I didn't read TFA, TFS was bad enough. Damned MAFIAA.
The trade group warns of 'indefinite delays' as claims of infringement are investigated
What the parent poster said. The RIAA would rather shut you down without any pesky investigations.
allow for 'endless submissions by parties such as Google,' further gumming up the process.
But heaven forbid that sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander. "Rules can't apply to US, only Google."
The RIAA also warns that the need to hire an attorney to navigate the ITC's arcane legal process will 'put justice out of reach for small business American victims of IP theft.
That's as far as I could go before blowing up. These lying asshats REALLY piss me off. First, if I'm going to defend my copyright I'm going to need a lawyer. Period. Doesn't matter if I'm one middle class guy or the RIAA.
Then there's "IP theft". The only theft of IP is the RIAA and MPAA stealing the public domain by bribing Congress. A copyright does NOT confer ownership, it confers a limited time monopoly on publication; the public is the one who owns it. All of us own it. It isn't the RIAA's property, it's ours. They're a bunch of God damned thieves who call their paying customers thieves.
I applaud your Christianity, but these are not people, they'r soulless machines. Corporations. They are only after money, and the people who run them worship that money, probably more than you worship God. When Jesus said to treat others how you want to be treated, I don't think he was referring to treating Satan as you would want to be treated.
A corporation is no more a "person" than your car is, no matter what the Supreme Court says. Feel free do do any damage you wish, unless, of course, it harms real people.
The difference between piracy and counterfeiting is that piracy won't hurt your bottom line and may in fact help it; that poor college kid can't afford Photoshop, but after learning it he'll probably throw tons of money at Adobe. The kid that downloads an unknown tune and likes it is more likely to buy tunes from that band.
However, when you sell me a counterfeit copy of a movie, you've gotten money that the copyright holder should have gotten. You've cheated both him and me.
I would call it a design feature (and not a "hack").
That's actually correct. You don't design a "hack," a hack is using equipment or a tool to do what it was never designed to do. Using the Apollo 13 LEM as a return vehicle was a hack. Using the command module's scrubbers that didn't fit the LEM was a hack.
Using a butter knife as a screwdriver is a hack. See? Your grandma's a hacker!
Running Linux on your X-Box is a hack. Running it on your PC is not.
Funny, that's not what my dictionary says. Mine says "liberal" is a synonym for generous (as in "liberal portions of food") and conservative means "stingy" (as in "conservative portions of food").
In short, liberals are rich bastards like Soros who want government to tax them more so the poor can eat, and the conservatives are rich bastards like the Koch brothers who started the Tea Party and want to take food from the mouths of the poor he's fired so he can have another mansion.
Those not rich are neither conservative nor liberal. You have to have something to conserve to be conservative, and something to be liberal with to be a liberal.
You mention liberty, seems to me neither major US party wants anything whatever to do with liberty or freedom. Both are authoritarian.
Which brings us to social liberalism and social conservatism. That, we can all be. I personally believe you should be able to do any damned thing you want so long as you don't harm anyone else, but neither major party agrees with that (or anything else I believe in, for that matter).
Smug. DRM is why I stopped buying computer games a long time ago (I do miss the gaming scene sometimes). Yes, piracy costs sales -- they say DRM is for piracy, and DRM has cost them hundreds of dollars they would have gotten from me had they not treated me like the thieves they are. I'm sure I'm not the only one who refuses to buy anything that has less functionality than if I'd pirated it.
I'm offtopic so someone please mod me as such, but I'm curious -- why do you capitalize acronyms but not the first letter in a sentence? I know folks who have physical problems that make using the shift key painful, but if you're putting acronyms in caps that's obviously not the cse here.
The EPA is logical; pollution doesn't respect state lines or any other boundaries and the commerce clause certainly applies here. The FTC is the Federal TRADE Commission; they regulate iunterstate trade.
DEA? That one's obviously bogus. You can grow weed in your basement, no commerce needed, especially not interstate.
Mr. and Mrs. Wong, arriving in America from China, met a man named Orville and told him that their son was going to invent a powered flying machine. Orville replied, "Sorry, sir, but two Wongs don't make a Wright."
While some types of hacking may not damage a device to the point that it can't be repaired, others might.
So what? If you ruin a device you've bought, paid for, and OWN, why should Sony care if you ruin it? You've voided the warrantee and it's not only not costing them a dime, you'll likely buy another one unless you were hacking it because it was crap and you wanted to add functionality.
