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  • On the post: General Mills Says If You 'Like' Cheerios On Facebook, You Can No Longer Sue

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2014 @ 02:32am

    And this is what happens when people refuse to spay or neuter their lawyers and they breed uncontrollably in the wild.

  • On the post: University Hires Sports Info Director, Fires Him Two Hours Later After Local Paper Googles His Name

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2014 @ 02:25am

    Candidate for high profile job isn't Googled and is hired.

    Yet we hear about lowly people being Googled and not getting the job because some HR person thought there were to many party pictures.

    One also wonders what fallout for the actual background firm they used who should have disclosed ANYTHING about that case.

    But then most background data is flawed as there is no system in place to fix it.

  • On the post: Finally, Someone Acts Like An Adult: District Attorney Drops Charges Against Bullied Teen Who Recorded His Tormentors

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2014 @ 02:21am

    School teaches valuable life lesson to someone who is 'different'. Do not expect those in power to have any concern if your rights are being abused if they feel it might reflect poorly on them. They will instead find a way to make sure that they and punish you for daring to bring to light their failings.

    Bullies protecting Bullies.

  • On the post: FBI Abruptly Walks Out On Senate Briefing After Being Asked How 'Insider Threat' Program Avoids Whistleblowers

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2014 @ 12:43am

    Re: Why can't the committee chair charge the FBI person with contempt

    "Why can't the committee chair charge the FBI person with contempt"

    Because they are spineless and live in fear of the files that are kept that I bet would make Hoover moist.

  • On the post: Judicial Branch Finally Acting As A Check Against Government Overreach

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2014 @ 12:28am

    You can not rule on something you have no understanding of.
    I don't expect that a Judge be able to write code, but understanding basic terms would have put a damper on this before it got this fscking bad.

  • On the post: FBI Abruptly Walks Out On Senate Briefing After Being Asked How 'Insider Threat' Program Avoids Whistleblowers

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2014 @ 04:38pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    If not for the fact they don't keep them on computers because they can't secure anything, I would LOVE to see what all of the acronyms have and are using to keep our supposed representatives at bay.

    If they walked out, perhaps it would have been best to demand the director appear and start answering questions... starting with what is the disciplinary action you intend to take against your subordinates for deciding they get to just walk out after ignoring straight forward questions. Or perhaps they think they can ignore subpoenas as well as they ignore the Constitution.

  • On the post: There Are No Good Guys In A Battle Between (Likely) UFC And Ultimate Gay Fighter

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2014 @ 04:32pm

    Its got a U and an F people would totally be confused.
    Perhaps the best answer to both sides is just... FU.

  • On the post: Would You Pay $50 Per Episode To See Game Of Thrones?

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2014 @ 06:56am

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    Somewhere there is a TV exec with his hands over his ears yelling NO NO NO NO NO like a toddler.

    They spent years subdividing the world into little markets that they bleed a little at a time, how dare we build a world wide nearly instantaneously connected network and ruin their plans.

    Now they have to decide to dismantle the broken systems they created for the old way, embrace the new way, or just declare all out war on their CUSTOMERS and keep engaging in a losing battle.

  • On the post: The Guardian And Washington Post Win Pulitzers For Snowden Coverage

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2014 @ 01:14pm

    "can we finally stop people from claiming that Snowden was a "traitor" and admit that what he did was clearly whistleblowing in the furtherance of the public interest?"

    Perhaps you are unfamiliar with how the Government talking heads operate.

  • On the post: Bullied Student Records Bullies, Gets Threatened With Felony Charges For Violating Wiretapping Law

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2014 @ 12:30pm

    The authorities are always right, you can not question them.

    I think we should be more worried that this Judge is familiar with alleged bullying happening at the school.
    How many other kids were sentences because the school can never be at fault?

  • On the post: FBI Abruptly Walks Out On Senate Briefing After Being Asked How 'Insider Threat' Program Avoids Whistleblowers

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2014 @ 09:13am

    Well if you don't have to answer to anyone, of course you get to just walk out.

    We've seen media outlets not report on things to keep access.
    We've seen lawyers talking to clients while being listened to.
    We've seen a program where they create fake trails to coverup how evidence was gathered.

    How many more core protections can we hollow out until the entire thing collapses?

  • On the post: Would You Pay $50 Per Episode To See Game Of Thrones?

