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On the post: Awkward Stock Photo Blog Hit With DMCA Claim

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2010 @ 10:00pm

if I any were my images I'd be pissed. views with no sales lowers you in most search engines. the site costs the contributer (as well as bandwidth).

And really what an arrogant wanker, where's his amazing portfolio full of absolutely perfect shots??? Not exactly worlds most downloaded photographer is he? poke shit at other people and he's too much of a cheapskate to spend the $1 or so to buy a blog sized image and then has a big sook when he gets his hand smacked. The guy who runs the site should be on the biggest loser...

On the post: Feds Ask For Jailtime For GNR File Sharer

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2009 @ 03:23pm

ILLEGAL

crime=jail

Yes I am waiting for the net nazis to knock at my door any minute too.

On the post: Politician Wants Google To Blur Street View Images Of Buildings; Next Up: Blurring Reality

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2009 @ 02:25pm

I think they would find more benifit from banning guns than maps. I doubt someone who is doing a drive by will look at google's street view first. The street view and aerial view data is important to technology. I work with mapping applications daily and I've seen how useful this information can be.

On the post: Microsoft Patents PgUp-PgDn

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2008 @ 02:34pm

And so... Microsoft Patents PgUp-PgDn... Then Sues Microsoft for infringement?

"I'm afraid that wouldn't fly. It's not the device manufacturers you should be after -- their products simply send this or that message to the machine. You should instead be going after the software vendors who then use that signal and interpret it to initiate software processes which infringe on your patent. Dismissed. Next."

And since the software interpreting the keyboard input is the operating system, that only leaves a few possible sources of infringement.... Since Microsoft is the one getting the patent, they aren't going to be suing themselves, which leaves Apple, and all the open source operating systems as the target.... Another interesting way to 'take out' the competition from Microsoft.

On the post: How GM Plans To Dominate The Electric Vehicle Market… In The 1980s

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2008 @ 10:38am

Re: Denial Drivel

Except the oil isn't coming out of the ground here anymore since we are not allowed to drill here anymore.

On the post: Companies Don't Even Read Their Own EULAs Carefully

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2008 @ 09:03am

Apple

I always scan the EULAs; I definitely don't read all of them word for word, but scanning for key words helps. The first day Safari became available on Windows, I noticed the Apple-Labeled part of the agreement. I accepted anyway, I have an Apple sticker on my PC even though it only runs Vista and Gentoo =) Anyhow, I'm glad they caught and changed the mistake. My opinion of Safari: it renders pages much quicker than IE or Firefox (at least the pages I go to); I wish privacy feature could be turned on automatically every time the browser is opened.

On the post: Windows Vista Copy Protection Cracked

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2008 @ 06:50pm

someone needs to realize

that this is OLD!

over a year old to be exact!

On the post: Taking 'Flamewar' A Bit Too Seriously: Man Drives 1,300 Miles To Burn Down Home Of Online Critic

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2007 @ 05:51am

You all need to quit.

...all of you. But down the keyboard. Go outside. Enjoy life. GET AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER!

It will be good for you.

On the post: Complaints About Anticompetitive Behavior Mask Next-Gen DVDs' Real Problems

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2007 @ 08:36pm

There is already a unit going to be available that will play both formats by september...So the users will have maximum choice... If the hardware manufacturers have sense they will all do this so royalties will be paid to to both parties for every unit sold.. Samsung has figured this out.

There is already i diode that reads BlueRay HD-DVD DVD and CD that just been announced aswell

On the post: Analyst: Microsoft To Cut Xbox Prices To Match Sony

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2007 @ 05:16pm

Wii

Surely the Wii deserves a mention and some credit for staying out of this mess?!

On the post: E-Voting Company Agrees To Let California See Its Source Code… But Includes Angry Threats

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2007 @ 12:41pm

Re: trade secrets?

What, exactly, is the trade secret they are trying to protect? This isn't rocket science, esentially just a 1+1+1+1+1+1+1=? problem.

The problem is that the 'trade secrets' are that it's not a simple 1+1+1 = xx, it's more:

If candidate = foo then
count = count + 2
else select case (random 3)
Case 1
count = count + 1
Case 2
count = count
Case 3
count = count -1
End if

foo = the candidate that the voting company president guaranteed the results to (this would be GWB in the case of diebold). If it got out that they were manipulating the results, they they wouldn't be able to guarantee any locations, and their political kickbacks would dry up, so obviously they have a lot of 'trade secrets' to protect.

