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• On the post: Decade-Long Courtroom Battle Between Movie Studios And High-End DVD Jukebox Manufacturer Ends In A Draw

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 22 May, 2014 @ 11:35am

  Re: Just one problem.

  We had a 100 DVD jukebox at work to hold all our MSDN discs once (every developer had a membership and hard drives weren't that big back then). Other than that, I've never actually seen one.

• On the post: Airbnb Under Pressure, Agrees To Hand Over Data To NY's Attorney General

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 21 May, 2014 @ 02:48pm

  Why?

  Why do people think that the original regulations are there in the first place?
  
  They all came about because of complaints from travelers. Maybe reform could be looked at, but I don't see why people renting on airBnB regularly shouldn't follow the established rules.

• On the post: Getting Bigger For Bigness' Sake: AT&T Announces Deal To Buy DirecTV, A Deal That Even Confuses Wall St.

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 19 May, 2014 @ 08:02pm

  Re: Pay TV Deals - No "Current" Alternative

  Or pay for AdFreeTime for $2 a month and watch it whenever you want on iPlayer.

• On the post: Getting Bigger For Bigness' Sake: AT&T Announces Deal To Buy DirecTV, A Deal That Even Confuses Wall St.

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 19 May, 2014 @ 08:01pm

  Re: TV has pretty much run its course

  Buy a Roku box and install the private channels Livestream and NowhereTV. Lots of classic movies, local news, etc.

• On the post: German Court: Jesus Doesn't Deserve Copyright Protection

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 17 May, 2014 @ 10:16am

  Re: Life of the author plus...

  But he rose from the dead and he's still alive today. So that makes it a perpetual copyright.

• On the post: German Court: Jesus Doesn't Deserve Copyright Protection

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 17 May, 2014 @ 10:14am

  Re:

  From scholarship, it's pretty clear that Jesus spoke Aramaic (the salt/light passage rhymes in Aramaic) as well as Greek (the vines and branches passage is very clever in Greek only), as well as Hebrew (reading from the Isaiah scroll). This was not uncommon in Judea in his day.

• On the post: German Court: Jesus Doesn't Deserve Copyright Protection

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 17 May, 2014 @ 10:12am

  Re:

  And since Jesus is immortal, that's going to be a long copyright term.
  
  Still, he was always into giving and sharing so I'm guessing he would have put everything into the public domain.

• On the post: A Little Humanity Goes A Long Way: School Admins, Police Officer Ditch Policy-Limited Thinking To Make A Difference In Teens' Lives

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 16 May, 2014 @ 10:07am

  Re:

  Somebody bookmark this for the next time that somebody says Cushing hates cops. It's just harder for him to find the good ones.

• On the post: New Hampshire Man With 'COPSLIE' License Plate Wins Free Speech Battle, Lifetime Of Police Harassment

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 16 May, 2014 @ 10:04am

  Re: Representation

  I'd be calling a Russian dashcam company and getting one that uploads to the cloud 24x7.

• On the post: Looks Like Sprint Did Challenge FISC Order For Call Data, Asked If It Was Serious

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 14 May, 2014 @ 03:37pm

  Re:

  Interesting reading. I didn't know that happened to Qwest.

• On the post: Florida Lawmakers Aim To Restore Childrens' Rights To Openly Carry Pop Tart 'Guns' On Campus

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 14 May, 2014 @ 10:09am

  Re:

  These would not typically be the same places (rural conservative areas tend to like guns, urban liberal areas tend to ban guns), but in Florida, apparently this is the case.

• On the post: You Can Thank The CIA For The Return Of Polio, Even Though The Media Conveniently Ignores This

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 12 May, 2014 @ 01:16pm

  Re:

  The return of polio will probably kill more people than Bin Laden ever did.

• On the post: Webhost Protests FCC's Net Neutrality Proposal By Limiting FCC Access To 28.8Kbps

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 09 May, 2014 @ 01:17pm

  Re: uncool story

  Not exactly. Because if this sort of thing had come around in the 28.8 days, that is how things might look.

• On the post: Appeals Court Doesn't Understand The Difference Between Software And An API; Declares APIs Copyrightable

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 09 May, 2014 @ 11:54am

  Re:

  99% of actual programmers will agree:
  
  * Software SHOULD be copyrightable
  * APIs SHOULD NOT be copyrightable
  
  To conflate these is ludicrous to anyone that writes software for a living

• On the post: To Succeed At EPA: Watch Tons Of Porn, (Don't) Work From Home, Or Pretend You're A Secret Agent

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 09 May, 2014 @ 07:45am

  Re: Re:I've got no problem with "Telecommuter"

  Yeah. How does the employee not get arrested for fraud?

• On the post: To Succeed At EPA: Watch Tons Of Porn, (Don't) Work From Home, Or Pretend You're A Secret Agent

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 09 May, 2014 @ 07:44am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Actually, we have one at my current workplace and I have almost never run into it. And no, I haven't tested it for porn, but I have seen it pop up every time NCAA is mentioned in the article for some reason.

• On the post: To Succeed At EPA: Watch Tons Of Porn, (Don't) Work From Home, Or Pretend You're A Secret Agent

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 09 May, 2014 @ 07:41am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  You block keyboards that look just like the normal keyboard that will type up a porn address and hit enter?
  
  Wow, you guys are really advanced.

• On the post: Federal Election Commission Says Political Action Committees Can Accept Payment Via Bitcoins

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 09 May, 2014 @ 07:33am

  Re:

  Buy now. There's still time to get in on this rocketship. It's becoming more apparent every day that bitcoin is here to stay.
  
  Just yesterday, the Winklevoss Bitcoin Fund was approved to be listed on NASDAQ.

• On the post: Copyright Industry Publishes Data-Free Report Claiming Pirate Sites Will Damage Computers

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 08 May, 2014 @ 12:11pm

  Re:

  The only malware I ever got in my entire life was a rootkit I got from a Sony music CD.
  
  You'll forgive me if I feel safer with the pirates.

• On the post: Publisher 'DRMs' Physical Legal Textbook About 'Property,' Undermines Property And First Sale Concepts

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 07 May, 2014 @ 01:45pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Lifetime Access...?

  My professor had us buy an ancient Greek book that was first published in 1910. It was great.

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