Re: Re: Re: Re: Me, I'm waiting for the commentators to start citing the US Consitutition to rebut this case....
You're the commenter who drug the US Constitution underneath an article about a court case in Iceland
No, I was expecting other commentators to start citing US law when 'explaining' why the judge might or might not be wrong. I see this kind of behaviour all the time. I was trying reverse psychology so that this wouldn't happen. Obviously, I failed.
I knew full well that this was an Icelandic case and court. And it's a good decision, mostly, IMHO, for the reason I stated: banks are not businesses like other businesses are.
I want to send out a hearty cheer for my ISP, Aliant, here in Atlantic Canada. Completely Net neutral, completely no caps, completely 'we don't care what you do'.
He address Toews proposed legislattion. One line from a preview (I'm quoting from memory) is "almost all people, if they knew they were going to die in five minutes ... would take a minute or two and go to their computer and erase the hard drive..".. Heh.
Agreed. Just because someone makes one mistake, it's no reason to ruin their whole life.
Ms. Drnovsek Zorko might, on the other hand, make a very good politician, now that she's been burned because she 'just followed orders'. However, she considers herself a bureaucrat, not a politician.
The critical part of her apology:
"...I want to apologise because I carried out my official duty, but not my civic duty..."
If only more people in power would do their civic duty, rather than simply their official duty.
At 'official' Canadian Museums, you ARE allowed to take photographs of anything that is part of their permanent collections - since, as Canadian citizens, we own the works. Bonus: permanent collections are usually free to visit, for the same reason.
However, there is a strict "No Flash" policy, as this might/will degrade some of the dyes. Flash output is brighter than sunlight.
Re: Re: Not copyfraud... @ "Paul Renault": Think "MC" on the graphic
In Canada, in French (I'm not sure about France), "MC" means 'marque de commerce'. It's how you say 'trademark' in French.
(MC) = (TM) Clear enough?
It's just the same as if the NYT had an article about french (sorry, "american") fries and there was a picture of a bottle of ketchup and the bottle's label had (TM) next to the word "Heinz". In this case, the NYT wouldn't be claiming copyright of the bottle label, no?
Some of us can read "French Canadian". And French. (Hmm, does that make me tri-lingual?)
I looked at the page, right-clicked on the image, and DIDN'T see the copyright notice on the image, just the trademark logo/notice("MC" - Marque de commerce).
I read the reddit comments by the installer. To sum up: bigger hotels have to install more equipment than smaller hotels because they have more rooms, so their installations cost more.
OK, fine...but they also have more rooms! So they have more income! The better question to ask: do larger hotels have to have more equipment per room than smaller hotels? I'll skirt the obvious observation that larger hotels tend to charge more per room.
(It's like the argument about why you can't have people hand-counting votes in the USA like we do in Canada. Yes, the USA has ten times the population so there are more votes to count. But the USA has ten times the population, so there are more people which can count the votes.)(Complicated-er ballots notwithstanding, eh.)
Next thing you know, they'll claim that they have to charge extra for the bed sheets - because they have to have more washers and dryers than small hotels.
Besides: 20 switches to service 120 access points? What am I missing? Maybe they need to stop buying their equipment at Staples or Best Buy and get switches with more than eight ports.
While I'm not a network installer, my customers have moderately-complicated LANs which I have to work on sometimes. They'll often have 120 computers hard-wired in and two wifi access points. Three or four switches, two routers, a dial-up modem and a phone, data backup equipment, file servers, a monitor and keyboard, and two UPSes. It all fits in a cabinet 3ftx3ftx7ft.
Large hotels only need: a router, three or four switches spread out throughout the hotel (to reduce cabling), some small UPSes, high-power wifi access points, and proper antennas.
The reddit commenter mentionned $300/night. At that rate, I'd demand that Internet access be included in the room rate, just like at a Howard Johnson, instead of gouging the customers.
Mike Masnick: "He certainly is not arguing that the web would have been better off -- just that it's possible that CERN and its investments in basic research would have been better off.
Well, point taken. But isn't copyright's raison d'être is that society as a whole benefits?
