Lets put on the Tinfoil Hat for a minute and think about this....
ISP's want to start getting paid for heavy usage, yet they are currently unable to prevent spam or other undesired traffic from hitting my connection/computer when it's online. This is when they 'should' actually have a reason to prevent this type of traffic (it clogs their networks and slows all overall traffic, according to them).
What do you think is going to happen when ISP's have a financial incentive (overage charges) to dump as much traffic as possible on your connection in order to get you to your cap and then to the higher 'usage' fees?
If this plan were to happen, I can see some unscrupulous companies (ie. 99.99999% of them) actually helping to increase the undesired traffic that hits their customers, thus increasing their fees. Once they are getting paid for all the undesired traffic, we can be pretty sure that they will never figure out any way to stop or prevent it, and we would probably actually see an increase in bot-net and other types of 'scanning' traffic that would dramatically increase an individuals usage above what they are actually using the internet for.
Or perhaps I'm just a little paranoid about the types of incentives we should be giving companies.... Then again, who am I kidding, we continually 'reward' the ones who screw things up, while blaming the ones who are footing the bill (Insurance/Auto/Mortgage bailout anyone?).
My hat must be a little tight today, that's what I get for not using Reynolds Wrap... when you're paranoid enough to use the very best, use Reynolds Wrap.
What I really want answered is, "Why shouldn't I be paid today for the work I did 4 years ago?"
Come on people, where's my 'welfare' payments for the work I did last year/month/week? I mean I design and build documents and systems that are still being used today to make the company money, but they only paid me once for my work, not every time they use it. Can you imagine my outrage? How will my undeserving offspring ever become accustomed to the outlandish lifestyle they deserve (ie. doing nothing and getting paid for the work I did 10 years ago), if they aren't going to be getting paid for my work for the next 70 years?
[/sarcasm off]
As a society I'm hopeful that eventually we will realize that the amount of effort and resources that are being wasted on 'entertainment' could be put to much better use actually solving some of the bigger issues we are facing (food, shelter, basic health care, etc). But then we are all human, so I'm not holding my breath...
So what you are saying is that if Rosa Parks had just obeyed the laws at that time, civil rights wouldn't be an issue for anyone today? And we would still be living in a society that encouraged segregation and racism? And that would be better how?
Oh, I get it, you really don't have a clue what you are talking about, but you don't like the way it sounds, so it must be 'wrong'. Please follow through with your example and explain what would have happened if Rosa Parks had just obeyed the law rather than breaking it?
As a member of the 'tinfoil hat' wearing association, I tend to take things to the extreme side of most views, but even I'm having issues figuring out how the civil rights movement would have started if everyone had just 'obeyed the laws'... so please explain how any of the major law changes in our history would have happened if nobody had broken the laws that were changed, either the Civil Rights movement or Prohibition should be place to explain how things would have worked if nobody had broken the laws.
They use the inverse scientific method (or the Corporate Method (tm) if you prefer) for producing their reports.
1. Determine desired outcome (ie. more money for big telecom, limited funding for anyone else).
2. Design data model that satisfies requirement 1.
3. Create data (ie. make stuff up) that supports the model and outcome designed in step 2.
4. Push bogus 'reports' as facts. Repeat Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over until everyone has heard the bogus 'facts' and repeated them as 'accepted' facts.
5. Collect Government 'handouts' based on bogus data.
6. Profit.
7. Laugh all the way to the bank.
I'm going to patent the Corporate Method of problem solving, as it seems to get much more use than the Scientific method.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Another story blown out of proportion
You do realize that there is a difference between incurring $49,000 of costs and getting a court judgment that cover those costs VS having ZERO costs and getting a court judgment to award $49,000 to cover that big fat ZERO, right?
No, I didn't think you would grasp the difference, which is why you make such a good shill, no 'higher cognitive functioning' to get in the way of repeating the industry party lines.
Lets take a look at why the Bar owner may not have responded:
BMI: Hey, we think you need to pay us for those people having fun in your restaurant, if you don't want something bad to happen to you.
Owner: Ignores blatant extortion attempt from industry.
Rinse and repeat. Obviously ignoring the 'court' orders was a mistake, but I can easily see why they would ignore the typical collection tactics of the 'Industry'.
How about 'hardcore' patents, think patenting reproduction would be possible?
You wouldn't think so, but apparently if you are really creative you can....
