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- Amazon shows us why DRM is a bad idea
- Amazon shows us why DRM is a bad ideaYou're very forgivingIf they can remove the feature, what stops them from putting it back?What will stop them from violating the terms and conditions? Companies have done it before and will continue to do it.No Kindles for us...Well, that does it for...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Government, Taxes, Free trade, Amazon.com Inc., big business, tax, property right, illusion, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2009-07-18
- Now Congress is getting in on the act
- Now Congress is getting in on the actA very good thing.I applaud Congress for saying clean up your issues before we are forced to do it for you. Nothing could be more fair.Oh, I don't know..."One wonders, though, what the universities are supposed to do when international disrespect for...
- Tags: property right, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2007-05-06
- Patents are not property
- Patents are not propertyPatents are not PropertyFirst: Please if you do not know anything about a topic then do so some research before you start spouting off, its unprofessional to do otherwise.Second: I will compile a list of the entire US Federal Judicary and have it sent to...
- Tags: Intellectual property, blog, Hondas, property right, patent, Thomas Jefferson
- Discussion threads 2006-09-14
- No one said intellectual property was dead
- No one said intellectual property was deadHe does get it. indeed.I'm don't know that I'd say he built that straw man. He starts out by saying, "One of the myths I've heard about open source is that it means "IP is dead" in software."It's the same argument that OSS advocates...
- Tags: property right, open source, intellectual property, IP
- Discussion threads 2006-07-19
- Music vendors versus France
- Music vendors versus FranceJohn - huh?!I'm hoping that you meant to say you don't have a right to HAVE the items you listed - cause dude, once I paid coin for them - they ARE mine, and I DO exercise rights to them.And markets being "carefully-devised systems of rules that...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, property right, food, Constitution, government, liberty
- Discussion threads 2006-03-14
- When carriers clash, Net suffers
- When carriers clash, Net suffersLet's name the premise behind the questionThe reason its not a government issue is because of that danged annoying concept called property rights. You could make the same argument for nationalizing anything, if you accept the Fascist premise that the standard is the good of the...
- Tags: property right
- Discussion threads 2005-10-12
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- Climate scientists saying global warming trend is worsening
- Pardon me while I yawn. This is the same bunch (climate change chicken-littles) that brought the hockey stick graph and pimped out statistics. These folks have been exposed as corruptand fraudulent, driven by ideology and not science. By continuing to treat them as anything other than worthy...
- Tags: global warming
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- Is Wikipedia maxed out?
- Interesting....I don't see a reason Wikipedia would max out considering that every day new younger participants are entering the field. It's timeless relevance could diminish as new and younger editors focus on more up-to-date matters as Twitter, Sexting and Cloud computing, and less on the Roman Empire, the Great Depression...
- Tags: Wiki, Achilles, Wikipedia, Obama
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Panel: do cloud computing economic advantages break down in enterprises?
- Cost of computingCompanies will utilize this to get rid of expensive license models of Microsoft flavors.Hardware costs are...not the biggest problem. Bandwidth is what is ridiculously high. To get into anything with high enough upload speeds will set you back plenty. Some cable companies are offering decent speeds in the...
- Tags: Intellectual property, cloud provider, Hardware Costs, Desktop computing
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux
- Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with WindowsI gave it some thought too and realized that Chrome OS only has the bad and the ugly. There is nothing good about it. All data stored in the cloud, and on Google's...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Chrome, Google Inc., Chrome OS, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Microsoft shares a few tidbits on IE9 and (lots) more on Silverlight 4
- Safari? What Safari ? :-)http://www.tgdaily.com/software-features/39495-safari-4-beta-first-browser-to-hit-100-score-in-acid3-testI know, Steve doesn't like Apple but you're supposed to be a journalist? ;-)Google chrome?IE like Microsoft is stumbling around in a new ecosystem in which spending thousands of dollars is not an option.Plus, it locks you into a insecure OS platform with...
- Tags: Web browsers, Scripting languages, Spell Check, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Internet Explorer, HTML5, JavaScript, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Apple's "force fed ads" patent more likely related to content, not hardware
- Perhaps neitherHopefully you are right and they'll use this process to allow customers to earn free content. Unfortunatley I see this as being a way for Apple to increase its warchest by forcing its followers to view ads. Perhaps it'll be a blend - view enough ads to put $10...
- Tags: hardware, O'Grady, advertisement, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Microsoft admits its GPL violation; will reissue Windows 7 tool under open-source license
- Tar and feather them nt ;-)ntYeah - they made good on GPL2 - tar them anyway!It's Microsoft - hurt them even when they do admit their errors and make good on them!Seriously Dude, see a shrink!A tad serious?Lighten up a bit - a shrink? I will put my mental health...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, tool, Microsoft Windows 7, open source, Microsoft Corp., GPL
- Discussion threads 2009-11-13
- Verizon to test sending RIAA copyright warnings
- As long as...it's not a 3 strike policy... i'm relativaly ok with this particular thing...Just a notice and notice system, sometimes users dont know if they are doing something illegal. Furthermore, can they proof without anny doubt that there's a copyright infrigement?no they cannotWith such a large criminal records, the...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, RIAA, movie, music, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-13
- Psystar: Cocaine, car crashes and a chance to beat Apple
- Monopoly Much?How has apple been able to get away with this? Microsoft gets sued for sending their browser with their operating system while not blocking anyone else's browsers on their systems. Apple does not allow anyone else to use their operating system on other hardware, not sure how...
- Tags: Operating systems, car, Apple Inc., operating system, hackintosh, Psystar
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Cool New Google Maps Feature: New Jersey Wormholes!
- wow, just wow ntntSpock: They're maps, Jim, but not as we know them.[sigh] Where's Scotty when you really need him?
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Maps, Mapquest, Bing Maps, Cool New Google Maps Feature, Bing, New Jersey Wormholes, Brook
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Google: Is there anyone who doesn't have an opinion?
- Google is 1995 MicrosoftFor now, Google is up there, with great products, a bright future and way in front. But...Google can't be different from any other company that ever emerged, flourish and then met their nemesis. Everybody thinks it will be MS or Apple but the reality will probably be...
- Tags: Strategy, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Wireless users may be shut off if sharing copyrighted files
- ACTA: The Bigger Picturehttp://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4510/125/Not likely to happenWhy? Because the internet companies are not going to shut off paying customers just because they are accused of sharing files 'illegally'.... they will either tell the companies to file a lawsuit against the people in question or give them some REAL evidence that...
- Tags: Strategy, wireless, Acta, rights holder, shut-off, intellectual property
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- Copyright associations want enforcement for free
- The defender of status quo?What a tired old rant. Use technology and the law to enforce ill advised and ill gotten copyright protection.The internet has revolutionized mankind's ability to communicate and share knowledge and culture, and you want to put it under lock and key to deny mankind that benefit?How...
- Tags: Benefits, Federal government, Sales force management, Mickey Mouse, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon [Q&A]
- Why the hate for drag and drop?Almost every review I have read faults the Droid because you can't auto-sync music:"(You can dump your music on a microSD card and pop it in, but it?s a copy-paste files affair, not a ?load my music? integrated experience.)"The Droid ships with a 16...
- Tags: Smart phones, Motorola Droid, Droid, Apple iPhone, Revisiting, music, Verizon Communications Inc., Motorola Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
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