special-interesting (profile), 1 Mar 2013 @ 1:52pm
Its good to see such legislation but one must wonder how we end up like this. Its nice to see the public being more aware of copyright abuses and at least some state senators will be reading up on it in the development of such law. Now if only we could get exposure the topics of being able to share cultural media items and public domain expansion.
How do kids expect to profit intellectually if the school itself claims by eternal copyright their own essays and artwork? It is the whole process of life in that we use what we learn! If you fill up my head with knowledge and then tell me I cant use it without paying individual licensing fees for every use is a scheme that Ponzi would love. If I read one of my old school essays to my kids do they have to pay if they use ideas or quotes off of it also? (Don't laugh, you guys know I write a lot it's a very real scenario.)
The teacher created coursework and curricula are a different matter although one would hope that a teacher could share that with other teachers in other schools. Most teacher contracts are not spcific in that area. Much coursework is based on collaborations from other teachers at seminars and such or even from web sites that teachers share their experience and lesson plans so who really owns it is a complex argument.
Tomxp411 said “Schools should never be allowed to say "we own everything you create." “ (and elaborates well) If the school copyrighted everything by default it just sounds like a land grab 'just because we can' thing. The current, effectively, eternal copyright system completely removes from circulation a copyrighted work forever because it wont be available (to you) until long after you die. If the term were much shorter it would not be as much of a concern and you would be able to pick up where you left off when the term expired.
It has been one of my themes that copyright should be limited to some time span of much less that the average lifespan of the audience. 30 years might be to much. It is important that we be able to use the stories our parents taught us (our culture) or read in school because... thats all we know!
special-interesting (profile), 1 Mar 2013 @ 12:34pm
How would anyone be able to even mention newspaper news socially on a blog site at all? This the same thing as prohibiting all social discussion of the news? Enforcement of such a law would be like suppression, oppression. How about making backyard fence gossip illegal while they are at it? I see news aggregation sites as nothing more than harmless gossip.
A law like this would effectively put a black-out on all things german. What a huge PR mistake could that be? Come visit Germany: just don't quote the news in your e-mail letters (or your family blog spot) to home.
How could any piece of legislation leave the details to the court system? Isn't that just saying lets try to “get away with whatever we can”? How bad can the German legislators be to skip out on the details of a law. Its like leaving the answer blank on a test and expecting to get credit for it anyway. I think they need a homeroom teacher to oversee and make them show their work (so to speak). Sloppy legislation at best.
I must be appalled (there are so many question marks after my sentences).
This is just another attempt at dying business models, in this case newspaper industry, struggling to force into law monopolistic methods regardless of the collateral damage.
special-interesting (profile), 1 Mar 2013 @ 11:34am
Re:
Thats brilliantly stated and makes my point that we use popular songs to express ideas and concepts in ways we cannot do ourselves. A song or quotes from a book embellish our sentiment if well chosen resonates socially.
An excellent example of copyrighted culture being denied for public use. Its likely this is covered under fair use. If one were to ask a recording firm for permission am sure the answer is no. Thus, a way of expression has been denied.
Eternal copyright only serves to deny cultural items (books, music, TV shows, etc) to use in expressing ourselves or getting our ideas across. It would be nice if fair use was expanded a bit too.
It has been one of my themes that copyright should be limited to some time span of much less that the average lifespan of the audience. 30 years might be to much. It is important that we be able to use the stories our parents taught us or read in school because... thats all we know!
special-interesting (profile), 1 Mar 2013 @ 10:58am
Most of the abuses of law seem based on the (completely ridiculous) “intent of the law” doctrine where one can do just about anything they want if you come up with some twisted reasoning of a loosely written law. These shadowy justifications vaporize when examined under public scrutiny so they are hidden or kept top secret. For this to work it needs complicit elected officials of which Jerry Brown seems to fit.
I think if we can find a way to outlaw the use of this “intent of law” doctrine it would go a long way to corralling runaway government interpretations of giving license to violate even the most basic of right to privacy. Your phone data especially ones text messages and other sensitive private information should be 100% completely covered by constitutional rights.
It pains me to even think that new law must be legislated to reclaim stolen freedoms and after all that public lobbying it was vetoed by the CA governor. I wonder if there would be enough support to override the veto in the Senate? Ya gotta be proud of the California House and Senate though they did their job well. (haven't read the bill so will give them credit)
And what about the police themselves? Why does the ACLU have to do detective work to discover what and how these violations occur? Why are normal officers acting like a secret police? Just observing the obvious brings up so many unanswered questions. Only well written law and carefully chosen elected officials will hobble rampant abuse.
