You don't understand, dave, that's why Murdoch wants you to feel sorry for him and you should. In fact you MUST.
It's not only his sad moral obligation to put everything behind a pay wall it's his duty do to so as he must protect the culture, protect starving artists such as Paul Williams and, most importantly "Protect The Children".
Don't you see what a sacrifice this is for Murdoch? What stress he's under as he does all this for not just his but all our posteriors.....ahhh posterity?
Re: "Most people are both creators and consumers at the same time" WRONG !!
"(that everyone else is wrong, history is wrong and Mike is right ??)"
I guess, that is if your history only goes back to the Statue of Ann or the signing of the US Constitution both of which historically are kinda recent.
Humans have been creating as long as we've been here, you silly troll. Long before copyright, long before the written word, long before the dawn of agriculture. We've always created. For necessity, some to earn a living and most of us for fun. (Someone's flower garden isn't a creative act?????)
Let's rephrase that shall we? Mike is right, history is right, shills and trolls like yourself are wrong. See? Simple when you engage brain before typing fingers.
Ahh, bittorrenting Linux, let's see now. ESA jumping up and down, left and right and sideways in all kinds of directions.
Sounds familiar.
I'm what's called an early seeder for the Mandriva distro so with each release there's a hell of a spike in my torrent use.
Couple of years ago I got a call from an ISP I used then to ask about the traffic spike, well, by then it had been 5 weeks of slow speed seeding so it was hardly a spike by then. Told the service rep who, at one point asked me if Mandy was any good and proceeded to join the leechers as we chatted. We had a pleasant enough chat and left it at that.
Couple of days later I got an email from the tech who told me that he found the problem and and it was a package in the distro called, ready?, Tux Racer, which has been there since forever, which, it seemed someone had complained about violating their copyright or whatever. No packet inspection or anything like that by the ISP, just a friendly and very amused email, tech to tech at what kicked everything off. Oh, and he loves Mandy.
Can't say it's the same thing but it does raise alarm bells. Tux Racer, for the uninitiated is a game that's released under GPL. Not the sort of thing that would interest a hard core gamer but it's there.
All in all I agree with PikaPikaChick. She's best to move on.
Over the years I've come to regard certain ISPs with suspicion and even the name of this one raises that suspicion as does the working of the Civil Discourse section of their TOS. That they found it necessary to write this tells me they have brought some "uncivil" discourse on themselves with high handed, ignorant decisions like this. Oh, and do tell my mother!
Bankruptcy awaits.
Though it doesn't bode well for what the ESA thinks they can and cannot get away with now and in the future.
I suspect I'd get snarky, too, if I was presented with a demand that, creatively, deleted part of the law being discussed in a way to shape that law to the desires of those making the demand.
As I'm not directly involved in this dispute let me express what the FBI is doing when they engage in such things (or anyone, to be fair) they are liars.
Nor did I read anything gratuitous in the letter. I did read a very annoyed lawyer who knew better and restored the deleted bits to make his argument and interpretation.
In legal terms what he did was spank them which they deserved.
And even if trademark law applied, which it doesn't, how does printing the seal in Wikipedia confuse anyone into thinking that the FBI and Wikipedia are one and the same?
In terms of what came first, the reality is that HDSL preceded cable broadband fairly handily. Sadly, telcos then fell in love with another, now mostly dead, variety of "broadband" that could run on twisted pair at great distances. And they could charge a ton for it the same way they did for HDSL which they sold that to governments, universities (the places where the backbone of the Internet began and to a huge extend still resides) and private users who could afford such things.
ADSL, as Mike indicates, came along as an almost panic response by telcos to the development of cable modems.
Let's remember. too, that most of this happened in a remarkably short period of time. My first Internet connection was on a 48K dial up modem in 1993 and by 1995 I was on an evaluation ADSL line (it was crap) and by 1997 I was on one of the first commercially available residential ADSL lines my employer offered (still pretty much crap) and by 2000 most of the crap was gone and we began to see what we have now.
Personally I tend to lean towards net neutrality as it applies to protocols (bittorrent or otherwise) while I do start to distance myself when it comes to intelligent traffic shaping, as opposed to the sledgehammer approach cablecos use. The reason for the sledgehammer is twofold in that a cable line is a shared facility (blah blah blah) for the last mile or 10 though the more important aspect is found in the word modem. Cable modems have to convert analog to digital inbound and again outbound by the very nature of the transmission facility cable runs on. Coax just isn't good at distance for anything digital, frequently worse that twisted pair. ADSL, on the other hand is a pure dataset -- digital in, digital out. The DSL model tends to lend itself to intelligent traffic shaping while the cable model requires something of a sledgehammer. Not as huge as cablecos plead they need but still a sledgehammer.
