of the laws around it. My post addressed that argument, but, of course this being slashdot, got modded troll because god forbid anyone should disagree with the fucking geniuses on this site that think they know everything about economics and law, and believe that communications companies should be able to charge a service fee for distributing work created by artists who shouldn't get anything for their efforts. You people make me fucking sick.
I suppose laws are "just pretend" to you as well. So the law that says you can't speed should be unenforceable because your car is clearly capable of speeding. The law that says you can't undress in public should be unenforceable because your clothes are clearly designed to be removable. Opium, Cocaine, Cannabis, etc. being plants or derived from plants are "infinitely reproduceable" (just plant the seeds to grow more), therefore why should it have any value? The very idea that something so easy to do should be considered illegal, and therefore be made valuable is preposterous in your world view, but your world view is not really connected to reality, is it?
Just because you can easily reproduce information does not mean you should have the right to so so. Once you take away the right to reproduce the data, your entire argument collapses like the house of cards it is. Because, while information may be infinitely reproducable, does not make it valueless when the copies are illegal. In addition, many people feel that the creator of the work should be compensated, not the Comcasts and AT&Ts of the world that merely provide the medium for distribution.
It's not a flaw of the courts, it's a flaw of the legislature, which means it's a flaw of the people elected into office, which means it's a flaw of the electorate, for voting these people into office, which means, ultimately, its OUR fault.
Function: noun
: property that derives from the work of the mind or intellect (as an idea, invention, trade secret, process, program, data, formula, patent, copyright, or trademark) ; also : an application, right, or registration relating to this "
--Merriam Webster.
To help you out even further, the word "property" means, "2 a : something that is or may be owned or possessed : WEALTH, GOODS; specifically : a piece of real estate b : the exclusive right to possess, enjoy, and dispose of a thing : a valuable right or interest primarily a source or element of wealth : OWNERSHIP c : something to which a person has a legal title : an estate in tangible assets (as lands, goods, money) or intangible rights (as copyrights, patents) in which or to which a person has a right protected by law"
Agreed. Once you create evidence like this, it would be illegal to destroy it if you are ever in an accident. If you are a careful driver, then it makes sense to create this kind of record, since if you're in an accident, it probably won't be your fault. But it is a double edge sword. If you make a mistake like run a stop sign, having a video like this can only work against you. (Of course, if you're honest you should accept the responsibility from your mistake anyway.)
Never, because all the "discussion" is being done in a gigantic echo chamber that makes it get louder and louder, with no dissenting voices (this posting being a prime example as I am sure it will not be modded up due to my contrarian attitude on patents). Once the discussion does escape the "tech echo chamber" people realize how ludicrous the idea that patents are bad for society is. Patents are proven to be beneficial to society. Its in the Constitution for a reason. Read about it.
I also believe software patents should be limited to a term of 3 years, and some could make me a convincing argument even that is too long. Right now, software patents are nothing but a hindrance to the market and a leach to the hard work of others. How many companies have been pushed away from OSS because of litigious bastards?
I can see you neither work for a start up company or have ever talked with a venture capitalist.
On the other hand, the convenience factor of just paying $0.99 or $1.99 for the apps I want and instantly downloading them far outweighs any concerns over lack of "freedom."
Yup. There's a reason "ice" is slang for "diamond." It feels cold because it disperses your body heat through it very rapidly. Its an excellent heat conductor.
Right on. I don't understand why it has to be one or the other. I don't mind the Ribbon, but it bothers me that it is not user-configurable, like the toolbars. Why can't I stick a custom button icon there tied to a macro? Yes, MS does provide a custom "Quick Access" toolbar, but it is a far cry from the highly configurable tool bars that came with Office 2003.
Whatever else OOo does, if they simply let the user decide what interface they want, or maybe even allow (gasp!) a combination of the two, then they have made a huge improvement over Office, which crams' MS's choice down everyone's throats.
I posted this elsewhere, but in case you missed it:
The Standard Data Reference Act provides an exception in the case of reference data to the general rule that the U.S. government cannot obtain a copyright.
