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• On the post: A Speculative Example Of CISPA's Potential For Abuse

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 08 May, 2012 @ 01:32pm

  Re: Re: Re: Stock traders know the truth.

  It's just the fact that money is inevitably involved, and I probly couldn't get away with throwing a congressperson under a bus. :-P

• On the post: A Speculative Example Of CISPA's Potential For Abuse

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 08 May, 2012 @ 12:56pm

  It's quiet, too quiet...

  Last time it was this quiet around here was when SOPA was in the offing and all the trollobbyists were off to do their day jobs...
  
  Think they're getting a head start (no pun) on the congressmen who'll be voting on it soon?

• On the post: A Speculative Example Of CISPA's Potential For Abuse

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 08 May, 2012 @ 12:51pm

  Re: Stock traders know the truth.

  Speaking of news and rumors, did you check out the site linked in the story?
  
  sopatrack.com
  
  Don't go there on a full stomach though, unless you're trying to lose weight.

• On the post: RIAA Tries To Downplay Its Role In The Feds' Unjustifiable Censorship Of Dajaz1

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 08 May, 2012 @ 08:33am

  To recap:

  Excerpted from The 14 Characteristics of Fascism
  
  9. Corporate Power is Protected
  The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
  
  11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
  Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
  
  12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
  Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
  
  13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
  Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
  
  

  ---

  Come to think of it, we could probably reference that list all day.

• On the post: If You Think The Cost Of 'Piracy' Is High, What About The Cost Of Enforcement?

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 08 May, 2012 @ 07:40am

  Re: Where can I get a Jolly Roger flag?

  It is only prudent to state that the same statements of cost and effectiveness can be made about drug enforcement.
  
  (just saying)

• On the post: If You Think The Cost Of 'Piracy' Is High, What About The Cost Of Enforcement?

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 08 May, 2012 @ 07:31am

  Re: It turns out the MPAA and the RIAA are not so stupid...We are!

  I second that, it's generally a brilliant idea.
  
  For other cases of same, I'm pretty sure I've heard of billionaires getting stadiums built (that they owned) and somehow getting tax-payers in the state to pay for the whole thing...
  
  Skeptical Cynic, brilliant!

• On the post: Pirate Party Wins Again In Germany

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 07 May, 2012 @ 02:53pm

  If only...

  If only elections in America were decided by the voters, then we in the United States* could have a Pirate Party too.
  
  

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  *The one country in the world with more people in jail (numerically, per capita, & percentage; take your pick) than any other country on the planet--including China.

• On the post: Ebook Sales Of Harry Potter Lead To Increased Physical Sales As Well

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 07 May, 2012 @ 01:21pm

  Re: Re: Re: JudgeMENTAL

  Ah, well that makes sense.

• On the post: Ebook Sales Of Harry Potter Lead To Increased Physical Sales As Well

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 07 May, 2012 @ 01:11pm

  Re: JudgeMENTAL

  So you purchased and read part of a Harry Potter book?
  
  Which part? And who sold you only part of a book??

• On the post: Confused Jury Says Google Infringed On Oracle's Copyright, Sorta, But Maybe Not

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 07 May, 2012 @ 12:37pm

  Re: All I know is...

  Let's just get some developers together and we'll make a compiler which takes 'kitteh speak' code and makes it into executable binaries (et al).
  
  We'll open-source it and call it good.
  
  Example code:
  HAI
  CAN HAS STDIO?
  VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"
  KTHXBYE

• On the post: UK Gov't Considering Requiring A 'Porn License' If You Want To Look At Porn Online

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 07 May, 2012 @ 12:01pm

  Re: Re: Business Opportunity

  _le sigh_ It's a book reference.

• On the post: UK Gov't Considering Requiring A 'Porn License' If You Want To Look At Porn Online

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 07 May, 2012 @ 11:32am

  Re: Business Opportunity

  irq should be irc -- been doing hardware dev all morning, sorry.

• On the post: UK Gov't Considering Requiring A 'Porn License' If You Want To Look At Porn Online

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 07 May, 2012 @ 11:31am

  Business Opportunity

  On the other hand, those who want porn but not to tell the gov will have to go thru a third-party of some sort--unless proxies count as porn too.
  
  On the gripping hand, to be effective, they'll have to block/monitor bittorrent (good luck), irq, ftp, every chat channel which can accommodate file transfers, and the good'ol sneakernet. Hell of a goal they've set.
  
  I'd wish them luck, but there's not a snowball's chance in hell they will succeed.
  
  Unless they put a little paper hat on their snowball, in which case the snowball will last a long time.

• On the post: AT&T Argues That More Competition Is Bad For You & Leads To Higher Prices

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 07 May, 2012 @ 11:01am

  Re: Normally...

  Did you just claim roads where an unlimited resource??
  
  I think either your understanding of spectrum allocation and/or your understanding of roads is flawed.
  
  There is, without doubt, a measurable and finite amount of (roads thru-put capability/radio spectrum information capacity/bandwidth). However, this only makes a difference when everybody is trying to use it at the same time. The rest of the time, the (roads thru-put capability/radio spectrum information capacity/bandwidth) may as well be infinite, as the very little use it gets will not clog it or use it up.

• On the post: Can You Copyright The Most Basic Concepts Of Reality TV?

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 07 May, 2012 @ 09:50am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Ambivalence...

  Dittoooo!!!!!!

• On the post: Can You Copyright The Most Basic Concepts Of Reality TV?

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 07 May, 2012 @ 09:24am

  Ambivalence...

  So, if CBS wins, then we get fewer reality tv shows; but then there's precedence for abusing copyright...
  
  Not sure whom to root for on this one.

• On the post: Here We Go Again: FBI Wants Backdoors To Snoop On Nearly All Internet Communications

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 07 May, 2012 @ 08:29am

  Re: Opposed

  Or, like, a realist.

• On the post: Paulo Coelho Ebook Sales Jump Way Up Thanks To $0.99 Sale

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 04 May, 2012 @ 02:38pm

  Re: Re: ~_~

  Quidquid latine dictum, altum videtur
  (I also have this on my nameplate by my office door. Nobody has yet asked what it means, nor has anybody smirked/laughed when reading it...)

• On the post: How Amanda Palmer Built An Army Of Supporters: Connecting Each And Every Day, Person By Person

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 04 May, 2012 @ 01:49pm

  Re: Re: Yes, but...

  Liking your job is merely a bonus.
  
  eeee! What a horrid thing to say!
  
  If you don't enjoy what you're doing, you've not yet settled into your career--keep plugging away and trying new things.
  
  Me, I love my job. For lots of reasons, and techdirt is only like, 6, of those reasons.

• On the post: Google Points Out That What The Authors Guild Wants And What Authors Want Are Two Very Different Things

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 04 May, 2012 @ 01:02pm

  Re: Re: Re: Rental

  Totally correct.
  
  It's the same system many Computer (et al) Game companies have been using for years--if you don't know it's crap before you buy it, then they totally got a sale.
  
  Personally, I hate paying for crappy products.

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