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• On the post: HP Brings Back Obnoxious DRM That Cripples Competing Printer Cartridges

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2017 @ 06:08am

  Why would anybody buy HP anything? IMHO: they've become a second rate printer-ink vendor. I once owned a really nice HP oscilloscope, but that was 50 years ago, when they made great electronic equipment. Now, I wouldn't buy anything with an HP name on it.

• On the post: Aussie Prime Minister Says The Laws Of Math Don't Apply In Australia When It Comes To Encryption

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2017 @ 03:13am

  Let's get historical and REAL

  Google this:
  
  Indiana + pi + 1897.
  
  The last time I know of that morons tried to legislate math.
  Had they been successful, it would not have ended well.
  Certainly not for bicycle or ball bearing manufacturers.

• On the post: Chicago Agrees To Make Red Light Camera System Barely Less Corrupt By Increasing Grace Period By 0.2 Seconds

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2017 @ 01:23pm

  Y'aint seen nuttin yet

  Got a problem with these redlight moneymakers? Take a ride on the Mass. Pike. Everything is now cashless, EZ Pass and license plate readers. Here's what that means when no one is around to take your cash:
  
  1) Passage through the tolls is time stamped.
  2) Passage from one to the other is calculated.
  3) Your average speed s recorded.
  4) In the future ( a year?, 2?) when you get your bill in the mail you'll get your s-p-e-e-d-i-n-g surcharge with it.
  5) No more option of avoiding the electronic monitor.

• On the post: The Cord Cutting The Cable Industry Says Isn't Happening, Keeps Happening

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2017 @ 08:48am

  'Cut Da Cord - RECIPE'

  Recipe ( my own personal) for cord cutting:
  1. Start out paying $250+ per month for 5-set top boxes and all the premium channels.
  
  2. Purchase 30 foot antenna mast and top quality HD antenna and install (cost

• On the post: Intel Community To Institute Actual Whistleblower Award For 'Speaking Truth To Power'

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2016 @ 01:52pm

  Re:

  Yes. It is an Orwellian trap. Would be whistleblowers come forward and are awarded a scenic jail term under the Espionage Act - but only after being told they just didn't qualify under the conditions.

• On the post: Citigroup Sues AT&T For Saying 'Thanks' To Customers

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2016 @ 05:57pm

  Here's a study which methinks has never been done and is long long past due: What is the IQ distribution of examiners at the U.S.P.T.O?

• On the post: US Attorney Suggests Solution To Open Source Encryption: Ban Importation Of Open Source Encryption

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2016 @ 05:16pm

  Just like the old days

  This is just like the old days when they banned Fannie Hill and Henry Miller's works. Every kid managed to somehow get a copy and trade it. That was 60 years ago. No internet, no globalization, just pure motivation.
  
  Don't these people ever realize that censorship - of anything - just never works. It just makes people more curious than ever.
  
  People who don't give encryption a second thought will then give it a third and a fourth. They'll probably use it for the thrill.

• On the post: Apparently Hacking Syed Farook's iPhone Accomplished Nothing (Other Than Making Everyone Less Safe)

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2016 @ 05:08pm

  naive?

  Why does everyone believe it WAS hacked? Because someone said so? Could it have been mere face-saving? Or the realization that actually doing so WOULD make everyone less safe but not knowing how to admit that? I'm a bit skeptical. Actually, a lot.

• On the post: DailyDirt: We Are Star Stuff And Genetic Mistakes…

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2016 @ 04:53am

  life = code+proteins+electricity
  evolution = code+proteins+electricity+errors

• On the post: Guardian Tech Reporter: Apple Should Help FBI Break Into iPhone Because I Don't Consider Privacy All That Important

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2016 @ 02:04pm

  Need some perspective:
  
  Google "Romania + Typewriters"
  without the quotes of course....
  
  Then go read something from Santayana

• On the post: India's New Patent Guidelines Declare Software And Business Methods Clearly Patentable For The First Time

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2015 @ 04:22am

  What is wrong with us?