Its embarrassing that the past 40 years of government has ignored the constitution both in poorly written law and shoddy enforcement practices. More shameful is the weak justice system unable to weed out unconstitutional laws.
It would be nice to to be able to program a phone so it would not keep the geolocation data and to prevent remote updates from happening. The wipe out of all data when entering a code would be nice too. This code would be given to the party doing the unwanted search and poof... all is gone.
I don't think I want a smartphone. Google is now banned from my machine.
special-interesting (profile), 28 Feb 2013 @ 8:59pm
The UK has developed a wonderful culture of freedom of thought (what is thinking anyway) that propelled them to succeed though/during a time of crises of (such as) WW1 and WW2.
To discard that heritage of greatness is beyond me. (like wow I'm appalled)
For a nation (UK) that at one time controlled the entire world, and lost it because of commercial stupidity, (slavery and colonialism) how do they give up to commercial pressure?
Is this a flag of (special interest) surrender?
P.S. The comments were great! (and I mean really great with references included.)
post note: Micky Mouse was trademarked (another abuse of trademark law) thus removing the character from culture. (what loss to our (American and also UK) GDP and world PR is that?)
change of topic but this is still on topic kind of thing.
The UK has made great inroads to a democratic society. Why give all that up now?
Copyright is the most abused legislation inexistent. Please strike it down immediately.
special-interesting (profile), 28 Feb 2013 @ 6:24pm
Anyone pay attention to that we pay attention to of what are attentive of? (this is one of the best statements I have ever spoken) (are we aware of our awareness of what?)
Revisionist history. If you don't like what has happened... erase it. (classic 'revisionist history')
The Vatican passes up the opportunities of many things. (please pay me for advice) ahahaha
Hint: celibacy is a valued thing. (where do you spent your life's energy) Don't waste it. And. Don't force it. (are you really paying attention to your own values? What is the definition of Hypocrisy)
A minister has a wife and family but a priest has avowed sex. The requirement that all ministers are priests is... weird (self destructive?) On the level of Pope John Paul II... how do you measure?
At the level of the average reader: where do you spend your energy? What is the different between thinking and thought.
special-interesting (profile), 28 Feb 2013 @ 7:47am
"It's been proven before by various government agencies and it still holds true: if you give someone more access than oversight (demands) when it comes to collected personal information, you can't be surprised when this tool gets abused."
Out_of_the_blue (anonymous) brings to light our ignorance of how current legislation is created (and the batch of legislators that create such). Current government uses private organizations to do what it cannot do itself which is collate and organize diverse databases using identifiers we don't yet understand as a public (Example: prescriptions from your local pharmacy are sold to an aggregate collector which identifies you (exactly) by your medical record (date of birth, prescription usage, and age.) hereafter you are identified (exactly) forever in their mindset. These are unique identifiers of which drug manufactures and state monitor laws keep tract of. (another great topic would be the new prescription monitoring programs which record every doctor prescribed prescription you take).
Several organizations like Blackwater (now changed names to confuse the attentive voter) collect your personal info by contract from the federal government. The fed is prohibited from such stupidity but private organizations are not. (out_of_the_blue is correct)
special-interesting (profile), 28 Feb 2013 @ 4:41am
mmm. want to comment on this but the essay written was kind of off topic.
Related is how we educate ourselves about history and when lack of such historical education we repeat same mistakes. Will wait for a cultural editing (related to education) topic to post. (want to stay on topic)
special-interesting (profile), 28 Feb 2013 @ 4:22am
If a law enforcement officer queried themselves its kind of funny in that everyone wants to learn about themselves. (the average citizen should be able to do the same) However. The disproportionately searching about the opposite sex is so scary its hard to express. (and I mean REALLY scary in a way that is inexpressible) Its an indication that law enforcement officials take advantage of private (government official accessible) information for personal abuse.
This is an example of “just because a list is made it will be taken advantage of” kind of thing. Personally, I favor that only violent felony convictions being public record in the sense that violent felons must not be treated in the same way as common citizens (regardless of non violent felony convictions).
special-interesting (profile), 28 Feb 2013 @ 3:24am
No. I do not believe I am smarter than a dolphin. Nuf said.
If one were to be critical of oneself it is a manifestation of the awareness of ones awareness (of ones awareness. Please let us reach this level). Its quite healthy in the mentally aware department.
It is hubris to assume that humans are the only intelligent species on the earth. We may be the most aware of our awareness (on the planet Earth) but why is that a litmus test for species that are (still) aware of themselves but at a lower level?
special-interesting (profile), 28 Feb 2013 @ 2:59am
Giving a suggestion for condensing ones argument. Please consider an executive brief of your argument. (the first paragraph as a summary and labeled as such) Also: A note of condensation like Antitrust Division (Division) would be nice. (its hard to speak to an average reader (me) about complex messy topics) What I read was OK but hardly easy to read.
