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• On the post: Middle School Principal Tells Parents To Ban Facebook And Spy On Text Messages

  

  Wesha ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2010 @ 12:45pm

  > Let them know that you will be installing Parental Control Software
  > so you can tell every place they have visited online,
  > and everything they have instant messaged or written to
  > a friend. Don't install it behind their back, but install it!
  
  Mmmmm, sounds like a win-win situation: parents feel secure, software vendors are paid, and kids are unaffected whatsoever.

• On the post: Middle School Principal Tells Parents To Ban Facebook And Spy On Text Messages

  

  Wesha ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2010 @ 12:41pm

  principle: 1) a) a comprehensive and fundamental law, doctrine, or assumption; b) a rule or code of conduct; c) the laws or facts of nature underlying the working of an artificial device
  
  principal: 1) a person who has controlling authority or is in a leading position
  
  Sincerely yours, Grammar Nazi.

• On the post: NYTimes' Boss Pretends That A Paywall Creates A Stronger Emotional Bond

  

  Wesha ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2010 @ 12:37pm

  Re: Re: Re: Something about Techdirt

  Well, do they have a choice? The people in charge are STILL not getting it, so maybe endless repetition will hammer some common sense into their bone heads?

• On the post: Laptop Spy Scandal Administrator Just "Loved" Violating Students' Fourth Amendment Rights

  

  Wesha ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2010 @ 03:14pm

  A roll of duct tape: $1
  Time to put a small square of it over the webcam: 5s
  Privacy: Priceless

• On the post: Australian Recording Industry Group Tries To Assert Copyright On A Picture of a Piece of Paper

  

  Wesha ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2010 @ 02:29pm

  copyrightability (just as intelligence/sentience) IS NOT A TRIGGER.
  
  I may rather creatively crumple a piece of paper into some interesting shape that would impress millions of people, and then by all means it should be copyrightable (whether it should be COPYRIGHTED in the end is not a subject of this discussion). But if I just crumple a paper napkin and throw it away -- NO WAI. There are gradations, and you CAN NOT establish a clear threshold between "can" and "can't".
  
  (Sentience is the same way. You think animals are not sentient? Hell they are. Just not in the same direction as you, and, well, admittedly, not always as much as you.
  
  "For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons." -- Douglas Adams.)

• On the post: Daily Variety: We're Putting In A Paywall So We Don't Have To Write About Gossip

  

  Wesha ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2010 @ 12:20pm

  Actually...

  ... they should have put gossip BEHIND the paywall. People are known to be willing to pay for gossip!

• On the post: Judge Who Was Revealed As Anonymous Commenter Sues Newspaper For $50 Million

  

  Wesha ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2010 @ 03:59pm

  I wonder...

  ...has that judge ever heard of Streisand effect?...

• On the post: Yet Another Paywall Experiment Fails

  

  Wesha ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2010 @ 03:53pm

  So how many paid readers they got? The same 35?

• On the post: Mobile Phones Suck… But Isn't It Amazing That They Exist?

  

  Wesha ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2010 @ 06:19pm

  What I personally hate about cellphones....
  
  WHY CAN'T I BLACKLIST CALLERS?
  
  I mean, like, if caller ID shows (555)555-1234, DO NOTHING. Don't ring, don't flash, just damn IGNORE it, for Christ's sake! How hard it is to implement?
  
  Yet, 9 years and counting, I'm still yet to see a phone with this feature.
  
  Another big thing: My damn phone has 8GB of RAM, yet it can't keep more than 100 SMSes? How ridiculous is THAT?

• On the post: What Can We Blame Next On YouTube? How About Unauthorized Software Copying?

  

  Wesha ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2010 @ 02:18pm

  Well... to begin with...
  
  1) How the VIDEO ITSELF is illegal again? It demonstrates how to crack software? So should we outlaw all the action movies because they demonstrate how to kill people, steal cars, rob banks, etc?
  
  2) So, there are videos out there demonstrating how their uploaders break the law. So rather than taking them down, shouldn't police use them in court as a proof of the said uploaders breaking the copyright law?

• On the post: The NUMMI Cargo Cult: Ideas Are Easy, Execution Is Hard

  

  Wesha ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2010 @ 12:39pm

  > GM had an auto plan in Fremont California
  
  Mike, you meant "auto plan*t*"?

• On the post: Results From Dungeons & Dragons Online Going Free: Revenue Up 500%

  

  Wesha ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2010 @ 07:10am

  Wow... somebody finally got it right!
  
  Too sad I'm nowhere near fan of D&D, or I would go play =^.^=

• On the post: How Internet Filtering Blocks All Sorts Of Legit Info

  

  Wesha ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2010 @ 06:55am

  Re: Re: Solution?

  > By making things forbidden by an authority, you tend to dramatically increase its appeal
  
  Yay Streizand Effect!
  
  > Teach them how to discern reliable information from unreliable nonsense.
  
  
  *gasp!* Are you implying that... CHILDREN SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO THINK?!? Blasphemy!

• On the post: How Internet Filtering Blocks All Sorts Of Legit Info

  

  Wesha ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2010 @ 06:53am

  Re: Re: Solution?

  > By making things forbidden by an authority, you tend to dramatically increase its appeal Yay Streizand Effect!