Let me see now... a device that can display information specific to its location... hmm... what an original novel idea! We can use this patent to make a device to display a section of a map specific to the location of the device. That way you don't have to go through 5000 square miles of map data, instead you're presented directly with the section of the map that is most relevant to you.
We do go by pictures of the words instead of trying to read each letter of the word.
1. Something written using the words you know but different spelling?
dis iz nut sum tin hue kan reed faast bee coz you arr juss nut uzed to sea ying eet liek dat.
2. How about some capitalization to make things hard to read?
tHiS sEntEnCe iS gOiNg To bE hArdEr tO REaD bEcAuSe yOu cAN't rEcOGNiZE tHe wOrDS aS eAsILY.
3. how about some number replacements?
Y0U C4N R34D TH1S TEXT W1TH0UT TO0 MUCH PR0BL3M 8EC4USE 1T 1S L337-5P33K.
I think for general population, the first example is going to be hardest to read because the words make the familiar sounds but they're not in the right shape. If you go phonetically alone, that should have been easy read. I would think the third example is going to be easiest to read for most people, the words look familiar even though they clearly have numbers instead of some of the letters.
It's like the wave particle duality. The intellectual property exists in two mutually exclusive states.
1. it is physical good that can be legally acquired, owned, resold, discarded and stolen
2. it is also intangible, can't be owned, can't be sold, can't be discarded nor stolen.
Just like the quantum world, the wave function collapses only when you try to make a measurement. Until you try to measure you can't be sure if it's physical or intangible. Until it is measured, it exists in both mutually exclusive states concurrently to maximize profit for the copyright mafia.
Patents can be obtained when someone invents a novel process or machine that had not been done before... that is what I would have said if you asked me about patents about 30 years ago. Today, patents are obtained by lawyers for the benefit of lawyers. Overwhelming majority of technology patents today are bogus litigation fuel. We all know 100% of all software patents are entirely bogus, yet they are wasting time and money that could go to R&D, instead it's going to the lawyers' pockets.
Computers and their software came this far riding on the skirts of innovation fueled by sharing, competing and communicating. This energy is being tapped today by lawyers who have nothing better to do than to sink their fangs into the arteries of innovation and suck the energy that had been fueling innovation since the 1960's.
Unofficial libraries had that ToS listed for ages, and the RIAA/MPAA etc have been breaking the ToS since day one! I think it's about time we fine them. Yeah, I call them unofficial libraries, because pirates live on the sea. The library is the place you go to read books, listen to music and watch movies etc.
It looks like it's exactly 1km East-West and 2km North-South. It's pretty big. The strips are 20m wide, that's about 5.5 highway lanes. I doubt it's metal, looks like paint, but who knows? There are plenty of tire tracks too, around as well as on the strips. It can't be too important if they're driving on it.
I doubt they can go open source. Remember when John Carmack (id software) released their extremely successful game as open source less than a decade after it came out? DOOM had an impressive number of followers and it still does. But the Doom source code was missing something important: the sound routines were 3rd party, so they couldn't legally open the source to that.
I suspect Lego's software is mostly 3rd party stuff, so I doubt they can release more than a small fraction of the code which they actually wrote. The legal mumbo jumbo hassle is probably not worth it for them and the code would be useless anyway without the commercial libraries. -- this is my guess.
What about my DoomEd? DoomEd was okay, not the best but not the worst. I still think Doom Builder is the best Doom level editor out there. My Doom Builder is better than your DoomEd.
Let me summarize this article for you:
RIAA/MPAA convinced congress with big contributions that they need extra laws to protect their outdated, inefficient business model but they forgot to convince the judges who apply the actual laws.
Congress has been bought a long time ago by private interest; they're no longer working for the people and although we still pay for a chunk of their luxurious lifestyles their source of livelihood comes from elsewhere. The judges are still on government payroll, so they can use common sense and make decisions that benefit mankind instead of bending to private interest.
Solution: put the judges on payroll.
...I would have given up ESPN if it saved me $0.25/month.
I removed ESPN back when I had cable, of course the cable company couldn't remove it because it's part of their basic cable crap, so I manually removed it by setting the TV to skip over those channels. I absolutely can't stand the idea of watching sports on television. It's watching people enjoying physical activity while you're being a couch potato with eyes glued to a flickering advertising box. You want to enjoy sports, get out and enjoy sports.
My 2 cents.
Copyright law is being abused by copyright holders. The damn law wasn't intended to be "forever minus a day", it was supposed to be for limited time. It protected the non-functional creations for about 2 decades, after that it was public domain - anyone could use it, sell it, buy it, modify it, make other crap based on it after that.