If the NIST program is the product of the work of US Government employees it is in the public domain.
Not true. The Standard Reference Data Act provides an exception in the case of reference data to the general rule that the government cannot obtain a copyrights.
Conceptually, two substances that are mixed has more entropy than when they are separated, so you can see that energy is available to be extracted in the mixing of the fresh water with the salt water (thereby distributing the salts throughout the mixture).
My experience with Firefox and SharePoint is different. Most features work with Firefox, including just browsing and navigating. But there are a lot of features of SharePoint that just not work with anything but IE. Especially things like page editing.. I hare are so many problems using Firefox with SharePoint, I have the IE tab extension and have it set to use the IE rendering engine whenever I access our corporate SharePoint.
Mod parent up. These pricing plans need to be looked at very closely to make sure that media companies aren't illegally tying their content to their monopolistic delivery channels, in an effort to squeeze out other content providers like Netflix.
I think its equally unfair for the price to jump when the customer exceeds an invisible threshold, requiring customers to constantly check -- using more bandwidth -- what their current usage is to make sure they don't go over. This is the problem with cell phones. The companies should be required to inform you when your paid-for minutes or text messages are used up and you will be forced to pay extra -- WHEN you make the phone call or BEFORE you send that next text message. The practice of waiting until the end of the billing cycle to inform the consumer is not consumer-friendly, and should be banned.
Since the fix isn't inherited, this could increase the rate of this disorder in the whole human race. If genetic disorders never select out, a lot more people would become dependent on the treatment in the future. There's a reason why natural selection is important to the survival of a species.
In a nutshell: More people who have this disorder will be able to have children and pass it on.
That's a good reason not to give kids eyeglasses or braces or, hell, lets not give any medical care to kids at all. And, maybe if you get beat up in the schoolyard, you should be left to die because, well, "survival of the fittest" and all that...
You need to explain why Muscular Dystrophy should be singled out for non-treatment, or if not singled out, where you draw the line. Is it because its a genetic treatment? How is that worse than injecting yourself with insulin the rest of your life to keep you well? Or laser eye surgery for the blind or cochlear implants for the deaf?
..not just for NASA but for the "hydrogen-based economy," which could be nothing but a pipe-dream but for which a great deal of research is nevertheless ongoing.
Hydrogen is not an easy gas to contain -- the atoms are so small they can penetrate most materials. Hydrogen is odorless and colorless, so leaks can go undetected. This can cause unknown problems. For exmaple, once released into the atmosphere hydrogen could increase greenhouse gasses due to uptake of hydroxyl radicals, which would otherwise react with and remove the greenhouse gasses.
Solving problems in containing hydrogen is an important step and we have NASA to thank once again for being among the first to meet new technological challenges.
The day Foxit (or some other company) provides a browser plugin that allows me to view PDFs within my browser is the day I stop using Adobe Viewer. I'm just glad I am still using version 8.
Having resources to defend oneself against charges of monopoly abuse -- spurious or otherwise -- is typically the case when dealing with monopolies. It does take and always has taken a concerted effort to bring down monopoly powers, whether it was is oil or railroad monopolies in the 1800s, or software or communications monopolies now.
I wouldn't guess that the biggest abusers of monopoly power ist Google, but rather Comcast and their ilk. I would love for the government to do an in-depth review of their business practices.
DOOM had no better graphics than its predecessor Wolfenstien.
I have to disagree with you here. Original Doom had very expressive texture maps that were used sparingly, but to great effect. Do you remember the "lost souls" texture map showing ghostly bodies writhing in agony? Or the exterior panoramas that you got a glimpse of from time to time through a window or off a platform? What about the loping movement of the camera, verses the robotic-like movement in Wolfenstein?
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Actually that's not at all what the parent post is saying. The parent post which was modded "5" as insightful, argues that anything that can be copied for no cost should have no value, regardless of the laws around it. My post addressed that argument, but, of course this being slashdot, got modded troll because god forbid anyone should disagree with the fucking geniuses on this site that think they know everything about economics and law, and believe that communications companies should be able to charge a service fee for distributing work created by artists who shouldn't get anything for their efforts. You people make me fucking sick.
