http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130619/10395523531/next-time-someone-says-twitter-is-killing-deep-thinking-with-short-quick-messages-show-them-this.shtml#c545 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:31:16 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130619/10395523531/next-time-someone-says-twitter-is-killing-deep-thinking-with-short-quick-messages-show-them-this.shtml#c545
Ignoring the omitted part, in any period of time, a belief that society is about to collapse can be false. Or it can be true!

Sometimes societies do collapse.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110601/01524814501/dailydirt-air-hockey-robots.shtml#c85 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:30:22 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110601/01524814501/dailydirt-air-hockey-robots.shtml#c85 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/17344023538/fbi-admits-that-obeying-constitution-just-takes-too-much-time.shtml#c34 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:29:19 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/17344023538/fbi-admits-that-obeying-constitution-just-takes-too-much-time.shtml#c34 and all he gives you is a light beer !!!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130620/00581223542/ftc-planning-to-go-after-patent-trolls.shtml#c76 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:26:19 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130620/00581223542/ftc-planning-to-go-after-patent-trolls.shtml#c76 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130619/10395523531/next-time-someone-says-twitter-is-killing-deep-thinking-with-short-quick-messages-show-them-this.shtml#c538 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:26:11 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130619/10395523531/next-time-someone-says-twitter-is-killing-deep-thinking-with-short-quick-messages-show-them-this.shtml#c538 > does it second, but independently, and we don't care.

That is because the patent system is a first-to-file system.

Each law of nature should be patented. (And probably copyrighted too!)

Was intellectual property the same blight on humanity one hundred years ago as it is today? See Edison, Westinghouse, Tesla. See their patent abuse. See their commercial fights that would remind you of Apple vs. The World of Android or Monsanto vs. Farmers.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130619/01031623524/more-details-emerge-as-states-attorneys-general-seek-to-hold-back-innovation-internet.shtml#c426 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:21:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130619/01031623524/more-details-emerge-as-states-attorneys-general-seek-to-hold-back-innovation-internet.shtml#c426 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c1626 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:04:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c1626
You're right, it's a hunch, but the identifiers and general tone are too similar to the Typepad blog "Wired State" to persuade me otherwise.

I've spent time with this individual on other sites trying to debate her. It was a waste of time in the end so when I reply to her here it's to give her the online equivalent of a slap upside the head.

The talking points are the same. The Google hatred is the same, the words and phrases are the same, and the issues she raises are the same. If it walks like a duck...]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130620/00581223542/ftc-planning-to-go-after-patent-trolls.shtml#c71 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:02:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130620/00581223542/ftc-planning-to-go-after-patent-trolls.shtml#c71 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/23230923541/if-you-were-bradley-manning-what-would-you-do.shtml#c143 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:00:18 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/23230923541/if-you-were-bradley-manning-what-would-you-do.shtml#c143 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/23230923541/if-you-were-bradley-manning-what-would-you-do.shtml#c126 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:00:06 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/23230923541/if-you-were-bradley-manning-what-would-you-do.shtml#c126 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/13581923535/microsoft-capitulates-removes-online-drm-xbox-one.shtml#c1210 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:59:24 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/13581923535/microsoft-capitulates-removes-online-drm-xbox-one.shtml#c1210
Given what happened, I disagree there. As it turns out, they probably lost a great deal more by screwing their customers over - be it through lost sales of new PS3 hardware, through the PSN hack downtime & resulting compensation or whatever. I'm not convinced that they would have had direct issues from the MPAA regarding this for 2 major reasons - the hack didn't really allow anything that a hack on a standard Linux/Windows box wouldn't have allowed, and Sony (or at least a subsidiary related to the PS division) are part of the MPAA.

It's certainly more likely that it was the hack & related support that prompted the move rather than pure profit, but it was not the right move. They could easily have stopped support for older firmware versions and blocked gaming and other online access on versions with OtherOS installed, for example, at least giving customers a choice. They screwed up by removing features people had specifically paid for, and the desire to regain those features is what prompted the attacks that cost them dearly.