What happened to copyright now? They violated it so much that, it never expires! Does none of the things it was intended to do, and is in fact used against the very people it was supposed to protect.
Agreed, crime isn't a get rich quick scheme. A successful career in criminal activity requires as much work and dedication as any other career. The skill-set necessary is a bit different, but other than that, it's pretty much the same thing as a "legal" business.
Crime also has "corporate ladder" where better criminals can become heads and crappy criminals get laid off.
Same shit.
In fact, we're ALL copyright holders. Anytime you draw anything you own the copyright to it. Anytime you take a photo you own the copyright. Anytime your kid draws a crayon drawing, that's more copyrighted work... you should be proud of the fact that your kid will own the exclusive rights to that crayon drawing for 75 years after he's dead. Awesome, isn't it? Anytime you whistle yourself a tune, you own the copyright to that musical performance. If it's an original tune, then you own the copyright to the musical score. Anytime you speak, you own the copyrights to the sound you produced, as well as the words you sequenced together. Anytime you write something on slashdot, you own the copyright to it too.
This however is at best a blatant and outrageous over-generalization, could be considered an offensive omission:
Copyright holders are currently in the process of sending out tens of thousands of IP-addresses of alleged infringers to Internet service providers
No, I'm not sending any IP addresses. You're not sending any IP addresses. Who are these people labeled as "copyright holders"? I know who they are, that's the "copyright mafia".
Please, properly label these a-holes who want to protect their lavish lifestyles at the expense of us all. Saying that they are copyright holders is over generalization. All humans are copyright holders. These people the article is referring to are the COPYRIGHT MAFIA. They switched their Tommy guns for lawyers; instead of protection money they collect "distribution fees" for doing something that we could do easier without them. Instead of setting example by breaking your knee caps, they set example by suing you into oblivion. They have gotten accustomed to their lavish lifestyles at the expense of everyone around them. This is a mafia operation, not innocent "copyright holders".
The patent system is so fookered up that they give patents to dumb asses like her. You can't really patent "a way of using an existing drug to cure something"... if that was the case then Bayer would patent use of Aspirin as a heart attack risk reducer. Yeah... unfortunately for dumb bitch and Bayer, using substance X for cure Y is not patentable.
The diet mentality in America... now that's even worse. People in this country are told if they want to lose weight they need to: "Eat more diet food! Eat more healthy food! Eat more something else!"... I sometimes think I'm the only one who can see this: if you're fat as heck, do NOT eat, regardless of "diet" or "healthy" or whatever the hell it is you plan to stick in your face hole, do not stick it in there. For those who say: "Awww... I can't help it, I barely eat anything but I'm still fat! It's my genes!" --- No. Simple conservation of energy, a pound of fat is worth about 3000 calories. From that you can just calculate: if you eat 3000 calories more than what you need in a week then you will gain a pound per week. That's just about 430 extra calories per day.. that's only about 1 scoop of ice cream per day!
Here is my anticipated response that you were all anticipating:
Dr. Ann de Wees Allen anticipatively anticipates the anticipation of the anticipatable anticipators!
Funny aside: Dr. Ann de Wees Allen sounds to me like one of those dumb ass "researchers" who became head of a lab not because they know shit, but because they knew the right people. I bet the only thing she's good at is taking credit for other people's work. Way to go Dr. Ann de Wees Allen... you win the prestigious fucktard award for September 20th, 2010. Congratulations!
it's not getting into the hands of Joe Consumer, it's going to the banks to clean up their balance sheets and make them appear solvent
What the hell do you think the bank does with the money?
Bank gives loan, calculates the interest from loan to be profit. Example:
I give you a $1000 loan, 10% interest, I've made $100. The $100 came into existence from nothing; it's conjured money.
Theoretically it's conjured with a reason: the exploitation of the planet grows at a constant rate so that the increase of currency from conjured money will be equal to the increase in physical goods and services available. There is 10% more goods available in the world by the time you finish paying me the $1100.
In reality banks get greedy: they lend too much to make more profit. The exploitation of the planet doesn't grow as fast as the currency is being inflated, the money to goods equilibrium is shifted and money is worth less than the goods it represents, this is called inflation and happens at an exponentially. Roughly 5% per year means money will be worth half every 15 years. (So the half life of money is about 15 years.. or depends on what you consider inflation rate: http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/54650.html)
In very grim reality:
The inflation of currency from money conjured up by bank debts is infinite because it is not based on reality. The exploitation of the planet can not continue forever because the physical resources are limited, ie there is a finite limit to the exploitation of the planet's resources. If you combine these two facts, you get a runaway inflation of currency as resource exploitation reaches its limit, the whole system is barreling towards an inevitable and catastrophic collapse that few people can even fathom. Economists tend not to see this because economics books overlook the simple fact resource exploitation can not grow indefinitely and infinitely, so this never occurs to them.
