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• On the post: Intellectual Ventures Claims It's Misunderstood: It's Really Just Trying To Help Everyone Sift Through And Find Good Patents

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2012 @ 08:19am

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  Besides buying other patents, like Kodak's, they do create their own. What they don't do is take any idea they've patented to market and, you know, actually make something worthwhile.

• On the post: London Police To Set Up Special Copyright Crime Police Force

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2012 @ 01:32pm

  This is another milepost on the road to the "fictional" England of V For Vendetta. Scary.

• On the post: IP Diplomat Sob Story: It's Hard To Push The US Agenda When The World Listens To Reason

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2012 @ 09:09am

  You know that fiscal cliff we're approaching? How about we throw these attaches off it first?

• On the post: Mysterious Indiana Jones Journal Arrived At UChicago After USPS Tried To Be Helpful With Lost Package

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2012 @ 09:00am

  Did it accidently fall out, or was this a genius way to viral market his product?

• On the post: Obama Administration Quietly Allowed National Counterterrorism Center To Keep Database Of Info On Innocent Americans

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2012 @ 01:36pm

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  As long as the government doesn't have access to it, I'm fine with Google and Amazon knowing my deepest darkest secrets. It's when the government confiscates the data from the retailers and starts using that to look for "suspicious" patterns that we're screwed.

• On the post: Obama Administration Quietly Allowed National Counterterrorism Center To Keep Database Of Info On Innocent Americans

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2012 @ 01:33pm

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  I was thinking of dubbing this administration, "Orwellian McCarthyism."

• On the post: Time Warner Cable Doesn't Think There's Demand For Google Fiber

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2012 @ 01:19pm

  If I had any shares of Time Warner, I'd be selling them if this is the way they think in the board room. This is like a record company exec saying, "If there was any demand for digital music, we'd be providing it" right before mp3s took off. By the time you decide to get on that train, it's already left the station.

• On the post: Time Warner Cable Doesn't Think There's Demand For Google Fiber

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2012 @ 01:13pm

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  ...and instead are offering DSL (@1mbps) or LTE/WIMAX with a greatly limited bandwidth cap (I use those when camping, and max them out over one weekend.)
  
  I think you're doing it wrong...

• On the post: The SHOCKING Photos That Violated Facebook's Policies!

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2012 @ 10:18am

  FB is doing everything it can to drive users away, but like the proverbial kicked puppy, users just keep coming back for more punishment. It seems everyone agrees FB is aweful, but "all my friends are on it" so most people stay.
  
  Full disclosure: I do have a FB account. I signed up a year or two ago just because there are certain things you can't do online unless you have a FB account. I have, I think, ten friends. And every one of them is an actual close friend or family member. I don't even log into FB most days.

• On the post: Denver News Crew Accidentally Livens Up Broadcast With An Inappropriate Image 'Borrowed' From The Web

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2012 @ 08:53am

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  "In all fairness, the results of that search will have changed significantly once people started posting the screencap."
  
  True, but you'd think that the photoshopped version would now rank higher as well. Not the case.

• On the post: Denver News Crew Accidentally Livens Up Broadcast With An Inappropriate Image 'Borrowed' From The Web

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2012 @ 07:55am

  Re: lol whut? (I've been aching to use that!)

  Reading comprehention fail. Trolling success?

• On the post: Denver News Crew Accidentally Livens Up Broadcast With An Inappropriate Image 'Borrowed' From The Web

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2012 @ 07:54am

  Was it really "accidental?" Seems like the work of a disgruntled employee to me. The reason I say that is, just out of curiousity, I tried a Google image search for "All In" in various forms, and the only "All Up In My Snatch" pics that showed up were the screen captures that is shown in this article. Nowhere did they have just the fake cover. All of the searches had the actual cover within the first page or two. Same with Bing.

• On the post: Naked Scanner Maker Accused Of Manipulating Tests To Make Scans Look Less Invasive

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2012 @ 11:49am

  OSI, of course, is denying it, but this is the same company that also apparently ran into problems last year when maintenance reports suggested radiation levels 10 times as high as promised.
  
  They say the reason that the report indicated 10 higher radiation levels was that the technicians did took ten sample readings, then added them up, but forgot to divide by ten. So the level they reported was just the sum of the readings, not the average. So anyway you look at it, they don't know what they're doing, but I guess I'd rather have incompetent technicians than much higher radiation.

• On the post: Interview With Author Of 'Hacking The Future'; Techdirt Book Club

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2012 @ 10:15am

  While I don't agree with the AC troll in the first comment, I have to say I'm a bit dissapointed this book isn't availiable in digital form, at least not on the Amazon site that was linked to. I was set to buy it for Kindle, but alas, I can't, so I won't be reading this until a digital version is availiable, if I even remember to check back in the future. Chances are good that I won't. Ooooo, something shiny...

• On the post: George Lucas Finally Relinquishes His Tight Control Of Star Wars… To Mickey Mouse

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2012 @ 03:06pm

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  Your lack of faith is disturbing.

• On the post: Hollywood Still Resisting The Idea That Cheaper, Better Films Is The Way To Beat TV

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2012 @ 01:38pm

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  You must get all the chicks.

• On the post: Hollywood Still Resisting The Idea That Cheaper, Better Films Is The Way To Beat TV

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2012 @ 01:28pm

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  It also doesn't help that the movie industry seems to be stuck in a cycle of re-hashing old stuff (comics, cartoons, books...) into movies lately.
  
  What I find funny is that 15 years ago or so, comic book and video game movies were panned and criticized by the majority of the public and studios. Then Spider Man came out and all of a sudden they were the new action movie taking over for aging Stallone, Swarzenegger, Van Damm, etc. The studios went from "We don't invest our resourses in comic book movies" to "A Judge Dredd reboot? Yes please!"

• On the post: Hollywood Still Resisting The Idea That Cheaper, Better Films Is The Way To Beat TV

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2012 @ 01:22pm

  Re: Maybe cheaper doesn't lead to better?

  Would Avatar have been anywhere near as good if they'd only had a $10M budget?
  
  Yes. It was great. It was called "Dances with Wolves."

• On the post: Supreme Court Justices Worry About 'Parade Of Horribles' If They Agree You Don't Own What You Bought

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2012 @ 09:00am

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  I am truly surprised on how the judges seem to be well aware of the implications of such a landmark ruling can have. I can see light in the end of the litigation tunnel here and I now expect a sane result (albeit with reservations).
  
  That hasn't stopped them in the past from making terrible decisions. They've made terrible rulings recently where they acknowledge the detrimental nature of their decision, but say that they have to because that's what the law says. Like the ruling about corporations being people.
  
  I can see that happening here as well. I think they may do it just to sort of force Congress to address the issue. Which is what I hope they were doing in the Citizens United case.

• On the post: Supreme Court Justices Worry About 'Parade Of Horribles' If They Agree You Don't Own What You Bought

  

  Nastybutler77 ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2012 @ 08:53am

  Re: Not difficult: copyright is the right to control copies.

  My God, you're a terrible troll. If you're too stupid to understand that just because there's no evidence of real harm as things stand now, doesn't mean that once a decision comes out that changes how things work there will be harm, then I'm surprised you can figure out how to get dressed each day.

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