I believe you are right about “market turns” making obsolete present market functions as they have no indication of future events (in an immature market). Maybe a better definition of the market referenced is needed. (example: hard to describe utilities as an emerging market as compared to unexplored social Internet collaboration of which is what... 8 years old?)
I like your assessment of (consumer review) software as an emerging technology and as such it would be immune from anti-trust logic. This would suggest the removal of software patents as computer technologies that are immature at every level. I perceive no stagnancy in the whole of the software market let alone such a small market as aggregate price consumer review firms.
Antitrust is daunting to me. However the comment (a product that provides) “ratings for products on the Internet” resonates the response: who would care? It seems that we are defining a product that defines products. (I love the recursiveness) “Bazaarvoice and PowerReviews” represent only a very small segment of the price aggregate market thus why would anti-trust accusations be true?
There are many examples of successful price aggregation sites (with user review opportunities) why single out this one? Its a market in its infancy. (total agreement) This fact brings to mind... wth is really going on? Is there something about the price aggregation industry that pisses off someone? And. Since any ruling affects social media in the whole... (I have to admit my cynicism creeps into my analysis) Since (price aggregation combined with consumer review) this is an important new manifestation of social collaboration affecting many present commercial establishments its no wonder some lawsuit popped up.
There seems to be a conflict of interest in 'Purchasing services' (from a consumer review site) and actual consumer reviews. Each site must delineate a sponsored event from a consumer generated response because of 'first person evidenced based' reviews. A review provided by a paid worker from a specific manufacture is worthless, but if properly labeled as such a consumer can classify it, as just an advertisement.
Am in (mostly. Remember my ignorance of) agreement with this article (as the complexities) of anti-trust law and its relevance to immature developing technologies.
special-interesting (profile), 28 Feb 2013 @ 1:11am
Thanks Mike for your supporting letter to the heroes at EFF. I think a key phrase is “massive economic sinkhole” as in what portion of our GDP is lost to such nonsense. Greatness is never achieved through (monopolistic?) stagnation.
Whack-a-mole is one of my favorite games IRL. Its normal for problems to just pop up requiring the occasional whack. However how does one recognize the manufactured artificial problem? More importantly how do we deal with such a problem?
At the moment the patent system is (only) corrupt and does not even approach the corruption that the copyright system (which I think should be abolished) has attained. The shild-act would be the small step in the right direction you suggest.
special-interesting (profile), 28 Feb 2013 @ 12:55am
Good enough for a rant.
Why would any sane American declare war on all of its allies? The insane act of screaming “fire” in a crowded theater comes to mind. One must ask who profits by the scrambling of duped investors, citizens and politicians? Efforts to expand an agencies powers? Companies that profit by such a panic?
It seems like a culture of war. How do we ween the public and our government from this teat of psychological dependence? Its normal that we live in conflict but calling everyday life war is too much. Of course this it a derivative of Bushi Boy's (W) “war on terror” which is a massive PR mistake for the US.
Destroyed is our reputation as the defender of human rights. (we cannot even protect our own basic rights to privacy and access to our own culture (history)) Destroyed is our ability to impartially mediate foreign wars and conflicts. (no way to mediate middle east problems impartially now) Destroyed is our economic mobility to enter markets unavailable to any other country. (a real democracy was a powerful advantage) Revealed is our empire building efforts of the last few administrations to such an extent that it embarrasses me. (did we really invade an oil producing nation for no real reason?) Obvious are the attempts to suppress dissent, of any kind, where reason and public discussion prevail. (new world order protest suppression) Gone are the most basic constitutional protections we based our entire democratic society on. (warrant-less wiretapping rampant)
the “war on terror” as implemented by the last two administrations is an anathema on traditional American values and must be stopped. It has been waged offensively and intruded into world affairs much like a random drone strike. The collateral damage to American standards is uncountable.
Please keep in mind that congress has officially declared a war on terror. “The war on terror is starting to get thin.” (thanks DannyB) I hereby propose that congress repeal the “war on terror” declaration immediately and post haste. (and along with that the unofficial “war on drugs” too I'm sure the removal of any real terrorists monetary (cocaine and heroin sales) support would be cause for some real world changing, for the better, event.)
This deceleration of a war on terror is (most likely unconstitutional in itself) so vague and indescribable that it in itself is a license to do just about anything. There is no concrete enemy defined so basically the enemy... is you and me. Civil liberties, Bill of Rights, individual freedoms... have become dirty words for enforcement agencies and for unfathomable reasons ignored by the courts.
