And get hot on the Author's Guild! Now they're claiming losing income! Weigh in with your fact-less self-styled "authority" against those having mere real data!
The concept of accepting automated take downs I think is a very valid concept, in many instances. It seems that the courts understand the issues of the sheer volume of potential violations, and that there is no real way to keep up with the tide and not have to resort to some sort of automated system.
As the other guy suggested, this exact logic applies just as well to DMCA violation as it does to copyright violations...
The concept of automatically rejecting take downs I think is a very valid concept, in many instances. It seems that the courts understand the issues of the sheer volume of potential DMCA violations, and that there is no real way to keep up with the tide and not have to resort to some sort of automated system.
The determination of pornographic is determined merely by the content.
orly? Is the venus de milo sculpture pornographic? What about a photograph of a woman in the same pose? Does it matter if it's in a magazine or a textbook?
Heck, people argue all the time about what's pornographic (I know it when I see it), why would an algorithm do any better?
I see a lot of parallels between this story and the various music remixing stories over the years. When you have automatic matching software, you need to be able to determine when two samples match because of provenance rather than directly. Which is unlikely to be possible unless the algorithm is given all provenance details... which is unlikely to be even slightly practical.
All of which are available on Linux, and on most desktop distros would take less effort to install than the Windows version would.
I completely agree that they are all available on Linux, and I accept the proposition that you would find them easier to install on Linux than on Windows.
Perhaps try educating yourself before criticising people who have actually used Linux for detailing their experiences.
Thank you for the judgement, everyone. I *use* Linux on a nearly daily basis, and am comfortable compiling from source to try third party libraries or tools. I have never had any success administering a Linux system, either at home or work, I find the apt-get system completely opaque (in that it is trivial to install something you know about, and impossible to discover what to install if you don't) and yum just marginally better.
If I were to spend the next five years (one year? two years?) using nothing but Linux cold-turkey style, I'm sure I'd pick up everything I need and never look back. So far, I'd rather use computers that just work (for me, and my family), and spend the extra time with my family, or doing things that I actually enjoy.
Yes, thank you to everyone who pointed out that Linux has the named applications, and completely failed to note that I was responding to the comment that "These days, [the browser] is all that most home users need."
You obviously don't know much about Linux. And that's OK. But maybe you should just not speak about things you don't understand.
"For me? I use Windows at home, Linux at work. I've tried installing Linux occasionally at home, but it just doesn't work for me. I know how to use and maintain a Windows system, but I only know how to use a Linux system, so for me Windows is actually the more secure route. YMMV."
Emphasis on the YMMV. I much prefer developing in Linux than Windows, but I'm sure as heck not going to be the guy administering the system. And if I'm not comfortable administering *my own* system, I'm not going to recommend it to anyone in my family. Except my cousin, who *is* comfortable in Linux (and is also a programmer).
It all comes down to how they use the computer. If all they use is the browser, the only difficult aspect of Linux is the lack of computers that come with it pre-installed. The Chromebook it the ultimate response to this need.
These days, that is all that most home users need. If you get these friends on Linux and make sure they can find the browser, they're set, and you won't get calls.
I've not met a single person who owns a computer for whom this statement is true, and that includes my 80-year old mother-in-law who I set up a computer for. As well as a browser, she needed a word processor, skype and email, and later some very simple image software so she could play with photos to make paintings from.
And even if they DO only need the browser... if they're running in a restricted account so they can't trash the system if they click on the wrong thing, how do they patch their browser?
It's reasonably easy to fake headaches and nausea, but a nose-bleed has to be real.
Then again, if a nose-bleed was enough to get out of school, I'd have never gotten an education! Since primary school, I've suffered from regular nose-bleeds; particularly in summer where I'd bleed typically at least once per day. Electronic cauterisation stopped them for a few months, but mostly I just learned to live with them - no harm except for a mess if I don't catch it in time.
And what if the effects have a lag? Maybe it takes days to build up to the point that symptoms are felt, and days without exposure to return to normal. I suffer from hayfever, but I couldn't tell you as levels of dust in the air go up with better than about half an hour lag, or within hours of levels going down again.
Not that I'm saying that IEI-EMF definitely exists, but "no conclusive evidence" doesn't mean it definitely doesn't exist, and it's pretty easy to design a trial that won't tell you what you think it does.
So, I started a campaign to report him and anyone with little enough sense to reply to him. Guess what? It WORKED.
