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• On the post: Recording Industry Whines That It's Too Costly To Keep Copyright Terms At Life Plus 50, Instead Of Life Plus 70

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2016 @ 09:28am

  Re: Too confusing you say?

  So much this!
  
  The lack of mandatory registration makes the copyright system unworkable and unfair regardless of the specific copyright term lengths.
  
  In my opinion, that was why they pushed so hard to remove the mandatory registration that we used to have.

• On the post: Woman Sues After Police Destroy Her Home During 10-Hour Standoff With The Family Dog

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2016 @ 09:17am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I'm not sure what I played into, but perhaps it just goes to prove that it really is a dog eat dog world. :)

• On the post: Woman Sues After Police Destroy Her Home During 10-Hour Standoff With The Family Dog

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2016 @ 02:46pm

  It's proven once more

  Do not give the police your permission for anything, ever.

• On the post: Federal Election Commission To Crack Down On 'Deez Nuts' As Presidential Candidate

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2016 @ 07:10am

  Re: Re: Unintended consequences

  I meant literally, not "in spirit". Mr. Sirius ran in 2000, and I keep hoping that he'll run again.

• On the post: Australian Law Enforcement Hacked US Users' Computers During Child Porn Investigation

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2016 @ 07:05am

  Re: Re: Re: No hacking, just good police work

  "No, hacking implies that the system was not in your control, and was taken over nefariously or by other non legal means"
  
  Yes, I am perfectly aware that this is what many people think "hacking" means now. I'm simply unwilling to stop fighting the battle against this corruption of the term. At least until we have a new term that can replace the traditional meaning of "hacking".
  
  Here's an excellent essay about the tradition meaning of the word: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html

• On the post: Woman Sues After Police Destroy Her Home During 10-Hour Standoff With The Family Dog

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2016 @ 06:55am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  You're trying to inject logic into a well-established idiom like "dog eat dog". The idiom may not make literal sense (few idioms do), but that's what it is nonetheless.
  
  The history of this idiom is particularly interesting and explains your observation of its biological inaccuracy:
  
  

  Canis caninam non est is an old Latin proverb that translates to dog will not eat dog. The modern version, seen first in the 1930’s, is a play on the old one, suggesting that society had turned so vicious, that dog is now capable of eating dog.

  
  
  http://barkpost.com/origins-strange-dog-expressions/

• On the post: Uber Wasting No Time: Launching Test Of Self-Driving Cars

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2016 @ 07:43pm

  Re: Re: Re: I like to drive

  Why are you assuming that manual control will be impossible?

• On the post: Australian Law Enforcement Hacked US Users' Computers During Child Porn Investigation

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2016 @ 07:40pm

  Re: No hacking, just good police work

  That is "hacking" by all traditional definitions. I think what you meant to say was that no malware was used or access controls bypassed.

• On the post: With Republicans Backing Away From TPP, Does It Still Have Any Chance?

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2016 @ 05:20pm

  Re:

  My problem with the TPP is not the free trade part (which the TPP does little to address, in my opinion). It's the corporate sovereignty part that makes it completely unacceptable to me.

• On the post: Twitter Suspends Hundreds Of Thousands Of Terrorist Accounts, Gives Everyone Its 'Quality Filter'

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2016 @ 05:16pm

  Re: Seriously Mike?

  "Twitter et al. should let ISIS, Al Qaeda, and other groups roam freely everywhere they see fit, leverage the power to broadcast their message, potentially to millions of people, all around the world, with each tweet, with each video, with each Facebook post,"
  
  Twitter, as well as all the other private platforms, can do what it likes.
  
  However, I am very opposed the idea that censoring propaganda, etc., is a good and desirable thing. It's the direct opposite of that.
  
  If Twitter (or whoever) is shutting down accounts because they're abusive, consist of violent threats, etc., then I congratulate them.
  
  If, however, they are shutting down accounts that don't do these things but are instead run by "terrorists" or are used for recruitment, propaganda, or any other protected speech, then I condemn them.

• On the post: Twitter Suspends Hundreds Of Thousands Of Terrorist Accounts, Gives Everyone Its 'Quality Filter'

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2016 @ 05:10pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Yep, pretty much entirely this.

• On the post: Why The NSA's Vulnerability Equities Process Is A Joke (And Why It's Unlikely To Ever Get Better)

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2016 @ 10:11pm

  Two years?

  [F]rom an operational standpoint, it takes about two years to fully utilize and integrate a discovered vulnerability.

  
  
  Wait a minute. The two years the authors are talking about is not the time to develop a new attack, it's the time it takes from once they have code in hand that performs the attack.
  
  Two years? That seems like an incredibly long time. I've never worked for or with a company that would consider that acceptable.
  
  I'm actually disappointed.

• On the post: Federal Election Commission To Crack Down On 'Deez Nuts' As Presidential Candidate

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2016 @ 10:01pm

  Unintended consequences

  I hope this doesn't make it even less likely that we can talk R.U. Sirius into making another presidential run.

• On the post: Hold On… We May Actually Be In For A THIRD Oracle/Google API Copyright Trial

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2016 @ 05:05pm

  The Neverending Story

  As long as Oracle still has money to pay lawyers, they will never stop.

• On the post: With Republicans Backing Away From TPP, Does It Still Have Any Chance?

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2016 @ 09:05am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Gun Control by Treaty

  What was misleading? Everything Craig Welch said was accurate and relevant.
  
  Yes, the treaty was secret while being hammered out, and that's bad. But that's also the past and is only of academic interest.
  
  Now, we can all read the thing -- and I can't find anything in it that is even remotely like "backdoor gun control". Can you?

• On the post: Remember Claims That Cord Cutting Was On The Ropes? It's Actually Worse Than Ever

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2016 @ 08:12am

  Re: Cord Cut Prospects

  "So do I need cable? Not really. It's just convenient for DVR functions."
  
  Why not just buy a DVR?

• On the post: PayPal Stops A Payment Just Because The Payee's Memo Included The Word 'Cuba'

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2016 @ 08:09am

  Re:

  I'm certain not against Bitcoin at all, but PayPal does have at least one advantage over it: if something goes wrong, you can theoretically sue PayPal.

• On the post: PayPal Stops A Payment Just Because The Payee's Memo Included The Word 'Cuba'

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2016 @ 08:06am

  Re: Re:

  It would be more likely that iRobot would sue, since "Scooba" is what they call their floor-mopping robots.

• On the post: Uber Wasting No Time: Launching Test Of Self-Driving Cars

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2016 @ 08:02am

  Re: I like to drive

  I like to drive, too.
  
  I just have problems with the expense of owning and maintaining a machine that I don't use most of the day.

• On the post: News Sites Realizing That Relying On Facebook For Traffic Might Not Have Been Wise

  

  John Fenderson ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2016 @ 02:55pm

  Re: Re:

  No.

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