nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 21 Nov 2012 @ 6:44am
"The explosion of litigation we are seeing is a reflection of how the patent system wires us for innovation"
And in other news...
Fire Department Chief answers critics: "The explosion of arson and forest fires we are seeing is a reflection of how the fire department wires us for fire fighting"
Prison Warden defends record: "The explosion of crime we are seeing is a reflection of how the prison system wires us for respect for the law"
Michael Bay on new movie: "The explosion of explosions you are seeing is a reflection of how explosions wires us for powerful movie drama"
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 14 Nov 2012 @ 2:21am
Pirate IRL?
What I want to know is what are they going to do about the newspaper and magazine pirates IRL?
You know the ones, you have this big shop engine called WH Smith, and these pirates, they go in and they browse the headlines and articles that are just all sitting there, indexed on the shelves.
These shop engines, so called 'newsagents', are really just ripping off the publishers by letting people come in and browse the newspapers and magazines without even clicking in their wallet to buy them.
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 13 Nov 2012 @ 12:31pm
If I ever get into the Search business...
Or if I ever build my own search engine, my takedown policy is going to be really simple and easy to use. If you contact me to complain you turn up wrongly in search results; i.e. not a picture you like, not 1st result, not results you expect, bits of your news article can be read, etc... I will remove all reference to you and your business from my search website. I will purge you from any results.
I would then require payment to be made to add any content going forward if you suddenly changed your mind at a later date.
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 13 Nov 2012 @ 2:52am
Re: I'm confused
The real irony is in your rant. Let me help you with that confusion...
"The poppy symbolises the sacrifices our friends and families made and make for liberty, freedom, and yes, Free Speech. Its sale raises charity money for war veterans of all ages."
Presumably he bought the poppy - ie. he donated some money the charity in order to have himself a plastic flower which he could then choose to wear or burn. So no charity has been deprived. I mean, I assume he didn't steal it because he's been arrested for exercising his right to do what he wants with his property, not for theft.
Thank GOD the police have removed another low-IQ freak from the voting pool.
Yes, thank God that the poppy has granted people freedom to be arrested for doing freedomy things... no wait... no that doesn't make sense... derp...
My grandfather was a conscript in WW2. He's passed on now, I bought a poppy recently just to remember him - my gran served also and she still marches every remembrance day - well actually she rolls because she can't walk, she has a motorized scooter.
I have respect for my grandparents, they're true veterans - a poppy or not doesn't change that, it doesn't take my memory away of them. When my gran passes on, I won't care about remembrance, I will remember them always, but I could care less about war and about our current soldiers.
Because it's no longer a fight for freedom, it's a fight for empire - the freedom has been won by my grandparents and their compatriots. The current bunch of "heroes" too me are imposters. They have no idea what WW2 vets faced, they're soldiers of fortune - it's a job, not survival.
Just look at the advertising on TV for soldier jobs, they advertise it like a holiday - make new friends/teammates, travel the world etc... not get blown apart and lose vital limbs before you turn 30 - which is what they should be advertising.
So all the pricks that get upset over a poppy burning actually cause me offence... because they're making the symbol itself into a sacred object - into a perpetual remembrance for perpetual warfare, rather than using it as a reminder of those who did give their all 70 years ago.
If freedom means giving up the rights to burn a poppy, then I don't want anyone to fight for my 'freedom'.
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 13 Nov 2012 @ 1:46am
Free speech issues aside...
My hearty congratulations to Kent Constabulary for solving all crime in their county, which freed up the resources to deal with morons posting on Facebook!
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 10 Nov 2012 @ 5:53am
Re: "Bring your own expert to work" Day
This is what most articles seem to be missing... the foreman acting like an expert witness, and not being a juror. Personally I think the Seagate lawsuit is a red herring.
If this judge has any respectability left, she'll definitely rule for jury bias.
