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  1. Re: Buying! on RIAA's Oppenheim Tries To Protect MediaSentry · · Score: 1

    What would happen if Law meets micropayments?

    (On Blog)
    "Farnsworth bought an objection to insufficient evidence from prosecution expert."

  2. Re: Buying Stuff to Support Ray on RIAA's Oppenheim Tries To Protect MediaSentry · · Score: 1

    I'd still rather buy monogrammed pens from you. Did anything ever come of that? I'm a senile avian and forgot.

  3. Re: Web Cleanup on RIAA's Oppenheim Tries To Protect MediaSentry · · Score: 1

    Suppose I did decide to donate 50 Euro * (Exchange Rate), Ray.

    Would you take him up on his offer, or do you like "going it alone"?

  4. Re: "... but I'd do it for free" on RIAA's Oppenheim Tries To Protect MediaSentry · · Score: 1

    So *are* you?

  5. Re:Goog Grief! on RIAA's Oppenheim Tries To Protect MediaSentry · · Score: 1

    Will mentioning Google's stock indicator help?

  6. Re:Princes of Darkness! on RIAA's Oppenheim Tries To Protect MediaSentry · · Score: 1

    But is he as good as Nicolae Carpathia?

    I'd quote but that would anger the powers that watch for such things.

  7. Re: hire on RIAA's Oppenheim Tries To Protect MediaSentry · · Score: 2, Funny

    (a) competent technology people = Slashdot = Check
    (b) honest lawyer = Ray Beckerman = Check
    (c) at a tiny fraction of the cost ... DOH!

  8. Re: BBS era on RIAA Vs. Web 2.0? Social Media and Litigation · · Score: 1

    I'd call that the Beta era. It was out there, and "smarter than average" users were laying the groundwork.

    Your choice of what the Alpha era was. (University nets?)

    I believe I intuitively feel the change between 1.0 and 2.0. Web 1.0's frontline mascot was Pets.com and friends. "Let's nationally advertise a national website connected to a warehouse . Our business model consists of saving BrickStore rents."

    The problem became that without local community integration the customer base was too volatile.

    Web 2.0 improved by starting small and social. Anyone with some modest hardware outlay (say $5000) can put a few servers, a couple of T-1 lines and run some random social app. It can live in ZombieLand for years with essentially no penalty. A few perfect examples take off and graduate to the spotlight. Everything else blends into the cultural long tail. Sill neat, ... but it's time for Web 3.0. Unfortunately I'm not quite good enough to see how that will skahe loose. But my hunch it is will have something to do with loosening the Copyright cold war.

  9. blind on What Happens To Code From Failed Projects? · · Score: 1

    bah you said "buy" not bury.

  10. Re: Help Bury! on What Happens To Code From Failed Projects? · · Score: 1
  11. Re: Negative Value... on What Happens To Code From Failed Projects? · · Score: 1

    I think this whole AskDot topic is pretty important.

    Lurking around your post and some of the others is the key to Web 3.0.

    If __ codebase "has negative value", then it might be a candidate for release to GPL after being "codecleaned".

    Some hobbyist may extract some random subroutine with a scalpel and then puff it into some entirely different little app.

    There's some weird brand of the contrapositive of opportunity cost going on here. Trench sniping over IP is the hot pastime of this decade and next. So it's "worth" throwing out huge code derelicts, thus wasting tons of resource time, and then complaining when someone wants to poke at it.

  12. Re: Can't Figure Out on New Hampshire Law Students Take On RIAA · · Score: 1

    Yea, in the age of computers?

    "You are you. Who is the other party? Mrs. Despicabwiggin? Hmm. She is already in our client file for some reason. Oh Yes. She was here last week. Let's discuss this problem."

    1 minute at $600 an hour is $10. A lot better than whatever got racked up instead.

  13. Re: Not Talking on Talk-Powered Cell Phones Won't Need Batteries · · Score: 1

    Who said you had to talk?

    Just set it next to your speakers when you crank your music up loud.

  14. Re:SMS Pwnage on Doctor Performs Amputation By Text Message · · Score: 1

    Damn that's a close call of which series of messages Pwned the most.