You know, this name rang an alarm bell with me the moment I saw it. As well as being Fake Steve Jobs, in another existence, he also got spoon fed and believed SCO to the point where he as regularly slagging Groklaw and others who felt that SCO had no case (and worse). In the end he had to eat road kill crow. Or some road kill not even a crow or eagle would touch. This was during is "tech analyist" phase at Forbes, a calling he seems most unsuited for. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lyons
It appears that Lyons counts in the group that self describes on Groklaw as IANAL (I am not a lawyer) so one wonders about his qualifications not to mention his credibility.
One needs to point out, of course, that a lessee is required to do some things a lessor says they have to do. And yes, the space is private property as long as the telcos, cable providers, power companies and so on oblige by the rules, as they may change from time to time set by the lessor.
Let me rephrase a the following, and I'll let you find the typo on your own!
Disabling or automatically deleting these little monsters wouldn't make web surfing more difficult as the loading of fonts, images etc would not, I trust, include ads from that domain.
I'm sure the IE developers took that part of it into account. Assuming they aren't complete dolts and coded around such things. To some extent AdBlockPlus does this already though NoScript. last time I looked at it, remains something of a nuclear device that toasts everything good and dangerous/bad.
While I agree that there are ramifications of 25% or more of browser users blocking Google Analytics about the only time I feel like doing that is when a site hangs waiting to contact the damned service which is happening more and more.
Anyway, it's up to the browser user not the browser designer to make those decisions.
Still, the decision wasn't made for technical reasons it was made so that the ad side of MS could sell ad space.
Tracker cookies are a different breed of cat than most others and only, as near as I've ever discovered, served by ad sellers. Quite different than a log in cookie and so on.
Disabling or automatically deleting these little monsters wouldn't make web serving as it wouldn't affect the loading of fonts, images from the other domain only any ads found on that domain. (Yes, I realize that does go on and tend to avoid sites that "double ad" me rather like I avoid all other critters of genus "spammer".)
No when boxes and wheels had sex and their offspring had sex with the old sailing ship Royal Navy dockyards (the originators of what we know as the assembly line) Henry Ford was born!
It's so much easier to quote industry "sources" than dig.
In an age when any "cub" reporter can get a by-line we are surprised that newspapers/magazines/television repeat the drivel ladled out by an industry. Particularly where said industry is complaining about copyright/patent/counterfeiting which lines up nicely with a newspaper's concerns about the massive evil known at the Internet?
That said I would expect better from a so called paper of record or at least I used to.
It sounds, Mike, like what you're expecting is that Ms Clifford take some time to dig rather than rewrite a stack of press releases, phone for a quote or six and get the story out by deadline. Do you know how hot and muggy it is in New York this time of year?! You want her to WORK?
Fact checking seems a lost art when one can simply fall back on the "experts" which must be the industry itself, don't you know. Just like the Times and others went to "experts" on Wall Street who said the crash of 2008 could and would never occur even as the house of cards was collapsing all around them.
With respect to this article I'm sure that it was found in a section of the Times filled with fashion industry, cosmetics and accessory ads just in case we needed to know who this was really written for. In this day and age one doesn't upset the people keeping a leaky boat floating.
While I'm certain that Ms Clifford is a very nice, well educated and knowledgeable person, in a general sense as most journalism grads are, the reality is that time pressures, money and the need for eyeballs on an article means that it doesn't really matter if the story is 100% accurate, just that the publication can demonstrate to advertisers that it can draw eyeballs to the section and the ads.
So even at the top of the news media food chain (or what used to be, anyway) it's get the story out regardless of factuality which can always be corrected a day or two from now. What we used to call Tabloid journalism if we were being nice and yellow journalism if we were really upset.
So Ms Clifford rewrote her releases, took Forbes as true, got her quotes and pumped out her story.
Is it any wonder that journalists are held in the same contempt as politicians?
Though I do have to wonder if the new quotes and whatever other original contributions she made to the story fall under The AP's definition of Hot News. Ya think?