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 8 Nov 2012 @ 1:58am
“For years Apple refused to pay fair value for the VirnetX patents,” Doug Cawley, a lawyer with McKool Smith in Dallas who represents VirnetX, said in closing arguments. “Apple says they don’t infringe. But Apple developers testified that they didn’t pay any attention to anyone’s patents when developing their system.”
That quote in and of itself demonstrates that this is a patent troll that knows nothing of actual invention or software development, as well as the courts general ignorance.
Anyone who can trot out an asinine statement like that should immediately have their patents invalidated.
Not only is it a legal necessity that software developers do not look up patents in order to avoid 'willful' infringement - it would be insane!
If you had to trawl the patent database full of legally jargonised crap every time you wanted to solve a problem you'd probably not only lose the will to develop anything, you'd lose the will to live.
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 7 Nov 2012 @ 9:16am
Dumbest...
Wow. That has to be the dumbest thing I've read all year. If there was an joint award for the dumbest application of DRM and dumbest use of 'the cloud', Razer completely owns that category.
The challenger really does want reform, they really do want to make a difference, they've (hopefully) worked on a local level for the people in their designated region and done some good things and now they want to take that to the rest of the country.
So they win, they get elected, they have a parade and make some speeches, everybody cheers. Then they get to move into the important building - where they will lead from and bring their reform.
Except what happens is on the first day, they are brought into a little room with a small gathering of the highest ranking unelected officials of each department.
Then they sit the new incumbent down and they say "Listen, this is how it's going to be, this is how we do things... and if you try to change anything *these people here* won't cooperate... or *this information here* will find itself in the public domain and *these people here* will die/be pissed/revolt".
That's how I imagine it. That's why people who promise change don't bring it. Think about the first day of your new job. It's relatively easy to walk in and see where things are going wrong, however it takes a strong will to then turn around to all your new co-workers and tell them they're all doing it wrong... Especially if there's a highly politicized and hostile atmosphere.
Now think of walking into the top job in the country where every single thing you say is going to be recorded, analyzed and possibly (most likely) used against you at some date if you fire the wrong person or make the wrong decision.
Personally I think a large part of the problem is simply this fact that it's treated like a job, rather than service. A leader should have the will power to make unpopular decisions if they know it's going to benefit the whole. Of course if you view it as just a job, you're going to do what you can to save it. And when you're trying to save your job you'll be focused on that rather than serving; you'll be willing to make compromises and hide things.
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 4 Nov 2012 @ 5:40am
We have met the enemy...
Ever increasing copyright extensions and patents on methods are making it increasingly unsafe for innocent software developers, let alone those posing as pirates and spies for their company.
I'm waiting for the moment that the US and countries that import it's laws, finds itself without enough software developers because they're all behind bars or blocked by immigration.
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 2 Nov 2012 @ 12:23pm
Re: Re: Patent actual INVENTIONS!
Umm... so...
Presumably the METHOD you used to create a tyre out of seawater would be implemented by a MACHINE of some sort, otherwise known as an INVENTION?
So you can't patent the invention of the wheel, but you can patent the invention of the MACHINE that the world has never seen before, which allows you to concert seawater to rubber.
Unless your using magic, which of course is kind of made up in your head, a but like patenting a METHOD really in that it's also in your head but you don't have to make any effort to invent anything! Brilliant!
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 2 Nov 2012 @ 12:11pm
Fight fire with fire?
Isn't it about time some enterprising individuals created an algorithm to comb large media entities' websites for creative commons, public domain or other broadly similar material and send out some DMCA's on behalf of the public.
When media conglomerates, politicians and CEO's start getting their websites taken offline, then they'll do something. Right now all these assholes see is the system is working because la, la, la I can't hear you with my head buried in all this piles of money I'm making from shutting down your legitimate form of income.
Or something like that.
Possibly this could be done with websites that allow user contributions because then the DMCAssassin could claim they legitimately thought they owned copyright on their contributions. In fact where does the legal line stand with things like user comments?
