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  • On the post: The Fine Bros Plan Is Actually Pretty Cool If You Get Past How They Announced It

    Deimal ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2016 @ 01:18pm

    Re: What? Nintendo...

    They applied for trademarks, not copyrights. Trademark being more broad and controllable of others' independent content than copyright. The trademarks are where I think most people's concern lay.

  • On the post: The Fine Bros Plan Is Actually Pretty Cool If You Get Past How They Announced It

    Deimal ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2016 @ 01:17pm

    Re: The Fine Brothers are complete assholes

    That's just a TAAAD bit on the unnecessary side don't you think?

  • On the post: The Fine Bros Plan Is Actually Pretty Cool If You Get Past How They Announced It

    Deimal ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2016 @ 01:15pm

    Re:

    I don't think techdirt needs to address anything regarding whether they have been compromised financially or w/e regarding Fine Bros. I've been reading techdirt for nearly 10 years, and I've never, ever, seen anything to make me doubt the sincerity of the writers here.

  • On the post: The Fine Bros Plan Is Actually Pretty Cool If You Get Past How They Announced It

    Deimal ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2016 @ 12:33pm

    Re: Re:

    It may be, but does it necessitate gaining a legal monopoly over broad and general sounding terms already in very common use across Youtube and other sites?

    To me, those trademarks are not necessary for them to accomplish the goal they set out to do. It could also be done under a Fine Bros Entertainment brand and trademark, not necessarily the generic "Kids React", "Teens React", etc.

    The only benefit I can see from them owning trademarks on those, my opinion, very broad terms, is to shut down or claim ad revenue from others.

  • On the post: The Fine Bros Plan Is Actually Pretty Cool If You Get Past How They Announced It

    Deimal ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2016 @ 12:19pm

    There's an attorney who has posted a bit about representing some YT content creators (pro bono) to oppose the trademark applications here:

    http://ryanmorrisonlaw.com/attorneys-react-the-fine-bros-react-trademark/

    His react(ion) is not good towards the Fine Bros

  • On the post: If You Use An Adblocker You Hate Free Speech, Says Internet Ads Guy

    Deimal ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2016 @ 02:33pm

    Re: Randall Rothenberg

    I went to the speech as well, and I just want to thank you for being able to put in here so much of what I was thinking so succinctly. Well done

  • On the post: If You Use An Adblocker You Hate Free Speech, Says Internet Ads Guy

    Deimal ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2016 @ 02:10pm

    Re: Re: FREE speech?

    I've reached a similar point. Using uMatrix you see every single request that's being made to every URL. The sheer volume of third-party scripts and embeds MANY sites use these days is utterly appalling. So many places running so much crap in your browser, pretty much without your knowledge. uMatrix was a big eye-opener for me.

  • On the post: Canadian Court Ponders If A Disagreement On Twitter Constitutes Criminal Harassment

    Deimal ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2015 @ 01:50pm

    Re: Um, Canada does have something similar to the 1st amendment

    "But, in the end, this isn't a free speech issue, it's a harassment issue, and the thought that a conviction “will have a chilling effect on people’s ability to communicate" is what's ludicrous."

    No, what's ludicrous here is the fact that this has to happen at all. For one, twitter is a service in which you can actively control who you can and cannot engage in a conversation with. If they no longer wanted to see what he was saying, they could block him. Or mute him. Or log the f-k out. Only, and I mean ONLY after such action is take if he attempts to circumvent it am I anywhere CLOSE to considering it actual harassment. If you can walk away and don't, then you are CHOOSING to stay engaged in the conversation.

  • On the post: Because The 4th Amendment Only Kicks In After The Fact, 'Reasonable Suspicion' Will Always Be Anything But

    Deimal ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2015 @ 01:46pm

    Minor History Quibble

    Just to be clear, "presided over the Nuremburg trials" implies that Justice Jackson was one of (if not lead) judge. He was not. He was the lead prosecutor for the Allies.

  • On the post: CIA Apparently 'Impersonated' Senate Staffers To Gain Access To Documents On Shared Drives

    Deimal ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2014 @ 02:02pm

    So...

    From a pure irony stand-point, are we now where the Senate needs to complete an investigation and produce a report on unauthorized illegal CIA spying on Senate investigation and report into illegal CIA torturing? Coming up with a suitable acronym for that one might well give someone an aneurism.

  • On the post: NY Police Commissioner Bill Bratton Latest To Complain About Phone Encryption

    Deimal ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2014 @ 01:58pm

    Really?

    It's gotten to the point with these LEOs and officious bureaucrats that there really is only one response.

    F*ck.
    You.

  • On the post: New iOS Update To Break Emulators On iPhones Just Because

    Deimal ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2014 @ 10:08pm

    Re: Re: Clueless

    This exploit doesn't just allow emulators to be installed, it affects a wide range of apps. Sure, emulators are impacted, but it is also a potential vector for end-running around security on the phone. That is a huge concern, that as far as I'm concerned, Apple is fully justified in dealing with. If someone managed to use this to generate a malware infection spreading throughout the iOS ecosystem, and it was known that Apple hadn't addressed it, they would be raked across the coals. Jailbreaking is still an option and it both accommodates those who want unapproved apps installed, and keeps Apple away from being liable for the activity of apps that aren't approved.

