So here you have it folks, the Chinese will out innovate us, market it, and make money; before, we in the West, can even get the license we need to do some design work!
And then Imaginary Property rightsholders step in with patents to stop us from even trying to muscle into their game.
Apple isn't the leader because they make perfect products, they are the leader because they got a head start nowadays as there are plenty of smartphones from the competition that perform even better than their iphones.
This was true in the early days of the PC era too. Once others got into the game, IBM was way overshadowed by its competitors creating more powerful and nimble machines. AMD CPUs were cheaper and faster than Intel's, and Dell sold like hotcakes to the masses who couldn't afford the cache' of IBM's name and reputation. Nowadays, Apple relies on its reputation as being "hip" (or whatever that's called these days), not necessarily "better."
Either that, or there's an underlying beauty to the Universe and reality, and all the bone headedness in creation can't stop it from rearing its beautiful head in perpetuity.
We need society and a state in which we are citizens so that the one can benefit from the many, and the many from the one.
I fully agree with the rest of that, but why believe a state has anything to do with it?
I'm trying to do a cost/benefit analysis, and all indications I see show that states and rulers are not worth the price we pay for them. People appear to believe allowing us to benefit from wonders like indoor plumbing demands we accept a ruler to keep us squabbling kids from hurting and stealing from each other. Why, and how's that working out for us, really? All indications show it's doing a damnably poor job of it. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and war after bloody war decimates innocents in their way. How can this be better than the alternative, except for the privileged, connected few who've mastered the machinations of state bribery?
The idea that we're all in the same boat is what makes for a healthy society.
Yes, and what's a state, or rulers, got to do with that? We give up our autonomy for the greater good, and it's taken and given to the friends of the state, who in turn use it to enrich their friends instead of all of us as equally deserving partners. Subordinating ourselves to a state has not eliminated those few who use it to divide and conquer us individually. In fact, it empowers them. It creates a point of concentration (a la shopping mart) where they can go to grab (or buy) our power to use against the rest of us.
This is why I can't abide big L liberarians. They're too damn selfish.
This is why I can't abide statism. It's chosen friends and hangers-on are too damned selfish, and demanding I help them by laying down my arms in favour of the many sacrifices us all to the whims and greed of the privileged, connected few.
The MAFIAAs only role is being greedy enough to license their content to the more visionary companies.
I think that's being way too generous. It appears to me that their only role is to whine, kick, scream and flail while they're beaten off with a cluebat until they're forced to realize that the innovation is making money for them hand over fist. Then, they stalk away having learned nothing, shouting "Let that be a lesson to you, and we'll be watching you! Filthy pirates."
How Sony manages to not see vast amounts of cash wanting to come their way from streaming after The Interview debacle is a mystery. I have to conclude they're idiot savants, and their primary skill is plugging their ears, closing their eyes, and shouting "Lalalalala!"
... specialist doctors tend to be less informed about medical things that don't fall into their specialty than generalist doctors, and so their opinions outside their specialty are not held to a high standard. What everyone needs to understand is that this is how it works with specialists in all fields, not just medicine.
Very true, and it can be a bit of a shock when you finally discover this principle. Specialists can be even more ignorant than average people because they've chronic tunnel vision. They manage to excel in their chosen field by actively ignoring anything they consider extraneous.
Try being the IT guy herding scientists, doctors, or lawyers. It can be quite comical watching these "masters of the Universe" in their chosen field fall flat on their faces every time they step outside it, and I do mean every time. They think Benny Hill is great comedy. They think Karl Marx got a bad rap. They're often racist, misogynist, can't for the life of them remember their mother's birthday, etc., ad infinitum.
"The Absent Minded Professor" was a somewhat funny idea for a movie, but I hated it for glorifying this practice. Nobody should get a pass to ignore all the stuff everybody else has to deal with just because they've learned how to specialize better than their competition. Give me a polymath instead anyday.
You're trying to solve a social problem with technology.
I believe it would be much simpler to just hand them a phone book so they can call each number and demand they pay. As justification, they're operating a business within an atmosphere, and as sound generally travels through the atmosphere, they're liable. Smiple [sic].
Yeah, so? Are you a pirate, or a communist or something? Why are you against supporting artists for their creations? Do you realize if you don't pay this, they'll stop creating and your penis will shrivel up and disappear?
Microshill is still selling out to the NSA, so stop using their crap software.
Microsoft (!) is still complying with US gov't demands via National Security Letters to sell out its customers in the interests of national security, so stop using their crap software.
