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Disastrous Implications of New Apple Patent for Blocking Cellphone Video
- dexen 15y agoAnd how long before police deploy such blockers routinely during operation? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1999171 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1999171 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1047495 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1047495
- pasbesoin 15y agoStorify? What's the value add for this tool? (Tim already has the Radar blog site, is / has been a Google Buzz user, is on Twitter, etc. I enjoy his commentary, but I'm starting to get multiple site fatigue.) I guess I'll have to enable JS if I want to know. Or, lethargy may win...
- adolph 15y agoAnd how long before someone makes a TV-B-Gone-style device? http://www.tvbgone.com/cfe_tvbg_main.php http://www.tvbgone.com/cfe_tvbg_main.php
- GHFigs 15y agoFUD. You don't know if or when or how this would ever be implemented, and wild-ass claims about what could happen given any number of dubious preconditions don't get more plausible just by making them scarier. Are iPhones and YouTube so crucial to democracy that you get a free pass to make shit up? Fuck no. Selectively describing parts of an obscure patent application (20110128384) filed years ago (2009) and whipping it into a frothy story about how the sky is falling is lazy and sloppy journalism. If you want a find a real threat to democracy, start there.
- surfingdino 15y agoPretty funny that a tech company is patenting a way to cripple their products. Probably a 'fuck off, stop whining, here's your protection' parent to quiet down the movie studios.