You only need to lock yourself out once to see how ridiculously quick and easy it is to pick a lock.
All you need is the right tools. And look there you dont even have to make them your self - right here on this page Ads by Google have conveniently pointed out where to buy them!
Reading the article "Google co-founder Sergey Brin recently gave the pastime a further boost, confessing that he has been a picking enthusiast since he was a student."
Paul,
we may be in violent agreement. You come up with two important points that have nothing to do with pensions: Orphan works and the fact that some recording company is more likely to be the one cashing in.
The debate needs to be about these points (and others), and not about the clever distraction that "it's their pension" represents.
It doesn't look (from the above) that an open rational debate is possible. What is it about apple that sees such polarisation
Personally, I dont need to enumerate the things that my Nokia can do that the iPhone cant (the iPhone is lacking some very basic features for a 3G phone) and it doesnt matter that the iPhone has cooler interface (very drool worthy): I just have to compare the price. The iPhone costs about 10 times what I paid for the Nokia a year ago. I'm in no hurry.
If the only argument against copyright extension is over royalty funded retirement then I'd say go for it!
If you stop the royalties then the musicians would just go onto the government funded pension. Royalty free access to old music that I rarely listen v's tax payer funded pensions? Not that I live in Europe, but if I did I'd rather pay the royalties occasionally, rather then pay the taxes funding the pensions always.
This is the wrong argument for/against copyright extension. A masterful distraction from other arguments, but still the wrong argument.
I've seen other articles that are suggesting that them may want to demonstrate that Google (or Google Employees) knew some copyrighted content was there and that Google did not act to remove it. If they can show it in some cases, they can extrapolate that there were others (they're good at that). All which might lead to some kind of settlement.
I agree that "a popular, well-read blog de facto takes on some of the public trust that the mainstream media have always assumed"
I dont see where "the public trust" has anything to do with republishing press releases. Sure the traditional press has long gratefully used press releases to cheaply generate content, but this is a practice, not an obligation.
I dont think that the accounting treatment of the value of a patent has much if anything to do with patent hoarding. The patent system and the culture that has grown up around it have done that. It's valuable to hold patents for defensive and offensive reasons and I cant see where the valuation method would change this.
If however you wanted to talk about the current valuation practice as being a barrier to meaningful change of the system, then sure. Any meaningful reform is likely to result in some serious write downs in the book value of a lot of patents and no doubt vested interests will apply some serious money to lobbying to preserve the status quo.
I don't particularly like the precedent set here: persons or organisations can allegedly break the law, but because the President says it's OK, it is OK.
But I like even less that judicial oversight has been weakened by the other elements of the bill. If the price of freedom is eternal vigilance, what does that mean when vigilance is relaxed?
If bravery is standing fast despite your fears then what does it mean that people have been running sacred, so afraid of the terrorist threat that many are willing to throw away freedoms for the illusion of safety?
I had to read all the way to comment 53 before I saw someone make sense. This has nothing to do with da terrorists, or any concern for the telcos themselves. George Dubbya needs this or there is a good chance that the courts will test *his* "allegedly" illegal actions and come to the reasonable conclusion that he broke the law.
I am curious to know where they got their figure from. The whole argument for usage based billing starts with the position that a small% of users consume a large% of resources. So you'd expect there to be some statistical base to the number: a median or average or average plus stddev or something like that.
Could it be that 50% of users use 5GB or less in a month? Plausible?
Who am I kidding, I expect some marketing "guru" pulled a figure out of their @rse. It fits with the need to express it in units like number of emails...
I do find it interesting to contrast the reaction to this particular example of patent dysfunction and the fan boy's reaction to the applications to add Instant Messaging and Video Conferencing to the iPhone.
The real question is what can we do about it? There are a lot of $ at stake in maintaining the status quo.
Give them a break: the ship is sinking, they don't understand how or why and they've learned that they don't know how to swim. Of course they're going to panic! And just like a drowning man, they're grabbing at everything that they can to try and hold their heads above the water.
I dont think that its reasonable to assume that a mindless protocol has the right to make invitations on behalf of the technologically handicapped.
And its all academic anyway. Once the monopolists start charging by the MByte, you can kiss good bye to your basic assumption that "borrowing" internet access harms no one. And then you and your hippy wifi steeling ways are going to jail son!
