We also may share or disclose personal information, including the content of your communications: ... To protect the rights or property of Microsoft or our customers, including enforcing the terms governing your use of the services.
Reading your personal information is a given, sharing it is what they explicitly give themselves permission to do.
See now, I don't quite get the logic that illustrations of nudity somehow detract from the established characters in the Barsoom stories. Am I the only one who remembers that pretty much everyone on Mars was nude most of the time in them?
The Kindle Fire doesn't support bluetooth. That's one of it's documented downsides. It also doesn't support "low bandwitdh" networks, it's wifi only. And, given that it's wifi only, I'm not even sure where they're going with the whole network failover concept, unless they mean failing over from one wifi network to another.
Then if creating art of the same value as Prince's is so trivial, why are you wasting time trolling Techdirt forums, when you could be creating "art", and rolling in cash?
What you are saying here is that art is defined by the effort necessary to recreate it. Yes, you might be able to reproduce exactly what Prince did in a few minutes. But art is not just the physical actions, it is the effort and time spent to decide what to do and how to do it.
So while it might be trivial to reproduce this piece of art, it may very well not have been trivial to create it. And isn't the disparity between the effort to create art and reproduce it the thing that has copyright maximalists in a tizzy?
"The Congress shall have Power [...] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Yes, that grants Congress the power to create and administer copyright (which they have done, voraciously), but I believe Mike's opinion is that not only has Congress gone well beyond the stated intent of the clause, but that it's very possible that this clause is just as obsolete as the subsequent Militia clauses.
Scalzi did some back-of-the-envelope calculations and noticed that the control data for the Tor free ebook releases were right smack in the middle of the holiday season, which might skew the results subsequent to those releases. By widening out the samples and re-running the numbers, he calculated an improvement in sales after his free Tor ebook was released, which Hilton's study didn't show.
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http://www.microsoft.com/privacystatement/en-us/core/default.aspx?Componentid=pspOtherInformationModule&View=Description
Reading your personal information is a given, sharing it is what they explicitly give themselves permission to do.
Terror number?
I wonder how many of those hops were Kevin Bacon...
Spam filters?
But what if what I want is Spam?
Am I really the only one who thought...
..."Magnum: Pleasure Hunt 2" was a condom ad?
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"it's just someone else's work with his fingers on it."
Isn't that all art?
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See now, I don't quite get the logic that illustrations of nudity somehow detract from the established characters in the Barsoom stories. Am I the only one who remembers that pretty much everyone on Mars was nude most of the time in them?
Toothpaste?
Where do I buy this counterfeit toothpaste? Surely it must be cheaper than the stuff I'm paying $2 for at Walmart.
Bluetooth?
The Kindle Fire doesn't support bluetooth. That's one of it's documented downsides. It also doesn't support "low bandwitdh" networks, it's wifi only. And, given that it's wifi only, I'm not even sure where they're going with the whole network failover concept, unless they mean failing over from one wifi network to another.
Overall, fishing in entirely the wrong lake.
Re: Universities are about higher learning & freedom right?
"But I can about guarantee that no mass gunman ever started their rampage at the behest of a poster."
Particularly a poster that advocated the killing of, and only of, armed aggressors.
I actually blogged this very idea years ago...
And I'm pretty sure I got the idea from something I read on TechDirt at the time: Digital ?Piracy? of Broadcast Content
Oh, and I invented the DVR in 1992, too. I'm just that ahead of the times. :)
Soylent Jell-o is Purple!
We truly are living in the future.
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Then if creating art of the same value as Prince's is so trivial, why are you wasting time trolling Techdirt forums, when you could be creating "art", and rolling in cash?
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What you are saying here is that art is defined by the effort necessary to recreate it. Yes, you might be able to reproduce exactly what Prince did in a few minutes. But art is not just the physical actions, it is the effort and time spent to decide what to do and how to do it.
So while it might be trivial to reproduce this piece of art, it may very well not have been trivial to create it. And isn't the disparity between the effort to create art and reproduce it the thing that has copyright maximalists in a tizzy?
Re: Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Mar 21st, 2011 @ 11:24am
Bingo!
Re: Interesting question to ponder
"But I dont think that any artificial intelligence will EVER have to be defined as a person. They dont have souls..."
Neither do I, and neither do you. Prove otherwise.
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Article 1, Section 8:
"The Congress shall have Power [...] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Yes, that grants Congress the power to create and administer copyright (which they have done, voraciously), but I believe Mike's opinion is that not only has Congress gone well beyond the stated intent of the clause, but that it's very possible that this clause is just as obsolete as the subsequent Militia clauses.
Re: There's a difference though...
I may be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure that Windows does not ship with the Bing toolbar.
Why not write a book?
Rather than sit around whining and suing people, why not do like Wes Moore and write a book about it?
Possible issues with the data
Scalzi did some back-of-the-envelope calculations and noticed that the control data for the Tor free ebook releases were right smack in the middle of the holiday season, which might skew the results subsequent to those releases. By widening out the samples and re-running the numbers, he calculated an improvement in sales after his free Tor ebook was released, which Hilton's study didn't show.