Scott Yates’s Comments

• Oct 14th, 2011 @ 2:54pm

  Damn Terrorists!

  on Take Picture Of Your 4-Year-Old Daughter Eating Ice Cream... Get Investigated Under Terrorism Act [Updated]

  Ice cream terrorists I tells ya!

• Jul 11th, 2011 @ 8:23pm

  Re: Kismet

  on Microsoft Opens Its WiFi Data Collection Source Code; Why Doesn't Google Do The Same?

  Exactly!
  
  It is really a moot point anyway. They were collecting UNENCRYPTED data that anyone can STILL collect.
  
  This has been blown WAY out of proportion!

• Jul 9th, 2011 @ 3:48am

  Re:

  on Appeals Court Tosses FCC's Media Ownership Rules

  And if they are telling you things that are not true? Or are slanting a candidates political position on something? Without the chance for a dissenting opinion and in news, it becomes much like a "company town" mentality.
  
  Does that make sense?

• Jul 9th, 2011 @ 12:49am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: I could not dis-agree more

  on Appeals Court Tosses FCC's Media Ownership Rules

  Exactly my thought

• Jul 9th, 2011 @ 12:18am

  Re: Re: I could not dis-agree more

  on Appeals Court Tosses FCC's Media Ownership Rules

  From a Frontline piece on media:
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/part3/stats.html
  
  On a typical day...
  57% of Americans watch TV news
  54% watch their local news
  34% watch cable news channels
  28% watch the nightly network news
  23% watch the morning news programs (The Today Show, Good Morning America, etc.)
  
  40% of Americans read a newspaper
  
  36% of Americans listen to news on the radio
  
  23 % of Americans get news online
  18% visit news aggregators (Google News, Yahoo! News, AOL News, etc.)
  14% visit national TV networks' sites (CNN.com, MSNBC.com, ABCnews.com, etc.)
  14% visit newspaper Web sites
  4% visit news blogs
  3% visit online news magazines (Slate.com, Salon.com, etc.)
  
  
  
  I admit that these stats are a little old (2006), but it bears repeating: We (online news readers) are NOT the majority.
  
  
  The reason it seems like a problem to me:
  
  If one company owns all the local (and possible a majority of national) news outlets (tv, radio, newspaper, etc) they get to decide what gets covered. Nothing that makes THEM look bad of course. Nothing that goes against their owners views. No political ads for the guy they don't like that might be running for senate. If they OWN all the local media, that seems like an AWFUL lot of undue influence.
  
  Do we really want fox news to own ALL the local news outlets for example?
  
  Am I really missing something here?
  
  Does this not seem like a bad thing?

• Jul 8th, 2011 @ 9:24pm

  I could not dis-agree more

  on Appeals Court Tosses FCC's Media Ownership Rules

  I think we should step back and realize that the number of people who get their news online is tiny compared to the number who get news via major media. This is a VERY real problem.

• Jun 3rd, 2011 @ 3:07pm

  Re: Overvalued (as beernutz)

  on Entertainment Industry Lawyer: The Public Domain Goes Against Free Market Capitalism

  I find it funny that some of the "award" badges don't load properly (are corrupted?), and those that DO look like they are from 1992 as well!

• Jan 19th, 2010 @ 2:26pm

  Re: (sigh) (as beernutz)

  on If School Officials Got Confused By Kid's Science Project, Why Does The Kid Need Counseling?

  What?
  
  What the hell does "leftist" have to do with this?

• Dec 21st, 2007 @ 7:34am

  How about Clipmarks? (as beernutz)

  on Amazon Patents Blurbs; Google Patents Snippets

  They use clips.
  
  http://www.clipmarks.com
  
  At least in this case it is actually something useful!