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• On the post: Reveal Illegal Surveillance? Run For Your Life; Conduct Illegal Surveillance & Lie About It? No Biggie

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2013 @ 01:33pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Certainly agreed. I remember a comment last week by one of the OOTBs that was actually well-stated, intelligent, and while not in agreement with my views valid. It STILL got jumped on purely because it had OOTB on it.

• On the post: Reveal Illegal Surveillance? Run For Your Life; Conduct Illegal Surveillance & Lie About It? No Biggie

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2013 @ 12:29pm

  Re:

  Personally I feel like TechDirt is more "raw" and authentic because of the back and forth.
  
  People are allowed to be utterly wrong, and other people are allowed to rebuttal with citations, logic, what-have-you. I generally have learned more from rebuttals than I have from original comments.
  
  Furthermore, the dissent (both uninformed and informed) prevents the comments section from becoming an endless echo chamber of "I agree with the article" that would negate the entire purpose of a comments section.

• On the post: NSA Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny Anything Without Causing 'Exceptionally Grave Damage' To National Security

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2013 @ 01:08pm

  Re: Dear Congresspeople...

  The problem with that is that the last time war was declared by the US Congress was WWII. Korea, Vietnam, the first Gulf War, Kosovo, all those other operations were done purely under the auspice of the executive branch without Congress declaring war.
  
  Congress doesn't want to declare war, and the executive branch would prefer to be able to "lead the way" rather than let Congress exercise their check against executive power. Sadly, this is another way that our nation has fallen short of what the Constitution set in place.

• On the post: NSA's Response To Snowden Leaks Isn't To Stop Spying, But To Make It More Difficult To Blow The Whistle

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2013 @ 10:05am

  Re: Insider breach is not rare

  I think it was a different comparator of rare. Data breaches, generally speaking, are rare. However, more breaches when they occur are insider jobs, yes.

• On the post: CISPA's Sponsors Can't Keep Their Story Straight: If Snowden's Leaks Are False, How Do They Harm America?

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2013 @ 02:29pm

  Re: Re:

  Ed Snowden has committed the ultimate crime, made Congress, the President, and generally the US government look stupid.
  
  FTFY.

• On the post: Rep. Nadler Proposes The RIAA Bailout Act Of 2012

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2012 @ 09:54am

  I used to subscribe to Pandora in 2010-2011 until I found out I wasn't using the service, and I used it from 2007-2010 before then as a free listener. This debate isn't new, it was center-stage back in 2007 when the original totally retarded rates came into effect. And now they want to make it WORSE? Could we at least try to make the corruption less blatant?

• On the post: Making Movies 20 Years Ago vs. Today: A World Of Difference

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2012 @ 01:55pm

  The explosion of creative media in all its forms is more a battle for attention than a battle for money. I personally hate uninteractive media, hence my attraction to forums, books (where my mind creates the visualization), and video games, and aversion to movies and television.

• On the post: Artists Want The Ability To Buy Back Their Copyrights If Universal Is Allowed To Buy EMI

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2012 @ 02:57pm

  Re:

  I think that Nick Mason and Ed O'Brien are terrific starting points. As a fan of Pink Floyd sight unseen, I'm happy to see their drummer standing up for the artist's right to have access to their own work.

• On the post: New Patent Reform Bill Defines Software Patents; Targets Trolls

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2012 @ 02:52pm

  Re: "other than the United States."

  It means that if the United States government is the litigant (someone educate me if it's possible for the US to be the defendant in patent cases), that the legal costs recoupment clause is null and void. Since the United States typically only prosecutes direct violations of law, it's just a way to keep this law from overriding already-existent law dealing with the US government's role in legal cases.

• On the post: Judge Posner On A Mission To Fix Patents; We Have Some Suggestions

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2012 @ 02:45pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Judges are not law makers, they are law interpreters. And if a law makes no sense, it's only logical to interpret it as null and void.

• On the post: Author Of Book About Android UI Told He Needs To Get Copyright Signoffs To Use Any App Screenshots

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2012 @ 02:04pm

  Re: Re: From the "law of unintended consequences" department

  But robots are expensive to manufacture, even if you have Mad Scientist Tech on your side. Without revenue they can't do it.

• On the post: How Not To Build A 21st Century Trade Agreement: In Secret

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2012 @ 12:49pm

  Re: Re:

  bob disagrees with you.

• On the post: Copyright Royalty Board Found Unconstitutional; Appeals Court Magically Makes It Constitutional Again

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2012 @ 01:00pm

  Re: Sometimes you need to know when to take your winnings and run, and the pro-copyright crowd clearly doesn't know when to do that.Re:

  Have you ever been in one of those blower-based flying money booths? Rather hard to see out when you've got all those benjamins obscuring your vision.

• On the post: Still Plenty To Be Concerned About With TPP

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2012 @ 08:30am

  But the USTR is extremely transparent...about its intents to keep us in the dark.

• On the post: European Parliament Declares Its Independence From The European Commission With A Massive Rejection Of ACTA. Now What?

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2012 @ 08:25am

  Re: Re:

  For sale: French gun
  Never fired, dropped once.
  
  I kid, I kid, his comment wasn't based in anything close to a plane of reality we would recognize.

• On the post: PIPA Author Senator Leahy Gets His Reward: A Part In 'The Dark Knight Rises'

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 04 Jul, 2012 @ 09:06am

  Re: Re: I'd watch him...

  Honestly, your "bride" typo is a funnier image than the intended "bribe".

• On the post: TV Analyst: Kids Love Netflix, And Disney Should Break Them Of That Nasty Habit

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 04 Jul, 2012 @ 09:03am

  Re: How do I get THAT job?

  1. Recognize Trends
  2. Notice what Trends my employers want to see
  3. Give faulty recommendations based on 2.
  4. ???
  5. Profit!

• On the post: USTR's Surprise Turnaround: Now Advocating Limitations & Exceptions To Copyright

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2012 @ 03:05pm

  Re: Re: Re: Their time has passed.

  Why was I reminded of that one scene from the Hunger Games (book, not movie)?

• On the post: Congress Plays See-No-Evil, Pretend-There's-No-Evil, Let-The-Evil-Continue With NSA Domestic Spying

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2012 @ 02:28pm

  Re: Explaining the NSA's predicament

  Why is it even set up like that? Why do we have a system in place where they could functionally monitor everything, even if by the letter of the law they're fine? The spirit of the law is being crapped on in every sense of the word, and somehow that's alright?

• On the post: James Watson, Co-Discoverer Of DNA's Structure, Says 'Patenting Human Genes Was Lunacy'

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2012 @ 01:20pm

  Re: another biased article

  Being patentable and actually being patented are two different things. People have explicitly declined to patent inventions, particularly ones related to the internet's structure, and by and large those refusals are the reason the internet has succeeded as well as it has.

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