Nate’s Comments

• Feb 13th, 2017 @ 1:10pm

  (untitled comment)

  on PayPal Kills Canadian Paper's Submission To Media Awards Because Article Had Word 'Syrian' In The Title
  So basically this means I can nuke accounts belonging to the Red Cross, political campaigns, charities, and my enemies - just by mentioning Syria?
  
  DOS attacks should not be that easy. It's no fun anymore.
• Feb 13th, 2017 @ 1:10pm

  (untitled comment)

  on PayPal Kills Canadian Paper's Submission To Media Awards Because Article Had Word 'Syrian' In The Title
  So basically this means I can nuke accounts belonging to the Red Cross, political campaigns, charities, and my enemies - just by mentioning Syria?
  
  DOS attacks should not be that easy. It's no fun anymore.
• Jan 12th, 2017 @ 5:02am

  Re:

  on Top UK Cop Says Hackers Should Be Punished Not With Prison, But With Jammed WiFi Connections
  Everytime i read that i envision someone having intimate relations with their desktop PC.
  
  Forex: a keyboard makes for a handy paddle, USB cables could be used as whips or ropes, and the power strip - well, let's just stop there.
• Jan 4th, 2017 @ 8:46am

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  on Confirmed Horrible Person James Woods Continues Being Horrible In 'Winning' Awful Lawsuit To Unmask Deceased Online Critic
  "If you die, I'll follow you to the bowels of Hell"
  
  I have no interest in visiting your neighborhood, James.
• Dec 15th, 2016 @ 6:28am

  Re: Re: Re:

  on Photographers And Filmmakers Call For Encryption To Be Built Into Cameras As Standard
  fairy dust.
  
  Boom, solved.
• Dec 15th, 2016 @ 6:28am

  Re: Re: Mr Camera, meet Mr Axe

  on Photographers And Filmmakers Call For Encryption To Be Built Into Cameras As Standard
  Agreed, the attacker would be just as happy to keep you from having the data by destroying it.
• Dec 15th, 2016 @ 4:18am

  Mr Camera, meet Mr Axe

  on Photographers And Filmmakers Call For Encryption To Be Built Into Cameras As Standard
  XKCD raised one of your points re: encryption:
  https://xkcd.com/538/
  
  Me, I think the more likely possibility is that an encrypted camera would have a close encounter with an axe. A solid swings and neither the camera nor the storage media will be usable.
• Dec 2nd, 2016 @ 11:25am

  Re: Here is an idea...

  on Every Website Needs To Re-register With The Copyright Office, Who Can't Build A Functioning System
  I don't see the problem with that; the FCC website is quite usable.
• Nov 16th, 2016 @ 8:48am

  obscurity

  on Police Just Found Phone & USB Stick Belonging To Paris Suicide Bomber, After Misplacing It For Almost Two Years
  If the thumb drive was secure so long as the cops couldn't find it, does this prove that security through obscurity actually works?
• Nov 4th, 2016 @ 12:27pm

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  on Wall Street Journal Error Filled Editorial Buys Into Ridiculous Copyright Office Conspiracy Theory
  I don't know why you paid it any attention.
  
  This is an unsigned editorial, which basically means that this piece was decreed by Rupert Murdoch or some other high muckety-muck at Newscorp.
  
  It's not an editorial so much as it is a position paper, and should be regarded as such. (The same goes for previous unsigned editorials.)
• Oct 24th, 2016 @ 10:17am

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  on Dumb & Dumber Claims About Last Week's Internet Attack (SOPA?!? Really?)
  I just new someone was going to use last week's attack to climb up on their SOPA box.
• Oct 12th, 2016 @ 2:54pm

  this is not the blackout you are looking for

  on A Weekend Full Of The NFL Violating Its Own Social Media Video Content Rules
  "Ok, so what do we make of this?"
  
  Maybe they just wanted to sell ads:
  
  "pretty much every major play in an NFL game yesterday was posted almost immediately to the league’s Twitter account, often with preroll ads attached"
• Sep 24th, 2016 @ 9:18am

  (untitled comment)

  on Hurry Up: We're Taking Down Our Takedown Gear In A Week
  But I thought you hated takedown notiues?
• Sep 12th, 2016 @ 7:11am

  silence

  on Univision Execs Have No Backbone: Pull A Bunch Of Gawker Stories Over Legal Disputes
  So basically I could silence all Gawker sites simply by writing a bot which threatened a lawsuit over each and every post?
  
  That's scary.
  
  P.S. It occurs to me that I wouldn't even need to code a bot; I think I could pull this off using only IFTTT.
• Sep 7th, 2016 @ 10:05am

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  on Thanks, Google, For Fucking Over A Bunch Of Media Websites
  Some people use either IFTTT or dlvr.it to auto-tweet links. There are also WP plugins.
  
  Me, I prefer to tweet the links with a bookmarklet.
• Aug 24th, 2016 @ 9:51am

  ???

  on Copyright Group, In Arguing Against FCC's Set Top Box Proposal, Appears To Argue That VCRs & DVRs Are Also Illegal
  "the Copyright Officer had filed a really bizarre and legally dubious comment with the FCC"
  
  Suddenly the arbitrary Youtube ContentID enforcement makes a lot more sense.
  
  "You have the right to remain silent, and should you choose not to exercise that right we will exercise it for you.
• Jul 15th, 2016 @ 4:06am

  Clickbait

  on Treaty For The Blind Comes Into Force... But US Refuses To Ratify Because Publishers Association Hates Any User Rights
  I've read your sources, and you have zero evidence to back up the claim that "US Refuses To Ratify Because Publishers Association Hates Any User Rights"
  
  Swing and a miss, Mike.
• Jul 13th, 2016 @ 9:05am

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  on American Medical Association Claims False Copyright Over President Obama's Journal Article
  I would dispute your claim that everything created by the President while in office is in the public domain. (what if he wrote a novel?)
  
  But yes, this is clearly a gov't-created document.
• Jul 6th, 2016 @ 12:19pm

  Re: Squint

  on Why The Latest Supreme Court Ruling In Kirtsaeng May Have A Much Bigger Impact On Copyright & Fair Use
  Agreed.
  
  I read the original text and I think that both Masnick and Band are reading too much into it.
• Jul 1st, 2016 @ 4:09pm

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  on Ford Dealership Swipes Game Image For Ad, Thinks It's Kosher Because It Came From A DMCA Compliant Site
  "Very confused, because obtaining an image from a site that complies with the DMCA doesn't suddenly make those images royalty-free, free to use in commerce, or even non-infringing themselves. "
  
  This is true, but if I found an image uploaded to Flickr with the appropriate CC license how am I supposed to know it is pirated?
  
  And how do you know they didn't try to make sure the image was legal to use?

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