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• On the post: Lawsuit Settled After Cop Revealed Anonymous Blogger To His Church, Then Destroyed Records To 'Protect Civil Rights'

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2010 @ 12:01pm

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  Wait a minute... there's something wrong with this whole scenario...
  Isn't that illegal in most states?? I think I need a program to keep track.

• On the post: YouTube, Once Again, Pressured To Remove Terrorist Videos; Feel Any Safer?

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2010 @ 11:47am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Put this in context...

  Nice! I'm very open minded about these things!

• On the post: Now That Apple Has A Trademark On 'There's An App For That,' Will It Sue Sesame Street?

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2010 @ 11:10am

  Re: Re: It should be okay...

  Except most accounts of Twinkle, Twinkle have the melody being written by Mozart, and seeing as he died in 1791...

• On the post: YouTube, Once Again, Pressured To Remove Terrorist Videos; Feel Any Safer?

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2010 @ 05:26am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Put this in context...

  Rose, will you marry me?

• On the post: YouTube, Once Again, Pressured To Remove Terrorist Videos; Feel Any Safer?

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2010 @ 05:25am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Put this in context...

  What about an ideal world where there are no guns and everyone is really polite ?
  Really, if you're going to start from scratch and build an ideal world, your vision of ideal is pretty grim.
  
  um, and in your little Utopia, would people also not have: knives, baseball bats, axes, saws, ice picks, screwdrivers, cars, etc... In other words, we only have soft fluffy things that can't possibly be used as weapons? I prefer Rose's where you actually do trust everyone or you wouldn't allow them to have a gun.

• On the post: Security Consultants Claim New Terrorist Bombs May Mean No More In-Flight WiFi

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2010 @ 12:11pm

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  I have voluntarily banned myself from planes.
  
  I wish I could do that, Nina. Unfortunately, my work makes that one almost impossible (kind of hard to drive from Philadelphia to the Middle East in any reasonable timeframe. I'm getting seriously fed up with the whole thing though.

• On the post: Hadopi Already Up To Sending Out 25,000 'First Strike' Notices Per Day

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2010 @ 12:35pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: France, the country full of outlaws?

  He wants us to think he once played bass for Led Zeppelin.
  
  I think it's more like Lead Balloon. Which, ironically enough, is about how well his logic flies.

• On the post: Google Told To Reveal IP Addresses Of Mean YouTube Commenters

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2010 @ 02:28pm

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  So, anytime someone files a lawsuit for defamation, they're going to get the "Streisand Effect" and that somehow makes it not worth it? And it's a shame that judges are following the law and allowing discovery to commence is these cases? And, really, you can't see how someone would be better off after going after the defamer?
  
  Good goodness, you're silly, Mike.
  
  This all coming from someone who is posting anonymously?
  
  Hey Mike, I wanna sue this clown for being an idiot. Send me his IP addy, will ya?

• On the post: Couple Kicked Out Of Hotel After Manager Accuses Them Of Writing A Bad Review

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2010 @ 08:12am

  Re: Re: Well

  Except that there is no proof that the couple actually wrote the negative review. You're saying they need to live with a consequence that wasn't their doing? Sorry, I don't buy that. The hotel, on the other hand, WILL need to live with it.

• On the post: Latest ACTA Negotiation Kicks Off By Making It Difficult For Consumer Rights Groups To Attend

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2010 @ 05:46am

  Re: Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  OMG! That is SO apropos for this story!!

• On the post: Google Asking For Help In Making Sure Public Domain Books Are Recognized As Public Domain

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2010 @ 05:29am

  Re: Don't rush to judgment

  If you read the linked article, the companies are not adding anything. All they are doing is binding and printing it and then claiming copyright so that google doesn't show the whole book.

• On the post: Former Child Prostitute Sues Village Voice For 'Aiding & Abetting' Via Sex Ads

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2010 @ 08:48am

  Re: Re: Research

  People should be accountable for their actions
  
  You say people should be held accountable for their actions, and yet you think the the service provider should be the judge? Seriously?!?
  
