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• On the post: Dear MPAA: Stomp Your Feet And Repeat It As Many Times As You Want, But Infringement Is Not Theft

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2011 @ 12:23pm

  Take that bitch down a peg.

  To the MAFIAA, in the infamous words of Wikipedia:
  
  [citation needed]

• On the post: It's SXSW Voting Time

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2011 @ 05:57pm

  Everything is a Remix would be a good one, I think.
  
  I liked http://ripremix.com/ a good bit.

• On the post: Stealing Isn't Saving, But Sharing Isn't Stealing

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2011 @ 08:09am

  Wait, so you mean the people who are going to be hit hardest by a recession should not also have to pay as much as possible to prop up a failing business model?
  
  Isn't that really the American Dream(TM)?

• On the post: Court Says College Can Snoop On Students' Email

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2011 @ 06:24am

  the community college I go to (yes, community college) *requires* use of a student email system (based on outlook online, I think. Doesn't work with Chrome on Linux, is all I know). Frankly, I have gmail hooked into it to pull messages and to send as that email address because the school requires all school related communication must be from your college supplied email address.
  
  I do not, under an circumstances have that email account send anything even barely personal. It is for school and only for school.

• On the post: Feds Say They Can Search Bradley Manning's Friend's Laptop Because They Can

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2011 @ 10:52am

  Re: Re: Re: I also noted their "technical difficulties" with a dual-boot system

  With clonezilla, doing it SATA -> USB it takes around 13 hours for 800GB(1TB drive, NTFS, 7200RPM) SATA -> SATA is about 8.

• On the post: Killing The Golden Goose: Is Hollywood To Blame For Netflix's Poorly Thought Out Massive Price Hike?

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2011 @ 01:56pm

  Re: Re: Re: Sadly

  umm... its called a binary blob (kinda). Skype releases a none open sourced client. So does spotify (in EU). So does a ton of other developers.
  
  Netflix won't release on Linux because their programmers suck.

• On the post: Vancouver Rioters Trying To Abuse Copyright To Avoid Being Identified, Which Only Helps Identify Them

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2011 @ 04:51am

  Re: Re:

  1) you can't copyright a recipe:
  http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html

• On the post: Can Health And Human Services Copyright New Smoking Package Warnings?

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2011 @ 06:49am

  Facts?

  On the first one: can you copyright facts?
  
  If so:
  The sky is blue.
  (c)2011 senshikaze, all rights reserved.

• On the post: Shouldn't Free Mean The Same Thing Whether Followed By 'Culture' Or 'Software'?

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2011 @ 09:37am

  Nina for President in '12!

  As a full time free software zealot, I have personally removed myself from the CC argument, normally putting my non-documentation and non-software under the public domain.
  
  Human knowledge (including culture) is for everyone.

• On the post: MPAA: Forget National Security, This Is About Internet Security!

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2011 @ 05:14am

  Not a problem here:
  
  I use Linux (TM)

• On the post: Iran Declares Victory Over Internet-In-A-Suitcase

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2011 @ 05:53am

  Re: Remember the lies about Iraq?

  the difference between Iran and us? We fought our way into this mess.

• On the post: Doctor Plans To Appeal Ruling That Said Complaining About His Bedside Manner Was Not Defamation

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2011 @ 04:43am

  what exactly is defamation?

  Can anyone explain the US defamation laws? It seems fairly arbitrary, what is the difference between a bad review and defamation?
  
  Though this doctor should be beaten by court order for his utter stupidity. It's just a review. America needs to grow up and stop treating the legal system as a nanny.

• On the post: Did Congressional Debate Over Patent Reform Bill Open Up A Backdoor For An Independent Inventor Defense?

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2011 @ 04:22am

  I am sorry Mike, but I don't see it. Other than the quote that starts out with "This is first inventor to file,", I don't really see any mention of independent inventors. And it seems to me that congress only cares about the first to file anyway, regardless of how many people actually invent something.
  
  I still think software patents should be outlawed, though.

• On the post: Apple Goes After Open Source Startup For Daring To Use The Term 'App Store'

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2011 @ 07:08am

  Thanks, Apple! without your lawsuit, I would have never found this awesome home server system!

• On the post: Collateral Damage: In The Hunt For LulzSec, FBI Takes Down A Bunch Of Websites

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2011 @ 08:05am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: The problem is that Lulz has committed an unspeakable crime...

  more and better sanctions on ISPs would be a start. ISPs putting in filters for outgoing mail would help as well. (and it isn't even a privacy concern, ISPs can/do already read everything you do.)

• On the post: Collateral Damage: In The Hunt For LulzSec, FBI Takes Down A Bunch Of Websites

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2011 @ 07:42am

  Re: Re: The problem is that Lulz has committed an unspeakable crime...

  I looked at our spam filter, and I was wrong about the numbers:
  We block over 30k a day, a little over 200k a week, and 800k a month.
  
  To put that in perspective: our spam firewall let only 35k messages through in the past 30 days. Out of 797k total messages incoming.
  
  Spam is a disease.

• On the post: Iran Says 'Me Too' To The Space Race; Pledges To Launch A Monkey Into Space By The End Of The Summer

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2011 @ 07:35am

  Re: Re: Re: Wait, what ?!

  yes, but what do we do when the sun expands and devours the only earth we have? I would rather a hard life in space then complete destruction of the human race.

• On the post: Collateral Damage: In The Hunt For LulzSec, FBI Takes Down A Bunch Of Websites

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2011 @ 07:32am

  Re: The problem is that Lulz has committed an unspeakable crime...

  yes. I really wish we could get rid of all spammers across the globe. I am fairly sure that it would speed up the internet in general. But we can't really do anything with this whole "free speech" and international treaties and such.
  
  Our business has over 20,000 dropped (spam) emails a day. over 120,000 a week (over the weekends, rates drop). Assuming the average size is 50KB (rather large), that is over 1GB of useless internet traffic hitting our router(and mail filter) a day. It is a shame.

• On the post: Iran Says 'Me Too' To The Space Race; Pledges To Launch A Monkey Into Space By The End Of The Summer

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2011 @ 05:58am

  Re: Re: Re: Wait, what ?!

  no, it was my fault. Like I said above, it was nonsensical, I should have taken a hint. :)
  
  And yes, a sue happy population is a very, very, very bad thing, for more reasons than just space travel.

• On the post: Iran Says 'Me Too' To The Space Race; Pledges To Launch A Monkey Into Space By The End Of The Summer

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2011 @ 04:00am

  Re: Wait, what ?!

  as nonsensical as that reply was, I am going to try to answer your question:
  We have to go into space. There are thousands of reasons, but, to me, the most important one is the fact that we(humans) will go extinct if anything happens to this planet, our sun, or solar system. It is a must that we spread our population across this solar system, and hopefully in time, across many more. We know our sun has about 4~ billion years before it tries to kill us. I hope humanity survives past then.

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