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• On the post: Syrian Government Trying To Swipe Social Networking Passwords?

  

  another mike ( profile ), 09 May, 2011 @ 02:37pm

  saw this coming

  Iran was implicated in spoofing the certificates of sites like Facebook several months ago. You really didn't think they were going to let it go.
  To make this attack work less obviously, they need to spoof not only the certificate but also the certificate authority (CA). Diverting traffic from the legitimate site into their honeypot makes that easier. That sounds like the kind of border router protocol hacking China is implicated in.
  The arms race between freedom and censorship on the internet is only just warming up.

• On the post: Harvard Business Review Explains How Big Content Is Strangling Innovation

  

  another mike ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2011 @ 04:45pm

  Re: One could argue

  I'm sure the gramophone faced the same issues, what with all those numbskulls listening to prerecorded music in degenerate solitude instead of a culturally invigorating experience like going to the orchestra.

• On the post: Which Would You Rather Have: 100,000 Unauthorized Downloads Of Your Music… Or None?

  

  another mike ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2011 @ 04:02pm

  Re: 100,000 Missed Sales

  by RIAA logic, zero downloads are also 100,000 missed sales.

• On the post: Harvard Business Review Explains How Big Content Is Strangling Innovation

  

  another mike ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2011 @ 10:34am

  accusations

  This is all a part of the free content astroturfing pirate conspiracy Mike is part of!
  
  /sorry

• On the post: Some Free Letter-Writing Advice For America's Toughest Sheriff

  

  another mike ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2011 @ 02:07pm

  Re: sh*t or get off the pot

  Cosigned by all of us in Maricopa County.

• On the post: Louis Vuitton Wins Lawsuit Supressing Artwork About LV-ish Bag — Or Genocide, Maybe

  

  another mike ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2011 @ 02:45pm

  i only see two trademarks, neither belong to LV.

  I can see trademarks of Paramount Pictures and Facebook in the included image but I wouldn't know a Louis Vuitton handbag from a dead raccoon.

• On the post: Apparently Twitter Will Be Allowed To Mislead Consumers In 20 Years (But Not Before)

  

  another mike ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2011 @ 12:33pm

  a score

  The world wide web isn't yet 20 years old. Think of how many companies from those early days are still around. Alta Vista, Geocities, Angelfire, Lycos; those names mean anything to anyone out there? Oracle just shuttered Sun. Microsoft seems to be the only one still going. AOL and Yahoo are pale shadows of their former selves. Google is only 10 years old; YouTube 5. The lifespan of social networks is even shorter. Friendster, LinkedIn, MySpace, Classmates.com, but how big did any of them get? Maybe they were before their time but now their time has passed.
  Such long term penalties are meaningless when things move at the speed of the internet.

• On the post: Bath & Bodyworks Goes To Court To Explain To Summit Entertainment That The Word Twilight Existed Before The Movie

  

  another mike ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2011 @ 09:13am

  Re:

  Benches and playground equipment are property of your city parks department and not public domain. It is public property since it is owned by a government for the use of its citizens. Taking that property is theft; no "basically" about it but also nothing to do with public domain.
  Public domain is an entirely different concept of property. Attempting to misappropriate the works of Shakespeare, ironic as that would be, would not be theft since those works are in the public domain.
  So, no, the same does not apply because the analogy is flawed.

• On the post: NY Times Lawyers Shut Down Blog Promoting The NY Times

  

  another mike ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2011 @ 10:38am

  the Hasbro Effect rears its ugly head

  Been a while since we've seen a company screw up like this (since the Scrabulous affair that spawned the phrase) but this looks like a return of the Hasbro Effect; when pursuing your legal rights is a bad business decision.
  I can see "And then the lawyers stepped in" becoming a catchphrase for all the situations where a legal response just makes things worse.

• On the post: HarperCollins Wants To Limit Library Ebook Lending To 'Protect' Authors From Libraries

  

  another mike ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2011 @ 08:52am

  Re:

  Thanks for the book recommendation. I just downloaded it to my Droid.

