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Wonkette : House Benghazi Committee To Investigate House Benghazi Committee

Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:29:35 +0000

"if they were a blind cave fish happily feeding on isopods in a subterranean lake": ahhhh, wouldn't it be luverly?

Wonkette : Hero Conservatives Will Fix Stupid Framers' Dumb Constitution

Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:22:11 +0000

Steve King is obviously an Obama pawn; all Real Patriots know that you can't repeal the 16th Amendment because it was never legally adopted, due to spelling and punctuation errors!

Wonkette : How Are The Feminists Keeping Men From Getting Laid Today?

Mon, 5 Jan 2015 23:38:55 +0000

More video stuff happens later on; scenes of his face and the lucky courtroom, with the judge in the distance, overlaid with text from the court transcript and his own text commentary, including remarks about his wife's "man hating" lawyer's weight. Such a mensch!

Wonkette : How Are The Feminists Keeping Men From Getting Laid Today?

Sun, 4 Jan 2015 02:39:32 +0000

Peter-Andrew: Nolan (c) / Joschua-Brandon: Boehm (tm) ;//; Throat-Warbler {Mangrove} #SuperGenius does indeed seem to be one of those memorable Sovereign Citizens (I didn't even know they had them in Australia!). A painful video exists here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdJjOrkR97k wherein first he explains that the video is the most historical video ever recorded in the Australian Family Court System, and then shows an amazingly patient judge repeatedly asking him question which he answers with various bits of Sovereign cargo-cult language about "contract that my inalienable rights remain intact" and "is your oath in the court today" and "Mr. Peter Nolan is a straw corporation" and so on. ::Peter::!@# notes that the judge's refusal to answer these questions mean that he (the judge, who [[pEtEr]] consistently addresses as "David") is criminally impersonating a magistrate, and it's remarkable that the court officers did not immedately haul the pretend-judge off to jail immediately... Certainly worth not watching, if you are uninterested in this sort of thing!

Wonkette : Middle-Aged Wonkette Owner Knocked Up By Stud Underling, Pix Or GTFO

Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:45:48 +0000

lol woot huzzah!

Wonkette : Fifty Shades Of Meh, Who Cares, That Book Sucked And So Will The Movie

Thu, 24 Jul 2014 17:56:02 +0000

Wait, wait! Movie??

Wonkette : Michele Bachmann Demands To Know Why You Aren't Begging To Know Her 2016 Plans

Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:25:54 +0000

“Michele Bachmann Wannabe" is My Favorite Oxymoron Of Today!

Island of Pain : Are You into BDSM and Want to be on Google+?

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:58:59 +0000

Is it not a problem for many in the community that Google+ requires everyone to use their real-life name, and that you can be banned without appeal if you don't and someone 'reports' you?

Hypergrid Business : Why grids should still consider licensing SpotON3D's plugin

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:22:29 +0000

Well, a license is just a license; it says "you have our permission to use our patented technology". It doesn't include any software per se. I don't know if SpotOn3D is planning to sell customized versions of their quasi-plugin-installer for use by other grid-owners; but maybe I haven't read the announcements carefully enough... The main thing that would be a real blow to copybots would be cloud rendering; but I still don't see the cost calculation working out for anyone doing that on the large scale anytime soon. That's a whole 'nother issue. :)

Hypergrid Business : Why grids should still consider licensing SpotON3D's plugin

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:19:52 +0000

On your last question: no, that doesn't work. It's trivial for a malicious viewer to claim to be an approved one. You can make it very slightly harder for someone who doesn't know what he's doing to log in with an unapproved viewer. But the security against someone who is actually trying to steal, rather than just casually fooling around, is basically zero.

Hypergrid Business : Why grids should still consider licensing SpotON3D's plugin

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:14:00 +0000

(1) What Gareth said: having your installer install Whisper/Mumble doesn't require licensing this particular installer or their patent. I guess you are saying that if you use exactly the same quasi-plugin installer that they do, you'll get this for free. But you'll also get a viewer that points at THEIR grid rather than yours, so that's not too useful. :) (2) I think you're confused about how this actually works. The website doesn't run the viewer, the user's computer runs the viewer. The viewer runs on the user's computer, it's started up by the user's operating system, and so on. It's just loosely hooked into the browser, so its display appears inside the browser window, and it gets keys and mouse movements that occur when the browser has focus. So it's trivial to watch what the browser and the viewer say to the website in the authorized case, and make your unauthorized viewer say the same thing. And yes, one way to do that would be to replace the authorized viewer with an unauthorized one after it's download. Another way would be to just spoof the whole process locally, making sure that the web site and the remote grid see the right messages coming out of your computer. (3) Ah, okay, so you don't really mean "it could be moot soon" as a reason, you mean "you'll get an early foot in the door" or something like that. Vaguely plausible, but again since viewer-in-a-browser technologies have been played with for years without having a noticeable impact on the field, it's not clear why this particular one is suddenly so important that every week counts...

Hypergrid Business : Why grids should still consider licensing SpotON3D's plugin

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:08:59 +0000

Somewhat puzzled by the content of the article; none of the three reasons given to license the tech actually seem to be reasons to license the tech. (1) Having your viewer install Whisper/Mumble so that your grid can have good voice almost certainly has nothing to do with whatever quasi-plugin technology the patent application covers. So it's neither necessary nor sufficient to license the technology in order to get this advantage. (2) There's nothing at all magic about having a web page between the viewer and the grid; in particular it doesn't allow you to reliably keep non-authorized viewers off of the grid. All someone has to do is spoof the "here I am being the authorized viewer, running in the quasi-plugin in the browser!" message that the viewer sends to the web site. So there is no 'copybot' prevention against anyone who knows what they are doing (and protecting yourself against people who DON'T know what they are doing doesn't require licensing this; there are lots of free ways to do that). (3) The fact that it might soon be moot is presumably reason NOT to spend money licensing the soon-to-be-moot technology. So... :) fwiw...

Hypergrid Business : Second Life vs. OpenSim

Mon, 30 May 2011 15:12:50 +0000

Everything you say is quite true, I was responding just to your actual statement, that "Linden Lab owns all the content in Second Life"; that statement is untrue. The fact that "it's really inconvenient or even nearly impossible in some cases to get stuff out of Second Life" may *feel* alot like LL owning it all, but there are important legal distinctions.

Hypergrid Business : Second Life vs. OpenSim

Mon, 30 May 2011 04:09:33 +0000

Decent comparison! One correction: "Linden Lab owns all the content in Second Life" is not the case. The Second Life Terms of Service requires that the Lab be granted a license to use the software, but ownership remains with the original owner/creator; see http://secondlife.com/corporate/tos.php#tos7 and note the title: "You retain any and all Intellectual Property Rights in Content you submit to the Service".