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by slowpoke 15y ago
>That idea is flourishing and is what really should scare content creators. The only one scared by this is the content industry, aka the publishers, and the unfortunate people who believe their propaganda and lies. Free culture is a goo
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>I've never seen anyone claim that copyright was to protect distributors. Then I guess you have not been in this discussion for very long, or never paid attention. The fact is, copyright was never meant for creators. It was invented by
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>(not to mention there are some people in the world who aren't completely amoral and as such wouldn't) You're implying that everyone follows the same code of ethics. You might not agree with it but for some people it's not in the slight
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Your parent said "free and open source". Tiny but important difference.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I'm still amazed at this man. You can like or dislike his views, but he has more dedication and, more importantly, integrity in every hair of his impressive beard than most people can ever hope to have in their entire body.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>since it's quicker and easier than torrenting. That depends on your watching habits. I maintain a backlog of things to watch which I regularly refill. That also prevents me from wasting time on impulsive decisions - I plan ahead on wha
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by slowpoke 15y ago
You don't get my argument, it seems. I oppose the carefree usage of this technology as a whole, not just its usage by law enforcement, while you are arguing with a fallacy based on the current situation. This won't lead us anywhere.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
> 'anigbrowl is saying that everyone's privacy is violated by private facial recognition deployments constantly, and law enforcement's alternatives --- which are already universally accepted by our jurisprudence --- are more invasive. A
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I know a bit about and highly respect the indie scene. They are, in my opinion, the future of game development in general. I paid for the second bundle, and was highly entertained for quite a while. It's a very cool project. Slightly offtop
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by slowpoke 15y ago
That's an argumentum ad populum. Just because everyone and their mother uses it is no justification for law enforcement to use it as well - especially considering that these people are (at least in very abstract theory) supposed to be goo
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Unfortunately for you, the game's industry is slowly and inevitably moving towards personal subscription based purchases. It's my guess that this model will work until the first major publisher, for whatever reason, collapses - or simp
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I'm very sorry, but I heavily object to the notion that we should treat everyone like criminals. It completely invalidates the assumption of innocence, which - as far as I am informed as an European - is part of the Constitution). Besides,
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Actually, that would be a cool crowd sourcing project, and not just encompassing Star Trek. If you spot a possible prior art for a patent in a work of fiction, you could put it on some sort of wiki. It would be a great source of information
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Or we could stop this patent nonsense in the first place. They are nothing more than catalysts for petty lawsuits that look little better than kids throwing sand at each other. Or a group of high-school kids bullying a kindergartener, if we
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by slowpoke 15y ago
> but the low cost, convenience, and value add of netflix I still find it much more convenient to head over to TPB (or another tracker of my choice), find a torrent of whatever I want to watch, download (and share) it, and then be able
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Quite. There's no grounds for the amount of reverence a mere businessman - albeit very successful - is receiving. Delusion might be a very good word to describe what I think of this sentiment.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Could we stop with the retarded cult of personality already? Seriously, celebrating the life of Steve Jobs? That's the most stupid thing since... I don't even know. This guy sold computers , nothing more. It's beyond me why people revere h
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I usually call my programs directly with dmenu (or the Alt+F2 run dialog when I'm on Ubuntu), but even I like the way the older Ubuntu versions organize programs in the menu. It's very intuitive, especially if you're not familiar with the s
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>How long did it take you to reach your current level of productivity in your current WM? Half an hour to learn the keybinds, because tiling window managers (XMonad) are extremely intuitive.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Synaptic/USC. Now stop talking about stuff you obviously have no clue about.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
> What most techies don't get is that this is an extremely reasonable assumption. Well, to be more fair, that most users don't care. I don't think he's complaining that they try to make it easier for people for whom this assumption hold
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by slowpoke 15y ago
> Something can only be priced because it has value already. You're missing the point. Ideas are invaluable. Assigning them a price detracts that value. > I think it's a great development to allow ideas to be monetized. The idea tha
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by slowpoke 15y ago
> Copyright is the power that gives the 'little man' the ability to do that already. I'm really sorry, but in what world do you live? Copyright is abused by the big corporations to secure monopolies, and isn't, wasn't and won't ever be
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by slowpoke 15y ago
> The notion that one has rights to their own ideas is a marvelous development of liberal productive societies If by "liberal productive society" you mean "capitalism", then yes, copyright is indeed a capitalistic invention. Only in cap
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>There is no case for piracy per se. You are right. However - at least for me - it was never about making a case for piracy. It was making a case against copyright . Piracy is merely (as you point out yourself) a symptom, a consequence
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Looking at the amount of utter retardation comparable to youtube comments which people spew on Facebook under their real names is my prime argument against the assertion that enforcing real names has any correlation to the quality of discou
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by slowpoke 15y ago
And you're a fool if you think that the fact that there exists no "total anonymity" (pretty much like there exists no uncrackable encryption) is an argument against striving for a feasible level of protection of anonymity rights. It's not a
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I know I will get downvoted for this, but who the fuck gives a shit? These recent Steve Jobs articles are getting more and more ridiculous.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
> they can get hacked To elaborate on this a bit, it might not even be necessary for them to get hacked from the outside. It's certainly not impossible for a malicious Google or Facebook employee to acquire (and sell) data.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
> There is certain information (address, account numbers, ss #, etc.) that if obtained by a third party, could result in some real world problems that will negatively impact my life. But information social networks sell to advertisers d

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