The concern, still, is what do the privacy protections look like in the bill and (more importantly) what the Senate will come up with on this front.
Their concern is that the American public still has a right to privacy protections -- and they're mostly concerned that they can't figure out an easy way to circumvent that.
BSG: Blood and Chrome was released onto youtube a week at a time. I thought that was pretty good. I feel like getting all 13 episodes in one shot is sort of like Caprica did at the end, just to burn off the episodes. You need some sort of time delay, I think, just to make people want it. A handful of people want to consume the series when it is all out all at once at the end. However, plenty of others enjoy just having a couple of shows to watch a week. But, it should be neat to see it play out.
The comment about cracking safes is golden. Our country has a really big problem with this train of thought in general -- they attempt to fix the symptoms of problems, not the cause (ie. it's not bad security practices to do this -- just avoid this one guy who who know may be able to crack your safes!).
Politicians are especially bad at this, because usually causes are much more complex than the symptoms they manifest as. So it looks like they're "doing something" and getting that re-electability cred they so desire.
Whether some law abiding citizen chooses to own a gun or not is *THEIR* business. Putting their name and address out there for the whole world to see, as happened in NY, seems to actually run counter to the whole public safety ideal, doesn't it?
There were a lot of fantastic funny/insightful posts on that Sony story. Glad to know I'm in good company of people who are so offended by their track record (new DRM scheme, the old rootkits scandal, failure to give a shit about customer's information ala PSN hacking) who refuse to buy or use another Sony product.
Perhaps you remember when the Associated Press attempted to get this information on Illinois FOID card owners? Well, the state AG said they had to be turned over, and the ISP said "no", and they passed a law that kept this information private (law enforcement and such agencies only).
In my personal view, Illinois actually got that one right -- it's information that does not need to be public.
This reminds me of a computer component where the box had the instructions for installation say "visit this website", but unfortunately I had my computer apart before I read that, and needed the part to continue before I could get on the internet. What do.
I have determined that 'corporations are people' stops immediately when it comes to assuming actual responsibility or sending people to prison for criminal activity. So basically it's a matter of convenience.
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'We think we do a great job handling software and smartphone patents, in spite of knowing nothing about either of them!'
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The concern, still, is what do the privacy protections look like in the bill and (more importantly) what the Senate will come up with on this front.
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Battlestar Galactica - Blood & Chrome
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Safe Crackers
Politicians are especially bad at this, because usually causes are much more complex than the symptoms they manifest as. So it looks like they're "doing something" and getting that re-electability cred they so desire.
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Come on Techdirt, you're better than this.
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I mean, damn it, they're established middlemen and gatekeepers of the industry. They're just too big to fail!
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Re: Re: Flash Gordon?
http://youtu.be/VGbSOEWRgu0?t=1m30s
Tim's point still stands, though.
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"I reject your reality, and substitute my own."
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Oh wait, I already don't, thanks to other various stupid crap from the past (rootkit scandal, anyone?).
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In my personal view, Illinois actually got that one right -- it's information that does not need to be public.
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Re: Even Better
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Bloody hell.
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