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• On the post: Texas Attorney General Sues Self To Stop Self From Releasing Documents He Says Can't Be Released

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2015 @ 11:44am

  Texas

  You can't make this stuff up !

• On the post: The Weather Channel Finally Gets The Message: Announces Plan To Actually Cover…The Weather

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2015 @ 06:30am

  The "weather" channel

  My Comcast version of the weather channel thinks my "local" area is about 30 miles from me. So my "Local on the 8s" is useless and there is NO WAY to contact anyone who might fix this, NO WAY, not Comcast, not NBC, not weather.com.
  
  Weather.com is slightly more useful but the amount of the page not taken up by ads or other non-weather items is very small. I've switched to weatherunderground.com for my weather.

• On the post: UK Orders Google To 'Forget' News Articles Discussing Previous Right To Be Forgotten Requests

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2015 @ 07:40am

  Re: FU to the EU

  Best suggestion I've heard on this subject is for Google to submit each and every "forget" request to the court for a ruling on if it meets the court's approval and why. Wonder how long the court will continue this farce then.

• On the post: Comcast's New Half-Assed Answer To Netflix Is No Answer At All

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2015 @ 01:30pm

  cannibalizing customers

  It is ALWAYS better to cannibalize your customers than to let someone else do it. Tho I doubt that this is known or believed by the big media executives.

• On the post: Would It Have Been Better To Let The Indiana Religious Freedom Law Stand And Let The Internet And Free Market Work?

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2015 @ 06:42am

  Business's Rights

  When we figure out how to jail a business (of any size) not just its workers or execs, then they might, just might, have some rights, not all, that individuals have.
  
  For example, how do you punish a business when you find illegal drugs on its premises or it breaks some other law? Individuals are incarcerated, and property confiscated.

• On the post: IOC Forces School To Remove Rings From Crest For Some Reason

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2015 @ 10:53am

  wrongness

  Yep, wrong indeed but the whole IOC setup is very wrong, old guys out to make a buck for themselves. Well, lots and lots of bucks.

• On the post: IOC Forces School To Remove Rings From Crest For Some Reason

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2015 @ 01:02pm

  Idea for replacement of rings section:

  How 'bout 6 BROKEN rings in a pile?

• On the post: Verizon Latest To Balk At Weather Channel Rate Hikes For 'Weather Coverage' That's 70% Fluff And Nonsense

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2015 @ 01:22pm

  Charging Cable transport

  I always thought it was strange that the Cable Co. had to pay for carrying content with advertising. In a real world the content provider would pay the Cable Co. for carrying the content, since the advertising should pay for generating the content.

• On the post: Indian Film Industry To Punish Pirates Paying Customers With 3-Month Film Release Boycott

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2015 @ 11:31am

  Re: Ignorance

  No, not ignorance. Ignorance is the lack of education. This is stupidity plain and simple. This shows the reason the "average" IQ is only 100, and maybe decreasing. Why is it that MPAA, RIAA, USTR, and other media exec jobs draw from the "I've no clue" pool?

• On the post: Marsha Blackburn Rushes To The Defense Of Awful, Protectionist State Broadband Laws

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2015 @ 05:25pm

  Re:

  How 'bout a condition that they spin off all content creation, e.g. NBC, Golf Channel, now and forever. This makes them a carrier only and should allow all comers to use their transport.
  
  I've always wondered why cable companies pay content providers for the right to carry content and not vice versa.
  
  Seems to me the content providers should be the side paying.

• On the post: Apparently The Best Way To Decrease Movie Piracy Is To Get Rid Of The Oscars

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2015 @ 12:54pm

  While we're removing the Oscars ...

  ... let's select the "weekly box office winners" by counting the number of tickets sold, not the sum of the price of all the tickets. Wonder how some of the oldies would come in.
  
  Getting rid of the Oscars would free about 10,000 hours of TV time and think of the newsprint saved.
  
  But removing movies and music from copyright would sure help. They got it wrong in the early 1900s when they added them. When I was a programmer early in my career, I got paid once for the program, not each time it was executed, which is what happens for movies and music.

• On the post: President Obama: I'm A Big Believer In Strong Encryption… But…

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2015 @ 01:13pm

  Re: Terrorists use encryption.

  Terrorist use encryption.
  Government uses encryption.
  Therefore, Government is a Terrorist.

• On the post: Apple CEO Tim Cook Makes It Clear That He's Not At All Interested In Giving The Government Backdoors To iOS Encryption

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2015 @ 01:17pm

  Ben Franklin

  Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
  
  Benjamin Franklin,
  
  
  US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

• On the post: With Rollover Data, AT&T Just Keeps Walking Face First Into T-Mobile Attempts To Make It Look Stupid

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2015 @ 06:13am

  Roots of today's AT&T

  "bloated and groggy from decades of regulatory capture and unfamiliar with real competition"
  
  Yep, Cellular One has gotten at least a few to forget they just changed names and logo when they bought the real MaBell's mobile.
  
  Hey fellows, today's AT&T is not the same as Ma Bell and the seven dwarfs, it is the [still] stupid renamed Cellular One.

• On the post: Maryland Council Member Kirby Delauter Admits He Was Wrong To Threaten To Sue Newspaper For Using His Name

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2015 @ 12:23pm

  Re: Re: Why is this idiot still in his position?

  Mistakes yes. Stupidity and ignorance, no.
  
  Tho he'll probably get re-elected by his more stupid constituents.

• On the post: How Copyright Forced A Filmmaker To Rewrite Martin Luther King's Historic Words

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2014 @ 06:53am

  long copyrights

  Copyrights should stop at person's death, 10 years after sale of rights, or 20 years of start of copyright, which ever comes first. No copyright if government funded.
  
  Ditto for patents and no patents for software or living items. Patents should be licensed to all comers at reasonable rates. No patent if government funded.

• On the post: Google Files Legal Challenge To Attorney General Jim Hood's Subpoenas

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2014 @ 05:16pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  ... and seems to be cheap to buy.

• On the post: More Evidence Revealed Of Hollywood's Chummy Relationship With State Attorney General… Even As He Plays Dumb

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2014 @ 08:44am

  Google strikes back

  Goliath files suit !!
  http://goo.gl/pn6zHY

• On the post: Surprise: Spanish Newspapers Beg Government And EU To Stop Google News Shutting Down

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2014 @ 12:00pm

  Censorship

  No, censorship is the so-called "right to forget". Google should have turned over all the requests to the court and not done anything until a court-order was received, then appealed each and every one.

• On the post: Comcast CEO Still Pretending His Company's Horrible Satisfaction Ratings Are Just A Normal Part Of Being So Huge

  

  dave blevins ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2014 @ 06:20pm

  .. and they're terrible in predicting repair times ...

  ... Parts of No. Va. were out today, 11/19/2014, from about 9AM to 6-6:30 PM but on each of 3 phone calls I got the message "we'll be back up in about an hour" from a live person. I game up about 2ish. And at their request, I left a phone number for them to call when it came back up: no call even not 3 hours after restoration !!

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