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 2 Nov 2012 @ 3:58am
Patent actual INVENTIONS!
Why not just going back to demonstrating your physical invention to a patent examiner and demonstrating how it is unique, non-obvious and innovative and deserves to grant you a monopoly on the commercial use.
I chuckle at the thought of a team of Apple developers and lawyers queuing up to demonstrate the unique, non-obvious and innovative 'slide to unlock'. Much harder than hiding obvious things behind creative lawyer lingo.
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 31 Oct 2012 @ 3:35am
How I imagine negotiations went with Lucas...
Executives: "You cannot keep the franchise forever, George."
Lucas: "I will not make it."
Executives: "Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for it are strong. Especially for... Disney. So, you like Disney movies. Now your failure is complete. If you will not make Episode VII... then perhaps they will..!"
nospacesorspecialcharacters (profile), 31 Oct 2012 @ 3:13am
Dorknet?
I've always wondered why the media, politicians, police and courts will make a brouhaha over things like inappropriate twitter jokes, organising protest and riots on facebook etc... when a world of torture, killing, abuse and anarchism is just a few clicks away.
You don't even need a proxy, tor or vpn in most cases (that's to hide from the authorities - but the authorities don't need to hide).
So when I see things like a twitter troll arrested... I just think to myself - wait they still don't know about 4chan?
I have a few theories but none seem to fit universally.
1) They really are that dumb. They're so technologically illiterate that they're think trolling is as bad as it gets (coupled with the fact they only seem to notice when a VIP is trolled).
2) The authorities are technologically aware and are actively working with admins (voluntarily or involuntarily by dangling reduced sentences) to report and capture the crims. As observed with Craigslist, honeypots etc... They don't publicise it because they don't want to become the focus of the media and thus shine a light on their questionable evidence procedures.
3) The authorities are aware but are sort of powerless to control it due to the aforementioned anonymising technologies outside of baiting the unaware and foolish. Therefore they don't mention these sites in the media as it would put more pressure on them to "something must be done" on something that can't be done, and the resulting Streisand Effect of giving these sites publicity (that assumes they even understand the concept of the Streisand Effect).
4) They just don't care and there is plenty of low hanging fruit in the form of nabbing trolls, idiots and innocents on twitter and facebook for easy wins and good publicity.
So perhaps less of a darknet and more of a dorknet, based on either sheer ignorance or cynical attempt to keep society at large ignorant.
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"The explosion of litigation we are seeing is a reflection of how the patent system wires us for innovation"
Fire Department Chief answers critics: "The explosion of arson and forest fires we are seeing is a reflection of how the fire department wires us for fire fighting"
Prison Warden defends record: "The explosion of crime we are seeing is a reflection of how the prison system wires us for respect for the law"
Michael Bay on new movie: "The explosion of explosions you are seeing is a reflection of how explosions wires us for powerful movie drama"
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What if...?
Not happy with just making sure people couldn't say his name, he wants to make sure people can't actually remember him or his music!
Keep going Pri... Umm... &$%@@**... whoever you are, in a few more years you will be completely irrelevant and forgotten!
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Pirate IRL?
You know the ones, you have this big shop engine called WH Smith, and these pirates, they go in and they browse the headlines and articles that are just all sitting there, indexed on the shelves.
These shop engines, so called 'newsagents', are really just ripping off the publishers by letting people come in and browse the newspapers and magazines without even clicking in their wallet to buy them.
On the post: Australian Court: Google Must Pay Guy $200k Due To Image Search Turning Up Gangsters
If I ever get into the Search business...
I would then require payment to be made to add any content going forward if you suddenly changed your mind at a later date.
On the post: UK Looking To Cement Its New Anti-Free Speech Reputation By Arresting Man For Posting Photo Of A Burning Poppy
Re: I'm confused
Presumably he bought the poppy - ie. he donated some money the charity in order to have himself a plastic flower which he could then choose to wear or burn. So no charity has been deprived. I mean, I assume he didn't steal it because he's been arrested for exercising his right to do what he wants with his property, not for theft.
