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Adobe yet again not getting it?

I realize that one person does not the voice of Adobe make, but I would have thought that he would realize that Javascript is very often not used in isolation, and more often than not as part of a large suite of technologies (Databases, network infrastructure, backend code - if not JS).
Or you could just not watch it? It's not like your life would be worse off or there aren't alternative culture you could consume.
If one rejects copyright, there is no 'stealing' of things of value, there is only copying -- since the work to produce things would be paid for through other means than restrictions.

If someone argues against copyright, you cannot defend it by invoking 'stealing'. The 'stealing' here is not removing of anything in any normal sense. It is infringement of, or disobedience of, copyright -- which of course would not exist if there were no copyright. There is no basic harm.

You might say it would be difficult to pay for production with other economic arrangements. But that is a matter of comparing economic efficiency; it has nothing to do with stealing.
Perhaps I missed it in the description, but are there any timing results that you could share?
The United States of America hasn't existed long enough to develop its own high culture.
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Works as usual for me also - I'm in Ukraine
You can see the SOPA page that US people see here:

http://mozilla.org/sopa
Looks great, it only took about 10 years for an eventual redesign shakes head Maybe this refreshed design will help it seem more "modernized" to keep up with the python/rails designs of being trendy
Protecting IP is how we got into this mess.

If the music industry, all those years ago, would have recognized music licences instead of music media, a plethora of iTunes-like services would have sprung up as soon as the technology was ready, there to fill the demands of consumers.

There never would have been a Napster to let the genie out of the bottle because most people would have been more than happy to pay $0.99 for a song. While there will always be a small underground of sharing "mix tapes," Napster only rose to fame because there was no other choice for consumers.

For copyright to be successful, it requires respect from both parties. Dictating exactly how media must be consumed is not showing respect. In turn, the consumers lose their respect to spend their money.

I have my own copyrighted work that is pirated more than it is paid for. While it would be nice to paid paid for each transaction, I recognize it is not the consumer's fault. Those who put a death grip on their works before me have ruined it for the rest of us.
Nope, it works for me. Or it doesn't work for me. Er, the SOPA black out works for me. ;)

I have to be on the English version though. The other languages just have a blackout banner at the top. The black out won't work if you have JS disabled. Also, the main page which lists all the different language choices isn't blacked out.
http://www.theredditor.com

reddit may be down, but i can still download issue of the redditor magazine for free, take that reddit!
I usually sleep 7-8 hours per night, I used to be a night owl but I had some problems with depression so I decided to fix my sleeping schedule, and since then I function really much better and my overall mood has improved. Sunlight is really important for people to function properly and not get into depression.
Finally a movement I can get behind!
I don't care what the labels do. If they fell they cant make money that way then they should probably stay out of the digital business model.

But the truth of course is that they saw huge benefits throughout the years as it became cheaper and cheaper for them to produce and distribute the music.

Where is your sympathy for all the truckers, records store people etc. that lost their jobs because of digitalization?

I personally have more sympathy for them, the musicians will always have the music. Whether they will be able to live from it is another thing.

The smart ones will.
DNA isn't quite exactly like a program that you compile into a living organism. The conditions for its reproduction and expression are partially determined by its environment- so a shift from single celled from multi-celled life might not be able to be pinned on any particular gene or set of genes as a direct cause. You might end up with what is essentially the same sequence, with different parts now triggered by a slightly different proportion of a particular protein present within the cellular membrane.
The Presidential limo is rumored to have its windows made out of this stuff.
How many will be affected by Wikipedia Blackout? 100+ million
To me this - the market is not meeting the demand - is the single best argument.

If something is available legally and at a reasonable price (by which I mean not only available second hand for £100 as a collectable, rather than "99p for an MP3, that's outrageous" etc...) I either buy it or accept I won't have it.

If it's not available I have no real issue with getting it illegally.

Frankly if the media companies adopted day and date releases worldwide for content and worked to make their back catalogues widely available through convenient means (by which iTunes, Amazon, Netflix and so on count) a lot of the best arguments in favour of piracy dry up.
Eggs in one basket, etc.