"As of February 2005, Monsanto has patent claims on breeding techniques for pigs which would grant them ownership of any pigs born of such techniques and their related herds. Greenpeace claims Monsanto is trying to claim ownership on ordinary breeding techniques.[9] Monsanto claims that the patent is a defensive measure to track animals from its system. They furthermore claim their patented method uses a specialized insemination device that requires less sperm than is typical."
This from the same company who patented Soybeans (Roundup Ready that are resistant to roundup) and uses it's patents to put poor farmers and seed recovery firms out of business. Farmers aren't even allowed to plant the seeds they have grown, they have to purchase new seed from Monsanto every year (link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto).
When patents prevent the growing of plants and the reproduction of animals, you know something is SERIOUSLY messed up in the system, and it goes to show that there is really no reason for these patents. Does anyone honestly believe that people wouldn't plant soybeans or breed pigs if these patents didn't exist? Did these patents promote the progress of anything, or were they only used to pressure smaller companies and individuals?
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So shouldn't Microsoft and Bing be sued under the same laws?
Sounds like Bing's being used to, "A) devise or execute any scheme or artifice to defraud, deceive, or extort, or (B) wrongfully control or obtain money, property, or data." the website in question is using Bing data to deceive and defraud customers, therefor both Bing and Microsoft are a party to the fraud that is being perpetuated on Bing users (yet another reason to avoid MicroSoft products).
ASCAP collects money on behalf of all artists, and normally only distributes it to the top 200 groups (or am I thinking of a different extortion racket? it's so hard to keep the track of the mafia without a program), many of those they can't even seem to locate.
Now there's apparently a big pot of 'leftover' money that really belongs to all those little 'up and coming' artists that weren't in the top 200 list, but instead of giving it to them (you know the ones they collected it on behalf of), they turn around and 'AWARD' it to "writers whose works have a unique prestige value for which adequate compensation would not otherwise be received and to compensate those writers whose works are performed substantially in media not surveyed by ASCAP".
So they collect on behalf of many, but only distribute to the top few, then they take the rest and award it to people who weren't even in their 'media survey'? Why do I get the feeling that the list of Award recipients (I couldn't find one on the site, but didn't waste too much time) would have a very close affiliation with the list of family, friends, and related associates of the ASCAP administration?
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So this means that the students can now sue their schools for 'inducing copyright infringement' when the professors ask them to answer the questions in the textbook, right?
What if some of the questions are so basic to the subject matter, that they can be found in any of several textbooks? What is the atomic structure of water? How do you increase revenue in a basic dual entry accounting system? We need a team of scholars to scour textbooks for similar questions and then sue them all for 'derivative copyright infringement' and see how they like it.
Obviously the tin-foil just isn't enough today....
For a minute I thought this was a reasonable explanation about how kicking people off the internet might get them to buy more product, but then I realized that it was really just staire about the Mob mentality of the music industry cleverly disguised to appear to be in support of the music industry.
It was really the 3rd paragraph that gave it away:
a) People believing they have some divine right - check, that's the MPAA/RIAA and the rest of the industry middle men described to a T. They feel they have a divine right to the same profit they have always received, even though the market and technology are constantly changing.
b) People believing that nobody will catch them - check, that's the greedy politicians who flip sides after having a meal with the industry (and being fed their line of drivel) and think that nobody will catch them while they cash their fat bribe checks.
Sounds like time for a little 'gaming the system' as payback
So just report the bank CEO/Manager as being suspected of being in possession of child pornography and possible sexual misconduct in the workplace and let the police deal with it..
What? The charges weren't validated after the police hauled him out of the bank in handcuffs, confiscated his personal and work computers, and conducted extensive interviews with all of his business associates.
Oops, must have been a mistake, good thing there are no repercussions for reporting a 'suspected crime'. Too bad it may have ruined someone's life, but at least we are following the rules, right?
On another note Reynolds Wrap brand foil makes the best tinfoil hats ever. Disclosure: I once received a free box of Reynolds Warp foil from the company, so my views may be a little biased.
Time for a grassroots 'letter of the law' campaign to get this repealed
Every blogger out there needs to start making outrageous claims about products that they have received to 'review', once the companies start getting hit with the bigger end of this stick (via them getting fined over the bloggers unsubstantiated endorsements), something might get changed....
I just received a new Palm-Pre (or iTouchMyself, or GoogleDroid, take your pick) to review, and I can't believe how amazing this thing is... It cured my cancer, gave my dog's coat a nice shiny glow, and solved my ED problems once and for all... Everyone should have one of these things...
