Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 6 Dec 2013 @ 6:44am
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It has a long history
Sooo... what you're saying is that for their spy program a part of the US government has picked a logo previously associated with a fictional league of supervillains and also with the former "arch enemy" of the United States; the Soviet Union, not to mention one of the most brutal dictators the world has ever seen? Yeah, that's a subtle message...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 4 Dec 2013 @ 12:59pm
Re: Re: Ya ever heard of shareware? Same idea. Not new.
Strange, since this hasn't happened yet. Freetards sure are taking their time destroying all that is right and holy in the world. They're probably lazy. Yeah, that must be it....
What's even stranger of course is that despite the ever-increasing number of "freetards" and despite all the whining about how the economic apocalypse of content is already upon us from the industry, the mainstream media companies still manage to break records for making money in a depression...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 28 Nov 2013 @ 1:21am
Re: Obummer
Thank God for term limits.
You could in fact argue the opposite... He could well be thinking "If I can just keep obfuscating exactly how bad things are for a couple more years, then it'll be someone else's problem when it blows up completely and it won't be my legacy that looks shit". People/history only tend to remember the big bang of the dam letting go, not the trickling leak that eroded it from the inside in the first place.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 28 Nov 2013 @ 12:30am
Gosh shocker
All of which just goes to prove, I guess, that there are no depths of dumbness a megalithic corporation won't stoop to in order to "protect" their imagined good name and imagined profits...
Aside from the (you'd have thought) obvious "We damn near killed the lady's dog, we probably ought to fix it without arguing" angle, you'd have thought that whatever PR or lawyer moron they had on this would have spotted the inevitably huge lawsuit coming down the road - I can't see a picture of a 1/2 dead dog in a crate under a plane warming a jury towards United, can you? Trying to make the lady happy now is almost certainly way cheaper.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 27 Nov 2013 @ 3:35pm
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Guess which registrar became my "most likely to register a domain with".... (hint: anyone guessing "PDR" was close only in so much as they also appear in this story...)
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 27 Nov 2013 @ 10:07am
Or...
"Hopefully," she said, "we would develop a similar take-down notice regime that we see in a copyright context
"Hopefully," she said in paraphrase, "we would get the same kind of take-down system that's been properly shown to not work and be open to all sorts of gratuitous abuse in a copyright context and if we're really luck the sanctions for abuse will be just as toothless."
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 27 Nov 2013 @ 8:41am
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Now if you can find another reason to ban games like DDR....
Hey, I have it! (Properly paid for) research will clearly show that games like DDR are addictive and lead on to "harder" stuff like participation in reality TV shows and should be banned "for the good of the public" (well it works with drugs, right?)
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 27 Nov 2013 @ 8:37am
And I sincerely want to hear the proponents of restrictions on the 1st Amendment by way of video games to argue to the world that we must restrict access to DDR,
Now if you can find another reason to ban games like DDR.... They are, after all, clearly way more harmful to the psyche than first person shooter games. /oh, please! :-)
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 23 Nov 2013 @ 3:54am
Re: Agreeing to disagree
In my opinion, the purpose of such awards is to make well-funded organizations like AFP and Getty think twice about acting like the bandits that they are
I'm in 3 minds about this one. On the one hand, Mike is right. $1.2M is a totally stupid amount to pay for infringement of 8 photos. There's no way they're worth even a tiny fraction of that and it seems stupid that the punishment far outweighs the value of the crime. On the other hand, as you say it's nice to see a corporate copyright bully hoist by their own petard and it ought to happen more.
However, my third thought is that once again it highlights not so much the ridiculousness of statutory damages, but the bias of copyright law in favour of major corporations. Stupid though the award is, it's barely a slap on the wrist against how much Agence France is worth. There might be a stern note from the board, a couple of firings (probably with golden parachute) and they'll move on with little incentive not to screw the (asshole or not) little guy next time. On the other hand a similar judgement against a small firm, startup or (increasingly common) private individual and that's one or more entire lives ruined for little cause. "Justice" it seems doesn't come with means testing...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 22 Nov 2013 @ 11:49am
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I'm not sure I want to see Clarence walking around dressed in black and smiting people who make trouble in the world. So maybe this is actually a good thing?
To misappropriate an old saying; "Your films suck with a vengeance inconceivable to man, but I'll defend to the death your right to make such crap."
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 22 Nov 2013 @ 9:28am
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recommendation system much like Amazon's or Netflix's
I so hope you're right, because I totally rely on Amazon's "recommendations" and they aren't only relevant to me more or less by sheer chance at all.... /sarc
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 22 Nov 2013 @ 8:52am
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It makes it sound as if "more relevant advertisements" is a benefit to the user, when it's not.
