jdreyer wrote on Feb 3, 2012, 18:24:
a photographer took a similar photograph and modified it in the same way as the original and was found guilty of copyright infringement, I wonder if Zynga was sued in Britain if they would be found guilty.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.

xXBatmanXx wrote on Jan 28, 2012, 06:28:
You would have to have your head pretty far up yer ass to not know they have shared info from the start. Everytime you join a group or game it says "you agree to allow FB to use all of your data and your friend's data to play this stupid game"?

Sepharo wrote on Jan 28, 2012, 14:25:
No, no, Batman. These people are being forced to shared their private information, and worse yet they don't even know it. The fact that Facebook actually shares your information is a deep dark secret that only a few enlightened individuals like zirik actually know the full extent of. It's up to him, congress, and Jesus to sort this mess out and let the world know about the little known fact of facebook's privacy policy and TRUE PURPOSE.

mch wrote on Jan 27, 2012, 11:06:
Strange weather around DC as well. Woke up to a thunderstorm (in late January?), and by the time I got to work it's 60+ degrees.

jdreyer wrote on Jan 27, 2012, 17:40:
From the article:

"Could this be the Star Wars Millenium Falcon, a plug to an inner world or a marine version of Stonehenge?" asks CNN's Brooke Bowman. Well, it could just be another shipwreck. Or, mud.

Instead of these stupid speculative stories, how about a story after you know what the hell it is?

Wallshadows wrote on Jan 27, 2012, 17:12:
Wouldn't there at least be backups to simply throw up a mirror site or am I just not that smart when it comes to these things?

Beamer wrote on Jan 26, 2012, 10:44:
I only have limited experience with FiOS, but I much preferred the interface and box speed over the crap I've had with Time Warner and Cablevision (which use the same box.) I only used the on-demand limitedly, and agree it wasn't well implemented, but everything else was.

I'm convinced cable boxes are the dumbest pieces of consumer goods out there, and we're forced to use them. Still somewhat proud that I made a Comcast innovation engineer miserable on a 6 hour flight by bitching him out on all the easy ways to improve these things that they intentionally ignore.

Crustacean Soup wrote on Jan 26, 2012, 03:06:
Youtube is neither expected nor required to manually monitor their entire repitoire of videos to look for infringing content.

However, to ease the process, reduce the amount of work needed to go through all the takedown requests, and placate the media companies so they'll do business with Youtube, they do provide additional tools for the media companies' use.

PHJF wrote on Jan 25, 2012, 18:45:
We *never had* the talent for high-tech manufacturing. America was already bowing out of manufacturing in general and becoming a service economy while the big Asian companies decided they'd handle manufacturing.

Prez wrote on Jan 25, 2012, 17:48:
And it's not impossible to do it the US. It's just impossible to get away with making people into pitiful worker drones under abysmal conditions for next to no pay in the US as happens in China. Those pesky labor laws and such...

Beamer wrote on Jan 25, 2012, 16:46:
Differences:
1) YouTube actually takes down infringing content. MegaUpload would just take down the URL that was reported. The content remained, and most content had dozens, hundreds, and in some cases even thousands of URLs. Only the reported URLs went down, not the content, so the other URLs worked fine.

2) YouTube is compressed versions made to run solely through streaming. MegaUpload are true mp3s/mpgs/whatever made to be available anywhere, any time. Yes, you can work around this if you want, it's virtually impossible to prevent, but you're still left with a crappy version.

3) YouTube worked with content creators and paid them licensing fees. MegaUpload does none of this.

4) YouTube never flaunted being pirate providers. It never worked with pirates. It has actively worked against this. MegaUpload bragged about being a tool of piracy.

This isn't blaming the medium for the content. MegaUpload wasn't some innocent person whose restaurant was used for drug deals. MegaUpload was a drug ring that existed solely for trafficking drugs.

Beamer wrote on Jan 25, 2012, 10:28:

zirik wrote on Jan 25, 2012, 10:25:
difference between youtube and megaupload is the amount of money they gave to politicians in the US. safe harbor status can be bought.

Really?
That's the only difference?



Really?