Whatever I invent is mine, and my employer can go jump off a cliff. Show me the user requirements document that says I was hired to create the next iPod and I won't try to walk away with it... otherwise, GFY.
Teachers create lesson plans to help manage their own workload. It's a personal productivity device, it's not owned by the state or the school district. Now, if you were hired by the district/ state SPECIFICALLY to create lesson plans, I'd say you're stuck. However, teachers are paid to teach. The formulation of that strategy is their own creation, not subject to control by external entities.
Put another way, what if a teacher can effectively teach without a lesson plan? If it's optional, and it isn't part of their rating as a teacher, then again, the state/ district should jump off a cliff right after the greedy corporation.
Pardon my language, but the response should be, "Go f#@k yourself, you're not getting a f#@king dime, and if you try, I'll sue the district into the f#@king ground, you greedy c#$%ks$@#$@#$ng pigs."
Anyone who connects you to a central switching hub should not be the entity that provides content. In other words, Ford should not manage or maintain the street in front of your house. Or the NJ Turnpike Authority, for that matter. This seems to have been lost c. 1999-2000. I give it another two years before everyone rediscovers David Isen's paper on this topic.
Just license the drug directly to a national clearinghouse. Brazil will license it, for example, to make cheap drugs to combat AIDS and that license fee is necessarily smaller than France or Germany or the US. Then contract manufacturers in each nation can battle it out to produce it -- within that market only.
I would propose: Copyright plus zero years after death, period. Heck, 30 years or death, whichever comes first. If it's truly a form of welfare or pension, make it work like a pension plan, expire the time or split total to a beneficiary after death.
Patents, seven years period, no extensions, nothing.
Trademarks is the only one that defies my awesome ability to cut through the bullshit.
Or half a buck per album. If my favorite artist offered direct FLAC downloads of the album for two bucks, great, I know it's going right to the dudes. Otherwise, I'll just go cheap/easy and wait out the storm.
Thief? Maybe, but in reaction to the alternatives.
So much wrong with this sentence: "A free service run by taxpayers should be run by professionals who know how to control the system and prevent active illegal filesharing."
It's not free, the taxpayers paid for it.
The people running it are professionals, unless they do not draw a salary to run it, which is highly unlikely.
Preventing active illegal "anything" is as possible as the same preventive measures you take for anything else the taxpayer funded for public use: roads, schools, buildings. Do we shut down roads because a bank robber fled on it? No, you find the bank robber. Do we close schools and board them up because someone gets hurt? No.
So why does the MPAA get to stop a piece of public infrastructure? Because you let them.
what.cd is ostensibly about music... maybe they thought they were squeaking past if they were constrained to music sharing; law enforcement/ investigation tools of this profile on the other hand might have ruined A Good Thing.
Maybe they just don't want to buy it from Comcast, a de facto monopoly wherever its franchises are located. Maybe, and it's just a wild thought, consumers don't like being told *who* they have to buy content from. Crazy, but if the actual infrastructure was divorced from the services, you could, oh, I dunno, *compete on service offerings*.
It's not even the same thing. Yes Men did not take on the actions of the CoC, they just crafted a very subtle parody. Why must a parody be overtly obvious in order to be a parody?
I'd pitch in ten bucks to have Megadeth record a thrash version of "Jingle Bells". I'm sure other weirdos would jump in to get, say, Meshuggah to cover "Silent Night" in their own ironic way; and The Mars Volta to re-interpret "When Doves Cry". Shit like that should be eminently possible, especially if they have their own studios to do this.
C'mon, who wouldn't want to download a handful of covers by Slayer for XMas?
They might not, but let's allow a man to have a sunny, optimistic expectation about it. Furthermore, let's also assume the risk of being wrong about "bottom-up" is low, since just about everything cool in the world tends to be better without corporate overlords.
Typically CS majors are inculcated into the idea of software engineering, without really getting any specific s/w engineering training, such as detailed code review training, project management, or even coding techniques. This is left as an exercise to the reader, and it shouldn't be. CS curricula are focused on the science/ research aspects with s/w engineering as an afterthought. This is as it should be, since the word "science" is not to be taken lightly or watered down.
However, if what you want are s/w engineers, you need a related track and some different prereqs. What a low-cost online course offering can do is get students the prereqs, then get them into what amounts to advanced technical training with respect to software engineering.
