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• On the post: 2012 Democrats: Remember That Civil Liberties Thing From 2008? Um, Nevermind

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 05 Sep, 2012 @ 08:48am

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  Well...staying AC was certainly a short-lived idea.

• On the post: 2012 Democrats: Remember That Civil Liberties Thing From 2008? Um, Nevermind

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 05 Sep, 2012 @ 08:47am

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  I'm still a private citizen if (and it's a slim 'if') I win the general election, I imagine the countdown to my inevitable corruption by the dark side OR nervous breakdown will begin.

• On the post: Google Follows Apple In Unnecessarily Pulling App That Allowed A Little Girl To Speak

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2012 @ 12:56pm

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  In this situation, the patent system (which ostensibly is set up to benefit our culture) is being abused and ultimately hurting society. To hell with software patents. And this is coming from a software developer.

• On the post: TSA Declares Themselves Fashion & Funny Police

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2012 @ 10:46am

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  This is one American who is looking into emigrating if our road to police-statedom continues on apace. Please, U.S. government, continue driving the best and brightest away.

• On the post: GOP Platform May Include Internet Freedom Language… But Also Wants Crackdown On Internet Porn

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2012 @ 08:27am

  Of course, this is politics that we're talking about, where it's pretty common to hold two completely conflicting viewpoints at the same time.

  
  Ahhh, good old doublethink. When will these idiots realize that it's porn that drove home video adoption, it was porn that funded the early days of the internet, and it's porn that keeps their loveless marriages intact!

• On the post: DEA Gets Lawsuit Dismissed Because It Couldn't Cope With Two Terabytes Of Evidence

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2012 @ 08:25am

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  I have a 12TB NAS at home in a RAID5. The entire setup was under $700. Who is in charge at the DEA?!

• On the post: District Court: $675,000 For Non-commercially Sharing 30 Songs Is Perfectly Reasonable

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2012 @ 08:33am

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  Please Mike, admit that you are an obsessively compulsive clean-freak, ninja apologist that likes the smell of lilac.

• On the post: Screwing Students Through Pointless Textbook Bundles

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2012 @ 08:22am

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  I've always thought of it this way: If you've ever listened to a post-game NFL interview, you can simply hear how dumb some of those guys are. Then you realize that the vast majority of them have college educations.
  
  I'm 31 with 3.5 degrees and would go back to school in a heartbeat if it were financially feasible. But I'll be the first to acknowledge that college isn't for everybody, especially those taking $50K in loans to get a degree in art history only to find themselves working at Starbucks when everything is said and done.

• On the post: People Are Willing To Pay, Even If You Offer Something For Free

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2012 @ 03:47pm

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  Some people may want to give the work an entire read before ponying up. Lord knows I've ready some really bad books by some supposedly good authors [cough]American Gods[/cough] where I wish I could recoup some of my lost money. Give the slow readers some time and they should come around.

• On the post: Hachette Tells Authors And Tor To Use DRM Because It Is Awesome Or Something

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2012 @ 08:16am

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  I'll only buy a book if it's DRM free. If it isn't, I'll usually buy the paperback and acquire the proper file from the usual haunts. I have a Kindle (early adopter) and my girlfriend has a Nook. It's nice to be able to go back and forth without having to worry about encryption. I also make it a point to donate to Calibre once per year. The program has quietly made the lives better for people who still choose to read.

• On the post: The Daily Show's Awesome Re-imagining Of How Whistleblower Thomas Drake Was A Spy

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2012 @ 10:07am

  Re: Re: Not a nickel

  Don't let their identical DNA fool you, they differ on a number of key issues.

• On the post: Patent Troll Claims That Showing A Video With A Static Ad Next To It Infringes

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2012 @ 08:28am

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  button.click(function(){advertisement.show()});
  
  Hope I don't get sued!

• On the post: US Olympic Committee Forces 30 Year Old Philidelphia Gyro Restaraunt To Change Its Name

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2012 @ 08:34am

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  Is that anywhere near [REDACTED]-ia, Washington? Or is that closer to [REDACTED] Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system.

• On the post: Senate Not Concerned About How Often NSA Spies On Americans, But Very Concerned That It Built Open Source Software To Do So

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2012 @ 12:35pm

  I get this a lot

  I work for a state government as a developer. There are a number of projects that I've been involved with where the mere mention of using open source software is met with derision. The cost/benefit analysis I typically give is that a few weeks of my salary is far less than a commercial purpose, but even then we still shop around and get quotes from contractors (where the real money is!).
  
  My personal theory is that no government agency wants to save money since it means they'll have to do without the difference for the next budget cycle. I've heard stories of tens of thousands of dollars being spent on useless software just to ensure that the agency in question would be able to maintain their budget.

• On the post: Olympic Level Ridiculousness: You Can't Link To The Olympics Website If You Say Something Mean About Them

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2012 @ 02:00pm

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  Done and done...I also threw out my girlfriend who was using it. Don't want to get sued!

• On the post: MPAA Points To Its Roster Of Crappy Online Services And Asks What We're Complaining About

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2012 @ 08:10am

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  This sounds an awful like an actual conversation. Man, I hope you're behind a lot of proxies because the NSA is coming after you to find out how you bugged a politician's office!

• On the post: Viacom Uses Fans As Hostages: Blocks Daily Show, Colbert Streams For Everyone To Spite DirecTV

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2012 @ 08:06am

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  My theory is that most CEOs and marketing types never got over the 6 year old "me me me" phase and they simply want to take their ball and go home.

• On the post: DC Dumps Bill To Force Uber Into High Prices; Complains That The Bill Was To Help Uber

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2012 @ 11:08am

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  I wrote a greasemonkey script to remove Fox News articles from Google News results. It may be censoring, but when it's done by an individual to weed out twits, it's worth it.

• On the post: Russia Plans Internet Censorship Bill (For The Children!); Russian Wikipedia Blacks Out In Protest

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2012 @ 08:53am

  Alright Everybody!

  Let's get all of those Yakov Smirnoff jokes out of our systems. I'll start...in America you can abuse power, in "democratic" Russia, power abuses you! Wait...I may have that backwards.

• On the post: NYPD Put Couple On 'Wanted' Poster For Videotaping Police

  

  el_segfaulto ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2012 @ 02:24pm

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  How do those jackboots taste? When you get down there to lick them, do you use Tabasco sauce or do you prefer the all natural flavor?

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