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• On the post: Theater Chains Pout, Boycott Netflix's New Movie To Protect Antiquated Release Windows

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2015 @ 03:27pm

  Re:

  Seems like that might be the plan for all their exclusive movies going forward.

• On the post: Theater Chains Pout, Boycott Netflix's New Movie To Protect Antiquated Release Windows

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2015 @ 03:35pm

  Option A: Get some of the revenue from a simultaneous release of these movies.
  
  Option B: Throw a fit and get nothing.
  
  How does option B make any kind of valid business sense?
  
  For people who want to see movies in a theater, I highly doubt the availability of a movie for streaming (or on DVD for that matter) is going to stop them from going to the theater.

• On the post: Oh, It's On: FCC Boss Formally Throws Support Behind Title II Net Neutrality Rules

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2015 @ 01:56pm

  /tinfoil hat on
  
  What concerns me about all this is the timing. Obama's had 6 years to do something but waits until near the end to do anything, and all the FCC commissioners were appointed by Obama.
  
  Hmmmm....is someone pushing for a lucrative post government career in the telecommunications industry?
  
  /tinfoil hat off

• On the post: Convicted 'Eco-Terrorist' Released From Prison After Discovery Of 'Thousands Of Pages' Evidence Withheld By The FBI

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2015 @ 03:25pm

  What really worries me about this crap is...What happens when these supposed terrorists finally get out of prison? Their mild dislike of the government will have most likely have turned into a burning hatred--and they're gonna start looking for an outlet.
  
  The US government is turning into the best terrorist recruitment program ever.

• On the post: Help Create Some Neil deGrasse Tysonisms: Tautologically Meaningless Solutions To All The World's Problems

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2015 @ 01:44pm

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  As an astrophysicist, he shouldn't be commenting about fields he knows little or nothing about. With 30 years experience in computers and networking, I'm barely qualified to even enter into high-level technical discussions on network security. I would not comment professionally about any astrophysical discussions, and he shouldn't comment about network security.

• On the post: Officer Put On Leave For Tweeting To Bait Public Into Violence

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2014 @ 04:29am

  Re: Balance on a slippery slope....

  There are no first amendment protections for threats. And if he wasn't police officer he would have been arrested for making threats like that, where's the balance there?

• On the post: IP Is No Excuse: Even If Someone Is Using Fake Chips, It's Not Okay To Kill Their Devices

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2014 @ 01:51pm

  Re: Ignoring the important point

  No. Because the device is not really "bricked". All the driver update does is change the Hardware PID that identifies what it is. The device still works, the drivers just no longer identify it as valid for that driver. Most if not all other consumer hardware does not have changeable PIDs.

• On the post: IP Is No Excuse: Even If Someone Is Using Fake Chips, It's Not Okay To Kill Their Devices

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2014 @ 01:17pm

  Re: Re: Re: Yet another reason

  They do check. They don't have the personnel and resources to test every possible hardware configuration. And how would they test the fakes?
  
  Add in the fact that the newer drivers for the real chip were already breaking the fake ones without changing the hardware PID of the fakes. All that changing the Hardware PID of the fake chip does is let the FTDI's support staff see that the non functional chip is a fake.
  
  Does it suck? Yes. Could FTDI have done something else to identify the fakes? Maybe. But these chips are buggy as hell even when they were semi-functional with FTDI's drivers (they were not a counterfeit with the exact design of the original, but a cheap hack pretending to be something that it is not). This will hopefully stop shoddy manufacturers from using the fake chips just to shave a couple of cents off of manufacturing costs.

• On the post: IP Is No Excuse: Even If Someone Is Using Fake Chips, It's Not Okay To Kill Their Devices

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2014 @ 10:45am

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  God I hope they're not. The fakes are horribly buggy and would be dangerous to use in any life critical device.

• On the post: IP Is No Excuse: Even If Someone Is Using Fake Chips, It's Not Okay To Kill Their Devices

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2014 @ 10:29am

  Re: Yet another reason

  It's not Microsoft's fault. They are merely offering the drivers that were provided by the device manufacturer on the Windows Update service (they do this for all manufacturers). This is a service that makes Windows much easier to configure than Linux (try finding some non standard driver in Linux). Microsoft can't possibly test every possible piece of legitimate hardware--let alone the counterfeits. So how can they be at fault?