As for your other point, if region coding is the problem, I'll say the same as I always say here - they need to stop trying to section the world up into slices that allow them to screw people over depending on where they happen to be sitting. Not only will this never work, but you're always providing incentives for people to bypass those locks (which may in turn lead to other more devastating attacks). I would hope that the next gen consoles finally allow people to use their legally purchased content, no matter where they were purchased from. Time will tell if this happens, but region coding is always going to be source of incentive to hack these devices, with no moral reason not to do so.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/23230923541/if-you-were-bradley-manning-what-would-you-do.shtml#c107 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:52:37 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/23230923541/if-you-were-bradley-manning-what-would-you-do.shtml#c107 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/07515923527/leaseweb-deletes-megauploads-servers-without-warning-destroying-key-evidence.shtml#c1104 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:51:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/07515923527/leaseweb-deletes-megauploads-servers-without-warning-destroying-key-evidence.shtml#c1104 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/23230923541/if-you-were-bradley-manning-what-would-you-do.shtml#c85 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:51:16 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/23230923541/if-you-were-bradley-manning-what-would-you-do.shtml#c85
What were their crimes even??

The right to exercise FREE EXPRESSION, only to be subdued, chastened the worst possible way, ruthlessly brutal and painful to which the government itself makes the country such partnership, to be a greater control of nationals of the U.S. and the world and thus be targeted only the information that interests and convenient to own U.S. government and Israel. What is missing now. Put a camera in my bathroom?

Thank hacker American government, and the president of this country, Barack Obama (I trusted him), you helped me a lot in the exercise of my individual freedom and you also "never" persecuted those who think different from you.

"DESIRE" total progress for all intellectuals throughout the world from this discovery;
THANK YOU;

+ + May God forever and BRADLEY MANNING EDWARD SNOWDEN.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/13581923535/microsoft-capitulates-removes-online-drm-xbox-one.shtml#c1199 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:48:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/13581923535/microsoft-capitulates-removes-online-drm-xbox-one.shtml#c1199 First off, more people bitched about this than there were people who actually took advantage of it.

So? Just because I am not interested in a particular feature for myself doesn't mean I don't recognize that it is useful to other peoples and maybe good for the market as a whole.


Sony was selling the consoles AT A LOSS, and making up the money on game and accessory sales. BUT, there were people using these consoles with Linux and setting them up running in parallel as a poor mans supercomputer.

I fail to see how that should be the problem of the consumer. Sony was selling the consoles AT A LOSS, and making up the money on game and accessory sales. BUT, there were people using these consoles with Linux and setting them up running in parallel as a poor mans supercomputer.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/13581923535/microsoft-capitulates-removes-online-drm-xbox-one.shtml#c1178 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:48:12 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/13581923535/microsoft-capitulates-removes-online-drm-xbox-one.shtml#c1178 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/18243923466/hollywoods-new-talking-point-gatekeepers-are-awesome.shtml#c1089 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:46:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/18243923466/hollywoods-new-talking-point-gatekeepers-are-awesome.shtml#c1089 Apparently, the attendees of the World Creators Summit like gatekeepers who hold back actual creators, set up barriers to reaching a market, and only provide a winning lottery ticket to a very small number of creators. Weird.

Perhaps not, Mike. Remember how that guy from HBO said he saw value in exclusivity? Perhaps these fish believe they will appear bigger if the pond they're swimming in is smaller.

Never underestimate the power of arrogant douchebaggery.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/10325423530/massachusetts-wants-to-make-surveillance-easier-while-texas-is-making-it-harder.shtml#c15 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:42:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/10325423530/massachusetts-wants-to-make-surveillance-easier-while-texas-is-making-it-harder.shtml#c15
At least that's what Family Guy keeps preaching episode after episode.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130619/01031623524/more-details-emerge-as-states-attorneys-general-seek-to-hold-back-innovation-internet.shtml#c406 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:39:23 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130619/01031623524/more-details-emerge-as-states-attorneys-general-seek-to-hold-back-innovation-internet.shtml#c406 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/10213023529/fbi-admits-to-using-drones-to-spy-americans.shtml#c828 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:37:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/10213023529/fbi-admits-to-using-drones-to-spy-americans.shtml#c828
Why? A desperate ploy to get attention, perhaps.

Epic butthurt over something so trivial she's unwilling to talk about it in public?

Whatever it is, Cathy is so deranged she can't even get the other trolls on board.

Let's stop responding to her. She's too nuts to pay attention to anyone who doesn't immediately agree with everything she says.]]>