Comment Good luck moving (Score 1) 275
A lot of people have satellite TV because they live outside the service area of cable TV. What would you do in such a situation?
A lot of people have satellite TV because they live outside the service area of cable TV. What would you do in such a situation?
Why bother with commentary at all? Can't we just get some facts?
Facts don't get butts in seats and ads in front of eyeballs the way commentary does.
As a rule of thumb, take the 'liberal' and 'conservative' commentary, split the difference between the two
In other words, the only thing "fair and balanced" about FOX News Channel is that it balances out MSNBC.
If you're writing music that is indeed a concern [...] Other art forms don't have that problem.
Many other art forms do indirectly. Movies, for one, have a problem because they contain music. So do video games.
I have no fear of copyright trolls; I register my books with the US Copyright office.
Likewise, George Harrison registered the songs on All Things Must Pass. Yet Bright Tunes Music successfully argued in court that Harrison's registered copyright was invalid because "My Sweet Lord" had unlawfully used a snippet from the song "He's So Fine".
The problem with iPhone, iPad, and the game consoles is that you can't self-publish. The retail devices will outright refuse to execute code that isn't digitally signed by the device's manufacturer.
There are no gatekeepers on the internet.
Except for customers living in areas whose incumbent home ISP has decided to "slow-lane" any traffic that doesn't pay the prioritization toll. See previous stories about Comcast's "congestion by choice".
Anyone can publish anything at any time.
How can someone usefully publish any application at any time for an iOS device without the blessing of Apple, or any application at any time for a game console without the blessing of the console's manufacturer?
That's the old model. It's been discarded.
If the gatekeeper model has "been discarded", then why do iOS and the game consoles still use it? And why haven't end users "discarded" them en masse in favor of Android and living-room gaming PCs? I think I know why: consoles are easy.
What is with the defeatism? The only point to it is to prevent you from reaping the benefits everyone else is enjoying.
I'm trying to figure out the best way to jump in and reap benefits without running the risk of being bankrupted or worse. For example, I don't want to write a song and then get hit with a $150,000 copyright infringement lawsuit for having accidentally recreated something from decades ago.
More than likely, in a world without PHP, another language with similar benefits and drawbacks to PHP would likely have been invented.
I love the freedom of being able to write and publish anything I want without making compromises with money issues.
Not if you have to pay hush money to copyright trolls who claim that your work is a derivative of theirs. And not if a monopolist gatekeeper or a cartel of gatekeepers controls the means of distribution of your art to the public, such as Apple or the major video console makers.
Mickey Mouse is a trademark.
Perpetual exclusive rights in a trademark cannot be used to extend the theoretically limited term of any of the exclusive rights under a U.S. copyright. Dastar v. Fox.
Screw creating your own things.
Even if I create my own things, how can I be sure that I haven't accidentally re-created someone else's things?
"To promote the progress of science and useful arts" [...] so copyright is constitutional to the extent (and only to the extent) it is designed to satisfy that goal.
The US Supreme Court has consistently deferred to Congress on the question of whether "it is designed to satisfy that goal."
Let me rephrase Ol Olsoc's question: How much of a royalty does the Bach family deserve from Claudio Arrau and his label?
It's not a behind paywall, it's a free site.
Sites that do not require payment still need to distinguish between users that have registered and visitors that have not as well as between users, such as for comment sections (are you LordWabbit2 or someone who Firesheeped his session cookie?) or "free reg. req." policies.
What network administrator in his right mind would hand out the root certificate to the HTTPS proxy?
Anyone who wants his users to know they are connecting to the correct proxy. Remember that a root certificate contains only the public key, not the private key.
MediaWiki is written in PHP. Would you really prefer a world without Wikipedia?
I find you lack of faith in the forth dithturbing. - Darse ("Darth") Vader