Some of this is reactionary to the good comments. Thanks.
special-interesting (profile), 27 Feb 2013 @ 10:32pm
Re: Standards and Government Progress
That was a great read and well reasoned. I agree to this very much but of course the topic of how much does the government purchase such material for. Keep in mind that content creators do not want (need?) a good profit but a great awesome profit. Combine this with a government that routinely takes advantage of its eminent domain capabilities and we have an obvious problem. (it is normal to undervalue an asset. Its normal human nature.)
After thinking about it for some time and with some experience in the realm of abuse of eminent domain of real estate property field it seems necessary to require that a forced purchase must pay more that the fair market value. There are many reasons for this most basic is that when you force someone out of their current (position) property its a potential life wrecking event.
The amount I thought of was 3 times the fair market value. Thus if your local council, city or state wanted your property for some new commercial development they had better want it badly enough.
so. if the government felt the economic need to purchase the technical manuals they had better pay 3 times the cost of creation. (or 3 times the market value of a property real estate or otherwise) This way the market for creation would not be jeopardized.
special-interesting (profile), 27 Feb 2013 @ 8:26pm
Re: Re:
If thats your opinion thats good really. “Full of myself” would imply that I was just spouting my opinion alone with no substantiation of it. Furthermore. Much of what I write is not my original content but just an attempt to make sense of difficult to grasp concepts (and of what I read and hear) and possibly fill out some of the logic gaps.
Despite some education I find the gaps to be huge especially in the areas of monopolies and top down media business models and the effects on shared culture areas. I am of course hoping to get some commentary/feedback involving this. Its a wonderful intellectual exercise full of discovery.
I put a bit of effort into the logic behind the topic each post is about. They can be a bit wordy and the time that takes usually means they are near last and comments are sparse. Argue with me. Tell me I'm wrong. But. Please explain how so I can elaborate as it seems each paragraph and sentence of my posts can be a whole essay in themselves. I'm kind of eager for it.
special-interesting (profile), 27 Feb 2013 @ 1:02pm
Its more likely the sponsors of pork barrel spending needed a new piece of legislation, that the prez was likely to sign, to tack on some fat and this article was its foreruning rally cry. I agree this is some unsubstantiated (and even wrong) claim of terror.
The unanswered, unspoken question is what is really being attempted here. What self protectionism special interest (group?) is going on behind the scenes produces such wild, and certainly, unneeded proposed legislation. It is at least possible that this is just another way to legalize what has already been (being?) done.
The executive order definitely seems more rubber-stamping by the current administration. Its kind of irresponsible in the light of current politicians ability to create constitutionally viable law especially in the area of privacy.
Misspelling Aaron Swart's name is almost comedic. Did anyone writing the article care about an activist anyway. Relating activists to terrorists the demonetization of a whole class of Americans. Would that be declaring class warfare in writing? If they would hire some of them to program their websites I'd bet their vulnerability to China hacks would be much less.
special-interesting (profile), 27 Feb 2013 @ 12:04pm
This seems to be a privacy issue obscured by privacy issues. The real problem is that there was such a list of gun owners in the first place.
If I get into an accident or thrown in jail the newspaper considers this news and as a society that cares reads newspapers a lot. Do I like that something embarrassing about me was there? Most likely not. The list of gun owners being published was there and they published it.
In this case the newspaper itself is an unwitting bully, in some ways, by publishing some personal information that most sane people keep 'under the bed mattress'. They No sane gun owner would publish the fact they carried a gun. I think its good they apologized its so rare to see this these days and takes some corporate fortitude to do that.
The government in its unwisdom forced this situation by peeping into the lives of ordinary citizens. Its another bad example of how just the fact of, just even, collecting such intelligence on average people can get out of hand so quickly. Gun ownership is a basic freedom which should be guarded along with other privacy issues.
To the point (from post #28) “Give a list of legal gun owners to a bunch of criminals and see how many legal guns get stolen and put in the hands of criminals.” When such lists are collected is is sometimes true that the government officials who are the criminals. Fave Example: Diamond sellers have to apply to the government for an alias so they can travel safely and anonymously. You get it... the list was sold and diamonds were stolen, often. (Chicago IL) Just the fact the list, of gun owners, exists is to much. [references to comments , 33, 47, 52, (and especially 61)]
Kind of reminds me of an old movie called Red Dawn in where the invading forces just rounded up all the gun owners as likely enemies. (and did what?) Have not seen the new version of this movie (issued from the middlemen of culture?) and wonder how it has been culturally reinterpreted.
