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  • On the post: 'Geek Power': Best Buy Sends C&D To Newegg Over Marketing Campaign

    Jeni ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2011 @ 04:10pm

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    Yup. Looks like another monopoly-wanna-be.

    I used to love Best Buy but last year while checking out on their web site using my Best Buy credit card (which I'd used A LOT and always paid off quickly) and they wanted me to add yet another credit card #. That's when I said my good-bye's to Best Buy.

    Haven't tried NewEgg yet, as we don't have one but off I go to find their web site. : )

  • On the post: Police Arrest A Bunch Of Folks In Europe For Linking To Infringing Content

    Jeni ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2011 @ 04:03pm

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    Gee AC, give the guy a chance - crosses my mind that perhaps he doesn't just sit here all day waiting with baited breath for a "challenge" from you...but what do I know, I guess.

    I wish I understood how a digital copy of anything truly and really hurts anyone. I just can't compute that in my dingbat brain.

  • On the post: Police Arrest A Bunch Of Folks In Europe For Linking To Infringing Content

    Jeni ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2011 @ 03:32pm

    Re: From The-Silence-Is-Deafening-Department

    Shut down all the search engines. AC's cannot and WILL NOT TOLERATE LINKAGE!

    Got that everyone?

  • On the post: White House Ramps Up Efforts To Criminalize Wikileaks, As Witnesses Refuse To 'Cooperate'

    Jeni ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2011 @ 04:23am

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    "Imagine what's next...

    Kind of scary, huh. We're either going to flip or we're going to flop.

    Seems to me a quote from B.O. himself should resolve this - his own words about running a "transparent government".


    Government should be transparent. Transparency promotes accountability and provides ..."
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/

  • On the post: Compare And Contrast Two Systems To Let People Notify Elected Officials About Their Feelings On PROTECT IP

    Jeni ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2011 @ 04:13am

    Re: Re: Re:

    A person doesn't have to be "sophisticated" (whatever that means in your mind) to have good common sense.

  • On the post: Police Arrest A Bunch Of Folks In Europe For Linking To Infringing Content

    Jeni ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2011 @ 03:58am

    Re: Re: Criminal Vs Civil - do you understand the difference ?

    No kidding. Comparing copyright to murder? Are you kidding me?

    Who IS this "darryl" person? From what planet is s/he?

    What an odd one.

    Anyway, it's a sad state of affairs when someone is arrested for a hyperlink, no matter what it's too. I continue to stand by that belief. If something is "so horrible" go after the "so horrible", not the link to it.

  • On the post: Police Arrest A Bunch Of Folks In Europe For Linking To Infringing Content

    Jeni ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2011 @ 03:43am

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    "Checkmate!!!"

    Nope, not even close...

  • On the post: New Bill Introduced To Outlaw GPS Tracking Without Consent

    Jeni ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2011 @ 05:40am

    Re: Bill Aimed At Something That Is Already Happening?

    "Basically, we are ALL SUSPECTS, all the time."

    Exactly, Derek! It is difficult to comprehend that anyone can just "be okay" with this. This is pure insanity.

    To the "this is okay" people; wait until you're accused of something you're totally innocent of just because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time - but LEO says you're guilty so that's that. You're diddled.

    After all, they all say, "But I didn't do it!"

  • On the post: Do A Little Dance, Make A Little Love…Get Bodyslammed Tonight (At The Jefferson Memorial)

    Jeni ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2011 @ 05:12pm

    Re: Re: Disruptive

    I know ... was thinking about that, too. If I went to the Memorial and saw people quietly dancing, and didn't know the story behind what they were doing, I might find it a little odd but I would simply smile and move on. I don't see that they were harassing or following or tormenting anyone else in the vicinity.

    But then I was brought up to mind my own business and not judge others.

  • On the post: French Court Says Merely Having The Word 'Torrent' In Your Domain Means You Are Encouraging Infringement

    Jeni ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2011 @ 05:09pm

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

    GAWWWDDDD...now they want to pick apart the English language and make WORDS illegal.

  • On the post: Senator Schumer Says Bitcoin Is Money Laundering

    Jeni ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2011 @ 05:08pm

    Sad

    You know what really makes me sad? How so many jump on humankind as if we are ALL criminals right off the bat, bar none. I should think all Americans here were brought up with the same law I was: "Innocent until proven guilty".

    Gosh, why do you suppose that was so important to have in our laws? Because in reality, most people are good and decent and go about their daily lives with no desire to be "shady" or criminal.

    No matter what can be abused on the streets or on the Internet, there is always going to be a small segment of humankind who are going to find ways to abuse it and not even care who they hurt. That's the sad fact of life 101. That's why we pay LEOs.

    What wasn't bargained for was idiot lawmakers making everything humans do illegal (along with robbing them blind) to the point that we can't even respect the law anymore.