Yes, thank God that the poppy has granted people freedom to be arrested for doing freedomy things... no wait... no that doesn't make sense... derp...
My grandfather was a conscript in WW2. He's passed on now, I bought a poppy recently just to remember him - my gran served also and she still marches every remembrance day - well actually she rolls because she can't walk, she has a motorized scooter.
I have respect for my grandparents, they're true veterans - a poppy or not doesn't change that, it doesn't take my memory away of them. When my gran passes on, I won't care about remembrance, I will remember them always, but I could care less about war and about our current soldiers.
Because it's no longer a fight for freedom, it's a fight for empire - the freedom has been won by my grandparents and their compatriots. The current bunch of "heroes" too me are imposters. They have no idea what WW2 vets faced, they're soldiers of fortune - it's a job, not survival.
Just look at the advertising on TV for soldier jobs, they advertise it like a holiday - make new friends/teammates, travel the world etc... not get blown apart and lose vital limbs before you turn 30 - which is what they should be advertising.
So all the pricks that get upset over a poppy burning actually cause me offence... because they're making the symbol itself into a sacred object - into a perpetual remembrance for perpetual warfare, rather than using it as a reminder of those who did give their all 70 years ago.
If freedom means giving up the rights to burn a poppy, then I don't want anyone to fight for my 'freedom'.
On the post: UK Looking To Cement Its New Anti-Free Speech Reputation By Arresting Man For Posting Photo Of A Burning Poppy
Free speech issues aside...
On the post: Judge Will Review If Apple/Samsung Jury Foreman Withheld Pertinent Info
Re: "Bring your own expert to work" Day
If this judge has any respectability left, she'll definitely rule for jury bias.
On the post: Apple, Google Lose Big Patent Cases To Trolls
That quote in and of itself demonstrates that this is a patent troll that knows nothing of actual invention or software development, as well as the courts general ignorance.
Anyone who can trot out an asinine statement like that should immediately have their patents invalidated.
Not only is it a legal necessity that software developers do not look up patents in order to avoid 'willful' infringement - it would be insane!
If you had to trawl the patent database full of legally jargonised crap every time you wanted to solve a problem you'd probably not only lose the will to develop anything, you'd lose the will to live.
On the post: When A Mouse Requires An Internet Connection, You're Doing 'Cloud' Wrong
Dumbest...
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
Some reason the reply cut it off.
On the post: Organizations Try To Shame People Into Voting By Revealing How Often They & Their Neighbors Voted
Re: Re: Re:
So they win, they get elected, they have a parade and make some speeches, everybody cheers. Then they get to move into the important building - where they will lead from and bring their reform.
Except what happens is on the first day, they are brought into a little room with a small gathering of the highest ranking unelected officials of each department.
Then they sit the new incumbent down and they say "Listen, this is how it's going to be, this is how we do things... and if you try to change anything *these people here* won't cooperate... or *this information here* will find itself in the public domain and *these people here* will die/be pissed/revolt".
That's how I imagine it. That's why people who promise change don't bring it. Think about the first day of your new job. It's relatively easy to walk in and see where things are going wrong, however it takes a strong will to then turn around to all your new co-workers and tell them they're all doing it wrong... Especially if there's a highly politicized and hostile atmosphere.
Now think of walking into the top job in the country where every single thing you say is going to be recorded, analyzed and possibly (most likely) used against you at some date if you fire the wrong person or make the wrong decision.
Personally I think a large part of the problem is simply this fact that it's treated like a job, rather than service. A leader should have the will power to make unpopular decisions if they know it's going to benefit the whole. Of course if you view it as just a job, you're going to do what you can to save it. And when you're trying to save your job you'll be focused on that rather than serving; you'll be willing to make compromises and hide things.
