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  • On the post: Another Dumb Idea Out Of The EU: Giving Robots & Computers Copyright

    Lauriel ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2016 @ 04:04am

    I expect mass breach of copyright lawsuits against all the Xeroxs and copiers.

  • On the post: Apple's Responds To Tech Mag Showing The Amazing Bending Phone By Freezing Them Out Of Bendy Apple Products

    Lauriel ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2014 @ 04:54am

    Re: Re: Re: Did you contact Apple for a quote?

    It's the iYengar model.

  • On the post: How Corporate Sovereignty Threatens Democracy

    Lauriel ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2014 @ 07:03pm

    Re: Less government

    Yes, Enron said exactly the same thing...

  • On the post: Lululemon: If You Can't Beat Your Customers, Ban Your Customers

    Lauriel ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 06:38am

    Re: Re:

    You can resell your Yoga pants in life+70.

  • On the post: Bizarre Trend: Journalism Professors Using Klout Scores As Part Of Students' Grades

    Lauriel ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2012 @ 07:30pm

    I think it's a good idea. I also think some comments are missing two key factors:
    a) the subject is journalism.
    b) the Klout score is only a fraction of the grade.

    Look at modern journalism - how many journalists function well in their role without a plethora of social media? Not just for socializing, but for putting out some of their work (albeit in link form), garnering interest, communicating with regular readers and garnering new ones - all well recognized uses for social media in business here on Techdirt! The Klout score projects sound like they are designed to focus students on using social media in this manner, instead of solely with a social focus.

    Secondly, a key aspect of journalism is not only getting your work to the public, but gathering resources. Human resources are mainly collected through networking. Developing social media skills, and online networking, is a valuable skill for journalism students, surely? I would likely feel different if the course was calculus.

    Finally, as someone else pointed out, this develops their writing skills - not the traditional skills they are already learning in class, and have spent several years through out primary and secondary school developing, but a specific skill-set used online. It is quite a different task to write a compelling argument in 2000 words as opposed to writing an interesting or informative statement in under 160 characters.

    These are all skills that they will need in their profession. Academia is often faulted for being too esoteric - at least these two professors are focusing on real-world skills that will assist these students in the workforce. And there is no indication they are doing it at the expense of traditional core subjects for the unit.

  • On the post: Textbook Publisher Pearson Takes Down 1.5 Million Teacher And Student Blogs With A Single DMCA Notice

    Lauriel ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2012 @ 12:00am

    Re: A teaching moment

    Speaking from experience, if there is one group of people who care less about copyright, I don't know them. Teachers share - education is based on that concept. Schools simply don't have the funds to exist in a copyrighted world. If it isn't fair use, most of us don't care. As far as I'm concerned, my students education comes first.

  • On the post: Xbox DRM Punishes More Paying Customers And Actually Restricts Purchasing Options

    Lauriel ( profile ), 11 Oct, 2012 @ 12:13am

    Re: Re: Re:

    Ditto. I've been playing (and replaying) Diablo II for years - and now have my daughter hooked on it too. We may eventually by DIII, but the server lag in multiplayer on DII is discouraging. So no real incentive to want to buy a game that will bug the hell out of me.

  • On the post: Court Says Case Against Megaupload Can Continue, Despite Not Being Able To Serve The Company

    Lauriel ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2012 @ 12:00am

    Re: Re: Re: A bad precedent...

    Heh. Ironically, I misread the original comment "The judge goes onto to make his own interpretation of Rule 4" as "The judge goes onto to make his own interpretation of Rule 34". On consideration, perhaps it is the more appropriate reading. :/

  • On the post: Doctor Who Travels Through Time To Stop Australian Pirates By Giving Them What They Want

    Lauriel ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2012 @ 05:56am

    Re: Re: Re:

    After they made him a mythological character and man of mystery? Pft!

    Also been watching since Pertwee, count Tom Baker as my Doctor, and think Tennant was brilliant (and sexy).

    And now.. back to your scheduled Techdirt programming. :p

  • On the post: Doctor Who Travels Through Time To Stop Australian Pirates By Giving Them What They Want

    Lauriel ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2012 @ 05:41am

    Re:

    Agreed. iView is the best for (legal) streaming. Channel 10's service is poorly executed, and the others aren't even on the map. The ABC get digital media.