    A. Surgery
    B. Landing Aircraft.

  15. Re: Gates & Barbarians on Who Protects the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Which way does that control go?

    Does Bill Gates (& successors) control the barbarians, or do the barbarians control Bill Gates (& successors)?

  16. Re:Mammals! on Who Protects the Internet? · · Score: 1

    http://www.realultimatepower.net/ninja/ninja2.htm

    Now in the Military Edition! See our other product, Ninja.

    Sincerely,

    Nature Enterprises.

  17. Re: First Sentence on Anathem · · Score: 1

    The first page is a brilliant hook. But then it spends some 100 pages plotting the world-tapestry. In that plot diagram, it doesn't kick into the third gear until a ways in.

  18. Re: Whoa on Anathem · · Score: 1

    Hi AC.

    In case you're not from US, here's a couple of hints in descending order of reknown.

    1. Declaration of Independence.
    2. Merge of FirstPost and Second Life
    3. Flesch Rating = Rudolf Flesch - pioneer of readability metrics.

  19. Re:ip law is so bankrupt on The Real Monsters Behind Godzilla · · Score: 1

    I'll even grant you some cute number like the older 50 years!

    We all seem to have missed this but the *movie* industry has lain real low while the music side takes the ... spotlight? The weird thing is we all talk about spreading music, local bands, yay.

    But there is no such thing as a "live movie" and movies cost almost a million times more than an album to produce. All our famous arguments about music almost hold water because the cost ratios are just low enough to confuse ourselves with.

    In fact, let's use your sig. Unless you do a devastatingly brilliant job on your movie, it's gonna creak at the seams because of your low budget. It's also been your sig for a long time. Isn't it done yet? Movies are the KING of IP. It often takes a decade to organize a movie project. Once it's done, it's still generally fresh enough to sell gas station copies for a decade.

    2009-50 = 1959. I can't recall any movie made before 1959 that I would think of seeing fresh on a screen. (Except maybe the old Bond movies. What if you bought an individual extension?) But we just learned from JJ Abrams the secret scorpion kick to IP law: ReLoad. Trek Original Series ReLoaded will now be Christmas fodder for another few years, so it makes sense that there's still 7 years left on the Nimoy-Kelley series.

    But in 10 more years on it would be "about time" for the Hippie Years cultural legacy be available for the Mashup Era of Web 3.0's generation.

  20. Re:Both is and is not the character? on The Player Is and Is Not the Character · · Score: 1

    +1 Nimoy as on "I am and am not Spock."

    It means that the character is no longer discardable because it has irrevocably infused real life with insights not otherwise attainable, but it stops short of psychological conditions in which someone lives the character and believes it (rather than performance art).

  21. Re:Atlantic Records are bad guys on At Atlantic Records, Digital Sales Surpass CDs · · Score: 1

    Can we get a +1 Hero moderation option? NYCL is beyond Informative merged with Insightful into a class all his own.

  22. Re:Sound Quality The Zombie on At Atlantic Records, Digital Sales Surpass CDs · · Score: 1

    I don't think so.

    I stayed with tapes as a cheapskate, relishing in my lack of musical finesse. I just wanted a hundred of the things to stash in my car for road trips. But once CD's began to hit the flea markets tapes were finally on their way out.

  23. Re:Missed the boat + 10 years. on At Atlantic Records, Digital Sales Surpass CDs · · Score: 1

    Oh, it was the start of a revolution all right. It was the Download Heard Around The World.

    Problem is your second sentence doesn't necessarily follow. Was it the War of 1812 where the British wanted the rematch?

    The lawyers and execs dragged it all out for a decade, but we're seeing the momentum build to *something*. But expect another decade of thrashing before it all shakes out.

  24. Re: Double Reduction on At Atlantic Records, Digital Sales Surpass CDs · · Score: 1

    You forgot to concatenate your argument with the other one.

    1 Good song - purchase 1 good song
    11 other dubious songs - paid for that stuff you mentioned.

    So their revenue went down at the same time their costs went down, so their profits might be the same on 1/10th of the raw sales.

  25. Re: Reusable on At Atlantic Records, Digital Sales Surpass CDs · · Score: 4, Funny

    2000 called. They want their Florida ballots back.