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• On the post: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Creator Massively Confused And Hypocritical In Rant Begging For More IP For Video Games

  

  Ben ( profile ), 15 Dec, 2017 @ 01:52pm

  Re: Interesting point of view...

  I think that is called "The Disney Perspective"

• On the post: Where Credit's Due: Budweiser Goes The Cool And Funny Route On Microbrewery's 'Dilly Dilly' Craft IPA

  

  Ben ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2017 @ 10:00pm

  Personally I dislike the taste of beer.

  I'd like to try that spiced honey-mead wine. I could really get into that (unless it results in the Pit of Misery).

  Well played Budweiser. Well played. Dilly Dilly!

• On the post: DOJ: Civil Asset Forfeiture Is A Good Thing That Only Harms All Those Criminals We Never Arrest

  

  Ben ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2017 @ 12:36pm

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  However, those people are only entitled to the amount of money they put into the Ponzi scheme, so any profit is claimable to make the other investors/victims "whole". So, those people who did well and retired/exited before the whole show fell apart should not get to keep their winnings in the hope that it will at least return some restitution to others.

• On the post: Deputy Shoots Family's Terrier; Complains About Cost Of The Bullet

  

  Ben ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2017 @ 04:32am

  Re: Re: Re: The brave boys in blue

  The "traditional" carrier of rabies is a bat, so I feel rather certain that squirrels can also be worrisome. I remember starting treatment for rabies after being bitten by a dog in the 60's as a precaution until the dog was identified as not having rabies. It was not pleasant but there was a treatment.

• On the post: Deputy Shoots Family's Terrier; Complains About Cost Of The Bullet

  

  Ben ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2017 @ 09:47pm

  Re: The brave boys in blue

  Ummm. If the dog was rabid, i.e. it showed all the symptoms of having rabies, I would hope the police officer would shoot it. Rabid animals are dangerous even 12 pound ones. Even rabid squirrels are dangerous. Granted there is a treatment for rabies, but it takes weeks.

• On the post: Australian Lawmakers Propose Outlawing Parody, Having A Sense Of Humor

  

  Ben ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2017 @ 12:38pm

  Censoring?

  I found it odd that throughout the video they are beeping out various "bad" words (e.g. *beep* used to describe the oil companies arranging to pillage the bight)
  
  ... but the video ends with "Great Australian Bight, Home to our next great fuck-up" without any *beep*.
  
  Is that intentional? Or just their own fuck-up? I suspect intentional.

• On the post: Neighbor Sues For $2.5 Million After Renovation Looks Too Much Like Their Own House

  

  Ben ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2017 @ 05:21pm

  Re: They copied other things too

  But isn't it the lawyer who should be (dis-)barred?

• On the post: Tesla Remotely Extended The Range Of Drivers In Florida For Free… And That's NOT A Good Thing

  

  Ben ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2017 @ 01:51pm

  The upside has a downside

  The first thought I had was "cool".
  
  Then I thought: that means they can now downsize the range of all those cars (and others) whenever they want to; that scares me. The fact that a "surprise upgrade" is possible means that a "surprise downgrade" is also possible; they shouldn't be touching my car unless I consent.

• On the post: Intelligence Oversight Committees Are Being Stocked With Former Intelligence Agency Employees

  

  Ben ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2017 @ 06:39pm

  Remember the rules!

  Remember:
  
  The First Rule of Oversight Club ... is you do NOT TALK about Oversight Club.
  
  The Second Rule of Oversight Club ... is you do NOT TALK about Oversight Club.
  
  ... So I would be careful about speculation on who may (or may not) be in Oversight Club and what history they might have.

• On the post: Patent Trolls' Favorite Judge Comes Up With Test To Keep Patent Cases In East Texas, No Matter What SCOTUS Said

  

  Ben ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2017 @ 02:19pm

  Re: Goodbye East Texas Jobs

  "... that existing or potential customers [...] give rise to a regular and established place of business" Wow. Just wow. Having a potential customer in the Eastern District will qualify the case to be held there. So, if you built target detectors for the something like the LHC you could be worried because if they built a super collider in East Texas they would be a potential customer of a potential collider. I don't think anyone could escape that logic. I hope when this gets to the CAFC it decides this right -- but they appear to like being smacked down by the supremes.

• On the post: Bill Introduced That Would Make Arrested Protesters Pay Police Overtime, Gov't Expenses

  

  Ben ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2017 @ 12:26pm

  Re:

  No, those are free, thanks to the US DoD!

