"That sucking sound you hear is our human/constitutional rights getting drained away by the people YOU put in office."
I don't hear much talk in these pages about the NDAA that Obama already signed which effectively repealed the Habeas Corpus Act. (Read The NDAA: a clear and present danger to American liberty in The Guardian where it says The US is sleepwalking into becoming a police state, where, like a pre-Magna Carta monarch, the president can lock up anyone)
Now CISPA is pushed through is another nail in our coffin.
Who will hold the copyright on the portrait? Portrait with one person, two people, family, baby on bearskin rug. Can dance be copyrighted? How about fashion runway walking style?
SOPA & PIPA are the symptom, not the problem. We need to get out in front of this problem and proactively get the IP laws overhauled. We at least need fair-use to be a defined right so that I, as an amateur filmmaker, can know exactly what the limits are, not wait until I'm sued.
Yes, I think IP creators should be compensated but I think we should reduce free speech and encumber innovation and creativity.
Rather that working against what we don't want, why don't we start working together for what we do want?
I'd suggest that we need a concerted effort to get real changes in the IP laws in the USA. How about making fair-use a well defined right just to start?
Something put together by people on an assembly line does not, in my book, count as hand made. The cars that rolled off of Henry Ford's assembly line were factory made ... not hand made.
Hand made is when a craftsman takes raw materials and creates a finished product. Parts are often not interchangeable and each finished product is a little different from the others.
Oh, and "Note that Google's terms of use prohibit the use of their services by any automated means or any means other than through the interface provided by Google. These restrictions would make use of GmailFS a direct violation of the Service agreement."
As we know from reading TechDirt, violating any companies terms of service is now a criminal offence ... so maybe it's good that GmailFS doesn't work any more.
"Unfortunately the GmailFS project has come to an end. libgmail has ceased being maintained by its developers, and as a result libgmail no longer works with the latest Gmail interface (and has not done so for many weeks). Without a working libgmail, GmailFS does not function, so the end of libgmail also spells the end of GmailFS."
making original art, in high resolution, and putting that into the public domain. Things like the full length animated feature film, "Sita Sings the Blues" (http://www.sitasingstheblues.com/) and the full set of eleven images, "The Avatars of Vishnu" (http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/05/06/the-avatars-of-vishnu/), in vector format so they have infinite resolution and many many others.
So what have you, Mr. Smug AC, contributed to the Public Domain this year? Huh? What did you say? Nothing! I'm shocked.
Instead, like me, your reading about being creative. (Oh, I'd better get back to my little video editing project.)
getting a fairly nice high resolution copy of that horse.
I'm not disagreeing with you about the Public Domain ... I do think it's a travesty that nothing goes into the Public Domain any more ... in fact stuff it getting removed.
Next I downloaded the PDF and opened it in Adobe Acrobat Reader v.10.1.1. I went to the page, rotated it 90 degrees and then used Jing again to capture a still image which you can see here: http://screencast.com/t/G6amW0xG6
Next I futzed around using Adobe Reader to make the picture as big as I could on my screen. Then I used Jing to capture this larger image and saved it to my local disk. I opened it in Gimp and found that the pixel size is 1350x9034. So I zoomed into the picture where you had seen much bluring and took another snap with Jing. I think mine looks much sharper than yours. Here's the link to it. http://screencast.com/t/harjCYlxgea1
Of course you are limited to your screen resolution when capturing from your screen. Even 1920x1080 isn't really high enough for good print design of any size.
Peace,
Rob:-]
p.s. I've been enjoying planting your Intellectual Pooperty pamphlets in some strategic place.
You're sending out electromagnetic radiation. Light is electromagnetic radiation too. Pretty soon you'll by saying it's a violation of your constitutional rights if anybody just looks at you.
Defense Attorney: "Officer, how did you find my client?"
Officer: "I saw him walking out of the Denny's on 5th Ave."
Defense Attorney: "Did you have a warrant to look at him or were you intercepting his electromagnetic emanations in violation of his constitutionally protected rights to reflect light privately?"
Officer: "What???"
Bbbbuuuuzzzzzz. Wrong answer but thank you for playing.
I don't like patents either. But your answer is boooogggguuuusss.
1. "not so with programming languages for which you have a few which all translate to a basic language and that is the language a machine understands, there is no search for the perfect combination, there is no difficulty in finding a solutions to that problem"
Clearly you're not a programmer. Take for example the LZH algorithm used for data compression. I was astonished at how really simple and elegant it is. I never would have tried it because it is completely surprising, at least to me, that it would give you some much compression for so little work.
2. All mechanisms are made up of six classical simple machines. So if your argument that programs "all translate to a basic language and that is the language a machine understands" holds any water then I can say the same for all mechanisms; they all reduce to six simple machines ... just like your description of a computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine
To paraphrase Ross Perot ...
"That sucking sound you hear is our human/constitutional rights getting drained away by the people YOU put in office."
I don't hear much talk in these pages about the NDAA that Obama already signed which effectively repealed the Habeas Corpus Act. (Read The NDAA: a clear and present danger to American liberty in The Guardian where it says The US is sleepwalking into becoming a police state, where, like a pre-Magna Carta monarch, the president can lock up anyone)
Now CISPA is pushed through is another nail in our coffin.
Re: Re: Revealing secrets
I remember that too.
Is this fair use?
So I ordered a mug with this on it:
"Now I just know that Zazzle sucks, and I’ll never do business with them again." - Marco Arment
Hurry and copyright the portrait
Who will hold the copyright on the portrait? Portrait with one person, two people, family, baby on bearskin rug. Can dance be copyrighted? How about fashion runway walking style?
