btrussell 's Techdirt Comments

Latest Comments (2975)

• On the post: DOJ Describes Its Use Of Malware As 'Augmenting Content' As It Pushes For Great Ability To Hack Computers

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2014 @ 02:34am

  "In the normal course of operation, websites send content to visitors. A user's computer downloads that content and uses it to display web pages on the user's computer."
  
  That is not the normal course of operations.
  
  I invite the website to be a guest. The website is the visitor. If they don't behave, they are not invited back.

• On the post: Brazil's 'Marco Civil' Internet Civil Rights Law Finally Passes, With Key Protections Largely Intact

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2014 @ 06:04pm

  Re: Re: So....

  What about Canadians?

• On the post: Rap Artists Wu-Tang Clan Fight Infinite Goods By Selling One Copy Of Their Next Album… For $1 Million

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2014 @ 05:15pm

  Re: Re:

  "This album is worth 1 million I agree, probably more, in fact..."
  
  How do you know this? Have you heard it already?

• On the post: Rap Artists Wu-Tang Clan Fight Infinite Goods By Selling One Copy Of Their Next Album… For $1 Million

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2014 @ 05:22pm

  I wonder what they know about the new proposal of artists getting a cut of every resale that we don't know.

• On the post: Sheriff's Dept. Charges Man With No Drugs With 'Intent To Distribute Counterfeit Controlled Substances'

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2014 @ 07:49am

  Re: the law

  "The FBI setting up a sting like this isn't worrisome, because the guys still had the willingness an intent to commit the crime, they were trying to obtain drugs to redistribute for money."
  
  Wrong story. Link for that one is at top of page. Forth or fifth link into post.
  
  This guy was stopped for a broken taillight.
  "Deputies said they stopped Delbert Dewayne Galbreath at NW 10th Street and Interstate 44 for a broken brake light."

• On the post: Sheriff's Dept. Charges Man With No Drugs With 'Intent To Distribute Counterfeit Controlled Substances'

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2014 @ 07:40am

  Re: Imitation Drugs

  Welcome to Canada.
  
  If you are a gardener, you have bomb making material.

• On the post: Sheriff's Dept. Charges Man With No Drugs With 'Intent To Distribute Counterfeit Controlled Substances'

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2014 @ 03:46am

  Re: Uh oh.

  They got pissed when they realized they still didn't have any coke for the evening.

• On the post: Judge Tells Private Prison Corporation It's A Government Agency As Far As Public Information Requests Are Concerned

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2014 @ 08:40pm

  Re: Re:

  They sure were huffing and puffing.

• On the post: Corporate Sovereignty Provisions Called Into Question Around The World

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2014 @ 08:28pm

  Re:

  1%'ers own the companies. Everything is done to make them more money. When the company makes more money, it is the 1%'ers raking it in.
  
  Countries can turn this around another way other than flat out refusal. They can counter sue for lost taxes from the corporation as well as all the people they were going to employ for the next two-hundred years or so.

• On the post: PSA: Don't Kill Yourself, Literally, Over BS Ransomware

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2014 @ 08:08pm

  Re: :..Don't Kill Yourself, Literally, Over BS Ransomware"

  When seconds count, the cops are only minutes away!

• On the post: PSA: Don't Kill Yourself, Literally, Over BS Ransomware

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2014 @ 08:03pm

  Re:

  Too many laws. People, especially those who don't understand computers, get to be too afraid of being prosecuted themselves for reporting suspicious activity.
  
  "Was that an illegal website?" "Did I just download copyrighted material when I visited that page?" "I heard child porn could be on mt computer without my knowing about it."

• On the post: Innocence Of Muslims Actress Files Contempt Charges Against Google For Not Making Movie Completely Disappear Worldwide

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2014 @ 02:48am

  "...went off the reservation..."
  
  Really? Did auto-correct change rails to reservation?

• On the post: Illinois Supreme Court Overturns Insane Recording Laws

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2014 @ 06:20pm

  Re: Re:

  Laws do not make things legal. Laws make things illegal.
  
  Proof: Abolish all laws, now make one that allows me to do something that I can't already do.

• On the post: Wacky Snowden Haters Pile On The Bandwagon Claiming Snowden Is Somehow To Blame For Russia In Crimea

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2014 @ 06:10pm

  Re:

  @ $150 000 per infringement, not likely that he made very many copies. Russian Kopyright Kops would have been all over him before his visa was pulled.

• On the post: Former Obama Official: Free Speech Ruling Hurts 'Public Civility' And 'Democratic Self-Government'

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2014 @ 05:41pm

  Re: Re: A critical point

  New ways of doing things should be regarded exactly as old technology.
  
  Smartphone, landlines, still a conversation. On the net? It doesn't hold water.

• On the post: Obama Apparently Ready To Kill Bulk Phone Record Collection… As New House Bill Lowers Standards For Data Collection

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2014 @ 01:54pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Now shut up bitch, I quit beating you on Sundays.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Making Robot Musicians

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2014 @ 07:20pm

  I could beat my drum about playing with three sticks, but, I'll just say, if I had two more sticks, my pants would fit like a glove.

• On the post: Property Management Company Files $1 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against Critic And Former Tenant

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2014 @ 07:11pm

  3 years, 15 000 units, 216 "problems"
  
  What does that work out to? About one complaint per 75 000 possibles(every unit every day)? Fucking slum-lords.
  
  6 complaints per month out of 15 000 units
  
  1 complaint per month per 2 500 units. Bastards I tell you!
  
  
  
  
  That would have been my response as opposed to the lawsuit.

• On the post: Senator Leahy: If President Obama Is Serious About Ending Bulk Collection, He Can Just End It This Friday

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2014 @ 05:59pm

  "Anyone setting odds on the likelihood of this actually happening?"
  
  I'd set odds but I would be called cynical for not believing in hope and change.

• On the post: Yahoo UK Moves To Dublin To Escape Surveillance; UK Asks It To Stay… For The Spies

  

  btrussell ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2014 @ 09:38am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Unfortunately...

  Check
  Check
  Check this out.

Next >>