Did you even read what you linked to? The link doesn't even come close to backing up your point. In fact, its lack of naming a single piece of malware in the wild actually moots your point (yes, I verbified a noun).
The worst it has to say is that the kernel didn't prevent buffer overflows until 2009. You only need AV on Windows. Yes, you can be socially engineered on any OS, trojans will run on any OS, and no AV will protect you from deliberately installing anything you want. And yes, given a dedicated enough cracker any sytem can be compromised in time.
But as long as you're not a complete idiot, the only platform that's at risk is Windows.
Right now, content publishers who want to reach readers through dedicated mobile apps have to hire a separate engineering team to build each app
Why a dedicated mobile app? What's wrong with HTML? We are talking about books, right? Not Quake or Angry Birds or even a radio station; plain old text. WTF?
Actually it's a bit over 300 years old, the earliest copyright law that comes to mind is the British Statute of Anne 1709.
Copyright is over 300 years old, but the concept of "intellectual property" isn't even past puberty. Before the Bono Act (and according to the US Constitution) you do NOT own intellectual "property", you have a limited-time monopoly on it. This "property" belongs to everyone, or at least it did before 1998.
If things keep going the way they have, Mark Twain's heirs will be getting royalties from Huckleberry Finn.
You might also want to consider the amount of technological progress that has taken place over the last 100 years and compare it to the last 100,000 years
I'd say the invention of the wheel, the hammer, the tong, taming fire, the airplane, the internal combustion engine, agriculture, use of animals, boats, clothing, cooking, the arrow, the spear, the firearm, explosives, mathematics, telephones, electrical generators, and (the list goes on and on) far overshadow the computer, TV, VCRs, and the internet, none of which would be possible if it wasn't for all the progress done in the previous 100,000 years.
Copyright and patent have encouraged technological and artistic innovation, but the VERY recent idea of "intellectual property" (less than 20 years old) is a huge step backwards and has not fostered progress of any kind.
One of the Republican candidates (Romney, I think) flatly stated that the US has no middle class.
God but google is failing today; I could neither find that quote, nor one by Pete Seeger. Every damned result had nothing at all to do with what I was looking for.
Bling was no better, it returned one result that also had nothing to do with what I was looking for. Guys, there's a huge opportunity here...
A couple more examples: George Harrison was sued because "My Sweet Lord" uses the same chords as "She's So Fine" and has a similar melody. ZZ Top was sued by Howlin Wolf for the "Ah how how how" in "La Grange".
It should not be like this. I agree with Pete Seeger, who I would quote if wikipedia hadn't excised the quote (and google fails me), but it went something like "this is our'n music. You can sing it, play it, hum it, we don't care what you do with it."
Wikipedia also excised the photo of him with the guitar with the bumper sticker that read "this machine kills facists".
You say "This has been the case for years", but not that damned many years, and years really aren't that long. See the other response to your comment, it's insightful.
The old blues legends like BB King and John Lee Hooker freely took from other artists, and didn't give a damn if you took from them. In fact, he could have easily sued Jesse Stone (Charles E. Calhoun) for "Shake, Rattle and Roll" in the fifties because it was nearly identical to his "Shake, Holler and Run" from fifteen years earlier.
It's not fear of stangers, it's distaste for loud, obnoxious strangers. Strangers that don't bathe. Strangers that use too much perfume. Strangers that smell like a combination of Vodka and vomit. Busses that are standing room only. Busses that stink because they're poorly maintained and smell like diesel fumes.
No thanks. I don't enjoy driving, but driving is a hell of a lot better than a bus. I don't have to stand outside in below freezing weather, or blistering heat for twenty minutes waiting to start my journey when I have a car.
Our state is in the dire economic straits it's in because of the last two Governors. I couldn't believe Blago got re-elected, but then I couldn't believe Bush got re-elected, either.
Remember Ryan's "Build Illinois"? More like "Bilk Illinois."
You have to consider, though, that our fellow Illinois citizens do have a point about the corruption, considering that three of our last five governors were sentenced to prison for felonies; 3/5 of the Governors in the last 40 years were convicted felons!
If it had been open sourced the bugs would have been found and fixed years ago. How do you know some blackhat didn't find the holes without the source long before it was leaked? Security through obscurity is about as dependable as the TSA groping children in the airport is at keeping terrorists out.
Seeing it is a talent that requires a lot of study
True. Well, almost true; leave out the word "it" and you're accurate.
Just because the medium requires a click at the end does not suggest that any less work went into the photo than a comparable painting.