Preacher > Choir
And all english-speaking people must think, "what do all these nerds have against soap?".
Key sentence: "successfully resists a huge, powerful .50 AP bullet that smashes easily through more than twice that thickness of conventional laminated glass armor"

So in reality this is a modest improvement (2x) over existing laminated glass armour for use where both thickness and resistance are critical (ie. probably for specialist military applications only)
check out anything from pcmag.com on SOPA if you want to see spin that makes you dizzy, I could link to a lot of articles, but I invite you to read the pieces on the site itself.
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Are you a startup against SOPA? We challenge all startups to add their name to this list and go black with us today.

www.rentul.com is black
"infringing a state granted monopoly" is the best description I've heard yet. Thanks for that.
6-7 on weekdays, 8-9 on weekends.

I used to have a lot of problem sleeping, until i forced myself to keep a tight sleep schedule... it works
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Thank you.

As a backend developer trying to embrace Backbone, I'm finding that there isn't a wealth of consistently good material to learn from. One tutorial will push everything to the view, and the next pushes everything to the router.

It's hard to determine exactly what the best practices are, and making up my own mind isn't necessarily that informed, as I'm just learning the framework.

I'm hoping for more and more documentation to appear as there are things that I simply can't figure out how to do and can't find a reference for anywhere. Every resource helps.
I see that you are the maker of FinalTouch. Where do you offer the free downloads?
Besides the fact that this article looks like a troll's comment on a forum, his assumptions are simply wrong. Those who want to target their local or foreign markets except US, do it anyway. The problem of SOPA is not that you're website is excluded from US upfront and you count that in your business plan, it's the fact that you never know if your multi-million users base haven't disappeared when you were on your way home.

> Over here in Europe, we’ll be happily file sharing till the cows come home, allowing all you Yanks hungry for pirated to content to download or stream all the latest movies via other means you’ll be forced to dream up to get around your dumb lawmakers.

Yeah, and we have pink unicorns puking rainbows. For a guy who lives in the UK and writes about piracy, he's totally clueless about the latest news on piracy in the UK or Europe in general. Little hints:

UK:

A judge has ruled that Richard O'Dwyer, the 23-year-old creator of sharing site TVShack, can be extradited to the United States. There he would be tried for copyright infringement and could face a five to ten year jail term in America.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087135/Richard-ODwy...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-1654433...

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-01/16/tvshack-guy-c...

Finland:

Customers of the Elisa and Saunalahti internet service providers can no longer use those internet connections to visit The Pirate Bay website. Helsinki District Court ordered the ISPs to block the Pirate Bay last October, but the block went into effect on Monday.

http://yle.fi/uutiset/news/2012/01/pirate_bay_block_comes_in...

http://news.yahoo.com/anonymous-targets-finland-over-anti-pi...

Spain:

Spain's Sinde law echoes SOPA, takes pirate sites offline after commission review

http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/4/2681818/spain-approves-sind...
"Media companies have united in favor of it, while tech's power players are throwing their might into opposing it."
see Table 3 in http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/440.pdf
I like Mozilla's page the most so far.

Explains SOPA in layman's terms and how it could affect the internet, and a small part about why it was brought up in the first place.

And a pretty big call-to-action button.

If only it was on Facebook.
> So in reality this is a modest improvement (2x) over existing laminated glass armour

More than 2x actually - the guy behind the glass would be dead, unlike the one behind their improved glass. I'd say this is a significant difference - they deserve some extra credit for keeping the guy behind their armor alive.

I do find the title a little misleading though, since this has nothing to do with metallic aluminum as one would expect from reading the title.
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Content creators have rights around their content. One of those rights is how it is distributed, and who gets to use it. Pirating a TV show because you feel it should be available in your country is no different from say violating the GPL. Often GPL'ed software is misguided and would serve everyone better under a different license, but it still remains the author's right to choose the GPL.

Why do you seek out and watch the content made by people you violently despise?
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A lot of the pro copyright guys dont know what the purpose of copyright IS. So before you argue please research what you are arguing in favour of. In short copyright originated with the statute of Anne 1709 to protect authors from the publishers profiting from their work, the statute main purpose was to promote learning by allowing creators to recoup the expensive cost of publishing a) the publishers are now ripping off creators, b) publishing is not longer expensive c) placing easily accessible SCIENCE papers under DRM prohibits learning
Knowing about it is not the end goal.
Usually 8+, but usually interpreted by one or more of three kids.
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> be willing to pay something more than nothing to hear the music.

In this case $0 or even a negative value amount is what you can plug into something. Why? Think about artists that tried pay-what-you-want model. A lot of people pay $0. Some pay $0.10. But a lot pay $0.

