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• On the post: Once Again: Do Not Send Legal Threats To Companies Because You Don't Like What A User Says

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2008 @ 07:20am

  The Lawyer's open letter, linked to in the link, is a pretty effective piece on lawyering. If that doesn't dissuade the mynutrition side they deserve to lose what ever he can squeeze out of them.

• On the post: Politician Using Twitter To Ignite Misleading Partisan Fight Over Politicians Posting To Twitter

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2008 @ 05:40pm

  What if the twitters appeared on the official congressional pages as well? Would it be acceptable?

• On the post: Can A Company Ban Retailers From Selling Its Products On eBay?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 04 Jul, 2008 @ 08:05pm

  Re: Vacuums

  Hmmm, If this guy is really motivated to buy back each and every Kirby Vacuum one could probably get a fair markup on ebay if one had one to sell.

• On the post: Missouri Makes Online Harassment A Felony

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2008 @ 01:20am

  Re:

  Problem was the child at the heart of this is in her forties or fifties. Instead of teaching her kid the golden rule, not to be an idiot and play nice she committed cyber child abuse.
  
  I doubt she can ever live this down but twenty years of self sacrifice and good behavior might help.

• On the post: Missouri Makes Online Harassment A Felony

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2008 @ 04:35pm

  That law sure doesn't seem to address the real problem of the first case.

• On the post: If China's Great Firewall Is So Effective, Why Can't It Stop All The Malware Hosted There?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2008 @ 02:11am

  Funny thing is the Diane Rehm show yesterday had an hour on Cyber Threats .
  
  The one warning for people going to China was not to bring a laptop or a mobile phone with you and if you did bring one expect the Chinese Government to put spyware or some sort of hardware snooping on it at the border. One of the experts said they only send machines that they could break down, fully inspect and reinstall when they couldn't just use a binder full of paper.
  
  Diane is usually hopeless on this sort of topic but it was interesting none the less.

• On the post: Twitter As An Emergency Broadcast System? Doesn't It Have To Work Regularly First?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2008 @ 09:13pm

  Twitter has to be faster than the email system my county schools used to notify parents of a delay in arrival time for school buses. They held up the buses for around an hour for a particularly nasty storm at dismissal time a few weeks ago. The kids got home around 4:30pm instead of 3:30. I got an email notifying me of a delay at 9:17 PM.

• On the post: California To Copy NY's Bad Plan Forcing ISPs To Block Sites

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2008 @ 12:46am

  Re: Just a few questions.

  I wonder if this is the source of Verizon limiting newsgroups to the big 8 (comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.* and talk.*). It wouldn't bother me much but a few of my favorites are alt* groups not on the list.

• On the post: Italy Makes 'Deliberately Getting On TV' A Crime?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2008 @ 05:23am

  Since the Italian prime minister owns a bunch of TV stations this isn't much of a surprise. They would probably go after the guy in the rainbow wig with the John 3:16 sign.

• On the post: RIAA Goes Judge Shopping After One Judge Actually Pushes Back

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2008 @ 06:09am

  Re: Re: Re: Sanctions

  These are the sort of people that fines don't particularly effect. Time is more likely to be more precious than money.

• On the post: RIAA Goes Judge Shopping After One Judge Actually Pushes Back

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2008 @ 06:46am

  Re: Sanctions

  Add a month of weekends in orange jumpsuits picking up trash on the interstate for the laywers and all the senior partners of their firms and we would have a winner.

• On the post: What's Wrong With Putting A Fake Ad In A Newspaper?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2008 @ 05:53am

  The Inky has always had a peculiar sense of humor with reguards to advertising it's advertising department.
  
  I remember a full page ad which wanted to know where 14th street had disappeared to. If you don't know Philadelphia the number streets run from east to west with one major exception the 14th street is called Broad Street.
  
  Anyone thin skinned enough to sue over being fooled is a fool to remember. It probably helps to have this class of people self-identify themselves so they can be watched and kept from hurting themselves and others.

• On the post: How Would You DVR-Proof TV Shows?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2008 @ 10:23pm

  Release them on Beta tapes.

• On the post: How The Digital TV Transition Will Accidentally Help HDTV Sales

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2008 @ 11:47am

  Re: TV Sale

  FWIW over the air HD signals are supposed to be superior to almost any you can get from a cable system or satellite system. They use compression on the re-distributors.

• On the post: Entire Minnesota Town Removed From Google Street View

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2008 @ 06:54am

  There ain't no such town if it ain't on Google

  As far as I'm concerned if the town isn't on Google it doesn't exist. This town is a fraud. Obviously it is a real estate scam. :-)

• On the post: Social Networking Site Bans Anyone Over Age 36 To (Sorta) Deal With Sex Offender Law

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 24 May, 2008 @ 02:22pm

  Next comes the age discrimination law suit

  Next in the news should be the prosecution on age discrimination. After that the class action lawsuit by all of the injured parties. IE the old coots like us.

• On the post: Banner Ads Are Bad Content

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 21 May, 2008 @ 11:52pm

  Sounds like you have another decade to take the suckers for all they are worth.
  
  What really annoys me about vertical banners is that some sites have them in a fixed spot on the page and if I enlarge a picture on another portion of the page it runs under the banner.

• On the post: Senator Lieberman Tries Hunting Down Terrorist Videos On YouTube

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 20 May, 2008 @ 11:50am

  Re: Re: How did they magically get on the internet

  >"Such as a black eye for saying someone's wife is fat..."
  
  >And an assault charge for the guy who gave the black eye.
  
  Yeah that is inviting the Streisand Effect. Are you dumb enough to press charges when you deserve the black eye? Some how I doubt a DA would even waste his time on it.

• On the post: Can We Send A Moron In A Hurry With A Mini Golf Club Over To Monster Cable?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 16 May, 2008 @ 07:16pm

  Universal should sue

  Given the Universal classic Movie Monsters predate the Monster cable cabal by quite a few years they should sue the wiry interlopers.

• On the post: Prosecutors Go Overboard In Indicting Woman Involved In MySpace Hoax That Resulted In Suicide

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 16 May, 2008 @ 07:07am

  Re: Perhaps they don't mean it...

  I guess taking her in and locking up her on a preemptive suicide watch is overkill.
  
  hey should at least make her miserable for the rest of her life but she did a pretty good job of that already.

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