David Bowie wrote as Tin Machine something something about shit... oh yeah, I can't read shit anymore, and well, I couldn't. I couldn't get through #4 because this thug can't FUCKING SPELL let alone check his grammar.
I also think that if Anonymous Coward is going to ruin it for everyone else, you should ban this member, give the aforementioned member the door prize and hand Him (the Royal sense) over to the Gangster because the thug is really s̶e̶r̶i̶a̶l̶, I mean really serious and knows the law really really awesomely - I got all tingly like just reading his first veiled threats....
I wouldn't want to be in TechDirt's shoes right now, 'cuz that's like one of the more serious takedowns threats I've seen posted here.
So, what is TechDirt going to do about this Gangster and his threats? Do you think he means to cause physical harm? :D
I watched a show discussing encryption on FOX TV last night, and the Elenchus bordered on sociopathic and it was completely and utterly baffling to me so much, where I reached the point where the only thing I could muster was a Mark Twain-ish laugh, you know, THAT ONE, where's what's the one that's gonna be our greatest weapon. All I could do was just shake my head.
We are a lucky and fortunate bunch of individuals because we get to watch these ill-equipped fools go in to debates and 'guest appearances' without any knowledge of just how this internet of things works - not the slightest idea. I'm not an IT Pro, but I know all about Windows 10 and telemetry, and I definitely know that it is not Ed Snowden's fault that terrorists know what encryption is and how to use. It's the stuff that got Black Berrys' banned in the Middle East. It's the same stuff that M$ brags about in old M$ Win XP posts, and the same stuff that lets me by a book through Amazon.
It's not just at the Telegraph, and that scares the hell out of me. I am putting Ms. Clare Foges in my Asshat column.
TD doesn't hate Trademarks, they hate - vomit at the sight of them, absolutely pointless expensive, and ridiculous suite over the most trifling crap...
When I first read the word Barefoot, I honestly thought of Hang Ten, and surprise surprise, they both have Hang Ten's Logo on their product - both of them... Somebody needs to inform Hang Ten that their trademark is being molested by two corporation.
Hang Ten has been around forever, and I think they should get into the melee and tell them both "We need you to fix your logo violations, and pay us for damages!!!"
Maybe, that would be enough to shut them both the fuck up and show just how asshatish they are both acting...
I was waiting for that ball to drop. Twelve hours after this fifth French terrorist attack, this second Paris Attack, FOX, as well as CNN were already stating that the "[c]ommunications were heavily encrypted." I have been expecting considerably more on the encryption front from Gov't than a couple of seconds sound bytes, but that may just be the nature of that game now. Soon, there should be more requests and hopefully, refusals, to participate in "backdoors" and, as it was said, they spoke Arabic... The French program failed as massively as the American program for gathering that crucial intelligence, but we cannot know this for certain. It was said in an earlier TD thread that any single government does not want to share their abilities with any other single government, because, if they did it for one, they would have to do it for others - I believe it was referencing the Chinese or something akin.
Thanks for the post. Nice way to start the morning.
PS that nGram thing is pretty cool. I used - Plato,Heidegger,Nietzsche,Bible,Harry Potter,Karl Marx,Mao Tse-tung - as search terms. For some reason the Bible was still tops, and Mao Tse - tung was last, with Harry Potter barely beating him out.
So does Carnegie Mellon's Researchers keep a tight lid/copyright on any code used? Any methods used? Who owns that "research"?
Who else will come forward (Educational Institutions) before it comes out that they too were complicit with illegal Federal operations?
And, it's already been asked, but yeah, where were their Ethics Committees and Watchdogs? I sat on the Ethics Committee at my University, and I would have jumped at the chance to "reprimand" actions like these...
I linked over to SJ, and read more on Zarelli, his ego, his empty threats, and more comments. Some posts with great links to youtube, and his website etc. I made a comment that I had linked over there from here (TechDirt) and the comments are just as awesome - at both threads. The "Mod" deleted that comment. Maybe you should think twice about doing advertising for some piss ant website, I had never heard of until yesterday morning, before making posts. Quid pro quo...
