although she could follow the lead of the Olympics Committee - if they're able to trademark "2014" maybe she can trademark each of her tweets. Yeah. That's the answer...
so instead of going after the people he is upset about scraping and redistributing his content, especially the ones he claimed were doing it repeatedly, he just annoys legit site visitors. Nice.
OMG you are such a hacker! How dare you breach her privacy and discover her whois information! Don't you know that whois information is not for general public view, and that searching such information is hacking? And as Carmen Ortiz has confirmed, a crime is a crime! And all you hackers should spend 50 years in jail for such terrorist acts!
oh that email disclaimer works really well. I routinely unintentionally receive confidential emails, and after reading them (not knowing in advance they weren't for me,) as soon as I see the disclaimer, I delete the email, and run a special scrubbing program to overwrite the 1s and 0s where the email was on my hard drive.
Then, I run a special electode-connected module program that's wired to my head, so I can erase the memory of what I read.
and that would be the first legislation I could get behind in a national referendum scenario. Require all voters to be screened for sanity. Although that would end up eliminating about 80% of the people - essentially equal portions from the Democratic and Republican sides. But that's okay.
It would leave the voting up to the rest of us, the ones who actually don't see changing views as flip-flopping when it's based on gained knowledge, or shocker - maturity enough to be open-minded...
A week after ace TechDirt columnist Chris Sprigman vocalized hope for better news, several events have transpired that amazingly fit that request...
1. Chris Dodd retires, stating "I couldn't continue the lie anymore. All those years, all those diatribes, finally caught up to me. It's time to let some other hack defy reality. I'm through..."
2. Under pressure from citizens across the United States, and prodded into action thanks to a petition on the We The People web site, today the Obama administration announced that Carmen Ortiz has been summarily dismissed from her post for grievous negligence in the Aaron Swartz case.
3. In related news, calls to Attorney General Eric Holder's office seeking further comment on the Ortiz firing were not returned at press time. Inside sources however, requesting anonymity, have stated off the record "Yeah Holder's been fired too, but the big O felt bad for his crony so he's going to let him publicly state that he is resigning his post "for personal reasons".
4. Prenda's Brett Gibbs committed suicide early today. A note found at the scene stated "I'm sick of the judge, refusing to cooperate in my plans. I can't take it anymore. So let's see how well he can get me to cooperate now!..."
wow. so you're suggesting they start crafting laws to include penalties and punishment for abuse of power related to that law?
Please. you're asking for intelligence at a level much higher than the overwhelming majority of politicians have the capacity to grasp.
In the meantime, Zoe might actually get more cosponsors if she's willing to allow them to make further amendments, you know, to pay for bridge building in barren wastelands, or to pay for a private company in a cosponsor's district to be awarded 89,000,000 to study the impact of beetle dung on mental health of the elderly...
"but is a first step down the road to comprehensive reform"
And THAT line will inevitably lead DOJ to testify against this effort under the guise that it sets precedent and creates a "slippery slope" toward cyber-terrorists looking to bring down the foundations of the very fabric of our great nation...
Or some similar bullshit, that will be conveyed behind closed doors, and FOIA efforts to gain access to those secret discussions will be met with entirely redacted documents.
Because we now live in an era of complete insanity in the DOJ and where too many in Congress have vested corporate interests to actually care about we, the people...
Clicking on the byline "name" just reloads the same article - all other byline names link to the author page for that individual. So I did a Google exact match search on "CNet News Staff" and it brings up several articles with the same byline going back to at least 2011. Each of the articles I checked also had that byline link to the article it was used on.
Maybe it's hiding, maybe its a protest, however as much as the whole fiasco makes me want to vomit, my guess for this is it's usually articles written by interns, or more likely, a senior staff member who is not a regular author. Which of course, in context, makes it even more head-scratchingly annoying to see...
I hate when something so vile exists that I lose all sense of human capacity to find humor in a parody.
The lengths to which the NFL goes, similar to the lengths the Olympics governing bodies go, makes me want to vomit. That's how much I get outraged over their abusive tactics. So when I watched the commercial just now, all it did was infuriate me even more...
"TD is not interested in anything resembling debate or dissent."
I'm quite happy to sit here and inform you that is absolutely not the case. I've had extensive dialogue with others on this site where we had opposing views and I've never been censored by communal vote. In fact, I've had a number of debates that extended for dozens of back and forth comments - for example, in my opinion related to copyright as a right of inheritance.
The difference you so completely fail to acknowledge however, is when I engage "the majority view" here, it's through intellectual, well thought out position, point and counter-point.
Because unlike trolls who repeatedly and consistently only or mostly slam Mike just to get him to engage in an argument with someone who comes here close-minded and refusing to discuss differing views intellectually, my methods actually contribute to the discussion.
As for Mike's position, it's much more abundantly clear than you make it out to be, at least from my perspective. That position? That copyright, patent law and related issues are extremely messed up in their current form. And further, a great many problems come along where maximalists do all they can to act the bully.
