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• On the post: VW Will Block BlackBerry Email When People Are Off Work. Isn't That When It's Most Useful?

  

  freak ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2011 @ 10:23pm

  Re: Re: union mentality

  From what I was reading, it was the badly stressed [i]managers[/i] who were sending email to their employees at all hours of day.
  
  
  [i]"The idea is to keep employees from feeling chained to their smartphones, and to send a message to bosses that it?s not reasonable to expect employees to be reachable at night, according to the Allgemeine Zeitung."[/i]
  
  
  So, yeah, what you said, but the point was to stop badly stressed people from effecting others with their bad management.

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  freak ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2011 @ 10:12am

  Re: Re: Re: H fundamental thing.

  "I'm a bard, right? I can summon instruments? Okay, I spend a full round summoning a piano, 20 feet above the fighters head."

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  freak ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2011 @ 08:53am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  > Darryl- minus any facts or rational statements.
  
  
  Oh, sorry, I hadn't realized you were trolling.
  
  
  That's a good one, you got me, implying that darryl has any facts or rational statements. :)

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  freak ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2011 @ 08:52am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Would you mind actually refuting his points then?
  
  
  (I do that to Darryl all the time. One pleasant topic, 137 out of 142 comments were between me and him. But I'm not asking you to convince him, I'm asking you to refute him, just once, in one post)

• On the post: CD Projekt Shakes Down Suspected File Sharers

  

  freak ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2011 @ 01:53pm

  Re: Re: Welcome to reality, CD Projekt

  "Hey, we got a picture of the crook's face & driver's license here when he waves it in front of the camera. . ."
  
  
  "Scrap it, Louie! He logged in to facebook at the starbucks across the street! WE HAVE HIS IP ADDRESS!!"

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  freak ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2011 @ 01:45pm

  Re: Welcome to reality, CD Projekt

  This just in!
  
  IP addresses identify you more accurately than DNA evidence!

• On the post: Universities Buying Up .xxx Domains To Stop Porn Sites Showing, Once Again, That .xxx Is A Pure Money Grab

  

  freak ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2011 @ 05:21am

  Re: .xxx

  Because of rampant over-zealous blocking, and because of the price, you can bet that not many actual porn sites will have a .xxx domain.

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  freak ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2011 @ 08:25am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I have to wonder . . . why?
  
  So you can google something embarrassing about him? So you can send him threatening messages? So that you can accuse him of something patently false on 4chan and get them to pizza him to death?

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  freak ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2011 @ 08:24am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  AC: "You should login under your real name!"

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  freak ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2011 @ 09:27am

  Re: Re: Re: FFB38D is mine!

  I guess I'm stuck with B00B51 .. ..

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  freak ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2011 @ 06:09pm

  Re: Re: copyright

  In a more lucid tone, what I mean is that this saying long predates the internets.

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  freak ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2011 @ 06:08pm

  Re: copyright

  Reader's Digest, 1968.
  
  
  According to a very quick google search. Whoever submitted it probably got it from somewhere

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  freak ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2011 @ 02:18pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  "[Entertainment]'s the first thing out the window when there isn't any money left."
  
  The Great Depression called. It laughed at you.

• On the post: Deadly Monopolies: New Book Explores How Patenting Genes Has Made Us Less Healthy

  

  freak ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2011 @ 09:59am

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  "Considering that part of the patent bargain is that the patentee must disclose the invention to the world, it doesn't make a lot of sense to complain that patents are about keeping things secret and not sharing."
  
  
  Well, from we've seen, a company only decides to patent if they cannot already keep their invention secret.
  
  If the intricacies of their invention are so nuanced, or so novel that they don't believe anyone could reverse-engineer it, they simply don't apply for a patent.
  
  If they think someone could reverse-engineer it, then they do get a patent; and then regardless of whether you know how to build the device or not after reading the patent, it doesn't matter because they can sue you out of existence.
  
  What happens is that we get patents for things we already know how to build, or once seeing the device, can figure out how to build it very easily, and no patents that actually disclose things.
  
  Which is why my open-source software has options to save in 17 different standard formats, and 17 versions of said formats that accomplish exactly the same thing, but are 'patent-free' and incompatible with the normal proprietary software.
  For one of the versions, the difference between the patented & patent-free format is literally only motorola coding & big-endian. (Motorola coding, if you're not familiar, is the ordering of a 4-bit group of bits like 4812, as opposed to big endian, 8421, or little endian, 1248, and is similar to PDP-endian. I'm not really sure of the term's history/etymology)

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  freak ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2011 @ 08:23am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: "When even the death penalty doesn't deter infringement"

  You've *never* heard of appeal to punctuation? You *must* be stuck in the dark ages.

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  freak ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2011 @ 08:38pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  The 'he' you're talking about is CLT. His real name is Tim Cushing.
  
  The other, funnier Tim is Dark Helmet. (Sorry, CLT)

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  freak ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2011 @ 04:42pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  No reason at all.
  
  When I say I hate copyright, that's what I mean, since there are parts of copyright I don't mind.

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  freak ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2011 @ 03:58pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  You can't hate both piracy and copyright?

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  freak ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2011 @ 02:29pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Show us where he loves piracy then.
  
  We know he hates copyright. We've seen him post that he does not approve of piracy.

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  freak ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2011 @ 01:50pm

  Re: Re: Re: "When even the death penalty doesn't deter infringement"

  I don't really get that from OotB's comment, TBH, and that isn't a fully formed argument to begin with, (Why should you require permission?).
  
  
  Would you like to form your own argument for the immorality of it? There are certainly logical/cogent arguments to be made.

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