Hey, I've got this magic rock that totally protects you against tiger attacks, you can have it for a great price...
I have to assume that by "It WORKED", you mean that you successfully reported him and everyone who replied to him. Good for you. Extrapolating any other effect from your cause is... oversimplifying at best, but more likely to be just wrong.
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Interpreting a lack of comment on my part with any particular meaning is more likely to involve an act of projection than any kind of prescience as to what I would have said if I had commented.
On that note, those are some nice assumptions/strawmen you have there.
If you really do want to "walk that way", a good place to start might be the Trade Agreements which the same Legacy Industries consider so important that they have to keep the deals 100% secret.
I'm somewhat well aware of the various trade agreements currently being negotiated around the world, though nowhere near as aware as I could be if the various texts were actually available to the public. I could even make educated guesses as to what the net effects of these treaties might be in various time frames... like most people though, I'd most likely be substantively wrong.
Further, I'm not aware of any interpretation or extrapolation of any trade agreements that leads to people dying in their sleep... unless an increase in the cost of medicines means that you are no longer able to afford a particular prescription required to live, but you seem to be suggesting something much more general than that.
Perhaps you meant wake up and realise that they're turning everyday social activities into a crime; once everyone is a criminal then society can be controlled! Well, yes. That one has been and is continuing to be well documented, but you may want to provide slightly more nuanced advice than "wake up" and "walk that way"... unless you're just after a catchy song.
tl;dr: You might want to wipe your mouth, you appear to be frothing a bit.
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What a total farce.
Being gay, it is the quality of being care-free and happy, or perhaps a colourful vibrancy such as shown by a gay bunch of flowers.
Homosexuality is the social phenomenon of having a sexual preference for people of your own gender, as opposed to the hetero norm of preference for the opposite gender.
How on earth can anyone with a brain relate these two concepts as identical in any way whatsoever?
Welcome to the English language, GEMont. One word can mean multiple, different, unrelated things, and some words even gain meanings over time! English is a living language, and it matters not whether you agree with the changes or not.
Personally, if you want to avoid the negative valence of "pirate" and "piracy", I'd recommend avoiding "file sharing" which has neutral or slightly negative valence, and go straight for "sharing" or "sharer" for that nice positive valence glow.
Wake up, or die in your sleep people.
Let governments pass stronger copyright laws... die in my sleep. No, I can't quite follow that one, you might have to walk me through some of the intermediate steps.
Ride hailing services naturally weed out bad drivers and poor service, especially when compared with the legacy cab drivers who aren't rated on or accountable for the quality of their service.
Of course, YMMV. I've found TripAdvisor ratings to be an accurate indicator for hotels in most cities I've used it in (with more likelihood of accuracy outside USA than inside, possibly based on my very limited sampling within USA)
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Re: Nice example there, hot shot
Yeah, can't be arguing against those who have biased, misinterpreted, "mere real data".
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As the other guy suggested, this exact logic applies just as well to DMCA violation as it does to copyright violations...
The concept of automatically rejecting take downs I think is a very valid concept, in many instances. It seems that the courts understand the issues of the sheer volume of potential DMCA violations, and that there is no real way to keep up with the tide and not have to resort to some sort of automated system.
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orly? Is the venus de milo sculpture pornographic? What about a photograph of a woman in the same pose? Does it matter if it's in a magazine or a textbook?
Heck, people argue all the time about what's pornographic (I know it when I see it), why would an algorithm do any better?
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Getty's version of ContentID on the internet?
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I completely agree that they are all available on Linux, and I accept the proposition that you would find them easier to install on Linux than on Windows.
Perhaps try educating yourself before criticising people who have actually used Linux for detailing their experiences.
Thank you for the judgement, everyone. I *use* Linux on a nearly daily basis, and am comfortable compiling from source to try third party libraries or tools. I have never had any success administering a Linux system, either at home or work, I find the apt-get system completely opaque (in that it is trivial to install something you know about, and impossible to discover what to install if you don't) and yum just marginally better.
If I were to spend the next five years (one year? two years?) using nothing but Linux cold-turkey style, I'm sure I'd pick up everything I need and never look back. So far, I'd rather use computers that just work (for me, and my family), and spend the extra time with my family, or doing things that I actually enjoy.
YMMV.
