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• On the post: Man Falls Asleep At MLB Game, Sues MLB For $10 Million For Noticing

  

  James ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2014 @ 09:58am

  Re: Re: Portion of the Ad profits

  I agree it's a big stretch. The things is the MLB is notorious for claiming control and ownership, to have that I'm sure they opened themselves up a bit legally for this. It sounds like this guy has no chance. Courts usually don't like it when filings from the lawyers don't make sense. It has a tendency to cause summary judgements.

• On the post: Man Falls Asleep At MLB Game, Sues MLB For $10 Million For Noticing

  

  James ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2014 @ 07:04am

  Portion of the Ad profits

  I think there is an important distinction here that the videos were not just used for news. They provided peak views and ad revenue over this whole situation. IMO it's not crazy to think that he has some level of interest in that ad revenue. If this was a paid actor then he would have to sign a release. Since he's suing I assume he didn't sign a release.
  
  I don't like it but I can see that there might be a money grab somewhere in this complaint.

• On the post: Austrian Tor Exit Node Operator Found Guilty As An Accomplice Because Someone Used His Node To Commit A crime

  

  James ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2014 @ 12:34pm

  Re:

  Does this also equally apply to any ISP involved? I mean technically they assisted in committing this crime. Perhaps I am missing the distinction here between a TOR service and an Internet service. The encryption aspect would seem irrelevant to this argument.

• On the post: New Emails Show That Feds Instructed Police To Lie About Using Stingray Mobile Phone Snooping

  

  James ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2014 @ 05:04pm

  Re:

  The police / government can do no wrong. You didn't know that?

• On the post: New Emails Show That Feds Instructed Police To Lie About Using Stingray Mobile Phone Snooping

  

  James ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2014 @ 05:02pm

  Re: Damn government

  Encryption has to be two way (between you and the destination) for it to matter. You encrypting the connection to the tower is useless.

• On the post: FCC Begins Investigating Comcast And Verizon Making Netflix Pay To Avoid Congestion

  

  James ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2014 @ 10:14pm

  Re: freeloading bandwidth hogs

  The idea that they should charge Netflix is wrong because Netflix is properly paying for there connection to the internet already. They are providing what the end user requested.
  
  The end user here is initiating the movie. This is not a broadcast from Netflix to a wide range of people clogging the internet.
  
  ISP's happened to sell "unlimited" connections to users. These users are trying to use the connection.
  
  If the ISPs are unhappy with their current income from their users then they need to make changes on that area. To go behind the scenes and try to get money from Netflix is a from of extortion.
  
  Really this is less than a FCC issue and more of an FTC issue on the part of the ISP services.

• On the post: Former NSA Lawyer Asks Google To 'Forget' All Of Techdirt's Posts About Him

  

  James ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2014 @ 12:48pm

  Right to be forgotten to be posted

  Person will submit a request and then it's forwarded on to Chilling Effects. Couldn't you then submit another request to forget that too? Privacy through walls of requests.

• On the post: Awesome Stuff: Crowdfund Our Way To Reducing The Influence Of Money In Politics

  

  James ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2014 @ 05:06pm

  Terrorist?

  This government tracks donations to fundamentalists. It would seem like this will be one that they track.
  
  Do you want to be on such a list?

• On the post: Comcast Commercial Promotes Fast WiFi To Gamers… To Play Game With No Online Connection

  

  James ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2014 @ 12:22pm

  Re:

  I don't think is meant for customers. I think this is meant to show the FCC that they care and are working towards a better world.

• On the post: State AG Tries To Order Removal Of Public Records From Journalist's Blog, Resulting In Records Being Posted Everywhere

  

  James ( profile ), 22 May, 2014 @ 10:46am

  Re:

  Documents can be rebuilt as searchable text easily.
  
  This is a burden yes, and could be intentional. It could also be someone who knows that documents contain metadata and is trying to provide these without that attached meta info.

• On the post: Xbox One Caves Again: Console Will Now Be Offered Sans Kinect

  

  James ( profile ), 13 May, 2014 @ 11:21pm

  Drunk on the punch

  I feel that Microsoft and it's executives are drunk on the lock in. Most people didn't see it back in the day. It's finally crystal clear to many consumers and that's very bad for business. Microsoft tried to kill "The Goose that laid the Golden Eggs"
  
  The question is can they backtrack quick enough? Unfortunately I see no hope for the executives. Microsoft needs some fresh attitudes at the executive level.

• On the post: Keith Alexander: NSA Makes The Entire Internet Weaker To Protect You From Terrorists

  

  James ( profile ), 08 May, 2014 @ 10:22am

  ROT security

  The NSA prefers ROT-26 encryption wherever possible.

• On the post: White House Says It Can Withhold Vulnerabilities If It Will Help Them Catch 'Intellectual Property Thieves'

  

  James ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2014 @ 12:21pm

  White house hacking for Hollywood?

  I surely hope they don't mean IP as in MPAA/RIAA stuff. Knowing this White house of course they would do it.

• On the post: Fox Accidentally Releases Family Guy Game Early, 'Fixes' This By Issuing YouTube Copyright Claims And Killing Twitch Channels

  

  James ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2014 @ 03:41pm

  Sanctions

  This should be something that clearly violates the DMCA process.

• On the post: Iran's FARS: Snowden Documents Finally Detail That The US Government Is Run By Aliens

  

  James ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2014 @ 03:13pm

  Sounds as legit as the "least untruthful" answers our government is giving itself.

• On the post: Man Stopped By Cops For Supposedly Voluntary NHTSA 'Survey' Sues City And Police Dept. For Violating His 4th Amendment Rights

  

  James ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2014 @ 05:06pm

  Kickbacks

  Honestly if I were in Ft. Worth or Reading, I would be looking to see if there is anything behind these deals.

• On the post: DOJ Releases Some Megaupload Evidence; Actually Shows Difficulty Of Running Cloud Service

  

  James ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2013 @ 05:53pm

  Re: Nonsense

  Give them time, they will get to those companies too.

• On the post: New Data Exposes Scammy Hospital Pricing; Now Let's Crowdsource Some More

  

  James ( profile ), 10 May, 2013 @ 05:22am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Copyrights

  To be clear I don't think they hand much actual standing here, but I believe no matter what information is collected that some Hospital somewhere will make claims against it and sue. At that point the question will be who has the bigger guns John Q Public vs MegaHospital Incorporated and their insurance companies lawyers.

• On the post: New Data Exposes Scammy Hospital Pricing; Now Let's Crowdsource Some More

  

  James ( profile ), 10 May, 2013 @ 03:19am

  Copyrights

  We can crowd source but we can't publish the data since the hospital must have a copyright on it, and most likely will exercise their rights.

• On the post: Did FBI Counterterrorism Agent Reveal That Feds Now Record All Phone Calls?

  

  James ( profile ), 07 May, 2013 @ 03:09pm

  Re:

  Yes but when they state 'da bomb' the call is not flagged because it was no grammatically correct.

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