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• Nov 7th, 2016 @ 11:04am

  (untitled comment)

  on Daily Deal: PureVPN Subscription
  Aww. That photo has a Boxee Box in it. I miss that little device.
• Mar 29th, 2016 @ 6:54am

  (untitled comment)

  on DOJ Says That The Crack Of Syed Farook's iPhone Only Applies To That Model Of iPhone
  They clearly meant it "this phone," since they used a wish from a Genie to unlock it.
• Feb 29th, 2016 @ 6:56am

  (untitled comment)

  on FBI Claims It Has No Record Of Why It Deleted Its Recommendation To Encrypt Phones
  It's still there, at least in the form of a press release from a branch office - https://www.fbi.gov/sandiego/press-releases/2012/smartphone-users-should-be-aware-of-malware-targeti ng-mobile-devices-and-the-safety-measures-to-help-avoid-compromise
• Feb 14th, 2013 @ 12:50pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Bizarre 'Attribution' Troll Bullies Twitter Users Into Compliance With Baseless Legal Threats
  Heh, just for fun I'm going to run this by some friends at Random House, which currently owns KnopfDoubleday.
  
  Might as well stir things up at the other end.
• Jan 4th, 2013 @ 12:27pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Dad Hires Digital Assassins To Murder His Son (Digitally)
  The arms race around this is going to be brilliant.
• Dec 10th, 2012 @ 1:56pm

  (untitled comment)

  on More DMCA Abuse: Company Issues DMCA Takedown On Comment Spam, Claiming 'URL Copyright'
  I wonder if it's a certain medical device company. They've recently been emailing me asking me to remove comment spam that they created years ago and offering the princely sum of $1 per link.
• Jan 23rd, 2012 @ 1:51pm

  Scooby Doo Much?

  on Major Media Owning SOPA/PIPA Supporters Whine That They Had No Way To Have Their Message Heard
  Am I the only one who's getting an image of unmasked villains railing against meddling kids?
  
  Nice to see that Chris Dodd really wanted to make the most out of the run down fun house by scaring all potential business off. Now if only he'd have used that ingenuity to craft a better business model...
• Jul 25th, 2011 @ 11:30am

  Re: I'm Amazed they didn't go after other games.

  on And Here Comes The Video Game Backlash Due To The Norway Tragedy
  +1
• Jul 25th, 2011 @ 11:22am

  Re: Re:

  on And Here Comes The Video Game Backlash Due To The Norway Tragedy
  Probably should have tagged that with a sarc mark, but I really can't afford the licensing fee.
• Jul 25th, 2011 @ 9:55am

  (untitled comment)

  on And Here Comes The Video Game Backlash Due To The Norway Tragedy
  As a combat vet and a fan of violent video games, I'm a bit offended that he would consider MW2 as a training simulator. Having done both, I can say that MW2 is incredibly unrealistic, and that goes doubly for the multi-player.
  
  Perhaps Breivik should have just downloaded and played the video game that the US government had created explicitly to be a combat training simulator? America's Army is still free, right?
• Jun 8th, 2011 @ 6:49am

  enough with names

  on New Bill Introduced To Outlaw GPS Tracking Without Consent
  I want to introduce legislation that mandates laws be introduced with numbers based on a logical schema so that bad legislation (looking at you, US PATRIOT Act) can't be introduced in a manner that works against detractors in campaign ads.
  
  I wonder, if I call it the "I Love America Act" if anyone would vote against it?
• Apr 27th, 2011 @ 12:18pm

  Re:

  on Is It Rude To Link To Someone Without First Asking Permission?
  This.
• Apr 27th, 2011 @ 12:12pm

  Permission Culture

  on Is It Rude To Link To Someone Without First Asking Permission?
  I actually did run into an issue with linking and permission before. I was working on a project that was attempting to leverage data from the BBB. Doing my due diligence, I perused the BBB's ToU and the first item on the list regards hyperlinking.
  
  http://www.bbb.org/us/terms-of-use/
  
  There's a short list of organizations that link to the BBB without prior written approval, everyone else must get it and then can only do using terms permitted by the BBB.
  
  Compared to them, Gannon seems down right permissive.
• Apr 8th, 2011 @ 3:17pm

  LiveJournal

  on Apparently Russia's President Gets Angry When You Hit His Blog With A Denial Of Service Attack
  Just think, with his LJ down for an hour, nobody was able to read his really bad poetry!
• Feb 17th, 2011 @ 7:19am

  Re: Re: Re: But they're losing money!

  on Sony Continues To Attack PS3 Jailbreakers: Threatens To Cut Them Off From PlayStation Network
  Yup, didn't have time to write that out this morning, but that was my basic logic.
• Feb 17th, 2011 @ 4:11am

  But they're losing money!

  on Sony Continues To Attack PS3 Jailbreakers: Threatens To Cut Them Off From PlayStation Network
  In fact, they've already lost at least $360. Because that's how much I spent on an Xbox 360 and a game instead of a PS3 and a game following the recent spat of Sony news.
  
  It's not potential piracy that hurts sales, it's reaction to potential piracy that hurts sales.
• Jan 6th, 2011 @ 8:12am

  Surprised?

  on Son Of ACTA (But Worse): Meet TPP, The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
  With few exceptions, sequels rarely live up to original. Did you really think TPP was going to be the Empire to ACTA's Star Wars?
• Nov 19th, 2010 @ 2:57pm

  Re: All this would not even be neccessary if...

  on TSA Agents Absolutely Hate New Pat Downs, Find Them Disgusting And Morale Breaking
  The major reason why the new policies still won't catch the underwear bomber? He was flying into the US, not from within. These procedures don't exist overseas.
• Nov 19th, 2010 @ 2:48pm

  Re: Re: amazing

  on TSA Agents Absolutely Hate New Pat Downs, Find Them Disgusting And Morale Breaking
  This.
• Nov 12th, 2010 @ 10:07am

  Re: Re: IAmSpartacus

  on Guy Who Was Arrested & Convicted For Joke Tweet Loses Appeal
  I'd be interested to see if Spartacus got a sales bump out of this.

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