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• On the post: Kickstarter Projects That Don't Meet Their Goal Are Not 'Failures'; They Help People Avoid Failures

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2013 @ 12:08pm

  Re: Takes a big man, Mike...

  You were about one minute early. ;)

• On the post: Unintended Consequences Of Google Reader Shutdown: Losing Key Tool To Get Around Censored Internet In Iran & China

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2013 @ 12:34pm

  I do the same thing.

  Although in my case, it's just trying to get around the censorship of my employer's network administrator.
  
  I know, I know, "first world problems"....

• On the post: Kickstarter Projects That Don't Meet Their Goal Are Not 'Failures'; They Help People Avoid Failures

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2013 @ 12:06pm

  The inverse is also true.

  I remember reading a story about the Kickstarter campaign from Chris Roberts, creator of Wing Commander and looking to create a new space MMO-type project. The results of his campaign proved there *was* a market, and he was starting to get investment bids from private investors as a result to further fund his game.

• On the post: Warner Bros. Lets Veronica Mars Crew Prove Demand For A Movie Via Kickstarter

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2013 @ 02:29pm

  Re: Hollywood Accounting

  They're not giving money away for nothing (unless the project happens to get scrapped for one of a hundred different reasons Hollywood projects are cancelled) -- they get the tickets or the posters or whatever their donation level earned them.
  
  You could say the same thing about people who buy tickets to see the movie when it's released.
  
  Yeah, Hollywood accounting sucks, but this hardly makes anything better or worse.

• On the post: Wrong Legislative Thought Of The Day: An Email Tax To Save The Post Office

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2013 @ 11:38am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  You mean you underestimated the ability for someone on the internet to misinterpret your intent?
  
  I think I found the problem.

• On the post: Wrong Legislative Thought Of The Day: An Email Tax To Save The Post Office

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2013 @ 10:50am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Sounds like you need...
  
  fanfare
  
  ...a SarcMark?!

• On the post: Latest Prenda Filing: John Steele Knows Who Alan Cooper Is, But Won't Say, Plus Almost 300 Pages Of Tap Dancing Around Important Questions

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2013 @ 10:51am

  Re: Time well spent

  Looks more like the argument sketch to me.
  
  Q: Who is Alan Cooper?
  A: I told you once.
  Q: No, you didn't.
  A: Yes, I did.
  Q: When?
  A: Just now!
  Q: No you didn't!

• On the post: Our Turn To Get Bizarre Legal Threats From Global Wildlife Foundation

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2013 @ 01:42pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  "This is SPARTA!"

• On the post: Non-profit Responds To Threatened Lawsuit From Ferrari By 'Remaking' Video To Hide The Ferrari

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2013 @ 12:16pm

  Where's the funny button for articles?

  That's some funny stuff right there.
  
  Although they could've highlighted the offending party by making the caption read "Car obscured due to legal claim by Ferrari S.p.A."

• On the post: Six Strikes Officially Begins On Monday

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2013 @ 03:44pm

  Re: Re: Place your bets

  Exactly. My first thought was, "Change ISPs to whom?" I've been keeping my eyes open since Comcast first implemented their data cap, and the only viable "competition" around here is Century Link DSL.

• On the post: Six Strikes Officially Begins On Monday

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2013 @ 03:42pm

  Do I get kicked off after six?

  Funny, the video doesn't mention anything about what might happen after six strikes.
  
  It does say there's a way to challenge alerts, but only after you receive several? Why can't I challenge the first accusation? (Not that I have any faith the challenge will be heard fairly -- who's funding this "independent" review system?)

• On the post: Iran's New Jet Can Fly (In Photoshop, At Least)!

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2013 @ 01:55pm

  Re: It gets worse.

  Actually, thinking about that a bit, if that turned out to be true, we could just sit back while the "anti-piracy" cartel went after them. Probably be far more effective than any military action we've done there. Sure, it probably violates a few clauses of the Geneva Convention....

• On the post: Make A Counterstrike Map Of A Montreal Metro Station, Get Threatened With $50,000 Fine

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2013 @ 12:25pm

  Re: Idiocy reigns

  When I was in college, I played a lot of Doom, and maps of various college campuses were plentiful and a lot of fun to play on. Never did find one for my particular campus, but I thought it'd be fun to make one. Of course, if I tried that today, I would be arrested for being a "terroristic threat": http://www.joystiq.com/2007/05/02/student-arrested-for-making-a-map-of-his-school/
  
  Oddly enough, it's when I hear about people being prosecuted for doing perfectly normal things that I get the urge to be violent in real life.

• On the post: Iran's New Jet Can Fly (In Photoshop, At Least)!

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2013 @ 01:52pm

  It gets worse.

  Turns out the copy of Photoshop they used to generate the picture was pirated.

• On the post: 'Attribution' Troll On Press Inc. Now 50% Less 'Troll-like!' Also: NOT Yelling At People Sells More Books!

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2013 @ 02:20pm

  What, nothing?

  I tried posting the quote on my own Twitter feed, and I didn't get a single response.
  
  Just like that one sleepover in grade school. Everyone said if I said "Bloody Mary" to my reflection in the bathroom mirror, something cool would happen, but nothing ever did.
  
  Maybe it's because I actually included correct attribution in my tweet. I put " -- some guy desperate for attention ".

• On the post: Report Suggests China May Lift Console Gaming Ban

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2013 @ 08:41am

  It's not so much a ban....

  It isn't exactly an outright "ban". Engadget had a write-up with a few more details.
  
  http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/30/china-console-ban/
  
  Severely limited, sure, and a lot of games sold world-wide were literally banned for sale in China, but there *are* video game consoles that are sold there legally.

• On the post: Broken Copyright: Jonathan Coulton Is Actually Infringing Copyright, But Glee Is Not

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2013 @ 10:37am

  How is FOX not wrong then?

  If Coulton's song is infringing, how is Glee's song not infringing? Is a cover of an infringing song not also infringing on the original?
  
  If not, then we have a really sweet loophole: get someone to cover a desired song, then release your own cover and just call it a "cover of a cover". It's like money laundering for music. Let's call it "music laundering".
  
  Excuse me while I file a patent on this process....

• On the post: Copyright As Censorship: Birth Blogger Fight Goes Legal Over DMCA Abuse

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2013 @ 01:50pm

  So, what happened to Gina's blog?

  All of the links to Dr. Amy's posts (on the blog that's supposedly been taken down twice) pull up fine, but the ones going to Gina's give me either a server error, a "not authorized", or a WordPress login screen.
  
  It would be pretty ironic if, because of Gina trying to get Amy's blog offline, the Streisand Effect caused her own blog to get overloaded and shut down.

• On the post: The International Olympic Committee Has Already Staked A Trademark Claim On The Number '2014'

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2013 @ 09:22am

  No more Quicken nag screens?

  Now Quicken will be unable to try to coerce me into upgrading to Quicken 2014. A year reprieve from having to click "No Thanks" and "Do not remind me again (today)" before I can pay my bills.

• On the post: Verizon Charging You More, As Bandwidth Costs Them Less

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2013 @ 11:12am

  Same stuff, different company

  Sounds like they're just taking a page out of "landline" internet providers' playbooks with regards to caps. Implement a cap, then offer more services and speed to make you hit the cap faster.

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