And besides, unlike some blow-hards, like Bill O'Reilly, who claim "fair and balanced", this isn't a site that pretends to be neutral in the extreme. Because being neutral in the extreme is not a basis for a site that promotes dialogue.
So the bottom line then, in my view, is "does dialogue require allowing an asshat to spit vomit over and over again, without offering any serious volume of dialogue?"
And if the community feels that's not acceptable, it's the community that votes a comment into oblivion.
Except I routinely expand such comments so I can read them and guess what I've found? The overwhelming majority that have been hidden are complete and utter trash. Oh. how odd...
"not to mention add signifcant load to Techdirts servers and latency to the load times"
Tragically, as someone who specializes in forensic SEO audits, I can assure you the web has become a massive mess of cloud based services pathetically slowing down more and more sites every day, whether it be CDN, or widget based. Images, scripts, it's all moving off to third party servers.
Almost every audit I've performed in the past six months has had a speed problem directly as a result of the otherwise "minor" lag involved with browsers having to call the initial code set, then go back to the server, and off to third party networks over and over again for each additional chunk of code that serves up that which is stored on outside networks.
So at least from that perspective, tragically, the model could very well become mainstream.
" This lack of progress paved the way for new competitors such as Firefox and Chrome."
Actually Firefox wasn't a new competitor. It was the legacy of Netscape, a superior browser that got bullied out of market by Microsoft. And in the long-run, Microsoft's asshattery lost.
So while Microsoft, for a brief period in history, had a "huge win", their proprietary offerings, coupled with their monopolistic methods, was a massive fail.
I'd also argue that had they not forced their way into lead position, Netscape would have flourished as a business.
So to claim your position is, in my view, blind to the reality of what transpired.
that's the beauty of how screwed up the IP system is in the U.S. - there are always going to be more Righthaven/Prenda/Carreon cases right around the corner.
See the more recent TechDirt article on how Ericsson just sold 2,185 patents to a company reliant on the troll business model. With that many patents, it dramatically increases the chance that at least some slice of their attorney pool will be one of the candidates with the best potential to be among the next headliner.
One more feather in the USPTO's asshat cap. There are so many retail stores out there, have been there, were there long before Apple's with a design and layout that entirely or nearly entirely matches that description... So is Apple going to sue clothing retailers all over the world? Or just use this to leverage Samsung in that ongoing IP mess?
Truly tired of the hacks at the USPTO. What complete idiots, sucking up taxpayer money on shear stupidity.
"You don't want that to happen to your own company? Live within your means."
If that was the attitude every entrepreneur took, we'd have no large scale highly valuable and useful businesses in the world that started out small.
While Steve Jobs was a perfect example of what you're describing, Apple would never have become such a major tech company had "live within your means" was the overriding factor.
To blame entrepreneurs for the reckless mismanagement that comes from greed-driven, 20th century minded investors (as was also proven when Jobs came back and rescued the company, taking it to even greater heights), is a misunderstanding of the delicate balance between vision and resource requirements for a company that can potentially, and in the case of Apple, literally, change the world.
I read the post as well. As someone who enjoys TechDirt for the sharing of stories of interest related to the intersection of tech and legal, I think it's a perfectly valid story to cover. Especially since Mike has consistently been an advocate for 20th century business models adapting and innovating their way through the 21st century, and TuneCore is (or has been until now) a shining example of that.
Just read the reply from the "crisis" rep. Denying the current situation is a private matter and "not for public consumption". Except that's crap.
If TuneCore has lost its capacity to serve artists (and it's effortless to argue the methods how this has all shaken out so far clearly correlate to that being true), the impact could be a very big deal, and as such, it is, in my personal opinion, quite a valid story to keep an eye on.
And when I say "paid for", YOU bought that video camera right? and YOU bought the computer you used to turn the raw video into a unique creative work that you then copyrighted right?
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Then, I run a special electode-connected module program that's wired to my head, so I can erase the memory of what I read.
It's really standard procedure.
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So does that mean I'm actually a pessicasthat?
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It would leave the voting up to the rest of us, the ones who actually don't see changing views as flip-flopping when it's based on gained knowledge, or shocker - maturity enough to be open-minded...
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1. Chris Dodd retires, stating "I couldn't continue the lie anymore. All those years, all those diatribes, finally caught up to me. It's time to let some other hack defy reality. I'm through..."
2. Under pressure from citizens across the United States, and prodded into action thanks to a petition on the We The People web site, today the Obama administration announced that Carmen Ortiz has been summarily dismissed from her post for grievous negligence in the Aaron Swartz case.
3. In related news, calls to Attorney General Eric Holder's office seeking further comment on the Ortiz firing were not returned at press time. Inside sources however, requesting anonymity, have stated off the record "Yeah Holder's been fired too, but the big O felt bad for his crony so he's going to let him publicly state that he is resigning his post "for personal reasons".
4. Prenda's Brett Gibbs committed suicide early today. A note found at the scene stated "I'm sick of the judge, refusing to cooperate in my plans. I can't take it anymore. So let's see how well he can get me to cooperate now!..."