However, what they pay with is with their time and attention.

I used to know someone who managed a movie theater. He would sneak us into movies quite often. Good and bad. And quite often after coming out of the movie I felt like wanting "my free back".

Let's say an artist is unknown and I am a customer that has quite a few connection ( a blog with a large following perhaps ). Then what would make sense is for me to pay a negative amount ( the artist would pay me to spend my time listening to his new cool record in the hopes that I might spread the news about it ).
I aim to spend 8 hours lying in bed a night. How much of that time is actually spent sleeping is very much up to my daughter.
Except they do. Hit esc and you can hang on the page and read the material. One guess, what MSNBC is reporting today. I confess it is really frustrating to see how major networks are covering these protests.

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/18/10177219-wik...

It makes me wonder what is a legitimate protest in the eyes of the media/elite anymore. They disapprove of the OWS style. They mock blackouts on the web. What does it take for our government and mainstream reporters to respect public dissent.
great info on setting up the rig, etc. I agree with the audio suggestion though.
Yep, We went Black and Blue about an hour ago.
and added a nifty twist to the page.
http://atodev3.com/
None of these seems likely to be better at either producing high quality works or distributing them to wide audiences than an economic system such as copyright

I think that was a common sentiment at the end of each "age". How to go from here, all the alternatives suck from our point of view. I really like (2) myself, but it might not be everyone's cup of tea.

But no matter what, copyright is harder and harder to enforce as copying of information becomes cheaper, and it has the potential to get really messy.

At a certain point, the ends don't justify the means anymore. DMCA was ok-ish, but I think we reached that point with SOPA and similar laws. Especially as those means are the same as can be used to censor other things, and will very likely be abused for that, with the militarization happening all over the world.

So that solution falls under (3) fail as well. Which leaves the other options, including those we haven't thought of yet. People are creative and will find ways to get by...
If that is the case those companies don't know it. The labels hate Apple even though they gave them a business model to survive in the digital age. The studios think the same will happen to them (it will eventually) and they're afraid of Apple and every other tech giant.
They also can't license the patents related to DVD playback.
> To draw my line in the sand, I have no problems with people pirating works they simply don't have any other access to. American shows that aren't broadcast overseas, for example; pirate away.

Really? The problem I have with this argument is that you remove control of the creation from the creator. What if they are in the process of trying to make a distribution deal while people cut off demand at the knees by stealing the product instead?

Much like the linked article, that position takes that control away. YES the industry sucks at distribution and their offerings are terrible and expensive, but I don't think that's an acceptable or legitimate reason to pirate things instead.

The legitimate option is GO WITHOUT IT. You have no RIGHT to anything here...

If the food is too expensive at your favourite restaurant, you don't pull a runner after the meal, you simply don't eat there, and you hope that in time the owners will realize and make adjustments. But if they choose not to, then that is their right.
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I think this is a good compromise between allowing their business to run for the day and getting the message to as many people as possible. I particularly like this style of black-out because it's so visually powerful.
I found it hard to say. I have a sore back and wake up a few times a night to make myself comfortable again.

It does affect my production if my workplace does not allow for a nap.
Ask HN: Thoughts on anonymous identity provider idea
One of the big problems with online anonymous identity is that you have no way of evaluating trustworthiness of an anonymous person. I have this idea for a service which can solve this.

Basically, if there existed an open id provider site which:

- allows you to generate an anonymous identity with a single click for each online service when they ask you to authorize, or use an existing one

- has an API allowing sites using this authorisation mechanism to discover certain data about you without compromising your identity, e.g. has a valid facebook identity, has verified a phone number/credit card, is actually a software engineer looking for a job etc.

This would allow you do do things like establish trust (like on airbnb), block spammers but allow anon comments, etc.

- would you use such a service as a user?

- would you use such a service as an auth mechanism for your site?

- how would you get traction for this idea?

- how would you build a business around this?

- have any other thoughts?

cheers!
If an author doesn't earn out their advance, they are almost certainly making a lot more than "a fraction of a percentage point" of the revenue.

A few new music artists do sign contracts so one-sided it's absurd, I agree, and they wind up never making any money at all or even paying some of the costs themselves. But that's usually because they let a big record label screw them, which would have happened regardless of the cut they thought they were going to get.

