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  1. Re:Youtube's shitty copyright... on "Internet's Own Boy" Briefly Knocked Off YouTube With Bogus DMCA Claim · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I regularly receive false copyright claims on music which is clearly in the public domain and was performed live by Military bands. The company which files the claim should face criminal penalties for perjury, Once a false claim is made by a company, Youtube should be forced to remove their access to the content id system or should become directly liable for the false claims made by these companies.

  2. Let me fix that for you on Researchers Develop New Way To Steal Passwords Using Google Glass · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Researchers Develop New Way To Steal Passwords Using a video camera

  3. 28th Amendment on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We need a 28th Amendment to the Constitution - All rights specified in the Constitution of the United States and all Amendments thereto shall apply to Natural Persons only.

    We can call it the Commonsense clause.

  4. Re:Corporations vs People on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    Easy when your rights begin to infringe on the rights of your employee.

  5. Re:Wrong decision on Supreme Court Rules Against Aereo Streaming Service · · Score: 0

    Cause they know that the NSA is watching

  6. Dumb idea and here why on Transforming the Web Into a Transparent 'HTTPA' Database · · Score: 1

    This is a dumb idea that sounds like a good concept. It like any other good thing on the internet requires that no one be malicious. SMTP didn't used to be restricted until spammers abused it. All that it takes to defeat HTTPA is a client written to ignore the A part.

  7. Re:Domains By Proxy on Nominet Compromising UK WHOIS Privacy, Wants To See Gov't-Issued ID · · Score: 1

    get a PO Box.

  8. this should apply to all domains worldwide on Nominet Compromising UK WHOIS Privacy, Wants To See Gov't-Issued ID · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Every single domain should have accurate and verifiable information for the owner, administrative, and technical contacts. The use of services which anonymize or mask domain owners should be prohibited.Whois was intended to enable you to identify the ownership of a domain and who to contact about it.

  9. The solution on The Sudden Policy Change In Truecrypt Explained · · Score: 1

    The question is why should truecrypt or anyone else hold a master encryption key to your data. The software should generate a signing key on installation, and that key should be then used for signing. It could then be sent to the provider for them to store in case the original is lost. But truecrypt would not have a master key that automatically unlocks all of their customers data if subpoenaed by the government. Your key will unlock only your data and no one elses.

  10. Re:Criminal scum on Torrentz.eu Domain Name Suspended · · Score: 4, Informative

    I did a search and if you are looking for copyrighted materials you can find them. But you find a lot of other stuff as well. Linux distributions, freely distributable music. Public domain materials etc. this is a search engine.

  11. Re:Read his books on Author Charles Stross: Is Amazon a Malignant Monopoly, Or Just Plain Evil? · · Score: 1

    In that case the publisher doesn't have to sell their books via amazon. There is no requirement under law that they do so. The fact that they want access to Amazon's audience because they still make a profit from it, even if it's less than thy would ordinarily like. says volumes. I am also not locked into buying my books solely from Amazon, yes it's the easiest way, but with programs like Calibre I can buy from any company and load my books to my kindle as I like.

  12. Re:Isn't hard drive access desirable? on How Firefox Will Handle DRM In HTML · · Score: 1

    If I buy a glorious big boat, and somebody on the high seas steals it, then by any definition that is theft. Further, this sort of theft on the high seas is piracy!

    But in that case you are deprived of all use and enjoyment of the big boat from that time forward; that is not the case with intellectual content.

  13. Re:..and streamed video doesn't come with awful DR on Sony Warns Demand For Blu-Ray Diminishing Faster Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Amazon streams just fine on a Roku player

  14. Pass a law on DC Revolving Door: Ex-FCC Commissioner Is Now Head CTIA Lobbyist · · Score: 1

    The law would state that government employees with regulation powers are prohibited from working in the industry they regulated for a period of 10 years after they leave their government position. This would apply to commissioners as well as congressmen.

  15. This creates a problem, and my proposed solution. on F.C.C., In Net Neutrality Turnaround, Plans To Allow Fast Lane · · Score: 1

    I posted this on facebook... The drawback to this is that it encourages providers to build up their "pay for play" networks while ignoring the massive overselling of their default tier and charging the content providers to ensure that their traffic doesn't get lost or delayed in the shuffle.

