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• On the post: Iran's Latest Aggressive Censorship Plan: Block All Audio & Video Files

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2012 @ 12:32pm

  Re:

  You mean the same thing we've been doing to attach "potentially unsafe" spreadsheet and document files in Outlook for years?

• On the post: The US Government Today Has More Data On The Average American Than The Stasi Did On East Germans

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2012 @ 01:55pm

  File this under "Well, duh"

  The average person publishes more of their own information to the public internet than the Stasi had on East Europeans.

• On the post: Gangnam Style Shows What Can Happen When You Don't Lean On Copyright

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2012 @ 03:35pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I have some surplus licenses for a SarcMark™ I could sell him....

• On the post: When Captain Picard Loses Patience With Your Cable Service, You Need To Run A Tighter Ship

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2012 @ 03:06pm

  Re:

  Now it makes sense why Kathryn "I got lost for 7 years" Janeway was promoted over him.

• On the post: When Captain Picard Loses Patience With Your Cable Service, You Need To Run A Tighter Ship

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2012 @ 03:03pm

  I don't know what would be worse -- if he got better service, then the takeaway would be "You have to be the captain of Starfleet's flagship to get better service." He didn't, so it's "Not even the captain of the Enterprise can get good service."

• On the post: The Return Of Dumb Ideas: A Broadband Tax To Save Failing Newspapers

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2012 @ 02:17pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: US internet sucks

  I had a terminal program for my C=64 that let me specify the baud rate. I could crank my 300 baud modem up to about 450 before it would drop too many characters to be useful. Whoo boy, text was just flying across the screen then!

• On the post: The Return Of Dumb Ideas: A Broadband Tax To Save Failing Newspapers

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2012 @ 12:11pm

  US internet sucks

  There are almost 20m UK households that are paying upwards of ?15 a month for a good broadband connection...

  
  
  A quick google translates that to $24.29
  
  I pay Comcast $69.99 for a "good broadband connection".
  
  Time for me to go into my corner and pout about how much I pay for the only viable option I have for internet....

• On the post: French Court Detaches Itself From Reality, Demands Tabloid Turn Over 'Original' Topless Kate Middleton Photos

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2012 @ 11:57am

  Re: Already got 'em!

  Only if her nipples are erect.
  
  How cold was it the day those pictures were taken?

• On the post: Local District Attorneys Sell Their Letterhead & Threats Of Jailtime To Debt Collectors

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2012 @ 01:02pm

  And they *never* get it wrong. *

  Having a rather common (real) name, I get the occasional threatening letter or phone call from a debt collector fishing for someone with the same (or similar) name.
  
  
  *The subject line is sarcastic. I would have used a SarcMark™, but I've exhausted my number of licenses for this month.

• On the post: How The Royal Family Got The World To Look At Naked Photos Of Kate Middleton [Updated]

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2012 @ 09:00am

  Re:

  Which royal: Kate, or Queen Elizabeth?

• On the post: Hollywood Lobbyist Hasn't Seen The TPP Text, Cannot Read The TPP Text, But Knows What's In The TPP Text?

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2012 @ 01:07pm

  To paraphrase Nancy Pelosi

  You have to pass it before you can know what's in it.
  
  Duh.

• On the post: Apple/Samsung Jurors Admit They Finished Quickly By Ignoring Prior Art & Other Key Factors

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2012 @ 09:56am

  What's so surprising?

  A group of common people, forced to take time away from their jobs and families at less than federal minimum wage, told they can't leave until they come to a decision about laws no one fully understands... and they're surprised the jury just skipped over the complicated stuff and rushed to a decision so they could go home/back to work?

• On the post: $17,000+ Bounty Offered For Leaks Of TPP Negotiating Texts

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2012 @ 12:00pm

  Who pays more?

  Is the $17k enough to out-bid those who wish to keep TPP secret? How much are the negotiators being paid by those who are pushing this?

• On the post: The DVD Is Dying. Hollywood's Plan? Do Nothing And Cede Ground To File Sharing

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2012 @ 09:13am

  Re: Re: Re: The dvd is NOT dead.

  This is the main reason I buy DVDs -- I can do what I want with them, when I want. I can even take the deleted scenes and re-insert them into the film. And my watching them is not dependent on a less-than-100%-reliable (my home internet connection has been known to "blip"), less-than-omnipresent (on my commute to work, I go through three consistent dead zones), less-than-unlimited (bandwidth metering has been talked to death) service.

• On the post: CBS Drops Lawsuit Over Copycat Reality Show After The Market Effectively Kills The Show First

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2012 @ 08:32am

  CBS: "We stole it first!"

  Wasn't this the premise of MTV's "Real World"?

• On the post: US Women's Gymnastics Team Decides Self-Chosen Nickname 'Fierce Five' Needs Trademark Protection

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2012 @ 08:24am

  Skadoosh

  Are consumers really going to be "damaged" if they purchase a counterfeit "Furious Five" unitard?

  
  Perhaps not, but Dreamworks might have a few words.

• On the post: Court: If Violating Your Privacy Helps The Police, It's Not Violating Your Privacy

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2012 @ 02:00pm

  Makes sense to me.

  Someone tries to smuggle a bomb on board an airplane, so everyone has to take their shoes off before boarding an airplane.
  
  Someone tries to smuggle explosives in their underwear, so everyone must subject themselves to xray or pat-down search to check for explosives in their underwear.
  
  Someone uses a cell phone to smuggle drugs, so everyone must allow their cell phone signals to be tracked.

• On the post: Judge Overturns $147.2 Million Jury Award Against RIM

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2012 @ 08:22am

  Re: Cruel Juries

  Where do they find these incredibly cruel juries?

  
  They pick them at random out of the pool of taxpayers and compel them under penalty of law to leave their jobs and/or families, pay them less than minimum wage, and make judgments about a complex area of law in which they have no experience or expertise.
  
  What could go wrong?

• On the post: Game Developers Concerned About A Potentially Closed Windows 8

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2012 @ 09:13am

  Re: Why would you want to use those anyway?

  I have Chrome, Firefox, LibreOffice, and VLC installed on my Windows 8 machine. All work fine.
  
  This article is all FUD. Windows 8 Pro will not be locked down.
  
  The only thing that will be locked down is Windows 8 RT, the tablet version.

• On the post: Over 400,000 Homes Have Cut The Cord So Far This Year… But Cord Cutting Is Still A Myth?

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2012 @ 09:33am

  Comcast has a novel way to fight it

  I cut cable a few years ago after subscribing to Netflix, trying it out for a few months, and coming to the decision that it was a viable replacement for video entertainment.
  
  A few months ago, Comcast dropped off a cable box for the basic channels that I would now get free as part of my internet subscription. So now, I guess, I am part of their statistics of "not a cord cutter".
  
  Of course, it took me a couple months before I even bothered to hook the cable box up; and, in the process of troubleshooting internet connection problems, we discovered the cable splitter installed back in 2001 was bad, so it's been removed and the cable goes straight into the cable modem, so the cable box is no longer connected. But if it makes them feel better to have one less "cord cutter" on the books....

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