This sort of hacking is exactly what I did as a teenager when I'd turn a $10 transistor radio into a $200 guitar fuzzbox using $2 worth of parts I'd sell for $50. Nothing the radio manufacturer could or should do about it. Once I have your product and you have my money, our relationship is done except for any contractual obligations, such as a warrantee.
A vendor is perfectly within its right not to want customers to monkey around w/ the product in ways it wasn't designed to be monkeyed around
Again, WHY? You spew this unreasonable and obnoxious opinion without giving a single reason why you hold such an absurd view. I paid for it, I own it. I can do any damned thing I want to it. Ford has no right to tell me I can't install a different radio or different brand of spark plugs, why do you give a free ride to Sony?
in the real world, companies know that if a customer has a problem, that'll need to be fixed.
Bullshit. If the product has a design flaw, then it needs to be fixed. If the customer takes a hammer to it, the manufacturer is under no obligation to repair it.
And if the vendor is trying to prevent anybody outside the company from making changes to the code, it makes no sense for it to provide that very source code to the customer
If they want to prevent anyone from seeing their code they should write their own damned code.
the unions will somehow get involved and tripple the costs
I don't see how, and in any case, as the head of a then-nonunion airline said 30 years ago, "any company that gets a union deserves one." Treat your employees with respect, pay them well and give them good benefits and they won't form a union. Treat them like commodities and they will.
I wonder if SpaceX is a union shop? Probably not, they haven't been around long enough to start abusing their workers yet.
I was 6 when the Russians sent Sputnik up, 17 when Armstrong and Aldrin landed. These rapidly lowering prices give me hope that I may make it to at least LEO before I die.
I read down quite a way, and everyone seems to be laughing it this, but nobody has pointed out what should be obvious -- Video games do not cause violence, nor bullying. Violent crime has been dropping ever since Wolfenstein and Doom. I was a kid long before the videogame was invented, and we played cops and robbers, and cowboys and indians, outside. With toy guns that looked real, many of which went "bang" and even expelled projectiles.
And guess what? There were plenty of bullies then, too. I solved a bully problem in the 7th grade by beating the holy hell out of a kid who had been bulling me. The swat I got from the gym coach for blooding the bastard's nose was well worth it.
It's easy to disable a bully, because they don't expect you to fight back. Hit 'em square in the nose with your fist as hard as you can and they're pretty much done for the day, and will be unlikely to ever fuck with you again.
I keep seeing "facebook bulying," wtf? When you get hit, puched, or otherwise assaulted, that's bullying, and it can't be done on the internet. No sticks or stones here, only words.
I don't think so; It looks to me like both parties are pretty damned sleazy here. Dems: "we have to support this because hollywood id paying us to." Repubs: "Hollywood is financing the Dems to pass this bill, so we must oppose it." Note they were for it until they realized opposing it was political gold.
A pox on both their houses. BTW, the opportunity to "mod" a submission is in the fiirehose.
It sounds like you do have a CryataLens. Practice reading without glasses, the muscles atrophy after the natural lens hardens and need to be built back up.
Conflict of interest: The author declares that she has no conflicts of interest and is clearly not trolling, nor taking a joke too far to farm karma.
"Funny" gains no karma, making it actually dangerous to your karma, as many here are entirely humorless and will mod any joke they see as "troll" or "overrated". Tough room. Looks like you got your five, though, so you're safe this time.
Incorrect; Agent Orange was a herbicide, and was used to defoliate forests in VietNam to make it harder for the Viet Cong to hide. Its danger wasn't known publicly then, and it's not a direct poison like "drop it from a plane and everybody dies."They used carpet bombing munitions, mortars, grenades, and M-16 rifles for that.
Dioxin, Agen Orange's effective ingredient, was used commercially in the US as a herbicide for decades until its danger became known and it was banned.
The Agent Orange was dropped on our own soldiers as well as the Vietnamese. I used to know several combat veterans from that war who died in their 30s from cancers that chemical caused.
They're far more than "bigger cows". The Thais built their civilization with elephants, using them like we use bulldozers and other heavy equipment. Not surprisingly, elephants ARE revered there, for their ancient utility.
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I didn't read TFA, TFS was bad enough. Damned MAFIAA.
The trade group warns of 'indefinite delays' as claims of infringement are investigated
What the parent poster said. The RIAA would rather shut you down without any pesky investigations.
allow for 'endless submissions by parties such as Google,' further gumming up the process.
But heaven forbid that sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander. "Rules can't apply to US, only Google."
The RIAA also warns that the need to hire an attorney to navigate the ITC's arcane legal process will 'put justice out of reach for small business American victims of IP theft.