Absolute bullshit. How long would it take for you to do this with a camera? Audrey Flack did it with an airbrush!
You claim to have studied photography "pretty seriously" for years, did you do so at a university? Somehow I doubt it, or you would know that many, many compositions are done over and over by different, GREAT artists who are now all hanging in art museums. Take a few art history courses, it will do your photography wonders.
The truly talented can end up going months between inception and creation.
Then I must be the most creative person on the face of the earth (no, I'm not). I whipped this out in less than ten minutes, the inspiration was a shlashdot story about a power outage at the LHC. Asimov (far better a writer than me) wrote similar stories in even less time; he wrote one on the Tonight Show during a commercial break! Using a typewriter!
Gingrich is probably as seious about establishing a moon base as he was when he swore "til death do us part" to the woman he later served divorce papers to while she was hospitalized with cancer, or "Clinton needs to be impeached!!!" while Gingrich himself was screwing around on his second wife. The man is a liar and hypocrite with no obvious sign of morals or ethics whatever.
Nothing that blowhard says shoud EVER be believed. I can't figure out why anyone would vote for that guy.
Yes, the photograph is "clearly different" in that it's not the exact same photograph, but it is clearly the same compositional idea
Obviously, neither you nor the judge have seen many classical paintings. There is one composition with a nude woman laying on a couch with a clothed servant standing beside her that at least six different artists, all of whom are hanging in museums now, painted.
That's how art works. It's like science and technology, in that everything comes from what came before. I thought the "both have blank skies" incredibly stupid, because look at almost any black and white photo taken outdoors without a filter -- the skies are ALL blank..
You should NOT be able to patent an idea and you should NOT be able to copyright a composition. When I wrote this short science fiction story, it was pointed out that it resembled They're Made Out Of Meat, and yes, it was influenced by that and many other stories. Should Terry Bison be able to sue me for copyright violation? This judge would probably think so.
In other words, the original wasn't simply a photograph of something but a specifically processed piece of artwork
As was the second. They're similar, yes, but they're not the same. Should Paramount sue whoever made Babylon Five because both are in outer space? Should they sue Lucas because Star Wars had aliens that looked almost human?
Copyright protects a copy. You have the right to protect a copy of your work, not something that is similar to your work.
The actual idea behind the story I linked is, afaik, pretty damned original. Should I be able to sue someone who takes that idea and writes a different story similar to it? Hell no!!!
Copyright protects copies. This wasn't a copy. The ruling was retarded.
Well, their price changes last year and subsequent financial losses back up my point -- using silverlight to deliver content is stupid. No Netflix for me.
The other funny attack often seen is when "state functions" like cops and firefighters are brought up to attack people clamoring for a smaller federal government -- I feel like a Civics class should be mandatory for all citizens.
I agree, but you have the other extreme (Paul, Gingrich, etc) that want to get rid of the FAA and the EPA and the highway administration and the FCC and the FAA. I'm damned glad Eisenhower started the interstate highway system. Like you, I'm bemused that a lot (most?) of the people who are are against "big government" have those views because of some crooked local cop or overreaching state or even county agency that screwed them over.
I also agree with you that some agencies shouldn't exist -- DEA, ATF, TSA... and the FBI should be much smaller. And I wonder why they had to amend the Constitution to outlaw alcohol, but didn't have to for other drugs?
If $100,000,000 profit is made within the first month, then what are we protecting them from? Is protection really needed?
The trouble with that is that you would be encouraging mediocrity. Say I write a fantastic book everyone wants to read and make a million the first year, and nothing afterward, while a hack whips out some garbage that takes fifty years to earn that much. He's still got copyright while I don't. Rather, give both the same amount of time. If author #1 sells a million books a year whle author #2 sells ten thousand, #2 has the incentive to try harder.
You would have "Gigli" hold copyright for decades, while "Gran Torino" would only have it for a year. Crap shouldn't be rewarded better than quality!
To me, it isn't about the money a person or company makes, it's about use of material. Art is like science and technology, in that everything new is built on the old. If Hemmingway saw farther than other men, it was because he stood on the shoulders of giants (plus you meet interesting characters in seedy bars).
Seriously, you believe the products like the Segway and Volt are priced wrong because "the 1% do not understand the 99%"?
Yes. Six grand is nothing to Warren Buffett, it's the price of a decent used automobile for most people. I find it hard to believe there's more than $500 in materials and labor in one, and predict (my predictions are usually wrong) that when the patent runs out you'll see knockoffs for under five hundred bucks.
