Mike Acker’s Comments

• Oct 15th, 2011 @ 3:43am

  Re: meh

  on Facebook Says Some of Your Personal Data Is Its 'Trade Secrets or Intellectual Property'

  tee hee
  
  someplace last week i read that 30% of the time people spend online goes to FB. and suckerberg ain't happy. like AOL of the past: he want's it all.
  
  AOL's model stagnated. it can't happen soon enough for fools' book

• Oct 15th, 2011 @ 3:38am

  Re:

  on Facebook Says Some of Your Personal Data Is Its 'Trade Secrets or Intellectual Property'

  people here will wake up and realize that much of the "FREE!" is just a bullshit come on to get access to their personal information.
  
  Their "business model" is similar to TV. In Television what is sold is audience and it is sold to the advertisers
  
  in FoolsBook it's the same: you are being sold.
  
  everytime you see something for "free" it is good to ask: who is selling what to whom.

• Oct 15th, 2011 @ 3:32am

  Re: Re: Re: The real trade secret

  on Facebook Says Some of Your Personal Data Is Its 'Trade Secrets or Intellectual Property'

  How'd they get that?
  
  off all those "Friend" links plus a monster AI program

• Oct 15th, 2011 @ 3:26am

  Re: Re: Follow me @glynmoody ... on Google+

  on Facebook Says Some of Your Personal Data Is Its 'Trade Secrets or Intellectual Property'

  FB,Google "competitors in the same game"? : ABSOLUTELY.
  
  That would be why they created Buzz and now G+

• Oct 15th, 2011 @ 3:22am

  Re: Facebook == evil

  on Facebook Says Some of Your Personal Data Is Its 'Trade Secrets or Intellectual Property'

  we don't call it "Fools' Book" for nothing

• Jan 18th, 2011 @ 4:17am

  Predatory Litigation

  on Righthaven Moves On To Suing Message Board Posters, Rather Than Just Site Operators

  I think this comes under the heading "Predatory Litigation".
  

  "Predatory Litigation" would include the article on a_cademic a_dvantage which appears also in today's clips
  

  The crap about a_cademic a_dvantage I am guessing was derived from using a "Reputation Defender" type scan and then processed using a robot.
  

  Ugly
  

  If this sort of process is allowed to continue the New Rules to the Net will become: "Post a comment: Get Sued". It will effectively suppress free speech on the Net. There will be cheering from certain areas

• Jan 15th, 2011 @ 4:03am

  laughable protection

  on Deep Linking Could Be Infringement In Germany If Website Puts Even Ridiculous Weak Attempts To Block It

  what content protection has been other than "laughable"?
  
  from what I've read every sort of content protection devised thus far has been defeated in a few days if not a few minutes
  
  "and said that as long as the site owner made any attempt whatsoever to block such deep linking, getting around those measures could represent infringement."
  
  the result of which is that the above is an appropriate response