http://blog.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/10364522962/eric-schmidt-still-fan-figuring-out-way-to-erase-past.shtml#c220 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:46:19 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/10364522962/eric-schmidt-still-fan-figuring-out-way-to-erase-past.shtml#c220
Let's say as an example you did something silly like dress in a costume for halloween that might be considered somewhat racists or sexist according to some future standard (blackface, anyone?). Is it really fair that this image might get drudged up during a job search 20 years later, costing you future employment?

We expect our kids to somehow have adult values and adult levels of intelligence, when honestly many of the adults online don't seem to have it. Is it really realistic to keep all their stuff out there?]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c52 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:44:02 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c52 http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c43 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:43:33 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c43 http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1863 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:42:04 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1863
Even if it was just water and it ruined the clothes you just spent your money on and you were heading to an interview?]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02350923170/new-bill-would-stop-patent-trolls-hiding-behind-shell-companies.shtml#c142 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:41:56 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02350923170/new-bill-would-stop-patent-trolls-hiding-behind-shell-companies.shtml#c142 So far, none of the bills has received much momentum

Basically, random Senators and House members suggest all sorts of odd legislation, often only so that in the next election they can claim to have championed a cause. Few of these personal bills make it past getting posted as a proposal, they die on the order table at the end of every session like most of the other crap. With 600+ elected grandstanders, the order papers are crowded with this sort of stuff.

So Coles Note: nothing like this has a hope of passing any time soon.]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/14172323158/judge-not-impressed-prenda-alan-cooper-lawsuit.shtml#c872 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:41:56 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/14172323158/judge-not-impressed-prenda-alan-cooper-lawsuit.shtml#c872
Risking to sound rude, I note that Duffy's wife probably can't spell half of the words Nora/Heather used.

Also: the only person I know who use the word "tossed" describing lawsuits.... you know who.]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/14172323158/judge-not-impressed-prenda-alan-cooper-lawsuit.shtml#c876 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:41:56 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/14172323158/judge-not-impressed-prenda-alan-cooper-lawsuit.shtml#c876
Risking to sound rude, I note that Duffy's wife probably can't spell half of the words Nora/Heather used.

Also: the only person I know who use the word "tossed" describing lawsuits.... you know who.]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1850 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:38:39 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1850
"Hitler will have no war (does not want war), but we will force it on him, not this year, but soon." - Emil Ludwig Cohn in Les Annales, June, 1934]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c25 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:38:22 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c25 And, because people who angrily write comments on this site rarely read to the end of the post, I'll just point out that this is a joke, not anything even remotely serious. Laughter is good

Stupidity is stupidity, even if you think there is a laugh in it.]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1833 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:36:41 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1833 http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02350923170/new-bill-would-stop-patent-trolls-hiding-behind-shell-companies.shtml#c132 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:22:48 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02350923170/new-bill-would-stop-patent-trolls-hiding-behind-shell-companies.shtml#c132
But won't the "you have to make product" test make patents a lot less valuable? Independent inventors of mass produced products will *never* be able to get a patent, because, for example, it will be impossible to make a pop-tart baking system in their garage. This will inhibit the best kind of invention, the corporate-developed, mass-marketed thinger.]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1823 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:14:19 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1823
And we aren't even trying to stop it. Then again, the Corporatists in power want those cops doing exactly that: stomping the populace with their jackboots, grinding us underfoot and keeping us afraid.

Just like their counterparts in 1934 in Germany...]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130521/20101423164/att-says-you-can-use-any-video-streaming-app-you-want-just-as-soon-as-it-can-get-meter-running.shtml#c234 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:11:25 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130521/20101423164/att-says-you-can-use-any-video-streaming-app-you-want-just-as-soon-as-it-can-get-meter-running.shtml#c234
I'm not really happy w/ them, but they are the only nationwide carrier to service most of my famil's rural farm land.]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c19 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:05:42 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c19 http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c9 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:02:19 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c9 http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1804 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:02:17 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1804 http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/03160923172/chinese-hacks-google-database-surveillance-targets-highlight-how-dumb-technology-backdoors-are.shtml#c212 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:00:46 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/03160923172/chinese-hacks-google-database-surveillance-targets-highlight-how-dumb-technology-backdoors-are.shtml#c212 http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/03160923172/chinese-hacks-google-database-surveillance-targets-highlight-how-dumb-technology-backdoors-are.shtml#c197 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:58:06 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/03160923172/chinese-hacks-google-database-surveillance-targets-highlight-how-dumb-technology-backdoors-are.shtml#c197
Eric Schmidt was once quoted in basically stating that anyone working for Google has the ability and access to see users' emails without the use of users' passwords, and the reason people working there don't do it is because he'd know about it immediately and their policy is "don't be evil"...I mean seriously how delusional is that?]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c691 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:57:27 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c691
Regarding violent video games causing savagery, just shut the hell up. You're clearly speaking of something which you have no experience with and as such are incapable to comment on it's (v. video games) effect on behavior.]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c679 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:55:22 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c679
and this is why the cops should have had their own cameras recording the whole thing. Nine cops and no cop cameras. Incredible. Why didn't the cops bring their own cameras? Very suspect, very disturbing.]]>