This properly bifurcates CS into the science and practitioner tracks, and while CS majors will become scarce, we can now focus the right attention on developing a true engineering discipline for computing.
It's a great idea for most; it's just a bad idea *for you*. It could confuse and frustrate that unfortunate subset of color-blind individual -- so don't use it. It's probably going to be a toggled setting.
Even if it's not, don't be the kind of person to remove a useful function from the majority, code up a greasemonkey script to see the colors and turn them into a pattern.
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Oh, my, God.
Besides, stories like this just add to the growing sentiment that patents, copyrights, and IP are unjust and unworthy of compliance.
On the post: Another Battle: Can Teachers Sell Lesson Plans?
Why not go the distance the other way?
Teachers create lesson plans to help manage their own workload. It's a personal productivity device, it's not owned by the state or the school district. Now, if you were hired by the district/ state SPECIFICALLY to create lesson plans, I'd say you're stuck. However, teachers are paid to teach. The formulation of that strategy is their own creation, not subject to control by external entities.
Put another way, what if a teacher can effectively teach without a lesson plan? If it's optional, and it isn't part of their rating as a teacher, then again, the state/ district should jump off a cliff right after the greedy corporation.
Pardon my language, but the response should be, "Go f#@k yourself, you're not getting a f#@king dime, and if you try, I'll sue the district into the f#@king ground, you greedy c#$%ks$@#$@#$ng pigs."
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+1 accurate
On the post: Cable Lobbyist Says Net Neutrality Violates The First Amendment
All miss the point.
Anyone who connects you to a central switching hub should not be the entity that provides content. In other words, Ford should not manage or maintain the street in front of your house. Or the NJ Turnpike Authority, for that matter. This seems to have been lost c. 1999-2000. I give it another two years before everyone rediscovers David Isen's paper on this topic.
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I can tell you what it's *not*.
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Licensing by nation.
On the post: Copyright Extension Moves To Japan
Disobey
I would propose: Copyright plus zero years after death, period. Heck, 30 years or death, whichever comes first. If it's truly a form of welfare or pension, make it work like a pension plan, expire the time or split total to a beneficiary after death.
Patents, seven years period, no extensions, nothing.
Trademarks is the only one that defies my awesome ability to cut through the bullshit.
On the post: Recording Industry Making It Impossible For Any Legit Online Music Service To Survive Without Being Too Expensive
A nickel a song.
Thief? Maybe, but in reaction to the alternatives.
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Corporate disobedience
On the post: MPAA Gets Town To Turn Off Free Muni-WiFi Over Single Unauthorized Movie Download
Re: I wonder how it was downloaded
It's not free, the taxpayers paid for it.
The people running it are professionals, unless they do not draw a salary to run it, which is highly unlikely.
Preventing active illegal "anything" is as possible as the same preventive measures you take for anything else the taxpayer funded for public use: roads, schools, buildings. Do we shut down roads because a bank robber fled on it? No, you find the bank robber. Do we close schools and board them up because someone gets hurt? No.
So why does the MPAA get to stop a piece of public infrastructure? Because you let them.
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Re: Same with the Space Needle
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maybe it's about cohesion?
-C
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Consumers wrong? Really?
The consumers are right. They are *always right*.
-C
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Re: Re: A new "test"?
No real case here.
On the post: Part Of The Reason To Buy Is Actually Asking For Money
Re: Re: What you can sell
C'mon, who wouldn't want to download a handful of covers by Slayer for XMas?
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Re:
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Re: Hold up a sec...
-C
On the post: Next Up For Disruption? College
Interesting disruption in CS
However, if what you want are s/w engineers, you need a related track and some different prereqs. What a low-cost online course offering can do is get students the prereqs, then get them into what amounts to advanced technical training with respect to software engineering.
This properly bifurcates CS into the science and practitioner tracks, and while CS majors will become scarce, we can now focus the right attention on developing a true engineering discipline for computing.
-C
On the post: Good To See: Wikipedia Moves Forward With Color Coding Less Trustworthy Text
Re: Color Coding
Even if it's not, don't be the kind of person to remove a useful function from the majority, code up a greasemonkey script to see the colors and turn them into a pattern.
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