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• On the post: UK's Ridiculous Internet Porn Crackdown Can Be Used To Kill Social Media Accounts

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2016 @ 06:23am

  airstrip one is falling over backwards to meet demands

  .. to comply to the IngSoc's catalog, since they apparently feel they're years behind, as it's called "1984".
  
  Just shameful, for a country that fought against fascism some 70 years ago, now to reimplement it itself.

• On the post: Photographers And Filmmakers Call For Encryption To Be Built Into Cameras As Standard

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 15 Dec, 2016 @ 11:32am

  Re: More boot-leggers & Baptists B.S.

  Like the drug-prohibitionists in boat with drug-cartels? Sounds likely. Have you lately thrown your DEA into prison? Maybe you should.

• On the post: Elton John, Anti-YouTube Crusader, Partners With YouTube For Public Music Competition

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2016 @ 04:12pm

  YouTube is a rich tapestry of creativity

  I, however, can't see what this guy is now adding to that tapestry. One song? This is is ridiculous, compared to the hundreds of works other people put on youtube, and are putting onto youtube, every day.
  
  In other news: Once famous artist decides he wants one (in numbers: 1) of his works finally phonographed by Edison.

• On the post: Israeli Government Pushes National Biometric Database With Claims Of Security Superiority Nobody Thinks Are True

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2016 @ 02:26am

  Apparently, the Dutch registered religious creed in their census in the early 20th century. When the Nazis invaded, they got hold of a register which told them who were Jews.
  
  Even if you're the good guys trying to do the right thing, somebody else might get hold of your data. So the only option is not to have it.

• On the post: Appeals Court Reminds Everyone: Patent Infringement Is Good For Competition

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2016 @ 03:43pm

  Re: Re: By the way, did you know pick-pockets and bank-robbers are good for competition too?

  If you are trying to imply that patent infringement is as bad as criminal acts, that you are also saying that criminal acts are no worse than patent infringement.
  
  Yes, and please note that "patent infringement" is not a criminal act. This is, just as with copyright infringement, a civil matter.
  
  On the other hand, criminal acts are criminal acts because some body (sic) made them criminal. Like enacting a monopoly on printing money and then outlawing replicating it. Not all of these "criminal acts" have an inherent victim, some are more concerned with giving somebody monopolies, producing income for the state, ensure safety, or achieving moral goals.

• On the post: Appeals Court Reminds Everyone: Patent Infringement Is Good For Competition

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2016 @ 02:41pm

  money forgery and other competition

  Bank-Robbers? Difficult to tell. Since the only successful bank-robberies ever were done by banks, it actually decreased competition. Sometimes state-monopolies were transferred to private monopolies with these robberies, such as the robbery of the federal reserve, which was robbed from the public by a consortium of banks. While bank-robbery is probably competition-wise a zero-sum game, we could of course increase competition by getting rid of the monopoly to print money. For pickpockets its easier to tell, on the condition that not just money is being stolen. Because if goods, like handkerchiefs or purses, or more modern, phones, are getting stolen, chances are they get re-sold. In which case, yes, pick-pockets are good for competition. The same, by the way, goes for wanton destruction, which increases competition for goods and buildings, because there is now a new market for them, that was initially shut off by the competition by the already existing goods or buildings. Ideally, you want to destroy whatever the customer bought from you immediately, because the goods he already bought are now in competition with the goods you are selling.

• On the post: Turkey Using US Border Agents' Harassment Of Canadian Journalist To Defend Jailing Over 100 Journalists

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2016 @ 01:08pm

  Re:

  And how exactly is this the problem of the US-Junta? That other oligarchies are doing the same?
  
  It's only a problem if you're trying to project an image that does not portray you as fascistoid oligarchy, but as some kind of moral role-model.
  
  But sorry, that went out of the window somewhere in 2001 the latest, after you got rid of the other president because of perjury regarding a blow job, and didn't get rid of that president because of perjury regarding mass surveillance and weapons of mass destruction.
  
  Now the USA is the top bully, and if the top bully can get away with it, all the other micro-bullies will point their fingers at her and say "but she tortured too!".

• On the post: UK's Health Secretary Has The Solution To Cyberbullying & Sexting: Nerds Should Nerd Harder

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2016 @ 11:56am

  Re: We can do it...

  This is excellent.

• On the post: Internet Archive Calls Out FBI For Using Outdated NSL Boilerplate; Scores Removal Of Gag Order

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2016 @ 12:31pm

  does not compute

  How come there even is something such as a "gag order"? I can only associate them with the DDR and Juntas and somesuch.
  