Sorry, but unless the child copied the _code_ rather than the _idea_ it is not a copyright infringement nor does it go against copyright. As in "line for line" the code.
That said, if it's called PAC-MAN then there's a case of trademark violation. Maybe.
There are a world of clones of pac man out there, always have been, curious for a game that required at least 3 beer before anyone would play it, but still. ;-)
Please, repeat after me, "you cannot copyright/patent an idea", only a particular expression of one.
Trademark, yeah, I'll give him that. Not, I repeat, not copyright.
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How silly.
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It's not only his sad moral obligation to put everything behind a pay wall it's his duty do to so as he must protect the culture, protect starving artists such as Paul Williams and, most importantly "Protect The Children".
Don't you see what a sacrifice this is for Murdoch? What stress he's under as he does all this for not just his but all our posteriors.....ahhh posterity?
On the post: Can We Please Stop The False Dichotomy Of 'Creators' vs 'Consumers' When It Comes To Copyright?
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On the post: Can We Please Stop The False Dichotomy Of 'Creators' vs 'Consumers' When It Comes To Copyright?
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James meet TAM, TAM meet James. The pair of you should get along famously. By the way, I expect the wedding announcement sometime before Labour Day.
(Deperately trying to stay "classy" to someone who doesn't understand the meaning of the word.)
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Re: Mass produced "art"
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Re: "Most people are both creators and consumers at the same time" WRONG !!
I guess, that is if your history only goes back to the Statue of Ann or the signing of the US Constitution both of which historically are kinda recent.
Humans have been creating as long as we've been here, you silly troll. Long before copyright, long before the written word, long before the dawn of agriculture. We've always created. For necessity, some to earn a living and most of us for fun. (Someone's flower garden isn't a creative act?????)
Let's rephrase that shall we? Mike is right, history is right, shills and trolls like yourself are wrong. See? Simple when you engage brain before typing fingers.
On the post: ISP Accused Of Using One Unsubstantiated Strike From The ESA To Close Down Account
Let me see here....
Sounds familiar.
I'm what's called an early seeder for the Mandriva distro so with each release there's a hell of a spike in my torrent use.
Couple of years ago I got a call from an ISP I used then to ask about the traffic spike, well, by then it had been 5 weeks of slow speed seeding so it was hardly a spike by then. Told the service rep who, at one point asked me if Mandy was any good and proceeded to join the leechers as we chatted. We had a pleasant enough chat and left it at that.
Couple of days later I got an email from the tech who told me that he found the problem and and it was a package in the distro called, ready?, Tux Racer, which has been there since forever, which, it seemed someone had complained about violating their copyright or whatever. No packet inspection or anything like that by the ISP, just a friendly and very amused email, tech to tech at what kicked everything off. Oh, and he loves Mandy.
Can't say it's the same thing but it does raise alarm bells. Tux Racer, for the uninitiated is a game that's released under GPL. Not the sort of thing that would interest a hard core gamer but it's there.
All in all I agree with PikaPikaChick. She's best to move on.
Over the years I've come to regard certain ISPs with suspicion and even the name of this one raises that suspicion as does the working of the Civil Discourse section of their TOS. That they found it necessary to write this tells me they have brought some "uncivil" discourse on themselves with high handed, ignorant decisions like this. Oh, and do tell my mother!
Bankruptcy awaits.
Though it doesn't bode well for what the ESA thinks they can and cannot get away with now and in the future.
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Re:
As I'm not directly involved in this dispute let me express what the FBI is doing when they engage in such things (or anyone, to be fair) they are liars.
Nor did I read anything gratuitous in the letter. I did read a very annoyed lawyer who knew better and restored the deleted bits to make his argument and interpretation.
In legal terms what he did was spank them which they deserved.
And even if trademark law applied, which it doesn't, how does printing the seal in Wikipedia confuse anyone into thinking that the FBI and Wikipedia are one and the same?
Other than Mike's moron in a hurry?
On the post: No, The Fifth Amendment Does Not Complicate Net Neutrality
Cable vs DSL
ADSL, as Mike indicates, came along as an almost panic response by telcos to the development of cable modems.
Let's remember. too, that most of this happened in a remarkably short period of time. My first Internet connection was on a 48K dial up modem in 1993 and by 1995 I was on an evaluation ADSL line (it was crap) and by 1997 I was on one of the first commercially available residential ADSL lines my employer offered (still pretty much crap) and by 2000 most of the crap was gone and we began to see what we have now.
