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• On the post: When Facebook's Terms Of Service Decide What Kind Of 'Speech' Is Okay, Activists Get Silenced

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2014 @ 10:43pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Yes, but the act of reporting hides the comments from others. The reporters themselves have already seen it and decided for others that the comment needs to be hidden.
  Yes, but the act of clicking on the post unhides it, allowing others to see it and decide for themselves whether or not it needs to be hidden. Going by what I've seen after unhiding posts here, I'm happy to trust the judgment of others.

• On the post: Security Researcher Punches Holes In NBC's 'Everyone Going To Sochi Will Be Hacked" Story; NBC Doubles Down In Response

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2014 @ 10:13pm

  This is why...

  when I sideload Android apps, I get them only from sites I trust and study the permissions on them as carefully as I study the permissions on the apps I get from Google Play.

• On the post: If Harry Potter Was An Academic Work

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2014 @ 10:08pm

  Oh, man! All too true, especially the misspellings of Joanne Kathleen Rowling's name!

• On the post: DRM Is The Right To Make Up Your Own Copyright Laws

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2014 @ 10:38pm

  DRM Is The Right To Make Up Your Own Copyright Laws.
  'Nuff said.

• On the post: When Facebook's Terms Of Service Decide What Kind Of 'Speech' Is Okay, Activists Get Silenced

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2014 @ 10:35pm

  What Facebook was really saying...

  By denying people the power to share, we are helping to oppress those who need to make their voices heard on a different scale from what has historically been possible. These voices will not be allowed to increase in number and volume. They should be ignored.
  FTFY, Zuckerberg.

• On the post: Google Promises To Point To Competitor's Results To Settle Antitrust Claims In Europe

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2014 @ 05:56am

  Re: Re: Da fuq?

  Naturally, I was referring to the way all three engines currently perform searches, but you're right that I should have made that clear.

• On the post: Texas A&M Goes After Washington Brewery Over 12th Man Trademark

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2014 @ 05:43am

  Re:

  Judas Iscariot was the twelfth apostle as well as a man. That's different. (Please, be careful. We don't want producers of Bibles getting sued next.)

• On the post: Texas A&M Goes After Washington Brewery Over 12th Man Trademark

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2014 @ 05:48am

  In other words...

  Texas A&M just shot down free advertising. Clever. *rolls eyes*

• On the post: Adobe's New Subscription Service Goes Live And Is Cracked In Less Than 24 Hours

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2014 @ 12:46pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Yeah, open source freeware FTEW. Woot!

• On the post: Google Promises To Point To Competitor's Results To Settle Antitrust Claims In Europe

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2014 @ 04:01pm

  Da fuq?

  Antitrust? Come on, Google may have forced other search engines to close with its innovations, but not all of them, and its main competitors (Bing and Yahoo!) sprang up after Google got market share. Basically, Google is big because people like its results, not through antitrust.

• On the post: Podcasting Patent Troll Files Bogus Subpoena To Intimidate Donors To EFF's 'Save Podcasting' Campaign

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2014 @ 11:18pm

  Re: Re:

  Add to that the fact that the patent itself talks about putting podcasts on "audio cassettes and compact discs", Mike. In fact, I would argue, just from the Autistic readable parts, that this patent covers selling podcasts on tapes and CDs, not podcasting itself.

• On the post: Planet Money Takes On The Podcasting Patent Troll

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2014 @ 10:22pm

  Re: Re:

  That's the whole point, really. This guy's patent is totally unrelated to the claims he's making.

• On the post: Honesty Policy: Russia Making No Bones About Spying On Everyone During The Olympics

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2014 @ 09:21pm

  Re: Re:

  Dima wasn't saying that at all, they were saying that all surveillance has equal potential for harm whether it's hidden or out in the open.

• On the post: South Carolina Senator Aims To Criminalize The Recording Of Criminal Activity

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2014 @ 07:06pm

  Re:

  "(D) The provisions of subsection (A) and (B) do not apply to:
  ...
  (4) any official law enforcement activities;"
  Seems you can still record police officers. Am I missing something?
  Cops beating up on citizens isn't an official law enforcement activity, so you'd get done for recording police violence.

• On the post: Planet Money Takes On The Podcasting Patent Troll

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2014 @ 10:55pm

  This guy produced the prior art himself

  If you go to the patent page via the link provided in this article and scroll down far enough, you can read the following: More recently, ?Internet radio? sources has been introduced which make files of audio program material available for downloading on the World Wide Web using conventional web browsers to locate and request specific files which are then played in real time by special programs, including the popular ?Real Audio? program offered by Progressive Networks.
  Basically, Jim Logan stated the fact that radio stations were already podcasting in his patent application. Which idiot was examining patents at the USPTO that day, I wonder?

• On the post: Our Broken Patent System: Company That Does Nothing May Get Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars From Google

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2014 @ 08:27pm

  I know you don't like it, but...

  could you please ban OOTB, Mike? Not only is he continuing to post his own shit, he's now reposting the 'censored' shit of others (regardless of the fact that would be impossible if it was truly censored).

• On the post: Law Enforcement Is Not About Generating Revenue: Speed Trap And Booking Fee Edition

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2014 @ 11:00am

  What interference?

  But the cop arresting Martin felt the sign "interfered with enforcement duties".
  If anything, the sign aided law enforcement duties by getting drivers to stay within the speed limit. Or are the police saying that's not what speed traps are designed to do?

• On the post: Adobe Releases New DRM For eBooks, Plans To Screw Over Anyone Using Old DRM

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2014 @ 10:57am

  Fighting pirates? Really?

  Adobe DRM, meet calibre plugins. Thanks for helping me access my legally purchased ebooks, 'pirates'!

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2014 @ 06:53pm

  Off topic

  Going to interview Justine Sacco. Hope I don't get stupiditis.
  And here are the Vengaboys: "Hey now, hey now. Hear what I say now
  TSA is just around the corner
  Hey now, hey now. Hear what I say now
  They'll be groping you
  The Apple iCar's coming
  And everybody's jumping
  Because the NSA boys
  Don't need no more new spy toys..."

• On the post: Fair Use Is About Much More Than Remixing: It's About Allowing All Kinds Of Innovation

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2014 @ 06:17am

  Re: Re: IMHO...

  Well, I happen to be a copyright owner who's done more than 'took a dump and called it art'. Actually, tell a lie. That's one thing I've never done.

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