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by bediger 15y ago
Wait, wait... aren't patents supposed to encourage R&D? The monopoly rent from a patent is supposedly the only way to encourage firms to do R&D, to innovate rather than copy. And aren't patents getting stronger based on case law
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by bediger 15y ago
You're quibbling. I mean, I understand that legally , one has to obtain a conviction to refer to someone as a felon, but practically, that's not the case, not with activist DAs floating around, trying to make a name for themselves as "tou
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by bediger 15y ago
I don't believe this "ex-quant" in the slightest. He's OK on the technical details, but then right at the end, he doesn't make the connection. So, there's no cigar smoking arbitrageur doing the financialization of on-line advertising? I do
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by bediger 15y ago
Given that this pump was seemingly invented 240 years ago, and then re-invented several times within the last 10 years give lie to the idea of "intellectual property"? Who owns the "intellecutal property" of this pump? The estate of H.A.
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by bediger 15y ago
The whole concept of "intellectual property" rests on a pretty shaky intellectual and moral foundation. The big problem I see with "IP" is independent invention. If the act of inventing something is so important that we must give special r
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by bediger 15y ago
"The cases are jarring and similar to those involving PCP in the 1970s." Well, there's your answer! It's another one of those "moral panics" about some "newfangled drugs those long-haired young-uns are a-smokin'!" Seriously, that's all th
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by bediger 15y ago
Please, I beg of you, in the name of all that does not suck, DO NOT MAKE THIS SERVICE! It will be abused, people will spam, and others will be annoyed by the spam, and have to pay for the spam. You have no economic incentive to take people
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by bediger 15y ago
Somebody just got back from one of those cool, all expenses paid, junkets to Seattle! I wonder which superstars of the Windows world he got to eat lunch with at the Redmond campus! MMM mmm good!
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by bediger 15y ago
A thousand up votes! Keep calm, and carry on.
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by bediger 15y ago
Ridiculous. This is more "if only Ballmer would..." wishful thinking. It also doesn't inform us why a "single Windows ecosystem" makes any sense for anyone other than the accountants and marketeers at Microsoft itself. Oh, and lame manag
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by bediger 15y ago
How is not going to be abused? Every service on the internet gets abused to send spam. Also, where's your incentive to not spam? I don't know how many emails I've gotten FALSELY claiming that I've "opted in" to this email. I do know ho
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by bediger 15y ago
Don't ever do this. We've got spam problems enough without getting more rubbish SMS spams. If you do this, you will earn the hatred of the entire populace who gets abused by it, because someone WILL abuse it.
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by bediger 15y ago
This is completely shameful for the USA government, and indicates a total failure on the legislative branch's part. The citizens of the USA need to vote more carefully. The USA also needs some kind of effective campaign reform, to prevent
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by bediger 15y ago
So, 12 Million for about half-a-million strikes, and 10 potential IP addresses locked out of net. That essentially 24 euros a strike. That cannot be worth it to taxpayers. Really, it can't be worth it to government. This "Hadopi" is a te
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by bediger 15y ago
Why shouldn't she yell at a groper!?! Are you in favor of groping little children??! NO MEANS NO! I sincerely doubt that non-belligerent objecting would matter much. The TSA seems to have a "procedure is procedure and that justifys it" at
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by bediger 15y ago
An article that mostly toes the Anti-Piracy At Any Cost/Infringment is theft dogma. You can tell because it misses the other side of the coin: Did movie or recorded music sales rise in France? Because notationally, that's what Anti-Piracy
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by bediger 15y ago
The Wall Street Journal is definitely toeing the Big "IP" line in this article. No mention of the difficulty of tieing IP address to a human, no mention of the percentage of false positives, or indeed, the possibility of false positives. 4
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by bediger 15y ago
This is a good read, but, and it's a big one, it's written by Rob Enderle. Given his performance for SCOg in the Linux suits of the last few years, one has to question his integrity and veracity. Oracle could easily have bought him off wi
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by bediger 15y ago
Be careful! Remember what happened to "partners" when Microsoft pushed them to develop for a non-Microsoft platform. Need I remind anyone of what developing for OS/2 did to Lotus?
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by bediger 15y ago
"Some foreign-made computer components are being manufactured to make it easier to launch cyber attacks on U.S. companies and consumers". Ha ha ha! Greg Schaffer, the "official" in who said that, is just confusing reality with the plot o
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by bediger 15y ago
That this plotless, flat, monochrome quarter siphon becomes a Major Hollywood Movie proves that the US movie industry is morally, philosphically, ethically, creatively and intellectually BANKRUPT. "Conversely, coming up with a captivating u
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by bediger 15y ago
English needs a new one, one that means "a word spelled correctly enough to pass spell checkers, but incorrect semantically". The author of the article mentions the "assent of Islamic fundamentalism". I think he means "ascent", but who can
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by bediger 15y ago
Note the author's confusion of "millions of artists" and RIAA. You're not giving the middle-finger to the RIAA, you're giving it to the artits. Ha ha ha.
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by bediger 15y ago
This is a good article. It does not toe the (false) doctrinal line that "infringement" equals "theft". Also it makes clear that mere accusations of infringement can get you on the no-fly-list: "The big five have agreed to pass along alert
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by bediger 15y ago
Indeed. Does a penalty for filing a false notice (accusation) of infringement exist? What's the process for adjudicating disputes?
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by bediger 15y ago
This is a rubbish article. It confuses "theft" with "infringement". Mostly, it calls the action of infringement an "offense", but at one point it calls it an "infraction", The article fails to say who decides if an "offense" or "infracti
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by bediger 15y ago
Well, what does "evoke" mean? Produce something akin to an "echo" of recognition. That's not a knock-off, that's a reminder, an homage, a tribute, a modification, a derivative. Beyond that, a copyright does not grant ownership: it grants
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by bediger 15y ago
This seems like a bad decision on the Court of Appeal's part. No, I'm not a lawyer, but I'm taking reality, not the-law-has-already-crawled-up-inside-itself legalistic fantasy. The point of a "public domain" is to have a huge stockpile of s
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by bediger 15y ago
Can econometricists join?
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by bediger 15y ago
Money quote, from the first paragraph: "The belief that giving away free music will result in future sales are too far-fetch." Freed from the bounds of subject-verb agreement, the author continues rapidly down the "giving away music for fr

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