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• On the post: Netflix Says It'll Be Fine Without Net Neutrality Rules; But What About The Next Netflix?

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2014 @ 03:45pm

  Re: Netflix Fiber? Amazon Fiber?

  So they're going to fight the integration of telecommunications and entertainment providers by integrating their entertainment providing business with telecommunications?

• On the post: Why The DOJ's Decision To Not Read Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights Is A Terrible Idea

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2013 @ 08:05am

  Re: We lost more than we gained

  As many Bostonians are quick to point out, the order to stay inside was voluntary.
  
  Then again, when there are 9000 cops and military roaming the streets perpetuating irrational fear, the fact that people were technically allowed to leave their homes becomes a moot point.

• On the post: Avid Gamer (And Minnesota Vikings Punter) Chris Kluwe Does The Math On How Much EA's SimCity Debacle Cost EA

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2013 @ 06:00am

  You know, what if it were more than an anti-piracy measure? What if they actually did design a game that was so stupidly complex, that it couldn't be contained in our mere mortal quad-core rigs with some general-purpose calculations offloaded to the GPU?
  
  You know what then?
  
  Then it would still be a completely unsustainable product design.

• On the post: Rather Than Punishing Moviegoing Texters, Why Not Provide Incentives For Them To Put Down Their Phones?

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2012 @ 04:53am

  "One of the areas of economics I'm most interested in is focused on incentives." -Mike Masnick
  
  "Economics is the study of incentives." -Dr. Steven D. Levitt
  
  "One of the areas of economics I'm most interested in is focused on economics." -Mike Masnick

• On the post: Join Us Thursday For A Conversation With Rob Reid, Author Of Year Zero; Plus August's Book Of The Month

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2012 @ 07:41pm

  Re: Re:

  Uh, speak for yourself, Andrew. A lot of us are abolitionists. I mean, I wouldn't mind copyright reform if it happened tomorrow, but in the long-term my work's not done until the whole thing's either gone or so radically altered that it's not even recognizably "copyright" anymore. So maybe your Pirate Party doesn't have a problem with copyright, but New York's certainly does.
  
  Also, I've never quite found the opportunity to ask this, but what the hell is the NC clause doing in the NSH's license? Really? Do we seriously expect we'd be losing out on licensing fees without that? Or that somebody's going to release knock-off copies? Or that we'd actually have the resources to take somebody to court for doing anything we disapproved of? Nina, if you're reading this, back me up here.

• On the post: Disappointing: Famed Copyright Rogue Danger Mouse Sues Home Depot And Pizza Hut… Over Copyright

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2012 @ 04:30pm

  In Danger Mouse's defense, Pizza Hut is already guilty of fraud by calling themselves "Pizza" Hut. If it were Cardboard Hut, they might have more of a moral high ground.

• On the post: This American Life Retracts Entire Episode About Apple Factories After Mike Daisey Admits To Fabricating Parts Of The Story

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2012 @ 03:25pm

  Re: Re: Butt Jobs Admited To Some Problems

  So what? The progress of technology will go on if one is unable to hire 3000 engineers instantaneously. The world will not end if we slow shit down just a tiny, tiny bit to make sure people aren't killing themselves.

• On the post: Drone Attack: How We Might Willingly Embrace The Surveillance Society

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2012 @ 02:30am

  Cars are useful but potentially harmful machines which we license people to operate in public. Perhaps the same with drones?
  
  Although with their potential to be operated anonymously, and the size of the micro-drones, I wonder if that's even doable.

• On the post: Band Tells Fans To Boycott Its Albums, Saying Its Label Doesn't Pay

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2012 @ 12:40pm

  Re: Re:

  They're not even saying you can torrent it. They're implying it, but not saying it. It's like getting around a gag order by saying, for example, "I'm not allowed to talk about my settlement with Acme Inc., so on a completely unrelated note, once upon a time there was a big corporation called Shmacme Shmincorporated, and (etc.)"
  
  They can lawyer their way out of that easily.

