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  • On the post: Google Won't Let You Rent Movies If You Root Your Device

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 24 May, 2011 @ 05:27am

    I'm 99.9% sure that someone is going to figure out how to get around whatever check that Google is using within the next 72 hours. All they have to do is detect what packets are going in and out for the check and clone them. The Pirates are smarter and faster than businesses.

    If Google was smart they would make their DRM so easily broken that all the end user has to do is side-load an app (should be easy for someone that has already rooted their phone) and it works. Google would still be holding up their end of the deal to the MPAA, the content has DRM...

  • On the post: Universal Music: We Need PROTECT IP Because Musicians Are Dying!

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 23 May, 2011 @ 01:02pm

    Re: Re:

    Sorry my bad, It should have read "Okay Here is my stab at this thing; capital letters/words are replacements / additions:" instead of "...bold letters/words are..." I got lazy and didn't want to add all the HTML open/close tags.

    If your just trolling, offer up a shred of proof that what I said was incorrect.

  • On the post: Universal Music: We Need PROTECT IP Because Musicians Are Dying!

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 23 May, 2011 @ 11:42am

    Okay Here is my Stab at this thing Bold letters/words are replacements / additions:

    My Livelihood depends upon a healthy music industry - and that's why I hope you will REJECT S.968, legislation to DESTROY INNOVATION and encourage LEGACY BUSINESS MODELS.

    The online theft of music is PROLIFERATING SMALL artists, singers, songwriters, musicians, WEBHOSTS, CODERS, and others. It is CREATING jobs, dreams and careers. The Music community is GROWING, as is the unique culture of American music itself.

    Despite an astounding array of legal and convenient ways to obtain digital music today, online MUSIC SUFFERS. Of Course, music is just the "canary in the coal mine" - books, movies, television programs, games and software are suffering damage that will grow more profound if CONSTRICTING LAWS ARE CONTINUOUSLY PASSED.

    S. 968 would provide law enforcement with UNCONSTITUTIONAL tools to stop INNOCENT BUSINESS STARTUPS engaged in INNOVATIVE and CUTTING EDGE online CONTENT. I urge you to REJECT this legislation and any other effors designed to HINDER our nation's creative community.

    Please do everything within your power to encourage a meaningful and swift response to this OVERREACH.

    Sincerely

    ComputerAddict

  • On the post: Should Young People Have Their Votes Count More?

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 17 May, 2011 @ 10:04am

    My Dear Watson

    Can't We just Plug all of the candidates names into IBM's Watson and let his processors figure out who is the best candidate. It would be way easier than actually voting and electoral colleges, hanging chads, corrupt e-voting machines, etc.

  • On the post: EMI Dumps ASCAP For Digital Licensing

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 04 May, 2011 @ 09:28am

    Re: Re: Re: More complex licensing

    Because, he listens to the radio at work, and his boss told him that if he wanted to continue listening to the radio in a public place that he needed to get a performance license. This set him off on a quest trying to license every song from every performer who might possibly get some radio play from that station and thus his life experience as a fry-guy has given him detailed intimate knowledge of music licensing.

  • On the post: EMI Dumps ASCAP For Digital Licensing

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 04 May, 2011 @ 09:23am

    Re:

    Other Labels are not the only buyers... what about Google?

  • On the post: Texas Legislature Looks To Make TSA Groping Procedures Illegal

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 03 May, 2011 @ 10:45am

    Re: Re: Re: Hmmm

    "The government cannot impede on travel of citizens within its borders"

    haha Good one!

  • On the post: Marketing Company Trademarks 'Radical Media' Threatens To Sue Real Activists

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 03 May, 2011 @ 09:09am

    Ohh! I know I know`

    Who would ever want to hire a firm like this to do their marketing?

    How about RIAA, MPAA, SIIA.. you know what, if it can be abbreviated to 4 letters, they are probably interested.

  • On the post: Verizon Wireless' Solution To Tracking Fears: A Warning Sticker You'll Ignore

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 02 May, 2011 @ 06:28am

    Re: Re: Verbal confirmation

    Simple, It makes some really useful apps work.

    Google tracks where android phones are to see where phones are clustered on roadways. This way they can deduce where traffic jams are and tell their other customers to avoid that area. With an Opt in there wouldn't be as much data, and hence the service would suffer. Or to be able to re-use your last GPS coordinate in order to speed up the next one.

