She ought to write "slave" on one cheek and "owned by big biz" on the other until this is resolved. And maybe hang out around prince's multi-million dollar residence for a few days, collecting publicity photos. That should harsh his mellow a bit. Talk about hypocrisy!? WTF! This must be a new low.
This is part of how truly broken this is. You can be sued for the same tech over and over by many "patent holders". All of them can claim "ownership" (and I cringe at this term to be sure) of the SAME idea, demand payment in excess of your entire GROSS and still not be required to offer any type of indemnity. That is, none of them have to defend at all their exclusive ownership of the that which they claim to own in any absolute sense.
This is like quantum theory here folks. There is just no mental metaphorical model here that you can use to rationalize the operation of this system. Only after years of training can you break your mind fully enough to come close to grocking patent law.
I've been a big fan of the Steam concept since it launched, but this is the sort of thing you need to communicate to your users before you sting them.
No, this is the sort of thing that you just shouldn't be doing because its a rotten thing to do period. This is the sort of thing you should especially not do to geeks who happen to be very internationally minded thanks to the net, technically savvy enough to understand just how rotten and greedy this is, and (as a whole) an unusually devoted sort of fan-base.
Oh, and did I mention, geeks tend to have very long memories.
First, you could make tons of money by not growing corn. Now it seems like you can make money by not providing internet.
Hey everyone, come buy my new internet device! Sure it looks like a 9600 baud modem I found in a thrift store but it will provide you with unlimited bandwidth provided you never ever try to turn it on and use it!
Their minds work in fundamentally different ways than rational humans. A lawyer will easily argue both a) you were never at the crime scene and b) the damage you caused at the crime scene was purely accidental, therefore you should receive both an acquittal and a reduced sentence!
This cognitive dissonance is clearly not a problem for them. The entire mechanism for detecting dissonance is either turned off or missing in most legal professionals. This is why justice is no longer about facts but who you know, how much you have, and well, if chewbacca lives on endor.
You've got to have a bit of sympathy. How hard must it be to train your mind into this particular mode of failure just to have a career? How hard is it to live in a naturally rational world if you think gravity operates the way it does because of precedent!?
At that frequency, the signal wouldn't penetrate walls very well, would it?
At that frequency, the signal wouldn't penetrate PAPER very well. You can think of it (nearly correctly) as a very weak flashlight beam, much like a regular old TV remote. Only lots more picky about everything being just right.
Even scarier. What if what you did today (that was legal today) is deemed illegal in the future and data mining and logging tools make it easy to round up the "criminals" by past activity?
Statute of limitations you say? Can you think of someone who might be lobbying at this very moment to have that statute suspended when it comes to say... copyright infringement?
We need a site like 'The oracle of bacon' that simply takes a song and gives it a "theft index" based on prior public domain works.
I bet this would be a real eye opener to content "owners".
"Wikipedia defines a protection racket as an extortion scheme whereby a powerful non-governmental organization coerces businesses to pay protection money...
I love how it has to be specified that it is a non-governmental organization doing the racketeering. I guess when the government does it, its just plain theft via the threat of physical violence. Or taxes. Whichever you prefer.
You seem to be recalling "If I could Turn Back Time" by Cher.
Your theft of this music has been reported to the RIAA, and you have been registered as a thought-criminal.
The RIAA settlement will be automatically drafted from you account.
You also seem to have hummed a few bars, this is a crime against humanity. Homeland security will be by shortly to apprehend you on the charge of tuher-rism.
The Geode SC1100 is going away. This was a little 266Mhz i586 cpu. The New LX800 that this is based on is a system on chip that runs at 500Mhz. It IS the replacement.
Up next! The super-duper, mega, final-FINAL-THISTIMEWEPROMISEITSTHELASTONE, all-of-the-footage-of-the-actors-in-their-trailers-between-scenes-included, do you really think those suckers will buy the same movie one more time?, edition. In a gorgeous, leather bound, sweatshop made, tin box with little tiny replicas-ants? of the characters inside.
Oh, and a map of middle-earth, because damn, we've got to do something with all of these things!
Yes because it's so much better to sink piles of money into R&D only to have some other company copy the technology and sell it for less due to their not having to recoup the R&D costs.
Yes because it is so much better to sink piles of money into R&D only to have some patent troll extort all of your profits because he bought a decade old patent for $100 that reads like "doing something cool using a COMPUTER!"
It seems like karma to me. All of the people who took such pleasure in making my childhood somewhat less than pleasant are now paying in spades with stuff like this. All the people I like, I help gratis, because thats what friends do.
So befriend geeks early, and avoid an adulthood full of hdd's sent to "clean rooms" for 2 grand in the great karmic circle of tech.
Yep, welcome to the brave new media world. Each and every new disc will require a firmware update just to play. Think of it as a kind of 2 factor authentication, only it sucks.
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Why in my day, all we had was a little pencil lookin' thing you had to turn yourself and we LIKED IT!
Now get off my lawn!
Idiots will still just draw an X. Most passes will be easy to brute force with simple dictionary-like lists.
