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  • On the post: American Airlines Making Life Worse For Most Loyal Customers By Killing Useful Mile-Tracking Browser Plugin

    Philip ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 02:18pm

    They are confused.

    AA, ones in the public eye, are the most technological illiterate folks you'd ever come across.

    There is a control aspect of things, too. But it's more AA concerned on perception, than anything else. They concern themselves over every little detail that may "offend" somebody.. It's crazy. AA is a control freak, controlled by "political correctness."

  • On the post: Tiny Gamemaker Takes The Right Approach To Giant Zynga Copying Its Game: It Thanks Them

    Philip ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 05:32pm

    Re: Re: You definitely saw this differently.

    That is the first one. Thanks!

    And here's the second one: http://imgur.com/T6vOR

  • On the post: Tiny Gamemaker Takes The Right Approach To Giant Zynga Copying Its Game: It Thanks Them

    Philip ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 01:18pm

    You definitely saw this differently.

    > that congratulated the company, wishing them luck, and saying that they were "looking forward to inspiring you with our future games."

    I saw that entire image as complete sarcasm bashing Zynga. There are even rebuttal images from other small indies bashing Nimblebit for bashing people (just people in general) for copying.

    There's one image, I'll need to find, from an indie that properly congratulates the copying. It was on Reddit yesterday, if I recall. Need to locate it ...

  • On the post: Ownership Mentality: Art Gallery Prohibits Sketching

    Philip ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2012 @ 06:57am

    Reasons for no photographs

    Historically, it was actually to protect the art. Earlier flashes could actually cause physical deterioration of paintings. And, as with all rules (think no electronics on plane take orr of landing), it just remained and updated itself to current technology.

    Now, people have skewed the original meaning, and reasoning, into that of "copyright" (all the latest copyright pushes), when in reality the rule originally had nothing to do with copyright. The rule has suck, and being broadened where ever possible.

  • On the post: The Pirate Bay Press Release On SOPA: We Are The New Hollywood

    Philip ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2012 @ 05:09am

    Re: Re:

    They don't produce. They don't copy. The merely point you to locations for everything. Hollywood is pissed because they make it so easy to find their content. And anybody with any lick of digital know how knows digital content can be copied with a simple blow in the wind.

  • On the post: Jon Stewart Now Knows About SOPA/PIPA… And He's Not Impressed

    Philip ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 06:15am

    Re: Nerds? Experts!

    I was disappointed ... I expected to hear "Geeks!" But no, he called us "experts." :(

  • On the post: Denial: MPAA Pretends That No Big Sites Have Joined SOPA/PIPA Protests

    Philip ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2012 @ 01:16pm

    What the ??

    Tweet posted: 16 hours ago via Tweet Button
    Article posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 3:44pm EST (under 1hr ago).

    Err. MPAA tried to jump the gun? But to back-post a tweet? With an article made in the future?

  • On the post: Verizon Wireless: Paying Online Is More Convenient, So Now You Have To Pay $2 To Do So [Updated]

    Philip ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2011 @ 12:47pm

    They backed down.

    Verizon has backed down:

    http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/30/verizon-backs-down-from-convenience-fee-values-your-two-cents/

  • On the post: The Latest Entrant In 'How Not To Do Marketing' In An Online World: Ocean Marketing Fail

    Philip ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2011 @ 06:39am

    His apology to Dave.

    You should check out his apology to Dave. It's all "oh, whoo is me. I'm the victim." bs:

    http://gamerfront.net/2011/12/ocean-marketing-a-study-on-how-to-destroy-your-reputation-with-just-a-few-emails/15199

    Article was updated with it.

    Yet, again, digging further. Paul ruined his own company, and he doesn't even realize it!

  • On the post: Public Opposition Accelerates As Latest Anti-SOPA Petition Hits Goal In Two Days

    Philip ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2011 @ 10:55am

    Need a better petition...

    I would have signed if this wasn't just so badly written. It's written as if by a high schooler. I didn't give it any serious credit.

    I suck as a writer. But I'm hoping somebody would create something like this, better written, better backed, and with a lot of good examples of current, and potential abuse if this law goes into affect.

  • On the post: Ex-RIAA Boss Ignores All Criticisim Of SOPA/PIPA, Claims Any Complaints Are Trying To Justify Stealing

    Philip ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2011 @ 12:05pm

    And your reply on Twitter?

    I would have replied back, via Twitter: "analog != digital. Think digital."

  • On the post: Guy Who Created The TSA Says It's Failed, And It's Time To Dismantle It

    Philip ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2011 @ 08:12am

    Re:

    More effective if they just stopped without announcing a date.

