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  • On the post: Thai Government Demands Popular Chat App Reveal Any Time Any User Insults The King

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2016 @ 03:29am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Trump's role model

    Given the choice between two criminals why not choose the marginally more sane?

  • On the post: Car-Freshener Wields Little Trees Trademark To Bankrupt Non Profit That Helped Ex-Cons And Recovering Addicts

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2016 @ 01:44am

    Time for a friendly billionaire to fund an ad campaign

    "Hate homeless people, recovering addicts and ex-cons?

    Then rush out and buy a tree-shaped car-freshener, from the company that shares your views!

  • On the post: DailyDirt: Storing Lots Of Energy

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 27 May, 2016 @ 05:22am

    Re: Re:

    And massively smaller than my home city, but then so are all but 7 of the US states and over 100 countries.

    Wales does contains 6 cities - Bangor, Cardiff‎, Newport, St Davids‎, St Asaph‎ and Swansea‎ - three of which are admittedly very small.

    And it's not exactly legally a country I guess, being one of the "Home Nations" part of the United Kingdon of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but yep it's a country :D

  • On the post: Why Is Twitter Sending Legal Letters Warning People About Tweeting About The Gagged Topic Of A 'Celebrity Threesome'

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 20 May, 2016 @ 03:00pm

    Who cares?

    Three consenting adults had sex.

    None of the three consenting adults has ever publicly said anything about such things being wrong.

    None of the three adults makes their money out of being upright boring moral guardians.

    So WHY the F*** should anyone care who they are?

    Personally I wouldn't care either way if someone said such things about me, but I do believe everyone is entitled to a degree of privacy and these three seem to want that. Good luck to them. Move on and deal with something genuinely interesting. Courts not being American isn't a bad thing, the English courts haven't tried to impose the injuction in any other jurisdiction, they have weighed English law and acted on it. That's what they are for!

  • On the post: FBI Says It Will Ignore Court Order If Told To Reveal Its Tor Browser Exploit, Because It Feels It's Above The Law…

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2016 @ 08:55am

    Re: Is the judiciary a joke or a JOKE?

    You missed out the words in small print

    Government of the people, by some of the people, for some other people.

    Until a few senior people in the relevant departments are jailed for contempt they will continue to treat the courts with utter contempt.

  • On the post: GCHQ Boss Says Tech Companies, Government Should Work Together To Give The Government What It Wants

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2016 @ 05:29am

    This is a good idea ...

    Why doesn't GCHQ start? How about they provide a special secure way for the House of Commons committee to access all of their systems and inspect everything they have done. All without any need to contact GCHQ at all, just, say, a signature from a Police Chief Inspector or above.
    Clearly from his reasoning he will be 100% in favour of this plan and as soon as his staff have designed the 100% secure way for us to check on them we will be happy to suggest others us it too ...

  • On the post: Pastafarian Wins Battle To Wear Pasta Strainer In License Photo

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2015 @ 06:20am

    Re: Re: Re:

    He didn't say all Christians were racist, he said there are millions of people who claim to be Christian but then display characteristics incompatible with that belief.
    He didn't say there are no Christians who get it right, just that many who get it wrong.

  • On the post: University Of Kentucky Battles Kentucky Mist Moonshine Maker Over Hats And T-Shirts

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2015 @ 01:53am

    UK?

    I think we've got the b*gg*rs there. Lets sue the pants off them for abusing the term UK. That's been the shortened version of the name of the country FKA England for over 300 years!

  • On the post: University Of Kentucky Battles Kentucky Mist Moonshine Maker Over Hats And T-Shirts

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2015 @ 01:51am

    UK?

  • On the post: CIA Director's Personal Email Account Breached By Hackers… Who Find Official Documents Stored In It

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2015 @ 04:34am

    Re:

    Well since Apple and co claim backdoors are impossible he had to install his own! Now if everyone would just forward all their email to insecure accounts how easy it would be ...

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2015 @ 03:30am

    A Sonnet of our Times

    In modern times some words have altered meanings
    And ancient truths are now portrayed as lies.
    Before you read please check the writer's leanings,
    A journalist's a spokesman in disguise.

    "Promoting Art" now means "Protecting Luddites"
    "Plain language" now means twisting every word.
    We have to bend to aid stick-in-the-mud-ites
    Thus copyrights and patents are absurd.

    "The rule of law" was meant to help the small guy.
    To curb the bullies claim that might is right.
    But now it's there to find an easy fall guy
    And lay the blame on those who cannot fight.

    We voted for a load of lying fools
    And now we pay for letting them change rules!

