Yeah, that's the real danger here. The people on the receiving end of the suits had their year wrecked. Then everyone whisks away, "Nah, I don't think I'll bother to respond to the court anymore".
Then next year another one will rise, with a slightly different spin.
"...main lawyer... apparently has completely stopped responding to all attempts to contact him, even by the court" should be met by "Court offers a $5,000 contest to find him."
That's one reason I keep calling this stuff "Social Division by Zero". They can just keep carving out slices of the pie to "allow encryption for commercial details but outlaw encryption for free speech". Once you get swindled by the "Fridge Logic" (see TV Tropes) then free speech law will start to be like the US Tax Code. (Which, while nasty, makes its own scary brand of internally consistent sense.)
And better bet that the big corps will just buy "Speech Licenses" to be exempt anyway.
If the submitter doesn't want to just trash his disks, it might work to reorganize them. For me at least office files tend to be small - so make one of those small drives office/text data only. Then he can get a big new drive to churn all the music&videos on. If he still has more small drives to use, the third could be backup copies of software installers.
I'd keep the music. One of my favorite hobbies is running music through Audacity to fiddle with the tempo and/or pitch. There's a ton of songs that I only sorta like as is, but they become favorites when I blast off a couple of custom adjustments.
But give or take a couple of years, we were seeing a potential explosive breakthrough in storage tech, it may not even be worth nit picking files if you think you'll want them later.
I have been idly itching to make a couple of versions of Business The Game. One would be in conjunction with Wizards of the Coast using MTG type play. Or Monopoly. You know, it's all the same themes, but they were so harmless on the first go around (the 1980's). By now they built the Hotel on Copyright Place, so each successive power grab at a bill is much nastier.
I can already see the sets - the 9-11 Security Theater set, the Copyright set, the Defend the Kiddies set, the Patent Lawsuit set, and more.
It's only down to whether free speech is alive enough to let that happen or whether some junk libel/slander lawsuit takes it down.
Seriously, using a Combo Approach to current news every seventh article or so, is leading to scary results.
"In an e-mail conversation with Threatpost, Auerbach of EFF characterized the bills as âoealarming.â Of particular concern: a section in both the Lieberman bill and the McCain bills that authorizes monitoring by private firms of any traffic that transits their networks. Ostensibly intended to facilitate private-public information sharing, the passage would grant complete private sector immunity for data monitoring and sharing practices. Private entities would be unbound from the Wiretap Act and other legal limits and immunized against a swath of questionable monitoring practices, EFF claims.
Furthermore, Auerbach and Tien worry that the bills' definition of a "cyber security threat" is too broad, and could cover everything from stealing passwords from a secure government server to scanning a network for software vulnerabilities. Similarly, the bills calls for more ISP traffic analysis and monitoring could bring about more civil liberties violations. For example, ISPs could simply block Tor, cryptographic protocols, or traffic on certain ports under the guise of defensive countermeasures, the EFF speculated."
So given our new over-reaching governments, it's not hard to see how those kinds of measures then later get warped out of control even more than they already are.
Actually, I'd let Wizards have the CCG patent if push came to shove, I was there for the start of MTG and the innovation exploded from the card concept, combined with the idea of (sometimes) good quality custom art for every card, to produce some 20,000 total cards by now.
"I've long since retired, I gave my cards away..." - but that style of strategic thinking is what I apply to IP news stories today. It is the Black Lotus-Time Vault concept - one idea is so subtle that it looks like it does nothing, the other reeks of abuse but the creators hope that it will somehow not become a Pandora's Box. Together, total hell results. (And other more direct combos.)
I look at stories and I'm wailing, "can no one else see that you combine this law with the one from two days ago to get a total disaster?!"
I disagree, all you need to find is a *correlation*, not a 1-1 note match. So not only do you get X million digits of data, you can run them backward, or take every second note, or "the previous digit's # of spaces forward".
You can reverse engineer almost any song into "something derived from Pi".
You're quite right, but Corruption is the law profession's "Division By Zero".
Maybe you've seen those proofs of 1=0. Of course they run on an engine of D-B-Z.
