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• On the post: Grateful Dead Label Demands NPR Feature Story To Blog A Grateful Dead Song

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 15 May, 2008 @ 08:43am

  FWIW a Grateful Dead story would fit in the 1968 series that NPR has been running on All things Considered. Too bad they can't do it now with out looking like they folded.

• On the post: Now Texas Is Wondering Why Amazon Doesn't Pay State Taxes

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 13 May, 2008 @ 06:34pm

  Re: Re: Amazon dosent pay sales tax, customers do.

  Eh I'd bet Amazon at least threatens to move to next state over before this is all over.

• On the post: RIAA Massively Ramps Up Warning Notices To College Students Over File Sharing

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 02 May, 2008 @ 07:45pm

  RIAA the latest spammers

  Lets call a spade a shovel. The RIAA are spamming colleges and then claiming that they students are crooks because they get the spam.

• On the post: Orson Scott Card Rips Apart JK Rowling For The Lexicon Lawsuit

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 02 May, 2008 @ 07:17pm

  Shakespeare was right-- First we kill all the lawyers

  OSC sure got her good. She needs to fire any lawyer who would even suggest a suit was a sound or wise idea. Perhaps even getting any shyster who would take her money disbarred and made the laughing stock of what ever state bar accepted him.

• On the post: A Hostile Microsoft Bid For Yahoo! Would Likely Be A Pyrrhic Victory

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 01 May, 2008 @ 04:33am

  Yahoo prepared to abandon ship

  I heard on the latest TWIT that the Yahoo software engineers resumes are starting to circulate in anticipation of M$ taking over. What is Yahoo worth without it's best programming talent? I'd guess it would just be real estate, trade names and portal doors.

• On the post: Marvel Should Keep A Tighter Leash On Its Lawyers

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2008 @ 07:43pm

  Re:

  They used an in house guy- Matt Murdoch and he really doesn't understand film being blind and all.

• On the post: ABC Tries To Limit How Other Networks Report On Debate; Networks Ignore ABC

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2008 @ 02:00am

  Re:

  The target audience of the debate was Pennsylvania whose primary was coming up. Which is why it was scheduled so early for the left coast.

• On the post: ABC Tries To Limit How Other Networks Report On Debate; Networks Ignore ABC

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2008 @ 07:42am

  Too bad for ABC the big headline from the debate was how badly ABC screwed it up.

• On the post: ABC Tries To Limit How Other Networks Report On Debate; Networks Ignore ABC

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2008 @ 07:42am

  Too bad for ABC the big headline from the debate was how badly ABC screwed it up.

• On the post: AT&T-Funded Politicians Accuse Google Of Gaming The Spectrum Auction System

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2008 @ 01:23pm

  Re: Re: Re: There is no Game= yep, = tough luck

  How can anyone claim that Google cost the government money on this. If any thing Google forced up the bidding price for this spectrum.

• On the post: Oregon Using Copyright Law To Prevent Other Sites From Publicizing Oregon Law

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2008 @ 04:05am

  They need the BJC lawyer to slap em down

  Ok so if you don't publish the law you get secret prosecutions and an island prison.

• On the post: Cities Caught Illegally Tampering With Traffic Lights To Increase Revenue Of Red Light Cameras

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2008 @ 08:18am

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  The minimum length of the yellow light should be based on the posted speed of the road with a possible fudge factor added for roads that get driven faster than that speed limit.
  
  If a violation is found all tickets since the last valid inspection should be refunded by the camera operator. In the event of an outside firm operating a camera system the collected fines are still paid to the municipality. That is a 200% penalty on an outside operator.

• On the post: Dumb Sprint 'Security' Questions Make It Easier To Hijack Accounts

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2008 @ 06:50am

  Re: Finally someone is taking on these stupid security "experts"

  Nothing. Password reset email to my email account with a short duration of usefulness is my favorite choice.
  
  I like my verisign key from Paypal. It generates a random looking six digit number that I append to my my password. Too bad they made it possible to talk around that.

• On the post: Brazil Bans Bully And A Bunch Of Blogs

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2008 @ 06:12am

  Banned in Brazil Tag

  If it is banned in Brazil it must be good.

• On the post: WiFi Fear Kills Free Local WiFi Plan

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2008 @ 04:19am

  Tin foil hats for Sebastopol

  There is an urgent shortage of tin foil hats in Sebastopol, CA please send them to the city council for distribution.

• On the post: RIAA Now Open To 'You Must Be A Criminal' Tax On ISP Fees

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2008 @ 04:40am

  Re: For Poor Artists

  Apparently the RIAA is bad at distributing it's booty to the artists. It would be interesting to see the artists sue them from the other end for their cut.

• On the post: Congress Investigating Alleged Problems With Martin's Management Of The FCC

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2008 @ 04:52pm

  Hopefully this will cause the FCC to grind to a halt for the next year or so.

• On the post: Air Force The Latest To Make Illegal False DMCA Claim

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2008 @ 08:59am

  I heard they need lawyers in Afghanistan.

• On the post: What Good Does It Do To Shut Down Trade Show Booths Over Patent Claims?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2008 @ 04:20pm

  Holy Streisand effect what was seized and what did it do?
  
  Seems to that you would want something from a stolen patent to make lots of money for your competitor so there is something to sue for later.

• On the post: Canadian Folk Band Wants Harry Potter DVDs, CDs, Games Destroyed Due To Similar Name

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2008 @ 12:25am

  Re: Re: JKR prolly knew this

  No Rowling borrowed Wyrd Sisters from Pratchett who may have lifted it from Shakespeare. The Bacon estate should sue.

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