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  • On the post: Australian Politicians Create An Exemption From Data Retention Laws For Themselves… Or Not, Because We Got Fooled

    jakerome ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2015 @ 10:28am

    It's at least mostly a joke

    It says April Fools in the article. It's about a *flagpole* blocking metadata tracking.

    I guess Facebook members aren't the only ones that post links without reading the articles.

  • On the post: The Internet Never Ends: You Can Deny That Or Embrace It

    jakerome ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2015 @ 02:58pm

    Or maybe...

    it works fine for people comfortable with the internet, but want a change of pace from nearly every other site out there.

    Vive la différence.

  • On the post: Congressional Rep. John Carter Discovers Encryption; Worries It May One Day Be Used On Computers To Protect Your Data

    jakerome ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2015 @ 02:21pm

    Another massive mistake by The Masnick

    It's not "big super computers" as you hyperventilate in your post. Rather, the well-informed representative was placidly referring to "big giant super computers." Try to get it straight next stop & end this dedication to pursuing your agenda from clouding your judgment.

  • On the post: The Cartoonist Has No Idea How Fair Use Works

    jakerome ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2015 @ 12:57pm

    Re: Updated

    The Cartoonist has no idea how logic works.

  • On the post: Cabs Strike In Chicago Against Uber; Uber Drivers Presumably Report Uptick In Business

    jakerome ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2015 @ 02:15pm

    Not unreasonable

    What the cabbies want seems reasonable on the surface. Not sure why the BestNetTech article takes such a negative to the cabbies call for deregulation. Yes, there are differences. But it's long been Uber's claim (and BestNetTech, and others) that the cab industry is an over regulated, captured industry. Many of those regulations should go away, I would think this would be the one cabbie protest BestNetTech could get behind. Looks to me like TD is being reflexively anti-cabbie, when the whole tone of this action is world's apart from the typical anti-Uber attack.

    Does BestNetTech think taxis have the right level of regulation now? That would be news!

  • On the post: University Court Tries To Stifle Coverage Of Its Controversial Actions; Guarantees Only That It Will Be Covered More Thoroughly

    jakerome ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2015 @ 12:37pm

    Re: Re: Jurisdiction

    Perhaps, but the court has no power over "the media" at large. At most, they could have sway over students acting as the media. Certainly the kangaroo court can't prohibit media from asking a questions about a court case. I mean, they can, but whatever punishment they mete out has no power outside of the ivory towers.

  • On the post: Je Suis Disappoint: French Court Convicts Idiots For Homophobic Stupidity

    jakerome ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2015 @ 09:10am

    And again: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-27/france-seeks-to-sanction-web-companies-for-posts-pushing-terror.html

  • On the post: Streisand Suing Over Environmentalist's Aerial Shots Of Her Home

    jakerome ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2015 @ 11:59am

    Re: BABS and PRIVACY

    "why did he place names to celebrities' homes and not the unknowns' estates?"

    Geeze, hate to point out the obvious, but it seems pretty clear why he didn't place the names of the unknown owners.

  • On the post: That Crazy Story About Making 'Hate Speech' A Crime? Yeah, That's Satire

    jakerome ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2015 @ 11:27am

    Anagram possibility

    Hate Any Con(servative) seems like the best bet.

  • On the post: Monkey Selfie Back In The News: Photographer Threatens Copyright Experts With His Confused Understanding Of Copyright

    jakerome ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2014 @ 12:07pm

    Typewriters

    I think with a few hundred monkeys and a corresponding number of typewriters, it would only take a week or two type a more coherent letter on the subject of copyright.

    The Complete of Works of Shakespeare will probably take a bit longer.

  • On the post: Google Removes News Snippets From Complaining Publications In Germany; Publications Claim It's 'Blackmail'

    jakerome ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2014 @ 02:47pm

    Brilliant stupidity

    Publishers have the option of excluding their articles from Google News. But they do not want to exclude. Rather the publishers want Google to pay them to include the articles. Google does not want to pay, so includes only a link to the article instead of a snippet. Publishers that do not demand compensation have snippets in the news articles. All seems well.

    But now, the publishers claim that Google is "discriminating" against the publishers demanding payment because the snippets are not shown. Yup, damn straight they are. They're only including snippets when they can do so without incurring additional cost. What sense of entitlement these publishers must have to demand that Google present its search results in ways the publishers prescribe and compensate the publishers for the privilege of doing so. The sad part is, the German government is so obsessed and blinded with anti-Google fury that the German leaders seem ready to force Google to present only state-approved search results while paying legacy, non-adapting corporations for collecting free traffic while failing to innovate.

    It's beyond stupid. I read articles like this and can only conclude that German legacy publishers have essentially given up and now are enlisting the power of the state to support their failed, legacy business model at the expense of German's own citizens and their own freedom to search. Maddening. It is jolly to read so many articles produced by legacy publishers repeat the contradictions of their lobbyists whilst never pointing them out. That must be its own special kind of torture.

