Aside from being very empty due to the pandemic, we have the absolute BEST Comcast service in the USA. I personally think it has something to do with Microsoft and Amazon being here.
But whatever the reason, we have the gold standard for both actual service and customer service when something goes wrong. Comcast is far from perfect, but we have it better here than just about anywhere else.
I have 250 mbit/s internet. It's pretty nice. I pay about two to three times what someone in the EU would pay for 1 gbit/s internet. And gigabit internet is nowhere near the fastest it can go.
Re: To the filters, it's all the same, tone deaf and without con
Copyright laws have always been this way.
Suppose I take a beautiful photograph. I own the copyright to the photo. A friend sees the photo and asks for a copy so he can post it on his website. So I leave a physical photograph on a table for him to scan.
He comes in later, scans it, and uploads it to his website. A friend of his sees the scanned file on his computer and uploads it to Facebook.
One of those digital files is legal, the other is copyright infringement. Both have the same creation date, if they have a watermark it's the same watermark. They are absolutely identical.
But one of them is illegal. So what does an automated filter do? Censoring just one has a 50/50 chance of picking the wrong one. Censoring neither has the problem of the site that doesn't censor their copy being complicit in copyright infringement if CDA 230 didn't shield them. Censoring both is the safest bet, but it really sucks for my right to issue copying licenses to my intellectual property!
It occurs to me that Congress itself has in-house email systems, and all you'd need to do to have standing to sue Congress as a whole is if someone on their system sends or receives email that contains content that might be illegal.
As for best practices, what would stop the commission from defining 'extremism' to be something that cannot be transmitted under best practices, with 'extremism' defined as holding political beliefs different than the currently-elected political majority party?
This. Your own computer is your own property, even if you use it to do work on. If your employer installs monitoring or blocking software on it, how can you ever be sure it's REALLY turned off when you clock out?
On top of which, most of what they sell is more expensive for less functionality than just buying off the shelf. Not much of a deal if you pay more and get less.
So wait a second. The company is publicly traded and their stock is going for 1000 shares for a penny. What percentage of their total stock is available to buy?
If there is enough available stock to make you a majority stockholder, and doing so costs less than fighting the lawsuit does...
So, can anyone explain to me how this copyfraud is not actual fraud - or even extortion? They're extorting $500 payments under at least an implied thread of a lawsuit if you don't, based on an assertion that they one something that they know that they don't.
If I claim I own the Brooklyn Bridge, someone believes I own it, and I sell it to that someone, I have committed a crime. If I threaten to sue someone for doing something unless they pay me $500, unless I am VERY careful in my phrasing, I have committed a crime.
This. If the person in possession of the radio receiver is the one making the public performance, then the collection society owes the radio stations refunds because those stations are not performing anything until their signal is made audible by a receiver.
If Solid Oak had prevailed, wouldn't that make it illegal to photograph or video record players in any way, including to televise games, without a license from Solid Oak?
Are players actually stupid enough to sign a contract with Solid Oak stating that the tattoos engraved upon their own bodies are NOT a work-for-hire?
By the same logic, it's lawful to disobey a uniformed cop, or even to use violence against one if he gets pushy, because some small percentage of the people making traffic stops are police impersonators.
The appeals court is perfectly capable of issuing an arrest warrant for perjury committed before the appeals court itself. The evidence required to do so is a lesser amount than the evidence required to issue their ruling overturning the trial court!
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I live in Seattle
Aside from being very empty due to the pandemic, we have the absolute BEST Comcast service in the USA. I personally think it has something to do with Microsoft and Amazon being here.
But whatever the reason, we have the gold standard for both actual service and customer service when something goes wrong. Comcast is far from perfect, but we have it better here than just about anywhere else.
I have 250 mbit/s internet. It's pretty nice. I pay about two to three times what someone in the EU would pay for 1 gbit/s internet. And gigabit internet is nowhere near the fastest it can go.
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Re: To the filters, it's all the same, tone deaf and without con
Copyright laws have always been this way.
Suppose I take a beautiful photograph. I own the copyright to the photo. A friend sees the photo and asks for a copy so he can post it on his website. So I leave a physical photograph on a table for him to scan.
He comes in later, scans it, and uploads it to his website. A friend of his sees the scanned file on his computer and uploads it to Facebook.
One of those digital files is legal, the other is copyright infringement. Both have the same creation date, if they have a watermark it's the same watermark. They are absolutely identical.