    It doesn't make crime right, but it's a fact of reality that will always be there no matter what. I think a worse crime is looking at every single other human being and thinking, "Criminal!" "Evil!" "Bad guy/gal!" "You are therefore you are criminal!"

    The way some of you talk we should all live in a bubble and have nothing to do with the outside world lest we "break a law". Wow. What a world.

    Sigh. There just has to be fairness and balance in everything - and more importantly, logic and reason. It's sad to see us losing it all.

  • On the post: Senator Schumer Says Bitcoin Is Money Laundering

    Jeni ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2011 @ 06:11am

    SORRY!

    Crud ... REALLY sorry but I forgot to give the reference link:

    https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Talk:Trade#Alternative_listing_of_bitcoin-related_sites

  • On the post: Senator Schumer Says Bitcoin Is Money Laundering

    Jeni ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2011 @ 06:09am

    Bitcoin says...

    As I said, I wanted to check out Bitcoin and whilst trying to figure it all out I stumbled onto this:


    Drugs Section Empty

    The "psychoactives" section appears to consist entirely of dead links. Ironwolf 03:54, 28 March 2011 (GMT)

    I deleted the Drugs section, since Bitcoin is still far too vulnerable to government actions against it -- there are many single points of failure. The most glaring to me is the DNS system -- the bitcoin.org domain could be taken down if the US government wishes to.
    AaronM 01:18, 27 April 2011 (GMT)


    So if they've taken it down, isn't this now a non-issue?

  • On the post: Senator Schumer Says Bitcoin Is Money Laundering

    Jeni ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2011 @ 05:48am

    Stunning

    Can't believe this. With all the money illegals are taking from the U.S. and sending into Mexico, this dopey (D) Senator is worried about Bit coins.

    And that's just one issue - as others have noted, we have many more much bigger that a digital "bitcoin".

    Stupid is as stupid does.

    Gee. I have to check this Bitcoins out now, maybe I should send (D) Chucky a thanks.

  • On the post: Would It Really Be So Bad If The Beatles Were In The Public Domain?

    Jeni ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2011 @ 05:23am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Everyone but the authors

    "No. In fact, we shouldn't punish them; we should separate the harmful ones from society and help and heal them so that they can rejoin normal society.

    Oh. My. Goodness. Were you ever - personally - forced to deal with a psychopath or sociopath? They cannot be "healed".

    Your entire diatribe is astonishing. Do you do this for attention or just to be divisive, or do you really believe all that tripe? If you do, pray tell, how does someone get like this???

  • On the post: Activity Is Not Influence

    Jeni ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2011 @ 02:46pm

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    Yes and sometimes you're in it more to help people. Some of us really don't care about "popularity" or influence nearly as much.

  • On the post: Activity Is Not Influence

    Jeni ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2011 @ 03:57pm

    Re: Activity has something to do with Influence

    Saw this on Twitter:


    What Would Have Cost $1000.00 And 30 Weeks Of Work, You Can Now Acquire Within Minutes And Jump Start Your Way To Obscenely-HIGH Profits! Grab The Private Label Rights & Master Resell Rights To 900 High Quality Articles And Multiply Your Income Streams For Free! http://ow.ly/1d47zA


    Example of how people are getting their "klout" and I bet all of that so-called "article content" has been stolen off sites where someone thought working hard was the right way to go, and can't rid herself of that bad habit of a work ethic to TWEET TWEET.

    Grief what IS this world coming to.

  • On the post: French Court Says Merely Having The Word 'Torrent' In Your Domain Means You Are Encouraging Infringement

    Jeni ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2011 @ 03:49pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    You can't make a bullet a criminal - it's a thing; a criminal is a human who wrongly uses a bullet. A bullet can do no wrong just sitting there. How it is used is determined by the mind of a human.

  • On the post: Do A Little Dance, Make A Little Love…Get Bodyslammed Tonight (At The Jefferson Memorial)

    Jeni ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2011 @ 08:56am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: dancing at the Jefferson Memorial

    I see what you're saying, nasch. I should have been a bit more clear - I've been seeing repeated comparisons to that Baptist church group and just don't see how there can be any comparisons. Perhaps I did misunderstand. If so I apologize.

    But I agree with the point - if it IS okay, as the Supreme Court says, for those fringe kooks to disrupt such a somber occasion, certainly a little quiet dancing in a public place is harmless.

  • On the post: French Court Says Merely Having The Word 'Torrent' In Your Domain Means You Are Encouraging Infringement

    Jeni ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2011 @ 08:51am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Brilliantly Inciteful

    What if someone wants to practice their rights to speak out against torrents and wants to have a domain of "notorrents.com" or "stoptorrenting.com" or whatever?

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