Miff’s Comments

• Jul 19th, 2013 @ 2:55am

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  on Benefits Of Synthetic Blood Could Be Squandered Thanks To Patents
  Can't you get a patent on someone else's discovery if they didn't patent it first? Isn't that what happened with MP4?
• Jul 18th, 2013 @ 6:15pm

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  on DailyDirt: Parenting Tips
  I just always believed that that was the plan all along in over-parenting, to raise a child that'll never grow up.
• Jul 15th, 2013 @ 7:09pm

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  on HBO's Latest DMCA Abuse: Issues Takedown To Google Over Popular VLC Media Player
  I'd add onto this, since a criminal law would never be enforced, that the recipient of a bogus takedown has the right to sue the takedown issuer for compensation, including legal fees.
• Jul 12th, 2013 @ 8:03am

  Re: Re: i have an android

  on DRM-Plus, Or How Eidos Is Treating Anyone With A Jail-Broken iPad Like A Criminal
  Eh I've seen apps refuse to run on Android if it's rooted, which is a problem for custom firmwares that can't ever not be rooted.
  
  Heck, even certain vendors' software (at least Samsung and T-Mobile did this) will do anything between refuse to run and intentionally brick the device if it even detects rooting.
• Jun 27th, 2013 @ 4:52pm

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  on DailyDirt: You Say Tomato, I Say Tomahto
  I think it's the Pacific Northwest region of the US, but I'm not sure.
• Jun 26th, 2013 @ 6:46pm

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  on DailyDirt: You Say Tomato, I Say Tomahto
  Yeah, but now that we live in the error of grammar nazis calling out every minor "error", English is not going to evolve even in the minor ways it still could.
• Jun 25th, 2013 @ 8:36am

  Wow, France's laws are strange

  on Shallow Surveillance Efforts Like PRISM Will Only Catch The 'Stupidest, Lowest-Ranking Of Terrorists'
  Encryption is illegal there but it's also the home of the massively patent infringing VLC?
• Jun 21st, 2013 @ 9:54pm

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  on The Next Time Someone Says Twitter Is Killing Deep Thinking With Short Quick Messages, Show Them This
  Ah I see, I think saying "and/or" would have been more appropriate.
  
  I don't really know anything about late 19th-century European social norms so I don't know what flavors of Christianity were considered "acceptable" at the time.
• Jun 21st, 2013 @ 9:52pm

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  on Candidate Obama Debating President Obama On Civil Liberties vs. Government Surveillance
  Which is why I think that presidential campaigns should be officially declared as advertising and that not following through on campaign promises should be a civil offense (that way the citizens can press charges. like the executive branch would take action against themselves!).
• Jun 19th, 2013 @ 5:41pm

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  on DailyDirt: Air Hockey Robots
  But Ken Jennings would have won if he bet everything he had on the last Final Jeopardy.
• Jun 19th, 2013 @ 3:30pm

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  on The Next Time Someone Says Twitter Is Killing Deep Thinking With Short Quick Messages, Show Them This
  So you're a old money, heterosexual, Protestant (or Catholic if you're European), white, European-descended, man right?
• Jun 18th, 2013 @ 3:43pm

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  on Google, Without Admitting It Gets FISA Orders, Files Lawsuit To Challenge FISA Gag Orders
  What's that they say? "If you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide?"
• Jun 14th, 2013 @ 9:22pm

  I don't think it'll matter

  on TX Congresswoman's Misdeeds Re-Vaulted Into News Via That Pesky Streisand Effect
  If she's already had to run for re-election twice and won both times despite her opponents bringing this up, would a third attempt really work?
• Jun 2nd, 2013 @ 11:09pm

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  on Lawsuit Over Who Gets Starbucks Tips
  The biggest coffee at Starbucks only costs $2.45...
• May 28th, 2013 @ 11:28am

  Re: Shall we play a game?

  on Dumb Idea Or Dumbest Idea: Letting Companies Use Malware Against Infringers
  Drive-by malware is already the norm, you just don't know it because you have secured your browser (through adblocking/disabled plugins/noscript/etc.).
• May 26th, 2013 @ 2:09am

  A cell phone can be a dangerous weapon

  on Another CA Cop Thinks A Cell Phone Might Be A Dangerous Weapon
  As the saying goes, the pen is mightier than the sword, and the camera is mightier than the gun.
• May 23rd, 2013 @ 6:08pm

  Re: Pentium

  on Magic Hat Brewery Sues West Sixth Brewing, Claiming 6 Looks Too Much Like 9
  Remember that the 80486 was back in the Golden Age of computing when Compaq could legally reverse-engineer an IBM PC and not get sued out of existence.
• May 23rd, 2013 @ 8:27am

  Re: Re: I'm glad they actually arrested these guys

  on So It's Come To This: Seven High School Students Arrested For Throwing... Water Balloons
  Obviously you miss when you could strangle a guy in front of 30 witnesses and not even get told you did a bad thing.
• May 22nd, 2013 @ 3:36pm

  I'm glad they actually arrested these guys

  on So It's Come To This: Seven High School Students Arrested For Throwing... Water Balloons
  Yep. It's nice how they didn't just go to the boys will be boys shit. These kids need to learn about the consequences of their actions sooner rather than later. If they were adults throwing water balloons at others they would have been arrested. Why let them get away with it just because they're two years younger?
• May 20th, 2013 @ 9:23pm

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  on Criminal Nabbed By His Own Food Porn
  > It begins with Troy Maye, who is accused of grabbing identifying info on people and then attempting to sell the identities off to bidders.
  
  Isn't that just called analytics nowadays?

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