But using how it's all shaking down socially with copyright, you get "Gamer Strategies" like the one you presented. It's like a judge running you through that proof, then ordering "Divide by zero as instructed or become a Terrorist!" Then the predictably irrational result comes out.
I think it will also pose a challenge to computers since they can't just raw search it like chess, but to me that's that limitation on the programming side, heuristics.
Because in the bigger view, most games in these categories will eventually be playable by computers - it's only because chess was so famous that the proper programming theory developed in with advances in comp science. And we can't bear to let it go because it was the Grand Game of Kings - it symbolized a certain intelligence culturally like few other games did.
I am having trouble thinking of a game that a person could play better than computers for longer than say 20 years. I know, Go fans like to flaunt that their game hasn't received the same onslaught, but all it takes is a "paradigm change" in AI for suddenly that game to crack in half too.
Already done. "Aided Playing" is called Advanced Chess.
"Unaided Playing" just gets back to the article. The sneaky part is that you don't need to be a moron playing GM moves for an event of Cheating. There was a couple of stories a while back in which GMs only needed one key decision such as "Go for the Win or Keep the Draw" and their own talent was the rest.
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Yeah, that's the real danger here. The people on the receiving end of the suits had their year wrecked. Then everyone whisks away, "Nah, I don't think I'll bother to respond to the court anymore".
Then next year another one will rise, with a slightly different spin.
"...main lawyer ... apparently has completely stopped responding to all attempts to contact him, even by the court" should be met by "Court offers a $5,000 contest to find him."
I'm tempted to join Facebook now just to play it backwards! You know, like we turned "Damn Yankee" into a compliment.
"Ooh! Would you be my Enemy?"
"Hate me on Facebook!"
But yes, as someone else said this has been done.
But tying into the Employers snooping on Facebook, it would be funny if they asked "why does your Facebook page contain nothing but enemies?!"
Old School Obligatory!
"Please Sir, I want some more!"
"Dear RIAA. Each of these people shared a Copyrighted Song."
(Twelve minutes later)
"Here are their GPS coordinates and matching photos. Here is your $5,000 fee for bringing this to our legal department's attention."
That's one reason I keep calling this stuff "Social Division by Zero". They can just keep carving out slices of the pie to "allow encryption for commercial details but outlaw encryption for free speech". Once you get swindled by the "Fridge Logic" (see TV Tropes) then free speech law will start to be like the US Tax Code. (Which, while nasty, makes its own scary brand of internally consistent sense.)
And better bet that the big corps will just buy "Speech Licenses" to be exempt anyway.
If the submitter doesn't want to just trash his disks, it might work to reorganize them. For me at least office files tend to be small - so make one of those small drives office/text data only. Then he can get a big new drive to churn all the music&videos on. If he still has more small drives to use, the third could be backup copies of software installers.
I'd keep the music. One of my favorite hobbies is running music through Audacity to fiddle with the tempo and/or pitch. There's a ton of songs that I only sorta like as is, but they become favorites when I blast off a couple of custom adjustments.
But give or take a couple of years, we were seeing a potential explosive breakthrough in storage tech, it may not even be worth nit picking files if you think you'll want them later.
No Kidding -
I have been idly itching to make a couple of versions of Business The Game. One would be in conjunction with Wizards of the Coast using MTG type play. Or Monopoly. You know, it's all the same themes, but they were so harmless on the first go around (the 1980's). By now they built the Hotel on Copyright Place, so each successive power grab at a bill is much nastier.
I can already see the sets - the 9-11 Security Theater set, the Copyright set, the Defend the Kiddies set, the Patent Lawsuit set, and more.
It's only down to whether free speech is alive enough to let that happen or whether some junk libel/slander lawsuit takes it down.
Seriously, using a Combo Approach to current news every seventh article or so, is leading to scary results.
You're new to the news on Big Brother! Welcome to the Axis of Oppression!
Just go the extra step and pay the Cool Kid to wear these, to make them The Thing to wear, so that anyone resisting gets socially outcast for a month.