By exclusively condemning TeachBook.com, FaceBook sends us a clear message that the company fully commends web sites like HotFuckBook.com and FaceBookofSex.com...
I am getting sick of imaginary property lawsuits. They are unimaginative, and the only people that benefit from them are lawyers at the expense of people who want to give an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Crooks run the world. In the olden times people would form an angry mob with pitch forks and torches and stab the asinine lawyers in the face. Too bad everyone is too brainwashed by American Idol and Survivor in general to do anything about it. Television is the greatest crowd control system ever... and somehow they found a way to make people pay to watch it.
Fred: Hey Jim! Long time no see! Remember me from gym class?
Jim: Hmmm... no, I don't recall. What do you look like?
Fred: *unzips pants and lets the snake loose*
Jim: Ah, Fred! I remember now, it's good to see you again.
If I write a letter, then what? I'll tell you: Then The Tetris Company will sue me for copyright infringement at a court in the most inconvenient place in the US (in their favorite court with their favorite judge), my travel being at my expense, and I'll start with a disadvantage. I can't afford to give up my job to fight in court because I am not independently wealthy. They have $10,000,000 budget for lawyers, I have $100. When they argue for days, weeks, or months about their case, how will I pay for my lawyer? I will most likely be forced to settle out of court because I can't afford to do anything. Even if I did go through and spend a few hundred thousand dollars and win the case, I will get no money at all. All my court expenses will be money I will never recuperate. What's next: even if I win they will appeal because falling blocks game is The Tetris Company's bread and butter.
I already spent several days talking to different lawyers. Unless you're willing to part with $50000 or more you don't even stand a chance in court. The Tetris Company is a multi-million dollar company and they will fight with ALL they have to protect the only thing they have. They have several different litigation firms working for them, they will not give up easily, they won't budge at my low budget legal threats.
I don't have that kind of money just laying around? Do you?
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Let me see now... a device that can display information specific to its location... hmm... what an original novel idea! We can use this patent to make a device to display a section of a map specific to the location of the device. That way you don't have to go through 5000 square miles of map data, instead you're presented directly with the section of the map that is most relevant to you.
Yeah... it's a completely valid patent.
Perhaps because it's still a bunch of transistors.
We do go by pictures of the words instead of trying to read each letter of the word.
1. Something written using the words you know but different spelling?
dis iz nut sum tin hue kan reed faast bee coz you arr juss nut uzed to sea ying eet liek dat.
2. How about some capitalization to make things hard to read?
tHiS sEntEnCe iS gOiNg To bE hArdEr tO REaD bEcAuSe yOu cAN't rEcOGNiZE tHe wOrDS aS eAsILY.
3. how about some number replacements?
Y0U C4N R34D TH1S TEXT W1TH0UT TO0 MUCH PR0BL3M 8EC4USE 1T 1S L337-5P33K.
I think for general population, the first example is going to be hardest to read because the words make the familiar sounds but they're not in the right shape. If you go phonetically alone, that should have been easy read. I would think the third example is going to be easiest to read for most people, the words look familiar even though they clearly have numbers instead of some of the letters.
It's like the wave particle duality. The intellectual property exists in two mutually exclusive states.
1. it is physical good that can be legally acquired, owned, resold, discarded and stolen
2. it is also intangible, can't be owned, can't be sold, can't be discarded nor stolen.
Just like the quantum world, the wave function collapses only when you try to make a measurement. Until you try to measure you can't be sure if it's physical or intangible. Until it is measured, it exists in both mutually exclusive states concurrently to maximize profit for the copyright mafia.
MIND = BLOWN
Patents can be obtained when someone invents a novel process or machine that had not been done before... that is what I would have said if you asked me about patents about 30 years ago. Today, patents are obtained by lawyers for the benefit of lawyers. Overwhelming majority of technology patents today are bogus litigation fuel. We all know 100% of all software patents are entirely bogus, yet they are wasting time and money that could go to R&D, instead it's going to the lawyers' pockets.
Computers and their software came this far riding on the skirts of innovation fueled by sharing, competing and communicating. This energy is being tapped today by lawyers who have nothing better to do than to sink their fangs into the arteries of innovation and suck the energy that had been fueling innovation since the 1960's.
Unofficial libraries had that ToS listed for ages, and the RIAA/MPAA etc have been breaking the ToS since day one! I think it's about time we fine them.
