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  • On the post: The Aftershock Of Stupidity: Lendink Reopens Only To Receive Trolling DMCA Notices

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2012 @ 05:21pm

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    If you want to be an author and only focus on writing not on marketing, then expect two things to happen. One: you will be ripped off by those who do the things you refuse to do. Two: your fans will share your stuff whether you want them to or not.

    This is reality, this has always been reality, nothing has changed due to the introduction of the Internet. If you chose to ignore reality, what happens is your own damn fault. Please don't drag others down with you.

  • On the post: Major Labels Claim Copyright Over Public Domain Songs; YouTube Punishes Musician

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2012 @ 12:29pm

    I can easily see how this could happen. If you're a little guy just starting to work with Google, you can easily get stuck in a loop and get completely frelled before you even begin. I'm stuck in a similar loop with Adsense. There's no way to get a hold of a real person and no one from Google seems to go to the forums that provides the only support (A link provided on Adsense's own troubleshooting page). I know a magical number exists, but it seems to be only for the big guys.

    Google may have damn good software, but they're absolute shit when it comes to customer support.

  • On the post: Apple/Samsung Verdict Advertising Samsung As A Viable Alternative To iPads & iPhones

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2012 @ 02:43pm

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    Don't know ether, but that's Apple's marketing department for you.

  • On the post: Apple/Samsung Verdict Advertising Samsung As A Viable Alternative To iPads & iPhones

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2012 @ 02:31pm

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    When someone says something like "Wait, Samsung tables are the same as the iPad" it shows that they didn't think the tablets were on the same level. The way they say it suggests they originally thought the iPad was top of the line, second to none (also shows that they weren't confused by the similarities, as Apple had suggested). Now that Apple themselves are saying that Samsung is too similar in both software and hardware, people start thinking that the iPad may not be second to none, that Samsung may have a top of the line device.

    If Apple themselves are afraid of this lower tier tablet competing with their "godly" tablet, maybe it's not a lower tier after all.

    So, it's not that they associate a Samsung with an Apple, but that they now see them as equal quality (time will tell on that one).

  • On the post: Apple/Samsung Verdict Advertising Samsung As A Viable Alternative To iPads & iPhones

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2012 @ 01:24pm

    This should just point out

    Even though you may be legally correct (assuming the jury cock-up doesn't change anything), that doesn't necessarily mean you should sue.

  • On the post: Guilty Until Proven Licensed: FACT Shuts Down Torrent Tracker Despite Cooperation

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2012 @ 12:20pm

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    It's still idiotic to take the position that everything is infringing unless you can prove that it isn't (isn't that proving a negative?). Can you prove that you own the rights to the comment you just posted without anyone arguing that they own what you said?

  • On the post: MPAA Joins RIAA In Having Budgets Slashed

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2012 @ 11:24am

    Re: The revenue is disappearing like a wicked witch in a downpour.

    "Bellowing PIRACY at the top the lungs has just been one of the few rewarding mafiaa business models"

    Resistance is useless.

  • On the post: MPAA Joins RIAA In Having Budgets Slashed

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2012 @ 11:08am

    I think it's impressive that the MPAA is still going as strong as it is. If I worked for 10 years and had absolutely nothing to show for it, my ass would be fired.

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

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2012 @ 07:45am

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    And if you're dumb enough to take your eyes off the road to text someone, then you're also dumb enough to take your eyes off the road to do your makeup, change the radio station, change a CD, comb your hair, ogle the lady walking down the sidewalk, attempt to read an idiotic billboard, rummage around for change for the toll (or coffee you're about to get). I could go on.

    If we're going to start banning all the things that can distract us, then we should probably start with those who allow themselves to be so easily distracted.

  • On the post: Life Imitates Conan O'Brien As Samsung 'Opens Apple Store'

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2012 @ 11:02am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sell your own innovations

    How's this for an argument:

    This looks like what Best Buy is doing with their stores. The products go onto a central table to be displayed and even used in a more casual environment. They also do not have the boxes that you can pick up and take to the register, you have to ask for the boxes.

    This suggests to me that this idea wasn't stolen from Apple, but created by a psychologist to help/trick people into buying more things. They may believe that a cafe style environment will relax people, and a relaxed casual shopper will buy more.

    So, for my educated guess, Samsung truly didn't copy Apple. They're just trying to use mind games (just as Apple has done for decades).

    And for the record, as you posted further down, Apple's tables don't have rounded corners.

  • On the post: AT&T Tries To Tapdance Around Net Neutrality Regulations

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2012 @ 07:58pm

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    So they are giving iPhone users more by removing the ability to use the pre-loaded app. The words that come to my mind after reading that comment should not be posted online.