Personally I tend to lean towards net neutrality as it applies to protocols (bittorrent or otherwise) while I do start to distance myself when it comes to intelligent traffic shaping, as opposed to the sledgehammer approach cablecos use. The reason for the sledgehammer is twofold in that a cable line is a shared facility (blah blah blah) for the last mile or 10 though the more important aspect is found in the word modem. Cable modems have to convert analog to digital inbound and again outbound by the very nature of the transmission facility cable runs on. Coax just isn't good at distance for anything digital, frequently worse that twisted pair. ADSL, on the other hand is a pure dataset -- digital in, digital out. The DSL model tends to lend itself to intelligent traffic shaping while the cable model requires something of a sledgehammer. Not as huge as cablecos plead they need but still a sledgehammer.
On the post: No, The Fifth Amendment Does Not Complicate Net Neutrality
Oh THAT Daniel Lyons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lyons
It appears that Lyons counts in the group that self describes on Groklaw as IANAL (I am not a lawyer) so one wonders about his qualifications not to mention his credibility.
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Just like renting an apartment.
On the post: Microsoft Debated Privacy vs. Advertisers In Internet Explorer... And Advertisers Won
Re: Re:
Disabling or automatically deleting these little monsters wouldn't make web surfing more difficult as the loading of fonts, images etc would not, I trust, include ads from that domain.
On the post: Microsoft Debated Privacy vs. Advertisers In Internet Explorer... And Advertisers Won
Re: It was a bad idea anyway
While I agree that there are ramifications of 25% or more of browser users blocking Google Analytics about the only time I feel like doing that is when a site hangs waiting to contact the damned service which is happening more and more.
Anyway, it's up to the browser user not the browser designer to make those decisions.
Still, the decision wasn't made for technical reasons it was made so that the ad side of MS could sell ad space.
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Disabling or automatically deleting these little monsters wouldn't make web serving as it wouldn't affect the loading of fonts, images from the other domain only any ads found on that domain. (Yes, I realize that does go on and tend to avoid sites that "double ad" me rather like I avoid all other critters of genus "spammer".)
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Re: Re: Better Question Is...
I'd suggest the answer is a resounding NO!
On the post: Hey NY Times: Can You Back Up The Claim Of $200 Billion Lost To Counterfeiting?
It's so much easier to quote industry "sources" than dig.
That said I would expect better from a so called paper of record or at least I used to.
It sounds, Mike, like what you're expecting is that Ms Clifford take some time to dig rather than rewrite a stack of press releases, phone for a quote or six and get the story out by deadline. Do you know how hot and muggy it is in New York this time of year?! You want her to WORK?
Fact checking seems a lost art when one can simply fall back on the "experts" which must be the industry itself, don't you know. Just like the Times and others went to "experts" on Wall Street who said the crash of 2008 could and would never occur even as the house of cards was collapsing all around them.
With respect to this article I'm sure that it was found in a section of the Times filled with fashion industry, cosmetics and accessory ads just in case we needed to know who this was really written for. In this day and age one doesn't upset the people keeping a leaky boat floating.
While I'm certain that Ms Clifford is a very nice, well educated and knowledgeable person, in a general sense as most journalism grads are, the reality is that time pressures, money and the need for eyeballs on an article means that it doesn't really matter if the story is 100% accurate, just that the publication can demonstrate to advertisers that it can draw eyeballs to the section and the ads.
So even at the top of the news media food chain (or what used to be, anyway) it's get the story out regardless of factuality which can always be corrected a day or two from now. What we used to call Tabloid journalism if we were being nice and yellow journalism if we were really upset.
So Ms Clifford rewrote her releases, took Forbes as true, got her quotes and pumped out her story.
Is it any wonder that journalists are held in the same contempt as politicians?
Though I do have to wonder if the new quotes and whatever other original contributions she made to the story fall under The AP's definition of Hot News. Ya think?
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Re: Overcrowding
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Re: Re: NAMCO Demands Takedown
That said, if it's called PAC-MAN then there's a case of trademark violation. Maybe.
There are a world of clones of pac man out there, always have been, curious for a game that required at least 3 beer before anyone would play it, but still. ;-)
Please, repeat after me, "you cannot copyright/patent an idea", only a particular expression of one.
Trademark, yeah, I'll give him that. Not, I repeat, not copyright.
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