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• On the post: Could A Hedge Fund Manager Trying To Short Stocks Of Pharma Companies With Bad Patents Derail Patent Reform?

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2015 @ 01:13pm

  Re: Re:

  If the guy's purchasing the stock he's shortingw that's insider trading. The detestability of that act is subjective, agreed, but it's still illegal wherever it occurs.

• On the post: LMFAO, The Band, Sends Cease And Desist Over LMFAO, The Beer

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2015 @ 07:49pm

  All together now: I'm stupid and I know it

• On the post: Could A Hedge Fund Manager Trying To Short Stocks Of Pharma Companies With Bad Patents Derail Patent Reform?

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2015 @ 12:44pm

  Big pharma: "You know, guys, this Kyle Bass is a big problem, so here's how we deal with him. Instead of getting the scumbag investigated for potential insider trading, we'll attempt to destroy one of the few useful things left in modern patent law. That'll show 'em."

• On the post: Windstream To Farmer: Sure, We'll Give You Fiber Broadband — For $383,500

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2015 @ 05:38am

  Re: Lumping of ISPs

  No, what makes it hard for independent companies to compete is the fact that they just don't have the same market presence as the big guys. And the moment they do have anything approaching the same market presence? Bam! Oligopoly.

• On the post: Artist Claims Soul-Clearing, DNA-Repatterning Motivational Speaker Jacked His Depictions Of 'Sacred Geometries'

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2015 @ 11:00am

  There's one missing

  Three nutballs are supposed to show up at once after you've been waiting ages, not just two.

• On the post: Split Works Debate Raises Thorny Issues For Music Companies (And For The Rest Of Us)

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2015 @ 10:34am

  PROs: You can either have one co-author able to license a work, or you can have none of them able to veto a licence. Your choice.

• On the post: Daily Deal: Hushed Private Phone Number

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2015 @ 10:27am

  You pick one private number (USA and Canada area codes) [...]
  Another North America-only 'deal'. Meh.

• On the post: Second OPM Hack Revealed: Even Worse Than The First

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2015 @ 03:11am

  Re: Re: Worrisome, but not surprising

  Ever since Iraq 2003, Western super powers are the terrorists.

• On the post: Paramount Pictures Goes After The Codfather Fish Shop Over A Fish That Looks Like Marlon Brando

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2015 @ 03:07am

  Re: Apple vs Apfelkind

  [I]f you are a restaurant aka (sic) in an industry that has nothing to do with the original product, then from this case it seems to be safe to keep going.
  I already said that. Sheogorath ( profile), Aug 13th, 2015 @ 4:47pm

• On the post: Russia Threatens To Ban All Of Reddit Because Of A Single, Unspecified Drug-Related Thread

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2015 @ 01:57am

  Re: Re: Re:

  From what I remember, the girl's about twelve or thirteen in the image and entirely naked, not just topless. Anyway, the law said sixteen when Samantha Fox appeared on Page Three, but it says eighteen in all such modelling now.

• On the post: Vimeo Should Take Some Of The Blame For Simply Accepting Massive Bogus DMCA Takedown Over The Word 'Pixels'

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2015 @ 01:48am

  Re: Re: Re: Insanity rules

  Once. Out of how many occasions? Rather like the incumbents' war on 'piracy'.

• On the post: Windstream To Farmer: Sure, We'll Give You Fiber Broadband — For $383,500

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2015 @ 05:30am

  In reality, the end result has been an endless flood of charming anecdotes like this one, worth remembering the next time an industry lobbyist is busy arguing that U.S. consumers are simply awash in robust market competition.
  There's actually loads of competition. If you call a bunch of duopolies and triopolies competition, that is.

• On the post: NYPD Sergeants Assoc. Using Flickr To Publicly Humiliate Homeless To Play Politics With Mayor De Blasio

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2015 @ 05:12pm

  Re:

  I guess only the great get copied, huh? Yep, I got there twenty-two whole minutes before you.

• On the post: Chelsea Manning Threatened With Indefinite Solitary Confinement For Expired Toothpaste & Having A Copy Of Vanity Fair

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2015 @ 05:04pm

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  Chelsea Manning is a woman, not a person of uncertain gender. Stop misgendering her.

• On the post: Spin Bike EBay Listing Removed Because 'Spin Bike' Is Apparently A Non-Generic Trademark

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2015 @ 11:49pm

  But the company hasn't given up, as shown by how it got eBay to remove a listing for an exercise bike for using the term "spin."
  Um, I think you just used the generic term for this product.

• On the post: Paramount Pictures Goes After The Codfather Fish Shop Over A Fish That Looks Like Marlon Brando

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2015 @ 04:47pm

  Re:

  Read the final sentence of the article, dipwad. And did the fact that Paramount are opposing the chippy's trademark registration in addition to bitching about the font, even though the movie studio has no fast food restaurants in New Zealand and it's a different field of trade pass you by?

• On the post: CIA Accidentally Releases Apology Letter It Wrote, But Never Sent To The Senate For Illegally Spying On It

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2015 @ 12:07pm

  Re: I Wonder

  Both, obviously. ;)

• On the post: Chelsea Manning Threatened With Indefinite Solitary Confinement For Expired Toothpaste & Having A Copy Of Vanity Fair

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2015 @ 12:01pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  When someone is told 'indefinite' they hear 'indefinite', not 'two weeks'. Just FYI.

• On the post: Manhattan District Attorney Ratchets Up The 'Going Dark' FUD; Leaves Out Its Connection To Shady Hacking Team

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2015 @ 10:55am

  Re: "web services"

  Personally, I believe web services to be either on the Web or dependent on it. If something can be connected to the Web, but doesn't rely on it for functionality, then it's a web-connected service.

• On the post: BMW Apparently Concerned That New Google Holding Company 'Alphabet' Infringes On Its Trademark

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2015 @ 10:46am

  Re:

  FYI, Bethesda Softworks (not 'Elder Scrolls') filed for declaratory judgement to prevent Mojang trademarking the word 'Scrolls' on its own on the basis that this would prevent other developers (Bethsoft had established use on its side) from using the word at all in titles of future games. So this did look like David vs. Goliath in the beginning, but it was actually Goliath vs. Cyclops, with Goliath fighting to protect David. Just so you know. :)

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