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• On the post: Wrong Legislative Thought Of The Day: An Email Tax To Save The Post Office

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2013 @ 08:35am

  Won't that just move the servers offshore?

  I'd be looking for an Email service that didn't send me a bill in a heart beat.

• On the post: HBO: The Key To Combating Piracy Is To Make Game Of Thrones More Available… Except Here

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2013 @ 07:30am

  Re: Re: Re: Honestly...

  It's not all that muckin fuch, i watched the first and quickly lost interest. It is pretty much a mid-evil soap opera.

• On the post: NASCAR Abuses DMCA To Try To Delete Fan Videos Of Daytona Crash

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2013 @ 09:15am

  Re:

  "censorship was not in their minds"
  
  cen?sor?ship
  /ˈsensərˌSHip/
  Noun
  The practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts.

• On the post: Copyright Alliance Invents New History (And New Meanings For 'Big' And 'Little') To Condemn Antigua

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2013 @ 11:52am

  Re: Just occurred to me...

  I've been thinking that myself

• On the post: CEA Takes Away CNET's Role In Picking CES Best In Show; Awards Dish Hopper 'Best In Show'

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2013 @ 03:32pm

  Re: Stick a fork in CNET. (slightly off topic)

  Very much so, I even reported them to Badware for including a pup installer in a piece of freeware hosted on their site, no opt out, just a silent install that took the better part of an afternoon to cleanup.

• On the post: California Senator Leland Yee Tells Gamers To Shut Up And Let The Grown Ups Talk

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2013 @ 10:44am

  Re:

  I'm 64 and I still play. I love GTA pretty much all flavors. Still, I seem to be able to go out in public and neither gun down or run over my fellow citizens.

• On the post: California Senator Leland Yee Tells Gamers To Shut Up And Let The Grown Ups Talk

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2013 @ 10:40am

  Re: Re: To summarize...

  "real causes like Gun Control and Mental Health"
  I realize the NRA started the rift by blaming video games, but weapons don't kill, any more than cars do. Falling rocks do kill though. I'd rather have a gun in my hand than a cop on the phone.

• On the post: Cyber War: A One-Sided Battle Against A Trumped Up Enemy

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2013 @ 11:01am

  Re: RE: Cyberwar

  Same for the other "Wars on _____", The War on drugs escalated a minor infraction by a bunch of hippies to a full fledged conflict involving cartels and billions of $$, The war on poverty seems to have escalated that as well, when that started there were a damnsite fewer street people than there are now.

• On the post: Obama Tasks CDC With Study Of Video Games And 'Violent Media'

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2013 @ 07:02am

  Re: Re: Re: Why the CDC?

  "CDC stands for "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
  
  
  I thought that was;
  The Centers for Disease Creation and Propagation.

• On the post: Racist Apps In Google's Play Store Test Just How Free You Want Speech To Be

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2013 @ 09:10am

  Re: Poor quality writing on techdirt.

  I'm content to let that one slide, it isn't basic. I'd be happy if people could get lose and loose, and your and you're

• On the post: Rather Than Punishing Moviegoing Texters, Why Not Provide Incentives For Them To Put Down Their Phones?

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2012 @ 01:56am

  I'm with the school of thought that they are rewarding bad behavior. Even dim and muted cell phones have no place in a theater. The offenders should be executed, a permanent solution to a temporary problem perhaps, but repeat offenders would not exist.

• On the post: The TSA's True Focus Isn't 'Safety' – It's Self-Preservation

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2012 @ 10:01am

  Re: Re: Avoiding the TSA as much as humanly possible...

  I'm with John on this one, I'll just drive, if it kills me so be it.

• On the post: Sticking It To The (Camera) Man: Inventor Develops License Plate Frame That Defeats Red Light Cameras

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2012 @ 04:55pm

  $350?

  I'll wait for the Chinese knock off @ $50

• On the post: Minnesota Backs Down After Internet Rises Up: Now Encourages Residents To Use Online Learning

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2012 @ 07:38am

  Big Brother law

  If I read this right;
  I'm more than a little disturbed that you still have to have permission to take a "for pay" course. That smells of protectionism for the brick and mortar degree mills.

• On the post: Russia Wants To Ban Children From Using WiFi

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2012 @ 08:09am

  Probably just a smoke screen

  The real object is to keep the annoying little farts out of the coffee shops and such, so the adults can get a table.
  It won't keep them off the wifi, they will be in the park across the street with a "Pringles can" antenna.

• On the post: Russia Wants To Ban Children From Using WiFi

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2012 @ 08:06am

  Re: Real protection.

  Home schooling. Works like a charm. Guaranteed to make your children socially inept & whatever the opposite of street smart is.

• On the post: Appeals Court Realizes Samsung Injunction Is For A Patent It Didn't Infringe On, Sends Case Back…

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2012 @ 01:17pm

  Re:

  AND, they need to use Mafiaa math, and count everyone who might have possibly bought a phone as a lost sale.

• On the post: Bob Dylan: People Claiming I Plagiarized Them Are Pussies

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2012 @ 09:34am

  Re:

  I totally agree, I'm a child of the Cold War, and grew up listening to Bob, I couldn't wait for his latest. Now I've had time to reflect, he was a bigger part of the problem than the fat cats he mocked. He now is the establishment, and he is good at it. Just sad, that's all.

• On the post: PC Rental Companies Agree To Not Watch You Have Sex

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2012 @ 03:48pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Why oh why...

  I'd say it was about 2009, & as stated in my other post, if I wanted a computer for Grandma, it would be my first choice. She'd never figure out how to screw it up.
  I'd also love to put a few clients on Ubuntu, unfortunately business apps generally require windows, you're damn lucky if they work with that, and that's just the reality of life.
  It really doesn't matter if it is superior in many ways, it isn't what suppliers expect to see, and that makes it a poor choice.

• On the post: Google's Copyright Crackdown Punishes Author For Torrenting His Own Book

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2012 @ 01:45pm

  Re: Re:

  I suspect it might just be the tip of the iceberg. The decision to discontinue IGoogle, is pissing me off considerably. Their logic that smart phones cover that base, hardly matters to desktop computer users. It is their ball, and if they want to take it and go home, so be it, but if a new kid shows up with a new ball, don't be surprised if the kids go to play with them from now on.

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