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Comment: Re:The Truth is Never Libelous (Score 2) 303

by Drgnkght (#43507325) Attached to: British Woman's Twitter Comments Spark Expensive Libel Claims

I'm surprised the USA hasn't adopted UK style libel laws. Just think how much money the lawyers would make!! And almost all politicians are former lawyers, you'd think they'd look out for their buddies.

Why would they make it easier for their political opponents to sue them? It'd make election time a lot quieter that's for certain.

Comment: Re:How does TOS affect YOU? (Score 1) 305

by Drgnkght (#42793979) Attached to: Piriform Asks BleachBit To Remove Winapp2.ini Importer

That could be an issue, but it seems highly unlikely in this case. Having taken a look at the winapp2.ini from winapp2.com (the file isn't made by ccleaner as best I can tell.) there wouldn't have been any need to reverse-engineer anything. It is an incredibly simple format. Below is one entry from the file. It seems fairly representative. I cannot image he'd need to reverse-engineer their software to figure out what it meant.


[Amazon Kindle for PC*]

LangSecRef=3023

Detect=HKCU\SOFTWARE\Amazon\Kindle

Default=False

FileKey1=%LocalAppData%\Amazon\Kindle\Cache|*.*|RECURSE

FileKey2=%LocalAppData%\Amazon\Kindle\Logs|*.txt|RECURSE

Comment: Re:It's not iTunes or Apple, it's RIAA (Score 3, Insightful) 570

I don't see an answer to the problem other than DRM. But how do you maintain DRM without punishing the legal users? Computers were designed for the ultimate in information freedom, and while they excel at playing, editing, and transferring musics and other media there is a domain mismatch when it comes to maintaining rights. No one has a right to music unless they pay for it.

Human history disagrees with you.

For a more humorous counterpoint I refer you to an artist who also disagrees with you. Dan Bull

Comment: Re:Lies (Score 2) 1264

by Drgnkght (#41160181) Attached to: US Doctors Back Circumcision

I don't get why people are trying SO DAMN HARD to make it okay.

Guilt and possibly shame. If it wasn't necessary or useful then they mutilated their son(s) for no reason, or they were mutilated for no reason. It's really simple if you think about it. They are simply protecting their self image.

Comment: Checkride (Score 1) 247

by Drgnkght (#41049965) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Options For FOSS Remote Support Software?

You might want to check out a program called Checkride. It is an open source program developed in Lazarus. It is basically a preconfigured portable VNC and stunnel package. To use you configure it to connect to your computer and give it to the person you are trying to help. The executable you send them starts VNC server and then connects to your computer via stunnel. Your PC then starts VNC viewer on your side and connects to their desktop via the secure stunnel connection.

Checkride

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