    That said, they don't have the same structure as commercial channels, so I'm not sure it can be used to demonstrate financial viability for purely commercial, non-subsudised channels.

    And I'm looking forward to Dr. Who. :)

  • On the post: US: India, Stop Censoring Websites! India: Wikileaks, Hello? US: That's Different!

    Lauriel ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2012 @ 05:22am

    Re: Re:

    Only if you are one of those Pot-loving hippy freaks.

  • On the post: US Chamber Of Commerce Launches Ad Campaign For Son Of SOPA

    Lauriel ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2012 @ 04:42am

    Re: Re:

    Join in if you know the tune..

    GIPCs against IP theives
    We'd hear it from the people of the town
    They'd call us GIPCs against IP thieves
    But every night MPAA would come around
    And lay their money down

  • On the post: Legit Ebook Lending Site Taken Down By An Angry Twitmob Of Writers [UPDATED]

    Lauriel ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2012 @ 01:37am

    Re: Some authors understand

    Christine, that was one of the best responses on this issue I've read yet. And very down-to-earth as well.

    Your comment lead me to check out what you write. It sounds good (in a genre I like), so I've bought one. :)

  • On the post: Why Are New Zealand Prosecutors Seeking To Suppress All Images & Video Of Megaupload Raid?

    Lauriel ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2012 @ 01:45pm

    Re: Re:

    It's so cute that you guys complain so much about Mike and Kim, yet avidly follow their twitter accounts.

  • On the post: Why Are New Zealand Prosecutors Seeking To Suppress All Images & Video Of Megaupload Raid?

    Lauriel ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2012 @ 12:28pm

    Re: Re:

    Does raiding someone's birthday party shows the full extent of their tactical capabilities? If I were them, I'd be concerned about that too!

    I actually can see how the footage could be prejudicial - SWAT teams are aggressive by nature, otherwise they would have taken the civil approach and knocked on the door. Once you've got that many people, all on an adrenaline rush, trained to use force to neutralise a target... of course they didn't walk up to him and say "Excuse me, would you mind coming with us?"

    However, it's only prejudicial because they took an overly aggressive stance with Dotcom in the first place. They would need to show reasonable grounds to believe that the measures they took were justified, IMHO. I really don't see how they had reason to hit him with that amount of force to begin with.

  • On the post: Apple's Argument: Samsung Could Have Made Its Phone Large, Thick, Bumpy, Sharp-Edged & Hexagonal

    Lauriel ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2012 @ 10:21am

    New Samsung Range of Phones

    Introducing the new, exciting range of Samsung phones: The Orange Series!!

    The Egg:

    This ergonomic, stylish phone is ovoid shaped, moulded to fit perfectly in the palm of you hand. Don't have egg on your face - have it in your hand!

    The Ninja:

    This stylish phone focuses on function and usability for the socially inclined ninja of today. Shaped like a ninja throwing star, you can now call your enemy to distract them, hit them between the eyes with the razor sharp edges, and then use your phone camera to take a photo for your scrapbook.

    The Penta:

    This classy phone is designed to mimic the most prestigious and commanding geometrical shape out there: The Pentagon. Think outside the square - buy a Pentagon.

    All models in the Orange Series are available in 4 trendy colours - orange, silver, pearl, and bla... err... obsidian.

    Why buy an Apple when you could have an Orange?

  • On the post: YouTube Wants You To Comment Under Your Real Name

    Lauriel ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 10:25am

    Re: Re: Re:

    *coarse. My bad. Well spotted.

  • On the post: YouTube Wants You To Comment Under Your Real Name

    Lauriel ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 03:49am

    Re:

    Ditto. In my case, I'm a primary school teacher. I don't want my entire online experience to be carefully filtered to be PG, just in case my students google my name. My private life contains adult themes and occasional course language.

  • On the post: ACTA Failure Inspires The Most Clueless Column Ever

    Lauriel ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2012 @ 07:51am

    Re: Re: Cultural Disaster?

    Thinking about this further, what does a cultural disaster look like? Can we get it defined?

    Paisley shirts.

  • On the post: ACTA Failure Inspires The Most Clueless Column Ever

    Lauriel ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2012 @ 07:45am

    Re:

    From the whole 'free equals bad' tone of the article, I suspect the question he asks his students isn't "How many of you pirate content?" but rather "How many of you download free shit off the internet?"

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