Latest Techdirt Comments http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/01321523153/kitchen-nightmares-lawyers-threaten-infamous-samy-amy-if-they-talk-about-their-experience-show.shtml#c282 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:09:16 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/01321523153/kitchen-nightmares-lawyers-threaten-infamous-samy-amy-if-they-talk-about-their-experience-show.shtml#c282 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c1021 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:09:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c1021 Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/18345423136/doj-dept-education-to-colleges-start-restricting-free-speech-campus-kiss-your-federal-funding-goodbye.shtml#c993 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:09:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/18345423136/doj-dept-education-to-colleges-start-restricting-free-speech-campus-kiss-your-federal-funding-goodbye.shtml#c993 Fuck is the worst word that you can say
We shouldn't say fuck, no we shouldn't say fuck, fuck nooooo!!!]]> Re: Re: Re: Yet again, Mike can't find a lower bound. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c1008 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:07:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c1008
geez, leave it to the abject authoritarian to bring out the 'morals' clause...
stupid shit, there are no 'bad' words, only bad intent:
CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING!

(repeat that about a million times until it sinks in)

i'll explain this real simply so even a simpleton can unnerstan:

with buddies on the golf course and i make a crazy lucky shot, they proceed to curse me out and call me every disgusting, obscene name in the book, and yet i'm grinning from ear-to-ear...

b-bu-but, wait! shouldn't i be reduced to tears, cowering in a fetal position, my whole being shaken to the core ?

contrarily, i'm in a bar, and a man who is not my gay lover, is making kiss-kiss noises, and telling me how much he loves me, how pretty i am, what a sweetheart i am, etc, etc...

b-bu-but wait, those are such 'nice' words, how can he really be taunting me to start a fight ? ? ?

DO YOU GET IT YET ?

CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING!

art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof]]> Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/18345423136/doj-dept-education-to-colleges-start-restricting-free-speech-campus-kiss-your-federal-funding-goodbye.shtml#c986 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:05:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/18345423136/doj-dept-education-to-colleges-start-restricting-free-speech-campus-kiss-your-federal-funding-goodbye.shtml#c986 All went to the university,
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.]]> Re: Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c945 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:05:40 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c945 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/01450023148/makers-nutella-force-fan-who-created-world-nutella-day-to-shut-it-down.shtml#c289 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:05:11 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/01450023148/makers-nutella-force-fan-who-created-world-nutella-day-to-shut-it-down.shtml#c289 Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/01450023148/makers-nutella-force-fan-who-created-world-nutella-day-to-shut-it-down.shtml#c266 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:03:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/01450023148/makers-nutella-force-fan-who-created-world-nutella-day-to-shut-it-down.shtml#c266 How long will that stay up?That's what SHE said...]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/10401723156/if-you-think-you-should-actually-own-products-you-bought-now-would-be-good-time-to-call-congress.shtml#c22 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:02:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/10401723156/if-you-think-you-should-actually-own-products-you-bought-now-would-be-good-time-to-call-congress.shtml#c22
Waste of time. I have zero faith in a Congress that can't even take the time to fix the problems which made the DMCA an issue to begin with.

We don't need new laws. We need the existing laws corrected.

And obviously, my calls to my (Ind) senators have done nothing to make this happen.

Do that, instead of supporting this law, please.

