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  • On the post: Bracket Watch: EA Upset Early, Comcast Beats Monsanto For 'Worst Company' Award

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2014 @ 04:54pm

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    Maybe we know more about the Monsanto controversies then you give us credit for. Yes, Monsanto has a EULA for their seeds. Yes, they've sued people for having seeds blow into non-Monsanto farms. Yes, they've sued people for planting legally purchased seeds that were Monsanto's (but not bought from Monsanto).

    Do a quick search on Techdirt for "Monsanto" and you'll find two pages of articles about them.

  • On the post: Bracket Watch: EA Upset Early, Comcast Beats Monsanto For 'Worst Company' Award

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2014 @ 04:47pm

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    "so long as you don't illegally use their patented seed."

    Or have neighbors that use their seeds or pick up the seeds from a third party.

  • On the post: A New Animated Web Series About Copying And Copyright

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2014 @ 09:12pm

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    "but to the extent we can control what we copy," ... "it's a false narrative to say that 'we all do it.'"

    You contradict yourself in the same sentence. That is partly what they're talking about.

  • On the post: A New Animated Web Series About Copying And Copyright

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2014 @ 09:08pm

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    1:50 in: "The videos will be up on Youtube and Vimeo with a pre-license to do whatever you want with it, no copyright"

    So, yeah, party on.

  • On the post: Heartbleed Bug In OpenSSL Makes It Worse Than No Encryption At All

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2014 @ 11:49am

    Mojang tweeted about this today. Their servers weren't compromised by this, but the load balancers from Amazon were. That suggests that the Amazon cloud was at risk and anything that used it should probably have their users change their passwords.

  • On the post: Former CIA, NSA Boss Says Senator Feinstein Is Too Emotional To Judge CIA Torture Fairly

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 09:07am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sexist!

    "But it's not the type of phrasing most people would have done."

    I would have. Overly strong emotion and law making should not mix. When they do we get laws that do more harm then good. If I truly thought that someone was too emotional to do their job, I would say as such.

    Speaking of too emotional, a lot of people are jumping on the statement saying it's sexist. But instantly jumping to the defense just because it's a man saying something to a woman is just as sexist. Show me something more and I'll be with you, but one sentence does not a sexist make.

  • On the post: 'Bay Of Tweets Invasion' Legitimizes Nearly Every Crackpot Anti-US Claim From Dictators Around The Globe

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 08:58am

    Re: Re: Re: Combined with the Snowden leaks...

    All he has to do is wait a few years and everyone will be blaming the next guy.

    I'm all for blaming Obama for not doing anything about it, but don't let that take the blame off of those who started this.

  • On the post: Sony And YouTube Take Down Sintel; Blender's Open Source, Creative Commons, Crowdfunded Masterpiece

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 08:45am

    Re: Re: Solution to bizzare Youtube copyright claims....

    I think AC might be talking about something more proactive. Maybe being able to claim that the uploader owns all copyright to the content during upload. That way, when something like this comes along, the counter notice has already been set and it would need to go to the next step.

    I like that idea. "I attest, under risk of loss of account, that I own all copyright to the uploaded content or that I have readily available proof of license to the content uploaded." Should probably throw something in there about fair use, bu that's a gray area and should probably be handled in a case by case bases.

  • On the post: Net Censors Arrested In China For Taking Bribes To Delete Unflattering Posts As Well As The 'Harmful' Ones

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 06:08am

    Re: Re: Throwing a few under the bus

    Isn't that exactly what their censoring was originally created for? Taking down things that are in opposition to the government's stance? It's still hypocrisy even if they're open about it.

  • On the post: Microsoft-Sponsored Study Says Problems Caused By Using Windows Software Will Cost Businesses $500 Billion In 2014

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2014 @ 06:13pm

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    "One thing that bothers me about Windows is the fact that Windows 8 computers no longer comes with a re-installation disk."

    That's not a limitation of Windows 8, that's a limitation of the manufacturer. HP got rid of the recovery CDs back near the end of the XP days.

  • On the post: Microsoft-Sponsored Study Says Problems Caused By Using Windows Software Will Cost Businesses $500 Billion In 2014

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2014 @ 10:52am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: We need new Operating System architectures

    I'm a network administrator as I said, so I'm not the average user ether. I use a range of programs from video games to professional programs like ACT. I've only ever been asked for administrative access to run a program a hand full of times. Mostly with open source software.