  • On the post: Oxford Professor Says Mankind Is Ethically Obligated To Create Genetically Engineered Babies

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2012 @ 07:30pm

    Shrinking the gene pool

    If it is our ethical responsibility to pick and chose proper genes and abort those who aren't up to snuff, then it is also our ethical responsibility to pick and chose our mates according to their genes. Those who have good genes would be allowed to mate and those without would be removed from the gene pool.

    This, however, will lead to stagnation in the gene pool. There is a reason why the human race is so diverse. With diversity comes strength, the ability to adapt and change. If everyone was the same, the genes needed to adapt to future situations would not be there. Evolution (micro or macro) would come to a dead stop.

  • On the post: Photography In Public Is Not A Crime

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2012 @ 05:31pm

    Re: Re: Re: 9-11

    You must not have a concept of art. And by "a concept of art" I mean that there is none. What one person finds mundane or even offensive, another finds art.

    A friend of my sister is a photographer, I met him when he was photographing her wedding. A few weeks latter I saw him at a brewery festival taking pictures of port-a-johns. I asked why, reasonably thinking that it was kinda silly, and he replied by explaining the repetition and symmetry. He saw something I didn't because he was an artist.

    So don't be saying someone shouldn't be taking pictures of something just because you don't see the artistic nature.

  • On the post: Feds Back To Seizing Websites Over Claims Of Copyright Infringement

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2012 @ 09:39am

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    Then why did they take the domain name and warn the people running the website to get the hell out of Dodge (And wipe the hard drives first)?

  • On the post: Feds Back To Seizing Websites Over Claims Of Copyright Infringement

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2012 @ 09:36am

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    Because, even if the FBI seized something that can easily be replaced, the FBI seized something owned by someone else. A something that is not relevant to a case, won't stop the illegal activities, and is probably illegal to seize. The FBI is wasting resources on actions that do nothing except warn criminals (Assuming they are criminals).

    Using the incorrect illegal drugs seizure metaphor, it's like taking the address sign off the mailbox but leaving the drugs and criminals alone and un-monitored.

    That's why we're bitching about how terrible this is. Not that we support piracy, we just support actions that actually do something.

  • On the post: Feds Back To Seizing Websites Over Claims Of Copyright Infringement

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2012 @ 09:27am

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    Didn't you pay attention? No property was seized, just domain names.

    Assuming for a second that the sites were truly illegal, wouldn't seizing the servers and/or documents before warning the owners be wise? Now the owners, still assuming that they are criminals, have all the time in the world to destroy evidence. A domain name isn't going to give the FBI shit. If the website was truly illegal, then why didn't the FBI follow standard procedure and seize the actual evidence?

    So yeah, have fun thinking this is all on the up and up.

  • On the post: Horrifying: Surfthechannel Criminal Conviction Driven By Hollywood Money — Not The Government

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2012 @ 08:54am

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    You assume, incorrectly, that all links were to illegal content and that was the entire intent of the site. You cannot truthfully claim that.

    A better analogy would be the phone book giving numbers to escorts. Chances are "escorts" is just a fancy word for prostitute, but the phone company doesn't know that and won't be held liable for prostitution.

    And yes, I'm making an assumption about the number of illegal escorts vs. legal ones, but so is AC when he's talking about links.

  • On the post: Hilarious Attack Ad In Florida Suggests That Legalizing Autonomous Vehicles Puts Old People At Risk

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2012 @ 02:56pm

    Did anyone else notice that the car didn't stop a the stop sign? Ignoring the fact that the cars will be programmed to watch for pedestrians, a robotic car that doesn't stop for stop signs, will never make it onto the road in the first place.

    Another way these people just don't have a clue what technology they're fighting against.

  • On the post: Politician All For Transparency Until It Might Make Him Look Bad In A Campaign Commercial

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2012 @ 12:13pm

    I can see the political comercials now:

    "Steinberg doesn't want you to know what he's doing on the issues that affect you."

  • On the post: Famous Prankster 'The Internet' Hijacks Another Promotional Campaign

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2012 @ 10:25am

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    OK, I'll attempt to explain it even though it's physically impossible to explain humor to the humorless.

    Pepsi (are you following so far?) decided to give the Internet (I know, a big word, but just try to keep up) free reign over the naming of something that no one really cares about. It wasn't multiple choice, you could write in your own name. What the hell did they think was going to happen? This would be hilarious if the winning name was "Bob" (actually that name alone would be hilarious as an inside joke).

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