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• On the post: This Post Is Not About GamerGate

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2014 @ 01:04pm

  Re:

  I thought during the Apple iPhone 6 event, Apple had their own liveblog type thing that was re-tweeting tweets (and other social media furor) around the announcement.
  
  I believe that is the first time Apple had done something like that to my knowledge. It was like a real-time moderated aggregator of the community reaction to the announcement.

• On the post: Apple's Responds To Tech Mag Showing The Amazing Bending Phone By Freezing Them Out Of Bendy Apple Products

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2014 @ 05:02am

  Hasn't Apple done this for years?

  Hasn't Apple done this for years? A famous example is the Gizmodo iPhone leak in 2010.
  
  http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/26/the-iphone-leak-gets-ugly-police-raid-gizmodo-editors-house-confiscate-computers/
  
  I read that the iPhone 6 release was the first time Gizmodo was at an Apple event since then.
  
  I'll also add that nothing prevents sites / articles from writing about Apple products even if Apple does not provide them free units or early access.
  
  If Apple is having a private event to announce new products they should be able to invite [or not invite] whomever they want.

• On the post: Only Surviving Recording Of The Very First Superbowl Is Because A Fan Recorded It, But You Can't See It, Because Copyright

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2014 @ 08:35am

  Fixed Form?

  I thought you couldn't copyright something until it was in a fixed form? If the NFL never put the broadcast in a fixed form; how could they claim any copyright to it?

• On the post: Apple Finally Allows iPhone-Ers To Nix That U2 Album They Never Wanted From Their Phones

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2014 @ 10:46am

  Re:

  I've read a few complaints along the lines of "I can't do X now that Y is taking up my free space"
  
  When the album automatically downloads to a device with limited storage capacity it can become a problem for some users.

• On the post: Pro Music Artists/Reps Force Shutdown Of Awesome Fan-Music Contest For Video Game

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2014 @ 08:54am

  One point of Clarification..

  It wasn't Red Thread Games that created The Longest Journey or Dreamfall, it was Funcom. Red Thread games didn't exist when the original games were created.
  
  Ragnor Tornquist, the game designer on both the previous games is also the designer on the new game. I believe he worked out something with Funcon, the original publisher, either an outright purchase of rights or some type of license.
  
  I do not know how much of the original team is part of the new project.

• On the post: Defense Contractors' Funds Fuel Vote To Keep Dept. Of Defense's Police Militarization Program Funded

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2014 @ 07:13am

  Re: Re: BRB

  Info from the ACLU's stance on 2nd amendment: https://www.aclu.org/racial-justice_prisoners-rights_drug-law-reform_immigrants-rights/second-amendment

• On the post: UK Woman Denied Passport Because Her Name Might Infringe On Disney's Copyright

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2014 @ 05:51am

  George Lucas's property?

  I don't think the name 'skywalker' is George Lucas's property anymore. He sold it to Disney [as is referred to in the subject line]

• On the post: Fans Mad At Ubisoft For Nixing Female Characters In 2 Games; Ubisoft Mumbles Something About Cost

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2014 @ 02:24pm

  What weird numbers

  How do you rationalize that the average age of a gamer is 31, but 91% of parents are present when games are purchased or rented?
  
  Doesn't that make the whole data set suspect?

• On the post: Destructive DRM Strikes Again: Creative Professionals Blocked From Using Adobe Products For Days

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 19 May, 2014 @ 09:38am

  All Creative Cloud Apps are Desktop Apps

  "Adobe's Creative Cloud offering was down, but the impact went much further, blocking even people who had installed desktop apps"
  
  I just want to point out that Adobe's creativce cloud is just a bunch of desktop apps sold on a subscription basis. It is poorly named

• On the post: Hollywood Hires New Person To Make Same Old Mistakes In Fighting Against The Future

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2014 @ 08:06am

  Re:

  To make a random comparison, the number of people I know who own horses is probably about the same number of people I know who own pools.
  
  I don't take that to mean that people who swim cannot identify with regular Americans.

• On the post: Kudos: Microsoft Changes Policy, Promises Not To Inspect Customers' Content

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2014 @ 02:17pm

  Re: Recheck facts

  Thanks for saying that. Past Techdirt posts have claimed the leak was only "screenshots". Source code is a very different than screenshots.
  
  [Not that I endorse MS Actions in this case]

• On the post: Bic Loses Its Mind Over Parody Customer Service Letter

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2013 @ 06:14am

  I'm a Gullible Loon

  You just called me a gullible loon. I thought this was a company being awesome when responding to a "Fake" complaint.
  
  I guess not.

• On the post: Microsoft's Intense Lobbying Works: Goodlatte To Drop Plan To Allow For Faster Review Of Bad Software Patents

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2013 @ 04:46am

  Why is Microsoft Called out in the subject line?

  Since the article lists four companies that lobbied against this [and says there were others] why is Microsoft given all the 'credit/blame' in the rest of the article?

• On the post: Apple's Fingerprint ID And How It May Take Away Your 5th Amendment Right To Protect Your Data

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2013 @ 04:06pm

  For the Record....

  Just for the record; there have been some reports that the Apple system does not use Fingerprints instead of passwords; but in addition to them. You'll need a password after the unit is restarted and if the unit has been inactive for a certain amount of time.
  
  I also got the impression from one article that you could set it up so the wrong fingerprint will wipe the phone; which sounds dangerous to your data.

• On the post: PayPal Promises That It's Changing Its Evil Ways In Wrongly Freezing Legit Accounts… But Does So Almost Immediately Again

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2013 @ 02:02pm

  Dreamfall Chapters..

  They've done it to Dreamfall Chapters by Red Thread games too. Dreamfall Chapters was another Million+ funded Kickstarter project. I think they're using Paypal to sell tickets for putting on a conference.

• On the post: Man Who Raped 14-Year-Old Sentenced To 30 Days In Jail Because Girl Looked Kinda Old And The Internet Is Mean

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2013 @ 03:27pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This is sick...

  I don't think teacher's go through the sort of training you think they do...
  
  [Says the husband of a teacher]

• On the post: Man Who Raped 14-Year-Old Sentenced To 30 Days In Jail Because Girl Looked Kinda Old And The Internet Is Mean

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2013 @ 03:17pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This is sick...

  I have seen lots of articles where female teachers are having sexual relations with students.
  
  One of my friends on Facebook seems to post at least one a week.

• On the post: Congress Gave Boy Scouts Special Law To Let Them Be Obnoxious Trademark Bullies

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2013 @ 01:19pm

  No Confusion?

  I'm not sure I agree that there is no confusion between "Boy Scouts" and "Hacker Scouts". My initial thought was that they were related. "Boy Scouts" are often called just scouts.

• On the post: Adobe's New Subscription Service Goes Live And Is Cracked In Less Than 24 Hours

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2013 @ 08:35am

  Re: Re:

  The $50 Subscription is for the "Full" creative suite which includes a lot of software.
  
  A single product, such as Photoshop is available at $20 a month.
  
  That said; I agree it is expensive for casual users; but probably a no-brainer for a professional user who makes their income off said tools.

• On the post: Adobe's New Subscription Service Goes Live And Is Cracked In Less Than 24 Hours

  

  reboog711 ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2013 @ 06:40am

  You've drawn the wrong conclusions

  You've drawn the wrong conclusions; perhaps because Adobe poorly named their subscription service.
  
  The version of Photoshop available in Creative Cloud is a desktop application, just like the old versions of Photoshop. Photoshop was not "put in the cloud".
  
  Creative Cloud is primarily just a different way for Adobe to sell their desktop / creative suite products.

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