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2014 @ 05:51am

    "likely more than they'd pay individually"

    Which might be true to a point, but once you consider the number of people who don't have a couple hundred a month to piss away get a package to watch it on cable/satellite.
    Of course then you still suffer with the you have to watch it when we want you to watch it... because they are working on making sure that DVR solutions aren't that beneficial. One little programming slip, and you lose the first 5 minutes or last 5 minutes.
    Then you need to understand the neighborhood no longer gathers around the massive 8 inch set the rich neighbors bought (making sure little Jimmy never goes to college), they have massive screens in their pockets... and if the stars align right you might be lucky enough to have it offered (for an extra fee) for streaming... which will put you over your cap and push your cell bill to double your house payment.

    Or... you click a link, solve a captcha, zip it over to your preferred device and watch it how, when, where you want.

    At a buck a head, several million viewers is still millions coming in... cord cutting exists, perhaps it might be time to stop locking yourself into a dying platform and embrace direct sales. Better than neilson numbers to see how popular your content is, and I bet they might even pay an extra quarter for an ad free version.

    Perhaps it is time to stop playing cloak and dagger about the deals and the actual numbers.
    Movies make hundreds of millions, yet somehow never make enough to cover the costs to make it.
    So horrible is the math that they need tax breaks to keep filming shows with the highest ratings.

    It is time to force them to be honest, and reconnect with the market they take for granted. If you aren't making the consumer happy, you have failed in business.

  • On the post: Government Forces Free Press Advocacy Group To File Its Amicus Brief In NSL Case Under Seal

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2014 @ 04:09am

    But if it appears in a court document, the public might lose faith in the secret laws we use.

    Opposing a possibly misused law, we've shown the 'checks & balances' to these secret powers are impotent, having to be filed under seal raises serious questions.

    When everything looks like it needs to be a secret, perhaps we need to question that system. It is being overused and they keep pushing to hide more and more. Our Government decries dictators who hide things from their people, while trying to hide their own abuses of their own citizens.

    We need to demand they stop and make it stop.
    They have gone much further than many of the dystopian fiction writers imagined, sliding down the slippery slope that was always warned of. We need to climb back up the slope even if it is hard and arduous work.

  • On the post: Yet Another Copyright Troll Thinks It's Found The DMCA Subpoena Loophole That Slammed Shut Years Ago

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2014 @ 05:42pm

    Re: Re:

    Why thank you kind stranger.

  • On the post: Appeals Court Not At All Impressed By Prenda's Appeal

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2014 @ 04:15pm

    gif of me laughing goes here

  • On the post: Hollywood Piles On: MPAA Sues Megupload, Even Though They Already Got The Feds To Kill It

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 02:40pm

    Shame they waiting until after the other little shops tried to feed on the corpse, claiming insane losses to get themselves some "easy" money.

    Shame that half a billion put a real dent into the proceeds of their membership during that time. o_O

  • On the post: SEC Is A Due Process Nightmare: Searches Emails Without A Warrant, Refuses To Share Exculpatory Evidence

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 02:37pm

    Oh look more of our so called 'rights' being ignored by those in power... how many more of these until we decide they should no longer be there "representing" us when they do such a piss poor job of it.

  • On the post: Yet Another Copyright Troll Thinks It's Found The DMCA Subpoena Loophole That Slammed Shut Years Ago

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 02:03pm

    IIRC, and I'm old and forgetful, TF had a story in recent history where it looked like RightsCorp was not making much money from what they were doing.
    The business of rights 'enforcement' is being able to show a good balance sheet and sell out quickly.

    Nearly all of the major players in this enforcement boondoggle have been started by people with ties to the industry, who sell the new snakeoil off and cash out.

    Look at the history of DtecNet, that bastion of piracy fighting who demanded Google delist pages on HBO for having stolen content from... HBO. They spun up, acquired by another firm, acquired by yet another firm, and have the contract for 6 strikes.
    They say the pirates are stealing from them, I think they should look at the actual losses in paying for smoke and mirrors that do not solve what at its heart is a failure to adapt to what the market wants.

    But then these aren't the brightest bulbs, I've jousted online with one of the VPs... his last name is Steele (no not that one) and I wasn't kind. He denied facts I could prove and dismissed me... like that other Steele (and Stone) did. I like my odds.

  • On the post: US, Apparently With No Sense Of Irony, Preaching 'Openness' And 'Transparency' To Chinese

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 10:55am

    ?and we want the same openness and transparency and restraint from them.?

    Which means that all of the claimed hacking they have done in the US is going to at least triple so they catch up with what the US is doing.

  • On the post: Mike Rogers Still Pushing His 'Snowden Is A Russian Spy' Delusion, Citing Every Single 'Counterintelligence Official' In Support

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 09:42am

    "without providing any evidence beyond hearsay and conjecture"

    In his defense, this is how they got him to vote for a bunch of stupid shit and not ask questions about it.

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