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• On the post: Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Inc. Keeps Telling Licensees Its Trademarks Are Valid While Courts Keep Insisting They Are Not

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 08 May, 2019 @ 05:35am

  Re: Re: Playing chicken with the courts

  This is actually not a matter for a (civil) court, but quite clearly fraud, so call the police and have them open a criminal investigation.

• On the post: You Apparently Can't Win A Drug War Without Sexually Abusing Kids And Murdering Parents

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 07 May, 2019 @ 12:59am

  Re: Re: Don't forget the real beneficiary of the drug war, the C

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking

• On the post: Austrian Government Wants To Outlaw Online Anonymity

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2019 @ 02:16pm

  Re: Promoting commerce in other countries

  Same in Switzerland. And yes, that is nothing a democracy should ever do. But then, fascism is en vogue again. In Switzerland as in Austria as in the USA.

• On the post: Austrian Government Wants To Outlaw Online Anonymity

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2019 @ 02:13pm

  Re: Re: It's a logical reaction to just unnecessary vileness lik

  We don't call Conservatives "Nazis", we call people that undermine democratic values like "anonymity" Nazis. Which of course is wrong in that context, as the accurate term would be "fascist".

• On the post: Tired: Insane Patent Verdicts; Wired: Insane Trade Secret Verdicts

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2019 @ 12:40am

  Re: Re:

  Don't got to "plus five years", because that still opens the can of worms that is inheritance law. Macauley already explained 1841(!) why this is a bad idea.
  http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2014/07/24/macaulay-on-copyright/

• On the post: If Epic Vs Steam Is To Be A PR War, Epic's Boss Just Issued A Brilliant Retaliatory Strike

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2019 @ 12:33am

  Re:

  I honestly don't get why people who buy games are so upset by Epic. So what if a game is exclusive to Epic or Steam or any other PC platform? You've just equated "PC" with "Windows" and that's exactly why I am upset. Epic only works on fucking Windows, and not on my PC which happens to run Linux. Bloody mainstream ignoramus.

• On the post: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Some Republican Politicians Are Indistinguishable From Neo Nazis

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2019 @ 01:12am

  A great misunderstanding

  This is all a misunderstanding. Because some republicans seem to think they're "Conservatives", like you know, in

  "Conservativism: A political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, stressing established institutions, and preferring gradual development to abrupt change"

  As it happens, it doesn't have anything to do with supporting radical then-new Nazi ideas of the 1930ies.

  Also, you're absolutely allowed to change your views regarding slavery within the span of 150 years and still be a Conservative.

  So uttering radical Nazi ideas does not make you a Conservative and blocking them is not an anti-Conservative bias, but just an anti-Nazi bias.

• On the post: The French Govt's Hand-Rolled Encrypted Messaging Service (Briefly) Allowed Anyone To Pretend They Were A Government Official

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2019 @ 05:04am

  Account Holders

  And here's a list of account holders that have themselves made an account by subverting someone within the french government:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intelligence_agencies

  Please note: the "french public" is not among them.

• On the post: The End Of The Absurdity: Iceland, The Country, Successfully Invalidates The Trademark Of Iceland Foods, The Grocer

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2019 @ 02:12am

  Re: Re: Iceland is part of the Schengen-space

  Actually, I even believe that not being part of the Schengen space helped Brexit. Because the rest of Europe suddenly realized they could travel everywhere. Not just foreigners were coming in, but they themselves could live and work wherever in Europe. Which produced a feeling of "belonging together", at least in the younger generation. Of course, Idiot lawmakers in the EU (and Switzerland too) are now threatening everything; because people start to see the EU as a vehicle of their own governments forcing unwanted laws down their throat. Can't get it past the people in your own country? Make the EU do it. Oh, and Switzerland will follow, sometimes even before it's law in the EU (https://www.parlament.ch/press-releases/Pages/mm-wbk-s-2019-02-12.aspx sorry, not in English, basically it wanted the same Article 11 as the EU, 7 days before the end of the EU deliberations. It's now postponed, but this will rear its ugly head again).