  • On the post: FTC Goes After Amazon For Kids' In App Purchases As Apple Begs FTC To Go After Google As Well

    jakerome ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2014 @ 08:10am

    Refunds

    I don't see it so much as the FTC regulating interface design as they are regulating refund policies. Which may flow downstream and effect interface design.

  • On the post: US Chamber Of Commerce Guest Post On Fair Use Fails Copyright Law 101

    jakerome ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2014 @ 04:20pm

    Link

    Here's the actual Tweet, which for now at least has not been deleted. All the better for replying to, retweeting and otherwise remixing. A fine example of fair use, as it were.

    https://twitter.com/globalIPcenter/status/477181075441983488

  • On the post: Baseball Is Back! Too Bad I Still Can't Watch My Local Team On My MLB.TV Subscription…

    jakerome ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2014 @ 10:28am

    The put down of the current business model for baseball is way too pat. The Dodgers will reap something like $425 million/ year (!!!) for their current local TV deal. They are able to do so because they are collecting probably $3-4/month from nearly every cable subscriber in Greater Los Angeles (at least, that's the plan).

    Compare that to $10/month from only the most ardent fans. Making the $10 package freely available would mitigate the incentive the strongest fans have to pay upwards of $100/month to cable companies just to watch the Dodgers. Without those hopeless fans getting cable just to watch the Dodgers, I reckon the amount cable companies would be willing to pay would drop more than 50%.

    Exclusives have always come at a premium in entertainment, and baseball is no different. The policies suck for fans and may harm the sport in the long run as fans lose interest, but in the short-to-medium term there is no rational way the Dodgers would earn $425 million/ year for local TV rights if the new Dodgers cable channel did not have an exclusive. Back of the math reveals that pretty quick, with probably about 10 million households, the Dodgers/ MLB would need to collect $42 from each household. Since the package runs about $130/year, they would need fully 1/3 of all households to sign up for the MLB streaming package. That's simply not going to happen.

  • On the post: You Want People To Have Strong Passwords? What Are You, Some Kind Of Communist?

    jakerome ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2014 @ 09:35am

    Ridiculous

    This article is the biggest piece of shit ever posted on BestNetTech. It feels almost like a parody of the scare pieces BestNetTech loves to mock with such hysterical lines as "I wonder if he's considered what might happen if his system were taken over as part of a botnet that took out a hospital's computer system, say, or were used to host and distribute child pornography: would he be happy about accepting responsibility for those too?"

    Or how about hey, maybe the dude just doesn't care if his Techirt password is stolen. Or NYTimes password. Or the password for any of a million other sites that pose no risk to the user if stolen. Nope, making that logical inference would require more common sense than Mr. Moody could possibly muster.

  • On the post: How To Solve The Piracy Problem: Give Everyone A Basic Income For Doing Nothing

    jakerome ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2013 @ 01:52am

    Re: Re: It's about the math

    No shit Sherlock. Sorry I neglected to explain the obvious.

  • On the post: How To Solve The Piracy Problem: Give Everyone A Basic Income For Doing Nothing

    jakerome ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2013 @ 06:45pm

    It's about the math

    Subtraction: 314 million people. Less 74 million children. That's 240 million adults.

    Multiplication: 12 months a year. $2800/month. That's $33,600/year.

    Multiplication: 240 million adults. $33,600/adult/year. That's a mere $8.064 trillion/ year.

    Addition: $8.064 trillion in new benefits. $3.539 trillion in the 2012 budget. The new budget is now $11.603 trillion.

    Division: $11.603 trillion divided by $3.539 trillion. The new budget is 3.28x the old budget.

    Division: The US Gross Domestic Product is about $17 trillion. Glyn's simple plan to curb piracy would merely result in the US budget consuming just 68% of the US gross national product.

    Final answer: this is one of the more absurd proposals ever to appear in BestNetTech. Hopefully I'm simply missing the Swiftian subtlety & this is not actually a call for the US to more or less impose full-fledged socialism in order to solve what is, by most accounts on BestNetTech & elsewhere, a mosquito of a problem. Tactical nukes seem a bit of overkill, don't they?

  • On the post: DailyDirt: You're Eating That Fruit All Wrong…

    jakerome ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2013 @ 06:57pm

    Demonstration

    I decided to test out the theory. Watch to the finish to hear my profound dialog.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiePAIZTo3U

  • On the post: Anonymous Cop Claims Anonymity Is Bad, Proposes National Email Registry For Internet Users

    jakerome ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2013 @ 10:37am

    Well

    It seems like a very Modest Proposal, to be honest.

  • On the post: RIAA Whines To Congress That It Doesn't Like Google's Search Results

    jakerome ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2013 @ 11:00am

    Sounding more like the French every day

    Which is basically, hey we suck at the internet. So instead of adapting to deliver products that people want, we should pass legislation that make good products suck.

    Like I've said before: sorry you suck at the internet MPAA/ RIAA. Get over it, deliver useful services and stop relying on regulatory capture to effectively tax law abiding citizens.

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