Extending my humble opinion: Violent Felons should not have guns. (note the specificity of violence since everything is a felony these days) This is hard to enforce at the point of purchase since any search would send name and purchase info (about arms) to government agencies who recored such stuff and thus another list would be made (and published by some unwitting newspaper?). It should probably be handeled on a case by case basis locking up violent felons with guns. Obviosly i'm pro gun ownership even if I don't own one. (yet, friends ask me to hunt with them)
Comments were good, thanks. Wanted to comment on so much but I do like to stick to the topic. (even though the comments were on topic my commentary would have went off topic)
On the post: Maryland Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Bar Schools From Claiming Copyright On Student & Faculty Work
How do kids expect to profit intellectually if the school itself claims by eternal copyright their own essays and artwork? It is the whole process of life in that we use what we learn! If you fill up my head with knowledge and then tell me I cant use it without paying individual licensing fees for every use is a scheme that Ponzi would love. If I read one of my old school essays to my kids do they have to pay if they use ideas or quotes off of it also? (Don't laugh, you guys know I write a lot it's a very real scenario.)
The teacher created coursework and curricula are a different matter although one would hope that a teacher could share that with other teachers in other schools. Most teacher contracts are not spcific in that area. Much coursework is based on collaborations from other teachers at seminars and such or even from web sites that teachers share their experience and lesson plans so who really owns it is a complex argument.
Tomxp411 said “Schools should never be allowed to say "we own everything you create." “ (and elaborates well) If the school copyrighted everything by default it just sounds like a land grab 'just because we can' thing. The current, effectively, eternal copyright system completely removes from circulation a copyrighted work forever because it wont be available (to you) until long after you die. If the term were much shorter it would not be as much of a concern and you would be able to pick up where you left off when the term expired.
It has been one of my themes that copyright should be limited to some time span of much less that the average lifespan of the audience. 30 years might be to much. It is important that we be able to use the stories our parents taught us (our culture) or read in school because... thats all we know!
On the post: German Newspaper 'Snippet' Law Passes: Watered Down, But Still Stupid
A law like this would effectively put a black-out on all things german. What a huge PR mistake could that be? Come visit Germany: just don't quote the news in your e-mail letters (or your family blog spot) to home.
How could any piece of legislation leave the details to the court system? Isn't that just saying lets try to “get away with whatever we can”? How bad can the German legislators be to skip out on the details of a law. Its like leaving the answer blank on a test and expecting to get credit for it anyway. I think they need a homeroom teacher to oversee and make them show their work (so to speak). Sloppy legislation at best.
I must be appalled (there are so many question marks after my sentences).
This is just another attempt at dying business models, in this case newspaper industry, struggling to force into law monopolistic methods regardless of the collateral damage.
On the post: Supreme Court Effectively Says There's No Way To Challenge Warrantless Wiretapping
Re:
An excellent example of copyrighted culture being denied for public use. Its likely this is covered under fair use. If one were to ask a recording firm for permission am sure the answer is no. Thus, a way of expression has been denied.
Eternal copyright only serves to deny cultural items (books, music, TV shows, etc) to use in expressing ourselves or getting our ideas across. It would be nice if fair use was expanded a bit too.
It has been one of my themes that copyright should be limited to some time span of much less that the average lifespan of the audience. 30 years might be to much. It is important that we be able to use the stories our parents taught us or read in school because... thats all we know!
On the post: The Details Of What Information The Police Can Suck Out Of Your Phone
I think if we can find a way to outlaw the use of this “intent of law” doctrine it would go a long way to corralling runaway government interpretations of giving license to violate even the most basic of right to privacy. Your phone data especially ones text messages and other sensitive private information should be 100% completely covered by constitutional rights.
It pains me to even think that new law must be legislated to reclaim stolen freedoms and after all that public lobbying it was vetoed by the CA governor. I wonder if there would be enough support to override the veto in the Senate? Ya gotta be proud of the California House and Senate though they did their job well. (haven't read the bill so will give them credit)
And what about the police themselves? Why does the ACLU have to do detective work to discover what and how these violations occur? Why are normal officers acting like a secret police? Just observing the obvious brings up so many unanswered questions. Only well written law and carefully chosen elected officials will hobble rampant abuse.
Its embarrassing that the past 40 years of government has ignored the constitution both in poorly written law and shoddy enforcement practices. More shameful is the weak justice system unable to weed out unconstitutional laws.
It would be nice to to be able to program a phone so it would not keep the geolocation data and to prevent remote updates from happening. The wipe out of all data when entering a code would be nice too. This code would be given to the party doing the unwanted search and poof... all is gone.
I don't think I want a smartphone. Google is now banned from my machine.
