http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1440 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:31:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1440 He'll never put things into perspective or acknowledge that there are even positives.


You are the one looking at this issue with blinders on, most likely because you wish copyright to continue as an income stream for the lawyers.

Mike advocates that copyright should promote progress, whatever the means. You are the one who has decided that granting authors exclusive is the *only* path. Your narrow view leaves out way too many possibilities that could achieve the same ends.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130508/10233423003/bug-allows-same-sex-marriage-nintendo-game-nintendo-releases-patch-to-fix-it.shtml#c3661 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:30:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130508/10233423003/bug-allows-same-sex-marriage-nintendo-game-nintendo-releases-patch-to-fix-it.shtml#c3661
About the oft-trotted 'two consenting adults' argument: what, one adult is bad but two is ok? What genius came up with that logic fail? So if two adults decide that they want to marry their dog, that should be ok, right?

As far as people's 1st Amendment rights go, yes, that's correct about not bringing religion into the classroom. However, it's also true that the taxpayers aren't paying for the public schools to indoctrinate children with the gay lifestyle; this constitutes an infringement upon their religious freedom, 1A rights.

Here, enjoy your gay parade:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE3XFJzdgZo]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/02413623115/bogus-lawsuit-plus-threats-to-those-who-write-about-it-leads-to-epic-response.shtml#c760 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:25:20 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/02413623115/bogus-lawsuit-plus-threats-to-those-who-write-about-it-leads-to-epic-response.shtml#c760
And as for Monsarrat showing up at people's houses at night, apparently he's unfamiliar with Massachusetts anti-stalking laws.

Regarding the sale of Monsarrat's former company for 160 Million Dollars, I am still waiting to see this number confirmed by anyone besides Monsarrat himself.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1422 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:18:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1422 Under copyright law, most artists did not have ownerhip or control over the end product. They were forced to assign ownership and control of their copyrights to a third party (record labels, publishers, or studios), and merely received some form of royalties due to the copyright owner's exploitation of these rights.

Incorrect. Nobody is ever forced. There is no law that says you must sell your work to someone else to exploit. That is a choice, not a legal requirement.

As for Mr McCartney, he makes quite a bit performing concerts as a result of his reputation built up through the copyright works he wrote and recorded over his career. On the years that he does not tour, his income from royalties is significantly higher. It should also be pointed out that in 2004, the Beatles catalog was not available on Itunes and other places.

Less than 10% of artists on a major label wer ever able to recoup their costs, meaning that they made not one cent on artist royatlies.

Many of those same artists use the work and it's wide distribution and promotion to be able to build a fan base and charge for access to their live shows. You seem to have a very limited understanding of what a label deal involves and what artist can get as a result. If they are forced back to working at the 7-11 after that, they likely are not the artist that the public wants to hear from, read, or buy art from, plain and simple. You don't see successful and popular bands working at the 7-11 (except for fun).

Even with this protection, the vast majority of creative artists were forced to make their living "in other ways."

it depends on what you consider as a creative artist. There is no unlimited source of revenue to pay people who feel they are an artist, the system is built so that those who are appreciated by the public can make a living being an artist. Copyright and all that goes with it means that song writers can write songs without having to spend their time performing for the public, or that book writers who are not good public speakers aren't forced to do speaking tours or lecture for a living in order to be able to support their hobby of writing.

Would you, as Mike Masnick appears to want to, deny the artists the rights to own the material they create? Are musical artists lesser than a painter or a sculptor? Does a writer lose ownership once he publishes a single copy of his book? Is a singer forced to sing for their supper because they have no way to own their works and creations?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c188 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:17:53 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c188
I don't even know if the creative fields are safe.

The free market economy can't deal with this and perhaps centrally planned economies will make a come back only this time instead of being planned by corrupt humans, it will be planned by computers.

*If* singularity occurs, mankind is going to have a tough time adjusting to being the second smartest group on the planet.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c166 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:17:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c166 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16203623112/nintendo-exchanges-goodwill-control-issues-mass-monetization-claims-lets-play-videos.shtml#c287 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:10:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16203623112/nintendo-exchanges-goodwill-control-issues-mass-monetization-claims-lets-play-videos.shtml#c287
Did Nintendo go their house and decide to play the game? Did they work to help these people create better content? Did Nintendo do any work on creating the videos and the unique experiences that people worked hours to achieve? Do they even need this money to produce more games since they've done quite well in doing so before now?

Why should they feel so entitled to get paid off of other's work?