When I was a resident of the Eastern seaboard, a film was partially made where I was living at the time, and they did exactly what you stated in the start of your article.
The shipped in everything except extras. They even had the sets flown in - lumber, paint, the bloody nails for their nail guns. As I said, the only employment was four working days for extras, a free meal - we even had to pay for coffee. Nevertheless, I said to myself "Fok that!" and was drinking the same coffee Ethan Hawke and Eddie Marsan (both pretty cool guys) were drinking for the time I was on set. Nobody provided massive work opportunities, and no long-term employment ever materialized.
That was it. The movie never came to fruition here, debuted in Europe and that was it. I eventually found a copy of the dismal failure.
For the purposes of discussion here, it may be worth noting that "Piracy" is simply being used interchangeably for "Criminal Activity", although people like Atkinson have never got that one right either.
"[Atkinson's] ... "tool for piracy" originally. Radio, TV, cable TV, the photocopier, the VCR, the DVR, the mp3 player and YouTube and similar sites were all attacked as piracy tools originally. And yet every one of them actually opened up new and important arenas for content creation, distribution and monetization." and don't forget alcohol, pinball, poker blah blah blah.
It is these tools for criminal activity that Atkinson's ITIF wants to control utterly. We just have/need to keep throwing sense in their faces and hope that a panic-free state of logic and reason can be reached.
I've been reading the replies from this, along with many other TD threads, and it really sounds like some sort of "Section 230 of the CDA" kinda protection really needs to be drafted for the "Little Guy", and even the big ones, who are (seemingly) endlessly meeting with these constant, resource consuming frivolous lawsuits over non-extant copyright infringement.
If Internet services providers have a level of protection against really bad judgement called lawsuits, how can companies, large or small, be protected from time after time tested stupidity. Unless a company or individual is shown to have knowingly tread on their namebrand etc., then there should be protection like Section 230... BUT HOW???
That is the literal million dollar question. Before any legal proceedings even begin, or some legal 'stamp of approval' gives them consent, the Plaintiff(s) needs to prove they have a really good grasp of copyright law - in the least - and have a definite complaint that needs to be settled.
I'm not a Lawyer, or Legal Professor, so I have no idea how this rampant abuse of the very, very, very broken legal system could be even approached, let alone addressed and / or fixed.
It occurs to me that this prolly has very little to do with upper Management. This sounds like a legal department making work for itself when in actual fact they have too much time on their hands, and took the "get to work!" from their department head the wrong way - trademark trolling will only save their jobs so many times.
I got about five posts into this thread and realized it was about to get sticky, and above my pay grade. I'm studying up on this DF, and I'm thinking irrational numbers, and prime numbers, and other stuff. It all sorta flooded me at the same time, and I need to learn this stuff in more detail.
I think it is a pretty smart stunt. There are just way too many people out there unable to separate fiction from reality, as it was obviously CoD's account - Official Call of Duty®. How does a twitter feed go from extra-player and bonus features; robotic enemies, and gamer images to War of the Worlds and someone take it seriously. Unless they're absolute idiots, who gets there news from twitter posts. Must be huge fans of TMZ and the Kardashians - who I still can't figure out what exactly it is they do for a living... It's not a dumb story, but it does reveal just how crazy people get 'in congregation.'
AND, and, Trump has evolved those attacks into unfounded attacks on former U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. The Gov't isn't even sure they're going to even prosecute now. They've conducted their internal investigation and so far don't want to charge him. Trump still carries on with his attacks. He doubles down on every racist, bigoted, or misogynistic word that comes out of his pathetic mouth. Everyone I speak with is all for Trump... "[h]e's the best thing to happen to the Democrats since the creation of the 'Reality show'", and I agree. Trump is the best show out there, and he has FoxNEWS in his corner, 'cuz he tells it like it is, except, what it is, is eighty percent of the American population laughing at him, and NOT with him.