That's as far as I could go before blowing up. These lying asshats REALLY piss me off. First, if I'm going to defend my copyright I'm going to need a lawyer. Period. Doesn't matter if I'm one middle class guy or the RIAA.
Then there's "IP theft". The only theft of IP is the RIAA and MPAA stealing the public domain by bribing Congress. A copyright does NOT confer ownership, it confers a limited time monopoly on publication; the public is the one who owns it. All of us own it. It isn't the RIAA's property, it's ours. They're a bunch of God damned thieves who call their paying customers thieves.
"Leave it to a stupid wop to bring a knife to a gunfight" -- Jim Malone (Sean Connery), The Untouchables
Treat the industry as you want to be treated.
I applaud your Christianity, but these are not people, they'r soulless machines. Corporations. They are only after money, and the people who run them worship that money, probably more than you worship God. When Jesus said to treat others how you want to be treated, I don't think he was referring to treating Satan as you would want to be treated.
A corporation is no more a "person" than your car is, no matter what the Supreme Court says. Feel free do do any damage you wish, unless, of course, it harms real people.
The difference between piracy and counterfeiting is that piracy won't hurt your bottom line and may in fact help it; that poor college kid can't afford Photoshop, but after learning it he'll probably throw tons of money at Adobe. The kid that downloads an unknown tune and likes it is more likely to buy tunes from that band.
However, when you sell me a counterfeit copy of a movie, you've gotten money that the copyright holder should have gotten. You've cheated both him and me.
I would call it a design feature (and not a "hack").
That's actually correct. You don't design a "hack," a hack is using equipment or a tool to do what it was never designed to do. Using the Apollo 13 LEM as a return vehicle was a hack. Using the command module's scrubbers that didn't fit the LEM was a hack.
Using a butter knife as a screwdriver is a hack. See? Your grandma's a hacker!
Running Linux on your X-Box is a hack. Running it on your PC is not.
Liberal used to mean 'for liberty'
Funny, that's not what my dictionary says. Mine says "liberal" is a synonym for generous (as in "liberal portions of food") and conservative means "stingy" (as in "conservative portions of food").
In short, liberals are rich bastards like Soros who want government to tax them more so the poor can eat, and the conservatives are rich bastards like the Koch brothers who started the Tea Party and want to take food from the mouths of the poor he's fired so he can have another mansion.
Those not rich are neither conservative nor liberal. You have to have something to conserve to be conservative, and something to be liberal with to be a liberal.
You mention liberty, seems to me neither major US party wants anything whatever to do with liberty or freedom. Both are authoritarian.
Which brings us to social liberalism and social conservatism. That, we can all be. I personally believe you should be able to do any damned thing you want so long as you don't harm anyone else, but neither major party agrees with that (or anything else I believe in, for that matter).
I think "overrated" includes "woosh", "what a fucking stupid comment" and "wtf is this guy smoking?"
How does this make you feel?
Smug. DRM is why I stopped buying computer games a long time ago (I do miss the gaming scene sometimes). Yes, piracy costs sales -- they say DRM is for piracy, and DRM has cost them hundreds of dollars they would have gotten from me had they not treated me like the thieves they are. I'm sure I'm not the only one who refuses to buy anything that has less functionality than if I'd pirated it.
Stupid, stupid corporations.
I'm offtopic so someone please mod me as such, but I'm curious -- why do you capitalize acronyms but not the first letter in a sentence? I know folks who have physical problems that make using the shift key painful, but if you're putting acronyms in caps that's obviously not the cse here.
The EPA is logical; pollution doesn't respect state lines or any other boundaries and the commerce clause certainly applies here. The FTC is the Federal TRADE Commission; they regulate iunterstate trade.
DEA? That one's obviously bogus. You can grow weed in your basement, no commerce needed, especially not interstate.
Mr. and Mrs. Wong, arriving in America from China, met a man named Orville and told him that their son was going to invent a powered flying machine. Orville replied, "Sorry, sir, but two Wongs don't make a Wright."
That's why I want a Razr -- gorilla glass front and kevlar back. Too bad you have to get on T-Mobile to get one, though :(
What's the chemical difference between regular glass and Gorilla Glass? How thin could you make Gorilla Glass? How strong woud it be at its thinnest?
If I invent an invisible jet, I guess I'll have to talk to a lawyer.
I think the Air Force would pay you a shitload of money for an invisible jet. After all, that's what stealth technology is all about.
While some types of hacking may not damage a device to the point that it can't be repaired, others might.