What you've generally got here is the realization that our govt. leaders are pushing for environmentally "greener" solutions to energy-related issues, meaning loads of tax subsidies and loans available to those promising to design and deliver such solutions.
Then why are the green solutions so damned expensive? They're just taking the government money and running. I'm completely against these subsidies; I'm all for welfare for the poor, but the rich get the lion's share of the handouts. It's disgusting.
The people with the money to buy an electric car as an "expensive toy" aren't really a target market for a Chevy Volt either. (Well, there will always be at least a few exceptions to the rule since tastes are so varied...) In general though? Those "1 percenters" are going to go for something much "cooler" than a car with the Chevy bow-tie on it and with better performance, like the Fisker Karma or the Tesla roadster.
That's my point exactly. The rich will be buying things like the Tesla, who in their right mind would spend the price of a luxury sedan on an electric Vega? But as to the EV-1, nobody mandated that Chevy make them. Ford didn't make one, that was strictly Chevy's decision.
The 1% tend to be people in industries like banking and finance, where they presumably have a pretty good handle on the spending habits of the "rest of us".
No, the tellers, who ARE part of "the rest of us". They have an idea what our spending habits are. Their bosses don't.
They may be living in their own fantasy world made possible by their large amount of available spending money, but that doesn't mean they'd make a really boneheaded business decision like trying to sell the public a car that's 2x the max. price many of them can even get the loan approved for.
Yet they do. If they realized these decisions were boneheaded they wouldn't make those decisions.
I'm thinking the online environment has changed somewhat in the last couple of those decades, no?
It sure has! I was on Compuserve's walled garden in 1982, and it was pretty much useless. BBSes in the late '80s and early '90s were very useful, especially to someone into computer gaming as I was. But IMO the golden age of the internet was just before and after the century's turn, when almost all content was user generated and there was almost no commercial activity. Banner ads here and there, and people complained about them.
Now it's 99% ad-laden greedsters trying to get rich. The internet isn't near as fun as it used to be.
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Did you even read what you linked to? The link doesn't even come close to backing up your point. In fact, its lack of naming a single piece of malware in the wild actually moots your point (yes, I verbified a noun).
The worst it has to say is that the kernel didn't prevent buffer overflows until 2009. You only need AV on Windows. Yes, you can be socially engineered on any OS, trojans will run on any OS, and no AV will protect you from deliberately installing anything you want. And yes, given a dedicated enough cracker any sytem can be compromised in time.
But as long as you're not a complete idiot, the only platform that's at risk is Windows.
Analogy is slightly flawed since license plates exist primarily for the purpose of systematically charging fees
No, they're to make it so the cops can catch you easier. Hard to outrun a radio.
I'd say 7 years is a long time in the computer world! :o)
Not really.
Right now, content publishers who want to reach readers through dedicated mobile apps have to hire a separate engineering team to build each app
Why a dedicated mobile app? What's wrong with HTML? We are talking about books, right? Not Quake or Angry Birds or even a radio station; plain old text. WTF?
Actually it's a bit over 300 years old, the earliest copyright law that comes to mind is the British Statute of Anne 1709.
Copyright is over 300 years old, but the concept of "intellectual property" isn't even past puberty. Before the Bono Act (and according to the US Constitution) you do NOT own intellectual "property", you have a limited-time monopoly on it. This "property" belongs to everyone, or at least it did before 1998.
If things keep going the way they have, Mark Twain's heirs will be getting royalties from Huckleberry Finn.
You might also want to consider the amount of technological progress that has taken place over the last 100 years and compare it to the last 100,000 years
I'd say the invention of the wheel, the hammer, the tong, taming fire, the airplane, the internal combustion engine, agriculture, use of animals, boats, clothing, cooking, the arrow, the spear, the firearm, explosives, mathematics, telephones, electrical generators, and (the list goes on and on) far overshadow the computer, TV, VCRs, and the internet, none of which would be possible if it wasn't for all the progress done in the previous 100,000 years.
Copyright and patent have encouraged technological and artistic innovation, but the VERY recent idea of "intellectual property" (less than 20 years old) is a huge step backwards and has not fostered progress of any kind.
One of the Republican candidates (Romney, I think) flatly stated that the US has no middle class.
God but google is failing today; I could neither find that quote, nor one by Pete Seeger. Every damned result had nothing at all to do with what I was looking for.
Bling was no better, it returned one result that also had nothing to do with what I was looking for. Guys, there's a huge opportunity here...
I actually *enjoy* driving.
I used to too -- when I was nineteen. Get off my lawn, kid.
