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• On the post: Texas Age Verification Bill Would Plaster Health Warnings On Porn Sites

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2023 @ 01:14pm

  When will mandatory warning labels be required for politicians.

• On the post: Texas National Guard Latest Agency To Be Discovered Operating Flying Cell Tower Spoofers

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2017 @ 06:18am

  Seems fitting..

  Concerns definitely need to be addressed when a military agency gets into the domestic law enforcement business

  Seeing as law enforcement is in the military business, I imagine the military wants a little tit for tat.....

• On the post: Eric Holder Cuts Off Program That Helped Spur Police Asset Seizure 'Shopping Sprees'

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2015 @ 03:16pm

  "For hundreds of police departments and sheriff’s offices the seizure proceeds accounted for 20 percent or more of their annual budgets in recent years"
  
  
  Oh, they'll just make up for it in ticket revenues....

• On the post: Scammers Using FBI And NSA Logos, Claiming Legal Actions And Demanding Payment Via GreenDot MoneyPak

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2014 @ 09:45pm

  "I would imagine that targeting the FBI -- which actually does investigate cybercrime -- might not be that wise of a decision for the scammers."
  
  I think you place far too much faith in the FBI.

• On the post: Sprint Seemingly Shocked That Nobody Wants Them to Kill Off Price-Disruptive and Competitive T-Mobile

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 12:14pm

  Re: Re: Unlocking?

  Actually Verizon is primarily CDMA infrastructure for 2.5G and 3G and LTE for 4G. ATT and T-Mo are GSM.

• On the post: Company 'Thanks' Blogger For Positive Review By Sending C&D Claiming 'Unauthorized Trademark Use'

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2013 @ 10:20am

  Re: Re:

  Perhaps we need to write some reviews of MarkMonitor. It would be entertaining to see if their filters can catch it. :)

• On the post: Shocking Revelation: Websites For Cheating On Your Spouse Are BSing You

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2013 @ 10:53pm

  Congrats dad!

  It's about freaking time. It was embarrassing being a bastard child all this time..

• On the post: Cops Subject Man To Rectal Searches, Enemas And A Colonoscopy In Futile Effort To Find Drugs They Swear He Was Hiding

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2013 @ 09:28am

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  My thought is that it's moot anyway. Once the lawyers get done with this the medical center is going to end up paying dearly for allowing this to happen.

• On the post: CA School District Announces It's Doing Round-The-Clock Monitoring Of Its 13,000 Students' Social Media Activities

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2013 @ 10:51am

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  No they're not. They state their intentions are to protect the children, but in reality they will use this to discipline kids who are good sheep to the school.
  
  Anything kids say that's critical of the school or teachers will be interpreted as a 'threat' worthy of expulsion.
  
  Don't think for a minute that they give one rat's ass about the children, they care about CONTROL.

• On the post: Two Judges Told DOJ It Had To Disclose Spying On Journalist; DOJ Found A Third Judge Instead

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 29 May, 2013 @ 11:42am

  Re: Re:

  Just be careful where you meet for the exchange. There are some seedy people out there.

• On the post: Guy Sues Twitter For Taking Away His Twitter Handle

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 24 May, 2013 @ 12:16pm

  And they know it

  "Not liking something that a company does isn't a reason to sue."
  
  And companies know it. That's why they tow VERY close to the legal line to screw customers left and right.

• On the post: Why ESPN's Offer To Pay To Have Its Content Bypass Data Cap Meters Plays Right Into The Hands Of Wireless Providers

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 14 May, 2013 @ 01:34pm

  Re:

  Very true. Let us remember that ESPN is owned by ABC which is owned by that bastion of IP freedom.... Disney.

• On the post: MPAA Freaks Out: Insists That Having To Consider Fair Use Before Filing A DMCA Takedown Would Be Crazy

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 14 May, 2013 @ 09:38am

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  I disagree. DMCA explicitly states that fair use must be taken into account. The **AA's essentially don't believe in fair use, so they don't ever take it into account. More importantly, an automated system has no way of determining if something is fair use.
  
  Also, a BIG problem with the notice/counter-notice system is that it HEAVILY favors the alleged rights holder. It has been used in the past to muzzle speech.

• On the post: Why ESPN's Offer To Pay To Have Its Content Bypass Data Cap Meters Plays Right Into The Hands Of Wireless Providers

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 14 May, 2013 @ 09:53am

  Another thing...

  If this were to happen, how long would it take for ESPN to position it as a premium feature for a fee? Talk about everyone winning except the consumer...

• On the post: MPAA Freaks Out: Insists That Having To Consider Fair Use Before Filing A DMCA Takedown Would Be Crazy

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 13 May, 2013 @ 10:13am

  Re: If not an "unwarranted burden" for MPAA, then

  It's apples and penguins. A hosting company is not required BY LAW to actively monitor its site for infringement. And would you trust YOUR data to any company that actively monitors your uploads? I sure as hell wouldn't, and neither would any reasonable business person.
  
  A copyright holder, BY LAW is required to take fair use into account as they are making a legal claim, under penalty of perjury, that: 1) they are the legal copyright holder and 2)the content is actually infringing.
  
  Or to put it differently, the burden IS on the MPAA (or RIAA, or whomever) to show that the content IS infringing before taking it down. That's what the law says. It's not 'unwarranted' it's the LAW.
  
  If we take that argument to a logical extreme, prosecutors wouldn't have jobs, because actually proving someone committed a crime would cause an 'unwarranted burden' to law enforcement.

• On the post: Bloomberg Reporters Had Full Access To Customer Usage Logs, Including Help Transcript Logs

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 13 May, 2013 @ 09:48am

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  But those logs should not be accessible to EVERY employee of the company. Especially not anyone outside of the division of the company responsible for customer service and support of the terminals.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 12 May, 2013 @ 07:45pm

  Re:

  We can only hope!

• On the post: National Institute For Mental Health Abandons DSM Just As American Psychiatric Association Prepares Massive Update

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 06 May, 2013 @ 08:34pm

  Re:

  If I remember correctly, the DSM uses ICD codes which are used across all medical fields, so this shouldn't affect insurance billing.

• On the post: Doctors Call Out Novartis For Insane Pricing On Cancer Drug

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 06 May, 2013 @ 07:29pm

  Re: yet another bad idea

  "The reason for patents is without them cos will not invest in R&D..."
  
  You do realize that the R&D for the VAST majority of drugs is actually funded and performed by universities, not the pharma companies?
  
  You also realize that marketing is far and away the largest budget item for big pharma companies?
  
  The knowledge of how to create a Strad is lost because he chose NOT to share it with anybody, not because there weren't patents at the time. The idea that patents would have spread that knowledge is ludicrous.

• On the post: Bloomberg Defends Stop-And-Frisk, Decries Critics 'Pointing Fingers From City Hall' By Pointing Fingers From NYPD Headquarters

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 03 May, 2013 @ 11:11am

  Re: name a ban that isn't

  I never found Ban roll-on to be arbitrary or capricious.

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