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Comment Re:Parody (Score 1) 255

And time shifting doesn't use just one. Time shifting monetized (when done by a company) is almost always not fair use. Tivo is the only one that survived legal challenges.

But it meets more than just one criteria. It's non-commercial. The problem with fan fiction, someone can claim that it hurts the protected work, even if not monetarily benefiting the infringing work.

I do agree it's complicated, and often difficult to predict, but fan fiction has generally been allowed (whether by the rights holders, or the courts), so I don't think they'd have nearly as much to fear as people here assert.

Comment Re:Parody (Score 1) 255

Fair Use is also the sum of the parts of the defense. It's parody (kinda), non-commercial, uses the character names and ideas, but doesn't copy the creative details of the original. Any one alone wouldn't be fair use, but possibly all of them together is. Making every unrelated claim at the same time diminishes your case in a criminal trial, but is acceptable (and preferred) when claiming Fair Use.

Comment Re:Default Government Stance (Score 1) 194

I never said any such thing. And I'm constantly told here that people who buy Apple pay more to get less, so it's obviously common (if Slashdot A/Cs are to be believed).

I'm simply saying that spreading the weath amongst the poor benefits the economy much more than giving the same wealth to the privileged few.

Comment Re:Who Cares? (Score 1) 35

Also, anyone with a WiFi GoPro turns of the WiFi, if they aren't actively looking at it all the time because WiFi kills the battery. The people who bought a WiFi one so they could start and stop the camera with the remote for each run will leave it on, but what could someone do with the WiFi password? Screw up a single recording out of the thousands for the day? Watch what the camera is doing without permission? Mythbusters uses them for the multi-angles from a crash vehicle, but it's not like they are the camera of choice for porn makers, where you could sit outside a porn studio and watch free porn or anything.

The only thing that could possibly matter about this is people who still haven't heard about password reuse being a bad thing.

Though, if you were to automate grabbing the pwd and giving the command to wipe data and turn off, it'd be interesting to use in crowds. Everyone with a gopro in a concert would have their footage wiped, or something like that.

Comment Re:Default Government Stance (Score 1) 194

I see nothing in the context of what I wrote that advocated any changes to any voting system. Just an acknowledgement that the error rate for our current system is high, and it's been pointed out to me that would be impossible without collusion. And if a 3rd party were to come in, collusion would be even more beneficial than today. So the low barriers to fraud today would be lowered in the presence of a persistent and popular 3rd party.

There are ways for verified voting that prevent intimidation. That you can think of non reveals limitations about you, not verified voting.

Comment Re:Default Government Stance (Score 1) 194

Inflation isn't caused by decreasing the wage gap. Inflation is caused by monetary policy. The two are orthogonal, so there is no answer, because it's like asking to explain the effects of a NYC pizzeria changing its box colors on the average food consumption levels of animals in the San Diego Zoo. Sure, it could be studied, but is unrelated, so nobody has.

There is no link between minimum wage and inflation, so explaining the link is impossible.

Oh, and in countries with a high minimum wage, the people on minimum wage make more than America's middle class, so a higher wage for those people would provably improve the middle class. When the minimum wage is set well below poverty level, the effect isn't the same. Set the minimum wage at $25/h or higher, define "middle class" as $50k to $60k, and move the minimum wage from $25 to $30 and tell me the effects on the middle class.

Comment Re:Default Government Stance (Score 1) 194

What country are you in? The LMGTFY link goes to google.com, but the locality settings for Google will over-ride that, so your search from outside the USA will not give the results anyone going to google.com would get. I got none of the links you mention. I got http://www.raisetheminimumwage... and http://www.dol.gov/minwage/myt...

Yes, it was as easy as putting the quoted words in my post into Google.

Comment Re:Mismatch (Score 1) 93

99% of people don't care. I set up my mother's computer with the OS on C and everything else (and all system defaults) to D, and she didn't even know she had multiple disks. My wife didn't know she had two disks (one SSD cache and one HDD), she just knew it worked and wasn't too slow.

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