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• On the post: Debate Club: Should Police Need A Warrant To Get Your Location From Your Mobile Phone Provider?

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2012 @ 10:10am

  Electronic leash

  I don't own a cell phone, mainly because they are an electronic leash. The police tracking you by it is just a natural extension of that. Not to say that they should have unfettered access that, but you know they will, one way or another eventually.
  I'd never own a car with Onstar for similar reasons.
  There are times I do wish I had a cell phone, but it 2 or 3 times a year for a minute or 2. Hardly enough to give up privacy on that scale, not to mention the expense.

• On the post: A Broken System: Einstein Wouldn't Have Been 'Qualified' To Teach High School Physics

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2012 @ 05:05am

  Re: Re:

  My thoughts exactly. I know "lettered" folks who can't turn on a light switch. I know self taught geniuses who can do virtually anything. It is just more gate keeper crap, ability doesn't play into it, other than the ability to test well. I have extremely good instincts when it comes to tests, and can test out well above my ability, the most capable people I've met seem to be the opposite.

• On the post: Monsanto May Be Forced To Repay Brazilian GM Soybean Royalties Worth Billions Of Dollars

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2012 @ 10:26am

  Re: It's a good start.

  But that it might cascade around the globe, go viral so to speak. They need brought to their knees.

• On the post: Google Books Data Mining Reveals Mad Men's Big Historical Flaw: Business Lingo

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2012 @ 06:30am

  "For all the talk by some about just how evil Google's book scanning project is"
  
  Maybe that should be was, as with all useful projects / technology, the gate keepers have broken it. It still works a little, but when you think of what might have been.....
  Humanity as a whole could have benefited so much, at an admitted price to the gate keepers, but those 19th century folks need to move aside.

• On the post: Big Ruling Says Using Trademarks In Artistic Works Can Be Protected Under The First Amendment

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2012 @ 09:52am

  Re:

  "sell their first-born if it guaranteed them more cash than they know what to do with"
  
  You can do that?

• On the post: EA Believes That Making A Lot Of Money Is Less Important Than Keeping Games Expensive

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2012 @ 12:01pm

  Ea has jumped the shark anyhow

  I used to look forward to their new releases, now it is so ho-hum. They used to get what people wanted, now you have to like what they want. I won't get into a lot of specifics, but Need for speed comes to mind. It used to be fun and action easily the best driving games ever. Now it is a strategy game with cars. The closest thing we have to what it used to be is the driving part of GTA.

• On the post: Tell The White House To Stop Illegally Seizing & Shutting Down Websites

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2012 @ 09:17am

  Re:

  We really are doomed. If you are afraid of what will happen if you sign a petition, we might as well pack it in right now.
  Play taps for the land of the free and the home of the brave.

• On the post: Study Claims Old People Select Stronger Passwords Than Teens

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2012 @ 05:25am

  Re:

  "It's also no surprise when seniors look at the world through the eyes of "everyone's out to get them"."
  
  More like; you don't get old by being stupid.

• On the post: Fearmongering About Cyberwar And Cybersecurity Is Working: American Public Very, Very Afraid

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 15 May, 2012 @ 09:39am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Don't forget "The President is gay"
  It's like being in JR High again, and it is fun to say.
  Doesn't really matter, if it is true or not.

• On the post: If You Think The Cost Of 'Piracy' Is High, What About The Cost Of Enforcement?

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 08 May, 2012 @ 11:40am

  Re: Re: Re: Where can I get a Jolly Roger flag?

  "When injustice becomes law, then resistance becomes duty."
  T. Jefferson

• On the post: If You Think The Cost Of 'Piracy' Is High, What About The Cost Of Enforcement?

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 08 May, 2012 @ 11:39am

  Re: Re: Re: Where can I get a Jolly Roger flag?

  "When injustice becomes law, then resistance becomes duty."
  T. Jefferson

• On the post: HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 07:08am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  PBS has jumped the shark, at least locally. They may have few commercials, but they have annoying fund raisers every other month, all month. I used to be an avid viewer and even a contributor, when they begged(fund raised) once a year. I even stuck with them when it went to 2 & even 4 times per year. Now it is every other month, the only place to go from here is: all begging, all the time. I'm not alone, most folks I have ask have left in disgust as well.

• On the post: Microsoft Spying On Live Messenger Messages, Censoring Any Pirate Bay Links

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2012 @ 12:44pm

  Why I neve use MS accessory programs

  Outlook, Messenger, & Internet Explorer & such are always the most hacked, vulnerable appps for doing what ever each of them do. There is always a better alternative & invariably it is free, and below the radar for hackers. All they are doing with this move is proving my point and moving people to my side of the board. Only Sheeple will use their crap apps.

• On the post: Loosening The Privacy Reins Isn't So Bad, But Where's The Payoff?

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2012 @ 08:19am

  I never thought targeting would work

  I never thought targeting would work & I'm seldom disappointed. My shopping habits are all over the place, I farm, stuff breaks, I love computers, stuff gets obsolete, I drive cars and trucks, stuff breaks. so in a given week i might shop everything from grass seed to ssd drives, with a timing belt thrown in. I buy everything possible on line, even appliances, if competitively priced. Saves time & gas.
  I've bought buildings online, building kits anyhow. Worked real well; semis just kept bringing stuff till I had a building. Still, I get idiotic ads for stuff I'd never buy or prices I'd never pay.

• On the post: Chipping Away At The First Amendment: New 'Trespassing' Bill Could Be Used To Criminalize Legitimate Protests

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2012 @ 05:17am

  Re: Re: Re: Unsafe politicos

  "Was Abraham Lincoln a fuck-up? How about John Kennedy?"
  
  Yes and yes

• On the post: Google Asking For Trouble With Its New Privacy Policy; EU Official Questions Legality

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2012 @ 08:35pm

  Much ado about nothing

  I may be guilty of being a Google apologist, due mainly to remembering how the internet worked before they came on the scene. I don't see ads so, it matters little how targeted they are.
  
  It is called ADblock Plus for Firefox, look into it.

• On the post: Google Asking For Trouble With Its New Privacy Policy; EU Official Questions Legality

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2012 @ 08:34pm

  Much ado about nothing

  I may be guilty of being a Google apologist, due mainly to remembering how the internet worked before they came on the scene. I don't see ads so, it matters little how targeted they are.
  
  It is called ADblock Plus for Firefox, look into it.

• On the post: Company That Issued Bogus Takedown Says It Was All A Mistake, Apologizes

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2012 @ 01:56pm

  Re: Simple to fix

  I used to race cars, there were rules as to what you could do to your car. If you suspected a competitor of cheating you posted a bond of say $100 to subject his car to tear down to reveal the suspected cheat. If you were wrong he kept the protest money, if you were right you got it back.
  A system like that would keep more people honest, but it needs to be $1000s

• On the post: Reddit Writes A Law: First Draft Of The Free Internet Act Emerges

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2012 @ 02:13pm

  However

  "However enforcements/laws must also be put into place to protect copyrighted content."
  
  Not so much, that is the source of the problems, I understand a little boot licking may be in order to be taken seriously, but the hole copyright thing is so far out of hand, a free zone is called for. Lets not approach the problem from the perspective that they have the power, and we need to meet them in the middle, we out number them millions to 1

• On the post: Economist Notices That The US Is Getting Buried Under Costly, Useless Over-Regulation

  

  Haywood ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2012 @ 06:01am

  Re: Sunset

  amen

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