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• 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 @ 01:08am

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  AT&T have been full of shit about telecoms for about...oh, 20 years?
  
  More importantly, why have the executives ofg the time not been arrested for fraud and extortion?
  
  Oh, wait, that ould be the right thing to do.

• On the post: Navy SEALs Lose Their Military Careers By Consulting With EA On Videogame

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2012 @ 01:06am

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  WEll, they haven't been locked up yet for whistleblowing. That's what's wrong.

• On the post: Teen Hacker Banned From The Internet For Six Years

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2012 @ 01:01am

  Re: Re:

  I'm actually surprised they didn't try and sign him up for their IT departments. Or will they once his skills have rusted.

• On the post: Cisco VP Threatens To Stalk Memo Leaker… Driving More Attention Than Original Memo

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2012 @ 11:06am

  Re: Re:

  Not really. I mean, isn't it SOP to be as visible as possible?

• On the post: Obama's Tech Team Was Firing On All Cylinders While Romney's Was Still In Beta

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2012 @ 11:01am

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  At leats it's not up on the Me.ga site.

• On the post: GEMA Gets Bailed Out By Germany's Parliament; Allowed To Proceed With Venue-Killing Rate Hikes

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2012 @ 07:41am

  Re: Protecting artists

  Adn for reference, the relevant law is Section 263 of the Strafgesetzbuch, or Criminal Code of Germany(English translation here.)

• On the post: GEMA Gets Bailed Out By Germany's Parliament; Allowed To Proceed With Venue-Killing Rate Hikes

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2012 @ 07:34am

  Re: Protecting artists

  No, the correct term is "stealing" from independent artists. This isn't a tax, it's literally taking the money from artists who choose not to use GEMA.
  
  GEMA are, under the terms of the law, defrauding artists. Why these criminals are allwoed to get away with it is...well, frankly, fucking shameful.

• On the post: Budweiser Asks Paramount To Remove Their Beer From The Movie Flight

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2012 @ 11:47pm

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  Well, consdiering it's a pretty effectiove painkiller when drunk in large amounts, I'm surprised that they can even form a straight line.
  
  ...What, you thought the MAgic Sponge had something else in it?

• On the post: Apple Quietly Removes The Need To Scroll To Its Samsung Apology

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2012 @ 11:44pm

  Re: no so fast

  Imagine that! Whiny child doesn't do as it's told. Film at 11.

• On the post: Apparently Attacking A Candidate For Being A World Of Warcraft Player Is Not An Effective Campaign Strategy

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2012 @ 12:36pm

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  No, she keeps getting Blues. What she needs is more welfare epics.

• On the post: Apple, Google Lose Big Patent Cases To Trolls

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2012 @ 02:21am

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  ...I guess it's one way to solve an overpopulation problem.

• On the post: Me.ga Domain Pulled Out From Under New Kim Dotcom Venture

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2012 @ 12:19pm

  Re: So pirates get no safe harbor in Gabon...

  And the pirates at Gabon Telecom (wholly owned by those infamous thieves at Vivendi who run the biggest thieving MMO in the world, World of Warcraft and run the largest Imaginary Property cartel, NBC Universal?
  
  They get a raise and free artist's corpses.

• On the post: Sergey Brin To All Elected Politicians: Withdraw From Your Parties And Go Independent

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2012 @ 10:53am

  Re: Re: Political parties are gangs organized to gain gov't power.

  I disagree, but largely because the political parties in the US have grown "Too big to fail". It is an antiquated construct that needs nuking. The Dems are the Republicans from 20 years ago and the Republican line needs shooting in the face repeaqtedly until it falls over.
  
  Get rid of those two, Keep the collegiate FPTP system for now and move to AV+ or STV for the Senate and Congress. Revise the former ove the next two or three election cycles and fully outlaw Corporate Donations both direct and indirect.
  
  Publicize all donations over $1,000 on an official, nonpartisan website (oh, look - Open Secrets is around!) and that should solve a number of electoral problems.
  
  Oh! And get of those fraud enablers they call Diebold/Permier Election Systems and their ridiculous "e-voting" machines.

• On the post: When A Mouse Requires An Internet Connection, You're Doing 'Cloud' Wrong

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2012 @ 08:22am

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  Well, I bought a 16GB microSD card for under ?10 for my e-book reader, so I honestly have no clue why they can't just add a MicroSD reader to the mouse and call it quits.

• On the post: When A Mouse Requires An Internet Connection, You're Doing 'Cloud' Wrong

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2012 @ 08:21am

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  You obviously never used a Sony-branded USB drive.

• On the post: Sergey Brin To All Elected Politicians: Withdraw From Your Parties And Go Independent

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2012 @ 08:15am

  Re: Political parties are gangs organized to gain gov't power.

  Wow.
  
  I actually fully agree with this. Have I just jumped the shark, or is it actual sense?

• On the post: When A Mouse Requires An Internet Connection, You're Doing 'Cloud' Wrong

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2012 @ 08:13am

  Re: Re: Re:

  It's worse than that - I'd actually consider Synapse ransomware, given the information available. At least DRM is merely ineffective.

• On the post: Kink.com Owner Inoculating Against Piracy By Selling The Scarce

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2012 @ 04:55am

  Re: Re:

  I'm pretty sure porn is an expensive competition.

• On the post: Will Disney Block Star Wars Fan-Made Content?

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2012 @ 12:21am

  Frankly, I'd be far more worried about the other franchises at Hasbro - for example, the memetic qualities of My Little Pony.
  
  Although I would love to see a pony wielding a Keyblade in the Kingdom Hearts universe.

• On the post: Displaced NJ Voters Told To Email Ballot Requests To A Hotmail Account

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2012 @ 01:44pm

  Re: A fairly major assumption is being made...

  The fact that it's to a Hotmail account should be the part that worries you. It's akin to bolting a stable door when there are no walls on the stable.

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