Those same big record labels are still paying several percent to any successful artists who have a half-decent agent/lawyer. More importantly, for the purposes of this discussion, small/indie record labels don't have the power to play those kinds of legal games even if they want to. Again, anyone signed to one is probably getting a lot more than that "fraction of a percentage point".

So, while I agree with you that the major distributors often offer little value today while taking far more of a cut than they deserve, I stand by my original point that it's silly to attack copyright because the original artists only get <1% as a cut. That just isn't true for anyone successful who doesn't let themselves get played.
I agree that the separation of stealing vs. copyright infringement is an unimportant distinction.

But artists do get just a tiny part of the money people pay. Take TLC as a well known example: they were a huge seller, yet they got bankrupt, largely because of how their record company treated them:

>CrazySexyCool eventually sold over 11 million copies in the US, and became one of the first albums to ever receive a diamond certification from the RIAA, and won a 1996 Grammy Award for Best R&B Album and a 1996 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group for "Creep". However, in the midst of their apparent success, the members of TLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on July 3, 1995. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLC_%28band%29)

Take Courtney Love's rant about where the money goes as another (well known) example: http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/

I agree with the OP: I'm sure that if they could get away with it, the record companies would most definitely prefer to pay the artist nothing at all.
Do you work for free? It's pretty essential to all of society that work and/or value is generally paid for. You demanding that content be available for free simply because you want it is no different from your boss deciding to not pay you because he doesn't want to.

Yes people can choose to make their work available for free, and that's great. But that choice again lies in the person who created the work, not the person who consumes it.

And to be perfectly clear, I have no delusion that piracy will ever go away. It's a fact of the digital world. My point is pirates should not delude themselves into thinking what they do is justified. It's not.
Funny that you mention that. I forgot to raise that in my initial comment. I find a well-structured index beats free text search handily. I realize ebooks can have indices too, but free text search usually turns up so many false positives (i.e., not what I'm actually looking for) that I can't use it effectively.
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Related: The S stands for Simple, http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-... and Please drop the SOAP, http://thecoffman.com/2011/01/25/please-drop-the-soap .
I got JS enabled and im on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page link, and I just get a banner on the top.

I also tried to click in to articles, and it works fine, and I'm in NYC.

The weird thing is, that on my mobile phone, if I request desktop version, I do get the blackout page. I don't get it...
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"Fixies per person" in a geographic region isn't a "raw number".

I don't get your point with the example, for those values I get "fixies per capita" of 1 in Manhattan, and 2 in Brooklyn. That clearly states that there are twice as many fixies per person in Brooklyn as there are in Manhattan.

If you also normalize based on Manhattan, you'd get 100 and 200 which say exactly the same thing but with more zeroes and no longer being "per capita".
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I think the best feature of a wiki is that you can edit it anonymously without logging in. I just won't bother contributing to wikis that require logins.
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Truly awesome. While I've fallen out of visiting Fark every day (which happens when you're not on salary and instead self-employed) this hilarious stunt makes me want to add it back to my daily slack rotation of websites.
The headline mentions 4chan.
SOPA cosponsor quits after "waves of negative sentiment" by free speech groups
The title is a little misleading.

This material is not metallic transparent aluminum. It is a transparent aluminum ceramic.

A lot of ceramics are made (in part) of aluminum. I think that this is interesting because it's transparent.
Not all comments. The textboards are unaffected.
[TheDailyWTF.com](http://thedailywtf.com/) does something similar.
As someone who recently had to deal with a system with two different (incompatible) SOAP services, I fully endorse the message behind this site.

Luckily my exposure seems to be restricted to legacy and enterprisey stuff nowadays.
Good point. It is strange to read how people try to justify copying music/movies/... if they never had the intention to buy it in the first place. I do have sympathy for to circumvent DRM, ... e.g. to watch a DVD of region x (which I bought) on a player of region y. I don't have any sympathy for people who steal while I pay for the same thing.
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>How is it stealing if they can still have that something?

Because that's not a decision you should get to make. The cost associated with creating most things isn't in raw materials alone but man hours that went in to produce it, and the author is entitled to ask for whatever they think their hard work and their end product are worth. Is the benefit of getting that product not worth the price they're asking? Here's a novel idea; you don't buy the product and don't get the benefit. It is worth the price? Then vote with your wallet and buy away. Saying that they can 'still have that thing' does little to justify why you feel entitled to that thing in the first place.
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This is big.
The link to "helpful info from a redditor" about calling representatives is not-so-ironically blacked out.