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• On the post: Compare And Contrast: Treatment Of Thomas Drake & Hillary Clinton For Having Classified Info

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2016 @ 05:37am

  Re: Re: Let us clarify this:

  I sincerely wish that election ballots the world over would come with a "None of the Above" option. We're always told that voting is of the utmost importance, and it is, but there has to be a way to let the political system know that the current crop of candidates is just not up to snuff.
  
  I don't envy the USA at this minute...

• On the post: Rep. Speier Wants To Register Every Prepaid Phone Purchase, In Case Someone Bad Uses One As A Burner Phone

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2016 @ 02:00am

  Re: My Emergency Prepaid Phone.

  Wow, your story hit me right in the feels...
  
  Your sister sounds awesome; could you not persuade her to run for Congress?

• On the post: Namespaces, Intellectual Property, Dependencies And A Big Giant Mess

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2016 @ 04:17am

  Re: Re: Re: Numbers are the answer to remove petiness from the world of IP

  I am not a number, I am a free man!
  
  Be seeing you.

• On the post: Ignorant Bigot Arrested In UK For Tweeting About Being An Obnoxious Ignorant Bigot

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2016 @ 04:10am

  Re:

  Most of Magna Carta has been repealed... Imagine that for a moment.
  
  Here's a sad little factoid; as of 2008 British people were no longer able to freely forage for firewood in The Kings Forests. For health and safety reasons. God forbid That Sceptered Isle should ever need to go to war again, for their mighty army of middle-managers would surely lose.

• On the post: Namespaces, Intellectual Property, Dependencies And A Big Giant Mess

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2016 @ 03:33am

  Re:

  You would have hoped that NPM would have taken a more central and positive role in this dispute. What were they thinking? And you're right... so what if there are two 'kik's with skin in the game. Humanity copes well enough with a finite range of names, what makes trademark law think it's so special?
  
  My biggest takeaway on this though are the comments from Sven Slootweg - open source is NOT as secure as we were led to believe.

• On the post: Namespaces, Intellectual Property, Dependencies And A Big Giant Mess

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2016 @ 03:18am

  Re: Numbers are the answer to remove petiness from the world of IP

  So who is Number 1?

• On the post: Senator Wyden Warns That The Justice Department Is Lying To The Courts; Also Still Worried About Secret Law

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2016 @ 03:03am

  Re: Get some BackBone, Wyden !

  You're blaming the good guy?

• On the post: Ignorant Bigot Arrested In UK For Tweeting About Being An Obnoxious Ignorant Bigot

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2016 @ 03:52am

  Mathew P Doyle is indeed an ignorant bigot

  Erm... Mathew P Doyle, in the off chance you should ever read this, I would love for you to kindly explain to me exactly what a "Muslim woman" looks like...
  
  I understand you're a "PR guy"? I would also love to know your thoughts on how to best go about attracting business in your line of work...

• On the post: French Politicians Want To Create Ancillary Copyright In Thumbnail Images

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2016 @ 01:12pm

  Re: ... forty-third time's the charm?

  "...this new right would be managed by one or more collecting societies, regardless of the intention of the rightholders..."
  
  This is the very definition of corruption: introducing a new law that grants your crony the right to set and demand a tax that usurps the property of others.

• On the post: France Still Thinks It Regulates Entire Internet, Fines Google For Not Making Right To Be Forgotten Global

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2016 @ 12:45pm

  Re:

  I'm curious as to how the French can possibly believe their ridiculous argument that this "is only about French people, and protecting French people's rights". It's stacking one countries laws up against another.
  
  Although the fine is (only) €100k, I for one hope that Google appeal and continue to fight.

• On the post: How Apple Could Lose By Winning: The DOJ's Next Move Could Be Worse

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2016 @ 03:01pm

  Re: Who could do this?

  "The FBI doesn't have the expertise."
  
  They'd contract it out to Apple.

• On the post: John Oliver Explains Why You Should Side With Apple Over The FBI Better Than Most Journalists

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2016 @ 04:28am

  Re: The Media Not Realizing That They Are Clueless Concerning Encryption

  "...third party encryption software is different from the iPhone itself. Breaking the iPhone, will not magically give law enforcement access to the communications of terrorists using this third party software."
  
  My take on this is that the goal is to access the endpoints. The easiest way to defeat encryption is not to brute force decrypt (which is hard, if not outright impossible) but to access an endpoint, and thereby gain access to the plaintext. This case against Apple is a step in that direction.

• On the post: Guy Who Pretends He Invented Email Whines At Every Journalist For Writing Obit Of Guy Who Actually Helped Create Email

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2016 @ 09:58am

  Re: Ray did more than just work on email

  "And to Shiva Ayyadura: how DARE you use the sad occasion of Ray's death to engage in even more self-aggrandizing fabricated PR. That's not only bullshit, it's vile."
  
  +1 Couldn't have said it better myself...

• On the post: DRM Is Evil, Part 8,492: Nook Pulls Out Of UK, Exploring Options To Let People Retain Access To At Least Some Books

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2016 @ 01:31am

  Re: Old Tech

  I quite like eBooks. They're convenient and let me read several at a time (parallel reading?). Also, I get to carry a huge reference library around with me, which is fantastic when stuck in dull meetings.
  
  But I avoid DRM like the plague. Everything I have is format shifted and managed by Calibre. If you've never come across this application, I strongly recommend it.

• On the post: DRM Is Evil, Part 8,492: Nook Pulls Out Of UK, Exploring Options To Let People Retain Access To At Least Some Books

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2016 @ 01:15am

  Re: Avast me hearties!

  Exactly - what happened to Linn Nygaard's Kindle spells out the danger with devices we don't own.

• On the post: Techdirt Needs Your Help To Fight Encryption Fearmongering

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2016 @ 12:27pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  I don't know what Techdirt's traffic is and I don't particularly care. What I DO know is that Alexa is not the place to go to for reliable information.
  
  Site rankings and SEO are horrible distortions. Your suspicions may be valid, but again, I simply don't care. Techdirt is a business. Mike Masnick is in business. So we should be surprised if he acts businesslike?

• On the post: Techdirt Needs Your Help To Fight Encryption Fearmongering

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2016 @ 12:11pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  "You publish some of the most ridiculous crap I've ever read..."
  
  You're entitled to your opinion, even if it's wrong.

• On the post: Techdirt Needs Your Help To Fight Encryption Fearmongering

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2016 @ 11:43am

  Re:

  The first time you mentioned Alexa I put it down to blissful ignorance. The second time, well, it just saddened me. Please don't go for the trifecta...
  
  You do know, don't you, just how worthless Alexa is, right? It's wide open to abuse and it's technical model has so many failings I wouldn't know where to begin.

• On the post: New Hampshire Legislator Introduces Bill Protecting Libraries' Right To Run Tor Relays

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2016 @ 11:18pm

  Tone deaf

  "Just terrific…… that kid seems to be thinking an inch past the end of her nose".
  
  Whoever made that comment has no sense of irony; narrow-minded entitlement is an attitude all too common in law enforcement.

• On the post: Guardian Tech Reporter: Apple Should Help FBI Break Into iPhone Because I Don't Consider Privacy All That Important

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2016 @ 11:08pm

  Re: Not a fight to pick right now

  Seriously? Write us a new operating system, it can't possibly be burdensome.

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