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WTF indeed.
David Bowie wrote as Tin Machine something something about shit... oh yeah, I can't read shit anymore, and well, I couldn't. I couldn't get through #4 because this thug can't FUCKING SPELL let alone check his grammar.
I also think that if Anonymous Coward is going to ruin it for everyone else, you should ban this member, give the aforementioned member the door prize and hand Him (the Royal sense) over to the Gangster because the thug is really s̶e̶r̶i̶a̶l̶, I mean really serious and knows the law really really awesomely - I got all tingly like just reading his first veiled threats....
I wouldn't want to be in TechDirt's shoes right now, 'cuz that's like one of the more serious takedowns threats I've seen posted here.
So, what is TechDirt going to do about this Gangster and his threats? Do you think he means to cause physical harm? :D
On the post: Telegraph Publishes The Dumbest Article On Encryption You'll Ever Read... Written By David Cameron's Former Speechwriter
It's 'Terrorism' of another kind.
We are a lucky and fortunate bunch of individuals because we get to watch these ill-equipped fools go in to debates and 'guest appearances' without any knowledge of just how this internet of things works - not the slightest idea.
I'm not an IT Pro, but I know all about Windows 10 and telemetry, and I definitely know that it is not Ed Snowden's fault that terrorists know what encryption is and how to use. It's the stuff that got Black Berrys' banned in the Middle East. It's the same stuff that M$ brags about in old M$ Win XP posts, and the same stuff that lets me by a book through Amazon.
It's not just at the Telegraph, and that scares the hell out of me. I am putting Ms. Clare Foges in my Asshat column.
On the post: Telegraph Publishes The Dumbest Article On Encryption You'll Ever Read... Written By David Cameron's Former Speechwriter
1) gobbledegook?
and
2) She needs a good hacking to let her know, this r̶e̶t̶a̶r̶d̶e̶d̶ uneducated Telegraph reporter, that she is 100% wrong...
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Re: Re:
So leave me alone...
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Re:
On the post: Barefoot Wine Contests Trademark Of Barefoot Kombucha: Tea Or Wine, Who Can Tell?
Who was really first???
Barefoot Wine is at: http://www.barefootwine.com/
Barefoot Bucha Certified Organic Kombucha is at: http://www.barefootbucha.com/
AND finally,
Hang Ten is at: http://www.hangten.com/
Hang Ten has been around forever, and I think they should get into the melee and tell them both "We need you to fix your logo violations, and pay us for damages!!!"
Maybe, that would be enough to shut them both the fuck up and show just how asshatish they are both acting...
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Re: Encryption...
On the post: Pathological: Surveillance State Defenders Use Their Own Failure In Paris To Justify Mass Surveillance
Encryption...
I have been expecting considerably more on the encryption front from Gov't than a couple of seconds sound bytes, but that may just be the nature of that game now.
Soon, there should be more requests and hopefully, refusals, to participate in "backdoors" and, as it was said, they spoke Arabic...
The French program failed as massively as the American program for gathering that crucial intelligence, but we cannot know this for certain. It was said in an earlier TD thread that any single government does not want to share their abilities with any other single government, because, if they did it for one, they would have to do it for others - I believe it was referencing the Chinese or something akin.
That's all I have to say about that...
On the post: Leval On Fair Use And Google Books: A Sketch Of A Story
Good read.
PS that nGram thing is pretty cool. I used - Plato,Heidegger,Nietzsche,Bible,Harry Potter,Karl Marx,Mao Tse-tung - as search terms. For some reason the Bible was still tops, and Mao Tse - tung was last, with Harry Potter barely beating him out.
Fun stuff :)
On the post: Tor Project Claims FBI Paid Carnegie Mellon $1 Million To Deanonymize Tor Users
Copyright
Who else will come forward (Educational Institutions) before it comes out that they too were complicit with illegal Federal operations?