I don't like MS either, but I don't blame this on them any more than I blame Google, Apple, AT&T, ...
I see my mistake. When you say "artist", you really mean "rights-holder", don't you? I'm pretty sure you don't give a rat's ass for "art" or "artistic expression." You think all that's involved here is royalties.
I suggest you have your employers go back to the old days and do it the way classical artists worked. Find a prince or pope or king or some other rich person and get them to sign a contract for the work, then create something. They (the patron) will have utter and complete control over the work (they needn't even admit to anyone that it exists), and they can save a lot of money doing without legal leeches like you trying to convince them of the utility of hairbrained schemes like this.
BTW, I used to be an artist until I discovered there's hardly any money in it, so I found a better way to make a living. Perhaps your client should consider doing the same. Just a bit of friendly advice.
Describing these photographs as "selfies that happen to be taken using his equipment" is exactly the type of anti-artist attitude I find so infuriating.
Anti-artist?!? For insisting that discovering "a monkey pressed a button" isn't artistic expression?!? You need to go read a dictionary. Real artists would justifiably spit on your beliefs.
Holy self-entitlement, Batman! I eagerly look forward to the day that you manage to conjure up a thought worth more than a snicker of disdain.
You're welcome to your opinion. I don't share it. Most of the messes I read about daily are directly caused by states bitching between themselves about things states have been bitching about for centuries. Did you appreciate how the Nazis and Soviets (and ChiComs, and Pol Pot, and Japanese Empire, ...) "organized their populations productively"? How exactly is a "state" necessary to "build a strong civilization"? I thought that sort of thing was up to people like you and me. What's a state have to do with it, other than to milk us for protection, er, taxes?
It's pretty silly that you believe barbarism is the only option. I'm trying to get us out of it.
The notion that a people can be loyal to a territory or a flag, rather than to a person, rose in the late middle ages during the dawn of enlightenment (and the coffee boom).
That's "the party line", or what history wants us to think (so we'll be good citizens of The State). I'm still mostly loyal to a person; myself. Others are loyal to family, then extended family, then those you live close to or deal with on a regular basis. Some person half a continent away who I've never met and with whose ideas or aspirations I disagree, not so much. Once you get into Louis' "L'etat, c'est moi", we're in serious disagreementland.
Ancient Greece was city states. There was no "nation" then. Rome changed that, or maybe it was rampant tribalism elsewhere and Greek city states were the outlier.
Regardless, nationhood came to be recognized and accepted as the best way to wield power and control over populations, and we've been stuck in that downward spiral ever since. I wish humanity could get over this infatuation, but too many others appear to prefer this state of affairs (so far).
Many of those making derisive comments in response failed to show any understanding of what the law currently is and what the proposed amendment to copyright law actually entailed.
So what? Lots of comments on any forum are BS from the peanut gallery. The same happens in Real Life(tm). Plenty of people these days can't argue their way out of a paper bag (myself included at times). Ignore them. I do.
Mike/TD is also smart enough to not bother with pointless name calling and minutia. He steps up when others raise honest, substantial arguments questioning his opinions or interpretations. I just accept he's a busy guy and am happy to read what he's managed to find that I'd managed somehow to miss.
Stick to the meat of the issues and ignore the catcalls, and we'll all be better for it, and we might even learn something.
Let them hack back and e forced to deal with the possibility of a law suit if they attack the wrong person ...
I am so fscking sick to death with you Yanquis' litigious BS. You can't solve all the ills of the world by throwing lawyers at them! Who do you think you are, MafiAA?!?
You don't like like drug or arms deals going on in the dark net? Sue! Oh, they're in Russia, and they don't give a rat's ass for US' tort law. Oops. How about the Somalis, of Afghan Taliban, or Cubans, or Venezuelans, or "Best Korea" (cf. Fark.com), ...
How about you/we just stop doing stupid things giving nutbars reason to escalate some corporation's (Sony!) problems into WWIII?
I wouldn't have reported you for this, though I certainly understand why others would. You're welcome to your opinion, and I believe it's far more instructive for others to actually see what you've written to better understand how worthless your contribution is. You go in for vitriolic insults ("Your "community" is a fucking joke."; charming), not discussion. You don't appear to give a flying !@#$ about what others think (it's all em>"group think" to you), nor care that they may better understand the situation than do you. You've got your agenda to push, and you're sticking with it, come hell or high water. Why, I can't imagine, nor do I care.
Enjoy your peaceful echo chamber having now driven away anyone who might have previously wanted to communicate with you. Having fun yet?