On the post: UK Lets The Recording Industry Decide What Websites To Censor
To discard that heritage of greatness is beyond me. (like wow I'm appalled)
For a nation (UK) that at one time controlled the entire world, and lost it because of commercial stupidity, (slavery and colonialism) how do they give up to commercial pressure?
Is this a flag of (special interest) surrender?
P.S. The comments were great! (and I mean really great with references included.)
post note: Micky Mouse was trademarked (another abuse of trademark law) thus removing the character from culture. (what loss to our (American and also UK) GDP and world PR is that?)
change of topic but this is still on topic kind of thing.
The UK has made great inroads to a democratic society. Why give all that up now?
Copyright is the most abused legislation inexistent. Please strike it down immediately.
On the post: Vatican Deletes All Of Pope Benedict's Tweets
Revisionist history. If you don't like what has happened... erase it. (classic 'revisionist history')
The Vatican passes up the opportunities of many things. (please pay me for advice) ahahaha
Hint: celibacy is a valued thing. (where do you spent your life's energy) Don't waste it. And. Don't force it. (are you really paying attention to your own values? What is the definition of Hypocrisy)
A minister has a wife and family but a priest has avowed sex. The requirement that all ministers are priests is... weird (self destructive?) On the level of Pope John Paul II... how do you measure?
At the level of the average reader: where do you spend your energy? What is the different between thinking and thought.
What is awareness anyway?
Disclaimer: am a non practicing Christian.
On the post: Maryland Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Bar Schools From Claiming Copyright On Student & Faculty Work
On the post: State Audit Finds More Than Half Of Minnesota's 11,000 Law Enforcement Users Misused Driver Data
Out_of_the_blue (anonymous) brings to light our ignorance of how current legislation is created (and the batch of legislators that create such). Current government uses private organizations to do what it cannot do itself which is collate and organize diverse databases using identifiers we don't yet understand as a public (Example: prescriptions from your local pharmacy are sold to an aggregate collector which identifies you (exactly) by your medical record (date of birth, prescription usage, and age.) hereafter you are identified (exactly) forever in their mindset. These are unique identifiers of which drug manufactures and state monitor laws keep tract of. (another great topic would be the new prescription monitoring programs which record every doctor prescribed prescription you take).
Several organizations like Blackwater (now changed names to confuse the attentive voter) collect your personal info by contract from the federal government. The fed is prohibited from such stupidity but private organizations are not. (out_of_the_blue is correct)
On the post: Music Industry Data: Sales Up, Piracy Down... But It's Not Because Of Any 'Anti-Piracy' Efforts
Related is how we educate ourselves about history and when lack of such historical education we repeat same mistakes. Will wait for a cultural editing (related to education) topic to post. (want to stay on topic)
On the post: State Audit Finds More Than Half Of Minnesota's 11,000 Law Enforcement Users Misused Driver Data
This is an example of “just because a list is made it will be taken advantage of” kind of thing. Personally, I favor that only violent felony convictions being public record in the sense that violent felons must not be treated in the same way as common citizens (regardless of non violent felony convictions).
Here is a link to a post describing bullies using government as a shield: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130226/14360422120/supreme-court-effectively-says-theres-no-way-t o-challenge-warrantless-wiretapping.shtml#c681 (its normal human nature so we must deal withit as such)
On the post: DailyDirt: Are You Smarter Than A Dolphin?
If one were to be critical of oneself it is a manifestation of the awareness of ones awareness (of ones awareness. Please let us reach this level). Its quite healthy in the mentally aware department.
It is hubris to assume that humans are the only intelligent species on the earth. We may be the most aware of our awareness (on the planet Earth) but why is that a litmus test for species that are (still) aware of themselves but at a lower level?
(metaphorical) Kick.
On the post: A Merger Challenge Not Worth Rating: The DOJ's Misguided Suit Against A Paltry Software Merger
I believe you are right about “market turns” making obsolete present market functions as they have no indication of future events (in an immature market). Maybe a better definition of the market referenced is needed. (example: hard to describe utilities as an emerging market as compared to unexplored social Internet collaboration of which is what... 8 years old?)
I like your assessment of (consumer review) software as an emerging technology and as such it would be immune from anti-trust logic. This would suggest the removal of software patents as computer technologies that are immature at every level. I perceive no stagnancy in the whole of the software market let alone such a small market as aggregate price consumer review firms.
Antitrust is daunting to me. However the comment (a product that provides) “ratings for products on the Internet” resonates the response: who would care? It seems that we are defining a product that defines products. (I love the recursiveness) “Bazaarvoice and PowerReviews” represent only a very small segment of the price aggregate market thus why would anti-trust accusations be true?