On the post: Locksmiths Pissed Off At Geeks For Letting Out The Secret: Lockpicking Is Easy
What secret?
All you need is the right tools. And look there you dont even have to make them your self - right here on this page Ads by Google have conveniently pointed out where to buy them!
Reading the article "Google co-founder Sergey Brin recently gave the pastime a further boost, confessing that he has been a picking enthusiast since he was a student."
It all becomes clear: It's a conspiracy!
On the post: EU Again Thinks About Extending Copyright, Despite Earlier Rejection
Re: Re: Wrong argument
On the post: EU Again Thinks About Extending Copyright, Despite Earlier Rejection
Re: Re: Wrong argument
we may be in violent agreement. You come up with two important points that have nothing to do with pensions: Orphan works and the fact that some recording company is more likely to be the one cashing in.
The debate needs to be about these points (and others), and not about the clever distraction that "it's their pension" represents.
On the post: Putting iPhone Sales In Perspective
Polarization
Personally, I dont need to enumerate the things that my Nokia can do that the iPhone cant (the iPhone is lacking some very basic features for a 3G phone) and it doesnt matter that the iPhone has cooler interface (very drool worthy): I just have to compare the price. The iPhone costs about 10 times what I paid for the Nokia a year ago. I'm in no hurry.
On the post: EU Again Thinks About Extending Copyright, Despite Earlier Rejection
Wrong argument
If you stop the royalties then the musicians would just go onto the government funded pension. Royalty free access to old music that I rarely listen v's tax payer funded pensions? Not that I live in Europe, but if I did I'd rather pay the royalties occasionally, rather then pay the taxes funding the pensions always.
This is the wrong argument for/against copyright extension. A masterful distraction from other arguments, but still the wrong argument.
On the post: There Is No Such Thing As Anonymized Data, Google
Since when
Not loosing is as good as winning.
On the post: PR Guy Says Bloggers Should Shut Up And Take Press Releases
I donno, he may be half right
I dont see where "the public trust" has anything to do with republishing press releases. Sure the traditional press has long gratefully used press releases to cheaply generate content, but this is a practice, not an obligation.
On the post: Is Cost Accounting To Blame For Patent Hoarding?
I cant see it
If however you wanted to talk about the current valuation practice as being a barrier to meaningful change of the system, then sure. Any meaningful reform is likely to result in some serious write downs in the book value of a lot of patents and no doubt vested interests will apply some serious money to lobbying to preserve the status quo.
On the post: Senate Sells Out The Country: Approves Telco Immunity
The land of the free and the home of the brave?
But I like even less that judicial oversight has been weakened by the other elements of the bill. If the price of freedom is eternal vigilance, what does that mean when vigilance is relaxed?
If bravery is standing fast despite your fears then what does it mean that people have been running sacred, so afraid of the terrorist threat that many are willing to throw away freedoms for the illusion of safety?
On the post: Bush Administration Admits That Telco Immunity More Important Than Increased Spying Power
Re: Re: Everyone Is Faping Again
On the post: When You Measure Broadband Caps In Terms Of How Many Emails, Something's Wrong
I wonder where they got the number from?
Could it be that 50% of users use 5GB or less in a month? Plausible?
Who am I kidding, I expect some marketing "guru" pulled a figure out of their @rse. It fits with the need to express it in units like number of emails...
On the post: Microsoft Patents Adding 'www.' And '.com' To Text
So the patent system is broken?
I do find it interesting to contrast the reaction to this particular example of patent dysfunction and the fan boy's reaction to the applications to add Instant Messaging and Video Conferencing to the iPhone.
The real question is what can we do about it? There are a lot of $ at stake in maintaining the status quo.
On the post: ICANN Finally Relaxes TLD Requirements -- But It Still Looks Like A Money Grab
off topic #2
On the post: If China's Great Firewall Is So Effective, Why Can't It Stop All The Malware Hosted There?
Maybe because that's the way they designed it?
I doubt that stopping maleware escaping China wasn't in the requirement spec.
On the post: Recording Industry Calls Radio 'A Kind Of Piracy'
Everybody *panic*
On the post: On The Criminality Of WiFi Piggybacking...
It may not be now, but it will be soon
And its all academic anyway. Once the monopolists start charging by the MByte, you can kiss good bye to your basic assumption that "borrowing" internet access harms no one. And then you and your hippy wifi steeling ways are going to jail son!
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