http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/15080223207/gmacguffins-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c54 Sat, 25 May 2013 19:06:44 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/15080223207/gmacguffins-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c54
I should sell a book entitled how to become a shill.

A: Make things up

B: When you don't know how to respond to something or you don't know the answer make something up. It doesn't have to be true or make any sense. and bonus points for poorly punctuated and incoherent sentences with poor spelling and run on sentences that no one could understand, you might fool someone into thinking there is a valid point in there somewhere.

C: Throw a bunch of false, unsubstantiated, and absurd accusations at your opponents. The more outrageous the better

D: Never say anything substantial, useful, or logical

E: Never substantiate anything you say with facts or evidence

F: Never make sense. If your argument is strong enough it doesn't need to be logically consistent or make sense. It should stand on its own merit and be a self evident truth. QED

G: Don't worry about the veracity of anything you say

H: Don't hesitate to lie. We're shills, we're not about truth we're about propaganda and our own agenda

I: Never fact check. Never do any research. It's too time consuming and your time is better spent making more haste comments without even spending the time to think before you post. Quantity before quality

J: Fear monger. Remember, spreading FUD is more effective than using good logic. Appeal to people's emotions and not their intellect, it works better.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02021423169/defense-digital-freedom-its-time-to-get-beyond-cyber-hyperbole.shtml#c458 Sat, 25 May 2013 19:02:23 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02021423169/defense-digital-freedom-its-time-to-get-beyond-cyber-hyperbole.shtml#c458
Sorry!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/17494123208/awesome-stuff-dealers-choice.shtml#c91 Sat, 25 May 2013 18:57:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/17494123208/awesome-stuff-dealers-choice.shtml#c91
See how creative they are? I wonder if longer copyright terms might give them more incentive to be original?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/15080223207/gmacguffins-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c48 Sat, 25 May 2013 18:43:31 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/15080223207/gmacguffins-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c48 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c3515 Sat, 25 May 2013 18:26:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c3515 WHY this should be reported on Techdirt wasn't mentioned. I, sent them a URL & questioned if Microsoft trying to cutoff or control Used Games, or even control where you can play it, might violate the First Sale Doctrine.

I think this was the URL: http://kotaku.com/you-will-be-able-to-trade-xbox-one-games-online-micros-509140825

I was never going to get a Xbox branded system, Xbox One just proves my choice right.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/15080223207/gmacguffins-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c25 Sat, 25 May 2013 18:24:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/15080223207/gmacguffins-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c25
Good news for you. Amazon will now let you sell your fan fiction for $$. Why waste your literaty talents here when you could be the next Barbara Cartland?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c3474 Sat, 25 May 2013 18:03:07 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c3474 The XBox One is a very very bad thing because of the 8GB of GDDR3 RAM...which is much slower and far less efficient than the WiiU's use of esRAM...XBox One only reserves 3GB for gaming...that's including software and graphics in that 3GB space...given the average game will likely use 2GB of RAM just to run the software from the hard disk, that's 1GB for graphics. This means that not only is it running off of Graphics RAM technology from roughly 4 or 5 years ago, it's also means that in order to keep the efficiency and smooth gameplay, they have to keep the games natively at 720p .. The left over 5 GB of GDDR3 RAM is strictly for you to run the OS.That, to me, sounds like Microsoft handing Nintendo a massive gift. With all the restrictions, the used game mess, & the uncertainty*, once Nintendo starts giving the Wii U proper game support (or the next Zelda launches), it might actually be a proper Console War after all.

*We also need to keep in mind Micro$ucks patent for what's now called "Visual DRM", which could be in use w/ the Xbox One's Kinect 2.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c3426 Sat, 25 May 2013 17:54:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c3426
Unlike most people, I plan to wait months beyond its release before I buy it. This way, I allow the suck, er, gamers to throw down their cash and tell me what's up with the console (especially if it, you know, crashes and requires a send off to be repaired).

While I am fine with these new consoles being reclassified as "entertainment systems", it's really disappointing to see the gaming market is being forced to change in lieu of proprietary crap like this.

Doesn't matter if the game requires an always-on internet connection, or that codes have to be used to play used games, the bottom line here is Gamestop's billion dollar business model is ruined because everyone else believes those monies should be theirs and no one else.

If this is the future of gaming, they can keep it.

The great news in all this will be those who rush to sell their 360 and games means I can pick them up for a song (and maybe a dance), as I will most assuredly keep my 360 on hand for years to come, thanks to all the "new" games I'll have.

PS: The Kinect will be a deal killer for me. No way in hell will I ever allow Big Business to require a camera in my house for their use. NO WAY.

That's just going far, far, far over the line for "entertainment".

Anyone who complains about this feature in the future, because it will be abused, has no one but themselves to blame.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c1025 Sat, 25 May 2013 17:49:01 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c1025 They could've had a police watching them for cell phone usage or anything.

