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• On the post: New York Times Suffers Redaction Failure, Exposes Name Of NSA Agent And Targeted Network In Uploaded PDF

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2014 @ 06:14am

  Re: Responsibility and Accountability

  I am not American and do not live in America. There is no upside (for me) when Americans spy on my communications. The NSA are not the good guys - if their employees cannot handle some naming and shaming they are working for the wrong organisation.

• On the post: New York Times Suffers Redaction Failure, Exposes Name Of NSA Agent And Targeted Network In Uploaded PDF

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2014 @ 11:53am

  No sympathy

  The NSA and its staff do not appear to respect the privacy of anyone. Why should we respect theirs?

• On the post: Guantanamo Bay Authorities Ban Solzhenitsyn's 'The Gulag Archipelago'

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2013 @ 04:41am

  Jack Bauer: the American role-model

  Holding people without trial, torture, assassination, propping up dictators, invasion of basically everyone's private communications, targeting whistle-blowers, etc are important actions in keeping 'real' Americans safe!

• On the post: Congress Plays See-No-Evil, Pretend-There's-No-Evil, Let-The-Evil-Continue With NSA Domestic Spying

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2012 @ 01:04am

  "...and as in the case of Rep. Dan Lungren, pretends that as long as no one proves to them that the NSA is abusing its power, there's simply no reason to demand evidence."
  
  Of course anyone who leaks the evidence will be accused of being a terrorist, threatened with assassination, and / or imprisoned.

• On the post: SF Students Suspended & Barred From Walking At Graduation Because They Joked About Teachers On A Blog

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2012 @ 01:53pm

  If teachers cannot do the job without breaking the law (Constitution = Law) or if they cannot handle the criticism which comes with being public servants (paid for with public funds) they should quit and go work for the private sector and see how THAT goes!

• On the post: SF Students Suspended & Barred From Walking At Graduation Because They Joked About Teachers On A Blog

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2012 @ 01:43pm

  If they name the school / teachers we can all start making jokes about them (and teach them a lesson re: Streisand effect)...someone must the know the name?

• On the post: Google Maps Exodus Continues As Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To OpenStreetMap

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2012 @ 07:35am

  Allowing competitors a shot at the market actually reduces anti-trust issues (I think). As for France, Google should just shut their offices and see how the French like that.

• On the post: Google Maps Exodus Continues As Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To OpenStreetMap

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2012 @ 07:32am

  I don't think that they got much advertising when the maps appeared on someone's else's site / app.

• On the post: IP Above All Else: WIPO Defies UN Sanctions To Give Computers To North Korea

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 03:14pm

  mmmuhh... cause? If N Korea actually has nukes, it is because some bright spark put them on a hit-list (axis of evil) to look good in a speech.
  
  Interesting fact (to put the Nuclear threat in perspective): America has actually lost (and failed to recover) more nuclear weapons (11) than N Korea is rumored to possess (10).

• On the post: IP Above All Else: WIPO Defies UN Sanctions To Give Computers To North Korea

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 10:02am

  Since when has N Korea had anything to do with terrorism?
  
  Even the United States Department of State does not consider N Korea to be a sponsor of terrorism.
  
  When the world's biggest bully has one of the world's largest nuclear arsenals, any country that entertains delusions of kicking that bully in the head has no choice but get tooled up.

• On the post: Homeland Security Denies Entrance To UK Tourist Because Of Twitter Joke

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 02:38am

  I have visited Saudi Arabia at least 20 times and never had a problem, however I would be concerned about visiting the US.
  
  Saudi Arabia is quite open (righteous?) about its restrictions, unlike the US which appears to be a democracy but by many accounts seems to behave like a police-state. The other important difference is that Saudi Arabia does not have the influence on the rest of the world that the US does.

• On the post: Megaupload Indictment Shows That Google Does Actively Police Against Its Ads Showing Near Infringement

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2012 @ 04:24am

  Difficult to understand the logic - nearly all search engine results go to pages that contained "copyrighted content"... (because copyright is automatic).

• On the post: Apparently, If Your Domain Has 'Dirt' In The Name, Section 230 Safe Harbors Don't Apply (Uh Oh…)

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2012 @ 07:27am

  Techdirt is screwed now!
  
  Professionals like lawyers, accountants, doctors, etc often pay a hefty price for bad decisions, negligence, etc. What are the consequences for judges? (Hypothetically of course - I would not dare suggest that an actual judge had made a bad decision - it is probably illegal :) )

• On the post: KLM To Allow People To Pick Seatmates Based On Social Media Profiles

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2011 @ 05:37am

  Possibly useful if it can identify someone on the plane that you know (FB friend etc)?

• On the post: Scribd Comes Out Against SOPA By Making Documents Disappear

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2011 @ 10:20pm

  Did some idiot / politician / uniformed thug confuse Wikipedia for Wikileaks? Or is it because Wikipedia links to copyrighted content?

• On the post: Iran Outlaws VPNs Or Any Other Attempt To Get Around Filters

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2011 @ 11:58am

  When VPN's become illegal, TOR over hacked WiFi will just take its place (and probably more secure)...

• On the post: Iran Outlaws VPNs Or Any Other Attempt To Get Around Filters

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2011 @ 11:50am

  ...politicians of course will be exempt...

• On the post: Times Change; Dominant Tech Firms Change

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 01:21am

  Government gets involved because they like to show uppity corporates / individuals(i.e. those that are not paying lobbyists / bribes) who is in charge!
  
  I suspect that many of the laws we have today exist for this reason.
  
  It is ironic that there are people who believe government is competent to tell business / individuals how to run their affairs when government cannot seem to manage its own.

• On the post: College Student/Developer Gives Up, Pays Lodsys

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2011 @ 12:34am

  Re: Re: Patent Trolls

  Is it defamation...for a lawyer? If I wanted to hire a lawyer as an attack dog, I would WANT the biggest a*hole in town! Sadly I can envisage a situation where lawyers might actually use their position on a troll page to get business...

• On the post: Does Amazon Want to Monopolize The Entire Publishing Chain?

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2011 @ 07:11am

  Re: Re: Re: Interesting

  or Google...

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