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  • On the post: Giant Breweries Get Laws Passed In Wisconsin To Make Life Hard For Small Breweries [Updated]

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2011 @ 06:46am

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    Yes, you see, there's a button named "report" on every post. This allows the community to flag messages. After it reaches a certain threshold of votes, it is "hidden", but since you are new here, you haven't figured out that even the regulars know that if they click on a hidden comment they can see it for themselves. Oh wait, you already did since you copy and pasted them. Thanks, we couldn't have figured it out on our own.

    The internet is a vast frontier, don't get all worked up over nothin, pal.

  • On the post: Giant Breweries Get Laws Passed In Wisconsin To Make Life Hard For Small Breweries [Updated]

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2011 @ 06:45am

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    Yes, you see, there's a button named "report" on every post. This allows the community to flag messages. After it reaches a certain threshold of votes, it is "hidden", but since you are new here, you haven't figured out that even the regulars know that if they click on a hidden comment they can see it for themselves. Oh wait, you already did since you copy and pasted them. Thanks, we couldn't have figured it out on our own.

    The internet is a vast frontier, don't get all worked up over nothin, pal.

  • On the post: Duke Nukem PR People Publicly Threaten Those Who Give Bad Reviews

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2011 @ 09:08am

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    First time I've heard of it, still interesting news to me.

    Not everyone in the world keeps their finger on the pulse.

    Whatever pulse that is, I have no idea, but the message is still the same..

  • On the post: 'Geek Power': Best Buy Sends C&D To Newegg Over Marketing Campaign

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2011 @ 07:40pm

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    And thanks to best buy, I can't even buy one! They've sold out of all the shirts, even the pre-order ones that aren't out for 2 more weeks >

  • On the post: Compare And Contrast Two Systems To Let People Notify Elected Officials About Their Feelings On PROTECT IP

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2011 @ 05:53am

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    Its kinda the whole point of something called free speech. One very important aspect of free speech is ***allowing speech you do not like***. In this case the EFF is obviously coming out on top (And so is DemandProgress for that matter).

    That is the very foundation of free speech. Dissenting opinion. To voice grievances. Sound familiar?

    So yes, the EFF allows anyone to say whatever they want. Because even allowing the opposing opinion is more just than dictating what you should say (and therefor, think).

    And you think this is a bad thing? You're trying to paint this as some kind of problem for the EFF? you think this is going to hold us back, because the 5 people you might get to go to the site out of the hundreds of thousands might post a differing opinion?

    As many others have said, its very telling.

  • On the post: Status Quo

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2011 @ 07:56am

    I wouldn't know the logistics. Is the timing of it an issue?

    Is there a transcript from the podcast? I won't be able to watch the video for another 2 hours.

  • On the post: Status Quo

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2011 @ 07:15am

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    If you are trying to infer something about Nina, I think you've got it wrong.


    She paid the rightsholders $50k for the compositions

    http://www.smilepolitely.com/arts/copyrighting_away_culture_an_interview_with_nina_paley/

    Sorry if I'm reading you wrong, I just wanted to point this out in case I didn't read you wrong.

  • On the post: Judge Orders Unmasking Of Wikipedia Users; Fails To Follow Standard Anonymity Protections

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2011 @ 10:51am

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    Yes, because really all they've done is just brought more attention to this fact. So in the end, what will getting a defamation suit won really do? Identify/punish an anonymous critic AND the fact you are trying to hide becomes well known to many more people.

    Unless of course it is false, but they will have to prove this is not the case, perhaps?

  • On the post: Judge Orders Unmasking Of Wikipedia Users; Fails To Follow Standard Anonymity Protections

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2011 @ 06:38am

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    Yes, because really all they've done is just brought more attention to this fact. So in the end, what will getting a defamation suit won really do? Identify/punish an anonymous critic AND the fact you are trying to hide becomes well known to many more people.

    Unless of course it is false, but they will have to prove this is not the case, perhaps?

  • On the post: EMI Exec Thinks You Shouldn't Be Able To Listen To Your Own Music Without Paying Again

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 31 May, 2011 @ 10:02am

    Re: Re: Re: That explains it

    It does not download anything to your PC at work, unless you are using an app that I'm not aware of yet outside of the Music Manager and the android app (and the google music website). Unless you put the Music manager on your work PC and it sync'd that way? (Haven't tried that yet)

    It IS stuck in the cloud, unless you use the Android app, as ChronoTrigger has pointed out.. (Or you are doing something we haven't tried yet)

    As for the files, /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music is the folder you are looking for.

  • On the post: Sony's Insane Fear Of 'Piracy' Means Many Movies Now Suck In Digital Theaters

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 26 May, 2011 @ 02:26pm

    On the digital feature/content systems I've worked on, the movie files are typically DRM'd. In the lab I work in, the feature (movie) player is separate from the content (ads, inter-movie slideshows) player which is separate from the projector.

    The Feature player was the unit that was locked down to the nth degree. They even had to make special baffles for the vents so that people couldn't disable or short the case open switch. (Which in the first design was rather simple to bypass) They have security stickers on the enclosure. Everything on the drive is encrypted. In order for the system to work they needed to be activated before being shipped out, which involves connecting it to a server (I assume for encryption certificates and such).

