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• On the post: Interesting Timing: News Leaks That Justice Dept Is Investigating S&P Just After It Downgrades US?

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2011 @ 08:48pm

  I would be shocked if the vast majority financial institutions weren't in a more or less constant state of investigation.
  
  "And this is Tom, he's investigating... well... everybody, all the time. That way if anything ever comes up, we can honestly say we were investigating before hand."
  
  *Tom stops playing Angry Birds for three seconds* "and the benefits are great too!"

• On the post: Yet Another 'Rogue Site' List Proposed, This Time With YouTube Right On Top

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2011 @ 12:44pm

  Re: Typical Twisted logic

  How many DMCA notices are too many?
  
  How many violations are to many ?
  
  Is there a cap on the amount of times you can falsely imprison people for murder?
  
  How many blatantly wrong arrest warrents for murder are too many ?
  
  How many traffic camera tickets are too many ?
  
  How many people falsely accused of speeding is acceptable ?
  
  If you have reached the cap on bad speeding tickets do you have to let everyone else go ?
  
  Does "charlie" have a second name ?
  
  How many times that Tim shares thoughts about patents, DCMA, copyright, and people buying legal music for free are TOO MANY ?
  
  How many unlawful DCMA takedowns are ENOUGH ?

• On the post: Notch Comes Up With New Plan To Settle Trademark Dispute: Quake 3 Battle

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2011 @ 05:02pm

  they should ppv it. talk about selling the scarce...

• On the post: What Google Gets With Motorola Mobility

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2011 @ 03:27am

  Re: Hail the value and worth of Patents !!!!

  I think you may be misunderstanding a few things.
  First: nobody ever said all patents were bad. The common theme, I believe, is that overly broad, ridiculous, or patents on things the rights holder has no intention of producing are bad.
  Second: Google doesn't short people what they are owed because they bought something. The say .5c per click or whatever it is and that's what you get, -not- oh we bought motorola this week you only get .05c per click now.
  Third: When referring to the iron/carbon alloy, steel is the proper spelling.

• On the post: Cooley Law School Sued Over Its Supposedly 'Misleading Employment Stats'

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2011 @ 03:18am

  Re: Re:

  Grr... no edit. Idea above modified from one of Chuck Palahniuk's books. Don't remember which one. I recommend reading all of them to find out :)

• On the post: Cooley Law School Sued Over Its Supposedly 'Misleading Employment Stats'

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2011 @ 03:11am

  Re:

  I could see how asking a question could be defamation.
  
  Say you own Restaurant A. Two blocks away is Restaurant B, and they serve the same types of things you do. You take out a half page ad in every local newspaper you can find that says: "Have you developed a rash or open sores around your mouth after eating at Restaurant B? If so contact Finklstein, Smith + partners at 555-1234. Large class action settlement may occur."

• On the post: Could The Internet & Television Be Making Everyone Smarter?

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2011 @ 12:21pm

  Re: Re: Sharp Tools

  Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

• On the post: When Innovation Meets the Old Guard

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2011 @ 04:27am

  Re: Re: Re: No universal agreement on educationl methods

  I call bs here. When you get pushed a grade or two for a single subject, you become socially ostracized (you think you're better than me/us huh?) among your own peers, and those in your "advanced class" which is really just the normal class you would have taken later anyway.
  
  Let's put it in terms most can understand. How do you feel when your boss is younger than you?

• On the post: Artists In The US Want To Get Paid Multiple Times For A Single Work

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2011 @ 02:46pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  *bows*
  I'd like to thank AC's everywhere for the inspiration.

• On the post: Dutch Journalist In Legal Trouble For Showing How New Transit Card Is Easy To Defraud

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2011 @ 09:52pm

  I don't see a difference between this and the videos on youtube showing how to pop a master lock with a coke can and some tin snips. The information should be unregulated - the asshole breaking into lockers should be punished.

• On the post: Potential Lulz: Security Experts Think UK Police Tricked Into Arresting The Wrong Person Over LulzSec Hacks

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2011 @ 02:28am

  lulz
  
  stupid troll is... in jail.
  
  True nerd rage can be an awe-inspiring and terrible thing to behold. :)

• On the post: Homeland Security Finally Admits To Latest Domain Seizures; Arrests Guy For Selling Unauthorized 'Sons Of Anarchy' T-Shirts

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2011 @ 02:16am

  I worked legit t-shirt vending at shows as a side gig a few years back. We were given instructions that went something like this, presumably they were cleared with the higher-ups.
  
  On our sweeps of the parking lot before and during the show, if we spotted anyone else selling t-shirts or other merch we were to grab a couple of security guys and confiscate their stuff. If they didn't put up too much fuss we didn't need to bother calling the police. Then we sold their shirts at our stall if they were decent quality.
  
  Remember this is a legit business working 10,000+ capacity shows and their policy is to steal and profit from illegal merch.
  
  So anyway: 10yrs in jail seems a little excessive to me.

• On the post: Do You Have Property Rights Over Your DNA?

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2011 @ 02:57pm

  Re: Property rights vs. Privacy rights

  Everything discriminates against "bad" genes. That's how evolution works. It's also (probably) why I have to duck through thresholds in old houses.

• On the post: Music Industry Wants To Put 'Red Lights' In Google For Sites It Says Support Infringement

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 05:43pm

  Re:

  8 minutes?

• On the post: Physicists Claim Time Travel Is Impossible (This Time, They Mean It)

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 09:07am

  Re: Re: Re: Time is but an illusion

  never mind maybe answered by above lol

• On the post: Physicists Claim Time Travel Is Impossible (This Time, They Mean It)

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 09:04am

  Re: Re: Time is but an illusion

  I've never understood "you can't go faster than light" Say you create a ship that can go -almost- as fast as light. then walk forward.
  
  Or a bullet train with a racecar in it moving forward, and you move from the back seat to the front seat. except bigger with more steps and in a vacuum.

• On the post: Would Fashion Copyright Have Made Kate Middleton's Knockoff Wedding Dress Illegal?

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 07:32am

  Re: Fashion Trolls

  Nope, I'm copyrighting t-shirts and jeans - prior art be damned. Maybe I can wring some lucrative settlements out of the big players before before they realize what happened in the glut of coming lawsuits.
  And just to show my heart is in the right place, I'll start buying t.v. seasons and movies again once I'm absurdly rich ;)

• On the post: Swedish Appeals Court Increases File Sharing Fine By A Factor Of Six

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 04:09am

  Re: Let's try to keep an open mind...?

  This is easily the best 'other side' comment I've seen on these boards.

• On the post: University Of Calgary Refusing To Pay Access Copyright Any More

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 03:35am

  Re: Re: HOW DARE THEY!

  I'm pretty sure it's a grass used for thatching.

• On the post: Oracle Deletes Jonathan Schwartz's Old Blog; Which Excitedly Celebrated Google's Use Of Java In Android

  

  NotMyRealName ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 03:23am

  Re: History

  Even before I could really comprehend the magnitude of that line it made me vaguely uneasy. Now it scares the shit out of me.

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