It's the delima of Scylla and Charybdis or a Rock and a Hard Place
Choosing between the 'lesser' of 2 evils, is still choosing EVIL. Our system of government is horribly broken and since it is self governing, it just keeps getting worse. Things won't get better until there is serious change in this country, and I don't just mean a 'better' candidate throws his hat into the ring.
Anyone out there have a 'regular' job where you only have to 'work' a 2-4 year term and then you get a guaranteed salary for the rest of your life (equal to what you made while working, with guaranteed increases)? When we let the 'elected' officials govern themselves (by passing laws that impact only their select group), does anyone really have to ask why things are messed up?
I don't have a solution at this time, but I personally feel that anyone WILLING to be in politics, shouldn't be allowed to be in politics, because they are probably there for the wrong reason. I'm not saying that we would get better results with a 'political draft' of qualified candidates who served a limited term and then went back to their regular life, but at least we wouldn't have the dregs of society (ie. those who's only ambition is power and money) running the country.
"but we need to also understand that today the disclosure policy of patents is more possible than ever before because of the internet."
BUT those damn patent attorneys are also hellbent on getting 'willful infringement' claims (gotta love those 3x fines for doing nothing), so most companies that do R&D specifically FORBID their employees from reviewing similar or related patents to avoid being sued for what is probably an obvious idea in the first place.
Re: If you want a phone that arbitrarily wipes out your data
"You think it's bad when Amazon takes an e-book offline, wait till a company arbitrarily costs you 4 hours of wasted time, and all that time leaves you wondering if your going to get your data back..."
When did this thread turn into a Microsoft bashing session????
Border Agent: Welcome to the US, we don't have time to actually search your laptop, but since we can, we are now using 'Super Snooper Bot V3.0427-beta', we'll just drop it on your laptop, and it will do the searching for us and send us anything it thinks we might be interested in seeing (your bank accounts, personal info, risky photos, personal pictures, etc). If you have any questions just check our website.
I'm not saying that it's going to happen, but when it does don't be too surprised. Power Corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely (there is a reason the saying exists).
Lets simplify things a little for those who don't get it.
Joe says I like Cake and I like to share it.
Mike says I like Cake and I like to share it also.
Lily says I like Cake, but Joe wanting to share his Cake is just WRONG, he isn't thinking about how sharing Cake is going to end up destroying the whole world. While she's saying this she is sitting there eating a piece of cake that she took (borrowed, shared, whatever term you want to use) from Mike without asking or even acknowledging the fact (which he's fine with).
If you can't see the hyprocracy, then I'm sure the MPAA/RIAA have a great job waiting for you in their PR department.
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Lets put on the Tinfoil Hat for a minute and think about this....
What do you think is going to happen when ISP's have a financial incentive (overage charges) to dump as much traffic as possible on your connection in order to get you to your cap and then to the higher 'usage' fees?
If this plan were to happen, I can see some unscrupulous companies (ie. 99.99999% of them) actually helping to increase the undesired traffic that hits their customers, thus increasing their fees. Once they are getting paid for all the undesired traffic, we can be pretty sure that they will never figure out any way to stop or prevent it, and we would probably actually see an increase in bot-net and other types of 'scanning' traffic that would dramatically increase an individuals usage above what they are actually using the internet for.
Or perhaps I'm just a little paranoid about the types of incentives we should be giving companies.... Then again, who am I kidding, we continually 'reward' the ones who screw things up, while blaming the ones who are footing the bill (Insurance/Auto/Mortgage bailout anyone?).
My hat must be a little tight today, that's what I get for not using Reynolds Wrap... when you're paranoid enough to use the very best, use Reynolds Wrap.
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Re: Change culture
Come on people, where's my 'welfare' payments for the work I did last year/month/week? I mean I design and build documents and systems that are still being used today to make the company money, but they only paid me once for my work, not every time they use it. Can you imagine my outrage? How will my undeserving offspring ever become accustomed to the outlandish lifestyle they deserve (ie. doing nothing and getting paid for the work I did 10 years ago), if they aren't going to be getting paid for my work for the next 70 years?
[/sarcasm off]
As a society I'm hopeful that eventually we will realize that the amount of effort and resources that are being wasted on 'entertainment' could be put to much better use actually solving some of the bigger issues we are facing (food, shelter, basic health care, etc). But then we are all human, so I'm not holding my breath...
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Friend of big content lol
Oh, I get it, you really don't have a clue what you are talking about, but you don't like the way it sounds, so it must be 'wrong'. Please follow through with your example and explain what would have happened if Rosa Parks had just obeyed the law rather than breaking it?
