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  • On the post: Federal Court Says Utah Theater Can Serve Up Beer And R-Rated Movies Simultaneously

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2017 @ 02:17am

    Re: AC Stupidity

    Another set of Conservative Lawmakers who wish this was a Theocracy instead of a Democracy. Forcing your religious beliefs on others is Unconstitutional.

    Not to mention it's pretty much exactly what ISIS wants to do, have a country run by religious law. So what you're really saying is that you're all for a CSIUSA, where if you violate church doctrine, you can go to jail or be fined.

  • On the post: Impostor Sending Out DMCA Notices In Chaturbate's Name Now Targeting BestNetTech URLs

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2017 @ 11:22am

    Re: Re: Perjury

    Not sure this counts as perjury. It does violate the DMCA, but perjury is the specific crime of lying under oath to a court of law. Submitting a false DMCA claim has it's own penalty because it doesn't fall under perjury.

  • On the post: Artist Sues Church For Moving His 9/11 Memorial Sculpture

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2017 @ 12:25pm

    Re: Contract Violation

    Yeah, if the idea was this was to be permanent, then the contract should state somewhere in it that the statue cannot be removed or else all rights revert to the artist.

    If it does say that, then the church is on the hook for the damage, and cost of the artist retrieving it from where it currently is.

    If the contract doesn't state that, then the artist shouldn't really have a leg to stand on.

  • On the post: New 'Perceptual' Ad Blocking Tech Doesn't Win The Ad Blocking War, But It May Put Advertisers On Their Heels… Permanently

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2017 @ 01:07pm

    Mis-read Title

    Am I the only one who mis-read the title originally as 'Perpetual ad-blocker' rather than 'Perceptual'? :)

  • On the post: DOJ Memo Shows NSA And White House Lawyers Mainly Unconcerned About Evidence Obligations In Criminal Trials

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2017 @ 02:20pm

    Damage from Leaks

    Remind me again how leaks damage the government's ability to pursue investigations and prosecutions?

    Isn't it obvious? They have to expend additional resources and time to hide the illegal activity now. If the leaks hadn't occurred, they would not have to expend those resources and time to hide the activity, leaving them with more resources available for illegal activity.

  • On the post: Former CIA Director Blame Millennials Lack Of Loyalty For All The Government Leaks

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2017 @ 09:58am

    We wouldn't have all these problems if it weren't for...

    ...those meddling kids and their darn dog!

    If not for them, we would have gotten away with it!

  • On the post: General Franco Is Still Dead And Michelle Lee Is Still Director Of The US Patent Office

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2017 @ 01:34pm

    Not unusual

    Trump's Whitehouse gave orders that nobody was supposed to communicate without them signing off on the content. This was, I suspect, primarily directed toward the EPA over climate change, but unless I'm mistaken the presidential order was to all executive branch offices, which meant PTO had it's hands tied, it couldn't update it's website or respond to questions without approval.

    And I suspect the PTO was a very low priority for the WH, so thus it took them over a month to 'OK' telling the truth to everyone. *shrug*

  • On the post: Move Over, Series Of Tubes, The Internet Is Now A Bridge Over A Creek For A Dozen People?

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2017 @ 08:19am

    I think you need a new department...

    ...called Senators-say-the-stupidest-things.

  • On the post: Supreme Court Won't Hear Case, But Justice Thomas Questions Constitutionality Of Asset Forfeiture

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2017 @ 11:02am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A call out

    No, the SCOTUS can do a lot, but violate the law isn't one of them. They have to follow the process, because if they don't, then the courts under them can ignore it as well.

    If you want to know what that is like, look no further than the CAFC and how screwed up Patents are now thanks to them ignoring SCOTUS precedent for 20 years.

  • On the post: Supreme Court Won't Hear Case, But Justice Thomas Questions Constitutionality Of Asset Forfeiture

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2017 @ 10:36am

    Re: Re: Re: A call out

    Try reading the article. Constitutionality was not raised at the lower court, only at the appeal, and therefore was barred. So the SCOTUS could not rule on the constitutionality, which is why this seems like a 'please raise this in future' request.

  • On the post: Supreme Court Won't Hear Case, But Justice Thomas Questions Constitutionality Of Asset Forfeiture

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2017 @ 09:52am

    A call out

    I'm not an expert on the SCOTUS, however, from what I do know, it's unusual for a Justice to comment like this unless it's something that the SCOTUS (more than just one Justice) is concerned about. It's also usually a 'please bring this up in the future so we can rule on it' request.

  • On the post: Dunks And Drunks: Jagermeister Blocks Milwaukee Bucks Logo Trademark Application

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2016 @ 06:05pm

    Benefit of the Doubt

    Honestly, if I were Jaegermeister, I'd probably file the paperwork as well. As much of a pain as it is, we've had too many stories lately of judges making idiotic rulings to ignore it. Remember, this is a German company, and Germany just made the Internet Illegal in a recent ruling on linking. (And don't get me started on the idiocy of API's having copyright that is the CAFC.) Given things like that, you can't really blame them for erring on the side of assumption of judicial stupidity.

