People keep saying, "do you think we're ready for a woman as President?" I answer, "sure, but not that woman." (I'd vote for Elizabeth Warren if she ran, for example.)
It's a bit scary to realize that we will have registered voters in the next Presidential election who are too young to remember the scandal-plagued Clinton administration or the disastrous election that resulted directly from it. (Remember how Bush Jr. ran on "restoring dignity to the White House"?) Does anyone really want more of that?
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Netflix? I recognized several years ago that the future was that eventually everything ever put onto a frame of video would eventually be streamable on demand. I debated with a friend about this. He's now more convinced now. And it is now more obvious. But that future has not arrived yet. Probably some people still cannot see it.
I don't see it. I have a good, high-bandwidth Internet connection with essentially perfect reliability, and streaming video (from many different providers, not just Netflix) frequently hangs, skips, buffers, or does that weird pixelly-laggy thing. (You know what I mean.) And if I'm ever without an Internet connection, it's completely unavailable.
I use streaming video when it's the only thing available, but I hate the basic concept. Having a local copy (either on a DVD or downloaded to your hard drive) to play back is far superior in every way except for one: the amount of up-front time it takes to begin playback the first time.
Just think about all the idiot drivers who make trouble for you on your daily commute, all the times you come within a second or two of an accident because someone wasn't paying attention, and ask yourself one question: do you really want those guys moving in three dimensions when they can't handle two?
Re: why AOL's walled-garden was OK, but Comcast's is not?
The Republican stand against "network neutrality" makes no sense, even from the conservative perspective related here, because the Internet is already incredibly regulated as-is.
It's horribly hypocritical to say "the Internet shouldn't be regulated" when we're talking about proposed regulations that would be detrimental to established massive companies in the field (read: major political donors) but ignore all the regulations in place that are benefiting them.
Leahy? Isn't he the guy behind PIPA? What's he doing trying to help the Internet turn out the right way this time? The big media cartels hate Net Neutrality almost as much as the ISPs do...
Re: Can someone explain why I might want an NFC watch?
Can anyone explain why I might want a watch, period? They've been as obsolete as film cameras ever since the development of the smartphone, and for the same fundamental reason.
I was actually wondering about that. What does "Trill" mean in this context anyway. I assume it's not meant to conjure up a mental image of the mayor with a series of spots running down his neck...
It allows the company who supplied the data to the EMA to decide which information to redact so researchers may never know what information is being kept hidden.
Seriously? What in the world gives these morons the idea that they have the right to redact anything at all? That defeats the entire purpose of a safety review!
There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.
Protecting rights, that's one thing. Inventing "rights" that don't exist and demonizing anyone who doesn't uphold them sufficiently because you hate the alternative business model... that's another matter entirely.
You have clearly never heard of the Excluded Middle Fallacy. Or of subtlety, or of basic reading comprehension, for that matter.
Have a look at what I actually wrote: that I'm an open-source developer myself, that I consider free software to be a good and useful thing, and that the reason I don't like the GPL is because it is actively impeding the widespread adoption of open-source software by tying it to a bunch of needless and harmful ideological baggage.
But of course this will not be understood at all. Such subtleties and shades of gray always make zealots' heads explode.
Remember, a heretic is someone who shares most of your beliefs. They must be destroyed without mercy.
Proclaiming an entire business model that works well for some scenarios and not very well for others to be illegitimate, and using the force of law to attempt to sabotage it and force people to replace it with your own business model that works well for some scenarios (such as the ones your rival model does poorly at) and not very well for others (such as the ones your rival model does well at) is hateful ideology.
And this is why registering copyrights is important.
If you write something for commercial purposes (with the intent of making money) there needs to be some way to determine who to give the money to. If not, it should be assumed to be abandoned property.
On the other hand, if you write something anonymously (not the same thing as pseudonymously) it's assumed that your intent was not to make money on it.
I don't see what the problem is that you're trying to raise here.
Isn't exactly this type of false endorsement advertising what publicity rights were created to prevent?