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Please. you're asking for intelligence at a level much higher than the overwhelming majority of politicians have the capacity to grasp.
In the meantime, Zoe might actually get more cosponsors if she's willing to allow them to make further amendments, you know, to pay for bridge building in barren wastelands, or to pay for a private company in a cosponsor's district to be awarded 89,000,000 to study the impact of beetle dung on mental health of the elderly...
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And THAT line will inevitably lead DOJ to testify against this effort under the guise that it sets precedent and creates a "slippery slope" toward cyber-terrorists looking to bring down the foundations of the very fabric of our great nation...
Or some similar bullshit, that will be conveyed behind closed doors, and FOIA efforts to gain access to those secret discussions will be met with entirely redacted documents.
Because we now live in an era of complete insanity in the DOJ and where too many in Congress have vested corporate interests to actually care about we, the people...
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Maybe it's hiding, maybe its a protest, however as much as the whole fiasco makes me want to vomit, my guess for this is it's usually articles written by interns, or more likely, a senior staff member who is not a regular author. Which of course, in context, makes it even more head-scratchingly annoying to see...
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No this is not funny
The lengths to which the NFL goes, similar to the lengths the Olympics governing bodies go, makes me want to vomit. That's how much I get outraged over their abusive tactics. So when I watched the commercial just now, all it did was infuriate me even more...
I'm so fed up with the bullshit.
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I'm quite happy to sit here and inform you that is absolutely not the case. I've had extensive dialogue with others on this site where we had opposing views and I've never been censored by communal vote. In fact, I've had a number of debates that extended for dozens of back and forth comments - for example, in my opinion related to copyright as a right of inheritance.
The difference you so completely fail to acknowledge however, is when I engage "the majority view" here, it's through intellectual, well thought out position, point and counter-point.
Because unlike trolls who repeatedly and consistently only or mostly slam Mike just to get him to engage in an argument with someone who comes here close-minded and refusing to discuss differing views intellectually, my methods actually contribute to the discussion.
As for Mike's position, it's much more abundantly clear than you make it out to be, at least from my perspective. That position? That copyright, patent law and related issues are extremely messed up in their current form. And further, a great many problems come along where maximalists do all they can to act the bully.
And besides, unlike some blow-hards, like Bill O'Reilly, who claim "fair and balanced", this isn't a site that pretends to be neutral in the extreme. Because being neutral in the extreme is not a basis for a site that promotes dialogue.
So the bottom line then, in my view, is "does dialogue require allowing an asshat to spit vomit over and over again, without offering any serious volume of dialogue?"
And if the community feels that's not acceptable, it's the community that votes a comment into oblivion.
Except I routinely expand such comments so I can read them and guess what I've found? The overwhelming majority that have been hidden are complete and utter trash. Oh. how odd...
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Tragically, as someone who specializes in forensic SEO audits, I can assure you the web has become a massive mess of cloud based services pathetically slowing down more and more sites every day, whether it be CDN, or widget based. Images, scripts, it's all moving off to third party servers.
Almost every audit I've performed in the past six months has had a speed problem directly as a result of the otherwise "minor" lag involved with browsers having to call the initial code set, then go back to the server, and off to third party networks over and over again for each additional chunk of code that serves up that which is stored on outside networks.
So at least from that perspective, tragically, the model could very well become mainstream.
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Actually Firefox wasn't a new competitor. It was the legacy of Netscape, a superior browser that got bullied out of market by Microsoft. And in the long-run, Microsoft's asshattery lost.
So while Microsoft, for a brief period in history, had a "huge win", their proprietary offerings, coupled with their monopolistic methods, was a massive fail.
I'd also argue that had they not forced their way into lead position, Netscape would have flourished as a business.
So to claim your position is, in my view, blind to the reality of what transpired.
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Re: It seems I'm not the only one
See the more recent TechDirt article on how Ericsson just sold 2,185 patents to a company reliant on the troll business model. With that many patents, it dramatically increases the chance that at least some slice of their attorney pool will be one of the candidates with the best potential to be among the next headliner.
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Holy Crap
Truly tired of the hacks at the USPTO. What complete idiots, sucking up taxpayer money on shear stupidity.
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If that was the attitude every entrepreneur took, we'd have no large scale highly valuable and useful businesses in the world that started out small.
While Steve Jobs was a perfect example of what you're describing, Apple would never have become such a major tech company had "live within your means" was the overriding factor.
To blame entrepreneurs for the reckless mismanagement that comes from greed-driven, 20th century minded investors (as was also proven when Jobs came back and rescued the company, taking it to even greater heights), is a misunderstanding of the delicate balance between vision and resource requirements for a company that can potentially, and in the case of Apple, literally, change the world.
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Just read the reply from the "crisis" rep. Denying the current situation is a private matter and "not for public consumption". Except that's crap.
If TuneCore has lost its capacity to serve artists (and it's effortless to argue the methods how this has all shaken out so far clearly correlate to that being true), the impact could be a very big deal, and as such, it is, in my personal opinion, quite a valid story to keep an eye on.
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See? It all makes perfect sense!
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