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• On the post: Google Asking For Trouble With Its New Privacy Policy; EU Official Questions Legality

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2012 @ 06:04pm

  Re: Not Cpncerned

  How I wish I had spelled that right.

• On the post: Google Asking For Trouble With Its New Privacy Policy; EU Official Questions Legality

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2012 @ 06:03pm

  Not Cpncerned

  I read this policy. Read the analysis of this policy. Then promptly put even more data into Google.

• On the post: Katy Perry Shows How The Problem With The Major Labels Is Economics, Not Piracy

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2012 @ 09:34am

  Already Happening

  It is already happening in the tech sector.
  
  Where do you get tech news, NY Times or The Verge? Sure some big tech news sites are owned by media conglomerates but that is mostly from acquisition and there are plenty of blogs that aren't selling out.
  
  If you look at broadcast/TV/live news coverage of the tech sector which is better, CNN and G4 or TWiT.tv and Revision3?
  
  It is only a matter of time until some one gets as successful as TWiT.tv doing comedy or drama or regular news. That is when the existing media companies will start to really feel it, when solid, high production value but extremely cheap to produce content stops being something that they can pass off as "interesting only to nerds."

• On the post: Hollywood Gets To Party With TPP Negotiators; Public Interest Groups Get Thrown Out Of Hotel

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2012 @ 06:56pm

  Re: Re: I mentioned they will cancel events if a third party pays them to and that I could not trust my business to a hotel that takes bribes.

  Must have just taken a few minutes for it get to all the caches. I can see it up there.

• On the post: Why Can't Europe Just Forget The Ridiculous Idea Of A 'Right To Be Forgotten'

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2012 @ 06:18pm

  What about metadata?

  What about metadata? Are they going to delete the data about deleting data so there is no data about a request for data deletion?

• On the post: Hollywood Gets To Party With TPP Negotiators; Public Interest Groups Get Thrown Out Of Hotel

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2012 @ 05:54pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Here is their Yelp.
  
  http://www.yelp.com/biz/sofitel-los-angeles-los-angeles
  
  I mentioned they will cancel events if a third party pays them to and that I could not trust my business to a hotel that takes bribes.

• On the post: Kodak Planning To File For Bankruptcy In Order To Sell Off Its Patents

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2012 @ 09:38pm

  Re: Kodak,one more company destroyed by piracy.

  Lies! Clearly Kodak is falling to a cabal of NAND flash manufactures out to replace honest film with blasphemous bits and bytes.

• On the post: The Latest Entrant In 'How Not To Do Marketing' In An Online World: Ocean Marketing Fail

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2011 @ 06:04am

  Re: Nitpicking

  It was a publicly available email address of customer service/PR rep. It's not like Gabe posted his personal non-work address.

• On the post: Japanese Supreme Court Says Developer Of File Sharing Software Not Guilty Of Infringement Done By Users

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2011 @ 05:51am

  Re: Comment

  Trucks are used to move counterfeit goods and bootleg DVDs. Clearly we must sue truck manufacturers.

• On the post: Anonymous Commenters: Cowards Or Contributors?

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2011 @ 10:58pm

  I never would pegged Mark Felt for a coward.

• On the post: Is Amazon's New Silk 'Cloud' Browser A Huge Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Waiting To Happen?

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2011 @ 02:43pm

  Re: What worries me...

  They will be operating as an SSL proxy. Your connection to them is encrypted and then their connection to your bank would be encrypted. This sounds horrible at first until you realize that you can disable the silk connection and that Amazon probably already has your debit/credit card numbers.

• On the post: MPAA So Thrilled With Zediva Ruling, It Offers To Help The Court Spread It

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2011 @ 10:18pm

  Slingbox

  I have a feeling they are pushing this ruling because it is something they could use against Slingbox, or at least the people that own Slingboxes.

• On the post: Star Trek In The Age Of Intellectual Property

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2011 @ 08:05pm

  'I would imagine there'd be a good business in being a replicator repairman, for example.'
  
  Reverse polarity, replicator fixed.

• On the post: Microsoft Opens Its WiFi Data Collection Source Code; Why Doesn't Google Do The Same?

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2011 @ 10:56pm

  Re: Re: World upside down

  Here is some of the "relevant portions" of Google's software.
  
  http://www.kismetwireless.net/download.shtml

• On the post: Microsoft Opens Its WiFi Data Collection Source Code; Why Doesn't Google Do The Same?

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2011 @ 08:07pm

  Kismet

  Google uses Kismet wrapped in GSLite(?) for the collection. Most of it is GPL already.

• On the post: Judge Who Doesn't Understand Technology Says WiFi Is Not A Radio Communication

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2011 @ 07:26pm

  Hmmmm

  I had no idea that Kismet, Linux and versions of Windows above Professional were rare software. Quick let us corner the market on Ebay!

• On the post: Apple Goes After Open Source Startup For Daring To Use The Term 'App Store'

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2011 @ 06:38am

  Crapple Store

• On the post: Did The Iranian Gov't Try To Create A Massive Man-In-The-Middle Attack With Faked Certificates?

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2011 @ 08:11am

  Re: Re:

  What I mean is that the Certs in question were from Comodo but Google uses Thawte Certs, Yahoo uses DigiCert Certs, etc. So while the Certs acquired from Comodo were "real" they were not legitimate.

• On the post: Did The Iranian Gov't Try To Create A Massive Man-In-The-Middle Attack With Faked Certificates?

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2011 @ 04:00pm

  I am pretty sure this can't be prevented. If you can get a Certificate Authority to issue a certificate for a domain then 99.99% of people won't be able to tell if the certification is legit or not. Most people couldn't tell the difference between certs issues by Verisign, Thawte, Startcom, or Comodo if they were shown the information and even those who could would still be hard pressed to guess which CA a website is using. I know Google uses Thawte and PayPal uses Verisign but that is it. CAs just need to keep up with their security I suppose.

• On the post: Drug Firms Freaking Out Over Expiring Patents

  

  techinabox ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2011 @ 07:58am

  From the NY Times Article:
  Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, recently proposed a billion-dollar drug development center at the agency.
  
  ?We seem to have a systemic problem here,? Dr. Collins said, adding that government research efforts were intended to feed the private sector, not compete with it.
  
  
  Excuse me?

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