Digital Protector’s Comments

• Oct 5th, 2009 @ 9:05pm

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  on Oh No! Book Piracy Is Coming! Run And Hide!
  Libraries!?! My god, the government is encouraging people to steal those writers' dues! Revolution, I say!
• Sep 24th, 2009 @ 5:44pm

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  on Stock Photo Site Owner Claims Infringement Costs The Industry 5X The Entire Industry's Size
  Those damn kids with their clip art...
• Sep 12th, 2009 @ 12:13pm

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  on The FCC, PTC And Bogus Indecency Counts
  Count me in - I say we need more video footage of squirrels gnawing out the eyes of young children.
• Sep 12th, 2009 @ 11:34am

  Re: Try Again

  on A Look At The RIAA's Copyright Propaganda For Schools
  Evolution and abiogenesis are not the same thing. Evolution relies on the preexistence of life; please make sure you understand what you're arguing against before you start spewing circular logic on the internet.
• Sep 12th, 2009 @ 11:30am

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  on A Look At The RIAA's Copyright Propaganda For Schools
  From the parent brochure at the link:
  
  Let a parent respond to intimidating e-mail.
  Watch out for bogus warnings that you
  must immediately confirm your
  password or pay a huge bill, as well as
  personal threats and harassment.
  
  Does this include MAFIAA extortion letters?
• Sep 3rd, 2009 @ 5:12pm

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  on Diebold Finally Dumps E-Voting Division... But Sells It To Equally Problematic ES&S
  Not to mention that Diebold's ATM machines and the like are likely still unsecured.
• Aug 28th, 2009 @ 4:12pm

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  on Wouldn't The Last Thing We Want During A 'Cybersecurity Emergency' Be For The Gov't To Take Over Private Networks?
  Am I the only one here who would consider a unilateral takeover of the 'net by the federal government to be a cybersecurity emergency?
• Aug 28th, 2009 @ 1:03pm

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  on Homeland Security Still Plans To Search Laptops At Borders With No Probable Cause
  You certainly aren't obliged to give them that information, but unfortunately the present legal situation dictates that if you refuse, they don't have to let you (back) into the U.S.
• Aug 28th, 2009 @ 11:37am

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  on Homeland Security Still Plans To Search Laptops At Borders With No Probable Cause
  There's still a chance that someone has heard of 'Lunix' at the crossing - the real moment of truth is when someone crosses with a completely homebrew OS.
• Aug 28th, 2009 @ 3:57am

  Re: Easily Confused

  on Swedish Regulators Say The Word 'bank' Not Allowed In Any Domain Names... Except If You're A Bank
  That's why you should stick with bears.
• Aug 14th, 2009 @ 3:13am

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  on Illinois Says Sex Offenders Can't Use Social Networks
  Sounds like the French Revolution to me! Everybody, get some masquerade masks, this is gonna be the party of the century!
• Aug 11th, 2009 @ 9:51pm

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  on The Law Isn't Quite Ready For Cloud Computing
  Even if you use Google Docs in a limited capacity as a company, you would be foolish to not make some form of backup. The nature of cloud computing makes it unreliable at times, and any company using it as a resource should take steps to protect its data. That being said, if you were an idiot and decided to forgo backups, the worst the court should charge you with is non-malignant negligence, save in the presence of evidence that the decision was made with the consideration of escaping a court order.
• Aug 11th, 2009 @ 9:04am

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  on Wal-Mart Abusing Trademark Law To Try To Shut Down Union Website
  I feel it's worth concentrating on one aspect of Wal-Mart's business practices here: their anti-union stance. Sam Walton began the retailer on the principle of barrel-bottom wages, and not much has changed since then; when groups of workers have merely considered unionizing, they have found their positions eliminated - even those workers who opposed unionization. Tom Coughlin, who served on the Wal-Mart Board of Directors, was convicted of embezzling money, which was then used to bribe union officials into disclosing which workers had signed union cards. Despite all this, Wal-Mart still claims that it is not anti-union.
  
  And don't even get me started on their selective censorship regime.
  
  End of story, avoid Wal-Mart if at all possible.
• Aug 11th, 2009 @ 5:45am

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  on New Study States The Obvious: Kids Download A Lot Of Music
  Sidestepping the various moral arguments...
  
  If the RIAA believes it reasonable to charge $80,000 US for each copied song, that means that the average monetary damages of a U.K. file sharer would be $248,000,000, or £150,613,385.15.
• Aug 10th, 2009 @ 8:13pm

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  on Cyberattack That Brought Down Twitter & Facebook Only Highlighted The Guy It Hoped To Silence
  It's not the number of hacks, as much as the publicity they've been getting of late. In the 90's, hacks were all about putting up a splash letting everyone know what had happened; in recent years, however, most hackers have been far more subtle. Part of the upswing in reported incidents is likely due to the anti-sec movement and its supporters hacking anything in sight, and part of it is simply that certain governments have gotten around to using the net to do what they would have done a decade ago with a knock on the door from the national police.
• Jul 30th, 2009 @ 6:17am

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  on If You're Addicted To World Of Warcraft, Why Not Get Therapy For It In The Game?
  I see a mutually beneficial relationship: the gold farmers pay in gold for their therapy, allowing the therapists to give gifts of gold along with their encouragements to join up.
• Jul 27th, 2009 @ 3:02am

  Also

  on Is The Goldman Sachs Stolen Code A Big Deal?
  Even if the guy just did any new code without the GS code as a reference, it would likely be very similar, ergo, I fail to see why having the code on-hand would be so very disastrous.
• Jul 16th, 2009 @ 9:24am

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  on Songwriters Guild Boss Claims Songwriters Can't Write Without Copyright
  Might I suggest that Carnes was driven from the market by the Beatles, who started the implied need for a band to write its own material?
• Jul 15th, 2009 @ 5:47am

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  on But Who's Doing All That World Of Warcraft Gold Farming While WoW Is Down In China?
  The only question is, regardless of whether or not this has any real effect on the transfer of gold, are Chinese politicians going to start complaining about losing Chinese jobs to South Korea?
• Jul 14th, 2009 @ 8:46pm

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  on Isn't There Something Ironic In An Anonymous Exec Demanding Transparency From Google?
  $5 says this executive is the only one who considers his/her/its website 'one of the largest on the Internet'.