    When you announce dates, you are basically telling everybody "hey, no security between these days." Instead, just stopping it people will wonder 1) has it stopped? 2) did they fix it? 3) are they somewhere else? But then be able to continue about their day without getting TSAped. Airlines would even see a boost in sales, and probably start running on time for once.

  • On the post: Feds Got Reporter's Phone, Credit Card & Bank Records In Trying To Track Leaker

    Philip ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2011 @ 02:48pm

    Leak to litigation ratio?

    Something has been pawing in the back of my head, and i could be completely out of loop here.

    Could the perceived aggressiveness be more related to the number of leaks? Quite frankly, we've seen more leaks in the past year than we had in the last 20 (or more) years. It's nuts! It's like the US government just popped a giant hemroid.

    And something that was mentioned in the past, in defense of Bush; the president has little control over several aspects of the government. He's just a figure head. As a matter of fact, this was brought up in defense of McCain, too. Saying it didn't matter who got elected because of that.
    I really, really wish our government was more transparent. I'd love to see how much actual interaction, and influence the president really has in these matters. Hell, it could be a positive factor for Bush if you can prove he didn't have control.

  • On the post: Maybe Super Cheap Video Games Are Helping, Not Destroying, The Video Game Industry

    Philip ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2011 @ 11:40am

    Re: Re: Long term?

    Nah. I tend to flow thought all over the place. It doesn't mean my mind is made up. It just means that's a point where my thought process went to.

  • On the post: Maybe Super Cheap Video Games Are Helping, Not Destroying, The Video Game Industry

    Philip ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2011 @ 10:14am

    Long term?

    In the long term, Nintendo Pres may have a point, kinda.

    Right now, the reason why lowering the price works is people are expecting these games to be expensive. So, when the prices take a dramatic cut, they jump on it.

    I do agree there are a number of people that wouldn't even consider a game unless the price is below a certain point. There are even people that would get low price games for s&g's just to check them out. But what if every game was always this low?

    I'm not advocating high price games; as a gamer, I'd love to see cheaper games. But in hindsight, if games were always just $10, would we see the same revenue boosts? Maybe ... but I'm biased as a gamer; I'd have less trouble buying games at $10 (hell, I'd probably have hundreds if they were just $10). I guess that would answer my own question. lol

  • On the post: US Customs & Border Patrol Protecting America From Chocolate Toy Eggs (And Charging You For The Privilege)

    Philip ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2011 @ 08:33am

    Re: How to do the right thing and the wrong thing at the same time.

    Oh, they are very much sold here in the US. I've had several since moving here (moved from German to US in '1990). You just have to look in the right spots - real import places, german imports if you have any. Same with some Japanese candy I use to have as a kid.

    Unlike US counterparts, these treats are made with real sugar, and taste quite good!

  • On the post: US Customs & Border Patrol Protecting America From Chocolate Toy Eggs (And Charging You For The Privilege)

    Philip ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2011 @ 08:31am

    OMG I love Kinder Eggs! The chocolate is amazing. And the toys are always such little fun! I'm pretty shocked it was caught since it was imported to Canada to begin with. ha.

    As a matter of fact, if you know where to look, you can find them all over here in the US, too. You should look around Mike. They are actually quite good and great for little kids (within reason)!

  • On the post: Rep. Peter King Wants Treasury Dept. To Put Wikileaks On Terrorist List

    Philip ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2011 @ 11:59am

    Re: Re: Re:

    Perfect Onion piece: "Peter King introduces new law making it illegal to shoot people." "Clearly, our existing laws aren't effective enough," King said during the introduction of the new bill. "We need to remind people shooting people is bad."

  • On the post: TSA's Failure Based On The Myth Of Perfect Security

    Philip ( profile ), 24 Nov, 2010 @ 08:42pm

    Re: Not a Myth

    There's a certain level of security people will accept before they feel Big Brother is poking too much in their business. Look at nude pictures of you, having somebody feeling up your privates are clearly over the line of acceptability.

    People just want to get on a plane and get to their next destination. It's no different than getting on a bus, train, or in a taxi.

  • On the post: 200 Students Admit To 'Cheating' On Exam… But Bigger Question Is If It Was Really Cheating Or Studying

    Philip ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2010 @ 11:47am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Ah, but all hearsay. Did they have the actual exam? or were they actually talking about the test-bank questions? Clearly, if you had the test-bank, you had all the answers (you just didn't know which ones would get selected).

    Keep in mind, the test-bank questions is the only proof this professor has of actual cheating. He's laying claim that using the test-bank questions was the cheating.

    It was mentioned, somewhere, some of the students that came forward claimed to have used the test-bank, but thought it was fine. I'm siding with them.

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