Yeah, I call them unofficial libraries, because pirates live on the sea. The library is the place you go to read books, listen to music and watch movies etc.
It looks like it's exactly 1km East-West and 2km North-South. It's pretty big. The strips are 20m wide, that's about 5.5 highway lanes. I doubt it's metal, looks like paint, but who knows? There are plenty of tire tracks too, around as well as on the strips. It can't be too important if they're driving on it.
I doubt they can go open source. Remember when John Carmack (id software) released their extremely successful game as open source less than a decade after it came out? DOOM had an impressive number of followers and it still does. But the Doom source code was missing something important: the sound routines were 3rd party, so they couldn't legally open the source to that.
I suspect Lego's software is mostly 3rd party stuff, so I doubt they can release more than a small fraction of the code which they actually wrote. The legal mumbo jumbo hassle is probably not worth it for them and the code would be useless anyway without the commercial libraries. -- this is my guess.
What about my DoomEd? DoomEd was okay, not the best but not the worst. I still think Doom Builder is the best Doom level editor out there. My Doom Builder is better than your DoomEd.
Let me summarize this article for you:
RIAA/MPAA convinced congress with big contributions that they need extra laws to protect their outdated, inefficient business model but they forgot to convince the judges who apply the actual laws.
Congress has been bought a long time ago by private interest; they're no longer working for the people and although we still pay for a chunk of their luxurious lifestyles their source of livelihood comes from elsewhere. The judges are still on government payroll, so they can use common sense and make decisions that benefit mankind instead of bending to private interest.
Solution: put the judges on payroll.
...I would have given up ESPN if it saved me $0.25/month.
I removed ESPN back when I had cable, of course the cable company couldn't remove it because it's part of their basic cable crap, so I manually removed it by setting the TV to skip over those channels. I absolutely can't stand the idea of watching sports on television. It's watching people enjoying physical activity while you're being a couch potato with eyes glued to a flickering advertising box. You want to enjoy sports, get out and enjoy sports. My 2 cents.
Copyright law is being abused by copyright holders. The damn law wasn't intended to be "forever minus a day", it was supposed to be for limited time. It protected the non-functional creations for about 2 decades, after that it was public domain - anyone could use it, sell it, buy it, modify it, make other crap based on it after that.
What happened to copyright now? They violated it so much that, it never expires! Does none of the things it was intended to do, and is in fact used against the very people it was supposed to protect.
So, yes: copyright law is being abused.
Agreed, crime isn't a get rich quick scheme. A successful career in criminal activity requires as much work and dedication as any other career. The skill-set necessary is a bit different, but other than that, it's pretty much the same thing as a "legal" business.
Crime also has "corporate ladder" where better criminals can become heads and crappy criminals get laid off.
Same shit.
I hope they don't come after me and my pseudopod.
In fact, we're ALL copyright holders. Anytime you draw anything you own the copyright to it. Anytime you take a photo you own the copyright. Anytime your kid draws a crayon drawing, that's more copyrighted work... you should be proud of the fact that your kid will own the exclusive rights to that crayon drawing for 75 years after he's dead. Awesome, isn't it? Anytime you whistle yourself a tune, you own the copyright to that musical performance. If it's an original tune, then you own the copyright to the musical score. Anytime you speak, you own the copyrights to the sound you produced, as well as the words you sequenced together. Anytime you write something on slashdot, you own the copyright to it too.
This however is at best a blatant and outrageous over-generalization, could be considered an offensive omission:
Copyright holders are currently in the process of sending out tens of thousands of IP-addresses of alleged infringers to Internet service providers
No, I'm not sending any IP addresses. You're not sending any IP addresses. Who are these people labeled as "copyright holders"? I know who they are, that's the "copyright mafia".
Please, properly label these a-holes who want to protect their lavish lifestyles at the expense of us all. Saying that they are copyright holders is over generalization. All humans are copyright holders. These people the article is referring to are the COPYRIGHT MAFIA. They switched their Tommy guns for lawyers; instead of protection money they collect "distribution fees" for doing something that we could do easier without them. Instead of setting example by breaking your knee caps, they set example by suing you into oblivion. They have gotten accustomed to their lavish lifestyles at the expense of everyone around them. This is a mafia operation, not innocent "copyright holders".
that sucks for Monoprix.
The patent system is so fookered up that they give patents to dumb asses like her. You can't really patent "a way of using an existing drug to cure something" ... if that was the case then Bayer would patent use of Aspirin as a heart attack risk reducer. Yeah... unfortunately for dumb bitch and Bayer, using substance X for cure Y is not patentable.