On the post: Spy Stories From The Murdoch Empire: News Corp Fights With Itself In Grand Game Of Espionage
We have met the enemy...
I'm waiting for the moment that the US and countries that import it's laws, finds itself without enough software developers because they're all behind bars or blocked by immigration.
On the post: Richard Stallman: Legislate That Using Software On General Purpose Computers Is Not Infringing
Re: Re: Re: Patent actual INVENTIONS!
but = bit
Damn Android tablet autocorrect!
On the post: Richard Stallman: Legislate That Using Software On General Purpose Computers Is Not Infringing
Re: Re: Patent actual INVENTIONS!
Presumably the METHOD you used to create a tyre out of seawater would be implemented by a MACHINE of some sort, otherwise known as an INVENTION?
So you can't patent the invention of the wheel, but you can patent the invention of the MACHINE that the world has never seen before, which allows you to concert seawater to rubber.
Unless your using magic, which of course is kind of made up in your head, a but like patenting a METHOD really in that it's also in your head but you don't have to make any effort to invent anything! Brilliant!
Troll harder.
On the post: LeakID And The DMCA Takedown Notice Farce
Fight fire with fire?
When media conglomerates, politicians and CEO's start getting their websites taken offline, then they'll do something. Right now all these assholes see is the system is working because la, la, la I can't hear you with my head buried in all this piles of money I'm making from shutting down your legitimate form of income.
Or something like that.
Possibly this could be done with websites that allow user contributions because then the DMCAssassin could claim they legitimately thought they owned copyright on their contributions. In fact where does the legal line stand with things like user comments?
On the post: Richard Stallman: Legislate That Using Software On General Purpose Computers Is Not Infringing
Patent actual INVENTIONS!
I chuckle at the thought of a team of Apple developers and lawyers queuing up to demonstrate the unique, non-obvious and innovative 'slide to unlock'. Much harder than hiding obvious things behind creative lawyer lingo.
On the post: George Lucas Finally Relinquishes His Tight Control Of Star Wars... To Mickey Mouse
How I imagine negotiations went with Lucas...
Lucas: "I will not make it."
Executives: "Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for it are strong. Especially for... Disney. So, you like Disney movies. Now your failure is complete. If you will not make Episode VII... then perhaps they will..!"
Lucas: "OOOOOOOOOOkaaay!"
On the post: George Lucas Finally Relinquishes His Tight Control Of Star Wars... To Mickey Mouse
Really? 78 Comments - no-one said it yet...
On the post: Navigating The Deep, Dark Web
Dorknet?
You don't even need a proxy, tor or vpn in most cases (that's to hide from the authorities - but the authorities don't need to hide).
So when I see things like a twitter troll arrested... I just think to myself - wait they still don't know about 4chan?
I have a few theories but none seem to fit universally.
1) They really are that dumb. They're so technologically illiterate that they're think trolling is as bad as it gets (coupled with the fact they only seem to notice when a VIP is trolled).
2) The authorities are technologically aware and are actively working with admins (voluntarily or involuntarily by dangling reduced sentences) to report and capture the crims. As observed with Craigslist, honeypots etc... They don't publicise it because they don't want to become the focus of the media and thus shine a light on their questionable evidence procedures.
3) The authorities are aware but are sort of powerless to control it due to the aforementioned anonymising technologies outside of baiting the unaware and foolish. Therefore they don't mention these sites in the media as it would put more pressure on them to "something must be done" on something that can't be done, and the resulting Streisand Effect of giving these sites publicity (that assumes they even understand the concept of the Streisand Effect).
4) They just don't care and there is plenty of low hanging fruit in the form of nabbing trolls, idiots and innocents on twitter and facebook for easy wins and good publicity.
So perhaps less of a darknet and more of a dorknet, based on either sheer ignorance or cynical attempt to keep society at large ignorant.
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Ownership
I can't be the only one who buys all my books again when I purchase a new bookshelf?!
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