... it shouldn't be a problem to add lynch mobbing rights.
Piker. Why not just targeted assassinations? Start with their CEO and systems security staff. "All's fair in love and war." Except this isn't war. It's just business. No-one wins in war. The "winner" just loses less (ideally).
Anyone promoting this foolishness should be recognized as the sociopaths that they are.
Its possible to disable botnets remotely, lets imagine that the industry standard is to install a sort of anti-virus on the attacking system first(its seems resumable to me) to see if the attacks stop them.
You have much greater faith in antivirus programs than you should. I've seen reports that the best of them catch only 80% of existent malware, and no antivirus will stop a zero-day. The antivirus industry is selling snake-oil. Actual secured systems don't need it. Don't fall for their BS.
Considering the value of such botnets it would be quite a lost for the hacker and its not the worse thing in the world even if it would be slightly questionable if there are any false positives.
Which is why I don't want people like you anywhere near the decision making process. Yours is a "ready, shoot, aim" mentality. Systems that are part of a botnet are victims too. If those systems are 911, or air-traffic control, or pentagon, or managing other critical systems, you could be causing far more collateral damage to victims even further removed from the original incident.
Please, get over your blind lust for revenge before you start WWIII.
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This does seem a perfect business opportunity for Prenda Law. It's not like they'd need to actually own the copyrights to send threatening letters.
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And then Imaginary Property rightsholders step in with patents to stop us from even trying to muscle into their game.
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This was true in the early days of the PC era too. Once others got into the game, IBM was way overshadowed by its competitors creating more powerful and nimble machines. AMD CPUs were cheaper and faster than Intel's, and Dell sold like hotcakes to the masses who couldn't afford the cache' of IBM's name and reputation. Nowadays, Apple relies on its reputation as being "hip" (or whatever that's called these days), not necessarily "better."
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Either that, or there's an underlying beauty to the Universe and reality, and all the bone headedness in creation can't stop it from rearing its beautiful head in perpetuity.
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I fully agree with the rest of that, but why believe a state has anything to do with it?
I'm trying to do a cost/benefit analysis, and all indications I see show that states and rulers are not worth the price we pay for them. People appear to believe allowing us to benefit from wonders like indoor plumbing demands we accept a ruler to keep us squabbling kids from hurting and stealing from each other. Why, and how's that working out for us, really? All indications show it's doing a damnably poor job of it. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and war after bloody war decimates innocents in their way. How can this be better than the alternative, except for the privileged, connected few who've mastered the machinations of state bribery?
Yes, and what's a state, or rulers, got to do with that? We give up our autonomy for the greater good, and it's taken and given to the friends of the state, who in turn use it to enrich their friends instead of all of us as equally deserving partners. Subordinating ourselves to a state has not eliminated those few who use it to divide and conquer us individually. In fact, it empowers them. It creates a point of concentration (a la shopping mart) where they can go to grab (or buy) our power to use against the rest of us.
This is why I can't abide statism. It's chosen friends and hangers-on are too damned selfish, and demanding I help them by laying down my arms in favour of the many sacrifices us all to the whims and greed of the privileged, connected few.
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I'm sorry you believe that's acceptable. I wanted to pay to see that, but I can certainly find something else to entertain myself. Goodbye.
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I think that's being way too generous. It appears to me that their only role is to whine, kick, scream and flail while they're beaten off with a cluebat until they're forced to realize that the innovation is making money for them hand over fist. Then, they stalk away having learned nothing, shouting "Let that be a lesson to you, and we'll be watching you! Filthy pirates."
How Sony manages to not see vast amounts of cash wanting to come their way from streaming after The Interview debacle is a mystery. I have to conclude they're idiot savants, and their primary skill is plugging their ears, closing their eyes, and shouting "Lalalalala!"
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Very true, and it can be a bit of a shock when you finally discover this principle. Specialists can be even more ignorant than average people because they've chronic tunnel vision. They manage to excel in their chosen field by actively ignoring anything they consider extraneous.
Try being the IT guy herding scientists, doctors, or lawyers. It can be quite comical watching these "masters of the Universe" in their chosen field fall flat on their faces every time they step outside it, and I do mean every time. They think Benny Hill is great comedy. They think Karl Marx got a bad rap. They're often racist, misogynist, can't for the life of them remember their mother's birthday, etc., ad infinitum.
"The Absent Minded Professor" was a somewhat funny idea for a movie, but I hated it for glorifying this practice. Nobody should get a pass to ignore all the stuff everybody else has to deal with just because they've learned how to specialize better than their competition. Give me a polymath instead anyday.
