G Thompson's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
from the without-a-u dept
Well here it is again, the favorite (without a U) Techdirt post of the week, brought to you by the one and only me, (and not U), G Thompson from that land down under, Australia, where the brave fear to tread, mainly because we make U appear in color, flavor, and favor on pain of eating Vegemite. ;)
All through this week there was a heap of articles about that new acronym of geek protesters everywhere in the USA, CISPA. I'm not going to write about it much, more than enough has been written about it here this week, so forgive me if I skip over it. In fact, to tell the truth, originally I thought it actually meant "Congress Insidiously Spying on the Privacy of Americans", before someone told me the correct meaning. Then again, maybe my first guess wasn't far from the truth either.
Sunday started off with a song and marketing show with Facebook's new favorite person, Dan Bull, that I "liked".
On Monday though, a squad of BlackLight agents were looking into the retransmission of the ultraviolet spectrum, whilst across town the accountants of Facebook wondered how much money they could give Microsoft because they really wanted those shiny, though now used, things so they too can play in The Band, though only if Reddit isn't invited. No one is quite sure about the loyalty of DropBox to the clique either now.
At the same time, [** these words removed by Australian Government **] held talks, though thankfully this ensured the venue's rental agreement they had was voidable and removed all context from anything understandable let alone patentable. Confused? Don't worry 50 Cent is as well and it's no less confusing than not wanting warrant's . Luckily this confusion did not affect any robots.
Tuesday had trolls everywhere hugging and blowing kisses to be accepted by Valve. Toronto residents became the privileged few allowed to pay for any graffiti complaints. Captain Obvious flies in to make a surprise appearance at the EU Court of Justice, though the US already knew his flight details from Monday.
The world was informed that when we are alone with our computers we are lonely and alone. Who knew? Probably these Hollywood statisticians who it seems love to debate maths. Maybe the knowledge was instead locked away in a genetic memory found in someone’s virtual fantasy of entitlement. They better make sure that's a new fantasy and not a re-used one though.
In other world news, the French unban and then tweet about 70 year old encryption technology and wonder if it will work better than Hadopi does, while Kenya's High Court sends a huge hakuna matata to generic drug manufacturers. Oh and shocking news was received that someone has breached copyright by criticising Rush Limbaugh.. uhuh.
Wednesday had head bangers being changed by the tubes, though Slayer and Gaming still rocks, unless you are actually slaying after playing games, or so noobs say. The Data protection wizard of Europe then annoyed the Land of the Free by decreeing that freedom is important , whilst Jimmy Wales states that Hollywood isn't free nor important. Rumblefish announced their new marketing strategy of claiming copyright that third parties tell them about and in homegrown news the Techdirt community tries to define what copyfraud is or isn’t, and something about fair use.
Thursday starts with 2,514 cries of "Doe" heard starting a new hunting/fishing season for another trollish entity in Florida. The UK takes a stand against twits on twitter, whilst someone in the SEC wakes up and smells the tea in China. Meanwhile paintings everywhere are being blacked out to protect them from the insidious moving picture cameras which might suck out their cultural souls. Over in Australia nerfers are raining down missiles on Hasbro for its latest campaign to collect addresses and send nothing but air and lawyers.
I think think the happenings this week were enough keep everyone occupied, especially if you also had to read the months worth of privacy policies it seems you need too nowadays, and that’s even before knowing what Google Drive is doing with all your content. I suspect someone will try to patent a software system to do all this for us someday. Now there's an idea.
Where did Friday go you might be wondering. Well my Friday is your Thursday, therefore my Saturday is your Friday and sadly that timey wimey International date thingy gets in the way. So instead you can either comment about Friday's posts below in the comments or just pretend like me that Fridays don't exist.
Hang on, that's Mondays.
Re: Sodastream Ripoff
Well I'm not sure about America but in Australia/New Zealand you do not buy a new cylinder and instead you replace the old empty one for a new refilled one.. Its an actual exchange and it only costs $30 for a 60L one.. (and that's direct from Sodastream themselves .. cheaper from retailers)
The syrup costs RRP of $6.95 and seeing as a 2L bottle of coke from the supermarket costs when not on special of average $4.00 (a 1.25Litre bottle costs approx $2.80) Sodastream is very cost effective here.. The UK is equivalent in costs of coke/pepsi and savings I am told too.
Though I agree with you about the pressure difference's and the 'fizz' it doesn't really give.
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What? The same Times lawyer(s) who have basically said their can be no reference ANYWHERE whether private or otherwise of the product that the NYT designed nor of the NYT itself nor of FACTUAL DATA about the idiotic text that the NYT did in first place..
Right.... of course they would be okay with something *similar*..
As to the NYT's themselves they have no legal leg whatsoever to stand on in this matter there have been numerous precedents of demo's of other persons works to explain what the 'new' thing can do better and more efficiently..
Basically the NYT is suffering from Butthurtitis and the NYT lawyers need to get their heads out of theirs
Re: These sites are all bad and must be taken down.
Advocating for known criminals and criminality is dicey at best.
Remember to state that the next time you need an attorney for any alleged wrongs you might of committed.. I'm sure it will go down well with your counsel's attitude towards you
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The problem here is that the abuse of the process is NOT the outlier and instead the strict adherence to the actual legislation is extremely unheard of and never much used
If the outliers were the abuses then you might have a point, instead you are stating that abuse of process is okay because the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.. WHO FUCKING DECIDES???!!!!
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as more outs and more appeal levels than almost any court system on the planet
Interestingly the court systems where There are better and more appeal levels and work more with procedural fairness (what the US Systems DOES NOT HAVE) are the New Zealand and Australian ones... Based off the English system... Canada isn't far behind those two either.. the UK sadly has become more US like in its judicial processes.