There are many examples of successful price aggregation sites (with user review opportunities) why single out this one? Its a market in its infancy. (total agreement) This fact brings to mind... wth is really going on? Is there something about the price aggregation industry that pisses off someone? And. Since any ruling affects social media in the whole... (I have to admit my cynicism creeps into my analysis) Since (price aggregation combined with consumer review) this is an important new manifestation of social collaboration affecting many present commercial establishments its no wonder some lawsuit popped up.
There seems to be a conflict of interest in 'Purchasing services' (from a consumer review site) and actual consumer reviews. Each site must delineate a sponsored event from a consumer generated response because of 'first person evidenced based' reviews. A review provided by a paid worker from a specific manufacture is worthless, but if properly labeled as such a consumer can classify it, as just an advertisement.
Am in (mostly. Remember my ignorance of) agreement with this article (as the complexities) of anti-trust law and its relevance to immature developing technologies.
On the post: SHIELD Act Targeting Patent Trolls Re-Introduced; It's A Step In The Right Direction, But Just A Small One
Whack-a-mole is one of my favorite games IRL. Its normal for problems to just pop up requiring the occasional whack. However how does one recognize the manufactured artificial problem? More importantly how do we deal with such a problem?
At the moment the patent system is (only) corrupt and does not even approach the corruption that the copyright system (which I think should be abolished) has attained. The shild-act would be the small step in the right direction you suggest.
On the post: Stop Calling Electronic Espionage Cyberwar
Why would any sane American declare war on all of its allies? The insane act of screaming “fire” in a crowded theater comes to mind. One must ask who profits by the scrambling of duped investors, citizens and politicians? Efforts to expand an agencies powers? Companies that profit by such a panic?
It seems like a culture of war. How do we ween the public and our government from this teat of psychological dependence? Its normal that we live in conflict but calling everyday life war is too much. Of course this it a derivative of Bushi Boy's (W) “war on terror” which is a massive PR mistake for the US.
Destroyed is our reputation as the defender of human rights. (we cannot even protect our own basic rights to privacy and access to our own culture (history)) Destroyed is our ability to impartially mediate foreign wars and conflicts. (no way to mediate middle east problems impartially now) Destroyed is our economic mobility to enter markets unavailable to any other country. (a real democracy was a powerful advantage) Revealed is our empire building efforts of the last few administrations to such an extent that it embarrasses me. (did we really invade an oil producing nation for no real reason?) Obvious are the attempts to suppress dissent, of any kind, where reason and public discussion prevail. (new world order protest suppression) Gone are the most basic constitutional protections we based our entire democratic society on. (warrant-less wiretapping rampant)
the “war on terror” as implemented by the last two administrations is an anathema on traditional American values and must be stopped. It has been waged offensively and intruded into world affairs much like a random drone strike. The collateral damage to American standards is uncountable.
Please keep in mind that congress has officially declared a war on terror. “The war on terror is starting to get thin.” (thanks DannyB) I hereby propose that congress repeal the “war on terror” declaration immediately and post haste. (and along with that the unofficial “war on drugs” too I'm sure the removal of any real terrorists monetary (cocaine and heroin sales) support would be cause for some real world changing, for the better, event.)
This deceleration of a war on terror is (most likely unconstitutional in itself) so vague and indescribable that it in itself is a license to do just about anything. There is no concrete enemy defined so basically the enemy... is you and me. Civil liberties, Bill of Rights, individual freedoms... have become dirty words for enforcement agencies and for unfathomable reasons ignored by the courts.
Some of this is reactionary to the good comments. Thanks.
On the post: Stop Calling Electronic Espionage Cyberwar
Re: Re:
what was that experiment of just dropping contaminated USB drives outside a corporate headquarters targeted for infiltration called?
The employees would pick them up and insert them into company computers just to see what they contained.
On the post: Sheet Metal And Air Conditioning Contractors Use Bogus Copyright Takedown To Block Publication Of Federally Mandated Standards
Re: Standards and Government Progress
After thinking about it for some time and with some experience in the realm of abuse of eminent domain of real estate property field it seems necessary to require that a forced purchase must pay more that the fair market value. There are many reasons for this most basic is that when you force someone out of their current (position) property its a potential life wrecking event.
The amount I thought of was 3 times the fair market value. Thus if your local council, city or state wanted your property for some new commercial development they had better want it badly enough.
so. if the government felt the economic need to purchase the technical manuals they had better pay 3 times the cost of creation. (or 3 times the market value of a property real estate or otherwise) This way the market for creation would not be jeopardized.
On the post: The Worst Article You Might Ever Read About 'Cybersecurity'
Re: Re:
Despite some education I find the gaps to be huge especially in the areas of monopolies and top down media business models and the effects on shared culture areas. I am of course hoping to get some commentary/feedback involving this. Its a wonderful intellectual exercise full of discovery.