  • On the post: Important California Privacy Bill Signed Into Law: Police Need A Warrant To Look At Your Data

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2015 @ 07:00am

    Re: Re:

    instant response (including typos), but if you can find it some music feel free :D

    A warrant? You're a terrorist!
    I must insist that you desist.
    The children that you'll kill this way
    You've let the rabble have their way.

    If acts like this can be allowed
    All sanity's been disavowed -
    Next thing you'll say "police should be
    Required to function legally."

    If we can't shoot men as we will
    And snoop and spy, then calmly kill,
    How can we keep the peace we should -
    We can't be cops while being good!

    I think that's better

  • On the post: Important California Privacy Bill Signed Into Law: Police Need A Warrant To Look At Your Data

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2015 @ 04:08am

    A warrant? You're a terrorist!
    I must insist that you desist
    The children that you'll kill this way
    You've let the rabble have their way.

    If acts like this can be allowed
    All sanity's been disavowed
    Next thing you say police should be
    Required to function legally

    If we can't shoot men as we will
    And snoop and spy then calmly kill
    How can we keep the peace we should
    We can't be cops while being good!

  • On the post: Colombia Shows How Not To Regulate Drones

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2015 @ 08:08am

    Check out the rules that various states put in place for operating cars in the early years of the last century.

    Idiots always do this.

  • On the post: DRM Still Breaking Games Nearly A Decade After Purchase

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2015 @ 08:06am

    I have a simple solution. If you want copyright protection you should be REQUIRED to provide access to the material to legitimate purchasers in perpetuity. At the point you wish to cease to do so you must make the source code available and it becomes fully legal to use that source code to allow other legitimate purchasers to access their purchases.
    The same should be true of all software, keep it available and properly patched or hand the job on to others who will. That has been the rule for all other purchases since time immemorial.

  • On the post: Carl Malamud's Response To Georgia's Lawsuit Over The Copyright Of Its Annotated Code

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2015 @ 03:11am

    Re: Likely the State of Georgia thinks he's a terrorist...

    Every person ever born on Earth is brown
    Some lighter brown and some are almost black
    I've studied every city, every town
    And other colours' score amounts to jack

    I've never seen a white man, that's a ghost,
    And purely black means you've been mining coal.
    So all that anyone can ever boast
    Is that they have a slightly browner soul!

  • On the post: Apple Refused Court Order To Decrypt iMessages For DOJ; DOJ Debates What To Do

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2015 @ 03:30am

    The DOJ know that Apple cannot comply with the order, what is needed is for the few judges who actually understand to start acting properly and when the DOJ ask for an impossibility to call them out, require the presence in court of the official who asked for the data, and have him repeat the request on oath. Then jail him for contempt and ask for his arrest for perjury.

    After a few senior official are shuffling round the exercise yard for a while maybe they will start to act their age.

  • On the post: Traveling Lumberjack Show Sues Wisconsin Lumberjack Show Over Paul Bunyan Trademark

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2015 @ 09:11am

    What is a trademark? I had always thought a trademark was a distinctive mark or name used to identify a product or service. To be distinctive it had to be more than purely descriptive.
    In the case the alleged mark appears to have strayed into the area of a mere description, in this one particular case. It would be very difficult to see how his eatery could ever run a lumberjack contest without some degree of similarity existing to the Florida based company's shows. BUT THAT IS THEIR FAULT! They chose to put together the stereotypical name for a lumberjack with lumberjack shows. Was it foreseeable that there were places using Paul Bunyon in their name? Of course it was, was it foreseeable that such places could want to run lumberjack shows? Of course it was clearly an idiot at the PTO didn't bother to think. If there were any logic in the world the case would be slung out in the first 3 minutes, so I predict it will drag on for years!

  • On the post: New Hampshire Law Banning Ballot Selfies Struck Down As Unconstitutional

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2015 @ 08:19am

    I can see no legitimate reason for thinking that a selfie in a voting booth is "expressive" in any way that taking the same selfie outside the booth 25 seconds later.
    On the other hand people fought very long and hard to establish the secrecy of the ballot. That secrecy is worth fighting for.

    This would seem to be a very silly judgment from a man far more intent on reading the letter of a 200 year old law rather than its intent and spirit.

    However long reading of these pages has convinced me that intelligence and insight are rare commodities in the US judiciary, and I'm sad to say I suspect the same applies to judges all over the World.

  • On the post: Happy Birthday Copyright Bombshell: New Evidence Warner Music Previously Hid Shows Song Is Public Domain

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2015 @ 08:58am

    Re: Re:

    I hereby make my version freely available to any and everyone who wishes to use or abuse it. As with the original it is far too trivial to merit any copyright protection!

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