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• On the post: Study Claims Old People Select Stronger Passwords Than Teens

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2012 @ 10:25pm

  Re: They just gave out the passwords?

  If I had an online breech I'd load it with shotgun shells and blow the heads off of all the trolls.
  
  /Unnecessary Spelling Nazi

• On the post: TV Network Exec Argues That Anything That Causes Cable Subscribers To Cut The Cord Is Illegal

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 31 May, 2012 @ 09:11pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I think that you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the term BROADCAST.
  As in BROADLY CASTING the signal to the public for anyone to access.
  If it's in the air, anyone can do anything they want with it. Doubly so if it's broadcast to the public and not some pseudo-private signal.
  Restricting a broadcast to just a small area doesn't make ANY sense. If the point were to do that, then they should make up a bullshit legalese jargon term, perhaps "publicly oriented narrowshoot" or something else braindead like that.
  What next? Are you going to claim that if the government wanted to it could ban the retransmission of special shade of aubergine outside of the small area it's being blasted into?

• On the post: Fair Use, Public Domain And Creative Commons: They're Not All The Same

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 30 May, 2012 @ 10:30pm

  Re: DRM restrictions in CC license?

  I don't know about whether this situation has come up. But it seems to me to be a fairly useless workaround. If CC requires a non drm copy included with drm copy then it destroys the entire point of drm altogether (delightful IMHO). And I'm nearly certain no distributor who requires drm would never allow a simultaneously transmitted copy in the clear.

• On the post: UK High Court Judges Can't Agree On Twitter Joke Issue, Require Rehearing Of The Case

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 30 May, 2012 @ 04:52pm

  Next day in the Lancet:

  "Saying Obviously Sarcastic Things on Twitter Considered Harmful"

• On the post: Tougher Enforcement In Sweden Doesn't Slow Down Public's File Sharing

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 25 May, 2012 @ 04:04pm

  Re:

  Here's the thing:
  
  People don't like seeing a good product wrapped in a turd sandwich. That's what the entertainment distribution industry is doing. They have a great product on rye, then take a dump on top of that and hand it to you in a soiled diaper.
  
  It doesn't matter if there's a good product in it, it's still a shit sandwich, and nobody wants it.
  
  
  Pirates have developed a way to perfectly de-shit the official industry sandwich, and distribute it for free.
  
  
  Which would make you happier? Paying a lot for a shit sandwich you can only eat at a specific mealtime, on a specific plate, with only one choice of beverage? Or getting an illegal clean sandwich for free, whenever you're hungry, and eat it however you want?

• On the post: Broadband In Crisis: Does The US Need Regulation To Force Meaningful Competition?

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 24 May, 2012 @ 05:09pm

  Re: WHAT WE DO NEED

  What you paid for was Up To 1.5 mbps which is ~187.5 KiB/s, so in some unit of measurment conversion you're getting what you paid for. And all the ISP has to provide contractually is that you might get up to 1.5 mbps, which means they can provide you an 8 bit/s connection and still be holding up their end of the deal....

• On the post: Broadband In Crisis: Does The US Need Regulation To Force Meaningful Competition?

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 24 May, 2012 @ 05:02pm

  Re: Did I miss something in Geography?

  I'd say since the 1950s after the Korean War, when the US pretty much rebuilt it's entire economy into a western style of market. South Korea is a huge trading partner with the US, and has so much immigration back and forth it's pretty much a western country.

• On the post: Google Lifts The Veil On Copyright Takedowns: Reveals Detailed Data On Who Requests Link Removals

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 24 May, 2012 @ 03:25pm

  Re: Re:

  That, or promoting ugh MyCleanPC. With the exact same sob story about their grandma that's in about 20,000 other /. posts. Their IP should just get banned.

• On the post: Congress Proposes Giving Another $10 Million To ICE To Censor More Websites For Hollywood

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 24 May, 2012 @ 12:32pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This is not censorship

  I'd say it's more like storing all of your cash in a cardboard refrigerator box on the curb.
  
  Anyone can take a peek, and it could be gone tomorrow.
  
  
  
  
  But it's a REALLY BIG cardboard box. You could put anything in it!

• On the post: Microsoft-Funded BitTorrent Disruptor Won't Make Pirates Pay, But Might Break The Law

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 14 May, 2012 @ 12:37pm

  Re: Easily blocked...

  Indeed,
  
  The most popular torrent clients all have peer-blocking capabilities built in, if not turned on by default. These include:
  uTorrent
  Transmission (comes default with Ubuntu and variants)
  Deluge
  Azureus, and Vuze.
  
  There are other security features available in bittorrent as well, such as using encryption, and blocking peers dynamically when they send too many bad packets.
  
  Finally, there are also pseudonymous file sharing services like anomos, and others that can guarantee at the very least, plausible deniability.
  
  Any attempt to try and destroy filesharing is bound to fail. People HATE being censored, and that is what blocking the transfer of ANY information is.
  
  Even if society is willing to tolerate low levels of censorship, there will always be those who can't stand it.
  "Like a splinter in their mind" as stated in The Matrix (fair use goddamnit, I can quote small passages without anyone's permission)

• On the post: Cultural Insanity: You Can't Show A Painting In A Movie Without Paying The Copyright Holder

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2012 @ 02:38pm

  Re: Re: Re: 1907....uh?