  How did the USA even get there, because the existence of a gag order seems to me the total, complete anathema of what the constitution says. It's clearly a violation of the first amendment, since the party served with it isn't the suspect, but at most a witness.

• On the post: Border Patrol Stops Journalist From Heading To Dakota Pipeline Protests, Searches All Of His Electronic Devices

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2016 @ 04:30am

  Re: Re: US Border Crossing 101

  I dunno, not entering the US is suspicious behavior. Yes, take Kim Dotcom for instance.

• On the post: Border Patrol Stops Journalist From Heading To Dakota Pipeline Protests, Searches All Of His Electronic Devices

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2016 @ 04:28am

  Re: Re: Re: Serious Questions...

  Even more. The US Constitution doesn't talk about citizens when it comes to freedom of speech and such. It talks about people. It only talks about citizens when it comes to voting. So clearly the freedom of religion, speech and assembly are meant to be for everyone. Even foreigners in foreign states.

• On the post: China Files A Million Patents In A Year, As Government Plans To Increase Patentability Of Software

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2016 @ 01:26am

  Re: Re: Patents should be abolished completely

  Patents on the machines themselves should be okay
  
  And what's your reasoning for this?
  
  Because, actually, patents on machines don't work either: The legal fees are (on the whole) bigger than whatever is earned by licensing; so basically, it's a tax which only serves lawyers.
  
  And I don't see any use for something that is only a money-making scheme for lawyers, and whose main use is to kill off competition.

• On the post: China Files A Million Patents In A Year, As Government Plans To Increase Patentability Of Software

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2016 @ 01:18am

  Folly of the Mercantilists

  Nothing here is about globalism. It's about mercantilism.
  
  Patents are a tax, with the purpose of keeping others out of the market.
  
  And a lot of the other ideas propagated by so-called "free trade" agreements are nothing else than thinly veiled mercantilism either.

• On the post: After All That, E-Voting Experts Suggest Voting Machines May Have Been Hacked For Trump

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2016 @ 07:58am

  Re: Re: Re: Daily Garbage Kos

  > "Now you're saying the agenda he's pushing is
  > > anti-semitism?"
  > Yes. He's given a lot of money to anti-Israel
  > "organizations."
  
  Careful. Israel is not the same as Jews. And what's more, palestinians are a semitic people as well...
  
  And there's very good reason to have problems with the government of Israel, after they murdered Rabin.

• On the post: China Uses US Concern Over Fake News To Push For More Control Of The Internet

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2016 @ 07:35am

  Re: Re: Any excuse works when you don't answer to anyone

  Yes, weird eh? Why does the USA want to uphold the belief they're a democracy, when they could just say "look, we're a totalitarian oligarchy, we're doing what profits the ruling ones, and not our people, the most".

• On the post: State Senator Wants To Turn First Amendment Activity Into 'Economic Terrorism'

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2016 @ 07:42am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I'll just leave this here...

  So - anarchy then .. and just how is this going to work out?
  
  Badly, as all anarchist states were wiped out by foreign invaders. But I'd guess you won't even get there, because anarchy happens to be much more difficult to achieve than democracy.
  
  Or maybe you're just talking about chaos and the rule of the mighty. That will work of course.

• On the post: Another State Court Says Speedy Fourth Amendment Violations Are Still Just Fourth Amendment Violations

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2016 @ 06:52am

  Re:

  Like: "Only violated the Constitution for a fraction of a second it took the bullet to penetrate the victim"?

• On the post: Burlington Police Insist Someone Is Pretending To Abuse Copyright Law To Censor News Stories About Arrests

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2016 @ 07:53am

  Copyright on government works

  As far as I know, works by government bodies CANNOT have a copyright in the USA. So mugshots must be public domain anyway.

• On the post: NSA Leaked More Hacking Tools, Leading To Calls To Fire Its Director… Who Ran To Trump For Support

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2016 @ 08:44am

  Re: According to which dictionary?

  I'm accountable for my actions.
  
  Yes, but idiot Senator John McCain obviously isn't, so the issue is rather moot.

• On the post: President Obama Claims He Cannot Pardon Snowden; He's Wrong

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2016 @ 08:15am

  balance privacy and security.

  And as long as we're at it:
  
  > we do have to balance this issue of privacy and security.
  
  is of course also BOGUS, because privacy is actually fundamental to security, and you can't "balance" security against its own foundation. Every move that shrinks privacy will also diminish security.

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