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You're trying to solve a social problem with technology.
I believe it would be much simpler to just hand them a phone book so they can call each number and demand they pay. As justification, they're operating a business within an atmosphere, and as sound generally travels through the atmosphere, they're liable. Smiple [sic].
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Yeah, so? Are you a pirate, or a communist or something? Why are you against supporting artists for their creations? Do you realize if you don't pay this, they'll stop creating and your penis will shrivel up and disappear?
We'll need to see some ID, and where do you live?
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Microsoft (!) is still complying with US gov't demands via National Security Letters to sell out its customers in the interests of national security, so stop using their crap software.
I don't like MS either, but I don't blame this on them any more than I blame Google, Apple, AT&T, ...
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I suggest you have your employers go back to the old days and do it the way classical artists worked. Find a prince or pope or king or some other rich person and get them to sign a contract for the work, then create something. They (the patron) will have utter and complete control over the work (they needn't even admit to anyone that it exists), and they can save a lot of money doing without legal leeches like you trying to convince them of the utility of hairbrained schemes like this.
BTW, I used to be an artist until I discovered there's hardly any money in it, so I found a better way to make a living. Perhaps your client should consider doing the same. Just a bit of friendly advice.
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Anti-artist?!? For insisting that discovering "a monkey pressed a button" isn't artistic expression?!? You need to go read a dictionary. Real artists would justifiably spit on your beliefs.
Holy self-entitlement, Batman! I eagerly look forward to the day that you manage to conjure up a thought worth more than a snicker of disdain.
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It's pretty silly that you believe barbarism is the only option. I'm trying to get us out of it.
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Re: Nations are rather new
That's "the party line", or what history wants us to think (so we'll be good citizens of The State). I'm still mostly loyal to a person; myself. Others are loyal to family, then extended family, then those you live close to or deal with on a regular basis. Some person half a continent away who I've never met and with whose ideas or aspirations I disagree, not so much. Once you get into Louis' "L'etat, c'est moi", we're in serious disagreementland.
Ancient Greece was city states. There was no "nation" then. Rome changed that, or maybe it was rampant tribalism elsewhere and Greek city states were the outlier.
Regardless, nationhood came to be recognized and accepted as the best way to wield power and control over populations, and we've been stuck in that downward spiral ever since. I wish humanity could get over this infatuation, but too many others appear to prefer this state of affairs (so far).
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So what? Lots of comments on any forum are BS from the peanut gallery. The same happens in Real Life(tm). Plenty of people these days can't argue their way out of a paper bag (myself included at times). Ignore them. I do.
Mike/TD is also smart enough to not bother with pointless name calling and minutia. He steps up when others raise honest, substantial arguments questioning his opinions or interpretations. I just accept he's a busy guy and am happy to read what he's managed to find that I'd managed somehow to miss.
Stick to the meat of the issues and ignore the catcalls, and we'll all be better for it, and we might even learn something.
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Re: Re: Botnets
I am so fscking sick to death with you Yanquis' litigious BS. You can't solve all the ills of the world by throwing lawyers at them! Who do you think you are, MafiAA?!?
You don't like like drug or arms deals going on in the dark net? Sue! Oh, they're in Russia, and they don't give a rat's ass for US' tort law. Oops. How about the Somalis, of Afghan Taliban, or Cubans, or Venezuelans, or "Best Korea" (cf. Fark.com), ...
How about you/we just stop doing stupid things giving nutbars reason to escalate some corporation's (Sony!) problems into WWIII?
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Enjoy your peaceful echo chamber having now driven away anyone who might have previously wanted to communicate with you. Having fun yet?
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Piker. Why not just targeted assassinations? Start with their CEO and systems security staff. "All's fair in love and war." Except this isn't war. It's just business. No-one wins in war. The "winner" just loses less (ideally).
Anyone promoting this foolishness should be recognized as the sociopaths that they are.
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You have much greater faith in antivirus programs than you should. I've seen reports that the best of them catch only 80% of existent malware, and no antivirus will stop a zero-day. The antivirus industry is selling snake-oil. Actual secured systems don't need it. Don't fall for their BS.
Which is why I don't want people like you anywhere near the decision making process. Yours is a "ready, shoot, aim" mentality. Systems that are part of a botnet are victims too. If those systems are 911, or air-traffic control, or pentagon, or managing other critical systems, you could be causing far more collateral damage to victims even further removed from the original incident.
Please, get over your blind lust for revenge before you start WWIII.
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