The witnesses' current attorney, Daniel Rodriguez, states that even before deputies arrived at the home where the witnesses were held, the Sheriff's deputies ordered the witnesses not to post the videos online.

]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02021423169/defense-digital-freedom-its-time-to-get-beyond-cyber-hyperbole.shtml#c443 Sat, 25 May 2013 16:54:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02021423169/defense-digital-freedom-its-time-to-get-beyond-cyber-hyperbole.shtml#c443 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c3251 Sat, 25 May 2013 16:46:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c3251 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c3215 Sat, 25 May 2013 16:15:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c3215 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c3172 Sat, 25 May 2013 16:12:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c3172 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/15080223207/gmacguffins-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c16 Sat, 25 May 2013 16:04:46 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/15080223207/gmacguffins-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c16 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c3158 Sat, 25 May 2013 16:04:09 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c3158
There are people in the world that just like to be negative, but there's not too much of anything out there that's not going to have a problem from time to time. It's just a machine/computer. Things happen. It's not reason to bash the system. They're in it to make money. If you don't like it then don't buy one. Definitely don't visit the site about the new one just so you can complain. It's pathetic.

I'll bet you're a COD fan.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c341 Sat, 25 May 2013 15:56:36 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c341 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120328/04254118274/uk-they-jail-people-being-obnoxious-jerks-twitter.shtml#c1711 Sat, 25 May 2013 15:08:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120328/04254118274/uk-they-jail-people-being-obnoxious-jerks-twitter.shtml#c1711
I like the way you think. Since religion has a history of having text that is abusive toward another person and the cause of hate across the world for eons........then I guess we can arrest all priest, rabbis, clerics, iman for preaching hate and which supports abuse to homosexuals, females, children and the other.

I am tired of hate speech getting a pass behind the cloak of religion. Time to ban it.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100526/0020429577.shtml#c2534 Sat, 25 May 2013 15:06:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100526/0020429577.shtml#c2534 stress free car parking gatwick]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02021423169/defense-digital-freedom-its-time-to-get-beyond-cyber-hyperbole.shtml#c429 Sat, 25 May 2013 15:03:38 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02021423169/defense-digital-freedom-its-time-to-get-beyond-cyber-hyperbole.shtml#c429 WE can talk to each other freely. Even if one of us was in a Iran, we could proxy up and communicate.
That power of not relying on the media or the government for information is truly liberating. Just thinking about it for 5min makes you realize it's power.
So I believe, because of my beliefs, you underestimate the greatness of the connections we now have. You see it, but I don't think you realize the power in it.



You highlight the same problem (in more detail) with the intellectual argument compared to the blatant dumbed down propaganda.
The intellectual argument acknowledges all the details and complexities to its detriment.


War was seen by millions of people to be a really retarded thing to do. Want Sadam gone.... Assassinate the cunt, what the fuck are you going to war for.
■ At that time Sadam was NO threat to his neighbors or the outside world.
■ Sadam was less of a threat than war was to his people.
But the intellectual argument defeated itself and it's intended goals.
Of course the* other shit* you clearly showed was relevant but those nuances in complexity water down the message. It was however part of the intellectual argument. Not all of it. Only the part that supported the spammed narrative. And so that part was used to say..."see, even the Anti-War hippies agree".

Like against someone who ONLY says YES.
The intellectual argument is NO but...bla bla, little bit yes but NO because bla bla maybe yes but OVERALL NO.

AIM = No War
TACTIC = Agree with some Pro-War but say "Overall No"
While Pro-War don't acknowledge any argument from the Anti-War side.
Didn't see pro-War people saying the weapon inspectors didn't find WMD's or that War would kill more people than no war. Not a mention of alternative ways to take out Sadam.
Their message was clear and didn't allow nuance even when facts disproved it.

That Iraq "WMD" example is annoying.... to many nuances and details.
Could be here all year dissecting the use of propaganda for that war.


Back to "Cyber War" lol



Nuanced intellectual arguments only appeal to, and are listened to by intellectual people who have the time to contemplate.
( not the masses who are too busy in life and some that are too stupid )


The phrase "Cyber War" does not acknowledge complexity. "cyber war" = BAD
The intellectual argument is blaa blaa Cyber War is a threat but it's over exaggerated and bla bla cyber threats can be dealt with in other ways.
Self defeating.
The masses hear both sides say Cyber War is real.

End of, they are not listening anymore.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c845 Sat, 25 May 2013 14:19:29 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c845 I feel sorry for everyone who voted for Obama.

We knew. But we also realized that Romney was worse.

I expect Romney would do all the shit that Obama does, maybe even more (following in George W. Bush's footsteps) and then would push a hard-right morality agenda as well.

The Soviet Union had a one party system. We have, essentially, a one party system with a ridiculous and appalling opposition party to create the illusion of having a choice.

Ultimately, who ever gets into office is going to pull the same corrupt crap while distracting us with wedge issues to make it seem like they're doing their job.]]>