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• On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 42: Adblocking Wouldn't Be A Problem If Ads Didn't Suck So Much

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2015 @ 01:25pm

  There's ANOTHER problem with advertising.

  It's generally delivered by third-party sites who take NO responsibility for the content, and sometimes that includes "drive-by malware." Ad-blocking isn't just stopping annoying ads. It's self-defense to avoid getting your machine compromised.
  
  As a side-issue, it may not matter, since Windows 10 comes pre-compromised with Microsoft Genuine Spyware®.

• On the post: Getty Images Goes Copyright Trolling After A Meme Penguin

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2015 @ 09:40am

  That's a nice meme you got.

  Be a shame if anything happened to it.

• On the post: City of San Jose Looking To Attach Automatic License Plate Readers To Garbage Trucks

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2015 @ 04:04pm

  Re: I see a possible new product market....

  Good idea, but if such covers aren't already illegal, they WILL be as soon as the politicians hear about it.

• On the post: MLB Drops Trademark Opposition Against WalletHub For 'W' Logo After WalletHub Bows At The MLB Altar

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2015 @ 04:24pm

  Legal Staffs and Armies

  Both of them decay in garrisons. They have to go out and fight every so often to keep the training levels up.

• On the post: Ashley Madison Still Trying To Abuse The DMCA To Hide Leak

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2015 @ 02:02pm

  Why Avid Life Media is running around filing bogus DMCA notices?

  Because there's nothing else they CAN do.
  
  The data is out, freely available to world+dog, and dealing with the damage is pretty much like trying to stop a tsunami by throwing spitballs at it.
  
  If anything, the Streisand Effects from the bogus notices will make the damage worse, but try and tell that to a bunch of panicked non-technical executives who are watching their lives circling the drain.

• On the post: DA Claims He'll Charge Drone Operators Near Wildfires For Murder

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2015 @ 10:45am

  "If it bleeds, it leads."

  And even if it only claims to bleed, you have headlines for days.
  
  Remember that exchange in "Absence of Malice"?
  
  Q: Is that true?
  
  A: No, but it's accurate.
  
  So:
  
  Drones are flying. That's accurate.
  
  Q: Are they interfering with fighting fires?
  
  A: Ask me again after I figure out how much advertising we can sell based on our ratings.

• On the post: Spain Government Goes Full Police State; Enacts Law Forbidding Dissent, 'Unauthorized' Photography Of Law Enforcement

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2015 @ 02:03pm

  It's a gag law, all right.

  I think I'm gonna barf.

• On the post: Insanity Rules In Ireland: Media Ordered Not To Report On Parliamentary Speech

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 29 May, 2015 @ 02:53pm

  Recursive Streisand

  Get an injunction against talking about the charges.
  
  Get an injunction against talking about the injunction against talking about the charges.
  
  Get an injunction against talking about the injunction against talking about the injunction against talking about the charges.
  
  Continue until the legal system collapses under the weight of the injunctions.

• On the post: EU Study Confirms: Hollywood's Site Blocking Campaign Is A Total Failure

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 15 May, 2015 @ 11:22am

  One Pirate Enters, Four Pirates Leave!

  The internet is clearly the anti-Thunderdome.

• On the post: UK Plans To Do Away With Free Speech… In The Name Of Free Speech

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 13 May, 2015 @ 12:25pm

  Orwell Was Incomplete

  War is Peace
  
  Freedom is Slavery
  
  Ignorance is Strength
  
  He left out: Censorship is Freedom of Speech

• On the post: Broadcasters And Cable Companies Trying Harder Than Ever To Annoy Paying Customers With Ugly Public Contract Disputes

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2014 @ 12:08pm

  So the World Finally Starts Catching Up With Me

  Back in 1992, the SciFi channel (now SyFy) started, and dear, sweet Comcast offered me a five channel bundle with that and four other channels, none of which were worth spending thirty seconds on, never mind the $30/month fee to watch ONE channel.
  I was snottily told by their customer service that it was the package or nothing.
  
  I chose nothing, canceled my account with them, and haven't regretted it for a minute. In fact, about ten years ago, the installed cable had rotted out to the extent that I threw it in the garbage where it belonged.
  
  About the ONLY thing Comcast does for me these days is provide fodder for the paper-recycling bin.
  
  Nice to see the rest of the public is catching on.

• On the post: Washington Post's Clueless Editorial On Phone Encryption: No Backdoors, But How About A Magical 'Golden Key'?

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2014 @ 10:01am

  Singalong Time

  [Tune: "I Got a Brand New Pair of Roller Skates"]
  
  I got a safe encrypted telephone.
  I hacked its golden key!
  Wonder what other uses that master key might have for me?
  
  Is this megalomania?
  Can I rule the world?
  
  'Cause I got a safe encrypted telephone
  I hacked its golden key!

• On the post: Canadian News Outlet Warns Canadians That US Law Enforcement Officers Will Pull Them Over And Seize Their Cash

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2014 @ 11:42am

  Not "robbery at badgepoint"

  Felony armed robbery. Period.

• On the post: LA School District Reluctantly Gives Up The Grenade Launchers The Pentagon Gave Them

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2014 @ 11:38am

  Grenade Launchers as School Supplies

  If such weapons are truly needed to keep order in schools, the United States has already fallen on its sword. Literally.

• On the post: David Letterman Mocks The Eagles Over Refusal To License Their Music

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2014 @ 11:40am

  Reminds me of an author I had a run-in with

  I'm not going to name him. He doesn't deserve the publicity.
  
  [me]I was emailing him, and mentioned my opposition to DRM.
  
  [author]The police should have the authority to search anyone's hard drive over the net and remove anything they deem suspicious. Anybody who objects to this is a thief or thief wannabe.
  
  [me]I object. And aren't you being rather harsh to someone who has bought every book you ever wrote?
  
  [author]Big deal. All the royalties I've ever gotten from you wouldn't even pay for dinner at my favorite restaurant.
  
  My former collection of his stuff is now pulp fiction, and I haven't even been able to bring myself to pirate his stuff, much less read it.
  
  Don Henley is just another jerk of the same stripe.

• On the post: Intellectual Ventures Tries To Rewrite The Script, Pretends The Plan Was Always About Making Stuff, Not Trolling

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2014 @ 03:12pm

  What is the lab complex called?

  Grigory Potemkin Memorial Laboratories?

• On the post: Washington Police: 'We Have To Respond With Smartphones Almost As Fast As We Respond With Guns'

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2014 @ 09:53am

  Message to Washington Police (and cops everywhere)

  If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.

• On the post: Tropico 5 Game Hits A Little Too Close To Home For Newly-Minted Thai Military Junta

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2014 @ 10:43am

  So...

  Barbara Streisand is now the head of the Thai government?

• On the post: Language School's Blogger Fired For Writing A Post On Homophones; Director Fears Association With 'Gay Sex'

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2014 @ 11:31am

  ET! Homophone!

  chuckles evilly

• On the post: Language School's Blogger Fired For Writing A Post On Homophones; Director Fears Association With 'Gay Sex'

  

  sehlat ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2014 @ 10:30am

  Ecch! Homo!

  That pretty much sums up Woodger's reaction.

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