What’s the problem with charging the artist for legal fees you incur defending against lawsuits filed by the artist for not paying the artist? So, instead, we’ll go with yet another Anonymous Coward comment, explaining how Universal Music withholding millions from Eminem royalties to pay for Eminem’s lawsuit against Universal Music made sense: I will admit that I was really, really tempted to make my editor’s choice comment this hater’s comment because it really is amazingly funny and gets funnier and more ridiculous the further you read (summary: it argues that I’m a total idiot, and to make my life miserable, this amazing individual might “buy” this blog just to make me suffer - I should probably just send him our starting price), but I thought that might just be funny to me.
Of course, some of those looking for freaky German porn were notably confused. In other news, Techdirt readership among German youths is up 42%. Then we had yet another Anonymous Coward explaining: Yeah, but we just go there for the articles. First we had someone going by the name “TD regular guess who” noting: The next two were both on the story about Techdirt being filtered out for kids in Germany as being harmful to minors. But if the group’s members around the world developed or acquired it, an attack on the power grid would become far more likely, according to cybersecurity experts who spend their time giving stupid quotes for stupid articles. It’s also by an Anonymous Coward (though a different one) responding to that claim of Anonymous supposedly not wanting to take down power plants because they’d lose power… and then mimicking the bizarre two sentences we quote from the article about how Anonymous can’t take down the power grid, but “experts” feared that if they did then that would increase the likelihood that a power grid would be taken down:Īnonymous doesn’t yet have the capability to run computers without a power source, officials say. Amusingly, the top-voted funniest comment… is actually a response to the most insightful of the week! Never seen that before. So, rather than leave out that “third” comment, let’s just list out all three of those comments.
Moving on to funny, we had three comments very closely clumped together at the top… and then there was a huge gap from them to number four. Why doesn’t NSA actually look into what parts of the power grid can be accessed from the Internet and go “fix” that? Oh Yeah, I forgot, you can’t take away any civil liberties if you do that……. I mean how stupid was that? Does somebody working at the power company need to get on a web page from home and turn off the power grid? My hobby: Every time someone says “Edison invented…” I mentally replace “invented” with “was somehow involved in patenting”.įor the second editor’s choice, I’ll go with TasMot’s comment on the NSA/Anonymous hacking the power grid story, which gets to the real heart of the matter:īefore chasing after the group Anonymous, let’s put the idiots in jail that put the On/Off switch for the Power Grid on the Internet. If it did nothing else this would limit the amount of time available for making new laws!įor editor’s choice, we’ve got Chosen Reject explaining how he deals with the fact that certain “inventors” aren’t: As Richard notes, this might have a side benefit: Let’s go the other way, why would Anon, who uses computers which require power, shut down their power source?Ĭoming in second was Richard’s comment in response to my suggestion that all laws should have a sunset period at which point they need to be reviewed before they could be renewed. This AC gave a good reason for that to be unlikely: (Second place was way, way behind.) It was a comment from an Anonymous Coward, in response to the claims from the NSA that Anonymous was somehow likely to target taking down power grids. The most insightful comment this week was another clear winner. Sun, Feb 26th 2012 12:00pm - Mike Masnick