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• On the post: Of All The Coats, In All The Scenes, In All The Films: Burberry Threatened Over Humphrey Bogart Publicity Rights

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 04 May, 2012 @ 11:58am

  They remade Casablanca?

  I preferred the version with Myra Binglebat and Peter Beardsley...
  
  "Of all the space bars in all the worlds, you had to re-materialise in mine."

• On the post: FBI Quietly Returns Anonymizing Server It Seized… Without Telling Anyone

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 04 May, 2012 @ 10:15am

  Re: Re: Re: JCF!!

  Jesus fuck, why doesn't the FBI just put out a missive that says "you are required to lay bare all of your user data to any script-kiddy level hacker" and call it gott-damn day?
  
  Anybody with a brain can tell you that's exactly where it will go--spoof up a "I'm from the FBI" ip address and use a user name and password you got from Robert Hackerton's phone calls and ta-da!, you're the gott-damm FBI and can look at anybodys' data in any company...
  
  *Grrr!...*

• On the post: FBI Quietly Returns Anonymizing Server It Seized… Without Telling Anyone

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 04 May, 2012 @ 10:05am

  The future of techdirt

  Well, one of the items on the 'is your nation a fascist regime?' checklist is that criticizing the government becomes illegal (any day now).
  
  I'm'a miss techdirt when it's taken down as a "homegrown terrorist" site--due to pointing out clueless/malicious government actions.

• On the post: White House Reiterates Plans To Veto CISPA In Its Current Form; Though For The Wrong Reasons

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 04 May, 2012 @ 09:31am

  Re: Reasons

  *a-hem*
  
  They are done with this site forever!!
  
  [/troll]

• On the post: B&N Removes Magazine From Nook Store Due To Feature Article On 'Hacking'

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 04 May, 2012 @ 07:30am

  Just an encore for a wise man, now dead.

  "When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you may not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."

  [Robert Heinlein]

  
  
  I know it's been here before, but for those who do not yet have this burned into their conscious mind, please read it again.

• On the post: Nobody Cares About The Fixed Costs Of Your Book, Movie, Whatever

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 04 May, 2012 @ 07:26am

  Re: Re: ??

  What's the competing distribution model for hookers & blow?!?

• On the post: Nobody Cares About The Fixed Costs Of Your Book, Movie, Whatever

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 04 May, 2012 @ 07:24am

  Re: Re: ♥

  "If I want it, I will get it."

  Ah, the mantra of the human race. If only those in power would realize the truth of these words...
  
  Of course, that would first require the ability to make reason based decisions; and I'm pretty sure politicians have that part of their brain secretly removed after being elected to a sufficiently elevated governmental office--how else does one explain career politicians?

• On the post: Dear Google: People Like You Because You're Not A Walled Garden; Please Don't Put Up Garden Walls

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 03:58pm

  Re: False!

  Tautology (small computer is small! Anonymous commentator is anonymous!)
  
  That's like claiming people like TV because they haven't realized it's ad funded...
  
  As soon as a person hits the age of reason (around 28yo, give or take a few years) the obviousness of "if you are not paying for the service you are not the customer" becomes glaringly apparent.
  
  In short, people know. They're just generally too lazy to care.

• On the post: Dear Google: People Like You Because You're Not A Walled Garden; Please Don't Put Up Garden Walls

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 03:50pm

  Re: Re: wut...

  You're assuming aforementioned person isn't commenting from their cubicle at the Wall Street Journal at that particular moment...

• On the post: Dear Google: People Like You Because You're Not A Walled Garden; Please Don't Put Up Garden Walls

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 03:34pm

  Re: But it does!

  adblock does do that, but it requires some applied knowledge on the part of the user.

• On the post: Dear Google: People Like You Because You're Not A Walled Garden; Please Don't Put Up Garden Walls

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 03:05pm

  Re: iDev

  But Apple already has patents on the iHypnotize, the iFascinate, and, of course, the iSheep.

• On the post: Online Communities Bust Kickstarter Scam

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 02:06pm

  Well know,

  I see you've all covered this quite aptly, nothing for me to put in.
  
  Except, ya know, I ♥ humans, because they do stuff like this.

• On the post: Swizz Beatz: Technology Brings Freedom To Musicians; Those Not Embracing It Are Greedy

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 01:02pm

  Re: One Point I'm Missing

  ...kickstarter?

• On the post: Misguided Senators Propose Plan To Make It Harder For Law Enforcement To Track Down Human Trafficking Online

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 11:09am

  Re: I agree...but also disgree

  Bah!
  
  The problem of human trafficking is easily solved thru the laws of supply and demand.
  
  Remove the social stigmas around sex, legalize prostitution, and those who force women into prostitution will find they have no market, the payoff of the illegal trafficking would not be worth the price they would get.
  
  Pfft, easy.

• On the post: Chris Dodd Rewrites Hollywood's History To Pretend That It Came About Because Of IP Laws

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 11:00am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Aren't "rouge film makers" a feminist pr0n thing?

• On the post: Chris Dodd Rewrites Hollywood's History To Pretend That It Came About Because Of IP Laws

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 10:11am

  Re: "Fair and Balanced" Load of Sh*t

  Please refer to the "sign of fascism" comment from an article or two ago for why this isn't be correctly addressed by the media.

• On the post: Chris Dodd Rewrites Hollywood's History To Pretend That It Came About Because Of IP Laws

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 10:09am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Chris Dodd...

  Seriously, the "anthem of tune changes" should be a treatment which every career politician gets at every turn.
  
  "And here you are, doing a complete reversal on your stance on [x] after having received $[y] campaign contributions from [z]"
  
  Or something to that effect... (affect? damn.)

• On the post: Chris Dodd Rewrites Hollywood's History To Pretend That It Came About Because Of IP Laws

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 09:52am

  Re: Re: Chris Dodd...

  That could horribly wrong on short notice... just saying.
  
  I, for one, definitely DO NOT WANT Chris Dodd exposing himself.

• On the post: Chris Dodd Rewrites Hollywood's History To Pretend That It Came About Because Of IP Laws

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 09:50am

  Re: Revisionist History is NohBohdey's Beetch.

  YES! Hollywood was created by people who were all like: "we'll move to California and pretend we never received the letters demanding licensing fees, now let's make some movies!"

• On the post: Can Someone Explain When The Pirate Bay Was Actually Put On Trial In The UK?

  

  :Lobo Santo ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 08:56am

  Re: As governments fight reality they seem unable to face it.

  +Insightful x(a million)!
  
  Thank you.

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