I'm not even sure what to think or say about that. I have been sitting here reading this and trying to get my mind to comprehend your logic.
Your actually trying to support a judge that is twisting laws to make them into what she WANTS them to be not what they REALLY ARE. Yes, she was part of writing the laws, but she was far from the only person and she did not get her way when writing it and is now pretending she did.
To make this argument you bring up that bull shit trade agreement that is being treated like some major secrete vital to national security. Well fuck you very much, laws should NEVER be make in secrete if it is going to affect me I should have the right to see it and voice my opinion.
"Will this be incentive enough for someone to leak the text? I'm not so sure. I'd think that someone's basic conscience about having access to such a document should be a better reason, but you never know..."
Well, you know, if I was in some of these meetings and had the text but my conscience wasn't quite enough for me to choose to leak it, $17,000 could definitely tip the scale in favor of leaking it.
Is it just me that thinks this just seems like the flow of information if totally backwards? Why would the government be sharing all the license plate scans with a private group to "look for stolen cars". Wouldn't it make much more sense for this group to instead feed the government with information about what license plates are reported stolen?
" Honestly if the pirates removed all that sh*t you refer to and still charged the same price, nobody would bother."
Honestly, if I was in the store and had 2 options:
1: Pay $5 and get movie on dvd, but DVD is region coded, locked with DRM, covered in threats of jail time, and has ads for things that I will be forced to watch with no option to skip.
OR
2: Pay $20 and get DVD is a nice looking dvd case. It is DRM free and I can just hit play and enjoy my movie.
Guess what? I would pick up the $20 DVD and happily to check out.
I'm finding the idea of peer-to-peer search engines more and more appealing. Google is showing they are far too concerned with making certain groups happy instead of just providing accurate searches.
I guess one good thing about it though is that the more people they chase away the better the peer-to-peer options will become. That is the fun of peer-to-peer, they always suck to start with as there are too few peers, but if you can get them to reach that tipping point and become mainstream they become great.
Yeah, I do think there is a place in the system for prisons, but not prisons in their current form. If someone is bad enough they need to be locked up then they are bad enough they do not need cable, a gym, library......
Our jails are like vacation resorts for a bunch of these guys. The main down side of prison these days is your company while in there. That is hardly a concern though if your going to be tossed in with a lot of your gang buddies.
Yeah, I can at least agree that there is a point to these laws regulating measurement devices. Odometers can be off and need to be regularly checked and signed off on.
I do also agree with this article though that it is stupid for them to be throwing a fit over GPS systems. It is well past time for these morons to have added whatever regulations they need for GPS systems. To just pretend that GPS is some crazy new thing shows just how far behind these fools allow laws to get.
Instead of acting like a spoiled little kid and throwing a temper tantrum all the time our government should work with companies and update regulations to accept new technology. Instead these fools want to sit back and cry about the evil "I phones" and such.
Well, I have not hired any, kind of hard to hire anyone when your not in management. I can tell you I have never choosen to not hire someone due to a criminal record.
As for how many I mentored? I did not really keep track of that. I did spend two years as a minister for my church and helped several people turn their lives around. It is my experience doing so that helped my form my current opinion of the legal system.
I worked with a guy who was a great man. I would trust him with my life without hesitation. He had been sent to prison and is labeled for life as a criminal. He was highly educated having gone to college. Yet he could not get a job doing anything with that degree. Instead the best he could do is work at a shady used car lot. He had to live with the fact that he would never be able to even pay off his student loans because he cannot get a good job. He could just barely get by.
No, I am saying that taking someone and throwing them into jail for imaginary crimes is stupid. I'm also strongly hinting that the entire idea of jail as a punishment is stupid and something we need to look at.
Our legal system is broken. A lot of gang members look at prison time as a badge of honor, your not anyone till you "done time".
Jail is like school for crooks. You toss them in to learn how to be a better criminal and then toss them back to the streets. As an added bonus to make sure they don't live an honest life you put a black mark on their name so no place will hire them because their a "criminal".
You just love trying to twist things don't you? We are not saying piracy is "OK" for any reason.
What we are saying is, that knowing there is a piracy problem around the horn of Africa maybe right now is not a good time to sail your pleasure yacht all over that area while throwing a fit about why you don't have a damn aircraft carrier to escort you around and protect you.
"In 2010 a client asked me what we could take away from the offenders to make them stop. My simple answer was “Their freedom.”"
There is a big problem with this logic. You can't take from someone something they don't have. I don't know about anyone else but I already feel most of my freedom has been taken away. Taking what freedom I have left is an option, but are they stupid enough to think that will work?