The diet mentality in America... now that's even worse. People in this country are told if they want to lose weight they need to: "Eat more diet food! Eat more healthy food! Eat more something else!" ... I sometimes think I'm the only one who can see this: if you're fat as heck, do NOT eat, regardless of "diet" or "healthy" or whatever the hell it is you plan to stick in your face hole, do not stick it in there. For those who say: "Awww... I can't help it, I barely eat anything but I'm still fat! It's my genes!" --- No. Simple conservation of energy, a pound of fat is worth about 3000 calories. From that you can just calculate: if you eat 3000 calories more than what you need in a week then you will gain a pound per week. That's just about 430 extra calories per day.. that's only about 1 scoop of ice cream per day!
Dr. Ann de Wees Allen anticipatively anticipates the anticipation of the anticipatable anticipators!
Funny aside: Dr. Ann de Wees Allen sounds to me like one of those dumb ass "researchers" who became head of a lab not because they know shit, but because they knew the right people. I bet the only thing she's good at is taking credit for other people's work. Way to go Dr. Ann de Wees Allen... you win the prestigious fucktard award for September 20th, 2010. Congratulations!
I have no clue what they do in Soviet Russia, but in Fascist America the copyright lasts forever minus a day.
it's not getting into the hands of Joe Consumer, it's going to the banks to clean up their balance sheets and make them appear solvent
What the hell do you think the bank does with the money?
Bank gives loan, calculates the interest from loan to be profit. Example:
I give you a $1000 loan, 10% interest, I've made $100. The $100 came into existence from nothing; it's conjured money.
Theoretically it's conjured with a reason: the exploitation of the planet grows at a constant rate so that the increase of currency from conjured money will be equal to the increase in physical goods and services available. There is 10% more goods available in the world by the time you finish paying me the $1100.
In reality banks get greedy: they lend too much to make more profit. The exploitation of the planet doesn't grow as fast as the currency is being inflated, the money to goods equilibrium is shifted and money is worth less than the goods it represents, this is called inflation and happens at an exponentially. Roughly 5% per year means money will be worth half every 15 years. (So the half life of money is about 15 years.. or depends on what you consider inflation rate: http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/54650.html)
In very grim reality:
The inflation of currency from money conjured up by bank debts is infinite because it is not based on reality. The exploitation of the planet can not continue forever because the physical resources are limited, ie there is a finite limit to the exploitation of the planet's resources. If you combine these two facts, you get a runaway inflation of currency as resource exploitation reaches its limit, the whole system is barreling towards an inevitable and catastrophic collapse that few people can even fathom. Economists tend not to see this because economics books overlook the simple fact resource exploitation can not grow indefinitely and infinitely, so this never occurs to them.
By exclusively condemning TeachBook.com, FaceBook sends us a clear message that the company fully commends web sites like HotFuckBook.com and FaceBookofSex.com...
I am getting sick of imaginary property lawsuits. They are unimaginative, and the only people that benefit from them are lawyers at the expense of people who want to give an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Crooks run the world. In the olden times people would form an angry mob with pitch forks and torches and stab the asinine lawyers in the face. Too bad everyone is too brainwashed by American Idol and Survivor in general to do anything about it. Television is the greatest crowd control system ever... and somehow they found a way to make people pay to watch it.
Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Privacy Flaws in Telephone Poles Expose Users
Fred: Hey Jim! Long time no see! Remember me from gym class?
Jim: Hmmm... no, I don't recall. What do you look like?
Fred: *unzips pants and lets the snake loose*
Jim: Ah, Fred! I remember now, it's good to see you again.
I draw the best Mohammed ASCII art:
o_o
I wish life was that simple, but it is not.
If I write a letter, then what? I'll tell you: Then The Tetris Company will sue me for copyright infringement at a court in the most inconvenient place in the US (in their favorite court with their favorite judge), my travel being at my expense, and I'll start with a disadvantage. I can't afford to give up my job to fight in court because I am not independently wealthy. They have $10,000,000 budget for lawyers, I have $100. When they argue for days, weeks, or months about their case, how will I pay for my lawyer? I will most likely be forced to settle out of court because I can't afford to do anything. Even if I did go through and spend a few hundred thousand dollars and win the case, I will get no money at all. All my court expenses will be money I will never recuperate. What's next: even if I win they will appeal because falling blocks game is The Tetris Company's bread and butter.
I already spent several days talking to different lawyers. Unless you're willing to part with $50000 or more you don't even stand a chance in court. The Tetris Company is a multi-million dollar company and they will fight with ALL they have to protect the only thing they have. They have several different litigation firms working for them, they will not give up easily, they won't budge at my low budget legal threats.
I don't have that kind of money just laying around? Do you?