Kim would NEVER have a fair trial in the US court systems, and the notion of a fair trial nowadays with anything to do with high profile criminal or civil cases in the US is ONLY when it suits the USG's purposes. Your (the US's) societal system is crumbling already, you're just too blinkered and close to understand what you have lost over the last 30yrs
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Remember, extradition doesn't equate to guilt.
Correct, his guilt has already retrospectively been decided beforehand by your Grand Jury (called a Star Chamber everywhere else). The extradition is just to allow the GJ process to get to do what it does best, convict everyone and their ham sandwich based on third party unreliable unauthentic hearsay and rhetoric
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I'll let you into a few secrets.. I'm a licensed 747-300/400 Avionics Engineer (from way back in early 90's) and you are ABSOLUTELY UNEQUIVICALLY WRONG!
All electronics in aircraft are shielded, there have been none, zilch, nada, Zero cases of ANY consumer electronic devices causing ANY problems whatsoever with any aircraft sub systems or external systems like TACAN, etc anywhere on the planet in the history of air travel.
There is already a quasi Faraday cage around every single commercial aircraft anyway.. it's caused by the friction of going through the air at speed above 150mph giving off a static charge. There are even subsystems on the aircraft to compensate for this problematic static charge and faraday effect.
Whether the instruments are in the cockpit (in commercial airliners the cockpit holds the least amount of computers.. in fact most computers etc in 747's etc are normally in a hold above the front wheel truck) is irrelevant to any interference from devices that barely come close to matching background radiation (sunspots cause more problems than anything else ever).
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Ah but both Marc and Myself see the Initials C.C and crazy and think of another form of 'Crystalline' weirdness where the "sunshine" is very much needed
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awww what ya got against C.C and the "sunshine" Band ;)
Re: A tough sell
Well that's easy... Play BF3 as an Engineer (like I do 80% of the time) equip Stingers and then Point your nice kill rocket at the nearest Bell Helicopter (Scout Heli) unless the pilot has ECM or Flares equipped they are disabled in 1 hit and destroyed in 2 (or less sometimes if they crash).
Basically means Bell Heli's now in BF3 are flying coffins, ie: CRAP!!!!!! though the Attack heli's now aren't much better..
Disclaimer: I love blowing up heli's.. though I normally use RPG/SMAW's to do so. Muwahahahaha
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He also asked for contact details of ALL judges in ALL cases that these attorneys have ANY interest in... It's the second part of the sentence your comment is about..
I'd suggest that you obtain this 'new' skill we like to call Reading Comprehension!
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It's not whether it is meritorious or not. A federal judge has ordered that all other courts and matters that the attorneys who have been found lacking in candour, ethics, and other violations of their duty to the Court (be that court Federal or otherwise - it is irrelevant) are involved with be INFORMED of the above findings and should therefore take these into consideration when applying Rules and other Bench procedures to them for any matters that would sometimes be let slid.
Also it is necessary for other Courts to know that there are Bar proceedings against same Attorneys since it is highly likely based on previous history that the Attorneys at question would not have the candour to explain same to the courts as they are meant to do.
Re: Re: Wrong disorder
I'd be more inclined to say Prenda et.al are bordering on the edges of Solipsism.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Not only anomaly, but no action beyond a letter.
They should be in it for the lulz since Blue gets a LOT of them - admittedly about him/her/it though
Re: Why?
As soon as I read that I couldn't help but think of that line from Pink Floyd's The Wall (Part II) "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat ya meat"
Though it makes sense when you think about it.. Blue is basically Comfortably Numb (or is that dumb???)
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He's more and more acting like a hamster with the foul stench of elderberries about him too.!
(untitled comment)
Clearly Judge Wright does not like this type of litigation and he's no fan of intellectual property law."
Clearly Judge Wright does not like this type of litigation and he's no fan of idiots practising law.
There Mr Steele.. I fixed it for you
Re: Superior sense: if you like HHGTG, DON'T WATCH THE MOVIE!
Now we might all understand OOTB's major reason..
He's actually Marvin without the brain the size of a planet (walnut maybe) who's imbibed too many Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters and who has never listened to the original radio series nor seen the original BBC TV series.
Metadata is NOT relieable nor is it meant to be
Exif or IPTC data is ONLY metadata and is not meant to be used for providence and/or ownership purposes and only for searching/tagging that's why it's able to be easily (and quite the norm actually) stripped from items.
If these photographers (and anyone creating Digital products) want to control their works then they need to actually use the tools and standards that have been created to do this.
This is where Digital Watermarks that are highly verifiable and authentic, like those from Digimarc, MarkAny or DataMark for example if you are doing a fair few projects per year for commercial purposes are supposed to be used.
These are for Photographers, AV Producers, ebooks, etc.. and though cost to actually use them thats the cost of doing business. If you want your product to have providence and authenticity then PAY FOR THEM! If you just want your product tagged with unverifiable and highly unreliable data then by all means use the free meta-data tools that are NOT meant for that purpose.
For more info about Digital Watermarks go look on the Alliance page who have a great selection of information of what DW's can and should be used for as well as a wide variety of companies that provide commercial DW services
http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/default.asp
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or at worst, get a slap on the wrist via a DMCA takedown
So your now stating that the DMCA is a punitive measure? hmmm that's interesting would you like to further place your foot in your mouth or would you rather just let that statement slide until it's taken out and cited when you claim that the DMCA "does nothing for rights holders and is topthless, and should be a punishment device backed by law instead" or words to that effect??? ... your move