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• On the post: Canadian Court Believes It Has The Right To Censor The Global Internet; Not At All Concerned With Consequences

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2014 @ 02:20pm

  Re:

  This would be epic. But also very problematic.

• On the post: Appeals Court Says Using Open WiFi May Be A Crime

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2014 @ 08:46am

  Re: Just get a warrant...

  Paperwork. Cops (and everyone else) hate it.

• On the post: Appeals Court Says Using Open WiFi May Be A Crime

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2014 @ 08:43am

  Re: To quote Wayne, Asshole say what?

  Technical people will say, "There is no difference between the three."
  
  Lawyers and judges will say, "There is an absolute difference between the three."
  
  It comes down to "mens rea" which looks at the same actions with different motivations to do evil or not.

• On the post: Appeals Court Says Using Open WiFi May Be A Crime

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2014 @ 08:41am

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  How about the much easier: The owners of the Wifi consented to a search of their property.

• On the post: Appeals Court Says Using Open WiFi May Be A Crime

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2014 @ 08:40am

  Re:

  You forgot the dog...

• On the post: 'Dubious' Copyright Claim That Took Down Drone Footage Of Football Stadium Not All That Dubious, But Still Isn't The Optimal Solution

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2014 @ 10:24am

  So, use another video site?

  I mean, if YouTube has such horrible rules, surely there are other sites that might actually LOOK at a claim before acting, right?

• On the post: BitTorrent Shows You What The Internet Looks Like Without Net Neutrality; Suggests A Better Way

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2014 @ 01:45pm

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  So split the bittorrent into separate files of 10-second blocks each. Start at a low bandwidth (like Netflix does now) and then if you are getting ahead switch to higher-res blocks.
  
  Wow. That was so difficult to figure out how to make that work.

• On the post: Hillary Clinton PAC Sends Bogus Takedowns Over Parodies On Zazzle And CafePress

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2014 @ 11:59am

  Third party

  If we DO end up with Clinton vs. Bush, a third party candidate has a really good chance of winning in my opinion.

• On the post: Bogus Broadband Astroturf Organizations Always Have Names Pretending They Represent The Consumers They're Working To Screw Over

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2014 @ 12:03pm

  Re: Re:

  The NSA called...

• On the post: Wil Wheaton Discusses TV, Cord-Cutting, Piracy… And Trying Desperately To Make Sure Fans Can Watch His Show

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2014 @ 10:41am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Better to catch some ad revenue on torrents than none.

• On the post: High School Principal Cancels Entire Reading Program To Stop Students From Reading Cory Doctorow's 'Little Brother'

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2014 @ 02:30pm

  Re: Re: Wait...

  Why don't they just offer 2-3 books of different types? Let the students choose and break them into groups when they come back?
  
  Forcing everyone to read a single book always smells too much like propaganda to me (even if it's propaganda that we might agree with).

• On the post: General Keith Alexander Is An Opportunistic Coward

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2014 @ 02:25pm

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  Yep. Keith Alexander destroyed this country without a terrorist attack.

• On the post: DOJ Admits It's Still Destroying Evidence In NSA Case; Judge Orders Them (Again) To Stop; DOJ Flips Out

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2014 @ 08:33am

  Re:

  Or it could be as simple as "disk space".

• On the post: Courtroom Staff, Freaked Out By FBI Agents, Failed To Record Important Terrorism Court Hearing

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2014 @ 03:02pm

  You had...

  You had ONE job!

• On the post: Harmless High School Prank That Occurred Completely Off Campus Turned Over To School Police Officer

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2014 @ 09:11am

  I'm a Christian

  I'm a pretty conservative Christian and I see the humor in it. It's kinda wrong, but no need to make a federal case out of it.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Should Touch Typing Replace Cursive?

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2014 @ 09:04am

  Touch typing vs. Cursive

  My 14-year-old never took cursive at all. She has taken typing. It's already happening.

• On the post: Judge Says Supreme Court Should Overturn Awful Surveillance Precedent, But Until It Does, He Has To Reject Case Against NSA

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2014 @ 08:57am

  Re: USSC guilty of Treason

  Right after Obama declares himself dictator?
  
  I'm not sure that situation would play out like you think.

• On the post: Father Sues School After It Brings In Cops To Question His Son About Drawing Of A Person Being Hanged

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2014 @ 08:52am

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  Sorry, Karen. I know it sucks, but 99% of parents don't want somebody at school who goes around talking about murdering people they disagree with.
  
  I'm sure every parent of the mentally ill that keep ravaging our schools said the same things you just said, right up until their kid got a gun and really did shoot up the school.

• On the post: German Court Rules Ex-Lovers Must Disappear Consensual Previously Taken Nude Pictures Of The Other

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2014 @ 02:15pm

  Re: Movies

  Some actress should do that to a major MPAA movie in Germany and watch the fireworks fly.

• On the post: German Court Rules Ex-Lovers Must Disappear Consensual Previously Taken Nude Pictures Of The Other

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2014 @ 02:14pm

  Re: Re:

  Didn't this already happen to Julian Assange?

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