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• On the post: PA AG's Twitter Subpoena Also Told Twitter It Couldn't Reveal Subpoena's Existence

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2010 @ 06:25pm

  Re: Re: That legalese has more holes than a colander

  "No one said the AG is a criminal."
  
  No, he's saying that the 'request' is bogus and should be treated as such (of course, you'll likely get hit with the court hammer since the AG has little accountability.)

• On the post: Amazon Looking To Patent One-Nod Ordering?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2010 @ 08:22am

  Re:

  so instead of whining about it, why not submit some prior art examples and stop the patent?
  
  "Now, let us all bow our heads in payment." --Douglas Adams, Life, The Universe, & Everything

• On the post: How Monetary Rewards Can Demotivate Creative Works

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2010 @ 08:06pm

  Whoa

  I am in awe of the speech and even moreso of the poor bastard who edited that.
  
  *slow clap that is joined by others*

• On the post: MLB Looks To Sue Annoying Commenters

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2010 @ 07:20pm

  Re: Sports fans

  Frak off.
  
  
  Also, Bud Selig can eat a bag of dicks.
  
  
  Just keepin' it real.

• On the post: Dutch Court Says Just Publishing Links To A Movie Is Illegal And Must Be Blocked

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2010 @ 07:05pm

  A Digital Age Koan

  What is the ruling of a moron judge in a hurry?

• On the post: Dutch Court Says Just Publishing Links To A Movie Is Illegal And Must Be Blocked

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2010 @ 04:57pm

  Re: It's still amazing that any court thinks that just publishing links to something should be illegal,

  As silly a rebuttal as that is, it still makes more sense than this ruling.

• On the post: Dutch Court Says Just Publishing Links To A Movie Is Illegal And Must Be Blocked

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2010 @ 04:24pm

  WTF?

  That's like locking people up because they tell you which house on the block is the crack house.

• On the post: You're So Vain… I Bet You Think Starbucks' Decision To Get Out Of The Music Biz Was All About You

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2010 @ 04:17pm

  I'm torn

  On the one hand, this is ridiculous. On the other hand, any time I see artists suing distributors I get a case of the warm fuzzies.
  
  Win/win, I guess.

• On the post: Big Time Patent Attorney Jumps Into The Patent Trolling Game By Buying 4,500 Patents From Micron

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2010 @ 04:11pm

  Re: Re:

  "At some point, your resolve wares down..."
  
  Punny?

• On the post: Convicted Serial Rapist Goes To Court To Forbid Newspapers From Reporting On His Whereabouts

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2010 @ 10:47am

  cry me a river

  Y'know how to avoid this kind of publicity? Don't rape people.
  
  
  Jackass.

• On the post: Yet Again, Real Police Called Into Virtual World Over (Not Really) Theft Of Virtual Items

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2010 @ 08:28am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Real world police for real world problems. This is a case of allocation of bits on someone's computer.
  
  And yeah, I get that the line gets blurry, but this isn't one of those times. Habbo could make this right with a keystroke. At most, this is a civil complaint.

• On the post: Yet Again, Real Police Called Into Virtual World Over (Not Really) Theft Of Virtual Items

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2010 @ 07:58am

  Re:

  "I'm sorry, but some of these kids have payed hundreds if not thousands of pounds for these items..."
  
  So what? Take it up with Habbo. Don't waste my tax dollars over this crap.

• On the post: Will We Allow Patents To Lock Up Synthetic Biology?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2010 @ 07:12pm

  Re: Re:

  More like they'll actually do some work, instead of waiting until their patents are about to run out and then making some minor tweak.
  
  And if not, what's the loss?

• On the post: Scott Adams: The Economic Value Of Content Is Going To Zero, But Maybe It's Okay

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2010 @ 10:04am

  Re: Tired of the sterotype

  "He kicks it off by noting that unauthorized copies of music represent a huge percentage of the music that people listen to these days."
  
  Actually, the bulk of my listening is from people who freely put it on the web.
  
  As is the case, oddly, with my webcomic viewing.
  
  What have we learned?

• On the post: Four Years In, How Successful Has Hollywood's Attack On The Pirate Bay Been?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2010 @ 06:54pm

  Re: Re:

  "... they'd get exactly the same results they do now. But they'd be blowing a hell of a lot less money and time on getting those results."
  
  How would that help the MPAA? As opposed to the studios that *fund* the MPAA.
  
  It's busywork. It's "Hey, look, we're doing something with your money. Something really productive. Trust us, this is why you need us."

• On the post: US Copyright Group Says ISPs Who Don't Cough Up User Names May Be Guilty Of Inducing Copyright Infringement

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 26 May, 2010 @ 10:04am

  Saw this coming a while back

  Once the 'inducing infringement' standard was enacted, it was pretty damn clear that any statement that *might possibly if seen in a certain light* induce infringement was fair game.
  
  And that's when the game is lost. Because then its a matter of court costs and lawyer fees. The average Joe is lost. Shit, GOOGLE folds when confronted by a bunch of Belgium newspapers. (Belgium. Newspapers.)
  
  Obviously, if Time Warner objects to disclosing user names, it encourages terrorist pirate child pornographers to flock to their service, thus they are encouraging TPCP. QED.

• On the post: Smart: Graduating As Valedictorian Of An Ivy League School; Not Smart: Plagiarizing Part Of Your Speech From A Famous Comedian

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 25 May, 2010 @ 10:54pm

  Hrm

  What about the other way 'round? The joke was obvious enough to me that I knew the puncline halfway through. Did I hear it before? Trek isn't a subject that's been unexplored, after all.
  
  Did Oswalt diligently examine the literature (fanzines, and the like) to ensure his contribution was original? Did he footnote any relevant findings?

• On the post: Smart: Graduating As Valedictorian Of An Ivy League School; Not Smart: Plagiarizing Part Of Your Speech From A Famous Comedian

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 25 May, 2010 @ 07:35pm

  Re: Re: What?

  "But the social mores say you don't tell a story about something that happened to you -- especially in an academic setting -- if they didn't actually happen to you."
  
  Yeah, I can see that being a point of objection.
  
  I read it more like a 'roast' of a particular professor than something that actually happened. Since I'm an old skool geek and saw that punchline coming a mile away I figured it was in jest. But I can see someone taking it seriously. Still, overreact much?
  
  (Also, if Kirk ordered Spock to fire the phasers, there would be a damn good reason for it, and Spock would do it. The premise of the punchline is flawed. /geekout)

• On the post: Smart: Graduating As Valedictorian Of An Ivy League School; Not Smart: Plagiarizing Part Of Your Speech From A Famous Comedian

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 25 May, 2010 @ 03:56pm

  What?

  The kid is not a comedian, for crying out loud, he's giving a speech and repeats a joke. That's pretty much how you do those things.
  
  I appreciate the need for citation and attribution in academic work, but for a valedictorian speech? I don't think it's going to be cited in any research papers. (Well, now it might show up in some sociological paper, but that's besides the point.)

• On the post: Still Don't Know What Cyberwar Is… But The US Has A Cyberwar General Now

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 24 May, 2010 @ 08:07pm

  Re: What is cyber war?

  And then the cyber entities, tired of this bullying, band together and form Skynet.

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