So, the Occam's Razor question: If CERN had been paid modest contribution[s] [from] everyone for this wonderful innovation, would the enormous investment[s] [which] in turn further[ed] basic research, would the world have been better off than what we have now?
On the post: Amazon Hides Classic Free Public Domain Ebooks
Um...why even bother with Amazon?
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/11/amazon_charges_kindle_users_fo .html
Support your local Public Domain supplier.
http://gutenberg.ca/
http://gutenberg.org/
While I'm at it:
http://librivox.org
On the post: Iceland Court Orders Visa To Start Processing Wikileaks Payments Again Within Two Weeks
Re: Re: Re: Re: Me, I'm waiting for the commentators to start citing the US Consitutition to rebut this case....
No, I was expecting other commentators to start citing US law when 'explaining' why the judge might or might not be wrong. I see this kind of behaviour all the time. I was trying reverse psychology so that this wouldn't happen. Obviously, I failed.
I knew full well that this was an Icelandic case and court. And it's a good decision, mostly, IMHO, for the reason I stated: banks are not businesses like other businesses are.
On the post: Great Day For Canadian Copyright: Supreme Court Issues Five (Count 'Em) Rulings Supporting Fair Dealing And Fewer Tariffs
Re: Re: O Canada
Ô Canada!
Terre de nos aîeux,
Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux,
The rest is fine.
However, this is the one you should be singing, while you're watching the Maple Laughs "losing that damn hockey game" (to quote Jody Mitchell):
ᐆ ᑲᓇᑕ!
ᓇᖕᒥᓂ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ!
ᐱᖁᔭᑏ ᓇᓚᑦᑎᐊᖅᐸᕗᑦ.
ᐊᖏᒡᓕᕙ ;ᓪᓕᐊᔪᑎ,
ᓴᙱᔪᓗᑎᓪᓗ.
ᓇ&# 5519;ᖅᐳᒍ, ᐆ ᑲᓇᑕ,
ᒥᐊᓂᕆᑉᓗᑎᑎ.
ᐆ ᑲᓇᑕ! ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊ!
ᓇᖏᖅᐳᒍ ᒥᐊᑎᓂᕆᑉᓗᑎ,
ᐆ ᑲᓇᑕ, ᓴᓚᒋᔭᐅᖁᓇ!
All together now!
On the post: Iceland Court Orders Visa To Start Processing Wikileaks Payments Again Within Two Weeks
Re: Re: Me, I'm waiting for the commentators to start citing the US Consitutition to rebut this case....
On the post: Iceland Court Orders Visa To Start Processing Wikileaks Payments Again Within Two Weeks
Me, I'm waiting for the commentators to start citing the US Consitutition to rebut this case....
Just as doctors are NOT the same as plumbers. They are given special, unique priviledges. And, they are also given unique obligations.
On the post: PIPA Author Senator Leahy Gets His Reward: A Part In 'The Dark Knight Rises'
I hope that...
On the post: You Don't Own What You Buy, Part 15,332: Cisco Forces Questionable New Firmware On Routers
Re: Re: Re:
On the post: New iPhone Connector Port Revealed, Thus Wiping Out Several Generations Of Accessories In One Fell Swoop
The only thing that can stop this kind of crap...
However, I don't hold out much hope from Apple users. Their understanding of 'think different' is doing what Cupertino tells them to do.
Maybe that "Apple Approved" chip is really implanted in the fanbois, not the hardware.
On the post: The Battle For Net Neutrality Flares Up Again: But Which Countries Still Have It?
Not a Net-neutral country, but Net-neutral ISP.
Hip, hip, hooray!
On the post: If You Meet A Censor, Ask Why They Haven't Become Moral Degenerates Themselves
They have a staff discount.
(The call them 'magic underwear'.)
On the post: Court Says Sony Is Free To Change Its Terms Of Service Because Accessing PSN Is A Choice
Re:
On the post: Lindsay Lohan's Lawyer's Loopy Legal Argument Laced With Lifted Language?
Lifted Language Laces Lindsay Lohan's Lawyer's Loopy Legal Letter.
