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• On the post: Governments Using, Also Fretting, Encrypted Communications App

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2012 @ 08:18am

  Re: Re: Re:

  They (like mos if not all such sites) capture all IP addresses for analysis purposes (hey where are people coming from) and also to help us users differentiate between different AC's. I'm sure he also uses it to weed out spam, and to block abusers. He doesn't use the IP addresses to glean the information.. anybody who reads this blog for any length of time has gleaned the information on their own.

• On the post: School Suspends Students For Finding 'Racy' Photo Teacher Accidentally Put On Their iPads

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2012 @ 09:27am

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  It also teaches the kids to not trust the school administration, so imagine if something really nefarious happens in the future.
  
  I can just see some student getting assaulted and the school blaming the victim.

• On the post: School Suspends Students For Finding 'Racy' Photo Teacher Accidentally Put On Their iPads

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2012 @ 09:22am

  Re: Re: some highlights...

  I believe most spirituals are full of ethic slurs....

• On the post: School Suspends Students For Finding 'Racy' Photo Teacher Accidentally Put On Their iPads

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2012 @ 09:19am

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  More like "Adults Gone STUPID"

• On the post: Google To French Media: We May Have To Cut You Off

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2012 @ 09:03am

  Re: Re: While they're at it...

  I think a better idea would be to show the search results but have the click redirect to a 404 page.

• On the post: Studio To Amazon Instant Video Customer: Thanks For The $$$. Enjoy Your Blank Screen.

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2012 @ 11:09am

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  Except this person bought the movie that was advertised to be available indefinitely. so she was attempting to watch it within the "hiring time".

• On the post: Studio To Amazon Instant Video Customer: Thanks For The $$$. Enjoy Your Blank Screen.

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2012 @ 10:53am

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  That actually is why I immediately strip the DRM from ebooks that I buy. That way I can convert it into the format I prefer for my tablet (which is NOT Kindle) and read wiht the peace of mind that it's not going to get yanked the next time I update my software..

• On the post: Studio To Amazon Instant Video Customer: Thanks For The $$$. Enjoy Your Blank Screen.

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2012 @ 10:45am

  Re: License Now for only $14.99!

  THAT!! ^^^^^^^ a thousand times!

• On the post: Just As Key 3D Printing Patents Get Closer To Expiring, Intellectual Ventures Patents 3D Printing DRM

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2012 @ 08:11pm

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  I'm holding out for a blow up doll.

• On the post: Why The Six Strikes Plan Doesn't Mesh With US Law Or Social Norms

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2012 @ 01:54pm

  I wonder...

  When the first lawsuit against the one of the *AA's for theft of services occurs.

• On the post: The Copyright Act Explicitly Says Disruptive Innovation Should Be Blocked

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2012 @ 02:13pm

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  Wait. so you're saying we can only complain about laws that have been passed in our edumicated lifetimes? So are YOU old enough to be able to reprimand Mike for finding fault in a law that's only 36 years old?
  
  Which, of course, means there is no reason to bitch about laws passed in the early years of our country that have to practical purpose, right. I mean, I wasn't around when they passed the laws against sodomy and homosexuality. Most people alive now weren't, so we have no right to try to fix them?
  
  This means the perfect way to have an incredibly bad law passed is to hide it within another less bad law that can hang around until the people who it is most likely to affect can't have 'standing' because they weren't old enough to oppose the law originally?
  
  If that's what you truly believe, you should be living in a country with Sharia laws (or maybe you already do, but sure as shit not in one where the populace is actually supposed to have voice about the legislative process.. especially the right to REPEAL laws..

• On the post: University Requires Students To Pay $180 For 'Art History' Text That Has No Photos Due To Copyright Problems

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2012 @ 01:58pm

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  "Yeah, pretty crazy considering nothing made before 1800 would still be under copyright. There is no way that would be possible. Even a VERY generous life +70 would put the artists dead by 1900 and the copyright expired by 1970."
  
