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• On the post: The Many Killers Of The Music Industry: The Digital Era

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2011 @ 09:57am

  On the "cloud"...

  "but rather an unpicturesque rack of redundant servers."
  
  Hey! I take offence at that! A well done rack of servers (or room of racks) can be downright sexy.

• On the post: Microsoft To US Gov't: Hey, Only We Should Be Able To Use Patents To Shakedown Other Companies!

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2011 @ 07:30am

  Re:

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  Google is teh EVUL!!!1!!!11!!

• On the post: Send In The Clones: Startup Raises $90 Million To Copy Other Startup

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2011 @ 07:30am

  Almost completely unrelated:
  That book, Winner Take All, is $0.05(+$3.99 S&H) on Amazon.
  http://www.amazon.com/Winner-Take-All-Society-Robert-H-Frank/dp/0028740343/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308147844&sr=1-1
  
  Hell, I may get it at that price. ;)

• On the post: French Court Says Merely Having The Word 'Torrent' In Your Domain Means You Are Encouraging Infringement

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2011 @ 11:12am

  Re:

  NEWS FLASH: People commit most murders, ergo all people are murderers.
  
  The story at 11!

• On the post: French Court Says Merely Having The Word 'Torrent' In Your Domain Means You Are Encouraging Infringement

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2011 @ 11:10am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  and /daemons/ run the internet.
  
  Fun with words!

• On the post: The 18 Senators Who Approve Breaking The Internet To Protect Hollywood

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 26 May, 2011 @ 10:55am

  Re:

  in the words of Wikipedia:
  
  [Citation Needed]

• On the post: Australian Tax Office To Use Keystroke Logger On Employees… But Just To Stop Repetitive Stress Injuries

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 12 May, 2011 @ 04:55am

  at (where I work in IT), we spy on every single employee. It has saved us from something in the past, but it kind of underhanded. Of course, since we are a private company we can do that kind of thing. We use Spector360. Thankfully it is windows and OSX only, so my Fedora 15 PC at work is safe. :)

• On the post: The Anachronism Of Today's Patent And Copyright Laws

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 10 May, 2011 @ 12:43pm

  Word?!

  It's a WORD(!) document?! WTF! I mean, seriously, What the F*ck?! What, is this some first semester community college dropout?! God, I know my 8 year old cousin knows how to print to PDF!
  
  This guy is the f*cking anachronism.
  
  Sorry. I will be frank, I stopped reading at that line.
  
  
  Word!

• On the post: Indian Filmmakers Plan To Battle Piracy — By Using Pirates' Own Computers Against Them

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 03 May, 2011 @ 05:59pm

  Re:

  btw, this movie seems stupid. but that may just be me.

• On the post: Indian Filmmakers Plan To Battle Piracy — By Using Pirates' Own Computers Against Them

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 03 May, 2011 @ 05:57pm

  Is it sad that, as a Linux user, I searched for everything related to this and *know* I am 100% safe? Suck that stupid film industry assholes!

• On the post: Yes Means Yes

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2011 @ 11:56am

  Re: i heart nina...

  now do it in iambic pentameter.

• On the post: Yes Means Yes

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2011 @ 11:52am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  me too!

• On the post: Details Of Apple's Lawsuit Against Samsung Revealed; And It's Even More Ridiculous

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2011 @ 04:43am

  Re:

  I'm going to just assume you are a troll.
  I would bet you would defend the patent lawsuits keeping life saving drugs out of dieing people's hand as well.

• On the post: Why Does The Entertainment Industry Seek To Kill Any Innovation That's Helping It Adapt?

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2011 @ 06:20am

  Re: Re: Partnered with someone with an obvious conflict of interest.

  you are probably right, but what pisses me off is the attitude every blog post and comment that netflix has put out has the tone of "Well, why not just buy windows/ios/wii/ps3?"
  
  That is not the damned point. If I wanted to use those things, I would. The point is that you are telling me that, as a potential (and previous) customer, my money isn't worth as much as a windows/ios/wii/ps3 owner's money. That I don't have the right to use what I see fit.
  I am okay (sort of) with them not supporting Linux because of pressure from above (and probably from Microsoft as well), but insinuating that I should change my ways because you can't support them is utter bullshit.
  
  http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/the-netflix-linux-conjecture-how-netflix-snubs-the-linux-community/1745
  
  http://blog.netflix.com/2010/11/netflix-on-android.html
  
  They really are a bunch of assholes, regardless of the pressures from the movie/TV industry

• On the post: Why Does The Entertainment Industry Seek To Kill Any Innovation That's Helping It Adapt?

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2011 @ 06:19am

  Considering Netflix's approach to desktop Linux and Android (basically "it isn't windows or doesn't have a 'drm framework', so we are going to pout in the corner and throw a temper tantrum and they can't play with our toys."), I hope they get crippled. But I'm a spiteful person. What can I say.
  
  I agree that is all about control, but I think another problem under all the other one is that the industry is afraid of change. I would bet that most of the highest level execs still think computers are just a fad and that the world will reassert itself into a pattern that makes them money with little to no effort, like before. Without these gatekeepers we wouldn't have the culture we do (whether that would be a good or bad thing is up to social anthropologists centuries from now), but now that they have served their purpose, and we don't need them, they are terrified we will (figuratively)execute them as dead weight. They are afraid of the changes that the people want and even though they are in the best position overall to accomplish it, they won't do it.
  
  I would also bet that the highest of high execs don't even know what a computer even IS. Much less why it is stealing away their market.

• On the post: FBI Hijacks Botnet, With Court Order… Then Issues Kill Signal To Millions Of Computers

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2011 @ 04:24pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: All I can say is Holy Crap!!!

  of course, of course.
  
  Yea, if the FBI/CIA/Whatever have not only the capability but also the backing of the courts we are all screwed.

• On the post: FBI Hijacks Botnet, With Court Order… Then Issues Kill Signal To Millions Of Computers

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2011 @ 01:32pm

  Re: Re:

  you don't work in IT.
  Expecting them to be able to turn it off and on IS unreasonable. I have gotten more than one person, from 20 years old to over 60 who didn't know how to turn off the damn machine they sit in front of for 40 hours a week.
  
  I hate people...
  
  (oh and your elderly neighbor, try Linux Mint. Might hit the spot.)

• On the post: FBI Hijacks Botnet, With Court Order… Then Issues Kill Signal To Millions Of Computers

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2011 @ 01:24pm

  Re: Re: All I can say is Holy Crap!!!

  And what if the botnet program (the "virus") has a buffer overflow bug? Bugless code is hard, especially when you have to work with the constraints that malware writers have to deal with. If the FBI had found a bug and sent a formed packet that could cause the buffer overflow, now, since the virus more than likely has kernel level access, you have a Gov't agency with the ability to run arbitrary code on your machine. It isn't Hollywood, it is how damn near every exploit and hack works. All Hollywood does is make it shiny it up and adds stupid terms noone uses.
  
  But it's cool, I use Linux. :)

• On the post: Feds: 4th Amendment Shouldn't Apply To Online Emails Because… That Would Make Us Have To Work Harder

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2011 @ 08:44am

  What if the server is in another country?
  If I was Amazon(or whatever) I would offer a "free from prying eyes" plan that hosts all data in a country that has no extradition treaty with America.
  Screw you, DC!

• On the post: MPAA: Real Patriots Don't Share

  

  senshikaze ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2011 @ 08:38am

  Re: Hmmm

  I like the MPAA == KKK there at the end.
  
  :)

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