mjm01010101’s Comments

• Apr 22nd, 2010 @ 3:57pm

  Re:

  on Is Hulu About To Find Out That There's Always Somewhere Else To Get Content Online?
  cwf+rtb assumes people care about commercial support of media that is ones and zeros.
  
  The moral code that says one can not take some object from a person, doesn't apply with digital bits and bytes.
  
  Socialist when it comes to digital, Capitalist when it comes to physical objects?
  
  Possible?
• Apr 21st, 2010 @ 6:12pm

  Isn't this what Money is for?

  on Blizzard Sells $2 Million In Virtual Livestock In Four Hours
  money is the transferring of one value system to another. I see no harm in this practice, nor the iphone app that cost $500 and was a diamond. In one case Blizzard weighed that this will not tarnish their brand or the value of other goods/services they provide, in Apple's case, they decided that having an app actually does damage to the entire Apple iPhone experience, and they kicked it.
  
  What is scary (but still justified) is we have people buy into these platforms and economies where they attach value to objects that really do little more than fire off a few brain synapses. I can't justify arguing against that, however, as I play some FPS's myself and that would be hypocritical. :)
• Apr 20th, 2010 @ 8:28pm

  adblock (as indy)

  on Escapist Website Mass Bans (Then Unbans And Guilts) Users Who Mention Adblock
  I run adblock because ad networks have historically contained malware, I don't agree with advertising as a tool to reach people, and I don't want bullshit third party information on my computer. I block most images. Sending text isn't expensive. If you have a massive website and sending text is a large expense you are doing it wrong.
  
  I'm not going to change. I'm never going to change. I never want advertising in my life, and your server and it's information is advertised via http. Deal with it. Where are the moral police when advertisements lie or infect a computer?
• Apr 8th, 2010 @ 4:42pm

  (untitled comment) (as Anonymouse)

  on Son Gets Mom Charged With Harassment Over Facebook Account Hijacking
  "So while it seems clear that, if the son's story is true, the mother clearly deserves some form of legal punishment, it's still troubling that the choice here was to use a harassment law, rather than a hacking law."
  
  The TechDirt run-on Sentence. I've only been coming here a month now but they are rather frequent!