So what? If you ruin a device you've bought, paid for, and OWN, why should Sony care if you ruin it? You've voided the warrantee and it's not only not costing them a dime, you'll likely buy another one unless you were hacking it because it was crap and you wanted to add functionality.
This sort of hacking is exactly what I did as a teenager when I'd turn a $10 transistor radio into a $200 guitar fuzzbox using $2 worth of parts I'd sell for $50. Nothing the radio manufacturer could or should do about it. Once I have your product and you have my money, our relationship is done except for any contractual obligations, such as a warrantee.
A vendor is perfectly within its right not to want customers to monkey around w/ the product in ways it wasn't designed to be monkeyed around
Again, WHY? You spew this unreasonable and obnoxious opinion without giving a single reason why you hold such an absurd view. I paid for it, I own it. I can do any damned thing I want to it. Ford has no right to tell me I can't install a different radio or different brand of spark plugs, why do you give a free ride to Sony?
in the real world, companies know that if a customer has a problem, that'll need to be fixed.
Bullshit. If the product has a design flaw, then it needs to be fixed. If the customer takes a hammer to it, the manufacturer is under no obligation to repair it.
And if the vendor is trying to prevent anybody outside the company from making changes to the code, it makes no sense for it to provide that very source code to the customer
If they want to prevent anyone from seeing their code they should write their own damned code.
the unions will somehow get involved and tripple the costs
I don't see how, and in any case, as the head of a then-nonunion airline said 30 years ago, "any company that gets a union deserves one." Treat your employees with respect, pay them well and give them good benefits and they won't form a union. Treat them like commodities and they will.
I wonder if SpaceX is a union shop? Probably not, they haven't been around long enough to start abusing their workers yet.
I was 6 when the Russians sent Sputnik up, 17 when Armstrong and Aldrin landed. These rapidly lowering prices give me hope that I may make it to at least LEO before I die.
I read down quite a way, and everyone seems to be laughing it this, but nobody has pointed out what should be obvious -- Video games do not cause violence, nor bullying. Violent crime has been dropping ever since Wolfenstein and Doom. I was a kid long before the videogame was invented, and we played cops and robbers, and cowboys and indians, outside. With toy guns that looked real, many of which went "bang" and even expelled projectiles.
And guess what? There were plenty of bullies then, too. I solved a bully problem in the 7th grade by beating the holy hell out of a kid who had been bulling me. The swat I got from the gym coach for blooding the bastard's nose was well worth it.
It's easy to disable a bully, because they don't expect you to fight back. Hit 'em square in the nose with your fist as hard as you can and they're pretty much done for the day, and will be unlikely to ever fuck with you again.
I keep seeing "facebook bulying," wtf? When you get hit, puched, or otherwise assaulted, that's bullying, and it can't be done on the internet. No sticks or stones here, only words.
I don't think so; It looks to me like both parties are pretty damned sleazy here. Dems: "we have to support this because hollywood id paying us to." Repubs: "Hollywood is financing the Dems to pass this bill, so we must oppose it." Note they were for it until they realized opposing it was political gold.
A pox on both their houses. BTW, the opportunity to "mod" a submission is in the fiirehose.
What made the elephant special was its trunk as much as its size. Plus, have you ever tried to train a bull? Elephants are extremely intelligent.
It sounds like you do have a CryataLens. Practice reading without glasses, the muscles atrophy after the natural lens hardens and need to be built back up.
Conflict of interest: The author declares that she has no conflicts of interest and is clearly not trolling, nor taking a joke too far to farm karma.
"Funny" gains no karma, making it actually dangerous to your karma, as many here are entirely humorless and will mod any joke they see as "troll" or "overrated". Tough room. Looks like you got your five, though, so you're safe this time.
The iDoctor made me wear it after my iSurgery.
No! You can't ban dihydrogen monoxide! I'm addicted to the stuff so badly that withdrawal would certainly be fatal!
Incorrect; Agent Orange was a herbicide, and was used to defoliate forests in VietNam to make it harder for the Viet Cong to hide. Its danger wasn't known publicly then, and it's not a direct poison like "drop it from a plane and everybody dies."They used carpet bombing munitions, mortars, grenades, and M-16 rifles for that.
Dioxin, Agen Orange's effective ingredient, was used commercially in the US as a herbicide for decades until its danger became known and it was banned.
The Agent Orange was dropped on our own soldiers as well as the Vietnamese. I used to know several combat veterans from that war who died in their 30s from cancers that chemical caused.
They're far more than "bigger cows". The Thais built their civilization with elephants, using them like we use bulldozers and other heavy equipment. Not surprisingly, elephants ARE revered there, for their ancient utility.