I suppose laws are "just pretend" to you as well. So the law that says you can't speed should be unenforceable because your car is clearly capable of speeding. The law that says you can't undress in public should be unenforceable because your clothes are clearly designed to be removable. Opium, Cocaine, Cannabis, etc. being plants or derived from plants are "infinitely reproduceable" (just plant the seeds to grow more), therefore why should it have any value? The very idea that something so easy to do should be considered illegal, and therefore be made valuable is preposterous in your world view, but your world view is not really connected to reality, is it?
Just because you can easily reproduce information does not mean you should have the right to so so. Once you take away the right to reproduce the data, your entire argument collapses like the house of cards it is. Because, while information may be infinitely reproducable, does not make it valueless when the copies are illegal. In addition, many people feel that the creator of the work should be compensated, not the Comcasts and AT&Ts of the world that merely provide the medium for distribution.
It's not a flaw of the courts, it's a flaw of the legislature, which means it's a flaw of the people elected into office, which means it's a flaw of the electorate, for voting these people into office, which means, ultimately, its OUR fault.
Intellectual Property:
Function: noun
: property that derives from the work of the mind or intellect (as an idea, invention, trade secret, process, program, data, formula, patent, copyright, or trademark) ; also : an application, right, or registration relating to this "
--Merriam Webster.
To help you out even further, the word "property" means, "2 a : something that is or may be owned or possessed : WEALTH, GOODS; specifically : a piece of real estate b : the exclusive right to possess, enjoy, and dispose of a thing : a valuable right or interest primarily a source or element of wealth : OWNERSHIP c : something to which a person has a legal title : an estate in tangible assets (as lands, goods, money) or intangible rights (as copyrights, patents) in which or to which a person has a right protected by law"
--Merriam Webster
Are you still confused?
How is it the parent is modded insightful? Funny, maybe. Your finger slip?
Agreed. Once you create evidence like this, it would be illegal to destroy it if you are ever in an accident. If you are a careful driver, then it makes sense to create this kind of record, since if you're in an accident, it probably won't be your fault. But it is a double edge sword. If you make a mistake like run a stop sign, having a video like this can only work against you. (Of course, if you're honest you should accept the responsibility from your mistake anyway.)
Never, because all the "discussion" is being done in a gigantic echo chamber that makes it get louder and louder, with no dissenting voices (this posting being a prime example as I am sure it will not be modded up due to my contrarian attitude on patents). Once the discussion does escape the "tech echo chamber" people realize how ludicrous the idea that patents are bad for society is. Patents are proven to be beneficial to society. Its in the Constitution for a reason. Read about it.
Wow that is tiny bandwidth. Less than 2 bytes a second, according to my calculations. How long does slashdot take to load where you live?
I dunno. If someone steals my money, it can be replaced by the bank whose security system failed. If someone steals my secrets, there is no remedy.
it's also Not A Viable Option. Really, they should call it "WINAVO"
I can see you neither work for a start up company or have ever talked with a venture capitalist.
On the other hand, the convenience factor of just paying $0.99 or $1.99 for the apps I want and instantly downloading them far outweighs any concerns over lack of "freedom."
Yup. There's a reason "ice" is slang for "diamond." It feels cold because it disperses your body heat through it very rapidly. Its an excellent heat conductor.
Right on. I don't understand why it has to be one or the other. I don't mind the Ribbon, but it bothers me that it is not user-configurable, like the toolbars. Why can't I stick a custom button icon there tied to a macro? Yes, MS does provide a custom "Quick Access" toolbar, but it is a far cry from the highly configurable tool bars that came with Office 2003.
Whatever else OOo does, if they simply let the user decide what interface they want, or maybe even allow (gasp!) a combination of the two, then they have made a huge improvement over Office, which crams' MS's choice down everyone's throats.