  Actually it wouldn't have even lasted that long. If we're talking about art up to the year 1800, that means the last of that group (late 18th century) would have lived into maybe 1850. But that's only the LAST part of that group, the 20,000 or so years of art prior to that would all be in the public domain.
  
  And as pretty much all printed material published prior to 1923 is in the public domain, even after all of the wacky extensions, all of that artwork should be in the public domain. This is insane!

• On the post: University Of California Won't Give Up: Sues Facebook Over Already Rejected Patents

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2012 @ 03:43pm

  Re: Tollbooth?

  We have a winner!!!

• On the post: Don't Focus On Why People Pirate; Focus On Why They Don't Buy

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2012 @ 11:25am

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  "Piracy is the same product, without the hassle of going to the store, or ordering online, or waiting for UPS guy to deliver. It's now, it's here, and it's free."
  
  First off, I love how you equate digital and physical products, that was genius and it actually highlights my thought. A pirated product and the legitimate product are usually not the same product. If they were the same product, there probably wouldn't be a market for the pirated one. The product is not just the end result of what the customer receives, it's the entire package. Customers now are used to convenience, and if they can't get it they will move on by finding the more convenient product. That may mean pirating, or it may mean doing without the original product completely and finding an alternative.
  
  "Also, I have to wonder: What are the qualifications for this guy to detail the consumer's mind. Was it an empirical study, or just something he pulled out of his ass? He doesn't appear to have any more qualifications except perhaps as a consumer himself.
  "
  
  So, because he's a consumer, he's not qualified to speak to how consumers' thought processes might work in regards to purchases? Who the hell should speak to that, Martians?

• On the post: The Math Says HBO Shouldn't Go Direct, But They Left Innovation Out Of The Equation

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2012 @ 11:07am

  Re: Re: Re: Bah. Innovation as defined around here is pretty meh

  "It doesn't have to be 100% effective. Apple iTunes built itself with DRM and they succeeded at pushing people to making the legit decision to actually pay. They've since claimed that they're not adding DRM to everything, but I think it's because the complexity of the file system is good enough to deter most people from copying. "
  
  Apple didn't build itself with DRM. They had to have DRM laced music files in order to get the catalogs from the music publishers. They succeeded in spit of DRM not because of it. They were vehemently opposed to DRM and pushed back against the RIAA idiots to get it removed from the entire library.
  
  You should at least get your facts straight if you're going to argue them.

• On the post: Judge Says Sniffing Unencrypted WiFi Networks Is Not Wiretapping

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2012 @ 09:53am

  Re: All depends on who's doing the tapping

  Those are two different things.
  
  This judge ruled that sniffing the traffic being transmitted by an open WiFi network wasn't illegal.
  
  Accessing the insecure mount point was a different thing altogether.

• On the post: Murder Case Upended After Police Read Phone Texts Without A Warrant

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2012 @ 12:21am

  Re: Re: Re: confused

  "So since the original shouldn't have been given in the first place, everything that came from it had to go."
  
  That was my understanding as well.. the fruit of the poisoned tree

• On the post: Both Major Parties Are In 'Vigorous' Denial About The Need For Copyright & Patent Reform

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 05 Sep, 2012 @ 11:48am

  Ahem

  "But, from the viewpoint of what really matters when it comes to internet freedom and innovation, it's yet another sign that the major parties don't want to deal with reality."
  
  That's because politicians don't live in reality. They live in their cosseted existences paid for by those of us who do live in reality.

• On the post: We Ask The Supreme Court To Clarify If It's Legal For Virginia To Bar Techdirt From Filing Freedom Of Information Requests

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2012 @ 09:53pm

  Let's all sign up to be 'reporters'

  I volunteer to be your Oregon reporter should this state implement such a law.

• On the post: Twitter To Appeals Court: Just Because Some Tweets Are Public Doesn't Mean Our Users Have No Privacy

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2012 @ 04:13pm

  Sigh...

  The more I see what our government does "for my protection" the less I want to be protected.

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