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Comment Re:Whack a mole (Score 1) 169

For Eircom, out side of potential liability for no longer being indifferent to content, it is a big win. If they kick the bandwidth hogs off of their network, they can sell the same pipes to more customers, at a lower rate and perhaps a greater profit. For the **AAs not so much, as those same customers will find an alternative.

Comment Whack a mole (Score 3, Interesting) 169

So they are blocking the one torrent site that is pretty much self-destructing on it's own? I guess it could set a precedent for when the **AAs show up with entire domains and IP ranges they want blocked, but the sharing will just move to an anonomized format or into clustered cells of private peer groupings.

It has been my experience that the web does a very good job at routing around damage, and moves much more quickly that some trade association with an antiquated business model.

Comment Re:Free speech and democracy? (Score 1) 869

Well the Heath Ledger/Dark Night Joker, is a different animal I think. He could actually execute a plan. A complex and insane plan, with a destructive theme, but a plan none the less. So far, I have not seen much planning or execution from Undecider in Chief yet. So, I would say that so the Obama/Joker image is a bit unfair, for Obama as he appears to be mostly ineffective, and unfair for the Joker, as Obama seems to lack any coherent plan of his own, and is mostly acting as the point man for the bankers and special interests. Perhaps I am mistaken though, and the President's "cunning plan" for fixing the economy and getting universal health care into law will make more sense than one of Baldric's

Comment Re:Awful? (Score 1) 106

Moderation -1 100% Overrated Well, that is not very nice. How can it be overrated when it was unmodded? I do not see a problem with prohibiting marketing to anyone who identifies themselves as a minor and a Mod has a problem with that?

Comment Re:Could have told you writing analysis was bogus. (Score 1) 96

"I do not think anyone has ever sold as an analysis of writing a unique identifier. But it can be useful. If one was an unpublished author in any way, and then is Unabomber, "and began to write letters as a calling card, can be deduced from very similar writing styles and structures of work and unpublished incriminating / unpopularized previous evidence that at least raise the suspicion that the writer of the earlier work was somehow tied to the crimes, though not directly. Of course, all bets are off if it is possible that someone could have analyzed previously the author to imitate. Also of note, this is only one positive test (ie, a mismatch in the analysis is not intended at all as to whether someone wrote it). I would be a good example of writing that demonstrates a language used only in a particular location, a business in which the term is used only one enterprise, and an ideological term used only in a certain political stripe movement. * * This is reasonable evidence of authorship, which, of course, tests! = Test. The polygraph, on the other hand, is complete BS because the only real thing is a polygraph achieves the beneficial psychological reasons to tell the truth because of the "faith" in the fact that they lie for outt by the device. Not really measure anything related to the statements, only the physiological condition that may depend upon millions of independent factors."

If going unabomer you could always bounce it through a translator as I did with your post. Of course you could end up with quite a bit of "Someone set us up the bomb!" But still semi-legible. I wonder how the analysis would do with that?

Comment Re:Demise of POTS, not landlines in general. (Score 1) 435

"one former "phone company" and one former "cable company" -- although the differences between the two are rapidly becoming irrelevant." "Triple play"

Yeah, but both trying to sell you content, voice and data, when all one will eventually need is the bandwidth and an IP. Thus, you end up with Comcast breaking bit torrent and AT&T not wanting Apple to support Google applications. It is going to be a tough transition for these guys to go from a service to a commodity.

Comment Re:Free speech and democracy? (Score 1, Interesting) 869

"When I first saw the "Obama as Joker" "parody", I actually didn't think of the Joker at all."

Really? My first impression was that it was powerful and compelling social commentary and drove home the point that. what I now have as president was not what I voted for. Instead of "Hope and Change," I have the Banker in Chief. This image seems to me to be an effective and quite scary. Perhaps that is a good reason why it is so controversial with the Obama faithful?

Comment Re:Awful? (Score 0) 106

"The problem is that there's basically no way to prove that you have parental approval, so it's essentially barring the websites from doing anything to collect information from minors"

Sooo, I'm not seeing a downside here. Everyone starts claiming to be minor to avoid marketing schemes? Nope, still not seeing a downside.

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