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• On the post: Bell's Brewery Goes After Craft Brewer Over Trademark It Barely Uses & Hasn't Registered

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2015 @ 08:37am

  I was surprised to read about my hometown on TD and then disappointed in Bell's. Oberon is some seriously good beer, but it is crap like this that will keep me from drinking it when I go home this summer...

• On the post: Lawsuit Over DHS First Amendment-Violating Suspicious Activity Reports Given Green Light By Judge

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2015 @ 04:21pm

  Re: Re: Very bad comparison

  There was a video floating around YouTube from almost a year ago when a young congressman was speaking during a press conference. He was discussing how strongly he felt the report from the 9/11 commission should be made public. Kept saying things about him having to stop every other page or so and just absorb what he was reading and reorganize what he thought he knew. I found the video a couple months ago and was reasonably shocked it did not get more attention. I doubt if anything rises to 9/11 being an "inside job," but it is not a huge stretch that it contained information that incriminates the Saudi's or something similar. Maybe it shows that our intelligence agencies had some sort of prior knowledge yet sat on their hands so as to not lose one of their precious channels of surveillance. Anything is possible, but to believe anything that has come from our federal government in recent history is pretty naive.

• On the post: Michigan Attorney General Slaps Reporter With Bogus Subpoenas For Doing Her Job

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2015 @ 08:37am

  Is no one else amused by a reporter having the name Liebelson?

• On the post: NVIDIA Calls A Feature A 'Bug,' Strips Away Overclocking Option On Its Mobile Device Cards

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2015 @ 09:01am

  Re: Re: What I bought ...

  The reason they are miles ahead of AMD and the reason to not buy Intel chips are one and the same.

• On the post: Battle For Home Appliance Market Share Becomes Actual Battle, With Execs Vandalizing Machines And Indictments Handed Down

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2015 @ 09:13am

  ...

  Obstruction of business...? Not entirely sure what that means, but damn if that isn't dystopian sounding.

• On the post: To Enforce Emissions Standards, State Governments Are Looking To Ride Shotgun In Constituents' Vehicles

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2015 @ 01:53pm

  Re: Screw that, my answer is...

  I was just thinking that this would be a great incentive to buy electric. I am already eagerly awaiting the reasonably price Tesla option. This gives me another bullet point when trying to win over the wife :)

• On the post: Snowden Documents Show NSA Can't Keep Its Eyes On Its Own Papers; Harvests Data From Other Surveillance Agencies

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2015 @ 02:16pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  While I think McAfee is probably right, that dude is kind of nuts.

• On the post: Snowden Documents Show NSA Can't Keep Its Eyes On Its Own Papers; Harvests Data From Other Surveillance Agencies

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2015 @ 02:12pm

  As much as I would hate to glorify these people wiping their ass with our Constitution, that is some impressive shit.

• On the post: That Crazy Story About Making 'Hate Speech' A Crime? Yeah, That's Satire

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2015 @ 01:49pm

  Re: Clearly ...

  I have reported you for your hate speech.

• On the post: How Copyright Forced A Filmmaker To Rewrite Martin Luther King's Historic Words

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 31 Dec, 2014 @ 02:15pm

  I hope you paid a royalty to Cobert for the use of Truthiness.

• On the post: Good News: WhatsApp Gets Serious About End To End Encryption

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2014 @ 06:31am

  TextSecure

  I downloaded and started using TextSecure after my wife sent me a link to the EFF article rating different chat apps. I have since managed to convince a dozen or so of my closest contacts to start using it as well. It really is an excellent program. Very slick and clean. I just got the Android 5.0 update yesterday, which now has always-on VPN :):):)

• On the post: Law Enforcement Still Defending ComputerCOP: Says They'll Keep Distributing It Until After Someone's Been Hurt

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2014 @ 02:20pm

  I guess the competing product must be open and free internet? Competing with their dragnet? Idk, man... Nothing else makes sense to me.

• On the post: DEA Paid Amtrak Secretary $850,000 To Hand Over Confidential Passenger Lists For No Reason

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2014 @ 08:22am

  That last line makes me very sad and very angry..

• On the post: What Makes You Tell Others About Techdirt?

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2014 @ 08:31am

  Why I Share

  I have been a bit of a TD evangelist at times, depending on my audience. I think the driving force behind my sharing of the site with friends and coworkers is the general content and journalistic integrity of TD. You guys have opened my eyes to some seemingly obvious concepts (hindsight!). The tone of your writing fits well and your emphasis on economic principles is something I will always try to propagate. I turn people on to TD when I see a chance that you will be able to educate and shift perspectives the same way your writing has done for me.

• On the post: UK Advertising Regulator Nixes EA's Dungeon Keeper Advertisement Due To Microtransactions

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2014 @ 11:02am

  This is how a ton of mobile games work. Wait timers (build/training times) almost always get longer as the level of the building/troops being upgraded progresses. I hate grotesque monstrosity that EA has become, but that is the status quo in MANY games. Pocket Empires, Spartan Wars, Dragons of Atlantis, and almost any other game in related genres are the exact same way. If you upgrade buildings or train troops, expect those timers to get longer and longer.
  
  Still, fuck EA.
  
  
  
  Seriously, fuck EA.

• On the post: Would You Compromise Your Computer For One Cent An Hour? New Study Says Many Are Happy To Do Exactly That

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2014 @ 06:23am

  So all I need to safely make an extra $1/hr is a VM?

• On the post: Stingray Documents Show Law Enforcement Using 'Terrorism' To Obtain Equipment To Fight Regular Crime

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2014 @ 06:31am

  Re: No need for terrorists?

  I wish there was a "Sad but True" button I could click on.

• On the post: Music Freedom Or Holding Consumers Hostage? Letting ISPs Pick Winners And Losers Is A Problem

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2014 @ 11:38am

  Re:

  Maybe he should have said arbitrary? The point is that data caps do little to help with data congestion. People still use most of their data during the same peak hours.

• On the post: The $120 Smartphone Patent Tax: Patent Royalties Cost More Than The Actual Hardware In Your Phone

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 30 May, 2014 @ 02:05pm

  I agree, we all deserve more affordable products for our pubic.

• On the post: Dangerous Ruling: EU Says Google Must Help People Disappear Stuff They Don't Like From The Internet

  

  Village Idiot ( profile ), 13 May, 2014 @ 01:09pm

  Re: Re:

  I completely agree, but isn't the best way to get rid of a bad law to enforce it? Maybe if we can get enough companies to bring ISDS claims against nations pushing for them (ISDS), then they could be persuaded otherwise? I know, this is just crazy talk.

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