    Why Apple feels it needs a years+ worth of data... Well as scientists know more data is better. But really it was probably just some quick code that never got checked, they said only keep 2MB as they felt that was a small value of data( I mean thats less than one MP3! ). As it turns out txt is really small, and apparently a year's worth of location data fit inside that 2MB.

    Good ideas, Poorly Executed.

  • On the post: Scientists Finally Tackle The Age Old 'That's What She Said' Problem

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 02 May, 2011 @ 05:43am

    Re: Re:

    Its not undefined, Its just going to pull some random value left over in memory from some other app essentially making it if( math.random() == sexy ) which will probably be just about as accurate as the actual program.

  • On the post: The First Amendment Doesn't Care If Wikileaks Is A Media Organization

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2011 @ 08:29am

    "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

    The Press Mentioned in the First Amendment is not talking at all about media organizations. The Definition of Press at the time would be any written article. Its a Freedom of Spoken word and Written word.

  • On the post: TomTom Apologizes For Selling Speeding Data To Dutch Government

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2011 @ 05:18am

    No Different than

    I live in a semi-rural area, This kind of behavior of the police happens all the time, although instead of collecting the data from a reliable 3rd party source they setup speed traps based on residents calling in and complaining the people are speeding to much on east st. Enough residents call and complain and the police will hammer that street for a week trying to get motorists to slow down (And sure they get some extra revenue out of it).

    This just seems like an obvious progression in the art of policing a community. Get data that is more accurate, a larger sampling, impartial, etc. I for one don't see this as nearly as big of a deal compared to iPhone's location tracker.

  • On the post: Apple Takes Credit For 'Uncovering' Its Patented Location 'Bug' That Isn't Really Tracking You, But Which It'll Fix

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2011 @ 06:00am

    Re: Re:

    Yeah but at least google admits that its tracking you and doesn't try to pass it off as an honest mistake.

  • On the post: Yes Means Yes

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2011 @ 11:18am

    Email Filters

    Set a filter if Message contains "Permission" and "ask" automatically respond with "Yes, Damnit, see http://lmgtfy.com/?q=yes+means+yes+techdirt" and move message folder called "trash".

    Done. Time no longer wasted.

  • On the post: Yes Means Yes

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2011 @ 11:10am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Wow

    Reminds me of the movie brazil,

    "Do you have a 27B-6?"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eosrujtjJHA

  • On the post: Analyst: Motorola's Best Play Is To Become A Patent Troll & Destroy Android Ecosystem With Patent Lawsuits

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2011 @ 09:44am

    Re:

    As an Atrix Owner, I completely agree with this, Give me Plain unrestricted Android OS, Unlock the bootloader, and stop getting in the way of progress.

    Locking all these features out completely goes against what Android was suppose to be about.

    They need to Let open source products do what they are suppose to do. Build off each other until someone develops a complete, easy to use, intuitive app that becomes the default app to use. If I wanted another walled garden I would have bought another iPhone.

  • On the post: Key Economics Lessons For The Digital Era

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2011 @ 07:56am

    Re: Contradicting yourself?

    And the answer is.... RTFA. (Read the [Fine][Fucking] Article)

    "Jeff Jarvis has a series of short notes..."

    these are not by Mike, furthermore mike even points out he doesn't like all of them:

    "much of which I agree with (a few I think are slightly misleading or wrong..."

  • On the post: The Infinite Loop Of Algorithmic Pricing On Amazon… Or How A Book On Flies Cost $23,698,655.93

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2011 @ 12:39pm

    Oddly Enough...

    Oddly Enough... this is the same pricing algorithm that the MAFIAAs uses when calculating damages.

  • On the post: Woman Sues Yankees Over Their 75 Year Old Logo

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2011 @ 08:30am

    She'll probably win because the judge will be a huge Red Sox fan and he won't recuse himself because he'll want the Yankees to lose as much as possible no matter the cost.

  • On the post: Feds Plan To Temporarily Turn Poker Sites Back On So People Can Get Their Money Out

    ComputerAddict ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2011 @ 06:44am

    The Article does not say the players have been able to refund the money, the article says: "... and each implicated poker company has at all times been free to reimburse any player's deposited funds." meaning they could have logged into their webhost/CC processor (not domain host) and issued refunds... the individuals however were SOL.

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