The article mentioned both grants from the German government, and that the last one ran out in 2010. It further mentions he continued to pay the programmer he'd hired for two more years in hopes more funding would come in. That should account for all the German grant funds.
And as for Stripe/Facebook/Linux Foundation tweets, you really need to look at timestamps, it's not hard. All those tweets are from 2015/02/05, aka, TODAY. In fact, the times on both are after the time of this post. Meaning they happened after the fact. This post got attention and now he's got funding he didn't have yesterday.
Time for a new organization to fight for the public domain
I've thought about this for a while now, but I think one thing we really need is a new organization, one called something like "Citizens for the Public Domain" or maybe "Public Domain Defenders". The beauty of this organization will be its ability to throw the copyright maximalists' rhetoric right back at them, but now framed as defending the public domain.
Instead of talk of pirates "stealing" digital copies of stuff, this organization can talk about how copyright maximalists really are stealing the public domain from us, year by year, and wanting to take even more of it. And you know, maybe all those pirates are just reacting to that and taking the public domain back with their own hands. Sure you can argue against this, but it's harder, and it comes off as an attack on the public, not "protecting starving artists" any longer.
There are other examples too, but I'm having a bad day with my health (lots of pain) and can't remember all I had come up with. I'll reply with more if I can remember them. I do think this would help, even if it couldn't get the public's attention (since mainstream media is unlikely to report on anything that's not in copyright maximalists' favor), it could get congress' attention. It might be the difference between yet another copyright extension and/or more draconian copyright laws getting passed and them not. And it would put copyright maximalists on the defensive, which is always good. And like I mentioned above, it helps to reframe all of the maximalists attacks as the attack on the public they really are, making it harder for them to gain ground.
This shit is why people don't respect cops anymore
It's pretty sad that they don't seem to understand that the reason people don't respect them is because they do little to nothing to earn that respect nowadays. Instead it's all "we're above the law" and "respect my authority!"
And then we get things like locking the DA out for daring to do their job and charge some cops with murder. That's just being childish and petulant. In a sane world they'd be fired for refusing to do part of their job.
I respect this DA though for being willing to do their job even though they had to know the cops would react like spoiled toddlers.
So how's that explain the model rental fee going up?
Even if we accept that logic, this doesn't explain the model rental fee going up at both Time Warner and Comcast. Cable modems haven't gotten a lot more expensive (if at all, I think they've gotten cheaper, especially when buying in the kind of bulk the cablecos do). Funny how they didn't explain that, ehh?
"I didn't understand at the outset that Robert Kraft wouldn't want Myra Kraft and her philanthropical works associated with this," Noonan said in the e-mail.
But they're apparently A-OK with her being associated with IP dickery? Cause that's coming off far, far worse than any possible association to the book does.
It's actually more than just the modem rental fee, here's what they did to my bill (Internet and cable TV, no phone):
* Modem rental fee went from $8 -> $10 * Broadcast TV fee went from $1.50 -> $3.25 * Additional digital adapters (required for every TV) went from $1.99 -> $2.99 * Regional sports fee added of $1
All told, since I have two extra adapters, my bill's gone up $6.75 a month in nothing but bogus fees. The digital adapter fees are really a kick in the face. Since Comcast encrypts the signal now, you have to have those to watch the cable TV you pay for on any set. The only provide one for free (a full cable box, which I have YET to get to work despite swapping it three times last year alone). For any additional TVs you get to pay nearly $36 a year to watch cable TV on them. This is complete and total bullshit.
My hope is that they're becoming so unpopular that a couple of Attorneys General in various states will decide investigating Comcast to grandstand is more valuable than Comcast's campaign donations. They'd make a great target, the public would love any AG that took them to task!
The Kindle will never receive an update, given what I read here it was a wise decision to terminate it's internet abilities.
If it's a 1st gen Kindle Fire you don't have to worry, Amazon stopped updating it after they released the 2nd gen models. Their treatment of their devices customers is largely appalling. (Which is really strange given their normal customer service is excellent.)
Re: Another way to describe indirect infringement...
I'd be seriously surprised if there's anyone using Usenet for porn (especially images). All the porn groups got totally overrun by spambots sometime in the 1990s, and are totally worthless for anyone actually seeking porn.