    A solution for this would be for the Federal Communications Commission and/or the Federal Trade Commission to require Internet access providers to have a specific percentage of their sold bandwidth available on their public network. If you have sold 3 Terabytes per second of data connections, you must have 1.25 Terabytes per second of bandwidth connected to the internet available on your public network.

  16. Sum of all fears on Declassified Papers Hint US Uranium May Have Ended Up In Israeli Arms · · Score: 1

    Tom Clancy told us this in the Sum of All Fears, the great book; not the horribly butchered movie...

  17. A person prone to distraction on More Than 1 In 4 Car Crashes Involve Cellphone Use · · Score: 1

    Will be a distracted driver. It doesn't matter if it's the phone, the radio, the billboard they were passing going down the street. It's a minority who are distracted drivers. Perhaps a test to identify easily distracted drivers, and to ban them from driving would be a better course of action and a use of reseach dollars.

  18. Luxotica on Google Glass Signs Deal With Ray Ban's Parent Company · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I posted this story a few years ago about Luxotica...

    What makes glasses so expensive? Oblong plastic lenses? Plastic and metal frames? No, we’re getting screwed!

    Those of us who need prescription eyewear need prescription eyewear. Are you wearing yours to read this? Imagine if you weren’t. Imagine life without your glasses for a year, a week, an hour. Yet many health insurance plans, especially for the unemployed or self-employed, don’t cover them.

    http://www.clarksvilleonline.c...

  19. My cancellation email. on Amazon Hikes Prime Membership Fee · · Score: 1

    "I warned you that if you increased the price for prime that this would happen, and I would cancel my account. I was not joking. It's also going to cost you my next tablet purchase. I was looking at a kindle fire hdx but without prime it's not as good of a deal as it would have been otherwise. I am looking at alternative tablets from other manufacturers now. I hope your 20$ price increase was worth the loss of my business."

  20. They have no grounds on Girl's Facebook Post Costs Her Dad $80,000 · · Score: 1

    The father could not reasonably be expected to keep case nor the agreement secret from his immediate family, and unless the daughter signed the agreement she could not have been bound by it. Plus the daughter didn't reveal explicit details of the settlement. I think he should appeal.

  21. Any Idiot on Snowden's NSA Leaks Gave IETF a Needed Security Wake-up Call · · Score: 1

    Any Idiot can right a RFC-Draft, they don't even have to know anything about networking.

  22. You describe a car on Google Fighting Distracted Driver Laws · · Score: 1

    A car is an portable electronic device. It may be powered by gas but that turns a generator which provides electricity. Many of the car components are electronic. Most cars are powered by a computer.

    Also a speed limit sign is a bigger distraction than google glass ever could be and it requires you to take your eyes off the road to check to ensure that you are going the proper speed limit under penalty of law. Checking my speed got me in one accident when a driver in front came to a sudden stop far from a turn or intersection, and I was found at fault.

    Distracted drivers will be distracted drivers even if you put blinders and ear muffs on them and lock their heads into position where they can only see the road.

  23. This is why it's bs on Whatever Happened To the IPv4 Address Crisis? · · Score: 1

    1. Not every device needs a publicly routable address.
    2. See 1.

  24. Partner on NSA Ally Spied on US Law Firm · · Score: 2

    The correct word is partner. The reason they have the five eyes )Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States) is so that they can work their ways around laws in one country by having another country do the spying then sharing the information back to the country that wanted the data to begin with. It's all about getting around the laws and as the article said "The bulletin notes only that the counsel’s office “provided clear guidance” and that the Australian agency “has been able to continue to cover the talks, providing highly useful intelligence for interested US customers.”"

    That means that the information was provided to American intelligence agencies and that they are violating the clear prohibition against spying on Americans.

  25. Spoofing permits attacks here's the solution on 200-400 Gbps DDoS Attacks Are Now Normal · · Score: 1

    Then make the originating network legally and financially responsible for not filtering the spoofed packets originating from their network with a IDP (Internet Death Protocol) for any networks which do not fix their network within 3 days following a attack launched from their network.