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• On the post: DailyDirt: Pocketful Of Useless Coins

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2012 @ 02:44am

  Re: 99 cent coins

  Relevant to discussion -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5UT04p5f7U

• On the post: Sherry Turkle Says Younger Kids Can't Handle Facebook Because Teens Fret About Looking Cool Online

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2012 @ 03:19am

  Oh Leigh.. *shakes head* when will you understand?
  
  We've had these problems for ages, but because they're happening on the internet, which is new, scary and full of pedophiles and people who steal (yes, steal) films, they must be stopped.
  
  These are issues.. on the internet. By default, they are now bad and new.

• On the post: Police Arrest Woman For Filming Them, Take Phone Out Of Her Bra, Claim That It Must Be Kept As 'Evidence'

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2012 @ 03:56pm

  Re: Evidence

  "whose film of the Kennedy assassination was seized"
  
  Film, not camera. As in, it's what the camera recorded, i.e. the data, that's seized, not the phone.
  
  CCTV cameras aren't seized by the cops if they observe a crime.

• On the post: Press Tries To Pin High Profile Killings On The Web & World Of Warcraft

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2012 @ 06:58am

  Yes, the internet, the very medium that identified, tracked and helped capture the murderer, is a bad thing. Let's ban it at once, because clearly, it's just evil.

• On the post: Copyright Sci-Fi: What Will Lifelong Copyright Terms Mean When People Live Way Longer?

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2012 @ 10:13am

  Re: Re: Re: Techdirt vandalized briefly

  To be honest, I just picked the first web error that came to my head, which incidentally happened not to be vandalism by hacking. Replace 'server error' with 'making off-site backups' and my point stands anew - which was 'why attribute the errors to vandalism and not an entirely innocent reason?'

• On the post: Aliens v. The RIAA! Win An Early Release Copy Of Year Zero, Techdirt's July Book Club Offering

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2012 @ 06:09pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Right.
  
  Except you can't relist the sites gone from the search results in one click, so.. wrong.

• On the post: Aliens v. The RIAA! Win An Early Release Copy Of Year Zero, Techdirt's July Book Club Offering

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2012 @ 05:36pm

  Tweeted my suggestion.. then read physicals won't ship internationally. #fml
  
  Don't read ebooks, so I guess I'll be buying this..

• On the post: Fiona Apple To Label: Back Off, I'm Connecting With My Fans

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2012 @ 01:56pm

  Re: Re:

  Ok, maybe I should look at things before I post, but my point still kinda stands - if you weren't around for her earlier success, you would still have no idea who she was. The label didn't initiate her second wave of support.
  
  Although, I'll admit, I haven't a clue who Fiona Apple is so I could be talking out my arse... Shame I can't delete comments, but hey ho, talking rubbish is par for the course for me :)

• On the post: Fiona Apple To Label: Back Off, I'm Connecting With My Fans

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2012 @ 01:52pm

  Re:

  Yes.
  
  Her album leaked with no help by the labels, fans got excited with no help from the labels.. the only reason the label got involved in the first place and released the album was because of the enormous fan support.
  
  Next question?

• On the post: MPAA Ok With Allowing Users To Get Back Their Megaupload Files If 0% Infringement Can Be Guaranteed

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2012 @ 11:04am

  Yeah, the 'stop all online infringement' thing worked perfectly for them in the first place, bound to work again now.

• On the post: Obama Administration: $1.5 Million For Sharing 24 Songs Is Perfectly Reasonable

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2012 @ 10:27am

  Re: Well then

  *Dr Evil little finger lift*

• On the post: Germany Increases 'You Are All Pirates' Tax On Solid State Media By 2000%

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2012 @ 02:20am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: WTH

  Ohhh, I get it now. Yeah, that helps.

• On the post: Copyright Sci-Fi: What Will Lifelong Copyright Terms Mean When People Live Way Longer?

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2012 @ 02:16am

  Re: Techdirt vandalized briefly

  Can't have been a server error, those things are infallible! Must those darn vandals again!

• On the post: Germany Increases 'You Are All Pirates' Tax On Solid State Media By 2000%

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2012 @ 12:11pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: WTH

  "130% is not a 30% markup of a $1.00...$1.43 is.Do the math!"
  
  Pardon my apparent stupidity, but I'm afraid I don't understand this. I thought 130% of 100(i.e. $1) was 130 i.e. $1.30?
  
  How can you say that 100 plus 30% equals 1.43? Sure, 70% of 143 is (roughly) 100, but you don't start from 143..
  
  What might be confusing me is the switch between "130%" and "$1.43" but even when I look at them separately, I still see errors. "130% is not a 30% markup of $1" - well, it is, actually.. "a 30% markup of $1 .. is $1.43" - well, it's not though. It's $1.30.
  
  Granted, it's been a few years since I had to memorise it, but to me, it doesn't seem right.
  
  Also, to the original AC - you're stupid and you should be ashamed. Not only for the original comment, but for making me confused.

• On the post: Germany Increases 'You Are All Pirates' Tax On Solid State Media By 2000%

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2012 @ 11:53am

  Re: Re: Re: WTH

  "Hey, I used to play bass for '100% Of Normal'"

• On the post: Germany Increases 'You Are All Pirates' Tax On Solid State Media By 2000%

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2012 @ 03:50am

  Yikes, if ext HDDs were included, I'd dread to think how much my 1TB would incur...
  
  Unless the 1.95 is a flat rate?

• On the post: This Is Reporting? Fox News Ties Flame Malware To Angry Birds Because Both Use Lua

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2012 @ 09:25am

  Re: Re:

  Well, we use the same building blocks but not the actual same DNA, no.
  
  Also, this just in - innocent peoples DNA uses same code as criminals.

• On the post: Hollywood Super Agent Ari Emanuel Mystified That Google Doesn't Just Invent A Magic Stop Piracy Button

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 31 May, 2012 @ 06:45pm

  But but piracy. Because child porn.

• On the post: French Film Exec Insists That Anti-Piracy Efforts Made Sure No French Films Were Downloaded For 7 Months

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 31 May, 2012 @ 06:37pm

  And how long to you think they'll last before they decide they still need stricter laws anyway..?

• On the post: French Film Exec Insists That Anti-Piracy Efforts Made Sure No French Films Were Downloaded For 7 Months

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 31 May, 2012 @ 06:33pm

  Re: Re:

  Good choice. I love that film.

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