• On the post: 'Scorpion' Walter O'Brien Finally Tries To Respond To Inconsistencies In His Many Claims

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2014 @ 04:41pm

  Re: Why does this guy bug you so much?

  Because this dumb guy is getting a lot of press saying he's something he's not. Some other idiot (in the government or the military or some corporation) will listen to this idiot and fuck something royally up. This isn't some fool bragging about how he's a Navy Seal on some unknown forum. He's trying to get people to give him money by claiming to be something he's not, and able to do things that he can't.
  
  Hopefully by writing about his lies it will filter up to the "mainstream media" that keep letting him spout his nonsense without fact checking.
  
  Would you let a person claiming to be a top medical expert keep spouting bull-crap if you knew he's never been to a doctor's office let alone med school?

• On the post: Study Indicates College Textbook Piracy Is On The Rise, But Fails To Call Out Publishers For Skyrocketing Prices

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2014 @ 12:20pm

  Re: Hmmmm...

  For the same reason they didn't mention that 3 of the 4 books they downloaded were public domain--they can now make the statement: "Oh noes, pirates is stealin' ur textbooks!!!!!111".

• On the post: David Letterman Mocks The Eagles Over Refusal To License Their Music

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2014 @ 12:18pm

  Re: Reminds me of an author I had a run-in with

  Now I'm curious. Need to know who's books not to buy in the future.

• On the post: The Battle For The Internet's Next Round: Internet Slowdown Day

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2014 @ 05:25am

  If This is Such a Waste of Your Time

  Why did you waste even more responding to it? Just ignore it and move on.

• On the post: Magical 'Cancer Cure' Wins EFF's Stupid Patent Of The Month

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2014 @ 12:58pm

  I want to know how it "rebukes" cancer--does it speak sharply to it and give it a time out?

• On the post: Justice Dept. Official: We Could Get Lois Lerner's Emails From Backups, But It's Too Hard So Naaaaaah

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2014 @ 08:35am

  Re: Re: Oh, the stories I could tell you about backups

  Fire the IT department

  Or, you know, maybe give them the budget and man-hours that they need to do the job right (which is the most likely culprit when you have IT issues like this).

• On the post: Student's Story About Shooting A Pet Dinosaur With A Gun Ends In Suspension, Arrest

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2014 @ 10:44am

  I wonder how log it will be before one of these overreactions causes the very thing they are allegedly trying to prevent?

• On the post: Photographer Still Insisting He Holds Copyright On Photo By A Monkey, Hints At Possibly Suing Wikimedia

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2014 @ 03:14pm

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  #1) This is a grey area. I don't think there's really been any cases of who owns the copyright on a work made by a non-person.
  
  #2) In all these cases, the copyright would belong to the one who started the camera (or the one who directed it to be started in a work for hire situation).
  
  No, taking a photo of something is not stealing from the public domain. Anyone else can still go out to take and publish all the monkey pictures they want. The copyright only exists for that particular photo and all its derivative works.

• On the post: Photographer Still Insisting He Holds Copyright On Photo By A Monkey, Hints At Possibly Suing Wikimedia

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2014 @ 02:18pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Yes,the creativity is intrinsic to the fixed expression. But that has nothing to do with the copyright--which applies from the moment that the work is fixed (pressing the shutter button--no creativity there). The creativity comes before the work is fixed. With a photo, lighting, setting, framing and camera settings--those are not copyrightable (but I guess you can get a patent for them now) and can be used by another to take a functionally identical picture with a separate copyright. The copyright is not on the creativity--but on the fixed expression (the actual photo taken).

• On the post: Photographer Still Insisting He Holds Copyright On Photo By A Monkey, Hints At Possibly Suing Wikimedia

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2014 @ 01:46pm

  Re: Other kinds of shutters?

  The copyright goes to the person that set up the camera, or the one that paid for it to be done (work for hire). They set up the camera to take the picture (pushed the shutter button), no matter how delayed.

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