James Jones’s Comments

• Jun 27th, 2016 @ 12:18pm

  Re: Define extremist

  on This Will Backfire: Google/Facebook Using Copyright Tools To Remove 'Extremist' Content
  Well... there are DoD training documents that say extremists tend to use phrases like "individual rights".
• Jun 27th, 2016 @ 12:10pm

  Russia and streaming content servers

  on Russian Culture Minister Claims Netflix A U.S. Mind Control Effort
  Why am I reminded of Canadian Content laws?
• Mar 21st, 2014 @ 7:40pm

  Re: This ain't ride sharing

  on Corruption Index Indicator: Cities That Ban Ride Sharing To Protect Taxi Incumbents
  "Fares are regulated to make sure that cab drivers can earn some kind of living..."
  
  A cab driver who can't provide a service good enough that they can make a living needs to improve. Provide wifi to customers, or their choice of music, or aromatherapy, or an armed escort to/from the cab in dangerous neighborhoods. Just knowing when a driver has chosen to give you a ride and having information about where the driver is and about when they'll arrive is a vast improvement over the cabs I've taken--but the entrenched government-awarded monopolies have no reason to improve.
  
  Of course, this will all be moot when autonomous cabs come along--except that the entrenched cab companies will be fighting them instead of Uber et al.
• Aug 13th, 2011 @ 11:16am

  Re: A better what-if...

  on What If Tim Berners-Lee Had Patented The Web?
  Kind of like Calvin Mooers's TRAC, which Nelson wrote about at some length in Computer Lib/Dream Machines. Mooers protected his IP very well--so darned well that it's at best a historical footnote.