As a member of the 'tinfoil hat' wearing association, I tend to take things to the extreme side of most views, but even I'm having issues figuring out how the civil rights movement would have started if everyone had just 'obeyed the laws'... so please explain how any of the major law changes in our history would have happened if nobody had broken the laws that were changed, either the Civil Rights movement or Prohibition should be place to explain how things would have worked if nobody had broken the laws.
On the post: Connected Nation, Created By Telco Lobbyists, Gets Millions In Gov't Funding To Hide Broadband Data From The Gov't
Re: Stories like this make baby jesus cry
1. Determine desired outcome (ie. more money for big telecom, limited funding for anyone else).
2. Design data model that satisfies requirement 1.
3. Create data (ie. make stuff up) that supports the model and outcome designed in step 2.
4. Push bogus 'reports' as facts. Repeat Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over until everyone has heard the bogus 'facts' and repeated them as 'accepted' facts.
5. Collect Government 'handouts' based on bogus data.
6. Profit.
7. Laugh all the way to the bank.
I'm going to patent the Corporate Method of problem solving, as it seems to get much more use than the Scientific method.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Another story blown out of proportion
No, I didn't think you would grasp the difference, which is why you make such a good shill, no 'higher cognitive functioning' to get in the way of repeating the industry party lines.
Lets take a look at why the Bar owner may not have responded:
BMI: Hey, we think you need to pay us for those people having fun in your restaurant, if you don't want something bad to happen to you.
Owner: Ignores blatant extortion attempt from industry.
Rinse and repeat. Obviously ignoring the 'court' orders was a mistake, but I can easily see why they would ignore the typical collection tactics of the 'Industry'.
On the post: Defense Of Software Patents Actually Raises Questions About All Computer Patents
How about 'hardcore' patents, think patenting reproduction would be possible?
"As of February 2005, Monsanto has patent claims on breeding techniques for pigs which would grant them ownership of any pigs born of such techniques and their related herds. Greenpeace claims Monsanto is trying to claim ownership on ordinary breeding techniques.[9] Monsanto claims that the patent is a defensive measure to track animals from its system. They furthermore claim their patented method uses a specialized insemination device that requires less sperm than is typical."
This from the same company who patented Soybeans (Roundup Ready that are resistant to roundup) and uses it's patents to put poor farmers and seed recovery firms out of business. Farmers aren't even allowed to plant the seeds they have grown, they have to purchase new seed from Monsanto every year (link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto).
When patents prevent the growing of plants and the reproduction of animals, you know something is SERIOUSLY messed up in the system, and it goes to show that there is really no reason for these patents. Does anyone honestly believe that people wouldn't plant soybeans or breed pigs if these patents didn't exist? Did these patents promote the progress of anything, or were they only used to pressure smaller companies and individuals?
Now for a message from out Sponsor:
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Re: Ridiculous, of course.
Sounds like Bing's being used to, "A) devise or execute any scheme or artifice to defraud, deceive, or extort, or (B) wrongfully control or obtain money, property, or data." the website in question is using Bing data to deceive and defraud customers, therefor both Bing and Microsoft are a party to the fraud that is being perpetuated on Bing users (yet another reason to avoid MicroSoft products).
On the post: ASCAP, BMI And SESAC Continue To Screw Over Most Songwriters: 'Write A Hit Song If You Want Money'
Re: Setting the record straight ... again.
ASCAP collects money on behalf of all artists, and normally only distributes it to the top 200 groups (or am I thinking of a different extortion racket? it's so hard to keep the track of the mafia without a program), many of those they can't even seem to locate.
Now there's apparently a big pot of 'leftover' money that really belongs to all those little 'up and coming' artists that weren't in the top 200 list, but instead of giving it to them (you know the ones they collected it on behalf of), they turn around and 'AWARD' it to "writers whose works have a unique prestige value for which adequate compensation would not otherwise be received and to compensate those writers whose works are performed substantially in media not surveyed by ASCAP".
So they collect on behalf of many, but only distribute to the top few, then they take the rest and award it to people who weren't even in their 'media survey'? Why do I get the feeling that the list of Award recipients (I couldn't find one on the site, but didn't waste too much time) would have a very close affiliation with the list of family, friends, and related associates of the ASCAP administration?
Today's tinfoil hat brought to you by Reynolds Wrap, when you're concerned enough to use the very best...
On the post: Answers To Textbook Questions: Copyright Violation?
