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• On the post: US Proposals For Secret TPP 'Son Of ACTA' Treaty Leaked; Chock Full Of Awful Ideas

  

  BuckRogers1965 ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2011 @ 09:34am

  My concern is the secret law aspect.

  With this treaty supposed to stay secret for 4 years after it comes into effect, how are you supposed to know what law you are breaking if they don't even tell you? How many other secret laws are we operating under that they are not telling us about?

• On the post: Tolkien Estate Says Just Mentioning Tolkien Infringes; Tolkien Censorwear Appears In Response

  

  BuckRogers1965 ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2011 @ 11:16am

  Tolkien

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• On the post: One Mentally Deranged Shooter Is No Reason To Throw Out The First Amendment

  

  BuckRogers1965 ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2011 @ 03:06pm

  Maybe democrats are tired of getting death threats

  And tired of having their propane tank lines cut and shots fired at them, and anthrax sent to them by American right wing nuts.
  
  You have the right to swing your arms around all you like, unless you swing your arm into someones nose.
  
  You have the right to say anything you like, unless you utter a death threat.

• On the post: Class Action Fishing: Apple Sued Over Third Party User Tracking

  

  BuckRogers1965 ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2010 @ 05:42am

  If you create a walled garden

  Then you are taking responsibility for everything that happens inside the garden.
  
  If Apple was just providing a space for vendors to use, like a street for any vendor to set up shop, then common carrier status would protect them.
  
  But since they are looking at every product and vendor that enters the market they accept full responsibility for everything, good or bad.

• On the post: Would Twitter Be Liable For Links To Infringing Material?

  

  BuckRogers1965 ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2010 @ 08:21pm

  A link

  is exactly like your finger when it points at the moon.
  
  Your finger remains your finger, it does not become the moon.
  
  A link is just a pointer. It doesn't become infringing just because it is pointing at infringing material.

• On the post: So WikiLeaks Is Evil For Releasing Documents… But DynCorp Gets A Pass For Pimping Young Boys To Afghan Cops?

  

  BuckRogers1965 ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2010 @ 12:17pm

  Nixon.

  I sure am glad that Nixon didn't just classify the break in and execute any reporters that tried to tell America about the crimes being committed.

• On the post: Lieberman Introduces New Censorship Bill In Kneejerk Response To Wikileaks

  

  BuckRogers1965 ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2010 @ 03:13pm

  I have only two things to say.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_amendment

• On the post: Pentagon Official Reveals Computer Security Breach… As Part Of Effort To Get More Power Over Critical Infrastructure?

  

  BuckRogers1965 ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2010 @ 03:07pm

  Windows is not secure.

  Never ever ever put anything with any security classification on a windows box. Never ever ever put anything classified on a computer hooked to a network.
  
  Problem solved.

• On the post: Spam Filtering? Patented! 36 Companies Sued

  

  BuckRogers1965 ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2010 @ 05:23pm

  Re: Huh...

  Companies should only get damages for the amount of loss they can show based on sales figures for their product from year to year.

• On the post: Shouldn't Intent Be A Part Of Criminal Law?

  

  BuckRogers1965 ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2009 @ 10:35am

  This is intentional.

  The powers that be want all of us breaking the law all the time. That way, if you become a problem then they can neutralize you with an arrest and make you look like a criminal.

• On the post: French Court Finds Violation Of GPL… Despite No Involvement Of Copyright Holder

  

  BuckRogers1965 ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2009 @ 04:33pm

  Since you own every GPL source code too

  They you can sue to protect your copyright in any GPL source code.
  
  Everyone owns every line of GPL source code.

• On the post: And Yet Another 'Anonymous' Dataset Proves To Be Not Anonymous

  

  BuckRogers1965 ( profile ), 28 May, 2009 @ 12:40pm

  manditory GPS in cars is an abuse of power.

  The simple way to tax people for road use is to tax the gasoline. The more gas you use, the higher your taxes. This works out great because the bigger your vehicle the more damage it causes to the road as it drives. There is an added bonus of promoting alternative fuels and electric vehicles.
  
  The government wanting to put tracking devices in everyones car would be expensive and very intrusive. It would basically be just like allowing a government agent to accompany you on every trip you make. They don't trust us and they want to monitor all of our activity. It is as simple as that.

• On the post: Software Developer Liability Up For Debate In Europe

  

  BuckRogers1965 ( profile ), 12 May, 2009 @ 07:19pm

  Isn't usually the developers problem

  The developer usually wants to develop code that is as error free as humanly possible.
  
  It is the companies that push out code out with impossible deadlines and minimal QA that create most of the problems.

• On the post: More Congress Critters Want To Track And Tax Your Driving Habits

  

  BuckRogers1965 ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2009 @ 02:11pm

  We pomise not to abuse the traking info

  this time.
  
  *smirk*
  
  Now I know why they smirk so much, it's hard to keep a strait face when you are lying so blatantly to people.

• On the post: 10 Years Of V-Chip: Utter Failure

  

  BuckRogers1965 ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2009 @ 12:12pm

  Who says it was a failure?

  Who says that it does what they say it does. It may very well be a huge success and we just don't know its purpose.

• On the post: Linden Labs Thinks It's The Sex That's Keeping Businesses Out Of Second Life

  

  BuckRogers1965 ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2009 @ 12:41am

  Second life is kind of clueless.

  They have done nothing about the "grieving" that happens continuously at every conference that any company tries to have on second life. Nothing says professional like hundreds of large rotating billboards of goatsx and lemon party flying around while you are trying to do a presentation for your company.

• On the post: If A Sporting Event Is Newsworthy, Why Can't News Organizations Broadcast It?

  

  BuckRogers1965 ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2009 @ 02:59pm

  Public money

  Especially considering how much professional sports is subsidized by tax breaks and public money being used to build the stadiums.
  
  I mean really, since out money is paying their salaries and they are running around out on a field paid for with tax money, why isn't any tax payer free to film and use the event for any purpose they choose?