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• On the post: The War On Sharing As An Infographic Of Europe

  

  scarr ( profile ), 23 May, 2011 @ 04:31pm

  Ashley mustn't know Godwin's Law.

• On the post: Universal Music: We Need PROTECT IP Because Musicians Are Dying!

  

  scarr ( profile ), 23 May, 2011 @ 10:12am

  Compose the closing

  Can I change "Sincerely" to "Ha ha, just kidding"?

• On the post: Forget The Streisand Effect, I Think We've Seen The Dawning Of The Giggs Effect

  

  scarr ( profile ), 23 May, 2011 @ 09:13am

  The goofier part is that you didn't know who he was until this came up. Now you barely know who he is, and that he's unfaithful.
  
  It reminds me of the woman who sued the shopping mall after a grainy security video of an unidentifiable person falling into a fountain wound up online. Nobody possibly would've known who she was until she filed a lawsuit.

• On the post: How To Lie With Statistics: France Pretends HADOPI Law Is Working

  

  scarr ( profile ), 16 May, 2011 @ 03:55pm

  Additional big file sharer problem

  An additional problem with the "everyone knows the one guy" example is that *everyone in the town* could be file sharing. If just the one well known guy says he'll stop, then the results are still 100% "effective", despite 99% of the population continuing to share.

• On the post: Texas Legislature Looks To Make TSA Groping Procedures Illegal

  

  scarr ( profile ), 03 May, 2011 @ 09:38am

  Re: Re: Hmmm

  With two or three (if can I still count Continental) major airlines HQ'd here in the state, not to mention all the tech and energy companies, such a move would cripple the US economy. It wouldn't happen.

• On the post: Kevin Smith's Red State Movie Nearing Profitability… Even Prior To Regular Theatrical Release

  

  scarr ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2011 @ 04:32pm

  Re: Re: Financial model questions

  I'm late in seeing this, so you might not see my response, but at the top of the podcasts where Kevin talked about this tour, he specifically said he realized the entry cost to these Q&A+movie sessions was expensive for some in this economy.
  
  He openly invited those who couldn't pay the added cost to see the movie in theatres this fall, or wait until it comes out on BitTorrent a little later and grab it for free.

• On the post: Brazilian Police To Use Facial Recognition Glasses To Spot Criminals… But Does It Even Work?

  

  scarr ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2011 @ 11:24pm

  Anecdotal evidence

  If iPhoto is any indicator, it has access to high-res images, and lots of processing power to look at them, without a real-time requirement
  
  ...and it identified the side of a building as one of my friends.

• On the post: Feds Tell Supreme Court They Should Be Able To Stick A GPS Device On Your Car Without A Warrant

  

  scarr ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2011 @ 09:57am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Help me understand this better

  In that case, I'm convinced. Machines should be held to the same rules/standards as biological police.

• On the post: Feds Tell Supreme Court They Should Be Able To Stick A GPS Device On Your Car Without A Warrant

  

  scarr ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2011 @ 09:40am

  Re:

  As I mentioned in another response, I don't see how automating duties to reduce costs is a bad thing. You make a fair point about it getting to a point where it could be blanketed everywhere, but I don't know if that makes it illegal. If you could afford the manpower to do someone, and it's legal, then I don't see why replacing the human with technology inherently becomes illegal.
  
  Am I missing something? I totally understand the matter of taste ("should we do/allow this?"), but from a pure legal standpoint, I don't see where it could be knocked down yet.

• On the post: Feds Tell Supreme Court They Should Be Able To Stick A GPS Device On Your Car Without A Warrant

  

  scarr ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2011 @ 09:32am

  Re: Re: Help me understand this better

  Thanks for responding, but I'm still not convinced. On your two points:
  
  1) Do they need a warrant to track you in person? If so, excellent point, and I agree. If not, then there is precedent for not needing a warrant to track someone.
  
  2) Needing a person to "work" instead of having a machine do it seems like a weak argument. No doubt the gov't is lazy, but I support automation of all sorts of other processes. Why should this be excluded?

• On the post: Feds Tell Supreme Court They Should Be Able To Stick A GPS Device On Your Car Without A Warrant

  

  scarr ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2011 @ 09:05am

  Help me understand this better

  I'm conflicted on this issue. Part of me agrees that it should require a warrant, because it feels like an invasion of privacy. Another part of me recognizes that a GPS isn't much different than a robot cop, who could be assigned to follow you 24/7.
  
  Mike's counter to the latter view is that if you know you're being followed, you might act different, and therefore it's ok when it's people following you. That presupposes that you notice that you're being followed and/or the people following you aren't very good at being covert.
  
  Provided that it's only tracking your movements in public, how exactly is a GPS different from a really good cop, in this regard?

• On the post: If You Thought YouTube's Copyright Lesson Was Bad…

  

  scarr ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2011 @ 06:54am

  Re: Re:

  "Schools are allowed to retain broadcast tapes for a minimum of 10 school days."
  
  That's an interesting guideline.

• On the post: YouTube Launches Myth Perpetuating 'Copyright School'; Dismisses Remixes As 'Not Original'

  

  scarr ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2011 @ 09:23am

  Re: Re: When did you write this?

  I've often thought YouTube caches number in weird ways. I'm still only seeing 412 v. 1638. It's also interesting that of the possibly 412, 150 favourited the video.

• On the post: YouTube Launches Myth Perpetuating 'Copyright School'; Dismisses Remixes As 'Not Original'

  

  scarr ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2011 @ 09:05am

  When did you write this?

  It's 4:1 disliking it now.

• On the post: How Much Does Color Impact Taste?

  

  scarr ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2011 @ 07:23am

  Re: Sensory Dissonance?

  To be fair, "grape flavour" isn't really the flavour of grapes. It's the flavour purple.

• On the post: Big Media To Innovative App Maker: Stop Innovating Without Our Permission!

  

  scarr ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2011 @ 09:07am

  Just a thought...

  Is it possible the NYT isn't on the list because the other publications didn't want to be associated with the NYT's more radical craziness on these matters?

• On the post: DailyDirt: You Have Won Second Prize In A Beauty Contest! Collect $10.

  

  scarr ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2011 @ 05:27pm

  Re:

  Agreed. This is bafflingly cool of them.
  
  I just hope the taste test doesn't mean they're comparing the candidates to whatever chicken they ate that made them go vegetarian.

• On the post: Did Limewire Shutdown Increase Music Sales?

  

  scarr ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2011 @ 04:43pm

  People were still using Limewire?

  I'm not really joking. I haven't heard anybody talk about using it in ages. I can see a certain tail of people not active in adopting new technologies, but that would've had to be a small portion of the pirate community. Wouldn't it?

• On the post: NYT: You Can Access Our Site For Free From Twitter, But Don't Tell Anyone That

  

  scarr ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2011 @ 11:03pm

  Hopefully Twitter will decline to take it down, on account of feeling guilty for reading the NYT's request without paying for it.

• On the post: South Korea Wants To Mandate Everyone Must Install 'Security' Software To Prevent 'Zombies'

  

  scarr ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2011 @ 10:50pm

  Re:

  How exactly do you suggest you would prove that you don't have a virus? It's very hard to prove the non-existence of most anything.

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