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• On the post: Snowden Leaks Have Likely Killed CISPA Dead

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2013 @ 04:04pm

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  I agree: they'll probably just put out more and more laws until they get the one they want. So I voted Insightful, rather than Funny.

• On the post: Dear Famous People: Stop Attempting Online Reputation Scrubbing; I Don't Want To Write Streisand Stories Anymore!

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2013 @ 12:29pm

  Typo

  In the second paragraph 'breifly' should be 'briefly'
  
  Also, should 'ferreting' (seeking/hunting) be 'squirrelling away' (hiding) in context?

• On the post: Philippine Record Labels Get Government To Play Whac-A-Mole With Kickass Torrents

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2013 @ 06:21pm

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  Particularly given all the powerful evidence that torrents hurt the corn-farmers. :)

• On the post: South Korea Considers Dumping Draconian Copyright Law Forced On It By The US

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2013 @ 09:59am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Is that as true in South Korea as it is in the US?

• On the post: The US's Public Domain Class Of 2013

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2012 @ 06:44am

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  Mute would be nice. If only certain groups would do some shutting-up... (also applies to other issues than copyright)

• On the post: London Police To Set Up Special Copyright Crime Police Force

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2012 @ 01:12pm

  Typo

  'dowloaders' for 'downloaders'

• On the post: 30 Years Of The CD, Of Digital Piracy, And Of Music Industry Cluelessness

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2012 @ 02:37pm

  30 years? Sheesh that makes me feel old! I remember watching the episode of Tomorrow's World where they announced the new wonder of the CD, and showed how it was so great at error correcting from radial damage (cunningly not showing how CDs are rubbish at coping with scratches arcing around the disc)
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow%27s_World

• On the post: 30 Years Of The CD, Of Digital Piracy, And Of Music Industry Cluelessness

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2012 @ 12:10pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Over 9000, surely?

• On the post: Why Regulations Aimed At Technology Almost Always Suck: Or Why Reading Someone's Gmail Isn't Reading 'Stored Communications'

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2012 @ 11:10am

  >two of the judges in this case argued that because the
  >recipient had not "downloaded" any other copies of the
  >message to store, then the ones on the server were not
  >"backups."
  
  I do in fact download my gmail to store it. I figure a lot of other people who don't trust that gmail is forever and some bug won't eat their account do this too (it happened to my hotmail). Clearly the judges are ... not thinking clearly.

• On the post: Joe Karaganis' Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2012 @ 07:37am

  Re: first and 'here here'

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear,_hear

• On the post: University Of California Won't Give Up: Sues Facebook Over Already Rejected Patents

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2012 @ 03:05pm

  Tollbooth?

  ...more like trollbooth.
  
  :)

• On the post: Crime Inc. Produces Thoughtful, Nuanced Episode About Piracy (Haha, Just Kidding! Cue Scary Music)

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2012 @ 01:53pm

  Re: Re: Poor gatekeepers

  What is this wonderful product you sell which you think we'd all love to buy from you?

• On the post: Oxford Professor Says Mankind Is Ethically Obligated To Create Genetically Engineered Babies

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2012 @ 12:53pm

  Re: Re: Re: Also

  Selective breeding is common in descriptions of eugenics because before the word got really unfashionable, selective breeding was the only technology we had.

• On the post: Oxford Professor Says Mankind Is Ethically Obligated To Create Genetically Engineered Babies

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2012 @ 12:50pm

  Re: Re: Re: Not yet slippery

  As I understand it (correct me if I have it wrong) the sickle-cell gene only causes disease if you have it on both copies of whatever chromosome it is on - but it confers the benefits when you only have one copy, so there's a fix where you get to keep the good stuff and get rid of the bad stuff by just making sure your children only get one copy.
  
  Having said that, I get your point that just finding the 'bad' genes and getting rid of them is not that simple.

• On the post: Hollywood Made Him Do It: Two More Theories On The Aurora Shooter

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2012 @ 01:23pm

  Stupid theories...

  As a theory, 'Violent films made him do it' because he was exposed to violent films, is only slightly less stupid than 'Oxygen made him do it' because he breathed oxygen - and that theory has the benefit that everyone who ever killed anyone breathed oxygen, even the ones before violent films.
  
  If you want a theory about why one person out of millions did something, your amazing distinguishing feature (has seen violent films) had better not apply to nearly every single person on Earth!
  
  What we need is something like 'the killer has a distinctive growth in his brain, seen only in violent people' or something. That'd be much better.

• On the post: Attendee At Batman Shooting Plans To Sue Warner Bros For Making Batman Too Violent

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 01:17pm

  Reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeXQBHLIPcw
  
  OK, being in a crowd which got shot at is worse than anything in the video, but the reaction seems the same.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Pocketful Of Useless Coins

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2012 @ 05:43am

  Re: Re: It's MINTING, not PRINTING

  Or 'coined'

• On the post: Even The Judge Wonders What Oracle Is Up To As It Asks For $0 In Copyright Damages From Google

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2012 @ 01:13pm

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  I'm going to guess that these are adverts you're talking about. Does your web-viewing platform support ad-blocking?

• On the post: Carreon's Full Filing Reveals He Donated To Oatmeal Campaign Himself, Plus Other Assorted Nuttiness

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2012 @ 02:28pm

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  It's turtles all the way down!

• On the post: Labatt Threatens To Sue Newspaper For Showing Photo of Suspected Killer Holding Its Beer

  

  Some Other Guy ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2012 @ 03:26pm

  Re: Re: I can see the next ad campaing for the brand.

  Drat. Didn't notice I wasn't signed in. :(

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