Falkvinge

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by Falkvinge 2y ago
It's like how the Inuit have 35 words for "snow", or the Swedish have 51 words for "tax evasion". Some cultures have a need for nuances that necessarily gets reflected into the local language, nuances which will be
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by Falkvinge 2y ago
It is reasonably common in the voicing part of the acting industry, when a famous name turns you down, that you instead turn to a voice imitator to give a performance that's reminiscent of a number of factors (kind of sounding like thi
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by Falkvinge 8y ago
Hurra: yet another way for the NSA to exfiltrate data from my keyboard.
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by Falkvinge 11y ago
Fair enough. In Sweden (my native country), the primary factors for a good credit rating are assets, income, and the lack of mismanaged credit.
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by Falkvinge 11y ago
I'll support most entities - not only corporations - that put people's rights ahead of government agencies' data cleptocracy.
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by Falkvinge 13y ago
I'm writing quite a bit about this in the leadership handbook Swarmwise - how being leaderless prevented Occupy WS from achieving long-term goals or direction. http://falkvinge.net/books/
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by Falkvinge 13y ago
Carbyne is a quite logical name, considering the -y- vowel (and even the -yne ending) is used to denote triple bonding between carbon atoms in organic chemistry. Compare ethane - ethyne (single bond - triple bond), for example.
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by Falkvinge 13y ago
I'd have to agree. But it's not about everybody converging on one project, as implied in the question; it's everybody doing their part to create a huge decentralized mesh - decentralized and uncontrollable. Most people live i
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by Falkvinge 13y ago
Shout-out to my activist colleagues down under. Good to see y'all.
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by Falkvinge 13y ago
Yes.
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
The idea that "parental controls" are needed is contradictory to the entire philosophy of Open Source and Free Software. Parental controls - or, as it should be called, parental censorship - is a "feature" that treats the user as an ADVERSA
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
How shall the artists get paid? http://falkvinge.net/2011/01/31/how-shall-the-artists-get-pa... Cheers, Rick
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
Sorry if I sounded aggressive in my terse response. I frequently publish a story when I'm 98% sure - pretty much every single time, the details will fill in as people come to visit and add it to the comments field, frequently enough enrichi
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
Because a justice system must consistently uphold rights of citizens. Its best-case scenario is not particularly interesting; it is the worst-case scenario that must be good enough, still guaranteeing citizens' rights and due process in e
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
The Pirate Bay is indeed a technical trailblazer. Not necessarily for back-end architecture or user experience, but damn, the site is resilient against anything you throw at it. Pretty much every Power That Be <tm> has tried to brin
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
Illegitimate - no. It's my site and I can confirm that. I've been working hard on it for quite some time. Suspicious - well, that depends on exactly what you are suspecting. Cheers, Rick
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
You're thinking of another judge, in the Netherlands. I haven't written in English about this subject before AFAIK.
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
Of course I am biased, just like any other publication. The principal difference is that I openly declare my bias, and try to provide alternate sources for verification. Cheers, Rick
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
This article misses the point entirely. CloudFlare doesn't shine on single page loads. CloudFlare shines when your site hits Reddit's front page, you have 1000 people online at the same time, and your servers are already pumping 30 megabits
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
This. So many upvotes.
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
The notion of "selling with restrictions" is a contradiction in terms. If the property is transferred to a new owner, then there can neither legally nor morally be any restrictions placed by the previous owner on how the new owner may use t
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
You do not buy a license when you buy a DVD. You buy the DVD, period. You buy the good. The physical item. Consumer protection laws are adamant about this. There is no "limited license" embodied in the good. You buy the physical item and th
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
> What this article is describing is the exercise of those rights. Yes, when you purchase a DVD, you are not purchasing the underlying property. This statement is utterly and completely false. You can examine the consumer protection law
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
This looks like a different article - namely, "The Analog Letter: It is entirely reasonable to demand that our children inherit the rights of our parents". http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/06/the-analog-letter-its-entire...
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
I have seen that several have responded already, but for a column-length (i.e. digestable but still long enough to present the case) explanation, this is one of my key and first writeups: http://torrentfreak.com/do-you-prefer-copyright-or-
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
The headline has, as always, an amount of liberty in summarizing the article to a few words. The person responsible for inserting the text into the report, who is a Member of the European Parliament, and therefore in some sense representing
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
(also, I am no longer the party leader of the PPSE; I led the party through its first five years and the election where we put our first people in the Europarl. Today, my focus is international)
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
Well, the proposal has been adopted as a report today. The Parliament has formally requested legislation to be drafted - it has gone beyond the proposal stage. So this has entered the famous _wurstmaschine_ - the legislative sausage machine
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
The odd thing here is that the satire description predates the patent monopoly by six years, and may count as prior art.
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
Hurray. This is the 1950 dystopics with cameras in our homes all over again. (You'll carefully note that rooting a computer includes getting access to its peripherals - including webcam and microphone.) http://falkvinge.net/2012/08/28/what

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