Think about it for a moment. Your taking guys who are rather intelligent (you know, programmers and such) and your tossing them into jail. This indeed is a stern punishment and it will take them out of the world for a few years. What do you think will happen in jail? Your tossing smart educated people into a place with a wide variety of criminals from various walks of life. In this environment these guys will have two options, die or adapt.
Well, we already know they are intelligent and able to adapt fairly well to new technology. So my bet is that a lot of these guys will adapt quite well to the criminal life. They will learn a lot about many different criminal activities and when they get out they will no longer be the laid back college boy that got locked away.
In fact I suspect they will not feel sorry for stealing that movie or linking to that page. No they will be pissed that their life was destroyed over some petty bull shit and they will move on to a very good career as a full blown criminal. These days even the gangs and the mobs need a presence on the internet, and we are sending some very bright and creative minds right to them.
I think you forgot that you also would have to put your iPod in a fancy case that makes it a royal pain in the ass to use. Make the screen protector so that it does not work unless your hands are just the right temperature and such other foolishness. This would be the only measure your willing to do on your own to prevent theft.
This case of course will be easily discarded by whoever takes the device. You know, in much the same way DRM is discarded by all the pirates.
The issue I have is not with facebook using it to tag photos. The issue I have is that they are building such a database. They will hold a data base with all the recognition data. This could then later be taken and used for other uses.
As for why this is different than people using it. Well the government could not pay hundreds of people to watch video feeds looking for people. It is very possible to have a computer analyze video feed picking faces out of groups once you have all the recognition data.
So is what they are doing now a worry for me? No, not really, But I am worried about the potential for abuse in the future. It is far to easy for someone later to say "we could have stopped this murderer if we had a system to spot his face and find him sooner" or "It would have helped us catch him quicker if we could have ID him from the video by comparing it to this data base"
This case seems like one of the rare cases that should involve Amazon making an automated system. It should not be hard to run all their incoming book submissions through a system that compares the books with already existing ones and flags any that seem a bit to close.
Piracy is one thing. Claiming someone else work as your own to try and profit off it is something I think we all agree should be prevented when possible. Of course the prevention methods need be reasonable, but spotting a fully ripped off book with the authors name swapped should be a simple thing.
So you really able to handle all the red tape and paperwork involved in filing a complaint like that and you can't find a better way to contact him than posting in the comments section here?
Thank you for demonstrating once again how wonderfully technologically incompetent you people are. You have given a fine example of why we need to update our legal system. Too many technophobes in the system who can't even find the "contact us" section of a web page.
Yes, I am not hoping for a revolution per say though. I am wanting the people to wake up and take their country back. Go back to the things that made this nation great. Toss out all these corrupt buffoons and all their corrupt laws.
They Government has been running far to long only moving in one direction. Laws are added but rarely ever removed. The end result is this mess of laws on top of laws.
We need to clean out the system, purge all the useless laws and consolidate the ones that are good. It has gotten so that our legal system is bogged down by all the junk so that it is no longer even functioning.
Well, I guess one way to look at this is that two pathetic companies are going to loose a lot of money in this battle. The down side is that two legal teams will get rich.
I find it kind of funny that these authors complain about e-books being easy to pirate and how terrible it is. People have been pirating books sense the start of the internet. All it takes is one board guy who wants typing practice and you can get a hard copy transcribed to an e-book. No amount of DRM can stop it. Then once he is done someone else does a different book.
Basically, you will not stop this and cannot stop this. So wouldn't it make more sense to learn how to live with it?
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Your actually trying to support a judge that is twisting laws to make them into what she WANTS them to be not what they REALLY ARE. Yes, she was part of writing the laws, but she was far from the only person and she did not get her way when writing it and is now pretending she did.
To make this argument you bring up that bull shit trade agreement that is being treated like some major secrete vital to national security. Well fuck you very much, laws should NEVER be make in secrete if it is going to affect me I should have the right to see it and voice my opinion.
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Well, you know, if I was in some of these meetings and had the text but my conscience wasn't quite enough for me to choose to leak it, $17,000 could definitely tip the scale in favor of leaking it.
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Backwards?
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Honestly, if I was in the store and had 2 options:
1: Pay $5 and get movie on dvd, but DVD is region coded, locked with DRM, covered in threats of jail time, and has ads for things that I will be forced to watch with no option to skip.
OR
2: Pay $20 and get DVD is a nice looking dvd case. It is DRM free and I can just hit play and enjoy my movie.
Guess what? I would pick up the $20 DVD and happily to check out.
