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• On the post: Apple May Get To Remove Obvious Features From Android

  

  bjupton (profile), 22 Dec 2011 @ 9:37am

  
  

  Re: The Apple is Rotten

  Yep.
  
  This one is going to be a little harder to unwind than when I stopped bringing Sony shit into my home. My brother in law works there, and their products are things that my wife really likes, as a non-techie.

• On the post: ICE Admits That It Just Wants To 'Put People In Jail' With Operation In Our Sites

  

  bjupton (profile), 21 Dec 2011 @ 10:12am

  
  

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I've sent boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.

• On the post: Did You Embed The Leaked Trailer For Dark Knight Rises On Your Blog? Under SOPA, You May Face Jail Time

  

  bjupton (profile), 21 Dec 2011 @ 10:08am

  
  

  I don't have anything else to add to the enlightened comments I've already seen posted, except holy shit, are these people mental.
  
  The trailer? The advertisement?
  
  Lunatics

• On the post: Former Tunisian Regime Goes Beyond Spying On Internet Traffic... To Rewriting Emails & More

  

  bjupton (profile), 17 Dec 2011 @ 9:27am

  
  

  Re: This country sounds like the NBC IT Department.

  At least hurling pumpkins can be used as a jumping off point to discuss basic physics.
  
  Not sure what we are supposed to do with the "History" Channel.

• On the post: Senator Dianne Feinstein: So Out Of Touch, She Doesn't Realize Tech Companies Are Vehemently Against PROTECT IP

  

  bjupton (profile), 15 Dec 2011 @ 3:31pm

  
  

  Re: Re: Why the *honorable* Senator isn't listening anymore...

  "Yeah, what's the hold up here? We've all been paid"

• On the post: Senator Dianne Feinstein: So Out Of Touch, She Doesn't Realize Tech Companies Are Vehemently Against PROTECT IP

  

  bjupton (profile), 15 Dec 2011 @ 3:29pm

  
  

  It's pretty amazing that Senator Feinstein would need more money.
  
  You'd think she'd be sitting pretty with all the money her husband has sucked up from student loans.

• On the post: Lessig On The Daily Show: The Corruption And Extortion Of Congress

  

  bjupton (profile), 15 Dec 2011 @ 9:04am

  
  

  Re: Re: Re:

  Get the damn money out.
  
  If your Rep is spending even the low end of 30% time hustling a buck, they are not, and cannot, be representing the people of their district.

• On the post: Lessig On The Daily Show: The Corruption And Extortion Of Congress

  

  bjupton (profile), 15 Dec 2011 @ 8:58am

  
  

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I'm completely fine with educating all of the people that downloading this content is illegal.
  
  As long as we also educate them on the scum suckers who pay to influence elected officials to make unharmful activities illegal.

• On the post: Lessig On The Daily Show: The Corruption And Extortion Of Congress

  

  bjupton (profile), 15 Dec 2011 @ 8:44am

  
  

  Re: Re: Re:

  AIPAC is investigating you for anti-Semitism right now...
  
  (And now, me too)

• On the post: Comedian Louis CK Gets BitTorrent Content Removed By Asking Nicely

  

  bjupton (profile), 13 Dec 2011 @ 2:26pm

  
  

  Re: Re: Artists

  Bonus points for generalizing all Americans.

• On the post: India Says Google & Facebook Should Prescreen All User Generated Content To Stop Jerks

  

  bjupton (profile), 5 Dec 2011 @ 11:09am

  
  

  Someone help me figure out the laws here.
  
  I live in California. Am I allowed to roll my eyes at this dip?

• On the post: Some Data On How Much The Big Media Firms Are Donating To SOPA/PIPA Sponsors

  

  bjupton (profile), 5 Dec 2011 @ 10:19am

  
  

  Republic Lost

  I can recommend Lawrence Lessig's latest book, Republic Lost. Thought provoking.
  
  Actually, I have enjoyed all of his books. Well, I'm not sure I *enjoy* Republic Lost.
  
  *sigh*

• On the post: Some Data On How Much The Big Media Firms Are Donating To SOPA/PIPA Sponsors

  

  bjupton (profile), 5 Dec 2011 @ 10:18am

  
  

  Re: Re:

  It does provide for a way around limits for how much one entity can spend on a candidate.
  
  Revenge for Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company.

• On the post: Some Data On How Much The Big Media Firms Are Donating To SOPA/PIPA Sponsors

  

  bjupton (profile), 5 Dec 2011 @ 10:12am

  
  

  Re: Re: Re: Why is this legal?

  There are even issues with 'anonymous' giving.
  
  If you give a candidate $50K, it is going to be pretty easy to indicate where it came from.

• On the post: Anti-Piracy Group Caught Pirating Song For Anti-Piracy Ad... Corruption Scandal Erupts In Response

  

  bjupton (profile), 2 Dec 2011 @ 8:51am

  
  

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: No, the hypocrisy is pro-pirates gleefully ruling out "free"!

  Hey, you dip. They had a specific contract for the use of that song that they violated.

• On the post: Anti-Piracy Group Caught Pirating Song For Anti-Piracy Ad... Corruption Scandal Erupts In Response

  

  bjupton (profile), 2 Dec 2011 @ 8:27am

  
  

  Re: Re: No, the hypocrisy is pro-pirates gleefully ruling out "free"!

  "Welcome to bizaro world... where ootb flips all of the arguments to support big media robbing an artist."
  
  This is actually his only principle: How can I serve the powerful.

• On the post: Government Representatives Using 'Cybersecurity,' 'Terrorism' As Excuses To Further Trample The Bill Of Rights

  

  bjupton (profile), 1 Dec 2011 @ 6:41pm

  
  

  Re: Seriously, WTF!

  We're not happy about it either.

• On the post: Security Researcher Shows That -- Despite Carrier IQ's Claims To The Contrary -- CarrierIQ Records Keystrokes

  

  bjupton (profile), 1 Dec 2011 @ 1:53pm

  
  

  Re:

  So then we'll just get a new FISA with this shit grandfathered in.
  
  Hooray for the republic!

• On the post: Tobacco Companies Think Their Trademarks Are More Important Than Your Health

  

  bjupton (profile), 1 Dec 2011 @ 12:10pm

  
  

  Re: Every time...

  You should read the book too. Buckley's satire is fun.

• On the post: Ray Bradbury Discovers The Internet Is Real After All; Publishers Force Him To Offer Ridiculously Overpriced Ebooks

  

  bjupton (profile), 29 Nov 2011 @ 3:58pm

  
  

  If Ray Bradbury had been born earlier, he would have been screeching about the way that bound book publishing was ruining everything.
  
  Farenheit 451 would have been about scroll burning.

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