  • On the post: Ridiculous German Court Ruling Means Linking Online Is Now A Liability

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2016 @ 11:17am

    Internet to shortly become unusable in the EU

    Any website hosted in the EU will have to remove all links, to avoid this, and put up a disclaimer on why. Any international company with business offices in the EU will have to institute a special check on their websites, and remove all hyperlinks if the destination is an IP address in the EU.

    Also, if I were an EU based ISP, I'd start looking into stripping out hyperlinks, as the next obvious Dallas target is the ISP's for sites outside the EU, after all, the ISP is delivering the content.

    Once it hits a critical mass, the Internet will become unusable in the EU, and enough citizens (and more importantly to politicians, moneyed companies) will be ticked off that this will get fixed. But only when the economic impact hits home and everyone moves their websites and offices outside the EU, lowering the economy further first. Much as Spain's Google Taxes got trashed quickly.

  • On the post: Rutgers Lecturer Forcibly Sent For Psych Evaluation By NYPD For Some Tweets About The Election

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2016 @ 11:27am

    Original tweet was : https://web.archive.org/web/20161116144036/https:/twitter.com/KevinAllred/status/796598422119673856

    That's a bit different than how he later paraphrased it. It's still protected speech, but it's a lot more dicey than he's playing now. Either way though, without something more to go on, the cops had no probable cause just based on tweets. They would have had to have some witnesses saying he said something else in person from the campus. Would not surprise me if they did though. I'm amazed at how 'eye witnesses' hear and see what they want, not what was actually said or done.

    The most likely chain of events is he said something inflamatory, someone else heard what they thought was a threat, repeated it in more dramatic (and dangerous) words to the cops, the cops then decided that they didn't like his tone in tweets and went with it, despite the eye witness likely having mis-remembered what was said (I have two uncles who were cops, they said the only thing more unreliable than an eye witness was a con man).

  • On the post: Colorado Voters Continue To Shoot Down Awful Comcast-Written Protectionist State Law

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2016 @ 03:39pm

    Statewide Referendum

    I wonder if it might be worth it, in states that have constitutions that allow it, to start trying to get referendums on the elections to vote to repeal these lobby written laws?

  • On the post: Prosecutors Changing Charges Against Reporter To 'Rioting' Because Her Coverage Was Sympathetic To Protestors

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2016 @ 06:40am

    Re: Voice support for anyone but those in charge? Oh you better believe that's a crime.

    Hey, it's refreshing to see some honesty for a change.

    And on the bright side, the civil lawsuit against them will be a breeze to win.

  • On the post: Theater Association Boss Reminds Theater Owners, Netflix To Stay In Their Own Lanes

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2016 @ 06:54am

    Re: Taking my Ball and Going Home

    The same logic that a 5yo has when he takes his ball and goes home to sulk. Nobody is playing ball unless they play ball the way he wants to play ball.

    NATO feels that if people don't want to watch movies the way they want them to, then nobody should watch movies at all. And people will be really sad when they are gone! They'll appreciate them then!

  • On the post: Theater Association Boss Reminds Theater Owners, Netflix To Stay In Their Own Lanes

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2016 @ 06:39am

    Creating an experience to leave the house for...

    ...is something the big chain theatres don't understand.

    They refuse to kick paying customers out for misbehaving. Phones out texting, talking, disrupting the movie, no problem. The only time they kick anyone out is if they take bad video of the movie on their phone.

    There's a local chain in Texas called Alamo Drafthouse (Google it). They offer very comfortable seats, food and drink, alcahol, showings with no kids allowed so adults can enjoy the movie (showings with kids allowed for families), and will absolutely throw people out if they talk or text during the movie (and no refunds!).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs Actual commercial by Alamo playing a voice message left by someone they kicked out of the theatre. Warning : Crude language and cursing.

  • On the post: Lenovo Accused Of Locking Linux Out Of Certain Laptops At Microsoft's Request

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2016 @ 10:27am

    Ha... ha... haha... hahahahahaha

    At the very least, it does seem like Lenovo has some questions to answer -- and one hopes that the company will be more forthright and honest than it was back during the Superfish episode when it basically lied through its teeth until it couldn't lie any more.


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    Oh wow, I love the humor here on BestNetTech... god I needed that laugh...

  • On the post: University Of Texas Bullies Pastry Shop Over Donuts Shaped Like 'Hook 'Em Horns' Hands

    Matthew Thompson ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2016 @ 01:28pm

    Re: Re: Not so cut and dried

    It is a case of trademark dilution. The college works with a lot of local businesses to license official school endorsed things, including t-shirts, artwork, and even food. The owner took the school emblems and other registered trademarks and used them.

    I have no issue with her selling donuts, even hook'em horn shaped donuts, but you don't get to ride on the coat-tails by putting up school logos over them and pretending like you're officially associated with the school.

    Can't we have some balance? We all get angry when Big Business acts in an unreasonable manner, and rightly so. We should also get angry when Small Business acts unreasonably too.

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