Comments on: WTF is happening with SOPA now?

By: Stephanie Cummings

Stephanie Cummings — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:34:00 +0000

Yeah and not to mention that a politician who once stood for what he/she believed in, usually tends to turn into another puppet once in office.

By: Kathy L

Kathy L — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:46:00 +0000

You already have several choices, but you can use my Jungle Cruise photo if you like.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/72944086@N00/6322257285/

It is set to a creative commons license that should work for this situation.

By: Ito Kagehisa

Ito Kagehisa — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:47:00 +0000

Wanted: Reason not to feel complete apathy over the political process.

Well, since the goal is to keep you fat and apathetic, maybe you could use sheer contrarian cussedness as a reason to keep fighting?

Works for me, although not for everyone…

By: Ito Kagehisa

Ito Kagehisa — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:40:00 +0000

I think of myself as fairly knowledgeable in the ways of DNS and bind, but I found that Volokh piece incomprehensible. What is s/he talking about with that “Faced with silence from that server, the browser will go into fraud-prevention mode, casting about to find another DNS server that can give it the address. Eventually, it will find a server in, say, Canada.” bit? That’s not how client resolvers work… they don’t “cast about” unless I’m completely misunderstanding what Volokh meant by that.

Not in favor of SOPA, not against DNSSEC necessarily (although I think CAs are a bunch of swindlers) but just puzzled.

Maybe browsers are now being designed to be independent of local DNS sources? I’m pretty far out of the loop on browser design these days.

By: shadowfirebird

shadowfirebird — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:34:00 +0000

The apparent stupidity of those defending SOPA in government reminds me of something quite different.

‘The one thing any politician must do, no matter how powerful, is stay bought.’
– Spider Robinson

By: Ant

Ant — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:16:00 +0000

By: tehsusenoh

tehsusenoh — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:12:00 +0000

Exactly the reference I was making.

By: jhertzli

jhertzli — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:54:00 +0000

To Cowicide: Conservatives? SOPA looks like just another government regulation to me.

As far as I can tell, this crosses the usual ideological lines. The Cato Institute is against it and the AFL-CIO is for it.

By: Culturedropout

Culturedropout — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:09:00 +0000

I’m not far behind you. We just need to hang on long enough for SpaceX to start regular launches and we can blow this pop stand for the moon…

By: Ant

Ant — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:46:00 +0000

Planet as Futurama’s Professor would say. :(

By: Lawrence Mark

Lawrence Mark — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:46:00 +0000

If progress means moving forward, what does Congress mean?

Maybe we can break it down:

Con
Definition: trick
Synonyms: bluff, cheat, crime, deception, double-cross, dupe, fraud, gold brick, graft, mockery, swindle, take in.

Antonyms: honesty, truthfulness

And…

gress: meaning step, degree & walk.

So, why are we supporting Congress?

____________________
Democracy:
The pathetic believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Three wolves and a lamb, voting on what’s for dinner.
Controlled mob rule.
…when will we learn?

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:50:00 +0000

Revised Mask:
http://i.imgur.com/8ObDY.png

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:49:00 +0000

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49403380@N00/6528402303

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:49:00 +0000

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49403380@N00/6528403663

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:44:00 +0000

I revised the original remix to look a little better in his hands and here’s a new mask too:

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:16:00 +0000

Thank you Andrew. I’m going to dig into it now and fix it.

From looking at their licenses, it does allow for remixing. When I did the flickr searches I made sure that’s the images that came up.

All of them say:

You are free:

to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to Remix — to adapt the work

By: exhipigeonist

exhipigeonist — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:44:00 +0000

You can use a Creative Commons license to put it in the public domain. No attribution necessary.

https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/waiver

Is this what you’re after?

ETA: Oh, it looks like you’ve created this using images under various other CC licenses. You’d have to share it under those to respect their licenses. (i.e., is one image is ‘non-commercial’, you have to share your remix as NC, otherwise someone else may go against the source image license.)

Best way around it I can think of is to share it as CC (BY-NC-SA) but state that it may be used without attribution (a clause you can use to waive attribution case-by-case or universally). But this isn’t giving attribution to the source images, so . . . the best you can do is ask their permission to remix their work and share it under a weaker license.

Hope this helps!

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:53:00 +0000

Based on David Cameron’s recent performance, I have a vision of Alba and Cymru in 2020 as prosperous EU states while London keeps wringing its hands and complaining about the bloody foreigners. Scotland’s doing quite well through this whole recession mess. I wish that Wales could catch up.

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:51:00 +0000

And another version:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49403380@N00/6527932409

By: ericmonse

ericmonse — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:31:00 +0000

My understanding is that this can be done anyway already, no? Youtube already takes down offending content as does Facebook. If Youtube refused to take down offending content, then they could be shut down under current laws.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:24:00 +0000

I don’t know the ins and outs of the act, just the big-picture repercussions, but if all they’re able to do is meddle with DNS then surely someone can just set up a private DNS that ignores SOPA?

Simplistic I know, but imagine the fancy version of what I said.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:20:00 +0000

Works everywhere else too.

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:20:00 +0000

Drop the gorilla on anything for your own remix… (PNG with mask)

http://i.imgur.com/Mg1fC.png

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:11:00 +0000

If anyone out there has a good, high-resolution photo of the gorilla camp (especially the gorilla who’s staring quizzically down the rifle barrel), I’d be much obliged if you could upload it somewhere under a Creative Commons Attribution license, so that we could use it as a meme during Wednesday’s upcoming markup session.

All with creative commons stuff (attribution/details at flickr link)

Can someone help me pick the right CC license? I don’t care about attribution for myself, so how do I remove that “restriction” and just make it freely accessible to anyone without having to give me credit?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49403380@N00/6527723955

By: Nicolai Parsons

Nicolai Parsons — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:43:00 +0000

Yes, even if it’s in another country as long as the content originates from an American corporation. THAT is why the greater Internet is worried. It means every major internet site can be shut off the way Wikileaks has been with only a very small amount of recourse through American legal channels which some will not be able to afford.

By: scav

scav — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:38:00 +0000

Well, might do that in a few years. Then in a few decades we might be converting most of our terrible weather into lucrative electricity and drinking water, and move the border south a bit. Muhahahahaaa!

Wait, no. Maybe we want Cumbria back, but probably not Newcastle.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:29:00 +0000

Come to Scotland. It’s nice apart from the weather.

I’m waiting for Scotland to remove that growth attached to the southern border.

By: scav

scav — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:24:00 +0000

Come to Scotland. It’s nice apart from the weather.

By: Rks1157

Rks1157 — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:15:00 +0000

They never get tired of lobbyists with money.

By: noah saber freedman

noah saber freedman — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:15:00 +0000

things got better after that!