But one of them is illegal. So what does an automated filter do? Censoring just one has a 50/50 chance of picking the wrong one. Censoring neither has the problem of the site that doesn't censor their copy being complicit in copyright infringement if CDA 230 didn't shield them. Censoring both is the safest bet, but it really sucks for my right to issue copying licenses to my intellectual property!
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It occurs to me that Congress itself has in-house email systems, and all you'd need to do to have standing to sue Congress as a whole is if someone on their system sends or receives email that contains content that might be illegal.
As for best practices, what would stop the commission from defining 'extremism' to be something that cannot be transmitted under best practices, with 'extremism' defined as holding political beliefs different than the currently-elected political majority party?
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If you truly believed in your words, you wouldn't hide behind anonymity. The fact that you do indicates you're just a troll.
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Yeah, isn't there something about not bearing false witness in Christianity? One of the more important rules if I remember right.
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More Christianish than Christianist.
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Re: Re: Contracts.
Kinda makes me wonder how many online store contracts apply to people who later go into the brick & mortar location of the store.
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Exactly. And even if your employer claims they turn off the camera when you clock out, how can you ever be sure they're telling the truth?
Even if your employer was telling you the truth, what stops law enforcement from using a gag order from turning it into a lie?
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This. Your own computer is your own property, even if you use it to do work on. If your employer installs monitoring or blocking software on it, how can you ever be sure it's REALLY turned off when you clock out?
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Re: Abuse of trademark law, maybe
If it works, you could trademark terms like IPO and lawsuit, and go after any company that used them without a license.
On the post: That Coronavirus Image Is Public Domain, But That Won't Stop Getty From Trying To Sell You A $500 License To Use It
Re: Re: Re: Copyfraud
If Getty is selling something they don't own and know they don't own, it would be legally the same as someone selling the Brooklyn Bridge.
People have gone to prison for running that sort of scam.
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Re: No mention of MacOS...stay away
On top of which, most of what they sell is more expensive for less functionality than just buying off the shelf. Not much of a deal if you pay more and get less.
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Stock prices
So wait a second. The company is publicly traded and their stock is going for 1000 shares for a penny. What percentage of their total stock is available to buy?
If there is enough available stock to make you a majority stockholder, and doing so costs less than fighting the lawsuit does...
On the post: That Coronavirus Image Is Public Domain, But That Won't Stop Getty From Trying To Sell You A $500 License To Use It
Re: Copyfraud
So, can anyone explain to me how this copyfraud is not actual fraud - or even extortion? They're extorting $500 payments under at least an implied thread of a lawsuit if you don't, based on an assertion that they one something that they know that they don't.
If I claim I own the Brooklyn Bridge, someone believes I own it, and I sell it to that someone, I have committed a crime. If I threaten to sue someone for doing something unless they pay me $500, unless I am VERY careful in my phrasing, I have committed a crime.
So how is this not illegal at all?
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So? Lock him up in an adjacent 'cell', six feet under.
On the post: EU Says That, No, Rental Car Companies Don't Need To Pay A License To Rent Cars With Radios That Might Play Music
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This. If the person in possession of the radio receiver is the one making the public performance, then the collection society owes the radio stations refunds because those stations are not performing anything until their signal is made audible by a receiver.
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And how, precisely, do you store something in the cloud or retrieve something from the cloud without transmitting it?
On the post: Court Manages To Get NBA2K Tattoo Copyright, Trademark Case Exactly Right
No photographs or videos allowed?
If Solid Oak had prevailed, wouldn't that make it illegal to photograph or video record players in any way, including to televise games, without a license from Solid Oak?
Are players actually stupid enough to sign a contract with Solid Oak stating that the tattoos engraved upon their own bodies are NOT a work-for-hire?
On the post: Court Tells Lying Cops That Someone Asserting Their Rights Isn't 'Reasonably Suspicious'
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By the same logic, it's lawful to disobey a uniformed cop, or even to use violence against one if he gets pushy, because some small percentage of the people making traffic stops are police impersonators.
On the post: Court Tells Lying Cops That Someone Asserting Their Rights Isn't 'Reasonably Suspicious'
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The appeals court is perfectly capable of issuing an arrest warrant for perjury committed before the appeals court itself. The evidence required to do so is a lesser amount than the evidence required to issue their ruling overturning the trial court!
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