So, I knew of a guy that would take a physical book, cut the spine off, scan it, send it through OCR and turn it into an ebook and release it to the torrents.

So what he was doing was undoubtedly a lot of work. Are you saying that because he spent so much time and effort, he should be able to distribute those ebooks…

I don't think that modifying the video into a gif (no matter how long it takes is irrelevant) constitutes a substantial enough of a change to count as a derivitave work unbound by copywrite protection. That is merely place shifting to a different format and remastering. Something that totally wouldnt fly if you were…

So you'd also have no ethical problem putting your own site's watermark on a gif you spent "30 minutes... to clean, mask, and optimize" of say... "Wolf of Wall Street" like you own it?

A seemingly normal photograph of the four photogenic hosts of the Today Show become shapes and circles and arrows pointing out people's flaws that must be corrected in Photoshop before its published.

Grey hat hacking is freaking stupid as an activity. They all have the same bull story about being some neutral, modern demigod bound by the universe to expose the flaws in our residences by handing out copies of our house keys, but they're just slimy grifters in the protection business.

Indeed. For a group preaching and demanding tolerance...there isn't much here in these posts.

Let's be real.

With some exception, an adopted aesthetic this extreme is a mask worn by the young to hide (or hide from) insecurity.

Facebook is the rich as fuck creep that keeps on raping you while sweet talking and smiling. Meanwhile there is a camera recording the whole thing, to sell the video to the highest bider. And you know it, but you shut your mouth cause the darn experience is free.

I'm not just talking about stop motion and animated movies either. Special effects as well. One makes it easier to obtain your artistic goals. That would be CG. CG has spoiled us. We now have the tools to create anything we can imagine. You know what, I think a struggling artist is more artistic than a spoiled rich…

It means that you should do your own damn conversions if you want to frequent US-based websites. Now begone before I'm forced to throw pounds of slugs and stones at you!

What's really scary is that part of the job qualifications to become a TSA agent, is prior security work (and I'm not talking Joe Blow Mall Cop, but U.S. Military, or Law Enforcement-type stuff). They Agency makes a big hullabaloo about how they hire Veterans, etc., but hardly ANY of the people I've encountered in a…

I agree with all of this, except the part where he knows how to run a business. He hired experienced people to do that.

I've always thought of Zuckerberg as the right idea combined with the right amount of stubbornness/cockiness at the right time. There are countless accounts of the fact that he's not actually all that good at coding. Facebook as it originally launched was far from a feat of engineering, but it was the right thing at…

If the comment had been "some older people with outdated views like casual racism..." then it may have sidestepped offensiveness.
As it stands:

Painting old people as racist (casual or otherwise)? Nice touch.

Its nice to see that someone else can see the positivity of people interacting with animals like this… i was skimming through the comments to find a lot of them calling him foolish for doing this, saying he will die, or even that he SHOULD be mauled… the fact that people can have respect for race car drivers, and…

Yea, sorry 'bout that. I'll open a window.

Because someone feels that personal liberty is more important than fictional terrorist tactics you call them crazy. I'd say that knee-jerk reaction is definitely a sign that someone has become conditioned to a "security" state as opposed to one that promotes personal liberty. You like the cage and ridicule anyone who…

Never said shutting down the NSA, I want judicial checks and processes for them to go through to access metadata for US Citizens. No point in arguing with you, just keep recommending your own posts and dismiss anyone who disagrees with you.

A guy did use it last, the seat is up