• On the post: Letting Famous People Interact Online? Patented! Twitter Sued

  

  another mike ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2011 @ 09:09am

  wrong target

  Sounds like the "inventor" just joined Twitter and thought they were running the Shorty Awards he kept reading about.

• On the post: Jim D'Addario Defends His Support Of COICA & Domain Seizures

  

  another mike ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2011 @ 04:20pm

  is it still competition when they put your logo on their trash?

  At what point do these vendors cross the line from infringement to fraud?
  Take, for example, Sparkfun's experience with a Chinese "reseller" who copied their website (complete with pictures of the founder's hand holding the products) and began selling counterfeit goods, even reproducing Sparkfun's logo on the items. Sparkfun, of course, is miles ahead of out-competing the knockoff.
  At what point do you need to take legal action against such blatant fraud?

• On the post: Jim D'Addario Defends His Support Of COICA & Domain Seizures

  

  another mike ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2011 @ 04:08pm

  Re:

  "those who can't compete, litigate"

• On the post: Canadian TSA's Non-Apology Apology To 82-Year-Old Woman

  

  another mike ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2011 @ 03:14pm

  Re: Re: Re: Everybody needs to calm the fuck down.

  Say something about what? That she's happy to toss doctor-patient confidentiality on the pile with her other rights? Our TSA asks you about liquids or gels, like toothpaste, in your carry-on. They don't ask about your medical history or if they'll see implants on the scan.
  You know what the end result of this is going to be, right? Implant technology has come a long way; the materials feel and move like the real thing, surgery techniques for minimal scarring came from this side of the industry. Now there will be a huge demand on manufacturers for implants that look real to a scanner. Like Agent Smith said, "Do you hear that, Mr Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability."

• On the post: Report Claims Discredited Study That Linked Vaccines To Autism Wasn't Just A Mistake, But An Outright Fraud

  

  another mike ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2011 @ 12:47pm

  UK libel laws?

  This was picked up by Bad Astronomer Phil Plait yesterday, and as people were pointing out over there, how will the UK's lower burden libel laws come into this? Deer is pretty much calling out Wakefield as a fraud (which can't be said often enough). How soon until the law is abused to stifle this report?
  Unfortunately, this will have no effect on the antivaxxer epidemic.

• On the post: If Google TV Has To Pay To Make Hulu Available To Viewers, Will Mozilla Have To Pay To Access Hulu Via Firefox?

  

  another mike ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2010 @ 10:26am

  mmm, bacon

  This is why I built a home theater PC (HTPC). The dogs don't know it's not bacon!

• On the post: Get Lamp Filmmaker Scolds DVD Rippers… For Doing A Bad Job With The Rip

  

  another mike ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2010 @ 10:25am

  zork forever!

  you are likely to be eaten by a grue

• On the post: BSA Falsely Claims ACTA Is A Treaty That Has Already Been Signed By 37 Countries

  

  another mike ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2010 @ 04:25pm

  Re: Re: Re: What have the Boy Scouts of America to do with this?

  I also think of Boy Scouts of America as the real BSA but that's because I'm a troop leader. However, this blog is about tech news and not camping so I recognize it as an opportunity to googlebomb the other BSA.

• On the post: Minecraft's Developer Making $350,000 $100,000 Per Day [Updated]

  

  another mike ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2010 @ 01:29pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Use wood doors for the non-keyed doors in the level and iron doors and red-matter torches for the keyed doors. (Remember iron doors are too heavy to operate without external power; like from a lever, pressure plate, or red-matter torch.) Then just orient the doors the right way to keep the player from just shooting into and clearing a room before they have to enter.

• On the post: Senate Passes Bill To Try To Quiet TV Commercials

  

  another mike ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2010 @ 08:35pm

  i found quiet commercials

  I was watching TV (well, Hulu, really) the other night and all the commercials were at a dead whisper. I thought it was maybe a preemptive strike against this bill.
  P.S. I didn't bother to turn up the volume during the commercials.

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