I could understand no wanting to necessitate the manufacture and distribution of devices, they're probably banking on leveraging existing property to cut costs.
But the part I like best about your proposal is that participation is optional. I would also gladly opt to enable a feature like this on my router, provided I could weigh the pros and cons of doing so. But to have a back-door forced on me by the government seems unacceptable.
I may not like it, but my car may be commandeered in an emergency. That is different than preparing in advance for the action by distributing copies of my key to all emergency personnel. The latter effects my security, the operation of my property, and exposes me to more potential abuse of power.
I could understand no wanting to necessitate the manufacture and distribution of devices, they're probably banking on leveraging existing property to cut costs.
But the part I like best about your proposal is that participation is optional. I would also gladly opt to enable a feature like this on my router, provided I could weigh the pros and cons of doing so. But to have a back-door forced on me by the government seems unacceptable.
I may not like it, but my car may be commandeered in an emergency. That is different than preparing in advance for the action by distributing copies of my key to all emergency personnel. The latter effects my security, the operation of my property, and exposes me to more potential abuse of power.
"Originally, copyright came about because the Stationers' Guild wanted to entrench their monopoly on the written word after it was shattered by the Gutenberg Press. Similarly, in the United States, every copyright extension has had the same purpose, to destroy the effectiveness of a new publishing technology.
"The 1909 Copyright Act destroyed the reprint houses made possible by the new steam and electric presses. The 1976 Copyright Act was enacted merely to stifle the effect of the Xerox machine. The 1998 Copyright Act was a response to the effects of the Internet. When it is difficult to make copies, it is legal because only the rich can do it. As soon as it becomes easy enough for the masses to have copies it is made illegal!"
Son-of-a... this has all been going on over and over again for the last SIX HUNDRED YEARS, maybe more. Is the Internet really so special and magical that this time we'll be able to hammer out an arrangement where people will want to make stuff and other people will want to see it without packaging up our culture and handing it to a faceless monolithic sect? I am less than certain, especially with the disenfranchising effect money seems to have on our current legislation.
Screw it, this day sucks, I'm going to look at pictures of kittens.
I'm a joke killer, I know, but I bet it was the Stationer's Guild that wanted to take down Gutenberg. The Author's Guild would have been pretty sparsely populated in the 1400's because it was so expensive to produce new books; they mostly just copied the classics or scientific works. Actually the Author's Guild probably exists because of Gutenberg.
It's kind of interesting to contemplate the parallels and try to imagine what new organization might rise up because of ebooks like the Author's Guild did with printing. Will they have the same attitude towards whatever develops to replace them?
I don't think it was trying to make that claim. The article states the opposite:
"It's clear [from the scientific literature] that cell phones in and of themselves impair the ability to manage the demands of driving," Reimer says. But "the fundamental problem may be the behavior of the individuals willing to pick up the technology."
We're questioning the logic behind banning each individual distracting activity; treating symptoms rather than the disease.
Cars don't kill people, bad drivers kill people... but I think the car helps. You're not going to kill many people standing on the side of the road shouting "I'm a bad driver! I'm a bad driver!"
I was in a new grocery store last week where the produce was all laid out on slanted tables and had timed misting devices for the vegetables... just like my USUAL grocery store does. I mean, come on! Can't they think of their own way to sell things? This blatant copying is harming innovation in America's food supply.
Sounds like a "Patents That Shouldn't Have Been Issued" finder.
If I go get all the permits my business needs and later it turns out that the City Effed up big time and none of the permits were valid, it seems like my culpability should be vastly different. I tried to follow the rules and they failed me, not the other way around.
Or, maybe patent warfare will be taken to the next level where company A will register "honey pot" patents that infringe on prior patents. Then when the trolls come to feed, Company A whips out their real patent from 13 years ago that predates all the others. BAM! Double trolled.