I posted this elsewhere, but in case you missed it:
The Standard Data Reference Act provides an exception in the case of reference data to the general rule that the U.S. government cannot obtain a copyright.
If the NIST program is the product of the work of US Government employees it is in the public domain.
Not true. The Standard Reference Data Act provides an exception in the case of reference data to the general rule that the government cannot obtain a copyrights.
Conceptually, two substances that are mixed has more entropy than when they are separated, so you can see that energy is available to be extracted in the mixing of the fresh water with the salt water (thereby distributing the salts throughout the mixture).
My experience with Firefox and SharePoint is different. Most features work with Firefox, including just browsing and navigating. But there are a lot of features of SharePoint that just not work with anything but IE. Especially things like page editing.. I hare are so many problems using Firefox with SharePoint, I have the IE tab extension and have it set to use the IE rendering engine whenever I access our corporate SharePoint.
Mod parent up. These pricing plans need to be looked at very closely to make sure that media companies aren't illegally tying their content to their monopolistic delivery channels, in an effort to squeeze out other content providers like Netflix.
I think its equally unfair for the price to jump when the customer exceeds an invisible threshold, requiring customers to constantly check -- using more bandwidth -- what their current usage is to make sure they don't go over. This is the problem with cell phones. The companies should be required to inform you when your paid-for minutes or text messages are used up and you will be forced to pay extra -- WHEN you make the phone call or BEFORE you send that next text message. The practice of waiting until the end of the billing cycle to inform the consumer is not consumer-friendly, and should be banned.
Since the fix isn't inherited, this could increase the rate of this disorder in the whole human race. If genetic disorders never select out, a lot more people would become dependent on the treatment in the future. There's a reason why natural selection is important to the survival of a species. In a nutshell: More people who have this disorder will be able to have children and pass it on.
That's a good reason not to give kids eyeglasses or braces or, hell, lets not give any medical care to kids at all. And, maybe if you get beat up in the schoolyard, you should be left to die because, well, "survival of the fittest" and all that... You need to explain why Muscular Dystrophy should be singled out for non-treatment, or if not singled out, where you draw the line. Is it because its a genetic treatment? How is that worse than injecting yourself with insulin the rest of your life to keep you well? Or laser eye surgery for the blind or cochlear implants for the deaf?
..not just for NASA but for the "hydrogen-based economy," which could be nothing but a pipe-dream but for which a great deal of research is nevertheless ongoing.
Hydrogen is not an easy gas to contain -- the atoms are so small they can penetrate most materials. Hydrogen is odorless and colorless, so leaks can go undetected. This can cause unknown problems. For exmaple, once released into the atmosphere hydrogen could increase greenhouse gasses due to uptake of hydroxyl radicals, which would otherwise react with and remove the greenhouse gasses.
Solving problems in containing hydrogen is an important step and we have NASA to thank once again for being among the first to meet new technological challenges.
Sprint has Android phones on the way. http://phandroid.com/2009/02/20/sprint-android-coming-ceo-reassures/
The day Foxit (or some other company) provides a browser plugin that allows me to view PDFs within my browser is the day I stop using Adobe Viewer. I'm just glad I am still using version 8.
Having resources to defend oneself against charges of monopoly abuse -- spurious or otherwise -- is typically the case when dealing with monopolies. It does take and always has taken a concerted effort to bring down monopoly powers, whether it was is oil or railroad monopolies in the 1800s, or software or communications monopolies now.
I wouldn't guess that the biggest abusers of monopoly power ist Google, but rather Comcast and their ilk. I would love for the government to do an in-depth review of their business practices.
DOOM had no better graphics than its predecessor Wolfenstien.
I have to disagree with you here. Original Doom had very expressive texture maps that were used sparingly, but to great effect. Do you remember the "lost souls" texture map showing ghostly bodies writhing in agony? Or the exterior panoramas that you got a glimpse of from time to time through a window or off a platform? What about the loping movement of the camera, verses the robotic-like movement in Wolfenstein?