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  • On the post: Got That New iPod Nano? You Might Risk Arrest In Massachusetts

    nraddin ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2009 @ 11:36am

    Is there an exception for dash cameras?

    If there isn't than every single police officer that has ever used a car with a dash cam in it needed to have the book thrown at them. Also every officer in the state that owns a cell phone, ipod with mic, Camera with video, home tape recorder, PDA needs to be arrested. Also any case where dash cameras where used as evidence needs to be overturned as the camera evidence was obtained illegally.

  • On the post: Lori Drew Case Officially Dropped

    nraddin ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2009 @ 02:03pm

    Isn't harassment already illegal?

    I had a dude arrested and jailed years ago because he would call and write letters calling me names, calling in the middle of the night, basicly being a jerk all around. The cops arrested and charged him with Harassment, he was fined and given jail time (Was not his first offence) and ordered to stay at least 1000' from me at all times and 1000' from any place that I might go (I listed hundreds of places all over town using mapquest to make sure most of downtown and the west end where locations he couldn't go). So why exactly do we need a new law?

  • On the post: Yet Another Study Shows That Patents Lead To Sub-Optimal Innovation

    nraddin ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2009 @ 12:14pm

    So commons license can get me $40K+ extra a year?

    According to your charts I sould get an extra $33k or $34K a year if we just make everything free. Not sure how they even come up with numbers about what something free is worth in monitary terms, but an extra $33k a year sounds good to me.

    Can we try and use numbers that even follow. You have just calculated the amount of Oranges we have in Apples.

  • On the post: If You Build A House Based On Copyright Infringing Plans That You Bought In Good Faith… Are You Infringing?

    nraddin ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2009 @ 08:04pm

    floor tile

    My father was once sued because he didn't specify they use floor tile on the floor and the wall tile on the wall in a building he designed. Someone then someone walked in on a rainy day slipped, fell and broke a leg. They sued the contractor too and they won both cases. Then my father had to sue the contractor to get his money back and won. In the end it only cost him time but it seemed pretty silly overall, the contrator got screwed twice for the same mistake and the lawyers made out great.

  • On the post: Do Hourly Employees Even Make Sense Any More?

    nraddin ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2009 @ 06:55am

    hourly is the only way to keep corps honest

    The vast majority of people in the US should be hourly employees and I suspect that they are currently. Anything outside of hourly work leaves the company with the ability to over work you. Most companies will do this, expecting they can call you and expect you to work, nights and weekends while still expecting you to show up for your 'normal' work week.

    I understand the desire to having more freedom about when and how you work, but if you open people up for abuse by the powers that be, they will be abused by those with power.

  • On the post: Broadband Stimulus Plan Keeps Looking Worse And Worse

    nraddin ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2009 @ 06:07am

    So city people are worth more than country people?

    Would you say this is we where talking about water? Really you think it's more important for me to have a few extra options because I live in a metro area than it does for the people that have nothing at all to get something at all.

  • On the post: Why Are RIAA Supporters So Scared Of What Actual Musicians Think?

    nraddin ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2009 @ 07:07am

    Don't sell stuff you want to control

    Honestly, I hate the RIAA and MPAA to the point that I skip media that I would like to have other than give them my money.

    Having said that, if the artists what control of the content they create they shouldn't have sold it to the studios.

    This really isn't that complicated.

  • On the post: Once Again, Established Businesses Get Angry At 'Free' Competition

    nraddin ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2009 @ 06:55am

    Most professional web designers suck

    We know this because most web sites suck and most of them are built by someone that was paid to do it (IE a professional).

    I have worked professionally for years as a System Eng, and for the most part the web sites on my servers suck, and they are all designed by people that make a living doing it. (IE professional). I know there are great web designers out there that are professionals, it just that most professionals are not great web designers.

  • On the post: EU Antitrust Regulator Scolded For Simply Ignoring Evidence In Intel's Favor

    nraddin ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2009 @ 06:36am

    I don't like anti-trust but...

    I would have ignored the Dell guys too. All you have to do is look around at testing of these chips from indipendent 3rd parties and you can see that their claim that intel offers much better perfomace is just flat out wrong.

    Not only does the top perfomance stop switch back and forth between Intel and AMD on a regualar basis, but AMD almost always offers there chips much cheaper than Intel. At many pointed in the last 5 years AMD has had the fastest chips that cost much less than Intels fastest offering.

    AMD is almost always the best option for a low end desktop because they are so much cheaper, and the top end chips are really anyones game.

    So as much as I don't like anti-trust law, I would have ingored Dells interviews as out and out lies.

  • On the post: If Robert Johnson Died In 1938… Why Is His Music Still Covered By Copyright?

    nraddin ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2009 @ 06:29am

    Why do we have copyright?

    I have never really understood the system to begin with. Why is it that some work that some people do worth money any time someone uses it but no other works?

    I am an Eng. when I work on a project I put my personal creativity and problem solving into that project, but when the end users come and use that product I don't get paid for it. I just get paid for the hours I work. I am confused, why is what a musician does any better or worth more than the work I do?

  • On the post: What A Job: Making Sure No Brands Appear In A Movie

    nraddin ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2009 @ 10:15am

    They created this monster

    They created this monster by being the kinds of guys that will sue cause there brand is used in a way they don't like. However it doesn't have to be this way.

    Almost every case where someone was sued because of a product or tm or whatever was shown in a movie, tv or film has failed. Why? Because you are allowed to photograph anything in a public space or a space you have permission to be in. But they are so scared of their own treatment so they spend millions protecting themselves from people just like them.

  • On the post: Is Serendipity Lost Online?

    nraddin ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2009 @ 05:39am

    umm stumbleupon.com

    I use it all the time. It's pretty random and I find kewl stuff all the time. It's about an unfiltered as you can get without being completely random.

