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A bill to reform copyright law and give consumers the right to control their own devices is pending in Congress. Here's why you need to support it. IANAL
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That's wrong... I own the hardware 100% and a copy of the software too (even if proprietary)...
The problem is not with the ownership, but with the lack of law that enforces the seller to take responsibility for the product they sell...
If you get a stinking block of butter you will be refunded, if you have a piece of malfunctioning software you can't get nowhere, mainly because of incompetent but greedy managers hiding behind lawyers lurking in the dark...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: I own the hardware 100% and a copy of the software too (even if proprietary)...
That's what it should be, but not always is.
In some countries you even pay a % as fee in hardware like CDs, USB Sticks or external drives just because you could use it to storage a piracy copy of whatever...
Copyright is a very controversial and often unfair theme.
M.D.V. 
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Name and shame 'em: Italy!
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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I think copyright is a fair principle at its core.
However, buying a legit movie and having to sit through ten minutes of anti-piracy ads, or buying a game only to be limited by x account and/or y computers, or having to pay money for people who listen to their own music at work, and, indeed, having to pay tax on CDs and USBs because, heaven forbid, you may put a (digital) copy of your own bought music on it... That really pisses me off!
In the Netherlands and Belgium we have BUMA/STEMRA and BAF/BREIN who enforce these copyright laws and I hope they all die in a fire!
These money wolves are worse than politicians.
The original authors of the music, movies and software only get a fraction of the money and only if they have a membership (although they don't look at membership while persecuting individuals for using copyrighted material, because that would cost them money).
I recently posted a song from a bands official YouTube in the Lounge only to find out it was blocked in Germany by the very company that "protects" these bands!
Not a single good word will be wasted on these cretins 
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Quote: I think copyright is a fair principle at its core.
As it were many other things i.e. atomic energy 
Sander Rossel wrote: In the Netherlands and Belgium we have BUMA/STEMRA and BAF/BREIN who enforce these copyright laws and I hope they all die in a fire!
In Spain the SGAE, in Germany die GEMA...
Sander Rossel wrote: The original authors of the music, movies and software only get a fraction of the money
a tiny one
Sander Rossel wrote: I recently posted a song from a bands official YouTube in the Lounge only to find out it was blocked in Germany by the very company that "protects" these bands!
Not the first time, I often have problems to see your music tips.
But... I think we let it stay like this, if not we will have to move to the soapbox.
M.D.V.
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YouTube tried to pull that crap on me once. ONCE.
My response was to build my own cloud server based on NextCloud. Now I host my videos on my own servers and I can post whatever I want.
YouTube is free to shove it where the Sun don't shine.
Oh, and for the record, my violation was a dash-cam video to show my relatives what my neighborhood looked like. And there was BARELY AUDIBLE radio playing in the background, which resulted in copyright infringement.
Me to YouTube: "Buh bye".
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That's correct. You are paying a fine for a crime that was never committed, or even prosecuted.
And by the way, 4K video is not about better resolution, it's all about new technology to further control people by embedding even more DRM into the video signal to prevent consumers from using the product the way they want to. For example, putting your movies onto a media server at home.
The best way you can respond to this kind of bullying is to completely reject and boycott every product that is infected with this stuff. I have, and I'm happy with my decision. It's been over 5 years since I threw my TV's in the garbage, for example. It was a shock for the first month, but then it's like waking up from a nightmare.
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Basildane wrote: It's been over 5 years since I threw my TV's in the garbage, for example.
I have lived without TV for 10 years.
I have now bought a "new" one (the most basic I could find with a relative good quality but no HD, no 4k, no webcam...) just to have something to see films on my mother language with my daughter, so she can learn it watching old school cartoons (or some newer exceptions) that have something to teach to a kid.
But I have no cable, satellite receiver or something like that. Standard TV sucks very, very bad.
M.D.V.
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Yeah, they have "smart" tv's now, that are capable of forcing victims to watch commercials even when they are playing their own personal content on their own devices. I read that Roku is also building this into their players.
I am absolutely astounded that there are people who will willingly buy these things. That whole industry can't die fast enough for me.
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So you can say goodbye to companies unlawfully hacking your computer to install "enforced updates"!
It's about bloody time that software licensing was brought in line with the licensing of everything else.
If you buy a book, you can do whatever you want with your copy of the book, because you own it -- possession is nine-tenths of the law, and it's very clear what your, and the copyright holders', rights are.
As software "copyright" laws stand now, half of your home is "owned" (i.e. held to ransom) by companies (many of which are based in foreign countries) who don't give a damn about you, your rights, or your possessions.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Your "home" isn't owned by you either. Try not paying your property tax and see who owns it.
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So I've got nuffin!
Pass me a shopping cart.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Or worse getting into a disagreement with a member of your local Home Owners AssociationPetty Fascist League; your local govt is at least required to obey the rule of law. Unless you have 6 figures for a lawyer or the PFL offends in one of a handful of ways that will cause a national news organization to organize an internet lynch mob against them; you're screwed with no recourse.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The three languages are still tops in Tiobe's popularity index, albeit with sinking ratings. Best to quit before everyone switches to the next new thing
I told myself I would stop including these, but I can't help myself. It's like repeatedly smelling spoiled milk hoping it would change.
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Quote: I see a migration from C to C++ at our customer base
Spot on.
Almost everywhere I've worked, over the last few years, has made that migration and that migration only.
Sharpen up your C++ skills, and there's no end of work available to you.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It almost shouldn’t come as a surprise. In an age defined by advancements in the tech industry, it was only a matter of time before the traditional paradigms set by the industrial revolution had to change. "I'd like to remind you at four in the morning, my world is very still"
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Didn't they heard, that a large number of developers do not wear nothing but pajamas?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Didn't they heard, that a large number of developers do not wear nothing but pajamas?
A brilliant observation!
So we shouldn't call it "blue-collar work", but instead "soft-collar work"!
That's perfect!
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When you browse online for a new pair of shoes, pick a movie to stream on Netflix or apply for a car loan, an algorithm likely has its word to say on the outcome. They put the Illuminati out of work?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: has its word to say on the outcome.
and two words in the income. At the end, all they want is to generate a profile of you to improve their service so they can sell you things more efficiently
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I get the feeling that the writer doesn't fully understand what "algorithm" means.
You might as well say that algorithms rule the way you cross the road, because it's just as true*.
* Note that this might not apply to all chickens.
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Algorithm: Making a flawed subjective process into an automated, repeatable flawed objective process.
Marc
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Ever since 2015 Consumer Electronics Show, quantum dots have been in a market struggle to displace light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as a backlight source for liquid crystal displays (LCDs). "What a sight making things with Lite Brite"
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Intel has revealed that its 8th-generation Core processors, due in the second half of 2017 will once again be built on a 14-nanometer process -- yes, for the fourth time in a row. So feel safe in upgrading now
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