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• On the post: If Your Business Model Requires An Overly Restrictive Contracts… You Have No Real Business Model

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2009 @ 12:33pm

  Re: Re: Re: its in the machine!

  >OpenOffice sucks compared to MS Office.
  
  It sucks to pay Microsoft for anything.

• On the post: Hollywood Can't Handle Anyone Connecting With Fans… So It Contractually Tries To Stop Them

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2009 @ 12:30pm

  Re:

  Thank you mister Valenti.

• On the post: Network World Highlights BSA's Dirty Extortion Tricks

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2009 @ 03:31pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Why are the Boy Scouts of America doing this?

  If your reader needs to google an acronym in a piece written as news/persuasion it is ineffectual writing. You don't want to lose your audience because you failed to define terms. They may not ever come back to the piece.

• On the post: Missouri Continues Arresting Cyberbullies: Don't Be An Online Jerk In Missouri

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2009 @ 12:26pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  I think that if it something like a traffic ticket OK.
  
  Fine them and let the civil courts sort out a slander lawsuit supported by the state's fining the culprit.
  
  Lori Drew is getting all the punidhment the state can do. The trials and publicity are her punishment.

• On the post: Why Ralph Lauren Photoshopped That Model So Skinny… It Thought She Was Fat… At 120 lbs

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2009 @ 12:20pm

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  It could be that they don't want models that are normal showing the clothes as opposed to normal people buying those clothes.
  
  I look for something that looks decent on somebody like Drew Carey.

• On the post: Network World Highlights BSA's Dirty Extortion Tricks

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2009 @ 10:01am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Why are the Boy Scouts of America doing this?

  The Boy Scouts are selling Popcorn as they have done for years. I never realized they regularly sold popcorn until last year.

• On the post: Beginning Ruby Author: Publisher Wouldn't Let Me Give eBook For Free… So Pirate My Book (Sorta)

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2009 @ 09:54am

  Re: copyright on index?

  I guess that the indexing was done by the publisher so it was their work and they could copyright that. Seems trivial to redo on a digital copy of the text.

• On the post: Network World Highlights BSA's Dirty Extortion Tricks

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2009 @ 07:26am

  Re: Re: Why are the Boy Scouts of America doing this?

  >Apparently we've found the person who was wondering why the World Wildlife Fund was involved in
  >wrestling before the WWE name was forced...
  
  Nah, I was going for the best joke.
  
  The list of Organizations that BSA stands for numbers about 20 according to answers.com. The British Science Association or the Broadcast Standards Association or the Bosnian Serb Army.... Just are not as absurd as the boy scouts but they do have their litigious side that makes things this side of plausible.
  
  Besides I thought the wrong WWF got to keep the name. Panda wrestling is coming soon.

• On the post: Network World Highlights BSA's Dirty Extortion Tricks

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2009 @ 06:39am

  Why are the Boy Scouts of America doing this?

  Please define your initials at least once. BSA could stand for lots of things beyond the Business Software Alliance.

• On the post: Fake Car Noises Being Added To Many New Cars… May Be Required Soon

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2009 @ 12:51pm

  Re: Re: Re: Pedestrian safety enhancement act

  Part of the method for a blind person to cross a street is to listen for traffic.
  
  As we all know there are lots of idiots driving out there so it isn't unreasonable for a little noise to be added to a car. Some people in the country add Deer whistles to scare of deer.

• On the post: Fake Car Noises Being Added To Many New Cars… May Be Required Soon

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2009 @ 12:42pm

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  Yep at least twice. I've demanded my Star Wars episode 1 podracer sound both times.

• On the post: The AP and News Corp DEMAND To Be Paid For Their Content

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2009 @ 09:20am

  This just makes it easier to boycott NewscrAP

  This just makes it easier to boycott the output of FOX News- not actual news but an adulterated reporting product.
  
  So does this mean google is kicking back some ad revenue or that google is too damn big to ignore?

• On the post: UK Royal Mail Uses Copyright Claim To Shut Down Postal Code Info Online

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2009 @ 05:55am

  Re: Re: Re: This is sadly enforcable.

  If the royal post does not offer an user friendly way to find this data then don't include postal codes. I'd be willing to wager they waste more money looking up the codes than they ever get from the licenses.

• On the post: Edwyn Collins Can't Give Away His Music Thanks To MySpace, Warner Music

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2009 @ 12:10pm

  Re: Re: Ouch For the Record Companies

  Quick lets all go buy a copy to increase the chance of bankrupting the bastards.

• On the post: WSJ Defies NFL's Restriction On Live Blogging

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2009 @ 05:00pm

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  It;s what you call the Super Bowl when you don't want to pay the NFL for the right to say superbowl.

• On the post: See, The Palm Pre Can Be Offered For Free

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2009 @ 06:29am

  Re:

  >Similar to all the promotional offers for Windows 7, in a >way. They're currently offering it to students for peanuts >to pull them away from macs and back into Vista-world.
  
  Hmm a cheap copy of 7 to run under bootcamp or virtually on my Mac. No problem there. Opens the PC world to Mac users without really having to change anything. I've got an .edu email address or two that qualifiy.

• On the post: Kindle Flunking Out Of Princeton?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2009 @ 01:49pm

  Re:

  >Where or what is Princeton? Is it a place where
  >you have to study hard just to barely pass?
  
  Princeton NJ. An Ivy league school without hype of a Yale or Harvard.

• On the post: Kindle Flunking Out Of Princeton?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2009 @ 05:41am

  Re: Re:

  I think the real use of a kindle is to lessen the big honking pile of books that one would need to cart around. My college backpack topped out at 50# when I was taking the Freshmen courses in Physics, Chemistry, Calculus and a literature course.
  
  I don't think Amazon would ever take away anything that was paid for again after the 1984 fiasco. The bigger danger there are the books that people would take on as a rental for the term. Pay less and lose access after a set period.

• On the post: Google, Rocky Mountain Bank Ask Judge To Restore Deactivated Gmail Account

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2009 @ 06:15am

  Re: Re: Bolted. Gate. Horse.

  Yep once that genii is out of the bottle you can't stuff it back in.
  
  The bank needs to assume that the file has escaped and is in the wrong hands regardless of what they think they know. If the file has escaped they are doing what they need to do and if the file hasn't escaped they have taken prudent action where they can't be 100% certain.

• On the post: Nissan To Add Futuristic Sound Effects To Its Electric Car To Keep It From Hitting Unaware Pedestrians

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2009 @ 02:48pm

  Re: Re:

  >Huh? So Brits have a stupid sign up and it is America's >fault? It must be tough to carry such a chip on your >shoulder.
  
  No, the Brits have the sign so that they don't have to treat American's run over by Brits in the National health system. Keeping expenses down with preventative signage. Besides slightly flattened visitors are bad for tourism.

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