And if companies are people, then they have publicity rights, and Broadband for America is violating them. Time for an IP suit that's actually constructive, maybe? ;)
What if heavy bandwidth users, say, Netflix, for example, worked more like BitTorrent?
If Netflix worked like BitTorrent, it would not work. Streaming video is inherently a sequential, streaming operation; once you have a few seconds of video, you can begin viewing. BitTorrent is inherently a non-sequential, block-based operation where you can't begin viewing until you have the entire file, because content is transferred out of order and there's no guarantee that you'll even get the start of the content at any given point before the end of the transfer.
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-- K, Men in Black
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It's a bit scary to realize that we will have registered voters in the next Presidential election who are too young to remember the scandal-plagued Clinton administration or the disastrous election that resulted directly from it. (Remember how Bush Jr. ran on "restoring dignity to the White House"?) Does anyone really want more of that?
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Doesn't the plain text of the Bill of Rights trump bad precedent?
On the post: Disrupting The Misinterpretation Of Disruptive Innovation
Re: Re: Ability to see innovation is in the eye of the beholder
I don't see it. I have a good, high-bandwidth Internet connection with essentially perfect reliability, and streaming video (from many different providers, not just Netflix) frequently hangs, skips, buffers, or does that weird pixelly-laggy thing. (You know what I mean.) And if I'm ever without an Internet connection, it's completely unavailable.
I use streaming video when it's the only thing available, but I hate the basic concept. Having a local copy (either on a DVD or downloaded to your hard drive) to play back is far superior in every way except for one: the amount of up-front time it takes to begin playback the first time.
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-- Hanlon's Razor
"Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice."
-- Clarke's Corollary
On the post: Disrupting The Misinterpretation Of Disruptive Innovation
Just think about all the idiot drivers who make trouble for you on your daily commute, all the times you come within a second or two of an accident because someone wasn't paying attention, and ask yourself one question: do you really want those guys moving in three dimensions when they can't handle two?
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Re: why AOL's walled-garden was OK, but Comcast's is not?
It's horribly hypocritical to say "the Internet shouldn't be regulated" when we're talking about proposed regulations that would be detrimental to established massive companies in the field (read: major political donors) but ignore all the regulations in place that are benefiting them.
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Mostly, though, she just uses screen-reading software to read the web pages to her.
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Re: Can someone explain why I might want an NFC watch?
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On the post: European Medicines Agency Unexpectedly Waters Down Draft Policy On Sharing Drug Safety Data
Seriously? What in the world gives these morons the idea that they have the right to redact anything at all? That defeats the entire purpose of a safety review!
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-- Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica
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Have a look at what I actually wrote: that I'm an open-source developer myself, that I consider free software to be a good and useful thing, and that the reason I don't like the GPL is because it is actively impeding the widespread adoption of open-source software by tying it to a bunch of needless and harmful ideological baggage.
But of course this will not be understood at all. Such subtleties and shades of gray always make zealots' heads explode.
Remember, a heretic is someone who shares most of your beliefs. They must be destroyed without mercy.
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On the post: How Do You Know The Public Domain Is In Trouble? It Requires A 52-Page Handbook To Determine If Something Is Public Domain
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If you write something for commercial purposes (with the intent of making money) there needs to be some way to determine who to give the money to. If not, it should be assumed to be abandoned property.
On the other hand, if you write something anonymously (not the same thing as pseudonymously) it's assumed that your intent was not to make money on it.
I don't see what the problem is that you're trying to raise here.
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Having the rights be transferable is a huge part of the problem in and of itself.
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And if companies are people, then they have publicity rights, and Broadband for America is violating them. Time for an IP suit that's actually constructive, maybe? ;)
On the post: BitTorrent Shows You What The Internet Looks Like Without Net Neutrality; Suggests A Better Way
If Netflix worked like BitTorrent, it would not work. Streaming video is inherently a sequential, streaming operation; once you have a few seconds of video, you can begin viewing. BitTorrent is inherently a non-sequential, block-based operation where you can't begin viewing until you have the entire file, because content is transferred out of order and there's no guarantee that you'll even get the start of the content at any given point before the end of the transfer.
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