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• On the post: This Week In Techdirt History

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 03 May, 2014 @ 01:02pm

  Re:

  Okay, Google apparently has the original newspaper article archived: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19990430&id=yTofAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xc8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6924,7037849

• On the post: This Week In Techdirt History

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 03 May, 2014 @ 12:53pm

  Dead link in the article about the 13-year-old kid. Apparently the website that originally hosted the article is gone. The page doesn't exist on archive.org either.

• On the post: Court Rightly Finds That GoDaddy Isn't Liable For Revenge Porn Site

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2014 @ 12:33pm

  You know, I think I realized where the support for secondary liability comes from. It comes from the general belief that when you're in charge of something, you are responsible for the actions of your subordinates.
  
  Except, that doesn't really apply in these situations because the users are NOT subordinates. They are entirely outside of the organization, and therefor the people in charge aren't responsible for their actions.

• On the post: Spike Jonze Being Sued For 'Her' Over Generic Plot Similarities

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2014 @ 12:07pm

  As I've said several times to people before, "Ideas are worthless. It's what you do with them that has value."

• On the post: Dangerous Ruling In Germany Makes Domain Registrar Liable For Copyright Infringement On Website It Registered

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2014 @ 06:39pm

  I'm waiting for the day when someone sues the government of Germany for secondary liability, on grounds that they allow citizenship for infringers.

• On the post: Teenager Pays Hundreds Of Dollars For A Picture Of An Xbox One

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2013 @ 04:40pm

  I recall a few years ago that a case similar to this appeared on Judge Judy, involving either a PS3 or an XBox 360. Judge Judy has a low tolerance for nonsense, and she did not have any patience for the scammer, who was adamant that she had done nothing wrong.

• On the post: Watch One Kickstarter Creator Self-Destruct As People Call Him Out For Scam Project

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2013 @ 02:23pm

  As they say with open source, "with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow". I suppose with enough eyes, all scams are shallow as well.

• On the post: Shocking Revelation: Websites For Cheating On Your Spouse Are BSing You

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2013 @ 03:35pm

  Wow, it is a complete shock that a website devoted to catering to dishonorable behavior would be engaging in dishonorable behavior themselves!

• On the post: Anonymous Launches White House Petition Saying DDoS Should Be Recognized As A Valid Form Of Protest

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2013 @ 04:56am

  I am completely against such a thing. In fact, a law allowing DDoS as a form of protest may actually violate the first amendment because just as a DDoS can be used to exercise your first amendment rights, it can also be used to silence the free speech of others, and in effect the law would provide a new way for people to censor speech they disagree with.
  
  Corporations and businesses with low ethical standards would greatly appreciate such a law, as it would legally allow them to silence critics and shut down bad reviews.

• On the post: Guy Sues Apple For $25k Because His Time Capsule Device Died

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2012 @ 08:41pm

  "If I could have legitimately sued every time a technology -- especially a backup storage system -- failed without being repairable, I'd have a hell of a lot more money."
  
  I know how that feels. I've had five SATA devices fail over the years: four hard drives and one DVD burner. The DVD burner bricked in unison with a hard drive. I'm placing the blame on the PSU in my computer, which failed after three years of usage (almost to the day I first turned on the computer).

• On the post: Do You Owe Your Crappy Shave To Patents?

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 08 May, 2012 @ 04:32am

  Tooth Brushes

  You see a similar thing with tooth brushes. For years I've been using those electric tooth brushes which marketers love to claim are more effective at cleaning between teeth than the outdated manual toothbrushes.
  
  I've since started using a manual toothbrush again, and I've found that it is what is more effective, while the electric toothbrush has the inferior effectiveness.
  
  
  This all spawns from the fallacy that technology keeps getting better and that newer automatically means better, when in fact it quite often gets worse. And sometimes, it gets both better and worse (thanks to things like planned obsolescence or just poor quality in general).
  
  How many of you have upgraded an OS or application for its much-touted newer features, but found yourself downgrading to the previous version because it worked better?
  
  Sadly, in spite of this a lot of people continue to believe that newer is always better, and marketers love to take advantage of such beliefs.

• On the post: ICE Mistakenly Deports Missing Teen To Colombia

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2012 @ 01:29pm

  Re: Re: Girl didn't help the situation thoough

  You think that's bad? There's about a hundred other people in the northern half of my home state alone that share my name. There's at least one other person with my name in my hometown as well, and the college I was attending mixed up his account with mine.

• On the post: GoDaddy Says It Doesn't Support PIPA Either, As Domains Keep Transferring Away

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2011 @ 09:20am

  Based on those numbers, looks like trying to say they've changed positions hasn't done anything to slow down the transfers.

• On the post: Don't Roll Your Eyes At This Post, Or You Might Violate An Anti-Bullying Law

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2011 @ 09:32am

  Petty & Inane

  I think that at worst, eye-rolling is just petty and disrespectful. But a law against eye-rolling? I think such a law is petty and inane.

• On the post: Making Sure Your Ass Is Covered

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2011 @ 03:54pm

  Now that's an ass you don't want to **** with.

• On the post: Entitlement? Spoiled Brats? Or Just Progress?

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2011 @ 11:01am

  Oh, the "entitlement to free" thing is real, but not in every case as this person appears to be suggesting. In Second Life, I've seen people react with rage if a business does not put out a few free items, almost like they believe that there is some kind of strict moral obligation to do so.
  
  Though, now that I think about it, they tend to be people with psychological problems, where they go into a rage if they don't get their way or if you don't bend over backwards to kiss their ass. In Second Life, we call such people "Drama Queens".

• On the post: Google Found Liable For Autocomplete Suggestions In Italy

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2011 @ 01:38pm

  I never really liked autocomplete much to begin with. Perhaps its better if Google just drops it altogether.

• On the post: Porn Company Says You Owe $25k If Content In Your Account Ends Up Pirated… Even If You Prove You Were Hacked [Updated]

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2011 @ 01:52pm

  Maybe this is part of a huge conspiracy to get people to stop watching porn.

• On the post: NYTimes Columnists Telling Readers How To Get Around The Paywall

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2011 @ 02:56pm

  You know, a thought occurs to me...
  
  What if the actual situation is not that the NY Times management wants a paywall... but that their shareholders are demanding a paywall because they're desperate for returns on what is no longer a good investment.

• On the post: NYTimes Columnists Telling Readers How To Get Around The Paywall

  

  Zauberin Stardreamer ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2011 @ 02:48pm

  Just couldn't help but to laugh out loud when I caught this headline on twitter. I'm wondering how long it'll be before common sense catches up with the NY Times.

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