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  • On the post: Wikileaks Payment Company Plans To Sue Visa & Mastercard Over Cutoff

    reboog711 ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2010 @ 10:57am

    Re: Re: Visa and Mastercard are Public Companies

    Acknowledged! Thanks for the clarification

  • On the post: Wikileaks Payment Company Plans To Sue Visa & Mastercard Over Cutoff

    reboog711 ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2010 @ 08:52am

    Visa and Mastercard are Public Companies

    I'm not sure if this is nitpicking or not, but Visa and Mastercard are public companies, at least in the US and their stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

    Not that I think the companies should be forced to service certain customers, though.

  • On the post: Has Microsoft Extinguished Silverlight?

    reboog711 ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2010 @ 06:57pm

    As a Flash Platform Developer...

    This strikes me as drivel too, as others have stated.

    As a [moderately prominent] Flash Platform developer, let me assure you that Silverlight is considered a viable platform for building Rich Internet Applications. Many "Flex/Flash" shops have also picked up Silverlight projects. I expect the platform will continue to become more prominent over time as penetration grows. Didn't Microsoft rush through four versions of the player very quickly?

    I'd hardly say Silverlight is quietly dying.

  • On the post: How Should Facebook Respond To The Social Network Movie?

    reboog711 ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2010 @ 03:23pm

    Do Nothing?

    How about nothing? Why do they need to even acknowledge the movie?

  • On the post: Artists Realizing It's Time To Offer Cheaper Concert Tickets Directly, And To Get Rid Of Annoying Fees

    reboog711 ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2010 @ 05:04am

    Thank You Pearl Jam

    Thank you Pearl Jam for trailblazing this sort of thing against Ticketmaster in the 90s.

  • On the post: Phone Calls Are For Old People? Just Not Efficient Enough

    reboog711 ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2010 @ 01:44pm

    I hate it when...

    I hate it when I try to schedule something (like a phone call) and people can't (or won't) commit to a specific time.

    It seems over the past year the response of "That day/time should be fine, why don't we touch base in a few days to see what our schedules are."

    After the third time; I often stop following up. As a specific example:

    Wednesday: "Yeah, I should be able to get together for lunch next week. Let's touch base early next week to find out."

    "Sunday: "Yeah, I should be able to get together this week, let's touch base on Tuesday to finalize plans."

    "Tuesday: Yeah, I should be able to get together, let's touch base tomorrow...."

  • On the post: Connecting Authors To Tangible Goods They Can Sell?

    reboog711 ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2010 @ 07:27am

    50% of the profit?

    Sometimes I become immediately suspicious when I hear things like 50% of the profits. As the record industry / movie industry have shown us; it is pretty easy to hide profits on the balance sheet.

  • On the post: Old Spice Man Is Horsing Around On Social Media

    reboog711 ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2010 @ 07:34am

    The "Propose" link is broken.. EOM

  • On the post: Teenager And Composer Argue Over File Sharing

    reboog711 ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2010 @ 06:04am

    I read through that exchange. It's a good read.

    Something to note; he did say that 50% of his income comes from sheet music. I have no idea how many of those buyers are teenagers, of course.

    He also specified that "the entire record business is in free-fall" which you point out and then switch to "music business" in your response. The record business is in a free-fall; however the record business just makes up one portion of the music business.

  • On the post: The Lack Of A Billion Dollar Pureplay Open Source Software Company Shows The Market Is Working Properly

    reboog711 ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2010 @ 02:00pm

    Re: Re: Facebook is an open source company?

    Does Facebook contribute to open source projects? Does it have it's own open source projects?

    As far as I knew, the answer was no.

    They have benefited by using open source technologies, but I wouldn't say that makes then an open source company.

    There are plenty of companies who use PHP on their web sites. Plenty of companies who use Flex for application development. Would you say that they are open source companies too?

    Where is the line between a company that uses open source software projects and an open source software company?

  • On the post: The Lack Of A Billion Dollar Pureplay Open Source Software Company Shows The Market Is Working Properly

    reboog711 ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2010 @ 12:29pm

    Facebook is an open source company?

    What makes Facebook an open source company?

  • On the post: Activision Comes To Its Senses; Allows King's Quest Fan Game To Live On (Again)

    reboog711 ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2010 @ 05:33am

    The fact that there is / was no commercial release is not completely accurate. A lot of the Sierra "quest" games were released as low cost collections:

    http://www.amazon.com/Kings-Quest-Collection-Pc/dp/B000AYFPKG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1277814345&sr=8-1

    Release Date according to the Amazon.com page is September 06. It came to Steam in 09. There haven't been any new "Quest" games in a long, though.

  • On the post: Copyright And The First Amendment: Lack Of Satire Coverage Leads To Stifling Of Speech

    reboog711 ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2010 @ 06:27am

    What about Weird Al?

    I think many of Weird Al's "Song Parodys" would better classify as Satire under that definition.

  • On the post: Apple Sued For Copyright Infringement Because Third Party App Has Someone Else's Bird Sounds

    reboog711 ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2010 @ 06:10am

    Re: What????

    As others have said; he can copyright recordings of wildlife sounds that he made without claiming any ownership over the original sounds.

  • On the post: Apple Sued For Copyright Infringement Because Third Party App Has Someone Else's Bird Sounds

    reboog711 ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2010 @ 06:07am

    Re:

    There are two aspects of copyright here. One is on the recording, and other is on the material being recorded. He should have no problem copyrighting his recording of those sounds; but should have no right to be able to copyright the sounds.

  • On the post: The Naked Cowboy Claims The Naked Cowgirl Owes Him Franchise Fees

    reboog711 ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2010 @ 01:21pm

    I'm not sure of this one...

    The Naked Coybow clearly has an established brand; and it appears the naked cowgirl is clearly similar, while also playing off his name.

    I can easily see a "moron in a hurry" thinking the two "Franchises" may be associated with each other.

  • On the post: Starbucks Finally Realizies That Free WiFi Is The Way To Go

    reboog711 ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2010 @ 04:25am

    Re: Re:

    My bad; I think I read it wrong the first time.

  • On the post: Starbucks Finally Realizies That Free WiFi Is The Way To Go

    reboog711 ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2010 @ 06:49pm

    Based on the slashdot posting about this, it doesn't sound like it went completely free. You just get 2 hours free and then have to pay another charge for another 2 hours.

    http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BJu7AQDhC9E/Starbucks-Frees-Wi-Fi

    None of this was covered in the wired article, though.

  • On the post: Who Cheers For C When It Wins A Popularity Contest?

    reboog711 ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2010 @ 10:44am

    The Tiobe index is highly criticized by most programmers

    The Index is highly criticized by most programmers I know; both in how they define what a language is; and how they collect their stats.

    SQL is not a programming language because you can't write an infinite loop in it? ColdFusion is a framework? Both ridiculous.

    That said; so long as they keep their methods of calculating use consistent it might make an interesting study.

  • On the post: Tories Use Keane Song Without Asking Permission

    reboog711 ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2010 @ 06:15am

    What happened here?

    I'm unclear exactly what has occurred here; and RTFA didn't help.

    How did they use the song? Was it played in a venue where they had some press conference or other event? Or was it used in a TV Commercial? Or some other way?

    I'm unclear of UK laws; but in the US playing the song during a 'press rally' type of event is perfectly legitimate as long as the venue is properly paying performance fees to the related licensing body.

    Permission to use the song cannot be denied; but I'm not sure if permission to use the original recording can be denied. I'm not sure which situation occurred here.

    Is this really a situation where politicians have broken copyright law; or a position where the 'content owners' want to assert control over every aspect of the use of the content?

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