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  • On the post: Another Spammer Sent To Prison

    John Strickland ( profile ), 01 May, 2008 @ 11:21pm

    Go by domain?

    Perhaps it would be easier to simply charge more for an email domain and then filter out any domain that has been known to generate tons of spam?

    Oh and getting rid of Outlook would help a lot too. A lot of bot net armies are using exploited outlook to send emails.

  • On the post: Craigslist Ransacking Was To Cover Up Burglary

    John Strickland ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2008 @ 12:04am

    Well the neat thing about the library is now you must have your library card to use the internet.

    And the kinkos uses a credit card.

    Use a fucking proxy.

  • On the post: Cable Companies Accuse Verizon Of Shady Practices To Prevent Customers From Leaving

    John Strickland ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2008 @ 08:32pm

    Well duh. Its a god damn phone company. What do you expect? Fair treatment of customers? HA!

  • On the post: Is A Photograph A Derivative Work Of The Object In The Photo?

    John Strickland ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2008 @ 10:00pm

    Thumbnail?

    Wouldn't this be a thumbnail? A paintings resolution is determined by the number of molecules that comprise the paint. Since the digital image of it will have an insanely smaller resolution, isn't it just a thumbnail? And as far as the picture of a statue goes, the statue is a representation of a symbol and the importance of the statue is based on who made the statue, what value society places on the symbol being represented and the quality of the statue's representation of the symbol. If a picture is taken, the ONLY thing that the picture and the statue have in common are the symbol. Or am I just an idiot?

  • On the post: San Francisco's Surveillance Cameras Have Horrific Frame Rates

    John Strickland ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2008 @ 09:22pm

    I know who!

    Zoos who monitor sloths and turtle behavior!

  • On the post: Verizon Wireless Apparently Still Can't Train Its Sales People In Basic Math

    John Strickland ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2007 @ 05:13pm

    Sales.

    The reason they say .002 units instead of $2/MB is that people know how big a MB is. Its one floppy. If you told someone that one floppys worth of info is going to cost them $2, they wouldn't sell anything. As far as the diffrence between dollars and cents, bits and bytes is important when you are in a tech field.

    You can't drop this. If you were told that Gasoline was 3.19 CENTs per gallon, you pump 30 gallons because its such a good deal and get hit with a $95 tab you would be pissed too.

    The only difference here is that it would have been a months worth of gas and your ass is stuck pumping at this gas station for 2 years!

  • On the post: Comcast Still Dancing Around Its Content Jamming Operations; What's Wrong With Admitting It?

    John Strickland ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2007 @ 05:04am

    Re: This looks like a poor attempt at customer ret

    Aye, one of their main selling points is that they told customers they don't care what you do with the bandwidth.

    And its true. They don't the just care how much you use.

    On a side note, all they do is kill a port after that port has moved "too much" data, and it isn't port number 40. All you have to do is switch ports. If they kill one a day, and you have a range of 10,000 or so, you should be good for a couple years.

    And if you don't even

  • On the post: IBM Trying To Get Patent On Patent Extortion?

    John Strickland ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2007 @ 05:02pm

    STOP!!! THATS MY IDEA!

    I POSTED A COMMENT A MONTH AGO SAYING THAT I WANT TO PATENT PATENT HOARDING!

    I am so suing the fuckers!

  • On the post: If You Play Your Radio Loud Enough For Your Neighbor To Hear, Is It Copyright Infringement?

    John Strickland ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2007 @ 10:16pm

    Doesn't matter much.

    The only reason people are mad at the RIAA is because they are ass holes.

    I think that the only way to make ass holes go away is to piss them off and make them cry.

    So if everyone would just stop buying packaged music for a year...

  • On the post: Do People Always Search To Be Sent To Another Site?

    John Strickland ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2007 @ 12:43pm

    google...

    Not just used for personal searches. What about people who google whack or google hack. They constitute a huge amount of google searches. Since everyone uses google for these, no other search engine would be affected.

    When is the last time someone asked for a cool ask.com hack?

  • On the post: AT&T Realizes That Upload Speeds Are A Selling Point

    John Strickland ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2007 @ 08:59pm

    Ping?

    When will people start advertising average pings to google in local areas.

    Ping was one of the major reasons I switched from DSL to Cable, because the ping was so much better.

  • On the post: Configuring A Product Online? Patented! Lots Of Companies Sued

    John Strickland ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2007 @ 08:42am

    Oh shit!

    Someone, quick! Patent "Patent Hoarding"! Then sue the shit out of the people suing!

  • On the post: Configuring A Product Online? Patented! Lots Of Companies Sued

    John Strickland ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2007 @ 08:40am

    They forgot pizza.

    Papa Johns lets you customize your pizza before ordering it online...

    Sue the shit out of everyone, because that will better the market... or something right?

  • On the post: Man Charged With Putting TV Show He Found On The Web… On The Web?

    John Strickland ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2007 @ 05:56pm

    It is information.

    Information should be free. If you want to sell something that is more convenient, like being broadcast over the air or by selling on a portable collectible reusable DVD... then go right ahead. But to say that someone just trying to share entertainment with people in a free medium, making no money himself, is comparable to a heroin sell to a child if fucking ludicrous.

    In the heroin case you are permanently scaring a small child and possible addicting them for life while padding your wallet because little jimmy is stealing from his parents wallets to finance his new 'candy'.

    Where in the copyright infringement case, you are slightly lowering the number of people watching the show, which doesn't affect nielson ratings anyway unless someone who has a neislon box is watching them online vs the TV.