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• On the post: Apple Takes Credit For 'Uncovering' Its Patented Location 'Bug' That Isn't Really Tracking You, But Which It'll Fix

  

  Yeebok ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2011 @ 04:36am

  Re: Re:

  Given police use phone readers it's quite possibly a scary prospect. I haven't seen the data but it it's recording enough data to triangulate (or better) your position and storing it for far longer than is remotely necessary: If you move around a lot there'll be a ton of useless data but if you stay in the one area there will be a lot of repeated data. That apple has quietly tried to patent it certainly makes it seem questionable.
  It's definitely data that needs backing up and merging data from more than one device into one set of data.
  Yep, move along, nothing to see here. Imagine if your location data was on the PSN..

• On the post: Announcing: Freetard 2: Free Harder

  

  Yeebok ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2011 @ 03:12am

  Re: Re: Stop rushing to be offended

  "I don't care if trolls make those comments, because they are sad and pathetic, and easily dismissed."
  
  Why are you so down on yourself?

• On the post: Announcing: Freetard 2: Free Harder

  

  Yeebok ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2011 @ 03:09am

  Re: The problem with using retard as an insult was explained to Freetards

  The only people using "the r word" are the people complaining about it being used, or explaining its actual meaning to the initial users multiple times.
  
  Ah, irony..

• On the post: Announcing: Freetard 2: Free Harder

  

  Yeebok ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2011 @ 03:03am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Think about what you're saying...

  "...more the reducing a person to a single superficial characteristic."
  
  You're doing that to yourself quite well on your own, in my opinion. I understand what you are saying but heartily disagree. The word means what it means, regardless of what you think. It will either flourish or die as part of the language - but with you using it so much yourself, there isn't much chance of it dying in our language any time soon.

• On the post: Announcing: Freetard 2: Free Harder

  

  Yeebok ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2011 @ 02:57am

  Re: Re: Re: Think about what you're saying...

  OMG a miniature teacup with a tinier storm in it! I'm probably going to be equally offended by your choice of font.
  
  Seriously, get over it. It's like saying men should be offended because they may not like someone being called a d*ckhead.
  
  The original meaning doesn't even refer to people. Ever heard of "fire retardant material" ? You guys having a go at them too ?
  
  From dictionary.com :
  to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.

• On the post: Judge Slams Righthaven's Legal Tactics, Unseals Document That May Undermine All Righthaven Cases

  

  Yeebok ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2011 @ 04:44am

  Re: Re: A little hard to unpack the legalese...

  I get the feeling the judge wanted to add "and if the plaintiff is acting like an ass, you pound them in writing."
  
  I must admit, being from Australia and not really knowing what the 9th district etc all mean relative to one another can make it hard to follow as well. Whilst I understand and appreciate Mike's exhortations to read the entire thing, I'd have definitely benefited from a layman's perspective. That said, my take is the same as above.

• On the post: Some In The Press Realizing That Copyright Industry Claims Of 'Losses' From 'Piracy' Are Bunk

  

  Yeebok ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2011 @ 04:41am

  The SMH put something out that was balanced ? Crikey.

• On the post: If This Is 'Piracy' Then I Support Piracy

  

  Yeebok ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2011 @ 01:54pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  No, that's contrary to what I understand an 'open' site to be .. much as all the ACs using their anonymity is annoying, they're entitled to do it.
  Besides .. how else could we see how much the stupid burns ?

• On the post: Twitter Decides To Kill Its Ecosystem: How Not To Run A Modern Company

  

  Yeebok ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2011 @ 05:45am

  Re: StatusNet / Identi.ca

  When I get my desire HD I might just start on one..

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  Yeebok ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2011 @ 12:12am

  Re: Re:

  It would make sense if half the commenters here are from people using the hbgary persona software .. :)

• On the post: HarperCollins Wants To Limit Library Ebook Lending To 'Protect' Authors From Libraries

  

  Yeebok ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2011 @ 02:00pm

  Re: Price?

