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1. Comment - MIT students barred from presenting Boston subway fare loophole

   (Aug 11, 2008 - 7:56 PM)

   "In issuing its order barring the students from making their presentation, the court" is protecting those who really don't deserve protection.
   
   The lazy and shifltess bureaucrats who (might have been bribed when they) selected this crap system and the investors and directors of the crap company who designed this system.
   
   Now the taxpayers get screwed twice - once for buying a totally crap revenue collection system and a second time for protecting the incompetent slobs who sold the system.
   
   Stand up for your right to free expression AND your right to NOT pay for your govenment to protect lazy, incompentent companies.

2. Comment - EFF looks to protect developers from legal threats

   (Aug 8, 2008 - 10:21 AM)

   Just another step in the "we're too lazy and cheap to protect our own shoddy work so we want the taxpayers to foot the bill" process.
   
   Whether it's a lazy cable or telephone company that uses unsecured J-boxes or a recording industry defending an obsolete business model or a software publisher releasing crap code the story is exactly the same.
   
   These investor owned companies constantly try to push their own business expenses on to the taxpayers' backs. These firms won't lift a finger to protect their own products; they want us taxpayers to pay the FBI and local law enforcement to protect their own private property.
   
   It's no different than an individual who is too lazy to lock his own doors demanding that a sheriff's deputy guard his home to prevent a burglary. Ridiculous!!!

3. Comment - Sirius-XM merger approval by FCC hangs on one vote

   (Jul 29, 2008 - 8:52 AM)

   "the big losers? ground based broadcast radio which tried its damnedest to scuttle the deal."
   
   The NAB certainly tried to scuttle the deal, but didn't it seem like the NAB was fighting the battle the COULD fight instead of the battle they SHOULD fight?
   
   Radio veteran Don Geronimo listed what he saw a the true threats to terrestrial radio as
   
   Cell phones
   
   Personal digital music players
   
   "Box of records" canned, national play lists
   
   Demise of local programming, local personalities and local events
   
   Lack of connectivity throughout the broadcast day
   
   As Don put it "It used to be that when you were stuck in traffic you'd turn on the radio. Now you grab your cell phone and chat or text with friends or hit the iPod."
   
   The NAB fiercely defends terrestrial radio's "right" to be monopolistic through consolidation, which has been shown to drive listeners away in droves, yet stridently fights the satrad merger. Stupid, shortsighted and, frankly, offensive.