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• On the post: Governments Using, Also Fretting, Encrypted Communications App

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2012 @ 03:19am

  Re:

  It is based on a subscription service.

• On the post: Governments Using, Also Fretting, Encrypted Communications App

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2012 @ 03:17am

  FTFY

  .sarcasm off

  /linux

• On the post: Do We Really Want The UN In Charge Of Cybersecurity Standards?

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2012 @ 04:15am

  No

  No. No. No. No. No. ...
  {REDACTED}
  ... No. No. No. No. No.

• On the post: Industries Dependent On Copyright Exceptions Contribute $182 Billion To Australian Economy

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2012 @ 04:11am

  Re:

  I tried. I even showed my work, but that might have been a mistake. I think the mystery of how these numbers get put together adds to their supposed credence.

• On the post: Industries Dependent On Copyright Exceptions Contribute $182 Billion To Australian Economy

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2012 @ 04:07am

  Re: copyright

  Copyright supports and provides income from creators everywhere

  Gee, I sure am glad of that too! With automatic copyright protection for every scribble I place on a napkin, I've been able to slack off in the classroom, secure in the knowledge that even when I sneeze I'm raking in valuable IP.
  
  /sarc
  
  Are you freaking kidding me!!! If copyrights make all this money, where the hell is all of this fictional money going? You seem to be more specifically stating that copyrights deemed more important by stubborn legacy players are the ones making money. This is a useless straw man and completely ignores that it is the business model used that persuades the public to make a purchase, not the imminent threat of a law suit.

• On the post: Does Setting Up A Paywall Suddenly Make Your Readers Erudite & Intellectual vs. Crass & Tacky?

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2012 @ 04:03pm

  For the lazy among us

  tl;dr: No.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2012 @ 06:21pm

  Re: Re: Oh trust me

  And, how does that make you feel?

• On the post: Samsung Routed In Apple Patent Fight; Told To Pay $1.05 Billion

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2012 @ 05:13pm

  Re:

  *grumble* competing as members

• On the post: Samsung Routed In Apple Patent Fight; Told To Pay $1.05 Billion

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2012 @ 05:11pm

  It's called competition, and now we'll have less of it...

  But what about all the new lawyers clamoring to represent these tech behemoths when they clash? I've heard they're competing in as members, or "associates," of teams called "firms," and that they even hold contests of skill in "courts." With all the new "associates" and "firms", football and NASCAR could be in trouble. Hell, youthful sponsors like Samsung and Apple from the tech industry should be praised for their entrepreneurial innovation in actively promoting the first sport in decades that involves referees, or "judges," and crowds, or "juries," that actively participate. I'm also impressed that these "judges" are allowed to wield powerful hammers of justice (called "gavels") and that the "juries" get to ultimately determine who wins by who they cheer for.
  
  /sarc

• On the post: Apparently I'm A Google Shill And I Didn't Even Know It

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2012 @ 02:59pm

  Re: Re: Google shill and more

  /bandwagon

• On the post: Apparently I'm A Google Shill And I Didn't Even Know It

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2012 @ 02:57pm

  Re: Google shill and more

  My god; the prime factors of six are two and three...
  
  23!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

• On the post: Should Making A Threat On Facebook Be A Crime?

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2012 @ 04:40am

  Re:

  Amen.

• On the post: Should Making A Threat On Facebook Be A Crime?

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2012 @ 08:57pm

  ?a threat is a threat is a threat,?

  Take this back or, so help me God, I will spank a monkey!!!
  
  /imminentphysicalthreat

• On the post: MTV Europe Has Things To Say About Piracy And/Or Loading Bars Being Bad For Musicians

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2012 @ 01:30pm

  Re:

  Oh, right, the article (without grandma)... I think the second selection in the second image has a bit of clever irony. Shouldn't those "edgy" (ouch, reaching for that tore a ligament) artists be compensating those who provide side benefits out of pure (apparent) adulation? This is a moral question.

• On the post: MTV Europe Has Things To Say About Piracy And/Or Loading Bars Being Bad For Musicians

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2012 @ 01:22pm

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  Right around the last time someone passed a GED and cited MTV as the sole source of their knowledge... so, the mid 90's, when MTV still deemed rebellious sarcasm was the "in" thing for pissing off parents, and pretty much everyone else. Then it shifted to mindless obedience (you know, to be "different," like everyone else) and the intelligence level dropped below keeping even Beavis and Butthead on the air.

• On the post: MTV Europe Has Things To Say About Piracy And/Or Loading Bars Being Bad For Musicians

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2012 @ 01:15pm

  all the subtlety of a stereotypical Jewish grandmother bearing a sledgehammer

  You gave her a sledgehammer?!?!?!? Run!!! Or she'll break your legs and the chores will NEVER end.

• On the post: Amazon Hides Classic Free Public Domain Ebooks

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2012 @ 06:11pm

  Superficial Annoyance

  This action sounds like that of a manager wanting to "streamline" a database: ie. rearrange the rows to make it look pretty. Decisions in kind typically don't take into account the end user experience as they don't result in a directly related change in cash flows and have the nice side benefit of making it look like you did work to the higher-ups. Most of these kind of annual review fillers are innocuous.

• On the post: Press Speculates Batman Shooter Must Have Played Video Games; They're Right: He Loved Guitar Hero

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 05:30pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: G.O.?

  In the words of George Carlin (R.I.P.): "Why don't we ban crime?"

• On the post: Two-Cent Doughnuts Breed Decades Of Bad Blood: It's Not So Easy Going From Free To Paid

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 05:15pm

  Re: Sorry, but people will pay for news

  This is part of your attempt to rationalize why you support paywalls for Louis CK and Kevin Smith, but you can't bring yourself to support a major media paywall.

  Did you even stop for a moment to think about the exclusivity of delivery? I don't know about you, but I usually find jokes funnier when delivered by the competent comedian. In contrast, I couldn't care less where the news specifically came from since my confidence in such information is less dependent on the individual source and more dependent on my own heuristics and meta-analysis. To sum up, news is more reliable from multiple independent sources (which in text links make easy to quickly determine), whereas comedy is less reliable upon delivery in the same context. As soon as comedians figure out how to tell each others jokes, while citing each other, and remain funny, this will change; the logical conclusion of this is captured well by the present shift in the field of journalism.

• On the post: Two-Cent Doughnuts Breed Decades Of Bad Blood: It's Not So Easy Going From Free To Paid

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 05:03pm

  Re:

  We're still better than those darn Swedish waffle wavers! We were giving away free breakfast first!
  
  /jingo-sarc

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