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Comment: Re:IANAL: DMCA and Trademark Infringement (Score 2) 232

by amoeba1911 (#43243025) Attached to: GoPro Issues DMCA Takedown Over Negative Review
There is a trademark infringement only if someone else uses that same trade mark (or similar mark) to sell a competing product. Since DigitalRev does not sell cameras (or anything even remotely related to cameras) there is no trademark case either. There is no copyright infringement, nor is there trademark infringement. There isn't a patent violation either. The DMCA request is completely bogus... also, Digital Millenium Copyright Act applies only to Copyright... not trademarks. GoPro has no ground to stand on in this case, they're simply abusing the DMCA. I hope they get sued and fined.

Comment: Being a crook is not illegal (Score 1) 280

by amoeba1911 (#43013225) Attached to: West Virgnia Auditor Finds Cisco Router Purchase Not Performed Legally
So they got boondoggled. There's really nothing they can do. Someone is counting their ill-gotten gains at everyone else's expense, and that's business as usual for the world. That's always how it is, people unjustly enrich their pockets at everyone else's expense. It's not illegal to be an unethical crook.

Comment: Re:Re-position the Planet (Score 4, Insightful) 265

by amoeba1911 (#42884929) Attached to: Earth-buzzing Asteroid Would Be Worth $195B If We Could Catch It
You don't get it: material in space is worth a whole lot more than material on earth. If you brought it back down to earth it would be worth only a tiny fraction of that price and defeat the entire purpose of catching it. We already have lots of water on earth, and this whole planet is made of all kinds of metals, there is no water shortage here. Asteroid is worth a lot in space because bringing material out of the gravity well and atmosphere is expensive, to the tune of several thousand dollar per pound. If we slowed down this asteroid to make it go into a stable orbit around the earth (or the moon) then it really would be worth billions, if not trillions. The problem is slowing down an object out of a hyperbolic orbit - it requires tremendous amount of force. We could change its trajectory slightly so it enters the atmosphere for aerobreaking, but that requires very precise control of the trajectory to make sure it doesn't end up sub-orbital. :)

Comment: Re:aaand it won't help much (Score 1) 125

by amoeba1911 (#42842647) Attached to: Adobe Hopes Pop-up Warnings Will Stop Office-Borne Flash Attacks

This is exactly what I was going to post, I searched to see if anyone had posted the dancing rabbits problem yet and there it is.

If you leave it up to the user to decide whether or or not to bypass the security protocols, then you have no security protocol. It's like getting the most secure door installed on your house but allowing your 4 year old to open the door to strangers.

Comment: proper use of ethics keeps hackers away (Score 1) 248

“Schools are supposed to teach best practice, which includes ethics and adherence to reasonable laws,” -- yes... in some imaginary world they live in that's much more important than fixing exploits in your software. That's the right attitude for having a very hack-able site.

Comment: Oracle thinks of it as an opportunity (Score 1) 223

by amoeba1911 (#42633383) Attached to: Latest Java Update Broken; Two New Sandbox Bypass Flaws Found
to ask people to install ask.com toolbar when they carelessly go through the update. Every idiot I know has ask.com toolbar installed, they have no idea how they got it or what it does, and they don't understand that it redirects their searches to their own shitty web site. It's disgusting, and it's disgusting that Oracle benefits from this.

Comment: now we can be safe (Score 1) 183

by amoeba1911 (#42487913) Attached to: Former Leader of Film Piracy Group Sentenced To Five Years In Prison

I am so glad our Justice Department is busy locking up such horrible and dangerous criminals. Thank goodness the Department of Justice is hard at work locking up these criminal masterminds. Now we can all feel safer.

They go to great lengths to ensure the content industry fat cats don't lose any money, because how else could they afford their eight figure salaries if a few people get their disgusting hands on their content without paying? They might have to go down to ... *gasp* seven figure salaries, ugh just saying it brings chill to my spine. That's unimaginable cruelty! Thank you Department of Justice for using my money to protect the interests of a select few that I don't give a crap about. Thank you, very much.

In the mean while, identity theft is at an all time high. Bravo, Department of Justice! Bravo!

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