  I did do some research, and in the discussion page for this piece, they determined with a lot of specific references that the original date of publication is most likely 1910, from an architectural journal, in addition, it was also exhibited from 1916 to 1917, which doesn't technically count as publication. There are likely further publications perhaps lost to history from between 1910 and 1923, but from the current evidence, I think there's a pretty strong case for the painting belonging to the public domain.
  
  I also found a filing for the painting in the US Copyright Office's database from 1994, on the basis for photolithographic reproduction, and claiming it was a pre-existing work. The link is Here
  
  It all seems utterly rediculous that something made in 1907, and published almost certainly before 1923 is being claimed under copyright.
  
  I couldn't find any original registration for Les demoiselles d'Avignon itself before 1994, just objects that incorporated it.
  
  Copyright is so broken. How can you promote creativity if it's illegal to copy other's work (with attribution). And I find it obscene to deny the public all artwork created by people who are long dead.
  
  What a corporate load of shit.

• On the post: The Chilling Effects Of Copyfraud: Blocking A Researcher From Fair Use… And Scaring Him Into Staying Quiet About It

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2012 @ 02:55pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: chilling

  For Godsake! You used a strawman car metaphor in an attempt to compare using an idea without permission to using a physical object without permission.
  
  The commenter was pointing out how laughably irrelevant your car analogy is in this debate.
  
  Let me explain in very simple terms what's very wrong with your astoundingly shortsighted argument:
  A car is a physical object. If I take your car, you are unable to use it. That is called theft.
  If, on the other hand, I copy your idea/expression, the "original" is left unaffected, and still in your "possession". It is still intact. What's more, now I have a copy of the idea, and it can be used by both of us.
  
  Your repulsively stupid, and blatantly misleading car metaphor is tissue thin, and doesn't apply to the debate at all.
  
  In summary: I sincerely hope you realize how terribly thoughtless, inept and generally uneducated you sound.
  If you can't tell the difference between intellectual "property" and physical property, you simply don't belong on the internet.

• On the post: DailyDirt: If I Could Catch Time In A Bottle…

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 08:10pm

  Re: Charge

  It would have a net charge of 0, exactly the same as Hydrogen.
  
  An antiproton has a charge of -1, a positron has a charge of +1, making a neutral particle.
  
  The "surface" of antihydrogen would be positive and attracted to the "surface" of regular matter.
  
  The general consensus is that antimatter has regular positively signed energy-matter of the same values as it's matter counterparts, and would fall towards regular matter and antimatter alike.

• On the post: UK Labour Party: Let's Just Get On With Kicking People Offline Over Copyright Infringement

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2012 @ 04:07pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I actually have some experience with closed systems of media distribution.
  
  It was with my cellphone back in the early 2000s. TMobile offered a music store for it, that was terrible. It was mostly popular music. Nobody bought any. It was too expensive. Granted people decided to just use mp3 players instead. I was determined to get the music I wanted.
  
  My phone was "perfectly" locked down. I couldn't download via http. I couldn't listen to anything on the SD card that didn't have the correct DRM signature.
  
  Does this sound like a way to make money? I bought the phone because it said "music capabilities." in the end it had piss me off capabilities. In the end I was able to hack the phone to pieces and play whatever the fuck I wanted on it.
  
  If there was a decent offering, and the ability to play whatever I wanted to from anywhere I got it, I might have bought music to play on it.

• On the post: Techdirt Deemed Harmful To Minors In Germany

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2012 @ 11:00am

  Harmful

  I'm just waiting for an academic paper to come out titled:
  
  Techdirt Harmful, Considered Harmful

• On the post: Paramount Wants To Talk To Students About How They're All Thieves & Then Ask For Ideas On What To Do

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2012 @ 08:20pm

  Re:

  When I was attending technical school, every first login of the quarter I was met with the "Academic Honesty and Network usage policy" boilerplate.
  
  The terms I saw in the student handbook said I would certainly lose credit for the quarter for copyright violation of any kind, and that I would be kicked out entirely if I repeated offended. They lumped all copyright infringement in with plagiarism.

• On the post: DailyDirt: In Money, We Trust (Sometimes)

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2012 @ 06:28pm

  Re: A new economic stimulus strategy?

  I'm pretty sure that devaluing the dollar would penalize the poorest segments of the population first. If you think about it marginally, then someone who makes, say, $100 a month experiences a much harsher effect from their $100 reducing in value by $0.01 per dollar than a millionaire who makes $300 million a year.
  
  It would be cutting off your nose, to spite your face. While the poor may lose less money in absolute terms, their real wealth will suffer astronomically compared to the richest people. Is it worth taking money away from the most impoverished?
  
  Economies require at least one relatively stable element to trade on. If the currency becomes too unstable, nobody will want to use it because the fair value of exchanges for goods and services can't be determined accurately (or in the case of hyperinflation, the value of currency isn't even able to be approximately determined)

• On the post: Righthaven Screws Up (Again); Appeal Dismissed

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2011 @ 04:47pm

  Righthaven

  Trying to escape, like lice in a burning wig

• On the post: Copyright Tourism: Korean Companies Sue Guy From Australia For Copyright Infringement… In California

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2011 @ 04:42pm

  Re: Re:

  If trolls need a home, wouldn't they be most comfortable under a bridge? ;-]

• On the post: Patent Troll Lawyers Smacked Down, Made To Pay Sanctions, For Mass Lawsuits Followed By Quick Settlement Offers

  

  LDoBe ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2011 @ 11:42am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: It just occurred to me

  Every zero lawyer go! You know what you doing!
  
  ....For great justice...

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