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• On the post: Senator Feinstein Asks President Obama To Declassify Senate's CIA Torture Report

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2016 @ 06:47am

  Can't see a good reason why it couldn't just appear over at Wikileaks. Attach the Panetta review for good measure.

• On the post: Trump Appoints Third Anti-Net Neutrality Advisor To Telecom Transition Team

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2016 @ 01:20pm

  Re: Re: Re: Finally!

  4 Years? He'll be impeached for something stupid he does well before that.

• On the post: Trump Appoints Third Anti-Net Neutrality Advisor To Telecom Transition Team

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2016 @ 01:17pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Looks to me that he's draining the swamp into the White House...

• On the post: Prince Estate Sues Tidal, The Streaming Service That's Kind To Artists, For Copyright Infringement

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2016 @ 05:32am

  Prince is dead. There can be no further creative works from him, so there is no further need for incentives for Prince. Copyright held by individuals should expire with the artist. Tidal should be free to stream this, as should anyone else.
  Life + 50/70 years is complete nonsense.

• On the post: Somehow Everyone Comes Out Looking Terrible In The Effort For Election Recounts

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2016 @ 01:17pm

  Re:

  Trump isn't a patch on Boris Johnson for buffoonery - by comparison, Trump is just a bigot and an idiot.

• On the post: Trump, GOP Prepare To Gut FCC Boss Tom Wheeler's Populist Reforms…Under The False Banner Of Populist Reform

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2016 @ 07:57am

  Re: A populist revolt was never happening

  Unfortunately, it's a "post-truth" populist revolt. This idea that facts and truth don't matter as long as you get results is going to live as long as it's first disaster. Not sure if that is Brexit or Trump.
  
  The idea that Donald Trump will do anything for the economy except granting large corporations more rent seeking opportunities ought to have been apparent to anyone that showed the slightest interest in his history.
  
  Donald Trump's entire career has been predicated on inheriting a vast empire and he hasn't the imagination to conceive of anything else.

• On the post: Take Note: Copyright Troll Gets Stiff Response From Someone It Tried To Bully, Immediately Runs Away

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2016 @ 06:18am

  Re:

  Apparently, there are also questions as to whether the accusers are real people.

• On the post: Copyright Office Fucks Over Thousands Of Sites With Plans To Remove Their DMCA Safe Harbors

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2016 @ 09:19am

  Re: Then again...

  Registering copyright works always was a no-brainer - but that is not the issue here. It's registering a DMCA agent.
  
  Copyright cultists managed to change the law from registered works only to "everything" years ago - because they don't care about workable solutions and think they can profit by it. Probably their hands guiding this idiocy as well.
  
  I suspect a BETTER idea would be to get Congress to apply that solution to DMCA registration:
  - No idiots at the copyright office screwing things up
  - No-on loses safe harbour
  Problem solved.

• On the post: Actor James Woods Gloats Over Death Of Random Twitter Troll He Sued To Unmask [Updated]

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2016 @ 12:11pm

  Re: Re: Updates

  Next he'll be running for president. Does he grope women too?

• On the post: Actor James Woods Gloats Over Death Of Random Twitter Troll He Sued To Unmask [Updated]

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2016 @ 11:39am

  Re: Re:

  ...using a ruler graded in centimetres instead of inches

• On the post: Government Seeks Do-Over On Win For Microsoft And Its Overseas Data

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2016 @ 05:47am

  Re: Compeling

  Very likely to be in violation of EU data protection laws - which will have a Irish variant.

• On the post: Theater Association Boss Reminds Theater Owners, Netflix To Stay In Their Own Lanes

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2016 @ 08:09am

  Re: Re: Value Exclusivity?

  People that buy Buggatti's?
  
  Thing is, marginal cost of a Buggatti is 5 mil? Of a Movie? 0.

• On the post: Theater Association Boss Reminds Theater Owners, Netflix To Stay In Their Own Lanes

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2016 @ 07:31am

  Re: Fithian

  Where I come from, the first four letters are an acronym for ****ed In The Head.

• On the post: Who's On (The) Second (Circuit)… And Why Are They Screwing Up Copyright Law?

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2016 @ 11:16am

  I fail to see why an artists derivative works "licensing" their other creative works after they are dead offers anything of value to society at all. It's simply an argument that "someone should be paid".

• On the post: US Chamber Of Commerce Complains About People 'Pirating' The Presidential Debate

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2016 @ 10:39am

  It's called nano-piracy because it's a nano-problem

• On the post: Charter Joins AT&T In Using Lawsuits To Try And Slow Down Google Fiber

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2016 @ 07:08am

  Pretty sure Charter don't want the same deal as Google - that would entail them providing meaningful broadband. They don't want to do that hence the tantrums.

• On the post: Indonesia Government Introduces Vague Law Making Offensive/Embarrassing Memes Illegal

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2016 @ 05:48am

  Any law that places criminal determination on the subjective opinion of a third party being offended is problematic. It is impossible to abide by the law other than foregoing speech altogether. It is also the perfect weapon to return fire on the idiots who created it.

• On the post: Stupid Design Patent Of The Month: Rectangles On A Screen

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2016 @ 03:00am

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  The USPTO only consider it prior art if there is already a patent on it. So yes, they would NOT consider the wheel having prior art.

• On the post: Stupid Design Patent Of The Month: Rectangles On A Screen

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2016 @ 02:59am

  Of course, you can find that design on this very page at techdirt...
  
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• On the post: Trump Campaign Threatens To Sue NY Times For Sharing His 1995 Tax Returns

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2016 @ 06:49am

  Re:

  Isn't that a question to ask the electorate? No one seems to have any illusions as to what sort of person is and how he behaves - does the US really want a person like this as president?

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