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• On the post: The Cake Copyright Is A Lie; Safeway Just Doesn't Want To Be Mocked

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2012 @ 11:25am

  Re: So bad

  No, it took the cake out bad, did the nasty and now won't take the cake's calls. Oh, and the cake? Is now pregnant.

• On the post: Blizzard Sued For Trying To Make Accounts More Secure

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2012 @ 07:20am

  Re: Re: Not such a dumb lawsuit

  WEll, to be fair, it's fairly simple to remove an authenticator from an account: just prove your ID and explain why you need it removed.

• On the post: Blizzard Sued For Trying To Make Accounts More Secure

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2012 @ 07:16am

  Re: Totally missed the lawsuit.

  The cost fo the authenticator keyfob is literally for Shipping. The fob itself is essentially free.
  
  There is no grounds for this class-action suit.

• On the post: Blizzard Sued For Trying To Make Accounts More Secure

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2012 @ 07:15am

  Re: Re: Re:

  You've obviously never used their Looking for Dungeon or Looking for Raid tools.

• On the post: Blizzard Sued For Trying To Make Accounts More Secure

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2012 @ 07:11am

  Re: Re: Re:

  See the related XKCD comic on that.

• On the post: UK Looking To Cement Its New Anti-Free Speech Reputation By Arresting Man For Posting Photo Of A Burning Poppy

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2012 @ 02:01am

  Re: When the revolution comes

  Actually, they'll probably be in Guy Fawkes masks being polite to people.

• On the post: Apple Learns That Suing A Key Supplier May Not Be So Smart; Samsung Jacks Up Prices On Apple

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2012 @ 11:34pm

  Re: Look out, behind you!

  The issue is that Samsung Technologies is, IIRC, the company to go to for microprocessors.

• On the post: Harry Reid Wants To Try One More Time To Force Cybersecurity Bill Through Congress

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2012 @ 11:30pm

  Re: Re: One comment per hour (per person), as I suggested long ago...

  Well, I dunno, I hear the Ebon Dragon is into torture...

• On the post: If You Eat Something, Say Something: DHS Sounds The Alarm On The 'Terrorist Implications' Of Food Trucks

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2012 @ 12:37pm

  Re: Who's in charge of the DHS

  no, the DHS is a Monty Python version of itself. I remind youi of the Self-Defense against Fruits sketch.

• On the post: HTC And Apple Settle Patent Dispute; Perhaps Tim Cook Realizes Patent Fights Are A Waste

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2012 @ 11:37am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: In other news

  Wait, so let me get this straight:
  
  You're arguing against someone that has used both phones to do the same thing and had to use different methods of getting there, have radically different shapes and different methods of betting tot he main screen.
  
  ...and you're syaing that Samsung copied Apple?
  
  Samsung have had the one-touch-home thing for at least ten years. I still have my old Samsung phone lying around. So, remind me again why that's patented?

• On the post: Draconian Downloading Law In Japan Goes Into Effect… Music Sales Drop

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2012 @ 09:48am

  Re:

  Simple: they'll get English versions and scanlate it.

• On the post: Toshiba: You Can't Have Repair Manuals Because They're Copyrighted And You're Too Dumb To Fix A Computer

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2012 @ 09:47am

  Re:

  Becuase it's on a hidden logical drive in case of emergency*.
  
  *NB: Emergency, in this case, is soemthing that only we at Toshiba know and you have to pay $1500 to find out.

• On the post: Meet The Patent Troll Suing Hundreds Of Companies For Encrypting Web Traffic

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2012 @ 09:01am

  Re:

  You can go back as far as Marathon in ancient Greece; it's a mere matter of what is doing the transmitting, whether it's a person, a mule or a pipe.

• On the post: Draconian Downloading Law In Japan Goes Into Effect… Music Sales Drop

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2012 @ 07:40am

  Re:

  Well, seeing as they're programmed not to....

• On the post: HTC And Apple Settle Patent Dispute; Perhaps Tim Cook Realizes Patent Fights Are A Waste

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2012 @ 07:39am

  Re: Re: In other news

  So full of shit it's not funny.
  
  I've seen both up close and from a distance: the only way you could confuse the two is if you were actually an amoeba.

• On the post: Meet The Patent Troll Suing Hundreds Of Companies For Encrypting Web Traffic

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2012 @ 06:21am

  Re: Re:

  Tax Evasion was a method in the door to the "Untouchable" Capone.

• On the post: HTC And Apple Settle Patent Dispute; Perhaps Tim Cook Realizes Patent Fights Are A Waste

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2012 @ 06:20am

  Re:

  The target was never HTC - they were one of the two major companies that the Android OS works with: thus, the major legal targets by MS and Apple.
  
  Take those tow out fo the game, and Android is in a much weaker position.
  
  ...Innovators, my ass. More like fucking vultures.

• On the post: HTC And Apple Settle Patent Dispute; Perhaps Tim Cook Realizes Patent Fights Are A Waste

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2012 @ 04:44am

  Re: Re:

  Well, just last week I stole the rights to Star Wars Episode VII: Reform of the Nerds.
  
  And next wekk, I'm stealing all the rights to Amnesia: Machine of the Pigs.

• On the post: AT&T Admits That The Whole 'Spectrum Crunch' Argument It Made For Why It Needed T-Mobile Wasn't True

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2012 @ 09:48am

  Re: Re: Tine to Break up AT&T

  Well, with a pocket nuke, but that's offensive to nuclear warheads.

• On the post: Judge Will Review If Apple/Samsung Jury Foreman Withheld Pertinent Info

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2012 @ 09:47am

  Re: Re: "Bring your own expert to work" Day

  Read up on Jury Nullification: it's perfectly fine to ignore a judge's wishes, provided that said ignoring is not illegal in and of itself (which I'm not sure how that would happen, to be honest).

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