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• On the post: TuneCore Fires Last Remaining Founder, Gets Into Ridiculously Petty Fight With Jeff Price

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2013 @ 08:36pm

  Re: My firing

  Suggestion. Next time keep the company private this way you do not have to deal with share holders, an unreasonable board, and maximizing value to the share holder.
  
  If you didn't sign a non-compete before leaving, get together with Jeff and run the MFer's into the ground.

• On the post: Apple Trademarks Apple Store Interior Design

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2013 @ 02:01pm

  oops sorry ,,, trademark

  First apple patents round corners, now they trademark the lunchroom, what is next, the circle or the square?

• On the post: Apple Trademarks Apple Store Interior Design

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2013 @ 01:58pm

  First apple patents round corners, now they copyright the lunchroom, what is next, the circle or the square?

• On the post: US Still 'Warning' Antigua That It Better Not Set Up Piracy Hub, Even As WTO Gives Approval

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2013 @ 04:34pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  One acronym for you ... https

• On the post: US Still 'Warning' Antigua That It Better Not Set Up Piracy Hub, Even As WTO Gives Approval

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2013 @ 03:59pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: They did....

  I thought it was a really funny joke. The problem is I had to explain it to the AC.
  
  There is also a US freak out "Antigua, power level 9,000" joke in here somewhere. I just can not pull that one together.

• On the post: US Still 'Warning' Antigua That It Better Not Set Up Piracy Hub, Even As WTO Gives Approval

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2013 @ 03:53pm

  Re: Re:

  The way they will spin this is simple. Terrorist use piracy to make money. Antigua is a piracy haven. Hence Antigua is in league with terrorists.

• On the post: US Still 'Warning' Antigua That It Better Not Set Up Piracy Hub, Even As WTO Gives Approval

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2013 @ 03:33pm

  Re:

  Interesting legal question, will this site be covered under the six strikes plan in the US?

• On the post: US Still 'Warning' Antigua That It Better Not Set Up Piracy Hub, Even As WTO Gives Approval

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2013 @ 03:28pm

  Re: Re: They did....

  I think silverscarcat is making a "how much it costs the US government for various things" joke.
  
  You know ...
  $500 for a wrench
  $800 for a hammer
  $20,000 for a toilet seat.

• On the post: US Still 'Warning' Antigua That It Better Not Set Up Piracy Hub, Even As WTO Gives Approval

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2013 @ 03:50pm

  An interesting thought.

  Perhaps Kim Dotcom should have one of his mirror sites in Antigua.

• On the post: The Unintended Consequences Of The Copyright Alerts System

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2013 @ 08:20am

  Not learning from past mistakes

  Any rational person would look at the failure of French 3 strikes plan and say, this is a bad idea to implement elsewhere. I am convinced that the MPAA and RIAA are pushing this forward so they can say "look we are doing something" to maintain their funding.
  
  The companies funding these groups (MPAA, RIAA, etc) should begin taking a results based funding approach. Or perhaps they should just look at the past 100 years of results, and determine if they should continue funding them.

• On the post: Aaron Swartz Unlikely To Face Jail Or Conviction… Until Feds Decided To 'Send A Message'

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2013 @ 04:32am

  Re: Re:

  At the state level it is a condition called OCD, at the federal level it is called cyber stalking.

• On the post: Another Case Of Prosecutorial Bullying Against A 'Hacker'

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2013 @ 12:37pm

  Re:

  That is actually brilliant.

• On the post: TechCrunch Admits That Using Facebook Comments Drove Away Most Of Their Commenters

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2013 @ 09:46pm

  Re: Re:

  In 2007 there was only one AC then mike used copyright law to grab the name up. After that we began calling the original AC TAM.

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

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2013 @ 09:53am

  Re:

  Simple solution to the tanks issue.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram_cannon

• On the post: Anti-Piracy Group Already Demanding That Kim Dotcom's New Mega Service Be Shut Down

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2013 @ 06:07am

  Re:

  The media will never do anything about it. If you look at the SOPA PIPA debate and rebellion, it took shutting down government phone switches before any news organizations even mentioned it. When they did speak it was seriously misleading. These are news organizations that rely on things remaining as they are.
  
  The more likely scenario is, in the next 10 years we will reach the point where enough people are getting their news from alternate sources, to tip the tide. Google plus, Facebook, blogs, RSS feeds, etc will all play their part.

• On the post: The War On Computing: What Happens When Authorities Don't Understand Technology

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2013 @ 01:10pm

  Re: War of Attrition...

  Immortality is about 10 to 20 years out. We may be stuck with them forever ...

• On the post: Mega's Security Appears To Be Surprisingly Bad

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2013 @ 12:49pm

  Re: Re:

  Agreed

• On the post: Dish Turns CBS' Actions Against It; Touts Its Revoked 'Best In Show' Status With A Damning Footnote

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2013 @ 05:05pm

  There is this thing called a remote. It has this other thing called a mute button, I use it on every commercial, as do many other people. There is no difference.

• On the post: Mega's Security Appears To Be Surprisingly Bad

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2013 @ 10:13am

  "including some questions about how random the random key generation really was, as well as significant concerns about Mega's claims that it offered deduplification"
  
  The deduplication can be something as simple as a CRC checksum being generated pre-encryption. If they use a one way hash on it, generate a distinct hash key per user, and only link that to the specific users account. I do not see a problem.
  
  If however this is system wide deduplication, it opens them up to more of the same DOJ BS they were nailed with before.

• On the post: For Internet Freedom Day, Watch Aaron Swartz Explain How SOPA Was Stopped

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2013 @ 04:47pm

  Re: Saddened

  "Must have been an unimaginable amount of pressure he was facing to do what he did."
  
  Or it could have been an accident ie autoerotic asphyxiation, or murder made to look like a suicide.

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