• On the post: SOPA Strikedown Aftermath: Old Media Cannot Tell The Narrative Of One Million People

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2012 @ 03:09pm

  Re:

  Would you mind citing an example of the mob demanding citations and dismissing a perfectly reasonable one?

• On the post: White House Says It Can't Comment On Possible Chris Dodd Investigation

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2012 @ 10:37am

  Okay, so let's try this again, but instead not specifically requesting they do anything about it, just to comment on it.
  
  Maybe that's better.

• On the post: It's Official: Wikipedia To Go Dark On Wednesday

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2012 @ 01:16pm

  Re: Re:

  Some people are dyslexic.

• On the post: It's Official: Wikipedia To Go Dark On Wednesday

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2012 @ 01:15pm

  Re: Re:

  We don't want to be friends with Congress. We want them to stop fucking shit up.

• On the post: White House Comes Out Against The Approach In SOPA/PIPA In Response To Online Petition

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2012 @ 12:58pm

  So, rather than just look at how legislation can be stopped, ask yourself: Where do we go from here? Don?t limit your opinion to what?s the wrong thing to do, ask yourself what?s right.

  
  
  Clearly, they're looking for another petition.
  
  I did my best to be as comprehensive as possible within the 800 character limit. Let's see if we can't get this to do something.

• On the post: Kopimism Approved As Official Religion In Sweden: File Sharing Now Protected Under Freedom Of Religion Laws?

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2012 @ 12:23am

  Kopimism should join forces with Pastafarianism. All hail the copypasta.

• On the post: Breaking: GoDaddy Drops SOPA Support

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2011 @ 11:27am

  Re: Re: Re:

  So, talking to other human beings makes you a jackbooted thug?

• On the post: DailyDirt: Can Education Ever Be One-Size-Fits-All?

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2011 @ 06:11pm

  Regarding the Salon article about class size:
  
  What about the students' mental health? The rate at which students learn, as measured by test scores, grades, etc. is hardly the whole picture. If a student gets through school with straight A's and anxiety issues, that's hardly prepared them for the real world.
  
  I struggled in large class sizes throughout middle and high school, until finally transferring to a smaller school for my junior and senior years. Instantly, the more intimate environment helped me succeed, because the teachers and staff actually had the time and resources to give a crap about me.
  
  It's just a shame that such things are only considered when they start affecting a student's grades. Just because somebody's testing well doesn't mean they're doing okay.

• On the post: There Really Are Privacy Issues Out There; Facebook Using Facial Recognition Is Not One Of Them

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2011 @ 12:20pm

  I'm not outraged right this moment, but given Facebook's track record, I'm concerned that they'll start abusing this technology.
  
  That's why I'm uploading and tagging myself in only photos in which I'm wearing a full-body animal costume. Just to fuck with the algorithm.

• On the post: Oh Look, Apple Copies Android, And That's Not A Bad Thing

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2011 @ 03:04pm

  My beef isn't with Apple copying Android; it's with the press ejaculating all over the place about it (in both senses of the word) as if it were the most magical and revolutionary and magical and paradigm-shifting and magical new development in the world.
  
  Every inconsequential thing Apple ever announces is an earth-shattering, cancer-curing event to an enormous swath of the tech press. It's getting really, really tiring.

• On the post: Would People Stop Using Mobile Phones If More Evidence Shows Them To Be Carcinogenic?

  

  Zacqary Adam Green ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2011 @ 10:18am

  Oh for chrissakes.
  
  Mobile phones output non-ionizing radiation. This is the type of radiation which has been found, time and time again, to not cause DNA damage, and therefore not cancer.
  
  So, why is it that we're hearing that cell phones may have been found to be carcinogenic, but not about the fundamental new development in particle physics that non-ionizing radiation behaves differently than we thought? That's kind of a big deal.
  
  If cell phones cause cancer, that would imply that perhaps a particularly intense shade of blue might also cause cancer. However, no such theories are being discussed in light of this news.

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