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.
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?
My iLiad, from the now-defunct iRex Technologies, has a built-in Wacom tablet and allows you to overlay hand-writen notes onto PDFs. So an author could literally sign a (DRM-free) PDF version of his/her book.
It brings a new meaning to the phrase digital signature.
Copyright was de facto enforced by the difficulty of copying books before this, but creations were thought to be part of the Common Good in most realms.
They have a staff discount.
..so they can keep a good supply of cilices, both wool and metal. This is what keeps them pure.
(The call them 'magic underwear'.)
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I'm so glad I opted for the Boxee Box to stream Netflix instead of the PlayStation or especially the XBox...
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Close, but not quite close enough:
Lifted Language Laces Lindsay Lohan's Lawyer's Loopy Legal Letter.
/Huffs fingernails, shines.
Rick Mercer's Rant covers this tonight
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.
In the interim, here's an applicable rant about the Harper government:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWwEwUz45_I
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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.
Re: No Flash policy
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?
Yeesh!
Not copyfraud...
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 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.
Re: Re: Re: Free vs paying
I have to stay in hotels all the time. For work. Which I can 'expense'.
And, no, I can't stay at the $300/night hotels, unless there's really no choice.
Bogus arguments abound!
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.
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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.
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"..other __ parties.."
Do you mean, say, electors?
Well, it can be done...
My iLiad, from the now-defunct iRex Technologies, has a built-in Wacom tablet and allows you to overlay hand-writen notes onto PDFs. So an author could literally sign a (DRM-free) PDF version of his/her book.
It brings a new meaning to the phrase digital signature.
Fair is fair...ver2
The judge should give Baidu a mulligan, no?
/I would have done the same thing your brother did.
Make sure you tell the airlines why you're not flying....
...like call a (few) travel agent(s), and ask them if they can advise you how to travel NOT by plane. Start a buzz, get the airlines scared.
Yay for CDN Privacy Commissioners!
All I really have to say.
Is there such a thing as a public official whose job it is to protect the citizen's rights, in the 'States?
Arrgh: Was: Copyright since the dawn of time?
Just to pedantic:
Copyright came into being in 1710.
See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne
Copyright was de facto enforced by the difficulty of copying books before this, but creations were thought to be part of the Common Good in most realms.
Re: Copyright since the dawn of time?
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Canadian Icon Gordon Pinsent reading Justing Bieber
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih-2O_gdYZo
He really is a Canadian Icon. He says so in the clip.
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Damn! I came here to say exactly that: 1) it's an attempt to head off a ban on genes' patents and; 2) it's to protect their other patents.
As well, by "gifting" (shudder) the patent to People of Australia, they'd probably get a huge tax write-off based on ficticious lost sales.