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by bediger 15y ago
If the Mossad, MI6, NSA, TIARA etc etc know so dad gum much, why don't they KILL ALL THE SPAMMERS!?!?!?? Spammers do far more day-to-day damage than the 50 or 60 "terrorists" they named in that humorous piece of persiflage.
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by bediger 15y ago
The last sentence in the article makes a lot of sense. The article also explains the ridiculous secrecy surrounding almost anything "defense" related. The US citizens don't get value for their dollar. The B-1, B-2 and JSF are only the late
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by bediger 15y ago
What a load or rubbish. This is clearly just another move by autocratic school administrators to allow the administrators to discriminate and punish certain students. It's a lot like the "no gang uniforms" rules 10 or 15 years ago. If you
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by bediger 15y ago
The real problem here is that Vevo (and the RIAA, when caught with an IP address that did BitTorrent) won't be persecuted under laws like SOPA/PIPA and whatever comes from ACTA and TPP. Since SOPA gives the DoJ and "rightsholders" discre
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by bediger 15y ago
I think this is more of a case of Microsoft validating these ideas from open source (X11 dialogs are not exactly "Linux"), rather than "stealing" or "borrowing" them. Wow, extent-based filesystems not exactly the most resilient... the real
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by bediger 15y ago
Why on earth would anyone buy a data transfer protocol, especially one where the developers feel they need to put "TM" on every instance of its name? Anyone remember the history of Zmodem? The wikipedia article doesn't mention it, but the
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by bediger 15y ago
I was not aware that enough terrorists had been apprehended to compile a checklist of suspicious activities. In particular: http://www.osceola.org/sheriff/113-19137-19144/hobby_shop_te... Can someone post articles about hobby shop terrori
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by bediger 15y ago
'Elistist, Aristocratic Mentality Created SOPA' says everyone else. Gee, these CxO people are really getting too big for their britches, as the midwestern USA metaphor goes. Maybe the "Occupy" people have a few good points after all.
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by bediger 15y ago
So much for the Holy Sacrament of "Intellectual Property". When it suits a corporation, the Most Holy Eye Pee Must Be Protected By Any Means, Including Taking Away of Civil Liberties. But when it also suits a corporation, they get to take
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by bediger 15y ago
Does some way exist to get these in the USA?
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by bediger 15y ago
How can we know? A mere veiled threat of litigation is enough to make a lot of corporations cower in fear, and stop doing whatever generated the threat. Does merely threatening a suit constitute "enforcing the copyright"?
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by bediger 15y ago
Copying isn't theft. At best, it's "infringement". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States_%28198... Please don't try to bring back the false-to-fact concept of "intellectual property". Independent invention happens a
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by bediger 15y ago
You could assert that not paying $25 for a season of Weeds is a whole different ballgame than taking down a website with hundreds of millions of users. I do so assert. One might constitute (need a trial) copyright infringement, not eve
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by bediger 15y ago
Not always the case, but sometimes Godel Incompleteness gets in the way, and other times, the problem is inadvertently made NP-hard, and other times, it's like a lambda calculus term, you can't tell if a term has a normal form without going
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by bediger 15y ago
That was the WORST gibberish I've ever read. I almost understood it.
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by bediger 15y ago
For large enough values of "software quality". All kinds of things can be called "quality": speed to market, meets specifications, bug-free, doesn't crash, does things fast, has a good/intuitive/powerful user interface, the list is potentia
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by bediger 15y ago
"HR" went wrong when they changed from "Personnel" to "Human Resources". The very name "resources" makes those people think that everyone is plug-compatible. Proceeding from that assumption, they feel they can winnow out candidates as if p
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by bediger 15y ago
Somewhere along the line, and I hope it wasn't in a Hunter S Thompson story, I heard that Lyndon Johnson said "Never get caught sleeping with a live pig or a dead woman."
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by bediger 15y ago
Isn't this a little weird, given that MSFT wants people to use "managed code", the CLI, and all the attendant software? Or is it telling us that people who get to choose (free software) aren't going to be using C++11? I can't tell.
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by bediger 15y ago
That's a darn good question. SOPA and PIPA did have rather broad wording, and provisions that broke security, had no built-in method of redress, and at least major parts of the penalties were totally administrative, no Judicial Branch overs
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by bediger 15y ago
More rubbish that advocates the false-to-fact concept of "Intellectual Property". In my view, "IP" can't exist. Who invented the light bulb? Who invented radio? Who invented television? Who invented the linked list? Who invented the tele
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by bediger 15y ago
Hear hear! The next step is NOT "craft an alternative", but rather define the problem. After that, let's see the step of demonstrating harm from the newly-defined problem.
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by bediger 15y ago
I don't think a compromise on "anti-piracy" is a good idea. I'll illustrate with a small story. Albert and Bertrand, two young boys, run into their mother's kitchen. A single, large cookie lies cooling on the table. Albert says the two bo
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by bediger 15y ago
Could you give us a summary of these fundamentals of copyright? I read one of grellas' rants, and I wasn't impressed. he/she seems to be starting from an "onwership of ideas" standpoint, and that's a logical non-starter. Too many cases of
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by bediger 15y ago
Yeah! The second part of a prima facie case for policy change is to show that the proposed solution solves the problem. The third part is to show that the proposed solution doesn't cause more problems than it solves. That would be "cost/be
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by bediger 15y ago
The HN headline is dramatically wrong: My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company,,, Grandfather Page didn't have to protect himself from his employees, but rather from the au
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by bediger 15y ago
Lawyers will benefit a lot. As a class, lawyers, especially those specializing in "Intellectual Property" will benefit financially the most.
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by bediger 15y ago
Why didn’t anyone call Will Ferrell and Adam McKay to post a hilarious, viral video that would make the point? I dunno, maybe someone tried, but they couldn't convince Ferrell and/or McKay to do such a self-defeating thing? That is, the a
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by bediger 15y ago
Copyright, at its heart, is aimed at giving the person who creates something control over the creative work. I'm certain this is just wrong, at least from a USA perspective. The first copyright in England was to control, that is, copyrigh
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by bediger 15y ago
Sure, that's what the name says and so forth, but haven't you ever heard to not judge a book by its cover? The internals of the bills are so weird, that you can't help but suspect that something else is going on there.

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