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Re: Proof Positive
I guess one good thing about it though is that the more people they chase away the better the peer-to-peer options will become. That is the fun of peer-to-peer, they always suck to start with as there are too few peers, but if you can get them to reach that tipping point and become mainstream they become great.
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Our jails are like vacation resorts for a bunch of these guys. The main down side of prison these days is your company while in there. That is hardly a concern though if your going to be tossed in with a lot of your gang buddies.
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Re: Hold on a sec, this is rational
I do also agree with this article though that it is stupid for them to be throwing a fit over GPS systems. It is well past time for these morons to have added whatever regulations they need for GPS systems. To just pretend that GPS is some crazy new thing shows just how far behind these fools allow laws to get.
Instead of acting like a spoiled little kid and throwing a temper tantrum all the time our government should work with companies and update regulations to accept new technology. Instead these fools want to sit back and cry about the evil "I phones" and such.
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As for how many I mentored? I did not really keep track of that. I did spend two years as a minister for my church and helped several people turn their lives around. It is my experience doing so that helped my form my current opinion of the legal system.
I worked with a guy who was a great man. I would trust him with my life without hesitation. He had been sent to prison and is labeled for life as a criminal. He was highly educated having gone to college. Yet he could not get a job doing anything with that degree. Instead the best he could do is work at a shady used car lot. He had to live with the fact that he would never be able to even pay off his student loans because he cannot get a good job. He could just barely get by.
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Our legal system is broken. A lot of gang members look at prison time as a badge of honor, your not anyone till you "done time".
Jail is like school for crooks. You toss them in to learn how to be a better criminal and then toss them back to the streets. As an added bonus to make sure they don't live an honest life you put a black mark on their name so no place will hire them because their a "criminal".
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What we are saying is, that knowing there is a piracy problem around the horn of Africa maybe right now is not a good time to sail your pleasure yacht all over that area while throwing a fit about why you don't have a damn aircraft carrier to escort you around and protect you.
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There is a big problem with this logic. You can't take from someone something they don't have. I don't know about anyone else but I already feel most of my freedom has been taken away. Taking what freedom I have left is an option, but are they stupid enough to think that will work?
Think about it for a moment. Your taking guys who are rather intelligent (you know, programmers and such) and your tossing them into jail. This indeed is a stern punishment and it will take them out of the world for a few years. What do you think will happen in jail? Your tossing smart educated people into a place with a wide variety of criminals from various walks of life. In this environment these guys will have two options, die or adapt.
Well, we already know they are intelligent and able to adapt fairly well to new technology. So my bet is that a lot of these guys will adapt quite well to the criminal life. They will learn a lot about many different criminal activities and when they get out they will no longer be the laid back college boy that got locked away.
In fact I suspect they will not feel sorry for stealing that movie or linking to that page. No they will be pissed that their life was destroyed over some petty bull shit and they will move on to a very good career as a full blown criminal. These days even the gangs and the mobs need a presence on the internet, and we are sending some very bright and creative minds right to them.
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This case of course will be easily discarded by whoever takes the device. You know, in much the same way DRM is discarded by all the pirates.
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As for why this is different than people using it. Well the government could not pay hundreds of people to watch video feeds looking for people. It is very possible to have a computer analyze video feed picking faces out of groups once you have all the recognition data.
So is what they are doing now a worry for me? No, not really, But I am worried about the potential for abuse in the future. It is far to easy for someone later to say "we could have stopped this murderer if we had a system to spot his face and find him sooner" or "It would have helped us catch him quicker if we could have ID him from the video by comparing it to this data base"
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Piracy is one thing. Claiming someone else work as your own to try and profit off it is something I think we all agree should be prevented when possible. Of course the prevention methods need be reasonable, but spotting a fully ripped off book with the authors name swapped should be a simple thing.
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Re: copyright violation
Thank you for demonstrating once again how wonderfully technologically incompetent you people are. You have given a fine example of why we need to update our legal system. Too many technophobes in the system who can't even find the "contact us" section of a web page.
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They Government has been running far to long only moving in one direction. Laws are added but rarely ever removed. The end result is this mess of laws on top of laws.
We need to clean out the system, purge all the useless laws and consolidate the ones that are good. It has gotten so that our legal system is bogged down by all the junk so that it is no longer even functioning.
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Is it just me that gets the sickening feeling that it is going to take a massive revolt to get this country back where it belongs?
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I agree with this logic. We all should stop buying things, after all "It's what they want"
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Easy to pirate
Basically, you will not stop this and cannot stop this. So wouldn't it make more sense to learn how to live with it?
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