Mneten - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Video? (Score 1) 88

by Mneten on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @01:41PM (#27404607) Attached to: Honda Develops Brain Interface For Robot Control

I want to see where the CAT5 cable gets inserted! if its not too bad, I'd think about getting myself modded...

Comment tv?? (Score 1) 434

by Mneten on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @07:11PM (#26895419) Attached to: Confusion Reigns As Analog TV Begins Shutdown

people still watch TV?? i used to have a TV. it had a pick axe through the screen.

If IP Is Property, Where Is the Property Tax? 691

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 26, 2008 @09:36PM from the making-the-world-safe-for-mickey dept.

nweaver writes "In a response to the LA Times editorial on copyright which we discussed a week ago, the paper published a response arguing: 'If Intellectual Property is actually property, why isn't it covered by a property tax?' If copyright maintenance involved paying a fee and registration, this would keep Mickey Mouse safely protected by copyright, while ensuring that works that are no longer economically relevant to the copyright holder pass into the public domain, where the residual social value can serve the real purpose of copyright: to enhance the progress of science and useful arts. Disclaimer: the author is my father."

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