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• On the post: FIFA Orders Brazil To Overturn Ban On Selling Beer At World Cup Matches

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2012 @ 12:13am

  "Alcoholic drinks are part of the Fifa World Cup"
  
  So is hooliganism, surely the two cannot be related?

• On the post: Judge Says Americans Can Be Forced To Decrypt Laptops

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2012 @ 04:28am

  Sorry officer, I seem to have forgotten how to decrypt this information. I'm lying? I'm sure I don't know what you mean.

• On the post: The Pirate Bay Press Release On SOPA: We Are The New Hollywood

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2012 @ 03:46am

  Hollywood 2: The Reckoning

  Coming to you soon in a theatre near you, or on a DVD in a couple of months time when we've milked the cinema-angle enough. The DVD will include such exclusive (pirated DVDs never have these extra features!) features as: "Pirates are bad mkay!" intro, unskippable not-spoiler-free trailers for other movies and a good dose of condescendance.

• On the post: UK PC Gaming Site Rock, Paper, Shotgun To Join SOPA Protest By Going Dark Tomorrow

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2012 @ 11:08pm

  SMBC is blacked out today as well. This will be a very productive day at word xD

• On the post: Apple May Get To Remove Obvious Features From Android

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2011 @ 12:30am

  Apple are such dicks... Seriously... All they ever did was improve on others ideas, but god help if anyone does the same to their ideas. Steve Jobs obviously made every feature just so PERFECT that changing it isn't an improvement, it's theft.

• On the post: Company Claims Its Software Can Magically Identify 'Rogue Sites'

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2011 @ 11:50pm

  But if the source code is invicible how can they see it? O.o

• On the post: Some Data On How Much The Big Media Firms Are Donating To SOPA/PIPA Sponsors

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2011 @ 04:37am

  Re: Re: Why is this legal?

  If they were supposed to be unconnected to political agenda then all such donations should be anonymous. As soon as you get money from someone, whom you know to have a certain agenda, your motivation for supporting that agenda becomes suspect.

• On the post: The Value Is In The Relationship, Not The MP3 File

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2011 @ 01:33am

  Re: Patronage?

  Patronage seems like a good word for the behavior of the customers. I act in much the same way when it comes to games (Not much of a music guy). I've quite frequently bought games to support studios that makes games that I find enjoyable even if I know I don't have time or interest in playing that particular game, but I only do this when the game is on sale or once the price has dropped to a reasonable level for what I feel like contributing. I've also bought a lot of old games from Good Old Games because I thouroughly approve of their business modell, the absence of DRM and because the games they release gives me that nice feeling of nostalgia. I buy those games because of the memories and not because I want to play the games again.

• On the post: Lamar Smith Tries To Defend SOPA; Suggests That Infringement Is The Equivalent Of Child Porn

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2011 @ 11:51pm

  Re: Re:

  I don't see what papayas has to do with any of this. You're just trying to steer the discussion away from the oranges.

• On the post: The Annotated Version Of Viacom's Employees Begging The Gov't To Censor The Internet To Save SpongeBob

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2011 @ 02:28am

  Re: Re: Re: Not endorsing piracy...

  Both shows are on their respective sites the day after they air. The daily show regularly have extended interviews there as well. All good stuff. Sometimes I do watch it from other sources though because the quality on their sites is kinda iffy and the player used is kinda crap.

• On the post: European Court Of Justice Says ISPs Cannot Be Forced To Be Copyright Cops

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2011 @ 04:40am

  European Court of Justice rolls for SAN.
  CRITICAL
  European Court of Justice rules in favor Fundamental Rights.
  
  Man, we need more good SAN checks like this one.

• On the post: A Message For Congress Over Thanksgiving

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 24 Nov, 2011 @ 12:16am

  I hate thanksgiving. It deprives me of Techdirt, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report :(

• On the post: How To Become A Scientific Author In Poland: Delete Part Of Someone Else's Article You Think Is Wrong

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2011 @ 02:57am

  ?in consequence of the changes introduced by the plaintiffs, a work of a different character was created which without the plaintiffs? contribution would have taken a different shape.?
  
  At a glance this judgement doesn't seem that bad but at a closer look it really does feel like it covers way more cases than it should.
  
  What I am more interested about on this topic though is that the author promised to publish the article together with the others. If they were helping with the paper because they had been promised co-authorship and otherwise would not previewed and offered insights on it I can't help but wonder if the one to blame in this specific case was the author herself.
  
  I am not that fluent in legalese and I'm very much not up-to-date on polish laws but I feel that the outcome of the court case is right but that the stated reason for the judgement is wrong.
  
  I would be interested in reading the court decision in full myself but my polish is a bit rusty, I doubt that it gives a blanket permission to just delete something from another work and claim co-authorship like the title implies. The implications for a student-professor interactions during the course of writing a thesis is however worrying but without reading the whole court decision it's hard to know how it will turn out.

• On the post: Understanding Anonymous: The Culture Of Lulz

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2011 @ 12:25am

  Re:

  All hail Discordia! Kallisti!

• On the post: The Real Issue With Apple's 'Slide-To-Unlock' Patent: Double Patenting & Bogus Continuations

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2011 @ 07:18am

  Re: Re: So...

  Prior art? See my previous post which explains how to circumvent that.
  
  Hint: It involves refiling the patent until it passes. Or you could just make a continuation patent for your lovely "Filing patents while under the influence of heavy narcotics" patent which you filed back in 1998.

• On the post: The Real Issue With Apple's 'Slide-To-Unlock' Patent: Double Patenting & Bogus Continuations

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2011 @ 05:22am

  So...

  Can someone please patent the process of continuously refiling a patent, with minute changes done to it, until the examiner gives up and grants it?

• On the post: God Wants Homeless People To Lobby The FCC To Help The Outcast & Downtrodden AT&T?

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2011 @ 12:54am

  God helps...

  he who helps himself.
  
  I think AT&T should be rather high on Gods list of whom to help by now.

• On the post: Comic Book 'Pirated' On 4Chan, Author Joins Discussion… Watches Sales Soar

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2011 @ 12:49am

  The Mike of time

  The interaction of Mike with his readers in these comments is obviously a poorly hidden attempt to boost his sales of unobtanium.

• On the post: ICANN Takes Over Time Zone Database; Dares Astrolabe To Sue

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2011 @ 02:22am

  ICANN has internets nao plz?

• On the post: Here's A Surprise: EU Green Party Adopts The Pirate Party's Position On Copyright

  

  Swedish Turnip ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2011 @ 06:46am

  Re: Not surprising that the Greens are adapting this plank...

  That would likely be hard since the pirates support comes from all parts of the political spectrum, on a national level the green parties of different countries generally have a history of cooperation with other established parties who are in power (Red and Green coalitions are common) which makes them a a hard sell for the pirate members who do not want to vote for a party which often give up these issues in exchange for deals on other (often greener) issues.

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