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• On the post: Feds Insist It Must Be Kept Secret Whether Or Not Plaintiff In No Fly List Trial Is Actually On The No Fly List

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2013 @ 11:24am

  Unfortunately I suspect that the administration will refuse to abide by the court's judgement if they rule against the DOJ.

• On the post: Off-Duty NYC Cops Watched, Participated In Assault Of SUV Driver By Enraged Bikers

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2013 @ 03:59pm

  Re:

  This court ruling may shed some light:
  http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotus.html?_r=0
  
  
  WASHINGTON, June 27 - The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm, even a woman who had obtained a court-issued protective order against a violent husband making an arrest mandatory for a violation.

• On the post: Off-Duty NYC Cops Watched, Participated In Assault Of SUV Driver By Enraged Bikers

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2013 @ 04:03pm

  Why were the off duty cops even participating in this illegal rally? Since they weren't investigating the biker group, they should have known that their presence in such a group should have violated a few policies....

• On the post: High School Student Forced To Remove NRA Shirt, Because Pictures Of Guns Are Scaaaaary

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2013 @ 08:08am

  a) - small clarification - the teen in question is a young lady, not a young man (Tim, did you even go and read the original news story about this?)
  
  b) For everyone yammering that the school was right, they have already backed down and apologized - http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/national_world&id=9273909 (this story is a week old at this point)

• On the post: Petition Asks Obama To Support Treaty For The Blind, Rather Than Siding With Hollywood

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 24 May, 2013 @ 05:01pm

  Kickstarter project instead of a petition...

  They'd be better off turning to Kickstarter and raising funds to buy off the politicians to properly compete with the various copyright lobbyists.

• On the post: EA Says It's Going To Keep Using Manufacturers' Guns In Its Games — It's Just Done Asking Permission

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 10 May, 2013 @ 05:29am

  Um. Read the ARS article instead

  They did actual research instead of falling for bad Reuters reporting. I really expecte better of Techdirt than this sort of parroting.
  
  http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/05/no-ea-wont-license-guns-in-its-2013-games-but-it-never-has/
  
  "Yesterday, Reuters "broke" the story that Electronic Arts was taking steps to distance itself from real-world gun makers, cancelling licensing deals while still maintaining the right to use images of those real-world weapons in its first-person shooters. "The action games we will release this year will not include licensed images of weapons," EA spokesperson Jeff Brown said matter-of-factly in the story.
  
  What that story failed to make clear was that EA has never paid or been paid to feature specific guns in its games. This year's titles will be no different."

• On the post: Bus Company Threatens Redditor With Lawsuit, Meets Ken White, Runs Away

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 02 May, 2013 @ 11:22am

  Follow up on Ars

  The company updated their Terms of Service and have said they will be dropping all of their current lawsuits:
  http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/non-stop-to-schadenfreude-suburban-express-u-turn-on-reddit-lawsuit/
  
  http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2013-05-01/bus-lawsuits-dismissed-ford-county.html

• On the post: UK Parking Enforcement Contractor Leaves Sensitive Driver Data Exposed; Compounds Embarrassment By Issuing Bogus Legal Threats

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2013 @ 06:42am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Can it be seen publicly by anybody who walks by and looks?

• On the post: UK Parking Enforcement Contractor Leaves Sensitive Driver Data Exposed; Compounds Embarrassment By Issuing Bogus Legal Threats

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2013 @ 05:29am

  Re: Re:

  Are the parking badges displayed on the vehicle?
  If so, all that information is already publicly viewable.

• On the post: Games Workshop Proves It Would Rather Bully Authors Than Be A Culture Participant

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2013 @ 05:31pm

  Considering that much of Warhammer 40k is a hodge podge of ideas "borrowed" from other sources (heavy Moorcock influence especially) their IP approach is ironically appalling.

• On the post: Official White House Position: We're Not Building A Death Star

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2013 @ 01:43pm

  A good way to distract their supporters from the fact that they utterly ignore serious petition requests and have the transparency of mud.
  
  Ah well, it was amusing at least.

• On the post: MTP's David Gregory Does Journalism, Some Citizens Want His Arrest

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2012 @ 04:59pm

  Re: Re:

  It wasn't funny.

• On the post: MTP's David Gregory Does Journalism, Some Citizens Want His Arrest

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2012 @ 04:30pm

  So you're ok with deporting someone for exercising their first amendment right to criticize our government and laws? WTF.

• On the post: Apple Changes Its UK Samsung 'Apology,' But Makes Sure You Have To Scroll To See It

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2012 @ 05:47am

  Um, yes, but...

  All of their international sites have this javascript whether they need to have the statement regarding the Samsung judgement or not. So apparently they're tweaking the judge on all their sites (besides the US one).
  
  Don't be so quick to find evil everywhere - Apple does enough scummy things for real without having to reach to find them

• On the post: Netflix Provides 'Knock-offs' After Contract With Disney Ends

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2012 @ 06:20am

  You do realize this is nothing new and not restricted to Netflix right? These type of knock-offs date back to VHS days and are prominently featured in displays at Wal-Mart and Target now as well.

• On the post: Netflix Provides 'Knock-offs' After Contract With Disney Ends

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2012 @ 06:11am

  You do realize this is nothing new and not restricted to Netflix right? These type of knock-offs date back to VHS days and are prominently featured in displays at Wal-Mart and Target now as well.

• On the post: New iPhone Connector Port Revealed, Thus Wiping Out Several Generations Of Accessories In One Fell Swoop

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2012 @ 05:25am

  Re: Re: Apple didn't reveal anything here...

  And the same thing would have happened if they had switched from a propietary connector to a USB connector - would that have been considered OK because they were now using open standards even though it made consumer's 3rd party devices incompatible?
  
  I still don't see the big deal - if you don't like it, don't buy it. Most of the people who are gleefully leaping to condemn Apple on this would never buy an Apple product anyways.

• On the post: New iPhone Connector Port Revealed, Thus Wiping Out Several Generations Of Accessories In One Fell Swoop

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2012 @ 04:33am

  Apple didn't reveal anything here...

  Techcrunch verified this by talking to manufacturers... Who have been wrong before.
  
  Apple is most probably going with the smaller connector, but this story is still only speculation at this point.
  
  I also don't see it as a big deal - people will only be affected if they buy the device with the new connector - it's not going to magically retrofit your old iPods and iPhones to a smaller connector (that if the picture in the tech crunch article is correct looks much more friendly than the 30pin connector)

• On the post: Protecting The Artists? Disney's Marvel Uses Copyright To Crush Already Broke Ghost Rider Creator

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2012 @ 01:21pm

  Re: The Reality, and The Fundraiser

  1) The "merchandise" that he was selling (for which he now owes 17K) were his OWN ORIGINAL ART of the character. Convention sketches, etc. -- a common practice (every comics convention has an "artists alley"). As the comics press has said, this is Marvel putting "a bullet in the head of artists' alley."
  
  
  How exactly was this his own original art when he was the writer, not the graphic artist?

• On the post: White House Comes Out Against The Approach In SOPA/PIPA In Response To Online Petition

  

  CSMcDonald ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2012 @ 11:23am

  hmmmm

  This most likely means that now every Republican will vote for it just simply because Obama state he's opposed to it

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