Re: Darrell Beavers is a pedophile - yes that's true
The guy is a scumbag, no doubt there, but before you go off on your misguided vigilante justice assault, better check your definitions. Pedophilia is defined as sexual attraction to prepubescent children. His victim was 17, it's highly unlikely they were prepubescent.
So handing out fliers branding him a pedophile would land you some handy defamation charges, and since you're probably not a cop, you'd end up in jail far, far longer than he'll spend over them.
Also, that crazy EU judgement (not a law!) would not protect Beavers either. Criminal convictions of this nature would remain in the public interest. Hell, some EU countries have sex registry requirements themselves (The UK does, not sure about others.)
I ran into this myself last year. I have a server that my route to it from Comcast went through Cogent. And during peak hours it was dial-up speeds. In the graph below I was doing backups continuously for nearly 24 hours straight (there's a gap in there where one finished and I hadn't started the new one yet). The graph matches the stuff MLab found:
As you can see, from about 6pm - 2am my connection to my server was basically unusable. It was so bad it would affect ssh! I would get very noticeable typing lag in my ssh sessions.
Once Netflix caved and paid Comcast, it got better immediately and is now back to normal.
And not only the privacy implications, have you looked at how CurrentC works? The terminal will display a QR code, then you have to run the CurrentC app on your smartphone, and let it use the camera to scan the QR code to pay. WTF? This is going to be so inconvenient I doubt it'll get very much usage at all. I know I wouldn't even consider trying it.
They probably should, even if they're inclined not to. Facebook could escalate this easily by applying an IP block to all .gov addresses, or just figure out the DEA's IP ranges and block those. Sure they could still get through using VPNs and such, but it would make life much, much harder for the DEA.
Not to mention Facebook could also add a warning to profiles created from .gov address ranges: "This profile was created from a US government computer and may not be who it claims to be." Since very few government IPs should be used for creating Facebook accounts, this could work well. And yes, the DEA could get around this too, but it would again make things harder for them.
At some point the benefits to the DEA wouldn't be worth continuing to fight it.
The chlorination level is different, just like a chlorinated pool has much higher chlorine levels than tap water (when it's treated by chlorine, there are other ways of killing off the microorganisms in it). At higher levels more can get left on the chicken itself, and chlorine is NOT a nice chemical to deal with. That's what people are concerned about.
That doesn't appear to be the case, the original Forbes article about the findings has this quote (emphasis added):
In fact, Brocious isn’t the only one who knows his tricks. His former employer, a startup that sought to reverse engineer Onity’s hotel front desk system and offer a cheaper and more interoperable product, sold the intellectual property behind Brocious’s hack to the locksmith training company the Locksmith Institute (LSI) for $20,000 last year.
From what I can tell, Onity is one of the major players in hotel locks (they also get used in student dorms on college campuses), so even if they are the cheapest, it's not like they were buying crap from someone selling knock-offs out of the back of his car.
But hey, it's easier to blame the victim and make assumptions than to actually check this stuff out, right?
I don't know about the overlay that covered TechDirt's site, but I pulled up the battleforthenet.com site in another tab to read through the letter and submit later. Then I noticed that it will not let me click in the form fields so that one's worthless if they want me to participate. Maybe you could ping them and tell them it's got a problem? Or provide some kind of direct link in one of those posts today?
I don't even care about the NFL and have already seen at least one article pointing out someone is lying about if and when the NFL saw the newly released video. From news reports back in May you see reports that the NFL reviewed all video available, including everything the police had, stuff not released to the public. Yet now they're saying they didn't see this one. Hmmm...
On the plus side, Goodell has said they screwed this one up initially and it gave them the chance for a redo with appropriate penalties. So maybe it works out overall.
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Or at least that's what is supposed to happen. Given the incompetence on display here who knows what will actually happen.
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Apparently you can't read
And as for Stripe/Facebook/Linux Foundation tweets, you really need to look at timestamps, it's not hard. All those tweets are from 2015/02/05, aka, TODAY. In fact, the times on both are after the time of this post. Meaning they happened after the fact. This post got attention and now he's got funding he didn't have yesterday.