/Huffs fingernails, shines.
On the post: Vic Toews Apparently Not A Fan Of Others Seeing His Personal Data
Rick Mercer's Rant covers this tonight
In the interim, here's an applicable rant about the Harper government:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWwEwUz45_I
On the post: Full Text Of Slovenian Ambassador's Apology For Signing ACTA
Re: Re:
Ms. Drnovsek Zorko might, on the other hand, make a very good politician, now that she's been burned because she 'just followed orders'. However, she considers herself a bureaucrat, not a politician.
The critical part of her apology:
"...I want to apologise because I carried out my official duty, but not my civic duty..."
If only more people in power would do their civic duty, rather than simply their official duty.
On the post: Ownership Mentality: Art Gallery Prohibits Sketching
Re: No Flash policy
However, there is a strict "No Flash" policy, as this might/will degrade some of the dyes. Flash output is brighter than sunlight.
On the post: News Agency Seems To Think It Can Copyright The Hells Angels Logo
Re: Re: Not copyfraud... @ "Paul Renault": Think "MC" on the graphic
(MC) = (TM) Clear enough?
It's just the same as if the NYT had an article about french (sorry, "american") fries and there was a picture of a bottle of ketchup and the bottle's label had (TM) next to the word "Heinz". In this case, the NYT wouldn't be claiming copyright of the bottle label, no?
Yeesh!
On the post: News Agency Seems To Think It Can Copyright The Hells Angels Logo
Not copyfraud...
I looked at the page, right-clicked on the image, and DIDN'T see the copyright notice on the image, just the trademark logo/notice("MC" - Marque de commerce).
I also looked at other stories on the website: all of them have the same-ish copyright notices: "© Agence QMI / Archives", "©Agence QMI/ Jean-François Desgagnes", "© Agence QMI", "© AFP / YOUTUBE", and "©AFP/ Dimitar Dilkoff".
To me, it all looks OK. Copyright correctly attributed to respective parties, from the half-dozen I looked at.
No story here, move along.
On the post: What's The Most Expensive WiFi You've Seen?
Re: Re: Re: Free vs paying
And, no, I can't stay at the $300/night hotels, unless there's really no choice.
On the post: What's The Most Expensive WiFi You've Seen?
Bogus arguments abound!
OK, fine...but they also have more rooms! So they have more income! The better question to ask: do larger hotels have to have more equipment per room than smaller hotels? I'll skirt the obvious observation that larger hotels tend to charge more per room.
(It's like the argument about why you can't have people hand-counting votes in the USA like we do in Canada. Yes, the USA has ten times the population so there are more votes to count. But the USA has ten times the population, so there are more people which can count the votes.)(Complicated-er ballots notwithstanding, eh.)
Next thing you know, they'll claim that they have to charge extra for the bed sheets - because they have to have more washers and dryers than small hotels.
Besides: 20 switches to service 120 access points? What am I missing? Maybe they need to stop buying their equipment at Staples or Best Buy and get switches with more than eight ports.
While I'm not a network installer, my customers have moderately-complicated LANs which I have to work on sometimes. They'll often have 120 computers hard-wired in and two wifi access points. Three or four switches, two routers, a dial-up modem and a phone, data backup equipment, file servers, a monitor and keyboard, and two UPSes. It all fits in a cabinet 3ftx3ftx7ft.
Large hotels only need: a router, three or four switches spread out throughout the hotel (to reduce cabling), some small UPSes, high-power wifi access points, and proper antennas.
The reddit commenter mentionned $300/night. At that rate, I'd demand that Internet access be included in the room rate, just like at a Howard Johnson, instead of gouging the customers.
On the post: No, WIPO Boss Did Not Say The Web Would Have Been Better If Patented... But His Comment Was Still Nonsensical
Well, point taken. But isn't copyright's raison d'être is that society as a whole benefits?
So, the Occam's Razor question: If CERN had been paid modest contribution[s] [from] everyone for this wonderful innovation, would the enormous investment[s] [which] in turn further[ed] basic research, would the world have been better off than what we have now?
Me, I don't think so.