Oh my, wouldn't that be delicious. In 2022 when Disney's previous extension is finally running out, a Disney lobbyist will be trying to goad Congress into further protection of this treasured cultural icon. A skeptical freshman Representative will come to the floor and ask "What the frak is 'Mickey Mouse' and why are we wasting our time talking about it?"
I think the point here is that by leveraging their "monopoly" status, Disney is driving Netflix users into the arms of the knockoffers. Pretty much the opposite of what you'd think they want.
If they refused to sell their movies at Wal-mart and Target and demanded a higher cut of profits, then it would be the same situation.
Can you guys host your own images, or at least put some alt tags on there? Imgur is blocked for me and I have no idea what I'm supposed to be seeing here.
The best part of this to me is to show just how trivial finding prior art can be for some patents. Look, a machine dug this up in milliseconds, and it doesn't even understand the concepts involved. "Dear Patent Examiners, you can do better."
I bet they know it's in their own interest to make the poor system we have work as best as we can; and it fits in with their general ideology of organizing the worlds information. They may roll it into another service somewhere down the road, but I doubt we'll lose the functionality without some company-wide catastrophe.
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Re: Can't they already do this?
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Re: I don't see the point
But the part I like best about your proposal is that participation is optional. I would also gladly opt to enable a feature like this on my router, provided I could weigh the pros and cons of doing so. But to have a back-door forced on me by the government seems unacceptable.
I may not like it, but my car may be commandeered in an emergency. That is different than preparing in advance for the action by distributing copies of my key to all emergency personnel. The latter effects my security, the operation of my property, and exposes me to more potential abuse of power.
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Re: I don't see the point
But the part I like best about your proposal is that participation is optional. I would also gladly opt to enable a feature like this on my router, provided I could weigh the pros and cons of doing so. But to have a back-door forced on me by the government seems unacceptable.
I may not like it, but my car may be commandeered in an emergency. That is different than preparing in advance for the action by distributing copies of my key to all emergency personnel. The latter effects my security, the operation of my property, and exposes me to more potential abuse of power.
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Re: Re: More. Rigorous. Licensing.
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Son-of-a... this has all been going on over and over again for the last SIX HUNDRED YEARS, maybe more. Is the Internet really so special and magical that this time we'll be able to hammer out an arrangement where people will want to make stuff and other people will want to see it without packaging up our culture and handing it to a faceless monolithic sect? I am less than certain, especially with the disenfranchising effect money seems to have on our current legislation.
Screw it, this day sucks, I'm going to look at pictures of kittens.
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It's kind of interesting to contemplate the parallels and try to imagine what new organization might rise up because of ebooks like the Author's Guild did with printing. Will they have the same attitude towards whatever develops to replace them?
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"It's clear [from the scientific literature] that cell phones in and of themselves impair the ability to manage the demands of driving," Reimer says. But "the fundamental problem may be the behavior of the individuals willing to pick up the technology."
We're questioning the logic behind banning each individual distracting activity; treating symptoms rather than the disease.
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More. Rigorous. Licensing.
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Sell your own innovations
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Lung Cancer Trends
http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/cgi-bin/quickprofiles/profile.pl?00&047
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Still Infringement?
If I go get all the permits my business needs and later it turns out that the City Effed up big time and none of the permits were valid, it seems like my culpability should be vastly different. I tried to follow the rules and they failed me, not the other way around.
Or, maybe patent warfare will be taken to the next level where company A will register "honey pot" patents that infringe on prior patents. Then when the trolls come to feed, Company A whips out their real patent from 13 years ago that predates all the others. BAM! Double trolled.
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Re: Wow
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If they refused to sell their movies at Wal-mart and Target and demanded a higher cut of profits, then it would be the same situation.
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Images
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Re: Assuming Google keeps it up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Patents
I bet they know it's in their own interest to make the poor system we have work as best as we can; and it fits in with their general ideology of organizing the worlds information. They may roll it into another service somewhere down the road, but I doubt we'll lose the functionality without some company-wide catastrophe.
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Protocol
Security through obscurity is the best!
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