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• On the post: How Disruption Works: Job Loss Isn't Really Job Loss

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2012 @ 01:38pm

  Re: Not quite that simple

  "...the journalists who get lucky enough to find a job in the new industry will be paid far less than in their previous jobs due to leaner profit margins, a large and desperate pool of newly-unemployed journalists, and downward wage pressure.."
  
  Hmmm. You say it like it's a bad thing.

• On the post: Former Cybersecurity Czar Thinks DHS Should Spy On All Internet Traffic Crossing Our Borders… Because Of Chinese Pirates?

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2012 @ 01:29pm

  Privacy advocate

  "appointing an empowered privacy advocate"
  
  We already got one of those. It's called a search warrant.

• On the post: Wilco Continues To Get The Internet

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 01:57pm

  You see kids...

  ...that's how ALL websites looked back in 1997...

• On the post: Guy Loses Probation Because Court Decides That Facebook & MySpace Are 'Electronic Bulletin Boards'

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 01:05pm

  Was the decision really based solely...

  ...on access to Facebook?

• On the post: Guy Loses Probation Because Court Decides That Facebook & MySpace Are 'Electronic Bulletin Boards'

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 01:04pm

  And if there were ever a bunch...

  ...of morons in a hurry, it'd be these guys.

• On the post: Guy Loses Probation Because Court Decides That Facebook & MySpace Are 'Electronic Bulletin Boards'

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 01:02pm

  Probably MORE like a Bulletin Board...

  ...than one of the old-school BBSes every were.

• On the post: Guy Loses Probation Because Court Decides That Facebook & MySpace Are 'Electronic Bulletin Boards'

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 01:01pm

  Both?

  Why not?

• On the post: If They Can't Pass SOPA… Senators Ask FTC To Magically Stop Foreign Software Infringement

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 12:57pm

  They should try sending a letter...

  ...to Santa Claus.
  
  Works for me.

• On the post: EU Censorship Plan With A Cheesy Name: The Clean IT Project

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2012 @ 12:35pm

  Replace the word "internet"...

  ...in the quote with the words "telephone network" ...or "roads" ...or "the earth's atmosphere"...
  
  Just for a laugh.

• On the post: How Firefly Fans Made One University's Campus Safe For Free Speech

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2011 @ 01:28pm

  So what does this make fire.org?

  "Big Damn Heroes, sir."

• On the post: Copyright Tourism: Korean Companies Sue Guy From Australia For Copyright Infringement… In California

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2011 @ 01:16pm

  It Is So Ordered

  Lucy H. Koh = Emperor Norton

• On the post: Thomas Jefferson: Original Remixer

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 26 Dec, 2011 @ 12:45pm

  Re: Re: KJ Bible

  yeah, but we corrected all the spelling mistakes.

• On the post: Thomas Jefferson: Original Remixer

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 26 Dec, 2011 @ 12:39pm

  "Good" is the operative word...

  ...because I know that Sir A.C.Doyle is spinning in his grave over the two Sherlock Holmes movies.

• On the post: A Problem Worse Than Piracy? The Ridiculous Structure Of Online Music Licensing Deals

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2011 @ 01:25pm

  Yes, steal the Ferrari...

  ...when it costs exactly ZERO for the manufacturer to make another one.
  
  I'm fine with that.

• On the post: Senator Briefly Brings Fake Driver's License App To The Public Eye Before Having It 'Taken 'Round Back And Shot'

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2011 @ 01:16pm

  Re: No holograms required...

  Try to get a passport with it, then get back to us.

• On the post: FBI Admits That It Uses Carrier IQ For Law Enforcement Purposes; Won't Say How

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2011 @ 01:07pm

  "...we would refer them to the network operators because the diagnostic data collected belongs to them and not Carrier IQ."
  
  So the FBI is collecting the Carrier IQ data from the network operators instead of directly from Carrier IQ.
  
  They don't (and can't) say the FBI isn't getting it, just that Carrier IQ isn't giving it to them...

• On the post: Justice Department Hanging Onto Torrent-Finder Because It Doesn't Like How Search Engines Work

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2011 @ 12:56pm

  Shouldn't the gubnent be workin'....

  ...on terrorist-finder.com?

• On the post: MPAA Boss Chris Dodd Then & Now Concerning Google Censorship In China

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2011 @ 01:00pm

  "And another way...

  ...we respond to change is to compromise our principles for filthy lucre."

• On the post: Some Data On How Much The Big Media Firms Are Donating To SOPA/PIPA Sponsors

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2011 @ 01:32pm

  Re: Pfffffttt!

  I guess "stupid" could be a possibility as well.

• On the post: Some Data On How Much The Big Media Firms Are Donating To SOPA/PIPA Sponsors

  

  heyidiot ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2011 @ 01:30pm

  Pfffffttt!

  ...and pshaw!
  
  Really? Over some easily-circumvented rules that only affect, after all lets admit, a virtual community?
  
  For that, you wish to stage an armed revolt? Bullets and guns?
  
  You're joking, or psychotic. Choose one.

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