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• Dec 2nd, 2016 @ 6:47am

  (untitled comment)

  on Senator Feinstein Asks President Obama To Declassify Senate's CIA Torture Report
  Can't see a good reason why it couldn't just appear over at Wikileaks. Attach the Panetta review for good measure.
• Dec 1st, 2016 @ 1:20pm

  Re: Re: Re: Finally!

  on Trump Appoints Third Anti-Net Neutrality Advisor To Telecom Transition Team
  4 Years? He'll be impeached for something stupid he does well before that.
• Dec 1st, 2016 @ 1:17pm

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  on Trump Appoints Third Anti-Net Neutrality Advisor To Telecom Transition Team
  Looks to me that he's draining the swamp into the White House...
• Nov 29th, 2016 @ 5:32am

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  on Prince Estate Sues Tidal, The Streaming Service That's Kind To Artists, For Copyright Infringement
  Prince is dead. There can be no further creative works from him, so there is no further need for incentives for Prince. Copyright held by individuals should expire with the artist. Tidal should be free to stream this, as should anyone else.
  Life + 50/70 years is complete nonsense.
• Nov 28th, 2016 @ 1:17pm

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  on Somehow Everyone Comes Out Looking Terrible In The Effort For Election Recounts
  Trump isn't a patch on Boris Johnson for buffoonery - by comparison, Trump is just a bigot and an idiot.
• Nov 18th, 2016 @ 7:57am

  Re: A populist revolt was never happening

  on Trump, GOP Prepare To Gut FCC Boss Tom Wheeler's Populist Reforms...Under The False Banner Of Populist Reform
  Unfortunately, it's a "post-truth" populist revolt. This idea that facts and truth don't matter as long as you get results is going to live as long as it's first disaster. Not sure if that is Brexit or Trump.
  
  The idea that Donald Trump will do anything for the economy except granting large corporations more rent seeking opportunities ought to have been apparent to anyone that showed the slightest interest in his history.
  
  Donald Trump's entire career has been predicated on inheriting a vast empire and he hasn't the imagination to conceive of anything else.
• Nov 11th, 2016 @ 6:18am

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  on Take Note: Copyright Troll Gets Stiff Response From Someone It Tried To Bully, Immediately Runs Away
  Apparently, there are also questions as to whether the accusers are real people.
• Nov 1st, 2016 @ 9:19am

  Re: Then again...

  on Copyright Office Fucks Over Thousands Of Sites With Plans To Remove Their DMCA Safe Harbors
  Registering copyright works always was a no-brainer - but that is not the issue here. It's registering a DMCA agent.
  
  Copyright cultists managed to change the law from registered works only to "everything" years ago - because they don't care about workable solutions and think they can profit by it. Probably their hands guiding this idiocy as well.
  
  I suspect a BETTER idea would be to get Congress to apply that solution to DMCA registration:
  - No idiots at the copyright office screwing things up
  - No-on loses safe harbour
  Problem solved.
• Oct 21st, 2016 @ 12:11pm

  Re: Re: Updates

  on Actor James Woods Gloats Over Death Of Random Twitter Troll He Sued To Unmask [Updated]
  Next he'll be running for president. Does he grope women too?
• Oct 21st, 2016 @ 11:39am

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  on Actor James Woods Gloats Over Death Of Random Twitter Troll He Sued To Unmask [Updated]
  ...using a ruler graded in centimetres instead of inches
• Oct 18th, 2016 @ 5:47am

  Re: Compeling

  on Government Seeks Do-Over On Win For Microsoft And Its Overseas Data
  Very likely to be in violation of EU data protection laws - which will have a Irish variant.
• Oct 13th, 2016 @ 11:16am

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  on Who's On (The) Second (Circuit)... And Why Are They Screwing Up Copyright Law?
  I fail to see why an artists derivative works "licensing" their other creative works after they are dead offers anything of value to society at all. It's simply an argument that "someone should be paid".
• Oct 13th, 2016 @ 10:39am

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  on US Chamber Of Commerce Complains About People 'Pirating' The Presidential Debate
  It's called nano-piracy because it's a nano-problem
• Oct 13th, 2016 @ 8:09am

  Re: Re: Value Exclusivity?

  on Theater Association Boss Reminds Theater Owners, Netflix To Stay In Their Own Lanes
  People that buy Buggatti's?
  
  Thing is, marginal cost of a Buggatti is 5 mil? Of a Movie? 0.
• Oct 13th, 2016 @ 7:31am

  Re: Fithian

  on Theater Association Boss Reminds Theater Owners, Netflix To Stay In Their Own Lanes
  Where I come from, the first four letters are an acronym for ****ed In The Head.
• Oct 6th, 2016 @ 7:08am

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  on Charter Joins AT&T In Using Lawsuits To Try And Slow Down Google Fiber
  Pretty sure Charter don't want the same deal as Google - that would entail them providing meaningful broadband. They don't want to do that hence the tantrums.
• Oct 6th, 2016 @ 5:48am

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  on Indonesia Government Introduces Vague Law Making Offensive/Embarrassing Memes Illegal
  Any law that places criminal determination on the subjective opinion of a third party being offended is problematic. It is impossible to abide by the law other than foregoing speech altogether. It is also the perfect weapon to return fire on the idiots who created it.
• Oct 4th, 2016 @ 3:00am

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  on Stupid Design Patent Of The Month: Rectangles On A Screen
  The USPTO only consider it prior art if there is already a patent on it. So yes, they would NOT consider the wheel having prior art.
• Oct 4th, 2016 @ 2:59am

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  on Stupid Design Patent Of The Month: Rectangles On A Screen
  Of course, you can find that design on this very page at techdirt...
  
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• Oct 3rd, 2016 @ 6:49am

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  on Trump Campaign Threatens To Sue NY Times For Sharing His 1995 Tax Returns
  Isn't that a question to ask the electorate? No one seems to have any illusions as to what sort of person is and how he behaves - does the US really want a person like this as president?

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