Student Rebellion time
What if some of the questions are so basic to the subject matter, that they can be found in any of several textbooks? What is the atomic structure of water? How do you increase revenue in a basic dual entry accounting system? We need a team of scholars to scour textbooks for similar questions and then sue them all for 'derivative copyright infringement' and see how they like it.
Obviously the tin-foil just isn't enough today....
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Re: You almost had me there...
It was really the 3rd paragraph that gave it away:
a) People believing they have some divine right - check, that's the MPAA/RIAA and the rest of the industry middle men described to a T. They feel they have a divine right to the same profit they have always received, even though the market and technology are constantly changing.
b) People believing that nobody will catch them - check, that's the greedy politicians who flip sides after having a meal with the industry (and being fed their line of drivel) and think that nobody will catch them while they cash their fat bribe checks.
On the post: Advance Fee Scams Are Based On Greed, So Their New Favorite Target? Lawyers!
Sounds like time for a little 'gaming the system' as payback
What? The charges weren't validated after the police hauled him out of the bank in handcuffs, confiscated his personal and work computers, and conducted extensive interviews with all of his business associates.
Oops, must have been a mistake, good thing there are no repercussions for reporting a 'suspected crime'. Too bad it may have ruined someone's life, but at least we are following the rules, right?
On another note Reynolds Wrap brand foil makes the best tinfoil hats ever. Disclosure: I once received a free box of Reynolds Warp foil from the company, so my views may be a little biased.
On the post: ACTA Negotiations Back On... White House Shows Small Group Proposed Text Under NDA
Re: Just a guess.
The next step is that they run crying to congress about how the US needs to 'harmonize' US with the new draconian international laws.
Then.... Profit....
On the post: No, The Music Industry Outlook Isn't Grim... Just For Selling Recorded Music
Re: Shill is a bad shill
Should be...
Double the income on concerts, you can lose the same amount in "useless middlemen and inflated Performers salaries" and still break even."
Fixed that for you. Doesn't matter what you want to call 'losses', the fact is that overall the MUSIC industry is doing fine.
On the post: Judge Tells Gamer That Sony Doesn't Violate His Free Speech Rights By Banning Him
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: can someone explain to me
On the post: More Problems With The FTC's New Disclosure Rules: Free Speech And Liability Problems
Time for a grassroots 'letter of the law' campaign to get this repealed
I just received a new Palm-Pre (or iTouchMyself, or GoogleDroid, take your pick) to review, and I can't believe how amazing this thing is... It cured my cancer, gave my dog's coat a nice shiny glow, and solved my ED problems once and for all... Everyone should have one of these things...
/sarcasm off
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It's the delima of Scylla and Charybdis or a Rock and a Hard Place
Anyone out there have a 'regular' job where you only have to 'work' a 2-4 year term and then you get a guaranteed salary for the rest of your life (equal to what you made while working, with guaranteed increases)? When we let the 'elected' officials govern themselves (by passing laws that impact only their select group), does anyone really have to ask why things are messed up?
I don't have a solution at this time, but I personally feel that anyone WILLING to be in politics, shouldn't be allowed to be in politics, because they are probably there for the wrong reason. I'm not saying that we would get better results with a 'political draft' of qualified candidates who served a limited term and then went back to their regular life, but at least we wouldn't have the dregs of society (ie. those who's only ambition is power and money) running the country.
The Tinfoil must be giving me a headache today...
On the post: Is It So Crazy For A Patent Attorney To Think Patents Harm Innovation?
If only this were reality...
BUT those damn patent attorneys are also hellbent on getting 'willful infringement' claims (gotta love those 3x fines for doing nothing), so most companies that do R&D specifically FORBID their employees from reviewing similar or related patents to avoid being sued for what is probably an obvious idea in the first place.
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Re: If you want a phone that arbitrarily wipes out your data
When did this thread turn into a Microsoft bashing session????
On the post: DHS Reveals Some Data On Border Laptop Searches
Welcome to the future.....
I'm not saying that it's going to happen, but when it does don't be too surprised. Power Corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely (there is a reason the saying exists).
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Re: Commentors just don't understand..
Joe says I like Cake and I like to share it.
Mike says I like Cake and I like to share it also.
Lily says I like Cake, but Joe wanting to share his Cake is just WRONG, he isn't thinking about how sharing Cake is going to end up destroying the whole world. While she's saying this she is sitting there eating a piece of cake that she took (borrowed, shared, whatever term you want to use) from Mike without asking or even acknowledging the fact (which he's fine with).
If you can't see the hyprocracy, then I'm sure the MPAA/RIAA have a great job waiting for you in their PR department.
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