• On the post: EU Parliament Votes To Require Internet Sites To Delete 'Terrorist Content' In One Hour (By 3 Votes)

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2019 @ 12:26am

  Re:

  ... maybe you're actually right. And they're squandering their own economy for some quick buck. (Because, again, for them the internet is mostly the G-MAFIA, and they don't even realize what they're doing).

• On the post: EU Parliament Votes To Require Internet Sites To Delete 'Terrorist Content' In One Hour (By 3 Votes)

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2019 @ 12:21am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Pfft, you don't need to stir up anti-US sentiment in Europe. While governments are largely pro-US, your own Trump made most of the population anti-US. The anti US sentiment took a short (and undeserved) break during the Obama-administration, but before that, Bush jr. made sure everyone hated the US by squandering all the sympathy people had for the US after 9/11 with fascist laws (mass surveillance) and the the invention of WMDs to start the Iraq War (in contrast to the US population, at that time 90% of the Europeans KNEW Bush was lying). And as the US continues to export bad laws (drug prohibition, draconian copyright laws, patents) intervenes in foreign peoples lives (Dotcom, Assange) and generally behaves as a bully, you don't have to "stir up" any anti US sentiments. Ironically, the EU is now starting to do the same shit as the US; and there is also a growing anti-EU sentiment within the EU...

• On the post: EU Parliament Votes To Require Internet Sites To Delete 'Terrorist Content' In One Hour (By 3 Votes)

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2019 @ 12:07am

  Re: Re: Re:

  I don't think you can educate the lawmakers. They at most use the top 10 services in the internet. For them, the G-MAFIA (Google. Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, IBM and Amazon) is the internet. Unless they block the EU completely over this, ideally even stop selling their products, these lawmakers will ignore everything else, foremost their own population. What's needed is quite simply a different set of lawmakers. There are elections in May...

• On the post: The End Of The Absurdity: Iceland, The Country, Successfully Invalidates The Trademark Of Iceland Foods, The Grocer

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2019 @ 11:51pm

  Iceland is part of the Schengen-space

  Which means there are no border controls between Iceland and most other European countries (including Norway and Switzerland, which are also not part of the EU). Except Britain, of course.

• On the post: AI Won't Save Us From Fake News: YouTube's Fact Checking Tool Thinks Notre Dame Fire Is About 9/11

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2019 @ 04:13am

  The trouble with AI

  The trouble with AIs is that a sufficiently evolved AI is indistinguishable from a human. Meaning it will have its own biases and believes. It won't be objective, at all. Which again makes it completely useless for exactly that which most of the people think it could be used.

• On the post: Legacy Music Industry Shouldn't Get To Watch Over The Royalties Of Independent Songwriters

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2019 @ 03:56am

  rights for the dead to take from the living

  1841, in front of the House of Commons, MP Thomas Babington Macaulay held the following speech:
  http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2014/07/24/macaulay-on-copyright/ "And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the works of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living." Of course, everything he warned from has already happened, because of these copyright-maximalist wankers.

• On the post: Starz Issues Laughably Unbelievable Excuse And Apology For Taking Down Tweets

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2019 @ 02:29pm

  Re: So was done by time you got 'round to it...

  The opposite, quite the opposite. The EU just passed a law that screws artists of half their earnings (article 16) on behalf of the publishers. In this context "piracy" is not "being taken down by law" but the law has be been taken down by pirates. The pirates being the publishers.

• On the post: T-Mobile's 'Revolutionary' New TV Service Looks Like The Same Old Crap

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2019 @ 02:05pm

  different incumbent?

  T-Mobile might portray itself as "different" in the USA, but it's still the incumbent in Germany, behaving no better than Verizon and AT&T.

  Don't expect anything.

• On the post: Julian Assange Arrested On Behalf Of The US, For Trying To Help Manning Crack CIA Password

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2019 @ 01:55pm

  Re: Selfish interest

  If "the behaviour of a narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interest" would be a crime, your president would be in for a lifetime.

• On the post: FBI Cyber Crimes Division Not So Great About Passing Info To Victims Of Cyberattacks

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2019 @ 01:49pm

  Secrecy is the enemy of security

  as usual.

• On the post: FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2019 @ 11:39pm

  Data protection

  .. And that's why you need an extremely hard private data protection law. GDPR anyone? ;)

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