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by bediger 15y ago
Really, they have nobody to blame but themselves. Music execs, in the form of the RIAA and MPAA, mistakenly believing that "infringement" can be determined automatically, have forced a more-or-less automated request-and-takedown system on
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by bediger 15y ago
Of course it is! Copyright infringement is also known as "Piracy", and Piracy is the most Heinous Crime of The Seas! Piracy separates God Fearing Spanish Merchants from their Gold, legally obtained by suppressing the Native Population of M
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by bediger 15y ago
I'll wager that "Intellectual Property" idiocy will keep things pretty much as they are, or even cause the general state to regress to a broadcast type of thing. The "Rightsholders" are currently setting up a legal environment where only a
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by bediger 15y ago
I don't think newspapers and magazines are good examples. I'm given to understand that the consumer cost of a newspaper or magazine just barely covered materials and distribution. Advertising revenues covered every other expense. This cha
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by bediger 15y ago
The single best part of this techdirt article is reading the pro-PROTECT IP-shills perform writing gymnastics to "prove" that Vixie doesn't know what he's talking about, that only pirates would circumvent a state-sponsored and censored DNS
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by bediger 15y ago
Looks like such a planet would have some odd-looking periodic orbits: http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4635 One family of orbits is parallel to a face of the cube, if I understand the paper even a little.
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by bediger 15y ago
Note that this is a meta-article: it consists of a critique of another article . The other article seems to be looking for the word "abstraction-induced complexity", which is when some interface makes some actions easy at the expense of ma
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by bediger 15y ago
I'd go with either Arch or Slackware. The folks behind Slackware shoot for robustness, which sometimes means "not the latest versions". The Arch people shoot for bleeding edge, which can be nice from a developer's perspective.
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by bediger 15y ago
This is pretty typical Know Nothing American Populist anti-intellectualism. This is just part of a constant undercurrent in US thought that's gone on for the last 200 years. It surfaces every once in a while, causes some troubles by ruini
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by bediger 15y ago
Wait, what happened to the Software Crises of the past 30 years? You know, the one where somebody calculates how many programs are executing, and how many programmers need to do maintenance on these programs, and decides that current gradu
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by bediger 15y ago
+1 for such incredibly weird spelling and usage: "SEO experts does not qualify to read this article." "Weather you are being ethical or not." "They will simply forgot about this" "So, You can surly offer a % of discount." "I think it messes
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by bediger 15y ago
Best to go over to techdirt.com for the original, plus the usual stimulating comebacks to persistent "Intellectual Property" maximalist trolls.
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by bediger 15y ago
+1 for use of "Manichean", I believe correctly. It's a word not given enough use in these Modern Times, so I welcome any instance of it, no matter how shrill, wrongheaded or corrupt.
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by bediger 15y ago
There's zero evidence that Neanderthals were "wild and relentlessly creative to a fault". They used the same toolset for almost their entire span of existance, changing only when threatened by modern humans.
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by bediger 15y ago
I would like to remark on how complicated Britain's history seems to a US public-school-educated, mid-continent American. Celtic tribes, Roman conquest, ancient mounds and stone structures, Vikings, Normans, etc etc etc. It seems like some
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by bediger 15y ago
There's also a persistent rumor/concept among Linux aficionados that some or all of the worst profanity spouting, knuckle-dragging, "Sodomize Microsoft!" fanbois are actually paid-for "reverse shills". That is, some vague conspiracy financ
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by bediger 15y ago
Most vacation snapshots have no apparent esthetic value. Virtually all "partying people" have no esthetic value. If this pseudo-law will deter people from taking poorly composed, red-eyed, overly-flash-filled shots of tipsy partiers, I'm al
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by bediger 15y ago
Fascinating. Does this identical solution represent some as yet undiscovered mathematical Basic Truth?
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by bediger 15y ago
Who's intellectual property is this? Surely this valuable idea can be monetized by it's IP holder.
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by bediger 15y ago
This is Preston Gralla writing. As near as I can tell, that's as good as saying it's a Wag-Edd press release.
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by bediger 15y ago
This seems like an unjust, overly harsh punishment. I mean, who among us has not urinated in-flight?
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by bediger 15y ago
I agree with you, and such an embrace seems logical. So,the lack of an embrace means something. The easiest "meaning" to impugn is that Microsoft really really doesn't think non-Windows can work at all, a sort of raging Not-Invented-Here tu
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by bediger 15y ago
I think that's the point: Helvetica is the official font of Satan.
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by bediger 15y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." --Upton Sinclair My own observation is that "The Law" (that class of people in charge of creating, extending and defendin
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by bediger 15y ago
This is a rubbish article. It attempts to paper over obvious, horrible problems by blaming the people who try to game the system. It also attempts to marginalize objections to the current patent system by blaming people. For starters, the
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by bediger 15y ago
Good luck with that. Did riots occur before Twitter/Facebook existed? No? Well, then, carry on.
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by bediger 15y ago
This article exhibits an unhealthy hidden assumption: that ideas (or maybe concepts) can be owned. That may be true legally, but it isn't true ethically or practically. Independent invention happens all the time, and basically upends the co
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by bediger 15y ago
Don't be silly. No one can own an idea. The very concept of "intellectual property" is false to facts.
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by bediger 15y ago
I'm going to have to say "pics or it didn't happen". Post the simplest code that causes the problem, so we can all try it, verify it, and maybe propose a fix. Because right now, this sounds a lot like some program that actually does not f
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by bediger 15y ago
The press release statements from DHS were bizarre. Is it my imagination, or does the DHS combine the worst traits of a government agency, and a giant corporation? It manages to be banally evil, slow-moving, self-protective and incomprehe

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