• On the post: Wall Street Merger Mania Is Driving Us Toward One Single, Horrible ISP – Probably Named Comcast

  

  Ben ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2017 @ 12:29pm

  To Xfinity! And Beyond!

  I can actually imagine Comcast starting another service called Beyond just so they can inflict that pun on all of us.
  
  "Make checks payable to ..."

• On the post: Lawyer: Yahoo Lost Sec. 230 Immunity Because It Didn't Hand Over Personal Info; Court: GTFO

  

  Ben ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2017 @ 05:03am

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  Shiva Ayyadurai did not invent email. He misrepresents his accomplishments at best and lies about them at worst.

  Oh he certainly misrepresents. He wrote software called EMAIL and submitted it for copyright protection. He didn't invent email by any stretch of the imagination, he just has a piece of paper from the US Government saying it recognizes that he wrote something called EMAIL; which he misrepresents as "proof" that he invented email. What an idiot.

• On the post: Lawyer: Yahoo Lost Sec. 230 Immunity Because It Didn't Hand Over Personal Info; Court: GTFO

  

  Ben ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2017 @ 04:53am

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  When TD staff post in comments their messages are highlighted with a blue(-ish?) background. Quite obvious so we will know who they are.
  
  Not a secret. Just obvious.

• On the post: How The DMCA's Digital Locks Provision Allowed A Company To Delete A URL From Adblock Lists

  

  Ben ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2017 @ 04:34am

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  It is not illegal, if done for personal use. It is only illegal if done for purposes of financial gain.

  Not the case. For example, the whole "unlocking smartphones" issue is for personal use (and not for financial gain), is controlled by section 1201, and is illegal at the whim of the Librarian of Congress.

• On the post: US Senators Unveil Their Attempt To Secure The Internet Of Very Broken Things

  

  Ben ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2017 @ 11:30am

  Re: Re: They aren't trying to legislate China

  Note what Congress is really doing here - it is shifting the liability for government departments buying poorly secured IoT devices onto the vendor

  I don't think so. It means that when the government puts out a bid request for 10,000 web cams it would now insist those web cams meet the requirements defined by this bill (and others). No vendor is going to make two versions of a product so that they can sell some of them to the government and the rest to the sheeple; they'll invest in the minimum effort to make the web cams compliant and everyone wins. Of course "win" only works if the requirements are reasonable and with req's coming from the government one never knows.

• On the post: US Senators Unveil Their Attempt To Secure The Internet Of Very Broken Things

  

  Ben ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2017 @ 05:04pm

  They aren't trying to legislate China

  are made in China, where manufacturers will laugh off foreign legislative band aids

  Note that the legislation is not telling China (or anyone else, really) to do anything. What it is saying is that if you want to sell something to the government (mostly read as: DOD) you need to meet the specs. It becomes cheaper for the vendors to do it that way than have two different product lines (usually; some have milspec vs commercial for their products). If they do it right (and my opinion of Wyden is that he'll try) then most IoT products will eventually conform: a worthy goal.

• On the post: Would You Confuse 'Pierogi Fest' With 'Edwardsville Pierogi Festival'? Neither Would We

  

  Ben ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2017 @ 09:55pm

  Others?

  I wonder if any of the other Pirogi/Pierogi Festivals have been hit as well? A quick search ("pierogi festival -trademark") brings up Whiting and Edwardsville of course, but also Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, and Seattle - and that was only the first page or two).
  
  I hope the Whiting group's wallet gets hurt by this! Unless they were the same weekend, I don't see how there could have been any chance of confusion enough to justify a trademark complaint (and even then ...)

• On the post: Telecom Industry Feebly Tries To Deflate Net Neutrality Protest With Its Own, Lame 'Unlock The Net' Think Tank Campaign

  

  Ben ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2017 @ 08:50am

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  Note Karl said "net neutrality protections" not "net neutrality" so the buzzword not being understood complaint isn't valid.
  
  The old "do you like obamacare vs the affordable healthcare act" is a buzzword comparison (a particular one which amuses me to no end), but if you give people the list of changes involved (e.g. no exclusions for preexisting conditions, child coverage to age 26, definition of what health insurance is, etc) people are even more overwhelmingly in favor of the legislation.
  
  The same applies for "net neutrality protections." If you ask people using examples (e.g. no preferred vendors for data, such as Vemo vs YouTube) they do actually support those protections.

• On the post: There Is An Easy Answer To Whether Machines Should Get Copyright Rights And It Comes Down To Copyright's Purpose

  

  Ben ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2017 @ 12:15pm

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  Haven't you heard of Digital Signatures?

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