I've driven through Marshall. It takes about 5 minutes. You'd think Cisco, Apple or HP could just BUY Marshall and be done with this!
All powerful tools can do both great harm and great good.
You may either accept this risk and enjoy the benefits of science or crawl back to the safety of your cave.
But make no mistake, those are the choices.
She ought to write "slave" on one cheek and "owned by big biz" on the other until this is resolved. And maybe hang out around prince's multi-million dollar residence for a few days, collecting publicity photos. That should harsh his mellow a bit. Talk about hypocrisy!? WTF! This must be a new low.
This is part of how truly broken this is. You can be sued for the same tech over and over by many "patent holders". All of them can claim "ownership" (and I cringe at this term to be sure) of the SAME idea, demand payment in excess of your entire GROSS and still not be required to offer any type of indemnity. That is, none of them have to defend at all their exclusive ownership of the that which they claim to own in any absolute sense.
This is like quantum theory here folks. There is just no mental metaphorical model here that you can use to rationalize the operation of this system. Only after years of training can you break your mind fully enough to come close to grocking patent law.
No, this is the sort of thing that you just shouldn't be doing because its a rotten thing to do period. This is the sort of thing you should especially not do to geeks who happen to be very internationally minded thanks to the net, technically savvy enough to understand just how rotten and greedy this is, and (as a whole) an unusually devoted sort of fan-base.
Oh, and did I mention, geeks tend to have very long memories.
First, you could make tons of money by not growing corn.
Now it seems like you can make money by not providing internet.
Hey everyone, come buy my new internet device! Sure it looks like a 9600 baud modem I found in a thrift store but it will provide you with unlimited bandwidth provided you never ever try to turn it on and use it!
Their minds work in fundamentally different ways than rational humans. A lawyer will easily argue both a) you were never at the crime scene and b) the damage you caused at the crime scene was purely accidental, therefore you should receive both an acquittal and a reduced sentence!
This cognitive dissonance is clearly not a problem for them. The entire mechanism for detecting dissonance is either turned off or missing in most legal professionals. This is why justice is no longer about facts but who you know, how much you have, and well, if chewbacca lives on endor.
You've got to have a bit of sympathy. How hard must it be to train your mind into this particular mode of failure just to have a career? How hard is it to live in a naturally rational world if you think gravity operates the way it does because of precedent!?
But we made them wait to see Gigli!
USA! USA! US... oh nevermind.
At that frequency, the signal wouldn't penetrate PAPER very well. You can think of it (nearly correctly) as a very weak flashlight beam, much like a regular old TV remote. Only lots more picky about everything being just right.
Even scarier. What if what you did today (that was legal today) is deemed illegal in the future and data mining and logging tools make it easy to round up the "criminals" by past activity?
Statute of limitations you say? Can you think of someone who might be lobbying at this very moment to have that statute suspended when it comes to say... copyright infringement?
We need a site like 'The oracle of bacon' that simply takes a song and gives it a "theft index" based on prior public domain works. I bet this would be a real eye opener to content "owners".
I love how it has to be specified that it is a non-governmental organization doing the racketeering. I guess when the government does it, its just plain theft via the threat of physical violence. Or taxes. Whichever you prefer.
All babies born since 1996 now owe $222,000 in taxes to compensate artists for the probable piracy related to their existence.
You seem to be recalling "If I could Turn Back Time" by Cher.
Your theft of this music has been reported to the RIAA, and you have been registered as a thought-criminal.
The RIAA settlement will be automatically drafted from you account.
You also seem to have hummed a few bars, this is a crime against humanity. Homeland security will be by shortly to apprehend you on the charge of tuher-rism.
The Geode SC1100 is going away. This was a little 266Mhz i586 cpu. The New LX800 that this is based on is a system on chip that runs at 500Mhz. It IS the replacement.
Up next! The super-duper, mega, final-FINAL-THISTIMEWEPROMISEITSTHELASTONE, all-of-the-footage-of-the-actors-in-their-trailers-between-scenes-included, do you really think those suckers will buy the same movie one more time?, edition. In a gorgeous, leather bound, sweatshop made, tin box with little tiny replicas-ants? of the characters inside.
Oh, and a map of middle-earth, because damn, we've got to do something with all of these things!
In soviet russia, spam sends YOU!
Yes because it is so much better to sink piles of money into R&D only to have some patent troll extort all of your profits because he bought a decade old patent for $100 that reads like "doing something cool using a COMPUTER!"
There, I slashdot-ized that for you.
Here, you can have ours. We're not using it anymore!
I am nearly certain that I have been harmed by second hand Jessica Simpson.
I demand compensation.
It seems like karma to me. All of the people who took such pleasure in making my childhood somewhat less than pleasant are now paying in spades with stuff like this. All the people I like, I help gratis, because thats what friends do.
So befriend geeks early, and avoid an adulthood full of hdd's sent to "clean rooms" for 2 grand in the great karmic circle of tech.
They have such as system in place already. Its called "Fergie".
Yep, welcome to the brave new media world. Each and every new disc will require a firmware update just to play. Think of it as a kind of 2 factor authentication, only it sucks.