    The content player was an off the shelf PC with no security outside of a login. The only thing special it had was a decoder board or high end audio board. It used a standard nVidia video card.

    The Projector was only locked with a key. Maybe to keep the $800 bulbs from being stolen.

    It does not surprise me that the projector (if it is an all in one player/projector) is locked down.

  • On the post: Another 'Exception'? Jonathan Coulton Making Half A Million A Year With No Record Label

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 17 May, 2011 @ 10:55am

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    "Want you Gone" has nothing on "Still Alive." I had "Still Alive" on my mp3 player for months! Still gives me goosebumps thinking about the song :D

  • On the post: Julian Assange Doesn't Do Irony Well: Threatens His Own Internal Leakers With $20 Million Penalty

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 13 May, 2011 @ 05:51am

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    Last paragraph should start "Section 8 talks..."

  • On the post: Julian Assange Doesn't Do Irony Well: Threatens His Own Internal Leakers With $20 Million Penalty

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 13 May, 2011 @ 05:50am

    I don't understand all the legalese, but section 5 states (paraphrased) that the value of the loss from a breach is $20m (12m pounds). Does this directly translate to a penalty?

    Or does it just mean that's what the cost to Wikileaks would potentially be?

    Section talks of injunction and any other order a court my impose.. would they then be given an order to repay by the court?

  • On the post: Help Fund Nina Paley's Minibooks About Intellectual Pooperty

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 12 May, 2011 @ 07:50am

    I pledged but was a bit disappointed to see it tied to Amazon. Is kickstarter tied to amazon for payments or just Nina? I've never used Kickstarter before so I am genuinely curious.

  • On the post: Off The Deep End: People Claiming That Supporting Creative Commons Is Being Anti-Creator

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 11 May, 2011 @ 11:34am

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    Welcome to the free market!

    Its called competition! People are using CC licensed photos because THEY CAN!

    If the pros don't know how to deal with competition, maybe they should get another line of work (as noted in comments here)

  • On the post: Off The Deep End: People Claiming That Supporting Creative Commons Is Being Anti-Creator

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 11 May, 2011 @ 11:32am

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    This is the extent of it: (When I read TFA I had to know if she had more to say than "I know because I heard")

    http://twitter.com/#!/LeslieBAP/status/67724692605243392

    Really? You mean all of the advances of digital technology being applied to photography, putting professional looking output into the hands of budding photographers the world over, therefor increasing competition had nothing to do with it? The only thing these photographer friends of hers can do is point to CC, as if thats the magic bullet that will bring the money back?

    What a fucking crock of shit.

    About 8-10 years ago I did a few weddings for about $300 when the couples were typically quoted $1500-2000. Sure, I didn't have much experience, thats why I only charged them $300. But they got high quality images, on CDROM, that they could do whatever they pleased with. I didn't insist on any copyrights being maintained, etc. I guess what I'm saying is, going digital allows just about anyone who is proficient to shoot events, photojournalism, art and nature photography, all without the cost of developing, film, etc. People learn a lot faster when the results are right there in front of them, and nothing is going to turn that back around. Go ahead, you daft cunt, push for the abolition of CC. If it ever comes to pass, photographers are not magically going to stop "going out of business." They will have just as much competition to deal with due to other forces at work.

  • On the post: Oddest Copyright Lawsuit Ever: Oprah Sued For… Um… You Have To Read It Yourself

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 05 May, 2011 @ 11:10am

    There's also this, filed in 2009, but I can't read it, except that it was eventually dismissed in 2010

    http://www.rfcexpress.com/lawsuits/copyright-lawsuits/massachusetts-district-court/52957/tiffany-gouch-v-the-recording-industry-association-of-america/summary/

    So she sued the RIAA (from Massachusetts), again Pro Se like this case.

    She states in this filing she moved to California in 2007. She doesn't mention going back to MA that I remember.

  • On the post: Google Street View Is Invasion Of Privacy… But The BBC Showing Everyone At The Royal Wedding?

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 04 May, 2011 @ 11:34am

    Out in public? Shouldn't the fact that you are "In Public" unequivocally mean that you are not "In private" and there is *absolutely* NO expectation, under any circumstances, that you will be granted some sort of privacy? How do you reconcile the fact that you are IN PUBLIC with some deranged expectation of being IN PRIVATE.

    Logic might help, but probably won't.

    Public =/= Private
    Private =/= Public (listed twice for those that might be confused)
    Being in Public == No privacy (expected, given, or assumed)
    Being in private == Privacy (should be expected, given, and assumed)

    This assume the knowledge that public is any location past your front door, past the "private road" you live or work on, or anything outdoors not surrounded by a fence.

    I'm sure if I've forgotten something, someone will correct me, but hopefully the idea is strong enough to come across.

  • On the post: Not Every Theater Owner Fears Competing With Your Home Theater System

    Jeremy7600 ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2011 @ 02:17pm

    Re: Re: Re: Hypocrisy

    And apparently Jenni below was enlightened by the knowledge of the warren in wichita. Again, on topic.

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