I put a bit of effort into the logic behind the topic each post is about. They can be a bit wordy and the time that takes usually means they are near last and comments are sparse. Argue with me. Tell me I'm wrong. But. Please explain how so I can elaborate as it seems each paragraph and sentence of my posts can be a whole essay in themselves. I'm kind of eager for it.
Thanks for commenting.
On the post: The Worst Article You Might Ever Read About 'Cybersecurity'
On the post: The Worst Article You Might Ever Read About 'Cybersecurity'
The unanswered, unspoken question is what is really being attempted here. What self protectionism special interest (group?) is going on behind the scenes produces such wild, and certainly, unneeded proposed legislation. It is at least possible that this is just another way to legalize what has already been (being?) done.
The executive order definitely seems more rubber-stamping by the current administration. Its kind of irresponsible in the light of current politicians ability to create constitutionally viable law especially in the area of privacy.
Misspelling Aaron Swart's name is almost comedic. Did anyone writing the article care about an activist anyway. Relating activists to terrorists the demonetization of a whole class of Americans. Would that be declaring class warfare in writing? If they would hire some of them to program their websites I'd bet their vulnerability to China hacks would be much less.
I said what I needed to about privacy in this recent post: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130226/14360422120/supreme-court-effectively-says-theres-no-way-t o-challenge-warrantless-wiretapping.shtml#c681 which was one of my more difficult essays. It takes a bit to write my (wordy) posts and its at the end. The only error I made was not removing Carter as an exception.
The current US batch of politicians seem to have entered a no privacy zone. I hope the voters issue a stiff parking ticket.
The consequences of collecting private intel on the lifestyles of average citizens is summed up on this post: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130225/18022322104/north-carolina-newspaper-with-no-backbone-apol ogizes-its-request-public-records.shtml#c1019 (don't be a bully!)
am glad I wrote those posts so this post can be so short. haha
On the post: North Carolina Newspaper With No Backbone Apologizes For Its Request For Public Records
If I get into an accident or thrown in jail the newspaper considers this news and as a society that cares reads newspapers a lot. Do I like that something embarrassing about me was there? Most likely not. The list of gun owners being published was there and they published it.
In this case the newspaper itself is an unwitting bully, in some ways, by publishing some personal information that most sane people keep 'under the bed mattress'. They No sane gun owner would publish the fact they carried a gun. I think its good they apologized its so rare to see this these days and takes some corporate fortitude to do that.
The government in its unwisdom forced this situation by peeping into the lives of ordinary citizens. Its another bad example of how just the fact of, just even, collecting such intelligence on average people can get out of hand so quickly. Gun ownership is a basic freedom which should be guarded along with other privacy issues.
To the point (from post #28) “Give a list of legal gun owners to a bunch of criminals and see how many legal guns get stolen and put in the hands of criminals.” When such lists are collected is is sometimes true that the government officials who are the criminals. Fave Example: Diamond sellers have to apply to the government for an alias so they can travel safely and anonymously. You get it... the list was sold and diamonds were stolen, often. (Chicago IL) Just the fact the list, of gun owners, exists is to much. [references to comments , 33, 47, 52, (and especially 61)]
Kind of reminds me of an old movie called Red Dawn in where the invading forces just rounded up all the gun owners as likely enemies. (and did what?) Have not seen the new version of this movie (issued from the middlemen of culture?) and wonder how it has been culturally reinterpreted.
Middlemen of culture post: http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130224/22344422088/why-does-entertainment-industr y-insist-that-it-can-veto-any-innovation-it-doesnt-like.shtml#c795
I dont think this was a good example of how public information is published because its an issue that should not be an issue. A lot of posts danced around this nail of an issue but no hits. My comments on privacy are best found in this post: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130226/14360422120/supreme-court-effectively-says-theres-no-way-t o-challenge-warrantless-wiretapping.shtml#c681 (its way at the end if you posted there, and like to read other's posts) it explains somewhat the role of bullies and government.
Extending my humble opinion: Violent Felons should not have guns. (note the specificity of violence since everything is a felony these days) This is hard to enforce at the point of purchase since any search would send name and purchase info (about arms) to government agencies who recored such stuff and thus another list would be made (and published by some unwitting newspaper?). It should probably be handeled on a case by case basis locking up violent felons with guns. Obviosly i'm pro gun ownership even if I don't own one. (yet, friends ask me to hunt with them)
Comments were good, thanks. Wanted to comment on so much but I do like to stick to the topic. (even though the comments were on topic my commentary would have went off topic)
Next >>