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Time for a new organization to fight for the public domain
Instead of talk of pirates "stealing" digital copies of stuff, this organization can talk about how copyright maximalists really are stealing the public domain from us, year by year, and wanting to take even more of it. And you know, maybe all those pirates are just reacting to that and taking the public domain back with their own hands. Sure you can argue against this, but it's harder, and it comes off as an attack on the public, not "protecting starving artists" any longer.
There are other examples too, but I'm having a bad day with my health (lots of pain) and can't remember all I had come up with. I'll reply with more if I can remember them. I do think this would help, even if it couldn't get the public's attention (since mainstream media is unlikely to report on anything that's not in copyright maximalists' favor), it could get congress' attention. It might be the difference between yet another copyright extension and/or more draconian copyright laws getting passed and them not. And it would put copyright maximalists on the defensive, which is always good. And like I mentioned above, it helps to reframe all of the maximalists attacks as the attack on the public they really are, making it harder for them to gain ground.
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This shit is why people don't respect cops anymore
And then we get things like locking the DA out for daring to do their job and charge some cops with murder. That's just being childish and petulant. In a sane world they'd be fired for refusing to do part of their job.
I respect this DA though for being willing to do their job even though they had to know the cops would react like spoiled toddlers.
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Re: This seems a lot like another business model we know...
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So how's that explain the model rental fee going up?
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Re: Re: "Senior VP of Customer Experience"
* Modem rental fee went from $8 -> $10
* Broadcast TV fee went from $1.50 -> $3.25
* Additional digital adapters (required for every TV) went from $1.99 -> $2.99
* Regional sports fee added of $1
All told, since I have two extra adapters, my bill's gone up $6.75 a month in nothing but bogus fees. The digital adapter fees are really a kick in the face. Since Comcast encrypts the signal now, you have to have those to watch the cable TV you pay for on any set. The only provide one for free (a full cable box, which I have YET to get to work despite swapping it three times last year alone). For any additional TVs you get to pay nearly $36 a year to watch cable TV on them. This is complete and total bullshit.
My hope is that they're becoming so unpopular that a couple of Attorneys General in various states will decide investigating Comcast to grandstand is more valuable than Comcast's campaign donations. They'd make a great target, the public would love any AG that took them to task!
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Re: Re: Re: Big & American Or Something
Sorry, things are overall much better now than they were in the early days of the Internet. You must not have actually been around back then.
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Re: Another way to describe indirect infringement...
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Re: Darrell Beavers is a pedophile - yes that's true
So handing out fliers branding him a pedophile would land you some handy defamation charges, and since you're probably not a cop, you'd end up in jail far, far longer than he'll spend over them.
Also, that crazy EU judgement (not a law!) would not protect Beavers either. Criminal convictions of this nature would remain in the public interest. Hell, some EU countries have sex registry requirements themselves (The UK does, not sure about others.)
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It affected users outside of those areas too
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As you can see, from about 6pm - 2am my connection to my server was basically unusable. It was so bad it would affect ssh! I would get very noticeable typing lag in my ssh sessions.
Once Netflix caved and paid Comcast, it got better immediately and is now back to normal.
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What gets me about CurrentC is how stupid it is
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Not to mention Facebook could also add a warning to profiles created from .gov address ranges: "This profile was created from a US government computer and may not be who it claims to be." Since very few government IPs should be used for creating Facebook accounts, this could work well. And yes, the DEA could get around this too, but it would again make things harder for them.
At some point the benefits to the DEA wouldn't be worth continuing to fight it.
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Re: Chlorinated chickens
On the post: Onity Wins: Hotels That Bought Their Easily-Hacked Door Lock Can't Sue According To Court
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From what I can tell, Onity is one of the major players in hotel locks (they also get used in student dorms on college campuses), so even if they are the cheapest, it's not like they were buying crap from someone selling knock-offs out of the back of his car.
But hey, it's easier to blame the victim and make assumptions than to actually check this stuff out, right?
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Hope they'll fix the form
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On the plus side, Goodell has said they screwed this one up initially and it gave them the chance for a redo with appropriate penalties. So maybe it works out overall.
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