The wealthiest already have the greatest access. I mean, it takes me an entire hour to illegally download a DVD and deprive starving MPAA executives of their hard-earned percentages, but that's only because I can't afford $100/month for something like FIOS.
This is great news for people who live in countries not ruled by religious dumb fucks who oppose all stem cells, regardless of where the stem cells originated.
I think Vitaly will find that intimidating federal prison inmates won't be as easy as intimidating the young ladies. Especially with a pussy name like "Vitaly." I forsee mouth-rape in his near future.
Look at Twitter, and the dozens of twitter clones that came out shortly thereafter
Counterexample: Look at the iTunes app store and the thousands of Chinese programmers who are making money with apps that are not noticeably different from other existing apps (including one enterprising young programmer who made a clone of Apple's own "find my phone" function).
"As a part-time developer with limited means (i.e. can't afford expensive lawyers), but willing to make best efforts to avoid legal issues, how does one negotiate what seems to be a difficult minefield of trademarks, copyrights and DMCA?"
You make an original game that isn't a cheap knockoff of something that has already been cloned several fucking times. Good luck.
Many online news sites are driven by marketing considerations. This is not news. Marketers need to be dragged into the street and shot.
Ultimately I had to stop reading the article because even though the points he makes are valid overall, his methods were shit. You don't do into something like this with a hypothesis of game journalists in bed with companies and use metrics like "is this headline misleading?" You take your hypothesis, keep it to yourself, and give the metrics to a large group of people, and aggregate their answers. And you don't compare three different sites on the same graph with wildly different totals, as he did with the graph of how many sources each site used. Putting 9/46/8 for Kotaku next to 4/44/3 for Joystiq next to 11/36 for Destructoid only tells me the author can't count, and doesn't understand graphs.
Gizmodo is massively wrong. NASA didn't "find new life," it engineered an existing form of life to replace the tiny amount of phosphorus in its DNA with arsenic. An impressive bioengineering feat, not discovery of a new life form.
All you people saying "you'll be sick of living after too much of it, mark my words dagnabbit!" seem to be missing the point. If you get sick of your extended lifespan, you can always walk off a cliff.
If you watched the 2004 presidential debates, you'd know he never exhausts his BS answers. Ask him a question and he'll just keep repeating very minor variations on the same answer until you get tired of asking. He's like a bipedal, autistic pit bull.
From what I can see, they've only released around 200 communications out of some 57K they have available, at least on the site. Is the torrent complete?
Back then a kid could fly the US flag on his bike and not be told to either stop flying the US flag on Veterans's Day or he'd get suspended from school. If you had a piece of candy at school it wasn't taken away from you and you weren't punished. What you ate was your own business. Government couldn't have cared less. If you thanked God for your food before you ate in the school lunch room you weren't punished by the public school authorities.
Even if any of these affected people had handed a check to their creditors in person, even 3 days in advance of the due date as you demand, the bank's electronic glitch from last week would have ensured a bounced check and subsequent late fees, all your gratuitous handwaving to the contrary. Thank you for refuting your own argument so deftly for me.
Payment remains your responsibility until payment is made.
It turns out due diligence is still in effect, and in our electronic society, your obligation is NOT to pay your creditors on day X-7, but on day X. If the bank that was supposed to handle that transaction for you screwed up, then they are responsible for fees and charges, not you. I believe the opposite was your initial argument.
Good luck getting payment to every one of your creditors in cash, or gold bars, or whatever the fuck it is you use to avoid banks and their various electronic failures.
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The wealthiest already have the greatest access. I mean, it takes me an entire hour to illegally download a DVD and deprive starving MPAA executives of their hard-earned percentages, but that's only because I can't afford $100/month for something like FIOS.
This is great news for people who live in countries not ruled by religious dumb fucks who oppose all stem cells, regardless of where the stem cells originated.
"This theory may even be testable."
Well it had better fucking be, or they have to stop calling it a theory.
since Wikileaks next target seems to be a major bank
That's the one I'm waiting for. I don't give two shits about the majority of these gossipy cables.
