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• On the post: Facebook Blocking Stories About Richard O'Dwyer's Fight Against Extradition To The US

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 09:13am

  The New Orwellian Paradigm

  Your results based on filters. Check the video about Filter Bubbles on TED.
  
  http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html
  
  Facebook and others define our information access just like the Editors of the bye-bye information brokers of old.

• On the post: Fark's Drew Curtis Explains How To Beat A Patent Troll (And Live To Tell The Tale)

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 08:03am

  Re:

  AC, please go away. You need to understand that economic losses are not as simple as you would like them to be. I am not even going to bother to try and get in to a explanation as to the difference between each but read below.
  
  So simple thoughts for you. If someone is able to obtain money (aka value) that they have not earned through a process that creates no economic value, creates no economic activity, and removes value (money in this case) from a value producing entity than that can be counted as an economic loss.

• On the post: HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 06:18am

  Re: Component vs. HDMI

  Most devices that use component will only do up to 1080i not full 1080p.

• On the post: Fark's Drew Curtis Explains How To Beat A Patent Troll (And Live To Tell The Tale)

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 06:14am

  I have a patent on this patent troll beating strategy

  I don't know who this TED guy is but by posting the video on how to beat patent trolls from Drew Curtis he has infringed on my patent and he will be sued.
  
  I own the patent on disseminating information in any form on defending yourself and your company against patent trolls. So I will also be suing TechDirt for disseminating the information and for furthering the dissemination of the information about the video.

• On the post: HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 06:04am

  Re: Re: Re:

  PBS also has commercials. "The Following Program was brought to in you in part with the support of XYZ company"

• On the post: HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 05:34am

  Re:

  Wow. HBO shows commercials? I haven't watched HBO in over a Decade because of an issue I had with them back then. Now knowing that I would have to pay a separate fee and still have to watch commercials means I am not going subscribe to them for sure.

• On the post: HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 05:31am

  All of these discussions come down to one thing.

  The people that pay for content and follow the laws are the ones that are hurt in every DRM, piracy, and copy-protection scheme. The pirates just laugh find a way around it and continue what they have always done.

• On the post: HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 05:15am

  Re: H... D.. M... I...

  Why do you think the HDMI "standard" was pushed for and implemented?
  

  The HDMI Founders are Hitachi, Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic/National/Quasar), Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thomson (RCA) and Toshiba. Digital Content Protection, LLC provides HDCP (which was developed by Intel) for HDMI. HDMI has the support of motion picture producers Fox, Universal, Warner Bros. and Disney, along with system operators DirecTV, EchoStar (Dish Network) and CableLabs.

• On the post: Once Again, The Administration Vindictively Charges A Whistleblower As Being A Spy

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2012 @ 10:37am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Overuse = Less Believable

  No. You are and still will be always taken as a shill by the readers of TechDirt. Thanks for doing nothing. This is coming from a person that has a grand total of 17 posts on Facebook in the last 9 years and always prefers being anonymous to being public. But when it comes to important issues I freely comment with my privacy exposed.

• On the post: Once Again, The Administration Vindictively Charges A Whistleblower As Being A Spy

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2012 @ 10:27am

  Re: Obama is one of them.

  I agree. Sorry to agree, but I do. I had hope and change on my mind, but I now I hope to reverse the change.

• On the post: SF Students Suspended & Barred From Walking At Graduation Because They Joked About Teachers On A Blog

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2012 @ 10:23am

  Re: Re: Wow! I guess the government schools don't want free speech.

  Sadly, so do I. The USA was a land of freedom. It not so much anymore.

• On the post: Once Again, The Administration Vindictively Charges A Whistleblower As Being A Spy

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2012 @ 10:17am

  Re: Re: Re: Overuse = Less Believable

  If you comment on this blog a lot then why comment as an AC coward? AC comments are ALWAYS taken as shills. So your comments are nothing. Present yourself and engage in a debate.

• On the post: Once Again, The Administration Vindictively Charges A Whistleblower As Being A Spy

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2012 @ 10:05am

  Re:

  LOL. Not really applicable to the current topic but still funny.

• On the post: Once Again, The Administration Vindictively Charges A Whistleblower As Being A Spy

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2012 @ 10:03am

  Re: Overuse = Less Believable

  Suggestion for lame AC:
  
  Comment and contribute. Don't just criticize. This blog is about discussion. Even if it does not lean in your way.

• On the post: Once Again, The Administration Vindictively Charges A Whistleblower As Being A Spy

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2012 @ 10:00am

  Re: Re: That is because Capitalists like Bush only want control of your money

  Apropos

• On the post: Once Again, The Administration Vindictively Charges A Whistleblower As Being A Spy

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2012 @ 09:59am

  Re: Re: Re: That is because Capitalists like Bush only want control of your money

  I agree. I think that there are a crap load of issues with both parties. But I also think that Bush was a bit less totalitarian. Just a bit.

• On the post: SF Students Suspended & Barred From Walking At Graduation Because They Joked About Teachers On A Blog

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2012 @ 09:57am

  Wow! I guess the government schools don't want free speech.

  I wonder under what political ideology that is acceptable? Maybe Socialism, Fascism, and Communism. So I guess the USA is now one of those instead of being the Representative Republic that it was created as. So much for freedom of speech and personal liberty.

• On the post: Once Again, The Administration Vindictively Charges A Whistleblower As Being A Spy

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2012 @ 09:26am

  Re: Re: Re: That is because Capitalists like Bush only want control of your money

  Amen

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  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2012 @ 09:19am

  Re: That is because Capitalists like Bush only want control of your money

  Before someone says that Obama is not a Fascist here is the definition:
  
  fas?cism (fshzm)
  a. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
  b. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.
  2. Oppressive, dictatorial control.
  
  Anybody want to argue after his statements about Obamacare going before the Supreme Court?
  
  "I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress," Obama said.
  
  I guess Obama forgot about the Jim Crow laws when he said that.

• On the post: Once Again, The Administration Vindictively Charges A Whistleblower As Being A Spy

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2012 @ 09:03am

  That is because Capitalists like Bush only want control of your money

  Where Fascists like Obama want all control. Period. End of sentence. Fascists want to be the only people that are allowed to tell you what you should know.

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