  PEOPLE, the ones who are actually producing and providing the illegal content should be held accountable, but not the service provider. If Backpage had been made aware of the material and then did nothing, that would be a different story, but you cannot realistically expect a service provider to audit everything that comes across their pipes. If you do, then you also believe that all phone conversations, emails, txts, SMS, snail mail, UPS, smoke signals, etc...should be monitored for "wrong" (your word) conversations.
  
  You say people should do the right thing, and I don't disagree with that notion, but it's not realistic. Your opinion of right/wrong and mine are probably different. We may agree on some things, but certainly not all. That's precisely why we have a legal system in this country, to define the community standards for what activities are allowed.

• On the post: Don't Be Confused By Amazon's Ebook Sales Claims

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2010 @ 06:46am

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  ebooks will of course far outsell printed books in the very near future
  
  Let me preface this by saying that I am a happy Kindle 3G owner. I don't know if the very near future is accurate.
  
  There are a few things that need to happen to make ebooks gain market share: I think until a common format is embraced by the different vendors, ebook sales won't really take off. It's interesting that the Kindle doesn't support the most popular format, epub, natively and yet sells more books than any other reader.
  
  The price of ebooks has to come down to realistic levels. It is insane that publishers are setting the price of ebooks on the same plane as hardback books. If they were consistently price more like paperbacks, I would buy more books. As it is, I look for legal freebies wherever I can find them (and there are tons of them out there)
  
  The last factor, I think, is that people love their dead tree collections. I love mine. I have some books that are over 100 years old and I have some sheet music that dates back to the 1880's. We have an emotional connection to our books that is hard to overcome. Physical books can be freely given away or borrowed in a way that ebooks cannot come close to.
  
  I think ebooks will eventually represent a significant share of all book sales, but I doubt it will happen for at least 5 years as some of these things get ironed out.

• On the post: School Agrees To Pay Student $33,000 After Teacher Dug Through Her Phone To Find Private Nude Photos

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2010 @ 01:01pm

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  I think he was hoping to accomplish just what he did. He wanted to get his jollies looking at her, but had to use the lame excuse of suspending her as a pretense.

• On the post: Why Does Everyone Underestimate Netflix?

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2010 @ 10:38am

  Re: Long-Term Challenges

  If the studios ever decided they wanted a competitor to surpass Netflix, they could probably almost anoint one by making sure that competitor had more desirable streaming content.
  
  Except they tried this with Blockbuster and it failed abysmally.

• On the post: Vandals' Bass Player Not A Fan Of The Public Domain, Thinks PD Recordings Will 'Destroy' Classical Music

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2010 @ 12:55pm

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  Oh, sure, it's not like most children first hear classical music in Looney Toons and Tom and Jerry-
  
  Or in commercials, or movies, or even, *GASP* inside popular music! (see Whiter Shade of Pale and Lover's Concerto for obvious examples)

• On the post: Police Claim Burglars Used Facebook To Target Empty Homes; Proof Lacking

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2010 @ 10:57am

  But...

  The NYT report is based on a local press report in New Hampshire, which quotes the police making those claims.
  
  Police NEVER lie.

• On the post: Ancient Online Shopping Cart Patent Still Biting Retailers

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2010 @ 01:10pm

  Re: Re: This thread needs RJR!

  Bravo!

• On the post: Groups Still Slamming Craigslist

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2010 @ 10:15am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The reason...

  Well if you were floating in water all the time your rocks would be pretty small too!

• On the post: Groups Still Slamming Craigslist

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2010 @ 09:00am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The reason...

  "Quick, name a tool which cannot be used for an illegal purpose!"
  
  Angry Dude....
  
  After cleaning the soda off my LCD, I have to differ with you father. George Carlin described a scenario where AD could be used for an illegal purpose: Grab him by the ankles, swing him around and use him to beat another troll to death.

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