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• On the post: Nathan Myhrvold's Delusions: Patent Wars 'Vindicate' The Importance Of Patents

  

  ky ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2012 @ 07:33pm

  or

  he doesn't care because scamming the system is making him filthy rich, and he does not care in the least how patents impact the tech industry.

• On the post: Microsoft Releases Utterly Bizarre And Confusing Anti-Piracy Video

  

  ky ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2012 @ 02:27pm

  umm

  freeze at 0:19 = peer to pier
  
  freeze at 0:21 = peer to peer
  
  just seems if you are going to make a horrible PSA, you wouldnt jack up the basic things, and save your ruin for the overall message.

• On the post: WaPo's Kaplan Scolded For Demanding $300 From Student Trying To Sell One Of Its Books On eBay

  

  ky ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2012 @ 10:53am

  Re: Re: Where are the BAR Associations?

  I would say any legal system that has a monetary requirement should be discarded.
  
  Because West Texas will provide you expert free rulings all day with proof of purchase.

• On the post: 'We, The Web Kids': Manifesto For An Anti-ACTA Generation

  

  ky ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2012 @ 07:21am

  Bildungsroman maybe. We follow this translation and we end up telling people romantic stories about picture planning.

• On the post: If Major Labels Are All About Helping Artists, Why Do We Keep Seeing Artists Calling Out Their Labels For Screwing Them?

  

  ky ( profile ), 29 Feb, 2012 @ 07:38pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  ehh, they feel more like a draw :)

• On the post: If Major Labels Are All About Helping Artists, Why Do We Keep Seeing Artists Calling Out Their Labels For Screwing Them?

  

  ky ( profile ), 29 Feb, 2012 @ 05:05pm

  Re:

  at least those of us who don't hack out blog pieces with slow-loading jpegs
  
  because they are certainly lower those who hack out blog pieces in the comments of someone else's blog.

• On the post: Bradley Manning Formally Charged; Defers Plea

  

  ky ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2012 @ 04:37am

  Re: Re: He is certainly guilty of crimes

  That's a fantastic content based rebuttal to: "without regard to content"

• On the post: Bradley Manning Formally Charged; Defers Plea

  

  ky ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2012 @ 07:52pm

  He is certainly guilty of crimes

  Just not some of the more fantastical of charges, which are probably being plea bargained away for the ones that are sticky. Downloading anything off of the SIPR and sending it to your friend should not be acceptable, without regard to the content. And downloading 1.6GB worth of that data and sending it to your foreign friend is retarded, makes you want to declare war with Sweden just to get him on all 22.

• On the post: ICE Considered One Of The Worst Places To Work In The Federal Government

  

  ky ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2012 @ 11:53am

  Re: Re: Perhaps one of your links should be annotated thusly

  I concur. That site should be avoided at all costs. It is of no use to a logical defense or rational argument.

• On the post: FBI Saves Us From Another Of Its Own Terrorist Plots

  

  ky ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2012 @ 02:00pm

  Re: Amazing

  So continue monitoring him and let him try... Because then we might actually learn something about the supply of weaponry and information thereof. Why not use that influence on the mark to encourage him to seek his own means and expose other people and potentially some upstream vulnerabilities?
  
  ....unless of course they explored all of those prospects and realized this guy was probably better handled by the risk manufacturing division.
  
  Maybe next time they can setup multiple people to be at the same place and arrest a "cell".

• On the post: US Government 'Suspends' JotForm.com Over User Generated Forms; Censorship Regime Expands

  

  ky ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2012 @ 09:42am

  Re: what does jotform do?

  change their forms to use their .net domain
  
  not to give a class in reading comprehension and context clues, but something tells me there is a jotform.net for you to conduct all the investigation you can muster.

• On the post: Always A Gatekeeper: RIAA Backs .music Proposal… If It's Only Limited To 'Accredited' Musicians

  

  ky ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2012 @ 11:12am

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

  The logical rebuttal to "I cant be bothered to click two links deep" would be internalized and strictly rhetorical.
  
  Any vocalization of it will come out as 'what a F* retarded shill'.

• On the post: According To Lamar Smith, Data Or Criticism From Anyone Who Doesn't Like SOPA Isn't Valid

  

  ky ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2012 @ 01:37pm

  Smith's constituents should demand better.
  
  This guy is a decent challenger.
  
  http://sheriffmackforcongress.com/

• On the post: ICE Seizes 300 More Sites; Can't Have People Watching Super Bowl Ads Without Permission

  

  ky ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 02:54pm

  The entire point of the Super Bowl is to get as many people watching the advertisements as possible.
  
  So they are into social experiments, since it seems the entire point of the Pro-Bowl is to see how few people they can get to watch.

• On the post: Full Text Of Slovenian Ambassador's Apology For Signing ACTA

  

  ky ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 01:21pm

  rather than clam up about it.
  
  HAH! Double entendre FTW!

• On the post: Beach Boys Lyricist Goes After Artist Who Dared To Paint Works Inspired By Beach Boy Songs

  

  ky ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 11:22am

  Everything the beach boys have done since the 1980s is a ridiculous cry for attention. Think I may draw some pictures that were inspired by the awful live percussion sections and see if I cant get a John Stamos autographed C&D.

• On the post: Security Theater… Or Why I Had To Go Dumpster Diving At The US Capitol Last Week

  

  ky ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2012 @ 03:05pm

  Re: Re: Hm. In this case..... not so much

  The dumpster is maybe 15 feet from the building... so not sure what difference it would have made
  
  the difference between a small improvised explosive going off in a room full of people vs a large metal container filled with trash 15 feet from the building itself....and you are not sure what the difference would be?
  
  not defending the feasibility of this object being an explosive, just that particular reasoning.

• On the post: Security Theater… Or Why I Had To Go Dumpster Diving At The US Capitol Last Week

  

  ky ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2012 @ 06:30pm

  One actual question, and one troll question

  and you couldn't ask Siri to make a video record of this encounter?
  
  for my troll:
  
  Sounds like a lot of compliance going on to some BS, did you get names (or just numbers and a second pat down)?

• On the post: As USTR Insists ACTA Doesn't Need Congressional Approval, Wyden Asks State Dept. For A Second Opinion

  

  ky ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2012 @ 08:06am

  Looks like someone finally figured out how a proxy works. Too bad your writing style is ridiculously obvious, you should have just replied in support of yourself.
  
  I vote that gravatars be assigned by block rather than specific IP. Just for the tears.

• On the post: New Petition Asks White House To Submit ACTA To The Senate For Ratification

  

  ky ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2012 @ 10:34am

  Re: The Petition needed 150 Signatures to be searchable...

  I was signature #30, and that was immediately following the Techdirt post appearing on my homepage. Just for accuracies sake.

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