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Comment Sadly she won't (Score 4, Informative) 557

Because it is good advice for actual progress. Wu isn't a feminist, she's a professional victim. I mean that literally: She makes her money by whining about being victimized and guilting people in to donating to her pateron to fund her life. She's a developer in only the most basic sense. She has one product ever, a mobile game that is very poor quality. She has no track record for actually working to advance women's rights or gender equality. Her profession is literally being a victim.

So she has no interest in advice from actual successful women developers because she's not. Her issue isn't having lots of skill but being kept down because of gender, it is having minimal skills and then playing pretend about the source of her problems.

That's why she agreed to the Ask Slashdot. She wanted the "mean" questions she refused to answer because she can point to those as examples of "harassment" to further her cause. She's not stupid, she knew what she was doing.

However while she won't take your advice, hopefully other women will, because it is excellent.

Comment Re:Criminal intent? (Score 1) 312

What happens to first determining if there was any criminal intent...

You can't really have criminal intent to eat a piece of toast at your breakfast table, but you can have criminal intent to kill someone. What's the difference? Killing someone is a crime. So you have to know if something is a crime before you can determine if the plan to do it is reflective of criminal intent.

...or adverse consequences?

If you plan to murder someone, and even attempt the act, but the intended victim is unaware that you took a shot at them with your silienced movie-quality assassin's rifle and missed ... what are the adverse consequence? None (as far as the intended victim is concerned), right? But the act is very much illegal because of the intended (but unrealized) consequences.

Comment Re:It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permiss (Score 1) 368

The proposed rulemaking will do no such thing. It explicitly leaves hobbyists alone, as mandated by congress. It only applies to commercial users. People using their 3-pound quadcopter to get some YouTube video of the fire near their house aren't the people that the FAA's new rules will impact.

Comment Re:More by whom (Score 2, Insightful) 368

one of which I think was a surveyor of some kind, but the others were clearly just some nosy fucking assholes

Is everyone who drives a car past your property also a nosy fucking asshole? What information do you have that the people flying those aircraft gave a rats ass about your property or you or your activities? Please be specific.

Some people fly remote control aircraft just for the fun of flying - just like people who fly hot air balloons, ultralights, hang gliders, parachutes, and more. To say nothing of the Cessnas and Beechcraft and other machines that have probably flown over your property many time over the years. Either you need to relax a bit and realize that You're Not That Interesting ... or you need to get a LOT more worked up and paranoid than you already are, because there are probably people near you - RIGHT NOW! - holding cameras that can remotely send pictures of what you're doing to cloud storage that's not completely secure from government intrusion and Chinese hacking. You are worried about all the people around you all day, who could be spying on you with their smartphones, right? No? I see.

Comment Re:The next great copyright scam (Score 1) 93

And what's the most common counter-argument? That the moment an artist creates something, it's part of the shared culture and the artist has zero claim over its use. Which is worse - a system that allows someone who spends a lifetime creating something of value to still have control over that as part of the career and estate that she's built ... or a system where essentially every creative professional is chased out of that line of work and into flipping burgers because millions of idiots feel entitled to free entertainment from their music, prose, and film slaves?

Right. That's a false dichotomy. But it has to err on the side of defending the rights of the people who actually create things, not the leeches who want to rip things off in the name of free entertainment.

Comment Re: No Foul play... (Score 1) 173

And who gets to decide that someone has been "ripped off"?

It's really not that complicated. When an artist creates something, and offers it to the market on certain terms, people who take it anyway without actually honoring those terms are ripping it off. It's as simple as that. If you don't like the terms under which someone's creative work is being offered, just walk away. If you say instead, "That's nice, Mr. Filmmaker/Recording Artist/Author, I really admire your creativity and appreciate the thousands of hours you've put into creating the entertainment I want ... but I don't respect you enough to agree to your terms, so I'm just going to take what I want and screw you... but please, keep making more of what I like!" ... then you know exactly who is doing the ripping off.

Pretending you can't get that is you being completely disingenuous, and you know it.

Comment Re: No Foul play... (Score 1) 173

Music labels rip the artists off, but you are calling for music labels to be respected in their dealings. It seems you are slightly confused as to what roles artists and labels play.

Are you talking about actual fraud and breech of contract? If so, artists have all sorts of recourse to recover not only something that's been fraudulently taken from them, but to recover punitive damages, as well.

Or are you talking about artists who sign an ill-considered contract because they've chosen poorly in their selection of business partners, and couldn't be bothered to get some expert help to look over the contract? You're not being "ripped off" when you choose to enter into an agreement.

Comment Re:The next great copyright scam (Score 1) 93

but if it doesn't make that back in 14 years, is it ever going to?

A lot of franchise-oriented work these days takes longer than 14 years to even wrap up, as a series/format. There's no reason that someone deciding to risk tens or hundreds of millions of dollars and untold thousands of man-hours on a project that they hope will launch another Potter/Star Wars/Trek/Marvel/Whatever franchise wouldn't be thinking in terms of the work still paying back that risk for fifteen, or twenty years. And why shouldn't they? Playing long ball with creative franchises is perfectly reasonable, if you can get your investors to look at it that way, too.

Comment Re:that's a shame (Score 3, Informative) 93

If you don't register a work you can never receive monetary damages from infringers, only an injunction.

No. If you don't have the work registered, you can only go for the injunction, and for your customary rates/invoicing on the work in question. What having the work registered does is allow you to take the infringement case to federal court, and to seek punitive damages.

Comment Re:You know what else is 'aggravating?' (Score 1) 213

Yeah, it sucks to get hated for encouraging clear communication in public, doesn't it? Probably not as much as it sucks to be you, when that's all you've got, above. What a shallow, pathetic existence. But hey, if hating someone is your only outlet, and that's the limit to your ability to express yourself, I guess it's good to know your limits.

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