  My name is Pythagoras J. A squared + B squared = C squared is my discovery and I use it to verify that an angle is a right angle [90 degrees]. I'm going to patent the process, because it IS a process, and for the next 17 (?) years if you want to make right angles so that buildings stand straight up ... well you CANT unless you pay me. So there! I own the patent. Mine, Mine, Mine.
  
  What would Darwin have said about a species that allows themselves to be ruled by this absurdity?

• On the post: UK Plans To Do Away With Free Speech… In The Name Of Free Speech

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 13 May, 2015 @ 12:18pm

  Why the surprise?

  Brought to you by the folks who jailed Gandhi because he was an extremist (he differed in opinions), who jailed and tortured peaceful dissidents throughout the ages and who still accept a poorly behaved monarchy as a rightful and proper adornment of their society? Wait until they use the latest face recognition software on the cameras ubiquitous in London to determine who on the street is and is not extreme. Off to the tower?

• On the post: GM Says That While You May Own Your Car, It Owns The Software In It, Thanks To Copyright

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2015 @ 11:35am

  Re: This really shouldn't be that difficult

  What we're seeing now is nothing more than the inevitable outcome of 'Brave new World' meets Capitalism. The most profitable creations now are not the steel mills of Carnegie, but the ones and zeros of a Jobs or a Gates. It is only natural that those ones and zeros, formerly not considered worth anything should now assume the status of property. Screwed up? Yes. But predictable. The fact that ones and zeros are little more than knowledge translates to knowledge becoming 'owned property.' Here's where Huxley's classes meet Orwell's 'Big Brother.'
  
  Easy translation: The car you once owned and tuned up now becomes rented by you and illegal to tune up. The corporation owns the car and the process. With less people going to jail for Marijuana, we'll fill the jails with car-modders.
  
  Don't laugh. The stage is being set.

• On the post: DOJ Tells Court It Hasn't Even Opened CIA Torture Report… After Telling Reporters It Read The Whole Thing

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2015 @ 09:48am

  Hmmm...
  How do you spell P?E?R?J?U?R?Y?

• On the post: How Copyright Forced A Filmmaker To Rewrite Martin Luther King's Historic Words

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2014 @ 07:41am

  What's next? Is a Lincoln descendant going to lock up the Gettysburg Address? How about a Washington descendant claiming all rights to Washington's Farewell Address? Uh oh! Doesn't some Roosevelt somewhere have the rights for 'Speak softly and carry a big stick?'
  
  Keep locking up history under copyright. Then only the wealthy will get to see it and you can really lay claim to an ignorant populace.
  
  
  My Goodness!

• On the post: Ferrari 'DRM:' Don't Screw With Our Logos And We'll Let You Know If It's OK To Sell Your Car

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2014 @ 09:49am

  This will do wonders for their sales numbers. Buy it to ride, but not as an investment? Will this help Lamborghini or Aston Martin numbers?

• On the post: Crime And Punishment? 33 Months In Jail For Filming And Uploading Fast & Furious 6

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2014 @ 01:07pm

  This case may end up being the first and foreshadow many such outcomes in the future. As minor drug offenders are released from jail or not prosecuted because of marijuana legalization, those very cells will NOT be left empty. The privatization of prisons and continuing failure of the economy to employ its citizens will lead to the need for filling those cells.
  
  Watch as Hollywood presses for the incarceration of file sharers and the government begins to oblige more and more. In this perverse system replacing drug offenders with file sharers will be viewed as a solution.
  
  How does 'War on File Sharing sound? Scary?

• On the post: University Bans Social Media, Political Content and Wikipedia Pages On Dorm WiFi

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2014 @ 01:25pm

  I've said for years that you certainly can get a pretty good high school education in America, but you simply have to go to college to find it.

• On the post: Guy Claims Patent On Photographing People In Races And Then Selling Them Their Photos; Sues Photography Company

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2014 @ 12:25pm

  Who on earth are they hiring as patent examiners? Is this like a part time job for a pre-teen?

• On the post: Thomson Reuters Thinks Not Responding To Their Email Means You've Freely Licensed All Your Content

  

  Feldie47 ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2014 @ 02:38pm

  do it

  Do it. But use their exact letter, wording and all, except for the To and the From.
  
  When you get the nastygram send them back BOTH letters.

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