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You obviously don't know much about Linux. And that's OK. But maybe you should just not speak about things you don't understand.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150715/11374931651/judge-kozinski-theres-very-little- justice-our-so-called-justice-system.shtml#c917
"For me? I use Windows at home, Linux at work. I've tried installing Linux occasionally at home, but it just doesn't work for me. I know how to use and maintain a Windows system, but I only know how to use a Linux system, so for me Windows is actually the more secure route. YMMV."
Emphasis on the YMMV. I much prefer developing in Linux than Windows, but I'm sure as heck not going to be the guy administering the system. And if I'm not comfortable administering *my own* system, I'm not going to recommend it to anyone in my family. Except my cousin, who *is* comfortable in Linux (and is also a programmer).
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These days, that is all that most home users need. If you get these friends on Linux and make sure they can find the browser, they're set, and you won't get calls.
I've not met a single person who owns a computer for whom this statement is true, and that includes my 80-year old mother-in-law who I set up a computer for. As well as a browser, she needed a word processor, skype and email, and later some very simple image software so she could play with photos to make paintings from.
And even if they DO only need the browser... if they're running in a restricted account so they can't trash the system if they click on the wrong thing, how do they patch their browser?
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Re: Re: It's time for me to make a Linux partition.
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Yes.
It is FAR, FAR, FAR easier than installing Windows.
Have you ever installed Windows in the last 10 years? This is blatantly false.
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You haven't been on the internet very long, have you? Sure there's a bit of that here, but considerably less than... well, just about everywhere else.
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Then again, if a nose-bleed was enough to get out of school, I'd have never gotten an education! Since primary school, I've suffered from regular nose-bleeds; particularly in summer where I'd bleed typically at least once per day. Electronic cauterisation stopped them for a few months, but mostly I just learned to live with them - no harm except for a mess if I don't catch it in time.
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Not that I'm saying that IEI-EMF definitely exists, but "no conclusive evidence" doesn't mean it definitely doesn't exist, and it's pretty easy to design a trial that won't tell you what you think it does.
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Hey, I've got this magic rock that totally protects you against tiger attacks, you can have it for a great price...
I have to assume that by "It WORKED", you mean that you successfully reported him and everyone who replied to him. Good for you. Extrapolating any other effect from your cause is... oversimplifying at best, but more likely to be just wrong.
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On that note, those are some nice assumptions/strawmen you have there.
If you really do want to "walk that way", a good place to start might be the Trade Agreements which the same Legacy Industries consider so important that they have to keep the deals 100% secret.
I'm somewhat well aware of the various trade agreements currently being negotiated around the world, though nowhere near as aware as I could be if the various texts were actually available to the public. I could even make educated guesses as to what the net effects of these treaties might be in various time frames... like most people though, I'd most likely be substantively wrong.
Further, I'm not aware of any interpretation or extrapolation of any trade agreements that leads to people dying in their sleep... unless an increase in the cost of medicines means that you are no longer able to afford a particular prescription required to live, but you seem to be suggesting something much more general than that.
Perhaps you meant wake up and realise that they're turning everyday social activities into a crime; once everyone is a criminal then society can be controlled! Well, yes. That one has been and is continuing to be well documented, but you may want to provide slightly more nuanced advice than "wake up" and "walk that way"... unless you're just after a catchy song.
tl;dr: You might want to wipe your mouth, you appear to be frothing a bit.
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Being gay, it is the quality of being care-free and happy, or perhaps a colourful vibrancy such as shown by a gay bunch of flowers.
Homosexuality is the social phenomenon of having a sexual preference for people of your own gender, as opposed to the hetero norm of preference for the opposite gender.
How on earth can anyone with a brain relate these two concepts as identical in any way whatsoever?
Welcome to the English language, GEMont. One word can mean multiple, different, unrelated things, and some words even gain meanings over time! English is a living language, and it matters not whether you agree with the changes or not.
Personally, if you want to avoid the negative valence of "pirate" and "piracy", I'd recommend avoiding "file sharing" which has neutral or slightly negative valence, and go straight for "sharing" or "sharer" for that nice positive valence glow.
Wake up, or die in your sleep people.
Let governments pass stronger copyright laws... die in my sleep. No, I can't quite follow that one, you might have to walk me through some of the intermediate steps.
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Most systems are able to be gamed. See in particular the title text on this one: http://explainxkcd.com/325/
Of course, YMMV. I've found TripAdvisor ratings to be an accurate indicator for hotels in most cities I've used it in (with more likelihood of accuracy outside USA than inside, possibly based on my very limited sampling within USA)
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