  Angry Puppy - hate to tell you this but the last paper book I borrowed from the library was printed about 11 years ago.
  The whole problem is that a library can now buy an ebook from X-1 of X places and not have to pay a license fee. Harper Collins have basically added an additional, ridiculous annual fee for the simple fact that they have shareholders. Technically there's no reason for it aside from greed.
  
  From the explanation on the boycott site:
  It's true that library materials don't have an unlimited shelf-life, though many libraries still circulate books that are well over a hundred years old.

• On the post: Zynga Becoming A Trademark Bully: Threatens Blingville For Daring To Use 'ville'

  

  Yeebok ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2011 @ 07:44am

  Re: Re:

  You read the article carefully, didn't you ? Nobody suggested that Blingville had anything to do with facebook. In fact, if it doesn't, that's a positive.

• On the post: Homeland Security Presents 'Evidence' For Domain Seizures; Proves It Knows Little About The Internet – Or The Law

  

  Yeebok ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2010 @ 04:17am

  Re: Is MPAA Misleading the Court?

  No, it's been perverted quite effectively already.

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  Yeebok ( profile ), 11 Dec, 2010 @ 01:41pm

  Good idea, Mike. I think it's great. Weekend content is always good.

• On the post: Operation Payback May Now Start Focusing On Actually Digging Through Wikileaks Leaks For Details

  

  Yeebok ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2010 @ 08:52pm

  Re:

  Anonymous coward: "tl;dr so instead I rewrote the article as a comment ?"

• On the post: Venezuelan Politicians Seem To Think The Web Is Like TV: Adult Content Only Allowed At Night

  

  Yeebok ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2010 @ 08:30pm

  Did anyone else read the first word in the title as vuvuzela ?

• On the post: Twitter Not Blocking Wikileaks As A Trending Topic… But Won't Comment On Possibility Of Shutting Down Account

  

  Yeebok ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2010 @ 11:01pm

  If they block wikileaks I guess I ditch my twitter account ..

• On the post: How Denial Works: Library Of Congress Blocks Wikileaks

  

  Yeebok ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2010 @ 04:13am

  Just to spite them I downloaded the insurance file and went to a mirror .. I had no trouble finding it and reading some.
  You're right, Mike - taking it offline has made no difference. It's still a eral turd that it's gone though.

• On the post: Justice Department Trying To Figure Out How To Twist US Laws To Charge Julian Assange

  

  Yeebok ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2010 @ 10:58pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pentagon papers

  Hey Matt, what if Wikileaks reads your threats and assumes you're going to harm it and decides to get you knocked off. That'd be OK with you, wouldn't it. After all this isn't some 80s kids cartoon. Here you are, after all using a registered account, suggesting someone get murdered, and thinking that's completely OK because this person has told the truth. So tell us the truth Matt, would you be OK with Wikileaks getting you killed because you're carrying on like an arsehat - or, like the US government, crying foul ?
  Again, I suspect the latter.

• On the post: Justice Department Trying To Figure Out How To Twist US Laws To Charge Julian Assange

  

  Yeebok ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2010 @ 10:47pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Actually Matt, no. G Thompson made perfect sense. The US government uses FUD to control the populace. If they run a website that is not liked, ICE is used to take it over. If they don't like the person, they simply give the media press releases to copy and paste that make the person seem worse than Satan.
  If the Australian government took a german national based on name only, got the wrong person, tortured them for a while then dumped them in Luxembourg (from memory), I would like to know. I would be disgusted with my government. You, however are following the government line, and asking for the public face of wikileaks to be what .. brutally murdered .. assassinated, whatever. For telling you a fact you didn't like.
  
  Based on that, I don't want to be the someone that tells you the sky is blue when your government has told you it is grey.
  
  I for one, also agree with the terrorist tag - however like many things, the US seems to have it backwards - the government is the terrorist. Any other country, it's the people. I could go on but I assume you're not going to listen to what I say, or consider it rationally.

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