TheAmazingIdiot

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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
I used to pay for content: movies, games, and some music. I didn't spend all that much, but I did buy them. Then, corrupted audio CDs were sold. My sister got bit by one. So we downloaded it where it wasn't sold as damaged: Suprnova. During
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
Yes. And...? The article only says what was said last year, the year before that..... And there are no solutions other than "Don't buy a phone on contract with AT&T. Or better yet, don't do business with AT&T." How many of us (in th
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
This topic needs merged out. What is a picture of child exploitation? Perhaps, a picture of a baby naked? Or how about a kid doing somewhat lewd acts fully clothed? Or how about pictures by others of those child beauty pageants? Who actuall
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
Might I remind everyone that trading in snuff films (where someone is murdered and taped) is legal. The act of murder is illegal. Why is this different for child molestation films? I think we can put both murder and child abuse as horrible
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
"Wah Wah Wah horrendous sexual remarks Wah Wah Wah closet feminist Wah" I think this about sums up the comment. You mentioned cute women in HR as ones who are cute and don't know about the job to properly hire. The next avenue to attack is
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
I would concur as well. I believe they were doing this RFID system for 2 reasons: the students, and the contract. However, the reprieve allows all Christians to exempt themselves from this program. My underlying worry is the Government will
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
Ok, let me get this straight. School makes RFID solution for tracking/library/food stuffs. Student objects based upon religious and privacy grounds. Judge granted her a reprieve based upon Freedom of Speech and Religion grounds. I do have
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
This is a legal question: If I go buy X content (DVD, music cd, random playstation game), and the medium is destroyed, what happens to my license under Copyright law? In what instrument is my license under Copyright law located? Do I still
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
If you are interested in Virtual Console games, instead check out different emulators: NES: Nestopia, FCEUX SNES: bSnes, Zsnes, Snes9x Game Boy: VisualBoyAdvance N64: 1964, NEMU64 Roms (file archives copied from cartridges) are easy to find
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
No no no, you have it all wrong. You clean out the closet and all, then you put the cat AND the wife in there so you can work outside...
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
(I posted this in the other article about hostess that got buried) I will remind people here the following: Indiana is a right-to-work state. This was passed last year. Right to work lowers employer burden why someone is laid off/fired. Alo
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
I will remind people here the following: Indiana is a right-to-work state. This was passed last year. Right to work lowers employer burden why someone is laid off/fired. Along with that, makes it a felony to require union dues to work at a
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
Who made that music? And do they make more from where that came from?
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
A lack of secret ballot could easily be challenged by businesses that threaten or have 'layoffs' for those candidates or positions that workers vote for. I'm not as worried about the mob showing up and telling me 'vote this way or Jimmy her
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
Sounds great. So the mob will start buying debt from targeted individuals and have a "chat".
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
Have you thought about creating a non-profit (or some corporate) and actively hide behind the corporate veil? When the shit hits the fan, suddenly there's nothing under that tablecloth...
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
I can attest to similar actions as well in Nashville, IN. We've had a very nasty election cycle, given the (R) Governer has stepped down, and with the shenanigans with Mourlock (misspelled correctly; I am not an eloi). At the polling place,
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
Since your HN password is obscure, how bouts you publicise it here? After all, hidden passwords are security through obscurity, and that's "just the wrong way".
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
Yep, sure, uh huh. Except for those small departments for the XBox, Zune, Surface, countless peripherals, and other odds and ends related directly to hardware.
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
I do use a Borne Again Shell :P ObOnTopic: I thought the way copyright was written was that downloading is not illegal, but uploading (transmitting) was that actual illegal action. The only reason torrenters get in trouble is because they u
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
I'm more akin going for cumulative fines and/or jailtime for the executive board. Trespassing in Indiana can be fined up to $1000 and 6 month jail sentence. Each of these seeds are "their" property. Lets say that a contaminated field is 500
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
How do you know, if you are a system geek, that you are indeed breaking DRM vs just doing complicated stuff with a firmware? It seems obvious if there's PKI in there somewhere. But aside that, how do you tell the difference?
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
I very much agree with this sentiment. The whole PS3 removal of otherOS is a plain "computer crimes" law. Charge Sony with 1 count per device. Nice criminal case there. Next we have Monsanto, who runs around finding seeds contaminated with
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
After doing a tiny bit of research (google and wikipedia), it seems mens rea does not apply if said crime is considered a strict liability crime. Examples are selling alcohol to underage, or statutory rape. Counterfeiting is another strict
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
This article, and the concept of Liberty Dollar are interesting to compare with BitCoin. Whereas the head of the created currency is looking at hard prison time (20 yrs), there is no real one entity involved in BTC. My next question: will B
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If You Haven’t Seen Your Doctor In A Few Years, Expect To Pay ‘New Patient’ Fee(consumerist.com)
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
What moral right do creators have that they feel they can restrict music/movie/book/artwork as if the world still follows pure scarcity economics? I also acknowledge that creators should be justly compensated for their works that I intend t
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
As I said before, I live in what we would call the "Bible Belt" within the USA: Indiana. I've read about, as well watched a few documentaries about Norway's penal system. It's humane and treats people as punished- but still people trying to
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
That's not quite where I was going with this discussion. We have a rather disgusting prison system, in which people are in a various forms of lockup for a multitude of crimes. Many of these prisons are for-profit corporations, which seek to
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
So, speaking as a citizen of Indiana, what do we do with these people? What is the ideal prison system?

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