  • On the post: White House Reverses Course: Now Allowing Lobbyists To Serve On Insider Government 'Advisory' Boards

    Deimal ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2014 @ 06:51am

    Just another day

    C'mon, this admin has far and away already been the best for the RIAA/MPAA/ASCAP, etc already. Look at what they did with the USTR and the DOJ on behalf of those industries. Frankly, this is small sauce compared to the loads of other IP bullshit they've engaged in.

  • On the post: Intelligence Community Warns That Releasing CIA Torture Report Details Might 'Inflame Anti-US Passions' In Middle East

    Deimal ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2014 @ 04:53pm

    Re: Re:

    Excuse me, but why are you such a bigoted asshole for where I live?

  • On the post: Intelligence Community Warns That Releasing CIA Torture Report Details Might 'Inflame Anti-US Passions' In Middle East

    Deimal ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2014 @ 11:13am

    As a side note

    Being liked and appreciate around the world, is not really a realistic or achievable goal. Treating people ethically, especially our friends and enemies, is. I'd prefer we focus on that instead of hoping that every tinpot dictator and nationalist over the world ever gives a damn about my country.

  • On the post: Intelligence Community Warns That Releasing CIA Torture Report Details Might 'Inflame Anti-US Passions' In Middle East

    Deimal ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2014 @ 11:11am

    What would you rather have

    Actual facts (heh, well) out there in the public domain available for analysis and debate, OR random assumptions and wild ass guesses about what the CIA did or did not do?

    Personally, I'm all about get the truth (my definition probably doesn't match the CIA's, but whatever) out there.

    Horror movie writers, producers and directors have known for a long time that nothing they can put on screen truly exceeds what the right combination of noise effects, shadows, and other subtle indications can cause to spring up in the imaginations of their audience. Same fucking principle here. Get the actual facts (again, well) out there and let there be a proper debate on it. People everywhere are already pissed off.

    Might as well let them be pissed off at things known to be true instead of the worst things they can imagine (well, we'll see). The longer this obfuscation and delay goes on, the longer it takes for us as a people to move on from it (and hopefully learn to reign the CIA's ass in a bit).

  • On the post: Ebola Cure Not Fully Developed Because Big Pharma Not Interested In Saving Lives Of Poor People In Africa

    Deimal ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2014 @ 07:47pm

    Yes, but...

    Western medicine has cured polio, immunized against a wide-range of diseases and yet in places like Africa (and California, and India, and the U.K., etc) rabid religious nuts and power-mad idiots routinely convince the uneducated and others to not use it (evil western plots to sterilize people for example).

    Considering the primary method of transmitting Ebola is through exchange of bodily fluids, I think education is the key to combatting and containing it, not necessarily a cure. Regardless of what ever is discussed here, resources for research and development, regardless of how it's funded, are limited. If there's an alternative to spending, quite literally, billions of dollars to curing something, such as education and hygiene, that's probably where the initial focus should be. Private pharmaceutical companies have issues no doubt, but I don't see vast streams of funding flooding into development of cure in the Public or Charitable sectors either.

  • On the post: House Overwhelmingly Votes To Slam The Backdoor Shut On The NSA!

    Deimal ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2014 @ 10:30am

    Re: Contacted my Rep

    As a suggestion, if you really want to get under a politician's skin:
    If they're a liberal democrat, question their devotion to freedom and liberty
    If they're a conservative republican, question their support of the economy and jobs

    Those categories are broad enough to be able to apply just about anything to them.

  • On the post: House Overwhelmingly Votes To Slam The Backdoor Shut On The NSA!

    Deimal ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2014 @ 10:28am

    Contacted my Rep

    I probably wouldn't have been so passionate about sending my Rep a response if he had voted in favor of this. Maybe a thank you or something. However mine was in the group that voted against this. Just sent him a polite nasty-gram. I would encourage anyone else in the same boat as I'm in to do the same.

  • On the post: Georgia To Protect Execution Pharmacists From Transparency So They Can Execute Disabled Man

    Deimal ( profile ), 20 May, 2014 @ 10:23pm

    Re:

    I sympathize with your having been victimized. However, the thought of erasing a human's existence as a deterrent to others' fairly repugnant. I believe in the death penalty. There simply are some people in this world who's crimes are so appalling they should be ended. That should be the only reason the death penalty is invoked. To expect it to act as a deterrent is naive, at best.

    To imply (or outright state as you have) that crimes less than the most unspeakable should be subject to the death penalty, speaks to a lack of using rational faculties, and relying on emotion. Emotion, being so subjective, absolutely cannot be a basis for a system of justice, let alone a foundation for setting punishments for criminal acts.

    Add to this the inherent nature of man to err, and you increase the chances of innocents being murdered by the state. If you have a profile on techdirt, then I expect you have been reading it for at least some time. How many articles have you read here, where police officers were caught flat out lying to cover their own asses, resulting in seriously damaging the lives, property, and welfare of their fellow citizens? I've seen literally dozens over the last few years here, and elsewhere.

    Capital punishment has it's place, but in a world, a nation, of corrupt judges, police, and prosecutors, I don't know that it can be adequately applied much longer. Giving the state the authority to end the lives of it's citizens is a grave and solemn abdication of power to the state. If we can't trust that it will exercise it with honor and truth, I don't know how much longer we can permit it.

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