{"id":1177,"date":"2009-11-04T17:17:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T17:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2009-11-04T17:17:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T17:17:16","slug":"ip-and-orwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1177","title":{"rendered":"IP and Orwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another fine example of a somewhat Orwellian interpretation of Draconian copyright laws: according to Texas Instruments, hacking your own pocket calculator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/blog\/2009\/oct\/15\/texas-instruments-calculator?commentpage=1\">is illegal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Recently a friend of mine, responding on the bureaucratic nightmare surrounding the H1N1 flu shots, remarked that &#8220;it&#8217;s enough to turn one into a Republican&#8221;. What can I say? Acts like those of Texas Instruments are, on the other hand, enough to turn one into a commie. After all, when corporations treat their own customers as the #1 enemy, what is the customer to think?<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1177' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another fine example of a somewhat Orwellian interpretation of Draconian copyright laws: according to Texas Instruments, hacking your own pocket calculator is illegal. Recently a friend of mine, responding on the bureaucratic nightmare surrounding the H1N1 flu shots, remarked that &#8220;it&#8217;s enough to turn one into a Republican&#8221;. What can I say? Acts like <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1177' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calculators","category-intellectual-property","category-10-id","category-43-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}