Re: The real reason SOPA & PIPA are not going away
"Big money knows how to align their interests with government ..."
Here's another video ... well, movie (1.5 hours so watch it in the living room using your Google TV) that talks about this and other subjects.
CULTURAL CREATIVES - THE (R)EVOLUTION
http://vimeopro.com/fogelmedia/cultural-creatives-10-the-revolution
Re: SOPA & PIPA are the symptom ...
CORRECTION: ... should NOT reduce free speech ...
SOPA & PIPA are the symptom ...
SOPA & PIPA are the symptom, not the problem. We need to get out in front of this problem and proactively get the IP laws overhauled. We at least need fair-use to be a defined right so that I, as an amateur filmmaker, can know exactly what the limits are, not wait until I'm sued.
Yes, I think IP creators should be compensated but I think we should reduce free speech and encumber innovation and creativity.
Here's where I thing we should go from here ...
Rather that working against what we don't want, why don't we start working together for what we do want?
I'd suggest that we need a concerted effort to get real changes in the IP laws in the USA. How about making fair-use a well defined right just to start?
Boycott movies
I pledge to not go to a single movie in the theater this year, 2012. Care to join me watching NetFlix?
Define "Hand Made"
Something put together by people on an assembly line does not, in my book, count as hand made. The cars that rolled off of Henry Ford's assembly line were factory made ... not hand made.
Hand made is when a craftsman takes raw materials and creates a finished product. Parts are often not interchangeable and each finished product is a little different from the others.
What politicians say ...
What politicians say doesn't matter. Only pay attention to what they actually do. That's where I think I went wrong when I voted for Obama.
Re: Unfortunately ...
Oh, and "Note that Google's terms of use prohibit the use of their services by any automated means or any means other than through the interface provided by Google. These restrictions would make use of GmailFS a direct violation of the Service agreement."
As we know from reading TechDirt, violating any companies terms of service is now a criminal offence ... so maybe it's good that GmailFS doesn't work any more.
Unfortunately ...
"Unfortunately the GmailFS project has come to an end. libgmail has ceased being maintained by its developers, and as a result libgmail no longer works with the latest Gmail interface (and has not done so for many weeks). Without a working libgmail, GmailFS does not function, so the end of libgmail also spells the end of GmailFS."
Worked for me ...
See my post farther down.
No, she's been too busy ...
making original art, in high resolution, and putting that into the public domain. Things like the full length animated feature film, "Sita Sings the Blues" (http://www.sitasingstheblues.com/) and the full set of eleven images, "The Avatars of Vishnu" (http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/05/06/the-avatars-of-vishnu/), in vector format so they have infinite resolution and many many others.
So what have you, Mr. Smug AC, contributed to the Public Domain this year? Huh? What did you say? Nothing! I'm shocked.
Instead, like me, your reading about being creative. (Oh, I'd better get back to my little video editing project.)
Peace,
Rob:-]
I had no problem ...
getting a fairly nice high resolution copy of that horse.
I'm not disagreeing with you about the Public Domain ... I do think it's a travesty that nothing goes into the Public Domain any more ... in fact stuff it getting removed.
Here's a little video of the first way I tried (which I created using the free version of Jing):
http://screencast.com/t/PFQ8Kt1RNd
Next I downloaded the PDF and opened it in Adobe Acrobat Reader v.10.1.1. I went to the page, rotated it 90 degrees and then used Jing again to capture a still image which you can see here:
http://screencast.com/t/G6amW0xG6
Next I futzed around using Adobe Reader to make the picture as big as I could on my screen. Then I used Jing to capture this larger image and saved it to my local disk. I opened it in Gimp and found that the pixel size is 1350x9034. So I zoomed into the picture where you had seen much bluring and took another snap with Jing. I think mine looks much sharper than yours. Here's the link to it.
http://screencast.com/t/harjCYlxgea1
Of course you are limited to your screen resolution when capturing from your screen. Even 1920x1080 isn't really high enough for good print design of any size.
Peace,
Rob:-]
p.s. I've been enjoying planting your Intellectual Pooperty pamphlets in some strategic place.
Re: Re: What Constitutional Right is That?
You're sending out electromagnetic radiation. Light is electromagnetic radiation too. Pretty soon you'll by saying it's a violation of your constitutional rights if anybody just looks at you.
Defense Attorney: "Officer, how did you find my client?"
Officer: "I saw him walking out of the Denny's on 5th Ave."
Defense Attorney: "Did you have a warrant to look at him or were you intercepting his electromagnetic emanations in violation of his constitutionally protected rights to reflect light privately?"
Officer: "What???"
Charles Babbage ...
created a design for a computer using only mechanical parts. No electricity, no electronics. So does it contain software? It does in my opinion.
http://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/3101-babbage-archive-digitized.html
The line between hardware and software really isn't that distinct.
Re: An attempt at a definition ...
a poor attempt.
Re: Re: Is software patents really the issue?
Bbbbuuuuzzzzzz. Wrong answer but thank you for playing.
I don't like patents either. But your answer is boooogggguuuusss.
1. "not so with programming languages for which you have a few which all translate to a basic language and that is the language a machine understands, there is no search for the perfect combination, there is no difficulty in finding a solutions to that problem"
Clearly you're not a programmer. Take for example the LZH algorithm used for data compression. I was astonished at how really simple and elegant it is. I never would have tried it because it is completely surprising, at least to me, that it would give you some much compression for so little work.
2. All mechanisms are made up of six classical simple machines. So if your argument that programs "all translate to a basic language and that is the language a machine understands" holds any water then I can say the same for all mechanisms; they all reduce to six simple machines ... just like your description of a computer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine
In summary, I find your arguments without merit.