I think Vitaly will find that intimidating federal prison inmates won't be as easy as intimidating the young ladies. Especially with a pussy name like "Vitaly." I forsee mouth-rape in his near future.
Look at Twitter, and the dozens of twitter clones that came out shortly thereafter
Counterexample: Look at the iTunes app store and the thousands of Chinese programmers who are making money with apps that are not noticeably different from other existing apps (including one enterprising young programmer who made a clone of Apple's own "find my phone" function).
Hi, John!
Well if he tries to patent it, we can probably find some prior art from 4 centuries back or so...
"As a part-time developer with limited means (i.e. can't afford expensive lawyers), but willing to make best efforts to avoid legal issues, how does one negotiate what seems to be a difficult minefield of trademarks, copyrights and DMCA?"
You make an original game that isn't a cheap knockoff of something that has already been cloned several fucking times. Good luck.
It sounds like you actually read the article before posting. Why do you hate America?
I've been muting commercials for the past 20 years. I had no idea they were still too loud.
What I don't get it is why so many people automatically assume the prosecution lied
Because that's what prosecutors do.
I can see street view pictures of some family's driveway, but not of many longtime streets around Denver. Thanks, googles.
Many online news sites are driven by marketing considerations. This is not news. Marketers need to be dragged into the street and shot.
Ultimately I had to stop reading the article because even though the points he makes are valid overall, his methods were shit. You don't do into something like this with a hypothesis of game journalists in bed with companies and use metrics like "is this headline misleading?" You take your hypothesis, keep it to yourself, and give the metrics to a large group of people, and aggregate their answers. And you don't compare three different sites on the same graph with wildly different totals, as he did with the graph of how many sources each site used. Putting 9/46/8 for Kotaku next to 4/44/3 for Joystiq next to 11/36 for Destructoid only tells me the author can't count, and doesn't understand graphs.
Speaking of Vitaly Borker, the cocksucker from the NYT link:
http://brooklyn.blockshopper.com/property/3087270008/56_beaumont_street/
718-332-1226
He says to call anytime, day or night (seriously, I'm not trolling here). Loves his job, I guess.
Gizmodo is massively wrong. NASA didn't "find new life," it engineered an existing form of life to replace the tiny amount of phosphorus in its DNA with arsenic. An impressive bioengineering feat, not discovery of a new life form.
All you people saying "you'll be sick of living after too much of it, mark my words dagnabbit!" seem to be missing the point. If you get sick of your extended lifespan, you can always walk off a cliff.
No fair asking questions designed to trap idiots, liberal media!
If you watched the 2004 presidential debates, you'd know he never exhausts his BS answers. Ask him a question and he'll just keep repeating very minor variations on the same answer until you get tired of asking. He's like a bipedal, autistic pit bull.
From what I can see, they've only released around 200 communications out of some 57K they have available, at least on the site. Is the torrent complete?
To be fair, aleph-null is also uncountable.
Back then a kid could fly the US flag on his bike and not be told to either stop flying the US flag on Veterans's Day or he'd get suspended from school. If you had a piece of candy at school it wasn't taken away from you and you weren't punished. What you ate was your own business. Government couldn't have cared less. If you thanked God for your food before you ate in the school lunch room you weren't punished by the public school authorities.
Now you're just making shit up.
If that's what the "stupid people with too much disposable income" market will bear, I don't see the problem.
Even if any of these affected people had handed a check to their creditors in person, even 3 days in advance of the due date as you demand, the bank's electronic glitch from last week would have ensured a bounced check and subsequent late fees, all your gratuitous handwaving to the contrary. Thank you for refuting your own argument so deftly for me.
Payment remains your responsibility until payment is made.
It turns out due diligence is still in effect, and in our electronic society, your obligation is NOT to pay your creditors on day X-7, but on day X. If the bank that was supposed to handle that transaction for you screwed up, then they are responsible for fees and charges, not you. I believe the opposite was your initial argument.
Good luck getting payment to every one of your creditors in cash, or gold bars, or whatever the fuck it is you use to avoid banks and their various electronic failures.