A couple more examples: George Harrison was sued because "My Sweet Lord" uses the same chords as "She's So Fine" and has a similar melody. ZZ Top was sued by Howlin Wolf for the "Ah how how how" in "La Grange".
It should not be like this. I agree with Pete Seeger, who I would quote if wikipedia hadn't excised the quote (and google fails me), but it went something like "this is our'n music. You can sing it, play it, hum it, we don't care what you do with it."
Wikipedia also excised the photo of him with the guitar with the bumper sticker that read "this machine kills facists".
You say "This has been the case for years", but not that damned many years, and years really aren't that long. See the other response to your comment, it's insightful.
The old blues legends like BB King and John Lee Hooker freely took from other artists, and didn't give a damn if you took from them. In fact, he could have easily sued Jesse Stone (Charles E. Calhoun) for "Shake, Rattle and Roll" in the fifties because it was nearly identical to his "Shake, Holler and Run" from fifteen years earlier.
Apparently you can in Britain. It's wrong in my view, but apparently that's how it is there.
It's not fear of stangers, it's distaste for loud, obnoxious strangers. Strangers that don't bathe. Strangers that use too much perfume. Strangers that smell like a combination of Vodka and vomit. Busses that are standing room only. Busses that stink because they're poorly maintained and smell like diesel fumes.
No thanks. I don't enjoy driving, but driving is a hell of a lot better than a bus. I don't have to stand outside in below freezing weather, or blistering heat for twenty minutes waiting to start my journey when I have a car.
Our state is in the dire economic straits it's in because of the last two Governors. I couldn't believe Blago got re-elected, but then I couldn't believe Bush got re-elected, either.
Remember Ryan's "Build Illinois"? More like "Bilk Illinois."
You have to consider, though, that our fellow Illinois citizens do have a point about the corruption, considering that three of our last five governors were sentenced to prison for felonies; 3/5 of the Governors in the last 40 years were convicted felons!
If it had been open sourced the bugs would have been found and fixed years ago. How do you know some blackhat didn't find the holes without the source long before it was leaked? Security through obscurity is about as dependable as the TSA groping children in the airport is at keeping terrorists out.
Seeing it is a talent that requires a lot of study
True. Well, almost true; leave out the word "it" and you're accurate.
Just because the medium requires a click at the end does not suggest that any less work went into the photo than a comparable painting.
Absolute bullshit. How long would it take for you to do this with a camera? Audrey Flack did it with an airbrush!
You claim to have studied photography "pretty seriously" for years, did you do so at a university? Somehow I doubt it, or you would know that many, many compositions are done over and over by different, GREAT artists who are now all hanging in art museums. Take a few art history courses, it will do your photography wonders.
The truly talented can end up going months between inception and creation.
Then I must be the most creative person on the face of the earth (no, I'm not). I whipped this out in less than ten minutes, the inspiration was a shlashdot story about a power outage at the LHC. Asimov (far better a writer than me) wrote similar stories in even less time; he wrote one on the Tonight Show during a commercial break! Using a typewriter!
Gingrich is probably as seious about establishing a moon base as he was when he swore "til death do us part" to the woman he later served divorce papers to while she was hospitalized with cancer, or "Clinton needs to be impeached!!!" while Gingrich himself was screwing around on his second wife. The man is a liar and hypocrite with no obvious sign of morals or ethics whatever.
Nothing that blowhard says shoud EVER be believed. I can't figure out why anyone would vote for that guy.
Yes, the photograph is "clearly different" in that it's not the exact same photograph, but it is clearly the same compositional idea
Obviously, neither you nor the judge have seen many classical paintings. There is one composition with a nude woman laying on a couch with a clothed servant standing beside her that at least six different artists, all of whom are hanging in museums now, painted.
That's how art works. It's like science and technology, in that everything comes from what came before. I thought the "both have blank skies" incredibly stupid, because look at almost any black and white photo taken outdoors without a filter -- the skies are ALL blank..
You should NOT be able to patent an idea and you should NOT be able to copyright a composition. When I wrote this short science fiction story, it was pointed out that it resembled They're Made Out Of Meat, and yes, it was influenced by that and many other stories. Should Terry Bison be able to sue me for copyright violation? This judge would probably think so.
In other words, the original wasn't simply a photograph of something but a specifically processed piece of artwork
As was the second. They're similar, yes, but they're not the same. Should Paramount sue whoever made Babylon Five because both are in outer space? Should they sue Lucas because Star Wars had aliens that looked almost human?
