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• On the post: Shocking Revelation: It Isn't The Phone That's Dangerous; It's The Driver

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2012 @ 10:26am

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  Can we start with small children in cars?
  
  Put them in the trunk where they belong!

• On the post: MPAA Pretends 'Offering Something' Is The Same Thing As 'Offering What People Want'

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2012 @ 02:22pm

  Re: Re: What if they offered cars?

  You mean Yugo isn't really a car?

• On the post: Should Making A Threat On Facebook Be A Crime?

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2012 @ 05:52pm

  Um...

  "Of course, rather than separating out online and in-person speech, what's wrong with just looking at the details of the situation, and making a reasonable assessment as to whether the threat is legitimate or just someone saying something stupid?"
  
  Well, what's wrong is that this would actually force the authorities to, you know, work. That's way too hard for them, but if they just criminalize this, they can arrest more people to make sure they're making their quotas...
  
  I'm starting to think that living with penguins on Antarctica might be the way to go...

• On the post: New Zealand High Court: FBI Must Release Its Evidence Against Kim Dotcom

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2012 @ 06:36pm

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  I think we have a new word! LOVE it!

• On the post: Why Targeted Online Political Ads Can Be Dangerous To A Campaign

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2012 @ 04:59pm

  One thing they also miss...

  The actual voting demographic (people who ACTUALLY vote) are older than the demographic of most social media sites. This study respondents will almost certainly fall into the very group of people these political ads should WANT to get into the polling places.
  
  They might think they're being all fancy and hip by using social media to target the political ads, but in reality they're completely disenfranchising an entire generation of voters.

• On the post: Hachette Tells Authors And Tor To Use DRM Because It Is Awesome Or Something

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2012 @ 01:35pm

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  "They make ebooks cheaper than normal books because they arent meant to trade."
  
  They do? Where the hell are you buying your books? I can usually buy paperbacks much cheaper than ebook versions.

• On the post: Appeals Court Doubles Down: Genes Still Patentable

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2012 @ 01:32pm

  What purpose does the CAFC actually serve?

  Seems to me that they get shot down by SCOTUS much more frequently than they are upheld.. Basically they ALWAYS seem to side with the patent holder.

• On the post: US, UK Betray Basic Values To Get Assange At Any Cost

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2012 @ 01:26pm

  Re: Why would Obama start respecting people now?

  Really.. this has NOTHING to do with THAT issue.

• On the post: US, UK Betray Basic Values To Get Assange At Any Cost

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2012 @ 01:25pm

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  Just like the Swedish authorities have with him. oh wait..

• On the post: US, UK Betray Basic Values To Get Assange At Any Cost

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2012 @ 01:14pm

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  Um what charges? he has never been charged. they want to extradite him for 'questioning'.

• On the post: New Zealand High Court: FBI Must Release Its Evidence Against Kim Dotcom

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2012 @ 01:10pm

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  "If China has an extradition treaty, and they indicate you for a crime"
  
  How does one get indicated for a crime? Seems to me that would be entrapment...
  
  On the other hand, if I were INDICTED, I would still have the right to fight the extradition order, and while IANAL, that usually means among the other things already pointed out, that they charging party has to show that they have enough (legally obtained)evidence to support a prima facie case.

• On the post: US, UK Betray Basic Values To Get Assange At Any Cost

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2012 @ 12:42pm

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  What I would like to see happen is that Assange is jailed for his contempt charge, and the Swedish investigators have the capacity to interview him, pending prosecution, and a guarantee of non-extradition to the US from Sweden, at least until his sentence is served in Sweden.
  
  The thing is, Swedish investigators have had basically an open invitation to interview him and have refused to do so. I don't think Sweden has any interest in actually charging him, they just want to get their hands on him so that they can ship him to the US.

• On the post: US, UK Betray Basic Values To Get Assange At Any Cost

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2012 @ 10:47am

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  And when was he convicted of this?
  
  If Sweden can't even be bothered to try to make a case to Ecuador as to why Assante should be extradited to face charges, my guess is that the charges themselves are bullshit. But that's just me

• On the post: US, UK Betray Basic Values To Get Assange At Any Cost

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2012 @ 09:34am

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  I can't answer fully and I don't have time to find the source ATM, but my recollection is that Australia basically washed their hands of the situation and refused to intervene.

• On the post: Rojadirecta Points Court To FlavaWorks Ruling Concerning Infringement On Linking Sites

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2012 @ 10:53pm

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  Can I buy a vowel?

• On the post: Honey Badger Don't Care… Unless You're Cheering On A College Player With That Nickname

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2012 @ 08:15am

  Re: Wonder how his being kicked off the team affects this

  I was just going to comment that they're gonna have real issues with this when "Honey Badger" is playing elsewhere since they kicked him out last week...

• On the post: If I Were The MPAA… How I Would Deal With My Car Break-In

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2012 @ 12:54pm

  What about car companies?

  After all they made the ipod easily visible on the front seat by not making those darned windows both impossible to see through AND easy to break with a rock. I mean, shouldn't they know that this ipod is more important that the safety of the occupants of the car. It's certainly worth more $$$ with all of that damn music on it. Sheesh!

• On the post: If I Were The MPAA… How I Would Deal With My Car Break-In

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2012 @ 12:48pm

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  Almost. You would have police officers from Great Britain extradited to the US for suggesting to their citizens that they should remove ipods from plain sight.

• On the post: Sometimes The Business Model Is The Marketing

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2012 @ 09:11am

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  Really.. I thought the business model was the way you made money.. if that means selling ice cream with a trip to Africa, that's a business model.
  
  Marketing is a means of differentiating your product. But there's nothing that say those two concepts are mutually exclusive.
  
  Perhaps that kind of thinking is part of why legacy businesses that don't adapt to the marketplace tend to die long, slow, painful deaths.. well, after trying to get laws passed to artificially maintain their idyllic market.

• On the post: Craigslist Demands 'Exclusive License' On Your Posts

  

  DH's Love Child ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2012 @ 08:57am

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  But this move doesn't protect Craigslist's site or community. Craigslist doesn't create this content, the users do.
  
  What this does is make people look for other communities that aren't going to try to lock up the content.
  
  That would be like Techdirt claiming exclusive license on the comments.

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