http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130426/10363322853/make-art-not-law.shtml#c112 Sun, 19 May 2013 11:14:36 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130426/10363322853/make-art-not-law.shtml#c112 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c672 Sun, 19 May 2013 10:40:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c672 supposed/claimed/purported/bull..cough clients that Prenda Law claimed to represent, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that they were Curius Amicae?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c666 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:57:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c666 I'm the gay one.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c646 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:43:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c646
"Running a website but hiding your identity is worse than anything Hitler ever did."]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c630 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:40:06 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c630 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c618 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:30:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c618
Privacy has no dog in this fight. Principle has no dog in this fight.

Govern yourself accordingly.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130124/01543521775/newspaper-editorial-insists-hackers-must-be-punished-while-misunderstanding-nearly-every-detail.shtml#c947 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:11:00 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130124/01543521775/newspaper-editorial-insists-hackers-must-be-punished-while-misunderstanding-nearly-every-detail.shtml#c947 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20021224/0159212.shtml#c45 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:05:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20021224/0159212.shtml#c45 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c598 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:05:09 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c598 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/17254423102/eric-holder-claims-terrorists-are-involved-ip-theft.shtml#c1538 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:04:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/17254423102/eric-holder-claims-terrorists-are-involved-ip-theft.shtml#c1538 Get a grip Eric! All those poor kids torrenting movies, then selling copies on the streets of every major third world city of the world are NOT members of any terrorist group!
Oh well, guess one should expect this....the "authorities" are so busy chasing phantoms that the biggest criminals (Wall Street bankers, multinational corporation tax evaders, etc) are just laughing while they count their ill-begotten billions.....business as usual.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/05513523093/suburban-express-goes-double-nothing-their-aggressive-behavior.shtml#c95 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:57:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/05513523093/suburban-express-goes-double-nothing-their-aggressive-behavior.shtml#c95 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c580 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:50:37 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c580 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c570 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:50:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c570 Usual crap on this site.

Like your bullshit comments? You're absolutely right.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c702 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:48:54 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c702 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c557 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:38:47 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c557
One can use it to sh*t on the message boards.

One can use it as a hedge against unfair advantage of the opponent -- to be able to continue performing a valuable public service.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15583223111/congress-grandstanding-over-google-glass-privacy-concerns-next-up-privacy-concerns-over-your-eyes.shtml#c2324 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:28:01 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15583223111/congress-grandstanding-over-google-glass-privacy-concerns-next-up-privacy-concerns-over-your-eyes.shtml#c2324
Anonymous coward: Privacy? In public?

Why am I the only one who sees the irony in this?

- Yes, you are. Because fortunately enough most people here are thinking critically. You are unfamiliar with the processes of the sanitization of public space. This is an academic line of inquiry in the communication and culture as well as political sociology disciplines (amongst countless others i.e. critical geopolitics) that will assist you in understanding the tension the contemporary world experiences as corporations turn public space into artificially mediated ones through the constructions of malls, shopping strips, etc. There has been a tension between privacy and the public since the earliest formations of the ancient Greek stoas, agoras and ampitheatres where people met to discuss politics, economy, sport, etc. The emergence of privacy begins here, and there has always been a struggle between the private sector, the state and populations for places to congregate outside of the home. I suggest reading Richard Senate's "Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization" as well as his "The Fall of Public Man."

You also were apparently concerned with "an entire academic field? Of?"

- I wrote "the discipline concerning agency of materiality and technology." This was confusing, I apologize. I am surprised by the lack of substance in your critiques and comments. It appears that you do not place much concern about doing research on your own. For example, you could have easily figured out the tension between privacy and the public on any academic database. Ok, so maybe you're not an academic, no sweat. But I'm also assuming that you simply avoided visiting Edward's profile page - of which clearly indicates what field you are concerned with. You see, there is something to be said about acknowledging the impressive critical ethos in this thread by complimenting peoples' intelligence by not saying "this is this, that is that" - people are capable of reading on their own. But because you are not, I hope this response has aided your ailments.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/05513523093/suburban-express-goes-double-nothing-their-aggressive-behavior.shtml#c72 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:15:02 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/05513523093/suburban-express-goes-double-nothing-their-aggressive-behavior.shtml#c72 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15583223111/congress-grandstanding-over-google-glass-privacy-concerns-next-up-privacy-concerns-over-your-eyes.shtml#c2300 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:11:59 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15583223111/congress-grandstanding-over-google-glass-privacy-concerns-next-up-privacy-concerns-over-your-eyes.shtml#c2300 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c556 Sun, 19 May 2013 07:47:23 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c556
Talk about discrediting, that'll do it right there.

Those Prenda roaches really do scatter when the light comes on, acting like fools. The tables turned, outed like they threatened to do to their victims, except they are not victims.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c681 Sun, 19 May 2013 07:22:07 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c681 How does one measure this without a firm basis for said measurement?

The precise growth rate doesn't matter. Machine capabilities are improving at a faster rate than human capabilities. Given enough time, machines will be more "intelligent" than humans.]]>