Ben’s Comments

• Dec 10th, 2009 @ 3:49pm

  Misleading

  on Average American Consumes 34 Gigs Of Data Per Day; Good Thing ISPs Want To Limit You To 5 Gigs/Month
  Love your stuff, but this article title is just misleading.
  
  First it includes obviously things we don't measure in GB (newspapers? seriously?)
  
  Second, "Keep in mind, that number is for an average American, not tech-savvy folks."
  
  Average American Consume is just not that tech savvy.
• Sep 2nd, 2009 @ 11:31am

  Re:

  on Court Dismisses Case Against Yahoo From Woman Upset How She Appeared In Results
  the sank comment is a play on the girl who sued google to get the identity of someone who called her a skank on her blog.
  
  see http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090823/1641525967.shtml
• Aug 18th, 2009 @ 11:25am

  (untitled comment)

  on Have Your Say: Should Mike Speak At SXSW?
  Have you considered having a link somewhere on techdirt of past presentations? or maybe at least, the last one given? Don't know if that would spoil the talk, but might give non-techdirt visitors who follow the links a bit more on what you'll say.
• Aug 11th, 2009 @ 4:21pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Arrested For Blogging About The Police?
  From what is written above, it sounds like she was "identifying a police officer with intent to harass."
  
  If our free speech protections don't cover screaming fire in a crowded theatre I don't see how they apply in posting police officers home addresses with the intent to harass. As long as they prove in court that her intent was to harass and not just inform.
• Aug 7th, 2009 @ 2:17pm

  Re:

  on Is It Illegal To Posess Unmarked CDs In Texas?
  I think Mike is referring to the original charge which landed him in prison?
• Aug 6th, 2009 @ 5:30pm

  Re: Facts?

  on Correcting A Few 'Facts' From The RIAA... For Which We Feel We Deserve Payment
  or try to sue everyone you can, and hope most pay up and settle.
• Jul 27th, 2009 @ 11:25am

  Unlikely 4chan was "attacking" AT&T

  on AT&T Blocks 4chan Over DDoS... But May Not Like What Happens Next...
  What most likely happened is, large numbers of AT&T customers are compromised, and were unknowingly used as zombies to attack 4chan.
  
  This to someone obviously incompetent at AT&T looked like 4chan attacking AT&T. So instead of blocking the customers or providing them with information on how to uninflect their computers, the problem still exists.
• Jul 9th, 2009 @ 7:57pm

  (untitled comment)

  on This Is Investigative Reporting? News Corp. Allegedly Hacked Into Phones, Paid Off People To Silence Them
  The local DA office needs to open a criminal investigation, that isn't reporting, thats breaking the law. enough said.
• Jul 7th, 2009 @ 5:37pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Moby Shows (Again) That Free Music Doesn't Cannibalize Paid Music
  maybe i'm missing something, but I don't see where they are giving the music away for free.