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• On the post: Next Time Someone Suggests Piracy Will Kill Music, Remind Them That Music Survived The Last Ice Age

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2012 @ 06:12pm

  Re: Re: RE: Piracy Will Kill Music

  I'm guess solidarity against the copyright trolls is not the really first priority for somebody who names themselves 'okdeadhead' and that their main concern is more like solidarity against anyone who does not agree that the Grateful Dead are the greatest thing that ever happened.

• On the post: Cloud Computing To Save Europe, Or Just Iceland?

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2012 @ 10:51am

  Re: Re: I don't understand...

  "And we employ more than 6 people to run it."
  
  So, 7 then? I'm thinking 7.

• On the post: 'Human Error' Briefly Kills All Shortened Twitter Links

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2012 @ 10:46am

  Re: Re:

  The key word in your argument is 'where unnecessary'. There is simply no other good solution to the problem of posting a link in a character-limited space.

• On the post: No, Mitt Romney Didn't Personally Hack Your Facebook

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2012 @ 08:11am

  Techdirt you have fumbled this story. Rather than disproving something few people would actually believe, maybe a better lede would have been that this is the most politically disturbing data point yet -- by far -- in the ongoing tale of Facebook liking things against the user's will.
  
  Facebook's automatic like system is now even distorting the picture of political allegiances online: that's the story here, not debunking some ridiculous Mitt-sion Impossible scenario.

• On the post: Harvard Business Review Continues To Innovate On The eBook Front; Offers 'Shared Pricing' On Recent Publication

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2012 @ 08:01am

  Here's what I do in response to this. I take that coupon, and I throw it away.

• On the post: 'Human Error' Briefly Kills All Shortened Twitter Links

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2012 @ 07:32am

  Re:

  Gee, let's see which is much shorter...
  
  http://t.co/123456 ?
  
  or...
  
  http://199.59.148.12/123456 ?
  
  I'll give you some time to figure it out.

• On the post: 'Human Error' Briefly Kills All Shortened Twitter Links

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2012 @ 07:16am

  (1) All web links are vulnerable to future breakage. However, we obviously cannot dispense with web links, because they are the only way to exchange references on the web.
  
  (2) All shortened links are vulnerable to future breakage. However, we obviously cannot dispense with shortened links, because they are the only way to exchange references on the shortened web.
  
  In order to convince me there is something wrong with using shortened links, you have to convince that statement (2) is false, despite the fact that statement (1) is obviously true.
  
  Good luck with that.

• On the post: Iranians Protest Leads To The Return Of Gmail

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2012 @ 10:47am

  "complaints from Iranian officials" ≠ "Iranians protest"
  
  I would never have come here to read this article if the headline hadn't implied falsely that ordinary Iranian citizens had mounted a protest. Which means that essentially you tricked me into loading this page.

• On the post: UN: We Don't Want To Take Over The Internet… Just Fundamentally Change How It Works

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2012 @ 10:24am

  Re: Re:

  You're impressively delusional, please keep it up. Trolls like you are basically a gift to all copyfighters everywhere.

• On the post: Oh Look: Police Can Use Backpage.com To Track Down, Arrest & Convict Pimps & Prostitutes

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2012 @ 08:14am

  The anti-sex and anti-pornography crowd can't suppress their hated material legally, so they use anti-prostitution to try to stomp on the services with sex-based classifieds. Once you realise this, it all makes perfect sense. The crusaders *simply don't care* about stopping prostitution. That is just a stalking horse. Just like the censors *don't really care* about child pornography -- that's not their issue. Censorship is their issue.

• On the post: UN: We Don't Want To Take Over The Internet… Just Fundamentally Change How It Works

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2012 @ 05:52pm

  I'm acquiring a habit of skipping the first three paragraphs of almost every Techdirt article, making a beeline for the blockquote, and just reading the paragraph of two after that. Is that wrong?

• On the post: NYTimes Columnist Explains How He Torrented 'The Bourne Identity' Because It Wasn't Available… Then Sent A Check

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2012 @ 06:48am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Weird

  It's not 'frenchie' it's British you espece d'idiot.

• On the post: Judge Orders Woman To Delete Her Facebook Page For Typing LOL About Her DUI

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2012 @ 06:31am

  Re: Childish

  Well, *I'll* bet half the people you have seen writing 'LOL' could have written circles around you in complete grammatical sentence form, had they so desired... ROFL

• On the post: This Goes Beyond Tablets: Apple, Amazon & Google Are Betting On Economic Philosophies

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2012 @ 07:32am

  This is just the whole printer / ink cartridge market approach warmed over. I believe Gilette invented it with their razors and blades. I can't believe people are talking about it "make money when you use it" like it's new and brilliant.

• On the post: New Yorker Demands Licensing Fee To Repost 'Nipplegate' Comic On Facebook

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2012 @ 02:10pm

  Re: Non-Story?

  Facebook apologised for censoring the cartoon in the first place, not for New Yorker's copyright maximalism. Nobody has apologised for that so what are you on about.

• On the post: Your Cynicism About Lobbyists Only Helps The Lobbyists Win

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2012 @ 09:16pm

  Not to champion cynicism or anything, but it simply isn't true that votes trump lobbyists; not when the candidates refuse to differentiate themselves on issues the voters care about -- which is precisely the situation that arises when the same powerful lobbies are playing all sides.

• On the post: Is The Tide Turning On Bad Copyright Laws?

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2012 @ 08:10pm

  Awful. The new Canadian copyright law is awful. It wouldn't matter if they set anybody can copy whatever they wish in a free-for-all, because the presence of DRM entirely cancels every other right set for in the bill. This is a shell game -- a pure tapdance. Next they'll say that everyone gets a million dollars but only if the person who already owns the million dollars doesn't want to put a stamped-it, double-locksies on it.

• On the post: Should Robots Get Rights?

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2012 @ 07:29pm

  Frakking toasters! Kill them all.
  
  Seriously, though, robots should have rights the moment they start to care.

• On the post: The Inevitable Crowdfunding Backlash When People Realize Projects Fail & Change

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2012 @ 09:20pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  The vast majority of people do not fall for any stupid Nigerian scams. People are not that stupid. What planet do you live on? I saw stats on it once. Only a small fraction of 1% of people are prone to scams like that, but since you can send millions of emails at essentially zero cost, a miniscule fraction is all it takes. The same cannot be said for Kickstarter.

• On the post: Samsung/Apple Jury Foreman's Explanation For Verdict Shows He Doesn't Understand Prior Art

  

  Laroquod ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2012 @ 07:02pm

  Re: Re: stupid

  You've missed the point. How is it that Samsung is liable IN THIS CASE for infringing Apple's patents IN THIS CASE even though Samsung's software will not run on an iPhone? The foreman decided the issue one way to dismiss non-Apple prior art, and then discarded that reasoning a short while later in order NOT to dismiss Apple's prior art. The whole thing smells fishy and I call bullshit on this whole set of reasoning -- I don't believe that's the reason this verdict came out the way it did. I think the foreman and the rest of the jury went in with their minds made up and then just rationalised whatever it would take to get there -- the foreman was very helpful in that regard.

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