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• On the post: Verizon Begs To Be Classified Under Title II For Subsidies; Screams About Parade Of Horribles Any Other Time

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2014 @ 10:44am

  Re:

  Except that every time we make a new law, it's worse than the old ones.

• On the post: Patent Troll That Accused FindTheBest Of 'Hate Crime' For Fighting Back Now Has To Pay FTB's Legal Fees

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2014 @ 10:41am

  Re: TrollingLawyers.com

  A website attacking lawyers that are known to abuse the legal system and tie it up with expensive lawsuits for long periods of time?
  
  What could possibly go wrong?

• On the post: Europeans Club Google Over The Head At A Rate Of 1,000 Requests Per Hour After Its Search Engine Amnesia Tool Goes Live

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2014 @ 10:20am

  Re: Re: This is how Google will actually die

  I just switched to Duck Duck Go this week when I ran a search for a specific scene in a game I was stuck on (with the title of the game in the search) and Google returned ZERO results about the game.

• On the post: The $120 Smartphone Patent Tax: Patent Royalties Cost More Than The Actual Hardware In Your Phone

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 30 May, 2014 @ 03:14pm

  Re: Re: Microsoft tax

  It's on long filename support in FAT and FAT32, actually.

• On the post: How Many Terrorists Are There: Not As Many As You Might Think

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 30 May, 2014 @ 03:22pm

  Article is disingenuous

  The Abu Sayyaf Group has probably kidnapped more Americans than almost any other group on this list. Meaning, they have committed more actual violence to US citizens than most.
  
  Mike dismisses them with a handwave because they operate on small islands in the Philippines, but there is a LOT of American time and money spent on that group negotiating the return of kidnapped Americans and cooperation with foreign governments compared to many others.

• On the post: Actual Former Government Official Makes Totally Ridiculous Argument That Snowden's 'Harms' Are That Other Countries Are Angry

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 29 May, 2014 @ 02:18pm

  Re: Re: Idiotic, but consistent

  Well, the Obama administration and Congress are acting like a bunch of babies...

• On the post: James Clapper: Yes, Snowden Emailed NSA Lawyer, But Not About His Concerns

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 29 May, 2014 @ 02:16pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Exactly. This e-mail says EVERYTHING. It's an admission by the NSA that their program is illegal, they knew it was illegal, and they went ahead with it anyway.
  
  Snowden's e-mail is a sneaky way of asking if EOs can override the Constitution and they replied that they cannot, even though in practice they do it all the time.

• On the post: The Web Is In The Public Domain… But The Document That Put It There Is Locked Up By Copyright

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 29 May, 2014 @ 11:10am

  Re: Re: Automatic Copyrights

  Exactly.
  
  1-5 years = free
  6-10 years = $1 but you must register
  10-15 years = $10
  15-20 years = $100
  20-25 years = $1,000
  25-30 years = $10,000
  30-35 years = $100,000
  35-40 years = $1,000,000
  40-45 years = $10,000,000
  45-50 years = $100,000,000
  
  and so on. Eventually, the expected gains are overwhelmed by the license fee, probably in the 25-30 year range.

• On the post: The Web Is In The Public Domain… But The Document That Put It There Is Locked Up By Copyright

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 29 May, 2014 @ 10:59am

  Re:

  I thought it was a bunch of wacky Europeans (Berne Convention).

• On the post: NBC Confirms That Snowden Did Try To Raise Concerns Internally Before Going To Journalists

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 29 May, 2014 @ 10:18am

  Re:

  Any presidential candidate that promises Snowden a full pardon gets my vote.

• On the post: NBC Confirms That Snowden Did Try To Raise Concerns Internally Before Going To Journalists

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 29 May, 2014 @ 10:16am

  Re: Re:

  Well, since they kicked him out of the club, the rules no longer apply. I think he sees that the "DON'T TALK ABOUT SPY CLUB!" BS isn't getting us anywhere. We NEED to talk about it.

• On the post: NBC Confirms That Snowden Did Try To Raise Concerns Internally Before Going To Journalists

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 29 May, 2014 @ 10:15am

  Re:

  Since 9/11 is the given "reason" for shredding our Constitution, I think it's a very good question. And Snowden had a very good answer.

• On the post: John Kerry Should 'Man Up' And Admit He's Wrong About Snowden

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 29 May, 2014 @ 09:53am

  Re:

  I'm so glad I didn't vote for that fool.

• On the post: TrueCrypt Page Says It's Not Secure, All Development Stopped

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 29 May, 2014 @ 09:15am

  Re: Re: National Security Letter

  If it were insecure, they would already have a new version that fixed the security problem and would be encouraging everyone to upgrade to that.

• On the post: NSA Interception In Action? Tor Developer's Computer Gets Mysteriously Re-Routed To Virginia

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 28 May, 2014 @ 02:11pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  They already said that they put a wireless chip on it that can go up to 8 miles.
  
  You aren't going to find that on Wireshark.

• On the post: Appeals Court Overturns Prenda Win From Former RIAA Lobbyist Judge

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 27 May, 2014 @ 12:45pm

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  Red Hat should sue the company for tortuous interference. They are disrupting your business relationship with YouTube.

• On the post: Former CIA Director And Defense Secretary Says CIA Tried, But Failed, To Do Economic Espionage

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 27 May, 2014 @ 10:58am

  Re:

  Key word: was.

• On the post: Supreme Court Quietly Changes Rulings After Releasing Them; Refuses To Reveal What Those Changes Are

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 27 May, 2014 @ 11:24am

  Funny...

  I was just thinking this today about online statements for your bills. If you didn't print them every month and you had a dispute, they could retroactively change them to support their case and you would have no evidence.
  
  Wells Fargo just tried to switch me away from US Mail (with a forced agreement that then required me to go into a page to change it back, which failed, nice).

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

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 22 May, 2014 @ 03:03pm

  Re: Re: Can't be searched?

  That's why you search it for errors. And most OCR is nearing 99% these days.

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

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 22 May, 2014 @ 03:02pm

  Re: Re: Re: Can't be searched?

  Not to mention PDF does this now for only the cost of the program.

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