In this case it's worse than usual:
recommendations to viewers based on what other LG Smart TV owners are watching
It looks like they're suggesting that there's a particular demographic with similar tastes likely to buy an LG TV over any other brand and that meaningful "recommendations" can be made on the strength of it... seriously??
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 22 Nov 2013 @ 7:19am
Re: Re: Charbucks
they go for the ambiance, good furniture and friendly staff,
I can only assume starbucks are different in Seattle since I've never been there. I do know that starbucks I've been into in other parts of the world have little or none of these things...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 21 Nov 2013 @ 5:34am
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and no AC is full of crap
Well that's a possibility. It's entirely possible that he's the narrow minded, spittle-spraying, know-nothing moron he appears to be. On the other hand, it could be that he does it deliberately since, in an article about just how amazingly shit and dishonest the US government is when dealing with matters that directly affect everybody in the world for a long time to come, coming up for 1/2 the comments so far are responding to his irrelevant ranting...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 20 Nov 2013 @ 1:38am
Revelation!
In a few years no man would be able to make such improvement in his machinery, or processes, as his own experience may suggest, without infringing upon some other person's Patent. Endless litigation would follow, and the spirit of invention in small matters would be rather checked than encouraged.
Who knew that Nostradamus was still alive and well in 1851 and working in the Manchester Chamber of Commerce?
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 20 Nov 2013 @ 1:09am
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is that there are two teams per side
From a brief foray watching the edited highlights (read: "the bits where they actually do stuff) when they started showing it over here years ago (meaning a match only took about an hour to watch instead of 3...), I'd kinda understood there are 3 or 4 teams per side? Isn't there yet another special kicking team or something?
and that they are nancy boys dressed in armour who cant understand that playing real sports (Soccer, Rugby League/Union)
Well I suppose that could be an extension to the old saying: Football: A gentlemen's game played by thugs. Rugby: A thugs' game played by gentlemen. American football: A commercial game played by big wusses in armour
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 19 Nov 2013 @ 3:07pm
Constitution? Wassat?
So much for "checks and balances"... I was under the impression it was kinda naughty to say "Fuck off" when told to do something by the judicial branch?
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Yeah, that's a subtle message...
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Re: Obummer
People/history only tend to remember the big bang of the dam letting go, not the trickling leak that eroded it from the inside in the first place.
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Gosh shocker
Aside from the (you'd have thought) obvious "We damn near killed the lady's dog, we probably ought to fix it without arguing" angle, you'd have thought that whatever PR or lawyer moron they had on this would have spotted the inevitably huge lawsuit coming down the road - I can't see a picture of a 1/2 dead dog in a crate under a plane warming a jury towards United, can you? Trying to make the lady happy now is almost certainly way cheaper.
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Double bluff?
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Re: Agreeing to disagree
On the one hand, Mike is right. $1.2M is a totally stupid amount to pay for infringement of 8 photos. There's no way they're worth even a tiny fraction of that and it seems stupid that the punishment far outweighs the value of the crime.
On the other hand, as you say it's nice to see a corporate copyright bully hoist by their own petard and it ought to happen more.
However, my third thought is that once again it highlights not so much the ridiculousness of statutory damages, but the bias of copyright law in favour of major corporations. Stupid though the award is, it's barely a slap on the wrist against how much Agence France is worth. There might be a stern note from the board, a couple of firings (probably with golden parachute) and they'll move on with little incentive not to screw the (asshole or not) little guy next time. On the other hand a similar judgement against a small firm, startup or (increasingly common) private individual and that's one or more entire lives ruined for little cause. "Justice" it seems doesn't come with means testing...
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On the post: Facing Backlash And A UK Govt Inquiry, LG Now Claims To Be 'Looking Into' Its Smart TVs' Data-Slurping Habits
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On the other hand, it could be that he does it deliberately since, in an article about just how amazingly shit and dishonest the US government is when dealing with matters that directly affect everybody in the world for a long time to come, coming up for 1/2 the comments so far are responding to his irrelevant ranting...
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Revelation!
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Re: Re:
Football: A gentlemen's game played by thugs.
Rugby: A thugs' game played by gentlemen.
American football: A commercial game played by big wusses in armour
Then there's Australian Rules Football....
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Re: The funniest part?
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Constitution? Wassat?
I was under the impression it was kinda naughty to say "Fuck off" when told to do something by the judicial branch?
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