  • On the post: iPhone Haters Are Stick-Shifters In An Automatic World

    nraddin ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2009 @ 01:20pm

    Iphone didn't do anything new

    They just have the Apple name on it so people loved it automaticly. The idea that the iphone is somehow new and had things packaged together that no other phone had or has really misses the dozens of other handsets on the market at the time that easily did everything the iphone did or does, many for less money with more memory. What happened was Apple made a phone, so people loved it cause it was an Apple. Apple has a very very small space in the market compared to companies like blackberry, however the media loves them so they get talked about all the time.

  • On the post: Entitlement Society: Grad Can't Find Job, Sues Her College For Tuition Back

    nraddin ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2009 @ 01:04pm

    Always thought that University was for people unwilling or unable to educate themselves. $70,000 so that you can be lazy and not learn what you need. I have a GED and I could pay the full costs of her education out of pocket with less and one years income. I taught myself or learned on the job what I needed to know, started earlier than people that kept going to school and didn't give myself that extra debt. So when people my age finished school at 22 or 23 I had been in the work force for 6 or 7 years.

  • On the post: Looking Back At The Microsoft Antitrust Suit: Did It Matter?

    nraddin ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2009 @ 09:54am

    Why does anyone own an Ipod exactly?

    I personally don't get it. With the limited space, cost and the closed format it just doesn't follow for me. When companies like SANdisk make players with just as many features at 1/4th the cost, just makes me wonder what people are thinking. The idea that a device that is to expensive, closed format and is duplicated by dozens of other companies will end Windows and MS really laughable. I do believe that wearable computers will take over the world one of these days, the ipod/iphone is really no closer to that than dozens of other companies software/hardware including MS.

  • On the post: Looking Back At The Microsoft Antitrust Suit: Did It Matter?

    nraddin ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2009 @ 09:46am

    Re: and what about your fight?

    Bundling IE with windows did not destroy the browser market at all. MS was "bungling" IE with windows starting early in OSR process for win95 but anything before IE 4.x no one wanted use it. Instead everyone downloaded Netscape and used it, hell we even used it at MS cause it was just so much better. Then Netscape came out with version 4 and it was bloated and slow and tried to do everything but did nothing well. At the same time MS came out with version 4 of IE that was fast and small. Everyone switched (Even though you had to go and download it) because it was that much better. (This is all pre windows98 mind you). Then Netscape just gave up the ghost and no one could seem to come up with anything good enough to make you want to go out and download it. Even today with Chome, Firefox and Opera, there is not enough better about them to make them compelling enough for most users to download, all those browsers have mannage to do is get a few strides ahead in the same cross country horse race as IE. If they want to take over they are going to need to really add something compelling and new. Until then it's not worth the trouble.

    Sure MS used IE to kill Netscape, but they did it in a time when you had to download either of them. People picked IE cause it was a better browser (At the time) and no one seemed to want to build something that could compete.

    The industry failing to make a better browser that people wanted isn't something that you should blame on MS. They tried to make the best browser and for a time they did, while everyone else just gave up. Sure they could have not put IE into win98 and later, but why not? What other browser where you going to use?

  • On the post: What The Netflix Prize Tells Us About Innovation, Collaboration, Info Sharing And Game Theory

    nraddin ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2009 @ 11:38am

    Ok so no Ah-Ha

    What about all the data that shows it really doesn't matter what you do to try and keep information private and in your control. You had a story just a few days ago that showed that progress in the macro form can be plotted easily and doesn't seem to change no matter what extra factors are involved. So I will ask again, if progress on the Marco level doesn't change with or without patents, free licences, etc, how can we conclude that patents are a problem?

  • On the post: Utility Wants To Charge Solar Panel Users For Not Using Their Energy

    nraddin ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2009 @ 07:33pm

    you want connection, you pay for connection

    The Util isn't going to charge you if you are not connected to the grid at all. I have some plans for a cottage that will have not electric attachment but will have solar, I will pay nothing to the power company. But the solar panels on my house don't give me eletric full time, I sell to the power company during the day and at night I buy back. They are asking for a small fee to continue that relationship. If I find it unfair then I can buy batteries and run my house off the grid completely, but the cost is to high to that at the moment.

    To put it another way, image if everyone in your town but you went solar. You would be paying huge fees to keep everyone elses lines running, this is a way to of set that cost as solar and the like become more popular.

  • On the post: On The Inevitability Of Exponential Progress In Technology

    nraddin ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2009 @ 09:22am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: don't cherry pick from the data.

    I did not repond to you. However I will not...

    The data blog post and links out of it show that patents don't effect growth rate in technology, but the closing statement of the post says 'patents get in the way of such progress'. If the data didn't show a change in progress after the adoption of a patent system then how is it getting in the way? Either patents get in the way and the data would show it, or patents don't and the data doesn't, right? Am I missing another option here? (I mean other than the data is just wrong, but then there is no point in talking about any of this)

  • On the post: Is The Goldman Sachs Stolen Code A Big Deal?

    nraddin ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2009 @ 09:13am

    umm billions is not enough money for you?

    Code by itself is not that great, but if you are talking about all the coded needed to do huge transactions on a common back office system (Thompson for example), you could be looking at years and years of programing testing and supporting costs saved. I would guess one of these systems in a large financial business like GS could have cost billions to product.

    Add to it that some of this code effects how automated trading is done and you could see how this information could be used to 'out smart' a financial transaction.

    Add to that the idea that someone can now see the code and potentially use said code to find explotes in the system (I know secutity via obfuscation is not the best way to go but banks don't put big glass windows in there vault locks for a reason) that could cost the bank billions.

    The problem here is that we have not idea what is in the code, so assuming it's not a big deal is pretty silly.

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