It's absolutely amazing to me that anyone feels that Nintendo is in the right when we recognize that their position is going to make the public worse off. That's not the point of copyright in chilling free speech or allowing a company to feel entitled. It's supposed to act as a subsidy for more speech.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08111723117/want-to-destroy-any-hope-serious-cybersecurity-give-doj-its-desired-backdoor-wiretaps-all-communications.shtml#c172 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:03:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08111723117/want-to-destroy-any-hope-serious-cybersecurity-give-doj-its-desired-backdoor-wiretaps-all-communications.shtml#c172 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/14465423109/aps-attempt-drming-news-shuts-down.shtml#c136 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:03:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/14465423109/aps-attempt-drming-news-shuts-down.shtml#c136 Um...Never Mind!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1287 Sat, 18 May 2013 05:57:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1287 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/18051923103/footage-lethal-beating-deleted-seized-phone-sheriff-asks-fbi-to-take-over-investigation.shtml#c915 Sat, 18 May 2013 05:53:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/18051923103/footage-lethal-beating-deleted-seized-phone-sheriff-asks-fbi-to-take-over-investigation.shtml#c915

]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130516/10513523106/att-continues-to-mock-concept-net-neutrality-this-time-with-google-hangouts-block.shtml#c398 Sat, 18 May 2013 05:42:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130516/10513523106/att-continues-to-mock-concept-net-neutrality-this-time-with-google-hangouts-block.shtml#c398 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c147 Sat, 18 May 2013 05:40:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c147 There isn't anything that humans can do that machines are naturally incapable of doing, just things that we haven't yet figured out how to make machines do.

Note the "we" in that sentence.

My observation is that everything that we thought required "intelligence", e.g. chess, has turned out in practice to be susceptible to a brute force approach of one kind or another. We are still absolutely no nearer having a machine that is really intelligent - as defined by your own criterion "being able to figure out how to do things it can't yet do."]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130508/10233423003/bug-allows-same-sex-marriage-nintendo-game-nintendo-releases-patch-to-fix-it.shtml#c3637 Sat, 18 May 2013 05:31:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130508/10233423003/bug-allows-same-sex-marriage-nintendo-game-nintendo-releases-patch-to-fix-it.shtml#c3637
It deserves pointing out that the concept of a God granting us free will is illogical. If God gave it to me, it is not truly free will.

When people ask me if we have free will, I answer, "Of course, we have no choice." But unlike the religious, at least I know I'm being ironic.*

*Borrowed from Christopher Hitchens]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08111723117/want-to-destroy-any-hope-serious-cybersecurity-give-doj-its-desired-backdoor-wiretaps-all-communications.shtml#c163 Sat, 18 May 2013 05:24:19 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08111723117/want-to-destroy-any-hope-serious-cybersecurity-give-doj-its-desired-backdoor-wiretaps-all-communications.shtml#c163 Then it will be just like the old days when the FBI only tried to infiltrate us and set us up in a sting. They can tap my land line and I will make up stuff to talk about. Gotta keep those guys busy listening.
Remember this is a huge country and there's lot of land where no one lives. It's easy to escape the city life. Just get on a bus, Gus, drive your car Lar, and get the hell out of there.
Everytime I think of our current government I think of Star Wars and the wise words of Princess Leia:
"The tighter your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers"]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c131 Sat, 18 May 2013 05:04:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c131 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1274 Sat, 18 May 2013 05:02:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1274
as such anywhere you have high speed switching (such as digital information running around inside your phone) you ARE generating an infinite series of sine waves (not really infinite because the signals are not completely square (the have a specific turn on time and turn off time).

So just having the clock for the CPU running generates a large amount of RF noise.

"However, as the frequency-domain graph shows, square waves contain a wide range of harmonics; these can generate electromagnetic radiation or pulses of current that interfere with other nearby circuits, causing noise or errors. To avoid this problem in very sensitive circuits such as precision analog-to-digital converters, sine waves are used instead of square waves as timing references."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_wave]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1414 Sat, 18 May 2013 04:52:54 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1414
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130412/16073622693/julie-samuels-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c618

(Funnily enough, the first quote from that post is also from Wheaton v. Peters, but it most certainly does not imply copyright was merely recognizing a natural right, but rather created one that wasn't there before).]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1257 Sat, 18 May 2013 04:51:48 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1257
TV receivers also have local oscillators, it used to be used by the radio detection people who could tell if you had a TV or radio without the license for it.

Also used by the military to detect and track the location of the enemy even if they are not transmitting, as the receivers also emit specific radio frequencies.

Single Side band radio's also have another oscillator called a "beat frequency oscillator, required to re-insert the 'carrier' wave of an other Amplitude modulated signal.

Also frequency synthesisors have multiple oscillators and mixers designed to provide a wide range of frequencies from the local oscillator chain.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/12483923107/nz-supreme-court-will-review-kim-dotcoms-extradition-case.shtml#c831 Sat, 18 May 2013 04:39:07 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/12483923107/nz-supreme-court-will-review-kim-dotcoms-extradition-case.shtml#c831