On the post: Intellectual Property Fights Move Into The Restaurant Business

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2007 @ 04:21pm

Re: Overcast

You know what the real issues with 'Intellectual Property' seem to be?

Business lacks 'intellect' anymore. Did they outsource that too?

Isn't it obvious?

No they didn't outsource 'business intelligence', someone who is no longer in business has patented the concept of 'business intelligence' and is not licensing the concept to any of the current companies. The patent holder is not licensing the patent, they are just sitting on it waiting to see some sign of intelligence in current businesses, so that they can sue the crap out of them. Why work when you can just sue those who do?

Got handbasket? check
Got Hell? check
Going to Hell in a handbasket.... priceless

On the post: Ohio Data Leak Follows The 'Worse Than First Thought' Plan

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2007 @ 11:22am

Obviously never worked for government...

Thinking isn't encouraged, nurtured, or allowed in government positions, those higher up expect those below them to do whatever they say regardless of how stupid or inane it may be, after all that's why they are at the top, right, so they can tell other people what to do.

Those on the bottom don't have any choice but to do what they are told, 'thinking', 'offering ideas', or 'attempting to insert a modicum common sense' are all likely to get you fired if you work for the government. However being an incompetent moron is likely to get you promoted, since they wouldn't want you actually doing anything important and messing it up, so they will just put you in charge so you can make other 'screw up' when they follow your advice, and then you can bring down the hammer and fire them, thereby proving that you actually did something useful (government managers will read this and think, yeah, so? without ever stopping to realize how screwed up things really are)

Likely scenario:
Intern - Hey we should have offsite storage of our backup material, in the event of a disaster or system crash. Here's a great provider I looked up, they handle secure transportation, guarantee the media is stored in a safe environment, and even provide on-call recovery services in the event that they are needed. Here's the complete proposal and supporting documentation.
Manager (in board meeting) - I've decided that we need to implement offsite storage of our backup tapes, and our Intern has graciously volunteered to 'handle' everything (meaning that the intern will get stuck sloggin the media around, not that the intern's idea/recommendation will get implemented). A month later when the inevitable happens and the tape is lost.... Fire the Intern, blame them for the entire idea, then sit back rejoice in how well you 'fixed' things (ignoring the fact that you caused the entire situation - acceptance of fault in government jobs is limited, nobody is willing to admit they did anything wrong), while continuing to rake in the big bucks for doing all the 'hard' work.

Can you tell I'm not very happy with the way things work at my government job?

They say that sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. Nowhere is this more clear that government IT. - Unknown

On the post: Maybe The US Can Ignore Antigua, But EU Is Another Story

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2007 @ 03:24pm

Government of the Money, by the Money, for the Mon

The US government has become a joke. The founding fathers recognized that any concentration of power (in those in control of the government) eventually leads to corruption of the system. This is why there is a specific clause in the constitution that says (to paraphrase)when the current system of government is no longer representative of the people, it can be scrapped and replaced by the people...

Will this happen in my lifetime? Not likely, people are too comfortable with the evil they know versus the potential evil of the unknown. However if the current situation continues (manufacturers of electronic voting machines guaranteeing results to certain parties, ignoring the 'missing' 18,000 votes in a race decided by less than 400 votes, and similar perversions of the intention of the system.) it won't be too long before people start considering the idea of replacing the existing system with something that works (assuming that some corporation is not already in a position of complete control over the US Government).

Imagine how much money would be saved if all government employees were laid off and all government funded projects/programs were canceled. There would be serious repercussions, but nothing that the savings of billions of dollars wouldn't be able to cover ..... If all employees were given full retirement with their current salary for the rest of their life, there would still be billions of dollars left to clean up the other residual messes.

This won't be a bloodless change, just as the US/British change wasn't bloodless, but would anybody argue that it was a bad decision?

OH no, I'm seriously talking about going into politics (revolution is a form of politics), somebody shoot me now...

On the post: Utah Politicians Finally Understanding Why Banning Keywords On Trademarks Is Dumb

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2007 @ 04:19am

indeed. The entire human race would be better off without all these God freaks passing laws on stuff they don't understand. Most can't even read thier own holy books and follow the "laws" in them.

On the post: MySpace And GoDaddy Shut Down Huge Archive Of Security Mailing Lists

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2007 @ 06:55pm

Oh, it's for the children!