Copyright protects a copy. You have the right to protect a copy of your work, not something that is similar to your work.
The actual idea behind the story I linked is, afaik, pretty damned original. Should I be able to sue someone who takes that idea and writes a different story similar to it? Hell no!!!
Copyright protects copies. This wasn't a copy. The ruling was retarded.
Well, their price changes last year and subsequent financial losses back up my point -- using silverlight to deliver content is stupid. No Netflix for me.
I'm not arguing with you, just adding to it.
And since it takes years to get plants online and powering the grid
Three years from starting construction to getting power out.
I thought the volt was 100% electric? I learn something at slashdot every day!
The other funny attack often seen is when "state functions" like cops and firefighters are brought up to attack people clamoring for a smaller federal government -- I feel like a Civics class should be mandatory for all citizens.
I agree, but you have the other extreme (Paul, Gingrich, etc) that want to get rid of the FAA and the EPA and the highway administration and the FCC and the FAA. I'm damned glad Eisenhower started the interstate highway system. Like you, I'm bemused that a lot (most?) of the people who are are against "big government" have those views because of some crooked local cop or overreaching state or even county agency that screwed them over.
I also agree with you that some agencies shouldn't exist -- DEA, ATF, TSA... and the FBI should be much smaller. And I wonder why they had to amend the Constitution to outlaw alcohol, but didn't have to for other drugs?
If $100,000,000 profit is made within the first month, then what are we protecting them from? Is protection really needed?
The trouble with that is that you would be encouraging mediocrity. Say I write a fantastic book everyone wants to read and make a million the first year, and nothing afterward, while a hack whips out some garbage that takes fifty years to earn that much. He's still got copyright while I don't. Rather, give both the same amount of time. If author #1 sells a million books a year whle author #2 sells ten thousand, #2 has the incentive to try harder.
You would have "Gigli" hold copyright for decades, while "Gran Torino" would only have it for a year. Crap shouldn't be rewarded better than quality!
To me, it isn't about the money a person or company makes, it's about use of material. Art is like science and technology, in that everything new is built on the old. If Hemmingway saw farther than other men, it was because he stood on the shoulders of giants (plus you meet interesting characters in seedy bars).
Seriously, you believe the products like the Segway and Volt are priced wrong because "the 1% do not understand the 99%"?
Yes. Six grand is nothing to Warren Buffett, it's the price of a decent used automobile for most people. I find it hard to believe there's more than $500 in materials and labor in one, and predict (my predictions are usually wrong) that when the patent runs out you'll see knockoffs for under five hundred bucks.
What you've generally got here is the realization that our govt. leaders are pushing for environmentally "greener" solutions to energy-related issues, meaning loads of tax subsidies and loans available to those promising to design and deliver such solutions.
Then why are the green solutions so damned expensive? They're just taking the government money and running. I'm completely against these subsidies; I'm all for welfare for the poor, but the rich get the lion's share of the handouts. It's disgusting.
The people with the money to buy an electric car as an "expensive toy" aren't really a target market for a Chevy Volt either. (Well, there will always be at least a few exceptions to the rule since tastes are so varied ...) In general though? Those "1 percenters" are going to go for something much "cooler" than a car with the Chevy bow-tie on it and with better performance, like the Fisker Karma or the Tesla roadster.
That's my point exactly. The rich will be buying things like the Tesla, who in their right mind would spend the price of a luxury sedan on an electric Vega? But as to the EV-1, nobody mandated that Chevy make them. Ford didn't make one, that was strictly Chevy's decision.
The 1% tend to be people in industries like banking and finance, where they presumably have a pretty good handle on the spending habits of the "rest of us".
No, the tellers, who ARE part of "the rest of us". They have an idea what our spending habits are. Their bosses don't.
They may be living in their own fantasy world made possible by their large amount of available spending money, but that doesn't mean they'd make a really boneheaded business decision like trying to sell the public a car that's 2x the max. price many of them can even get the loan approved for.
Yet they do. If they realized these decisions were boneheaded they wouldn't make those decisions.
I'm thinking the online environment has changed somewhat in the last couple of those decades, no?
It sure has! I was on Compuserve's walled garden in 1982, and it was pretty much useless. BBSes in the late '80s and early '90s were very useful, especially to someone into computer gaming as I was. But IMO the golden age of the internet was just before and after the century's turn, when almost all content was user generated and there was almost no commercial activity. Banner ads here and there, and people complained about them.
Now it's 99% ad-laden greedsters trying to get rich. The internet isn't near as fun as it used to be.
Economists don't understand economics, that's for sure.