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• Mar 19th, 2015 @ 4:59am

  And just as I was about to post a comment ...

  on French Government Starts Blocking Websites With Views The Gov't Doesn't Like
  ... *poof*
  
  Hey, where did TechDirt go? Ce qui se passe?!
• May 21st, 2014 @ 7:31am

  Much smoke ... blown you know where

  on LG Will Take The 'Smart' Out Of Your Smart TV If You Don't Agree To Share Your Viewing And Search Data With Third Parties
  Hogwash, LG! For your "but we're up front" argument to hold water, then your opt out rate would be no different if you allowed users to decline data sharing but still keep full Smart services (in which case, you would).
• Jul 10th, 2013 @ 3:47am

  Re: Re: Re: Seems dubious

  on Making Mobile Video Streaming Better By Operating In The 'Unused Spectrum' Of Copyright Law
  Of course, to avoid copyright altogether, just make sure that both layers are independently useless (kinda like a pair of encryption keys)!
• Jul 10th, 2013 @ 3:46am

  Re: Re: Seems dubious

  on Making Mobile Video Streaming Better By Operating In The 'Unused Spectrum' Of Copyright Law
  Agreed, that is the principle behind it.
  
  That may not be legal with one provider, but if:
  --- provider A contributed a usable layer 1 and an unusable layer 2, while
  --- provider B provided a unusable layer 1 and a usable layer 2
  then both providers would be compliant, and yet copyright could be infringed.
• Jul 3rd, 2013 @ 3:05am

  Just plain daft

  on Ohio AG Gets Urban Outfitters To Pull Satirical Prescription Coffee Mugs From Stores, Citing His Own Lack Of Humor
  People blow their brains out with guns, but you can still buy The Gun Mug.
  
  Sometimes elevators fall and kill the occupants, but the Falling Elevator Death t-shirt is still available.
  
  Some people should go get a life. Or a TV. Or a yo-yo. Anything to distract them from such pettiness.
• Jan 18th, 2013 @ 5:44am

  Re: The survival of the species

  on Inventor Of The Wind-Up Radio Complains About 'Google Generation'
  And yes, I should have said "the remaining 0.1%" (100% less 99.9% doesn't equal 0.01%). Sorry, but my calculator gave me the wrong answer.
  
  What will we have to blame when the technology's all gone, I wonder?!
• Jan 18th, 2013 @ 5:41am

  Re: The survival of the species

  on Inventor Of The Wind-Up Radio Complains About 'Google Generation'
  Sorry, didn't intend to double-post!
• Jan 18th, 2013 @ 5:34am

  The survival of the species

  on Inventor Of The Wind-Up Radio Complains About 'Google Generation'
  Sure, but then when a plague wipes out 99.9% of humanity in a year or two's time, and none of the technology still works, then you're really gonna regret not being one of the tiny Luddite fraction of the remaining 0.01% that still knows how to herd goats, make fire and knap flints!
  
  There's strength in diversity. Always good to respect people's opinions, however totally freakish and stupid they are (as in this case)!
• Jan 18th, 2013 @ 5:34am

  The survival of the species

  on Inventor Of The Wind-Up Radio Complains About 'Google Generation'
  Sure, but then when a plague wipes out 99.9% of humanity in a year or two's time, and none of the technology still works, then you're really gonna regret not being one of the tiny Luddite fraction of the remaining 0.01% that still knows how to herd goats, make fire and knap flints!
  
  There's strength in diversity. Always good to respect people's opinions, however totally freakish and stupid they are (as in this case)!
• Jan 16th, 2013 @ 3:32am

  Point of no return

  on Hollywood Accounting Strikes Again: Investors In 29 Paramount Films That Earned $7 Billion Dollars Get No Return
  Money contributed - money used successfully - no return to contributors. Not an investment then, but rather a donation.
  
  Hollywood should register as a charity to avoid scamming (er, misleading) people with both money and optimism, otherwise at some point (why not already?!) they'll be prosecuted for confidence trickery (i.e. fraud).
  
  Not only can the Nigerian 419 scammers learn something from Hollywood, but there could be a movie in this! :-)
• Jan 8th, 2013 @ 4:45am

  Re: OMG - my ears!

  on Confusing Value And Price, Choir Demands £3000 Per Download
  Finally, someone has actually listened to the object of this discussion.
  
  There was me fuming (albeit quite smugly, I have to say) that you had all failed to confirm that this was NOT the most sensational piece of music ever produced. Might this not perhaps have been a uniquely glorious combination of sounds capable of producing a minimum of five orgasms per second for the listener while simultaneously reversing global warming, bringing about world peace and making my head hair grow back? For that, 3000 pounds would (as many of us - especially the follically challenged - might agree) be a bargain!
  
  Self-tested. Smugness over.
  
  All the music (unsure that this is the correct use of the word) did for me was to set my ears ringing, turn my brain to a strange combination of mushy peas and razor blades, propel me swiftly in the direction of the bathroom, and make me wish I had a second-hand ICBM to lob at the abode of the choir members of Gaggle (which Google quite correctly defines as "A disorderly or noisy group of people"), or whatever they are called. So much for world peace! And hair restoration.
  
  In this instance, silence is much more golden. And a helluva lot cheaper.
  
  Mind you ... do you think I could copyright a few seconds of silence, and then ask you all to pay me royalties whenever you listen to (or produce) a copy or interpretation thereof?
• Dec 27th, 2012 @ 2:54am

  Classic Function Creep As EU Police May Gain Access To Asylum Seekers Fingerprint Database

  on Classic Function Creep As EU Police May Gain Access To Asylum Seekers Fingerprint Database
  No longer in the UK, but used to be, so have some reason to believe that this would break EU law.
  
  As far as I know, EU Data Protection legislation specifically makes it an offence to obtain data for one purpose and then to subsequently use it for another unrelated purpose without obtaining explicit permission from each data subject.
  
  Are governments above the law!? And even if they are legally permitted to be, is "do as I say, not as I do" government good for society?