scottbp’s Comments

• Oct 3rd, 2014 @ 6:16am

  Did you contact Apple for a quote?

  on Apple's Responds To Tech Mag Showing The Amazing Bending Phone By Freezing Them Out Of Bendy Apple Products
  Firstly other media organisations have done bend tests and shown that the iphone isn't any more bendy than other devices, and the Bild video either showed a VERY strong dude, or they pre bent the device.
  But about this article... did you reach out to Apple or try to find any corroboration of the claims from Bild? They claim they have been banned for some reason, but is that the whole story?
• Aug 19th, 2013 @ 6:00am

  Insurance claim

  on Blatant Intimidation: Glenn Greenwald's Partner Detained At Heathrow Under Terrorism Law, All His Electronics Seized
  So I find myself wondering, in a case like this when you have had your electronic kit taken and you go to the insurance agency they want to to file a police report for stolen equipment. What would happen if you went into your local police station and made your report? Would they take it seriously and start an investigation? Quietly fill out a form and file it? Or kick you out as a miscreant?
• Oct 12th, 2011 @ 9:39am

  Re: hating games and players

  on Unfortunate: Novelist Joins Lawsuit Against Libraries; Would Apparently Prefer His Book Rot In Obscurity
  I hate this sentiment. If the game sucks then someone who choose to play it is every bit as culpable as the game itself.
  You don't get a pass for being a bad actor because the system is bad. J.R. Salamander be a mensch! Engage the university, not the lawyers
• Feb 9th, 2011 @ 5:53am

  how about a music player

  on Do Tools Ever Die Off?
  that works with MS plays for sure DRM?
• Dec 2nd, 2010 @ 3:23am

  usefulness

  on FTC Wants Do-Not-Track Browser System... But Does The Government Need To Be Involved?
  The problem I have with the automatic calls for proxies and adblock / js blocking is that many of the same technologies can and often are very useful. I design interfaces for a living and my emphasis is on making the experience better. A lot of the time this is made easier if we make a website that has some understanding of what the customer is doing. Amazon is the quick and easy example, with their recommendations and pages that collect what you have viewed and use it to suggest more stuff you might like. While I don't imagine the FTC would end up doing much of a job with any rules to ban anything, the very idea of having some central body pouring scorn on the marketers who abuse these technologies seems like a good thing.
• Mar 12th, 2010 @ 8:53am

  Re: Re: Re:

  on Lessig Gives A Well-Timed Speech To The Italian Parliament On Internet Freedom
  The point of copyright was that the public made a deal with the creator.
  "Share you work and for a limited time you can mostly control what is done with it commercially"
  In those terms the sharing mentioned by EdB is a sort of harm if the sharing is done on an "industrial" scale. The big problem is that copyright was born at the birth of the industrial era and is best suited to that world.
• Jan 19th, 2010 @ 8:10am

  Re:

  on Sometimes Protecting Free Speech Means Protecting Speech You Don't Like
  I think in this case he means accurate in the terms of the libel charge, as in "we were only covering what you guys said," not necessarily true, just accurate
• Jan 19th, 2010 @ 5:47am

  doing the right thing is sometimes unsavoury

  on Sometimes Protecting Free Speech Means Protecting Speech You Don't Like
  So, I was going to comment on the techcrunch story but it was filled with commenters leaping to demand the EFF only support popular free speech.
  
  That is the point really, popular speech doesn't need protecting, it is the unpopular which we need to protect. Especially because you never know when your words might become unpopluar.