Tell Congress to fix what they broke in the first place.]]> Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/01450023148/makers-nutella-force-fan-who-created-world-nutella-day-to-shut-it-down.shtml#c256 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:02:10 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/01450023148/makers-nutella-force-fan-who-created-world-nutella-day-to-shut-it-down.shtml#c256 Higher standards http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/19190923142/if-youre-going-to-illegally-seize-citizens-cell-phones-least-make-sure-youre-grabbing-right-ones.shtml#c602 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:01:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/19190923142/if-youre-going-to-illegally-seize-citizens-cell-phones-least-make-sure-youre-grabbing-right-ones.shtml#c602 Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/01450023148/makers-nutella-force-fan-who-created-world-nutella-day-to-shut-it-down.shtml#c234 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:01:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/01450023148/makers-nutella-force-fan-who-created-world-nutella-day-to-shut-it-down.shtml#c234 Re: Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/01321523153/kitchen-nightmares-lawyers-threaten-infamous-samy-amy-if-they-talk-about-their-experience-show.shtml#c269 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:59:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/01321523153/kitchen-nightmares-lawyers-threaten-infamous-samy-amy-if-they-talk-about-their-experience-show.shtml#c269
There was never purported to be one, at least in the UK version.]]> Re: This is progress http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/18345423136/doj-dept-education-to-colleges-start-restricting-free-speech-campus-kiss-your-federal-funding-goodbye.shtml#c985 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:57:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/18345423136/doj-dept-education-to-colleges-start-restricting-free-speech-campus-kiss-your-federal-funding-goodbye.shtml#c985 Re: Re: Re: Recording http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/18383623114/your-word-against-ours-how-fbis-no-electronic-recording-policy-rigs-game-destroys-its-credibility.shtml#c513 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:55:09 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/18383623114/your-word-against-ours-how-fbis-no-electronic-recording-policy-rigs-game-destroys-its-credibility.shtml#c513
Bottom line. When dealing with the FBI or the police. Shut up. Shut. Up. Just shut up...until your lawyer arrives.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/01321523153/kitchen-nightmares-lawyers-threaten-infamous-samy-amy-if-they-talk-about-their-experience-show.shtml#c268 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:54:23 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/01321523153/kitchen-nightmares-lawyers-threaten-infamous-samy-amy-if-they-talk-about-their-experience-show.shtml#c268 Re: No more Fox for me... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/01321523153/kitchen-nightmares-lawyers-threaten-infamous-samy-amy-if-they-talk-about-their-experience-show.shtml#c267 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:54:09 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/01321523153/kitchen-nightmares-lawyers-threaten-infamous-samy-amy-if-they-talk-about-their-experience-show.shtml#c267 Re: Re: Re: Yet again, Mike can't find a lower bound. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c986 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:53:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c986 "Free speech is like pretty much every other right, your rights end where mine start."
That's right. Your right to live in a world devoid of stuff that offends you ends at the exact spot where my right to free speech begins. You always have the option not to look at stuff that offends you.

... it's one of the area of the law based a little more on morals ...

The law has no business regulating morality.

Anyway, no matter what, your free speech rights are not unlimited. That's a fact.

It's a legal fact. It's also debatable whether obscenity should be one of the limits imposed on speech.]]> Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/01321523153/kitchen-nightmares-lawyers-threaten-infamous-samy-amy-if-they-talk-about-their-experience-show.shtml#c244 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:53:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/01321523153/kitchen-nightmares-lawyers-threaten-infamous-samy-amy-if-they-talk-about-their-experience-show.shtml#c244 I don't know about Kitchen Nightmares, but Hell's Kitchen IS a bunch of out of work actors and family/friends of people on the staff. There is no actual Hell's Kitchen restaurant, it's just part of a TV recording studio.

That's why some of them seem like they're there just to make a big enough fuss to get themselves on TV, because they are.

I've always thought this was true. It's like they raid the out-of-work (or over-aged) modeling agencies in LA.]]> Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/19190923142/if-youre-going-to-illegally-seize-citizens-cell-phones-least-make-sure-youre-grabbing-right-ones.shtml#c577 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:53:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/19190923142/if-youre-going-to-illegally-seize-citizens-cell-phones-least-make-sure-youre-grabbing-right-ones.shtml#c577 overwriting the memory isn't necessarily that difficult.
You're going to have a hard time overwriting storage without leaving some traces in a subsequent dump.

Even if the video itself is not recoverable, there should be some evidence there.]]>