Re: Re: Re: Re: @ "Oh, then exactly which IP rights does Mike support?"
Followers? Seriously? It's like I've said all along. Copyright maximalists like yourselves don't understand like-minded people sharing ideas. You only understand leaders and followers. You understand fealty, fascism, royalty. You have no concept of democracy, intellectualism, discussion among peers. Mike runs the blog, not our lives. I started hating software patents when I learned of them in 1999, and I've been bitching to anyone who will listen ever since.
Does Mike need a manifesto so that everyone knows his position on all of the issues? No, that's stupid. He is reporting on what is going on in relation to government regulations which interfere with the markets. If he was trying to be a leader, then yes, a manifesto is practically a requirement. Instead, he is a journalist.
We'll just leave the manifestos up to you two ass-hats. Damn, I hope you don't live in the U.S.A. Royalty-lovers really make me sick.
Wow! Now that I've seen this, I can finally believe that the administration is serious. If this causes the economy to pick up (and I can't see how it won't), we may actually see a move to a more reasonable IP policy. I'd love to see it go back to 50 years for copyright and 5-10 for patents.
Until then, I'll keep talking to everyone I can about the subject.
Now that I think about it, your DNA profile could be stored as a salted hash, which would allow someone to identify you without being able to use it for any sort of profiling.
Now we just need to get Congress on board with that idea without getting them hungry and breaking for lunch...
This is what it looks like when a group does something that each knows is morally wrong, but they want to do it anyway to "save face."
The Japanese would commit sepuku (suicide) if one of their men did this.
I find it all incredibly conceited and stupid. The military should not be a government to itself, as this trial and the sexual assault injustices show.
It seems like the complaint here is that DNA data can be shared and used by entities not associated with law enforcement. What we need are laws that prohibit this, and make the punitive damages so steep that it's not worth the risk, rather than take away such a useful and accurate tool.
Re: It's not the first Gangnam Style Parody they've gone after.
Fake news from 2014
"Artist" Psy Released from Record Contract
The viral video "Gangnam Style" that rocketed to the top of the charts in 2012 seems to have fallen off the charts in just as spectacular fashion. “I can’t understand it,” one fictitious record exec is quoted as saying. “We took down all parodies and infringing uses of Gangnam Style, eliminating all dilution to the brand. We controlled every aspect of the product, but sales plummeted immediately afterward. It just doesn’t make sense.” Faced with paying for 3 more records from an overweight, undertalented and aging artist, Universal opted to release him from his contract.
"Taxes contributed by American Industry"? You mean "taxes sheltered in off-shore accounts so that the middle class can pay for everything." IP has nothing to do with it, or if it does, prove it. Prove that a company having the monopoly on a drug contributes to the economy as a whole. Prove that "rounded corners" is a monopoly that benefits humanity.
Hitchen's Razor: that which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
This is what bothers me about "Citizens United" so much. Somehow, somewhere, someone equated money with speech. This immediately unbalances a system of one-person-one-vote, as those with more money get more speech.
This seems so obvious that it's painful to actually write, because the Supreme Court doesn't even get it.
Actually, not automating costs more jobs. High wages and wide variance in output (quantities and specification tolerances) will close a factory. People aren't robots, and can't perform repetitive tasks with the same accuracy.
I think a big reason why we have dropped manufacturing jobs in the US is the lack of automation. I talked to a robot salesman (no, he sold robots) who said that unless a robot could recoup its costs in one year, they wouldn't buy it. The normal recoup time was 2-3 years, but the accuracy gains were enormous. The lifespan of the robot was 7-10 years, and replacement wouldn't require the programming.
Hopefully Mark has been informed of his mistake and remedied the situation by sending a proper DMCA to YouTube. Then we can all sit back and watch OOTB's head explode again.
No, you're thinking of the 8088/80286 XT/AT line. IBM only got as far as the 286 on ISA architecture. They had their fully-ip'd "PS/2" line for the 386, which no one bought because no one wanted to buy MicroChannel expansion cards at 4 times the price of ISA cards.
IBM did manufacture 486 chips, however.
Wasn't the whole reason that Intel created the Pentium name is that numbers can't be trademarked?
I hate it when the rules change without notice. Like software patents, although that change helped me realize that patents are worthless to society anyway.
Looks like he copied about 100 lines of text from the NYT story. The basic graphics and video are coming from the NYT site directly. His tool is doing the effects.
Still sounds like a pretty good fair use. Just a coder trying to find media to demo his code, and foolishly thinking that he can use freely available media from a big company. (The HORROR!!!)
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Targeting
Is it just me?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: @ "Oh, then exactly which IP rights does Mike support?"
Does Mike need a manifesto so that everyone knows his position on all of the issues? No, that's stupid. He is reporting on what is going on in relation to government regulations which interfere with the markets. If he was trying to be a leader, then yes, a manifesto is practically a requirement. Instead, he is a journalist.
We'll just leave the manifestos up to you two ass-hats. Damn, I hope you don't live in the U.S.A. Royalty-lovers really make me sick.
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The pendulum begins to swing back
Until then, I'll keep talking to everyone I can about the subject.
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Now we just need to get Congress on board with that idea without getting them hungry and breaking for lunch...
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The Japanese would commit sepuku (suicide) if one of their men did this.
I find it all incredibly conceited and stupid. The military should not be a government to itself, as this trial and the sexual assault injustices show.
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Re: It's not the first Gangnam Style Parody they've gone after.
"Artist" Psy Released from Record Contract
The viral video "Gangnam Style" that rocketed to the top of the charts in 2012 seems to have fallen off the charts in just as spectacular fashion. “I can’t understand it,” one fictitious record exec is quoted as saying. “We took down all parodies and infringing uses of Gangnam Style, eliminating all dilution to the brand. We controlled every aspect of the product, but sales plummeted immediately afterward. It just doesn’t make sense.” Faced with paying for 3 more records from an overweight, undertalented and aging artist, Universal opted to release him from his contract.
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Hitchen's Razor: that which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
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speech does not equal dollars
This seems so obvious that it's painful to actually write, because the Supreme Court doesn't even get it.
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I think a big reason why we have dropped manufacturing jobs in the US is the lack of automation. I talked to a robot salesman (no, he sold robots) who said that unless a robot could recoup its costs in one year, they wouldn't buy it. The normal recoup time was 2-3 years, but the accuracy gains were enormous. The lifespan of the robot was 7-10 years, and replacement wouldn't require the programming.
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Defamation
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time marches on
Oooh! Pretty!
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Re: Re: @"the public do not respect copyright."
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Re: Re: Pentium
IBM did manufacture 486 chips, however.
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Re: Re: Pentium
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Pentium
I hate it when the rules change without notice. Like software patents, although that change helped me realize that patents are worthless to society anyway.
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Re: Re: Copyright
Still sounds like a pretty good fair use. Just a coder trying to find media to demo his code, and foolishly thinking that he can use freely available media from a big company. (The HORROR!!!)
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As hard as it is for me to type, we are now in dire need of a return to the '60s, even if it requires hippies and bell-bottoms.
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