(/Bitter)
Try these excerpts from the article:
"In an e-mail conversation with Threatpost, Auerbach of EFF characterized the bills as âoealarming.â Of particular concern: a section in both the Lieberman bill and the McCain bills that authorizes monitoring by private firms of any traffic that transits their networks. Ostensibly intended to facilitate private-public information sharing, the passage would grant complete private sector immunity for data monitoring and sharing practices. Private entities would be unbound from the Wiretap Act and other legal limits and immunized against a swath of questionable monitoring practices, EFF claims.
Furthermore, Auerbach and Tien worry that the bills' definition of a "cyber security threat" is too broad, and could cover everything from stealing passwords from a secure government server to scanning a network for software vulnerabilities. Similarly, the bills calls for more ISP traffic analysis and monitoring could bring about more civil liberties violations. For example, ISPs could simply block Tor, cryptographic protocols, or traffic on certain ports under the guise of defensive countermeasures, the EFF speculated."
So given our new over-reaching governments, it's not hard to see how those kinds of measures then later get warped out of control even more than they already are.
No, you need your buddy to take your shirt to class with him. Is the GPS good enough to know "two people are in the same chair?"
"You cannot sign-away your legally-protected rights."
Of course you can.
1. Sign those rights away.
2. Courts quit legally protecting them.
That's the way our Court System is going. It's not a justice system anymore.
Actually, I'd let Wizards have the CCG patent if push came to shove, I was there for the start of MTG and the innovation exploded from the card concept, combined with the idea of (sometimes) good quality custom art for every card, to produce some 20,000 total cards by now.
"I've long since retired, I gave my cards away..." - but that style of strategic thinking is what I apply to IP news stories today. It is the Black Lotus-Time Vault concept - one idea is so subtle that it looks like it does nothing, the other reeks of abuse but the creators hope that it will somehow not become a Pandora's Box. Together, total hell results. (And other more direct combos.)
I look at stories and I'm wailing, "can no one else see that you combine this law with the one from two days ago to get a total disaster?!"
I disagree, all you need to find is a *correlation*, not a 1-1 note match. So not only do you get X million digits of data, you can run them backward, or take every second note, or "the previous digit's # of spaces forward".
You can reverse engineer almost any song into "something derived from Pi".
You're quite right, but Corruption is the law profession's "Division By Zero".
Maybe you've seen those proofs of 1=0. Of course they run on an engine of D-B-Z.
But using how it's all shaking down socially with copyright, you get "Gamer Strategies" like the one you presented. It's like a judge running you through that proof, then ordering "Divide by zero as instructed or become a Terrorist!" Then the predictably irrational result comes out.
That's the Firehose.
The users already do moderate those, but then the editors get a 1000% weighted vote to override the user moderations and post whatever they like.
(Bitter)
Nah, they'll find ways to apply it with a double standard so that the best lawyer still wins.
I want to play the Collectible Card Game about Politicians! You can spend Manna/Money, you can tap and un tap your "political resources".
Let's hear it for Wizards of the Coast!
It might. PlaysForSure went away, Zune went away, various of those Live services went away. I even have the marketing slogan!
"Ride the Metro to see the Vistas out the Windows with Me!"
They can fix all their branding in one sentence!
Uh oh, I think I just found a new sig for a week.
The Rule 34 implications of that are immense!
It might even be enough to save Nokia.
Okay, that's a fair attempt!
I think it will also pose a challenge to computers since they can't just raw search it like chess, but to me that's that limitation on the programming side, heuristics.
Because in the bigger view, most games in these categories will eventually be playable by computers - it's only because chess was so famous that the proper programming theory developed in with advances in comp science. And we can't bear to let it go because it was the Grand Game of Kings - it symbolized a certain intelligence culturally like few other games did.
I am having trouble thinking of a game that a person could play better than computers for longer than say 20 years. I know, Go fans like to flaunt that their game hasn't received the same onslaught, but all it takes is a "paradigm change" in AI for suddenly that game to crack in half too.
Already done. "Aided Playing" is called Advanced Chess.
"Unaided Playing" just gets back to the article. The sneaky part is that you don't need to be a moron playing GM moves for an event of Cheating. There was a couple of stories a while back in which GMs only needed one key decision such as "Go for the Win or Keep the Draw" and their own talent was the rest.