AMusingFool’s Comments

• Oct 7th, 2014 @ 11:35am

  Sounds like a case...

  on 5,000 Domains Seized Based On Sealed Court Filing; Confused Domain Owners Have No Idea Why
  of Eminent Domain.
• May 14th, 2014 @ 8:36pm

  To the FL legislators...

  on Florida Lawmakers Aim To Restore Childrens' Rights To Openly Carry Pop Tart 'Guns' On Campus
  Stand Your Ground
• May 12th, 2014 @ 7:01am

  According to Steve Jobs...

  on Yes, President Obama's Patent Office Started Approving Basically All Patent Applications Again
  "Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”
• Apr 25th, 2014 @ 7:33am

  shelf space?

  on Oxford English Dictionary: Killed And Saved By The Internet
  I have the compact OED; I'd love to have the full version, but it's just too big.
  
  I wonder if they use Google Trends to research new words. That's gotta be the fastest way to check things out.
  
  And yeah, The Professor and the Madman is great.
• Apr 17th, 2014 @ 9:18pm

  Let's hope the coda isn't:

  on Nike, Huge IP Proponent, Blatantly Infringes Shawne Merriman's Trademark
  Victory, thy name is Nike.
• Apr 11th, 2014 @ 6:50pm

  Hard to believe...

  on UPDATED: NSA Denies Claims That It Knew About Heartbleed And Did Nothing
  That they knew about it two years ago. If so, it probably would have been part of Snowden's revelations. And they probably would have managed to stop Snowden before he left the country.
  
  I would believe they knew about it before it became public, but I have a hard time believing two years ago.
• Sep 19th, 2013 @ 10:33am

  (untitled comment)

  on Another Reason The NSA Can't Prevent Terrorist Attacks: Protecting Its Methods Is More Important Than Protecting The Public
  Come up with a plausible explanation?
  
  How's that worked out for them, as Snowden's leaks keep coming out?
• Sep 5th, 2013 @ 6:13am

  Re: The key quote is this one

  on UK's Government Computers Used To Access Porn More Than 300,000 Times In The Last 14 Months
  This is what I wonder about, too. I remember once, working onsite at the DoJ, when microsoft.com was classified as a porn site for several days.
• Jul 19th, 2013 @ 7:20pm

  And Congress?

  on DOJ: Some Constitutional Rights Can't Be Tested In Courts, Like Our Ability To Kill You With A Drone
  If the administration is already covering up surveillance info from Congress (with their "least untruthful" answers), not sure why we'd assume that Congress is anything like fully informed on remote executions. Which would make it awfully hard to say Congress has any hand in protecting people.
• Jul 19th, 2013 @ 7:16pm

  Re: Test killer drone on Snowden in 3..2.1

  on DOJ: Some Constitutional Rights Can't Be Tested In Courts, Like Our Ability To Kill You With A Drone
  First test target was Anwar al-Awlaki (sp?)
• Jun 18th, 2013 @ 7:25am

  (untitled comment)

  on NSA Boss Asks Congress For Blanket Immunity For Companies That Help NSA Spy On Everyone

  Giving them blanket immunity would be a huge mistake and only guarantee greater privacy violations.

  
  
  FTFY
  
  (ps: there anything that can be done to enable <strike> tag?)
• Mar 18th, 2013 @ 6:49am

  Prenda...

  on Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  (*The ultimate would be "This will only work for bands that exist")

  
  
  Prenda is the "band that doesn't exist"?
• Mar 15th, 2013 @ 7:07am

  Re:

  on Why Shouldn't New Legislative Data Flow Directly Into Wikipedia
  Amen. And no anonymous (or, say, Senate Judiciary Committee account) check-ins.
• Dec 10th, 2012 @ 8:04am

  boy, I'm glad...

  on The DVR That Watches You Back: Verizon Applies For 'Ambient Action' Detecting Device Patent
  That my FiOS DVR is in a closed cabinet, with an RF remote to control it.
• Jul 17th, 2012 @ 7:01am

  apparently...

  on Chuck Close Succeeds In Stifling A Creative Homage... But Only For Another 100 Years Or So!
  His prospagnosia affected his ability to recognize more than just faces.
• Jun 26th, 2012 @ 8:43am

  Re: Re: one way to deal with such short-sightedness...

  on The Short-Sightedness Of Wall Street When It Comes To Broadband Infrastructure Investment
  That would help with one part of the problem. The part I was looking at was the executives who run the large corporations. They aren't looking long-term because they can earn many times more than enough money to live on for the rest of their life (even living a quite-lavish lifestyle) in only a few years.
• Jun 25th, 2012 @ 1:41pm

  one way to deal with such short-sightedness...

  on The Short-Sightedness Of Wall Street When It Comes To Broadband Infrastructure Investment
  Would just be to raise taxes on the rich (thinking here a cut-off of something like $1M/yr income) by a huge amount (like to 70-80%).
  
  If you can't get rich in a year or two (because you're paying too much away in taxes), you need to take a longer-term view to business plans.
  
  If you can make generational wealth in only a couple of years, why would you ever take a longer-term view?
• May 21st, 2012 @ 11:11am

  And the rating is...

  on Hollywood Talent Turns To Kickstarter To Escape 'Institutional Censorship'
  With the MPAA in charge of rating the movie, I wonder if they refuse to rate it less than R.
• May 11th, 2012 @ 7:44am

  Re:

  on Old Habits Or New Envy? Microsoft Bans 3rd Party Browsers On Windows RT
  I just did an app store search for 'web browser', which returned 526 results. I'm sure some of those are false positives, but none of the first page of results were.
• Apr 18th, 2012 @ 7:42am

  ironic name,

  on Is TPP To Blame For The Continuing Delay In Passing New Zealand's 2008 Bill That Excludes Software Patents?
  Mr Foss.

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