And, it's already been asked, but yeah, where were their Ethics Committees and Watchdogs? I sat on the Ethics Committee at my University, and I would have jumped at the chance to "reprimand" actions like these...
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Ordering the book.
First time ordering through your link...
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SJ is crap
Maybe you should think twice about doing advertising for some piss ant website, I had never heard of until yesterday morning, before making posts. Quid pro quo...
I'm just saying...
On the post: State Subsidies To Hollywood: Almost Every Program Has Been A Dismal Failure, Costing Taxpayers
Jobs don't actually appear...
The shipped in everything except extras. They even had the sets flown in - lumber, paint, the bloody nails for their nail guns.
As I said, the only employment was four working days for extras, a free meal - we even had to pay for coffee. Nevertheless, I said to myself "Fok that!" and was drinking the same coffee Ethan Hawke and Eddie Marsan (both pretty cool guys) were drinking for the time I was on set. Nobody provided massive work opportunities, and no long-term employment ever materialized.
That was it. The movie never came to fruition here, debuted in Europe and that was it. I eventually found a copy of the dismal failure.
On the post: Think Tank Who Proposed SOPA Now Argues That US Should Encourage Countries To Censor The Pirate Bay
Atkinson's his own tool...
"[Atkinson's] ... "tool for piracy" originally. Radio, TV, cable TV, the photocopier, the VCR, the DVR, the mp3 player and YouTube and similar sites were all attacked as piracy tools originally. And yet every one of them actually opened up new and important arenas for content creation, distribution and monetization." and don't forget alcohol, pinball, poker blah blah blah.
It is these tools for criminal activity that Atkinson's ITIF wants to control utterly. We just have/need to keep throwing sense in their faces and hope that a panic-free state of logic and reason can be reached.
On the post: Exxon Sues Roxx Vodka Over Xs: Oil And Vodka Are Oh So Similar
Maybe some Sec. 230 'like' protection...
If Internet services providers have a level of protection against really bad judgement called lawsuits, how can companies, large or small, be protected from time after time tested stupidity. Unless a company or individual is shown to have knowingly tread on their namebrand etc., then there should be protection like Section 230... BUT HOW???
That is the literal million dollar question. Before any legal proceedings even begin, or some legal 'stamp of approval' gives them consent, the Plaintiff(s) needs to prove they have a really good grasp of copyright law - in the least - and have a definite complaint that needs to be settled.
I'm not a Lawyer, or Legal Professor, so I have no idea how this rampant abuse of the very, very, very broken legal system could be even approached, let alone addressed and / or fixed.
I'm just saying...
On the post: Exxon Sues Roxx Vodka Over Xs: Oil And Vodka Are Oh So Similar
Too much free time...
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...signed by 37 countries (real tally: zero)
On the post: If The NSA's Not Complaining About Encryption, It's Likely Because It Has Already Found A Way In
What the fu..
Thanks for all the posts TD readers!
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It's not real... it's make-believe...
Unless they're absolute idiots, who gets there news from twitter posts. Must be huge fans of TMZ and the Kardashians - who I still can't figure out what exactly it is they do for a living...
It's not a dumb story, but it does reveal just how crazy people get 'in congregation.'
On the post: Ridiculously Thin Skinned Donald Trump Threatening Critics With Totally Bogus Trademark Infringement Lawsuit
Re: Re: Re: Thin skinned? No. Pragmatic? Certainly.
The Gov't isn't even sure they're going to even prosecute now. They've conducted their internal investigation and so far don't want to charge him.
Trump still carries on with his attacks. He doubles down on every racist, bigoted, or misogynistic word that comes out of his pathetic mouth.
Everyone I speak with is all for Trump... "[h]e's the best thing to happen to the Democrats since the creation of the 'Reality show'", and I agree. Trump is the best show out there, and he has FoxNEWS in his corner, 'cuz he tells it like it is, except, what it is, is eighty percent of the American population laughing at him, and NOT with him.
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