    I agree with AC up there, most things should not require administrative access. But what you think, what I think, what AC thinks doesn't matter. All that matters is how the system is going to be used, and that is how it would be used if Unix was king.

    It's the human element that you hear about every now and then. People will use the system in this way. Changing the skin isn't going to change the people.

  • On the post: Microsoft-Sponsored Study Says Problems Caused By Using Windows Software Will Cost Businesses $500 Billion In 2014

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2014 @ 08:33am

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    As far as I know, Windows is not a requirement for being spied upon. The governments of the world are tapping into the back end, not the user OS. Unix is not going to help with that.

  • On the post: Microsoft-Sponsored Study Says Problems Caused By Using Windows Software Will Cost Businesses $500 Billion In 2014

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2014 @ 08:32am

    Re: Re: We need new Operating System architectures

    The limited user thing in Windows is a copy of it's counterpart in Unix. It works the same, and provides the same annoyances. If Unix took over, the average user would just run as root or get into the habit of using sudo before everything.

    That problem is with the end user, not the OS.

    As a network administrator that runs Windows 2008 Terminal Services, UAC is not that big of a problem. If you're running software that requires administrative access just to run, you're probably running the wrong software. It'd be like software asking for the root password in Unix just to run. It shouldn't be happening.

  • On the post: Microsoft-Sponsored Study Says Problems Caused By Using Windows Software Will Cost Businesses $500 Billion In 2014

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2014 @ 08:22am

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    "It just lets you get rid of it by reverting to a snapshot of the system prior to the presence of software"

    I use the backup and recovery tools built into windows to do that now. I know it's in Windows 7, but I think it's been built into Windows since Vista, possibly XP. Hell, I do that when it's just time to start fresh, faster then loading the OS and drivers from CD.

    There's also the System Restore function that I'm also fairly sure was built into XP, but that only does system files. That's another thing that's saved several computers from Viruses in my Tech support history. I don't like using it though, it potentially leaves the original, bad file on the disk where the Backup and Recovery tool overwrites the entire drive.

  • On the post: German Court Says Creative Commons 'Non-Commercial' Licenses Must Be Purely For Personal Use

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2014 @ 11:22am

    Re: So, is a "personal" blog on the WWW also "commercial"?

    The reason he probably went for Creative Commons instead of regular copyright is because getting a CC registered is free.

  • On the post: DailyDirt: Making Robot Musicians

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2014 @ 05:44pm

    I was waiting for someone to take Animusic and turn it into real life.

  • On the post: FCC Is Sorry, But OpenInternet.gov Cannot Be Found

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2014 @ 09:48am

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    We don't need net neutrality laws, we need more competition.

    Look at Pittsburgh (where I live now). We have at last count 6 different ISPs to choose from all offering broadband (3 DSL, 1 coax, and 2 fiber). When Comcast started capping downloads, never happened here. When the six strikes thing started, never happened here. Bittorrent throttling never happened here. If our ISP pisses us off, we can just say screw them and pick a different one (three of them are confirmed dumb pipes).

  • On the post: Apple Rejects Tank Battle 1942, Then Approves; Shows How Stupid The iOS Approval Process Is

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2014 @ 10:30pm

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    Sure, Apple can approve what it wants, but that just means we can't sue them for it. We sure as hell can make fun of them for it. And we should. If we just let people continue to be wrong without pointing it out, nothing will change (Or worse, it'll get worse).

  • On the post: Bogus Comparison Between Detroit In 1990 And Silicon Valley In 2012

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2014 @ 04:26pm

    Re: dissapointing

    Isn't that how RoboCop started? Detroit ran out of money so they had to get OCP to pay for the cops?

  • On the post: Man Calls Cops To Turn In Drug Paraphernalia He Found, Gets Home Placed On Federal 'Drug Lab' Watchlist For 2 Years

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2014 @ 06:56am

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    I was a witness to a car wreck a few weeks ago and agreed to testify in court. Two days ago I got paperwork stating that I'm the one being charged. Now I have to pay money to get a lawyer to get this fixed.

    Yeah, being a good citizen kinda sucks.

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