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  • On the post: Newspaper Association Thinks FTC Should Force Readers To Be Subject To Godawful Ads And Invasive Trackers

    AnonJr ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2016 @ 10:22am

    Re: Re: Our unchanging business models need you!

    You forgot the part where:
    * the target to close the pop-up and/or video is small enough to make a marksman sweat bullets, and
    * the content jumps around like an over-caffeinated toddler because the ads are taking their sweet time loading in.

  • On the post: Latest Absurd Moral Panic: Parents Complain Amazon Echo Is Creating Rude Children

    AnonJr ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2016 @ 10:16am

    Re: Re:

    Oh, wait, that's probably depriving the Paine Estate of valued royalties and disincentivizing further publications. Never mind.

  • On the post: Latest Absurd Moral Panic: Parents Complain Amazon Echo Is Creating Rude Children

    AnonJr ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2016 @ 10:15am

    Re:

    I think Thomas Paine is a bit above the literacy level of those making the complaint.

    On the other hand it's surely in the public domain and could be sent to their Kindle at no extra cost...

  • On the post: Newspaper Association Thinks FTC Should Force Readers To Be Subject To Godawful Ads And Invasive Trackers

    AnonJr ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2016 @ 10:08am

    I'll just take the other option

    Instead of engaging in this particular battle, I've taken a different road - one many have taken, and many more are likely to take up.

    I just won't go.

    When the obtrusive ad pops up, takes over my screen, etc. - I just leave. If I see it enough, I stop following any links there (or leave the second I know where that damned Bit.ly link from twitter goes).

    Done. Money/links/attention going to your smarter competitors.

  • On the post: UK Teachers Report 4 Year Old Boy To The Terrorism Police For Drawing A Cucumber

    AnonJr ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2016 @ 08:50am

    Re: "Now remember son, don't say or do anything. At all. Just sit there and try to look harmless."

    Or is this is a clever ploy by the UK Home-school Industrial Complex to cause a bigger shift towards home-school initiatives...

  • On the post: Hillary Clinton Continues To Say Ridiculous Things About Encryption… Without Ever Taking A Real Position

    AnonJr ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2016 @ 11:08am

    Wouldn't it be nice if there were a single presidential candidate who actually understood this particular issue?


    Hell, I'd settle for someone willing to admit that they don't understand... even better would be one that recognized that they don't understand, are getting some bad advice, and hired a more competent adviser.

  • On the post: Portland Police Bravely Defend Public From Homeless Woman Looking To Charge Her Cell Phone

    AnonJr ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2015 @ 11:23am

    Total side-bar: what does it say about this that I had to scroll Feedly back to the top to double-check that this wasn't Popehat...

  • On the post: UMG Licenses Indie Artist's Track, Then Uses Content ID To Claim Ownership Of It

    AnonJr ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2015 @ 09:27am

    Wait, I've heard this one before...

    Is this a recent article or a retrospective? I don't remember hearing this artist's name as one of the big blues guys screwed by the labels back in the 1950's...

  • On the post: HarperCollins Wants To Limit Library Ebook Lending To 'Protect' Authors From Libraries

    AnonJr ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2011 @ 11:11am

    Re: Too a degree I can respect what they're doing

    I know. 26 weeks *is* too arbitrary a number - it should be 42.

  • On the post: Why Have We Let State AGs Become De Facto Internet Regulators?

    AnonJr ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2011 @ 09:05am

    Re:

    The problem is that going public and going public in a truthful and wholly honest way are two different things.

    If the AGs were always using the latter, I might see your point. The problem is that some AGs are inciting the public with half-truths and innuendo.

  • On the post: Why Have We Let State AGs Become De Facto Internet Regulators?

    AnonJr ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2011 @ 09:00am

    Sadly Ironic

    I find it sadly ironic that it is often the plight of exploited children that gets exploited as a means to whatever regulatory ends some AGs, Lawyers, and other politicians are trying to achieve.

  • On the post: Student Films Principal Fighting Another Student… School Board Bans Mobile Phones

    AnonJr ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2007 @ 08:05am

    Problem is

    Unfortunately you seem to be assuming that the principle started it and/or the student was completely innocent in this and similar cases. I'm not so sure about that.

    While I will agree that students with camera phones will help document the problem teachers, I also believe that its too easy to take a portion of a situation out of context and abuse the evidence so to speak.

    I love how some issues end up with the majority concluding which party is the victim and which is the victimiser regardless of the full story and/or lack of evidence to come to a reasonable conclusion.

  • On the post: It's Time To Wean Ourselves Off An Unhealthy Addiction To Copyright

    AnonJr ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2007 @ 04:56am

    Re: Pizza Boy

    I need another pizza analogy.

    I open up a pizza joint called, say "My Little Pizza Joint". It does pretty well for a little place, but then lets say "Techdirt Pizza's" opens up across the road. Now "Techdirt Pizza's" is a huge chain, makes loads of money and can sell pizza's at half my price.

    However I'm really good at making up pizza recipes. I spend weeks coming up with a recipe called "My Damn Fine Pizza", and its a hit at my local pizza place.

    But then "Techdirt Pizza's" brings out my pizza recipe. Sure I've still got my recipe, but all my customers are over at Techdirt as it is half the price. Plus the nation is raving about how Techdirt's new pizza is so great.

    But the boss of Techdirt pizza says: "No worries, you can copy my pizza recipes if you like! Hey, its best for everybody!"

    Don't get me wrong, I agree that using a image in a second of video is fair use. I guess my point is that the littler the guy you are the more your hard created original work matters to you, because your originality is pretty much all you got over the big guys.


    And thus you get the fashion industry... which seems to be doing good last I checked. It forces you to come up with a better pizza, and/or a cheaper pizza, or go out of business - in other words you have to work for your money.

    If you do either of the first two you win your customers back and force the other guys back into the spot you were in which forces them to come up with a better pizza, and/or a cheaper pizza, or go out of business.

    Actually, now that I think about it, there is another option - make your shop a better place to be. Play up the "going out to get a pizza" experience. People will pay the higher price if they feel they are getting a better experience or some other intangible. I think I saw this working somewhere...