Bikerelc’s Comments

• Mar 27th, 2012 @ 7:47pm

  Logical

  on News Corp. Accused Of Hacking Competitors Smartcards To Increase 'Piracy' Of Satellite TV Rivals
  This is a perfectly logical strategy. Since you know for sure that their customer base will be lowered. This reduces the enemies funds and with this type of system once they shut down the feed or pirate alternative to your system also shuts down. In other words by helping your competition's customers pirate, you kill a customer and then get all the pirates after your competitor stops providing the steal-able signal. Now with the monopoly you gouge your loyal customers, those from the competition, the pirates from the competition and the people that left you to pirate from the competition.
• Dec 23rd, 2011 @ 6:01pm

  Prison food looks a bit better than school food.

  on DailyDirt: Not-So-Fun Food Findings...
  It may be cheaper but it does seem a bit healthier from the description.
• Dec 20th, 2011 @ 11:02pm

  If I were big media I would simply post something like:

  on Big Entertainment Companies Issuing Wrongful YouTube Claims On Public Domain Works
  This comment closely resembles comments elsewhere and may violate my own copyright, as such I am requesting that techdirt.com be removed from all dns servers immediately.
• Apr 21st, 2011 @ 10:11pm

  It still raises the question

  on Court Says Gov't Can't Double Dip And Charge Email Hackers With A Felony For Both Hacking & Hacking Email
  So in the "rare" case that somebody were to say hack an email account in order to access another computer however would most likely raise a different verdict. Basically the court finally got a technology case right for a change.
• Apr 7th, 2011 @ 9:11pm

  I call bull on the bias

  on Professor Gets Tenure With The Help Of His Wikipedia Contributions
  As a fairly recent graduate, I never met one professor that was truly biased against wikipedia. Sure you couldn't use wikipedia as a source, but the same professors would tell you to start there and work your way back through the references that wikipedia quoted, and then any references that were quoted in whatever you found there. To be fair that is the point of wikipedia. It gives a quick overview, but it links you to the source of the information which is likely where you will find what you really need if you are doing any sort of in depth research.
• Aug 10th, 2010 @ 12:14am

  Single Bill

  on Comcast And Blockbuster Team Up To Make Us Wonder Why They've Teamed Up
  Actually if you think about it, it could have a potential use. Instead of multiple bills you can now get a single bill. Comcast now offers: internet, cable, phone, and movie rentals all on a single bill! Less paper bills and less hassle than calling 4 companies when I have a problem has to have some value.
• Jul 12th, 2010 @ 9:57am

  Re: Re: an XBox360.......

  on Class Action Against Apple & AT&T Over iPhone Moves Forward
  You really hit it right on the ball. The i-phones problems are apples direct attempts to brick phones that have been taken elsewhere, and also their scheming to get out of their hardware warranties.