http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120504/03253518776/how-can-you-tell-if-uploading-your-cover-song-to-youtube-is-infringing-you-cant.shtml#c585 Fri, 17 May 2013 23:07:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120504/03253518776/how-can-you-tell-if-uploading-your-cover-song-to-youtube-is-infringing-you-cant.shtml#c585 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/07281823105/saudi-religious-police-anyone-using-twitter-has-lost-this-world-his-afterlife.shtml#c726 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:39:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/07281823105/saudi-religious-police-anyone-using-twitter-has-lost-this-world-his-afterlife.shtml#c726 All religions -- it doesn't matter which one -- eventually lose their

Or they never really had one. Exhibit A: the old Testament.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1212 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:37:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1212
or that the miles and miles of wire in an aircraft make a very nice antenna system ?

That if you were going to engineer an aircraft with the EMC shielding, it would be too heavy to fly ?

That a 1% error on your heading setting when moving at 500Kmh could make the different between hitting a mountain or not ?

Or that the digital communications used on phones creates significant harmonic radiation ?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1327 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:36:36 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1327
I think that you are trying to apply an incredibly narrow black and white approach to something that is many shades of grey.

It would be hard for you to honestly deny that ownership and control of an end product is good for artists. Being able to sell or market their works in a manner that helps them to support themselves as artists in the future always promotes the progress, it allows the best artists to continue being artists.

Do you think it is fair that an artist who paints a picture can sell the picture (or charge admission to see it, if they want), but a musician, computer programmer, movie actor, or writer should somehow be denied that right because their works are more easily put in a digital format?

Without some form of protection, there is a good possiblity that many of today's top artists would not be able to be artists on a full time basis, and would instead have to spend their time earning a living in other ways. Some of those ways may be related to their art, but for many it would be the good old 9 to 5 J.O.B. and not much more.

Promotion the progress and rights protection are not mutually exclusive, and so far, few arguments show that rights protection harms those who choose to freely distribute their work.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120104/04252517273/spanish-government-adopts-its-own-version-sopa-sinde-law-approved.shtml#c201 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:35:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120104/04252517273/spanish-government-adopts-its-own-version-sopa-sinde-law-approved.shtml#c201 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15583223111/congress-grandstanding-over-google-glass-privacy-concerns-next-up-privacy-concerns-over-your-eyes.shtml#c2162 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:33:53 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15583223111/congress-grandstanding-over-google-glass-privacy-concerns-next-up-privacy-concerns-over-your-eyes.shtml#c2162 It is much easier for someone to plant cameras in such places if they are after such pictures.

Much easier than starting the video recorder, or setting the Glass to take a photo every nth second before entering the lockerroom and then walking around acting normal?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1320 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:33:51 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1320 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/07281823105/saudi-religious-police-anyone-using-twitter-has-lost-this-world-his-afterlife.shtml#c711 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:31:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/07281823105/saudi-religious-police-anyone-using-twitter-has-lost-this-world-his-afterlife.shtml#c711 You have your opinion but consider one half of humanity
disagrees.

[citation needed]]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130426/10363322853/make-art-not-law.shtml#c83 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:29:36 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130426/10363322853/make-art-not-law.shtml#c83 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/07281823105/saudi-religious-police-anyone-using-twitter-has-lost-this-world-his-afterlife.shtml#c701 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:27:38 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/07281823105/saudi-religious-police-anyone-using-twitter-has-lost-this-world-his-afterlife.shtml#c701 Monarchies have performed well in the past, don't be a hater.

Name three monarchies that weren't build on crimes against peasants. Hell, name one.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/07281823105/saudi-religious-police-anyone-using-twitter-has-lost-this-world-his-afterlife.shtml#c685 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:25:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/07281823105/saudi-religious-police-anyone-using-twitter-has-lost-this-world-his-afterlife.shtml#c685 While us Americans love freedom, it may not always be best.

Says who?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1204 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:24:46 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1204
Blutooth uses spread spectrum, ATC uses VHF, Amplitude Modulation narrow spectrum.

The radio antennas for VHF comms to aircraft are usually mount of the fuselage forward of the wings and aft of the cockpit, or sometimes on the tail section, they are Omni-directional, and it's the aircrafts weather radar that is mounted in the nose cone and using parabolic dishes and directional antennae.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16203623112/nintendo-exchanges-goodwill-control-issues-mass-monetization-claims-lets-play-videos.shtml#c266 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:23:38 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16203623112/nintendo-exchanges-goodwill-control-issues-mass-monetization-claims-lets-play-videos.shtml#c266 That's the main reason they get a free pass

The upcoming backlash doesn't look like a free pass to me.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c65 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:21:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c65 The second problem is the failure to recognize that people value some products and services provided by our fellow meat-sacks.

This is only true in the case that meat-sacks make 'better' products, like the example of the antiquated rug. But that's an exception to the rule.

Robots enable technologies we couldn't have dreamt about in history. If there's still a market for handmade circuit-boards, I'll bet it's not sufficient to employ even 1% of the workforce that robots have put out of work. These new circuits are much better than the old ones... and smaller and more durable and more energy efficient.

There's no market for handmade processors. There's no market for Low Frequency Trading... only people who don't have the ability to make High Frequency Trading happen.

Yes, people will retrain. But suggesting that we'll all make artisan versions of what we make today is just silly.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16203623112/nintendo-exchanges-goodwill-control-issues-mass-monetization-claims-lets-play-videos.shtml#c249 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:21:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16203623112/nintendo-exchanges-goodwill-control-issues-mass-monetization-claims-lets-play-videos.shtml#c249 Nintendo is well within their rights to monetize these videos and images

Are they? I think this is questionable. Zach (presumably) has paid for the games he is recording. Why should Nintedo get to double-dip?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16203623112/nintendo-exchanges-goodwill-control-issues-mass-monetization-claims-lets-play-videos.shtml#c243 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:19:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16203623112/nintendo-exchanges-goodwill-control-issues-mass-monetization-claims-lets-play-videos.shtml#c243 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16203623112/nintendo-exchanges-goodwill-control-issues-mass-monetization-claims-lets-play-videos.shtml#c225 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:17:22 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16203623112/nintendo-exchanges-goodwill-control-issues-mass-monetization-claims-lets-play-videos.shtml#c225 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1203 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:14:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1203 With my current phone, I've tried to "turn it off" but even when it says it's turning off it's not really turning off (because when I switch the battery, it takes about 3 minutes to boot up -- but if I "turn it off" and then turn it back on, it's ready to go within a second).

It's called RAM (Random Access Memory) your phone is completely OFF, except for a single voltage to the phones RAM holding the operating data.

THE REST IS OFF, IF you remove the battery, that holding voltage to the RAM is removed, the contents of the RAM are lost, and it takes 3 minutes to boot up again.

You phone is not "in idle" it is OFF..

Masnick, don't you know a freaking thing about electronics ?? ANYTHING ??]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130404/01213022571/thomas-cooley-law-schools-reputation-is-dumps-so-its-thinking-about-changing-its-name.shtml#c382 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:13:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130404/01213022571/thomas-cooley-law-schools-reputation-is-dumps-so-its-thinking-about-changing-its-name.shtml#c382 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/05513523093/suburban-express-goes-double-nothing-their-aggressive-behavior.shtml#c62 Fri, 17 May 2013 21:57:47 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/05513523093/suburban-express-goes-double-nothing-their-aggressive-behavior.shtml#c62
Know a person by what he's done, not by what he says or writes when he knows everyone is watching.]]>