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Comment Re:Who the hell wrote this title!? It's not *ideas (Score 1) 196

You can't own *ideas*, you can't treat *ideas* as IP, you can't copyright *ideas*, you can't patent *ideas*.

You can do the first two in your list, but not the last two. You can do those first two things via trade secret. Note that for the second thing, I am using the general concept of IP rather than any legal definition of it. More specifically, it is like: "I know something that you don't, na na! :P". Aside: Note that, the concept of trade secret, irks open-source proponents to no end.

Comment Re:Their Goals (Score 1) 411

The copy of copyright and patent supporters is to prevent systems like the internet from being founded. This is a great example: were the important protocols and general structure patented, what you know of as the internet would not have been delayed or more expensive, it would have never existed. It is quite obvious that the greater good is of no concern to IP supporters, only their own profits. Yet these people are still given free rein of our legal system and allowed by the weak minded to claim that copyright and patent infringement is "theft," while the real theft is that of the copyright and patent holders from society as a whole. It's time that stop, before the next big innovation is prevented. End these archaic systems this decade, support the abolition of imaginary property.

Just say no to mind rape.

Comment Stallman on freedom? Pfft. (Score 1) 1452

Stallman wrote: "Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died."

Stallman wouldn't know freedom if someone gave him a buckshot of it in the ass. He belongs soliciting on Craigslist where trying to get something for nothing is the M.O. "Entitled" twit.

Comment Re:so begins the whining.... (Score 1) 244

What about the inventor with few resources or only his own efforts to bring an invention to light, who has spent his whole life developing the invention and now could have his whole life's worth of effort wiped out by one stupid little piece of paper and the associated politics? It doesn't take a stretch of imagination to suggest that this was the M.O. from the get go, and that that M.O is a common one.

Comment DVD-RAM would be the way to go if 12x media (Score 1) 120

... was available other than in Japan. I think there is an importer of 12X media now though. Though DVD-RAM can't be used in regulated environments that specify true WORM media, for other (small, SOHO) data backup chores, it would be the thing to have (with 12X media). NewEgg has 12X DVD-RAM drives for under $40. Personally, I think they are purposely keeping DVD-RAM media away so as not to suppress Blu Ray adoption. Wikipedia has a pretty good writeup on DVD-RAM. The history of optical media for computer data storage is indeed a fiasco. A severe lack of leadership by the industry IMO.

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