Oh PLEASE,

The readers of Techdirt are a bit too sophisticated to fall in line for that tired old saw.
Aside from the fact that most of the "members" of MySpace are not children as such, the same information is still available on many other lists and archives.

The genie was out of the bottle, your cork was too late & useless for preventing the spread of the information.

The timing of your actions appears to be not what you have claimed, one minute is not one hour.

I am removing all of the (at least it's only 5) domains I have registered with you to another registrar that will actually call me & give me time to respond iff something like this happens on one of my systems.

On the post: South Korea Protects The Children From The Evil High Cellphone Bill Menace

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 15 Dec, 2006 @ 08:28am

wtf?

Why do you bleeding hearts feel the need to paint the kids as the victim of the cellphone companies?

"just trying to get the cellphone companies to stop taking advantage of the teenage market."

By charging them for the services they used? Are you retarded? The kids are racking up these bills. They aren't phantom charges.

I'm unclear on why government intervention is necessary in the first place. Any cell phone provider I've ever used has options for plans with hard limits, which is what this law wants to enact. Even without such options the parents and school systems aren't doing their job to curb the kids irresponsibility. Obviously the parents for not being parents, and the schools for shit like this:

"four out of 10 teenagers use their mobile phones during classes at school."

Last I checked, doing that shit in the US would get your phone taken away by the schools, your parents called and the phone given to them. From that point on it would be up to your parents to do whatever on top of any detention that you got from the school. If my kid was irresponsible enough to rack up $4k in cell phone bills he is going to learn the value of that by helping pay it back, and only then will he possibly get the phone back, along side heavy restrictions to its use.

But whatever, lets support furthering bad parenting with some more fire and forget legislation so they don't have to deal with the real problem. Good call there.

On the post: Marketing Works A Lot Better When You Get Consumers To Want It

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2006 @ 12:21pm

Actually, its the other way around

Marketing is about making people want your product. If your a marketing department, and you job is to try and sell a product everybody wants (like an iPod), then you got a pretty easy life.

In fact, I am getting pretty tired of seeing iPod ads, as well as advertising for products that really do not need advertising.

The world is quickly revolving around advertising, and I am getting pretty sick of it. Ad agencies are making billions for doing nothing more then hounding consumers and begging them to buy the products by companies that give them top dollar. I can not browse the web, watch TV, watch a movie, or even drive to work without being bombarded by ads.

The bottom line is, stop it. I mean, I buy things like laundry detergent because it was the one item on the shelf that was on sale. I do not care if its because I saw an ad on TV about Tide laundry detergent. Instead of Tide wasting millions on advertising, save the money and just make their product $1 cheaper then their competitors, they will seill more product that way.

On the post: iTunes May Not Be That Popular, But It Serves Its Purpose

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2006 @ 01:20pm

What price savings?

I am consistently buying CD's now that are the same, if not, cheaper price then iTunes.

iTunes turned me off because of their 5 device limit. As a software developer, I often upgrade my main machine and I use multiple machines anyways, and didn't realize that every RAM or CPU upgrade required another activation. I have been unable to properly deactivate my older systems because I am not about to re-install older RAM and CPU's just to do that. As a result, I can no longer buy music from iTunes without setting up a new account.

I have lost purchased iTunes music. Apple doesn't (as a matter of general policy) allow you to re-download purchased music, so I have paid for nothing. The times I have lost music were directly as a result of a botched iPod updatesbecause of Apple's software. I had contacted their customer support about it and was asked what I would do if I had lost a CD, implying that I would have to rebuy the CD in that case. I told them that my management system for storing CD's (i.e. the shelf) did not have a problem with habitually deleting files.

I have nothing against iTunes, but their music store leaves a lot to be desired for. I am through wasting my money there.

On the post: Accused Rapist Wants Some Of That Myspace Money, Too

NamelessMofo ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2006 @ 08:59am

Get over it, the girl obviously loves the cock and has probably enticed more guys through her Myspace.

Mom loves the cock too and probably can't imagine her sweet daughter doing the same dirty acts she got into and screams rape.

The poor dude in all this is pretty much like any teenager.. Just wants to get laid.

The world is becoming waaaaaaaaayyyyy too precious.

Maybe if more people were having sex and less people were fighting wars, the world would be a sweet place to live baby.

'Live to score, not for war' lol.

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