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• On the post: Voting Machine Vendors, Election Officials Continue To Look Ridiculous, As Kids Hack Voting Machines In Minutes

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2018 @ 10:20am

  _ Election officials from the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) bristled at the demonstrations, saying they didn't reflect what could actually happen on Election Day._
  
  As if election day is the prime window during which hacking any part of the system is going to occur.

• On the post: Facebook Bans 'Promotion' Of Kodi Boxes, Even If They're Perfectly Legal

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2018 @ 01:54pm

  Re: Re:

  Was it? Possibly better than some, and better at some times more than others, but was it good?

• On the post: Facebook Bans 'Promotion' Of Kodi Boxes, Even If They're Perfectly Legal

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2018 @ 01:53pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Hydrating. The word is hydrating. Also firming and toning. Possibly exfoliating or some other properties specific to intended use cases. But it's "hydrating". Which is sexy and sciencey.

• On the post: Irony Alert: Disney (Yes, DISNEY!) Whines About 'Overzealous Copyright Holders'

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2018 @ 01:47pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  bullshit

• On the post: Irony Alert: Disney (Yes, DISNEY!) Whines About 'Overzealous Copyright Holders'

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2018 @ 01:45pm

  Re:

  And constantly slurps from the public domain and locks it up. Disney mad a business out of that, as well.

• On the post: Irony Alert: Disney (Yes, DISNEY!) Whines About 'Overzealous Copyright Holders'

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2018 @ 01:43pm

  Re: Re: REALLY? You think Mickey Mouse THE key cause?

  Mickey Mouse is apparently an artistic creator now. Who knew. I don't see him getting the money, though. I don't think his, uh, ghost writer Walt Disney is, either. Wait, who is the poor suffering party due their rightful compensation?

• On the post: Irony Alert: Disney (Yes, DISNEY!) Whines About 'Overzealous Copyright Holders'

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2018 @ 01:40pm

  Re: Re: REALLY? You think Mickey Mouse THE key cause?

  They only managed to recover a few because of some people making illegal copies back then. Extreme time-shifting.

• On the post: Disney Gets Early Loss In Trademark, Copyright Suit Against Unlicensed Birthday Party Characters

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2018 @ 01:59pm

  (Dearth Vader)

  All hail the great and wise autocorrupt.

• On the post: On Thursday, Ajit Pai Has To Explain Why His FCC Made Up A DDOS Attack And Lied To Congress

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2018 @ 06:56am

  Re: Coming up on Thursday..

  Those would be the staffers whom the upper management ordered to lie, or about whom they just made up stuff. Although there may be some True Believers under that bus, i suppose, somehow managing to fall on their own swords from that position.

• On the post: Iowa Supreme Court Thinks Things Are Too Tough For Bad Cops, Adopts Qualified Immunity Defense

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2018 @ 06:48am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Two things

  Never speak up about anything, it is merely valueless whining.
  
  What the hell does being USAnian have to do with anything?

• On the post: Iowa Supreme Court Thinks Things Are Too Tough For Bad Cops, Adopts Qualified Immunity Defense

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2018 @ 06:45am

  Re: Re: Two things

  Do you applaud steelworkers and trash collectors also, among others who have more dangerous jobs, or those who more frequently have difficult interactions with the public (with no arsenal, backup, and fully sanctioned authority to use whatever amount of force they happen to feel like using at the moment ?

• On the post: Prisons Switch Device Providers; Render $11.3 Million Of Inmate-Purchased Music Worthless

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2018 @ 01:36pm

  Would these tablets be the same ones about which the prison guards and/or their union are having a cow?

• On the post: Bruce Lee's Estate Gets Stiff Roundhouse Kick After Trying To Block Theater Company's Trademark

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2018 @ 06:36am

  BLE filed a counter-statement denying the allegation and said that it filed the application to protect Lee’s IP rights and to expand the Bruce Lee brand in the UK.

  That is a bit of a cart before the horse, innit? Your IP would be the registration of the mark, after it is approved. Even if you want to go with the worst and most colloquial usage of "IP", your (particularly unknown and unused) name: IP it ain't.

• On the post: Australian Gov't Floats New Batch Of Compelled Access Legislation With An Eye On Encryption

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2018 @ 06:27am

  If you believe your only evidence of anything exists solely on devices which may use encryption, i believe you have larger issues.
  
  Never mind that any serious bad actors (think terrorists, people in the child porn market, foreign governments pulling the same crap they do; the examples they are always touting) are early adopters of things like encryption, and will add further layers of encryption and other obfuscation methods which are not created by large corporations which might be compelled to do your work for them. What you always have left is a giant, rights-trodding, expensive machine going after low-hanging fruit which is... well, low-hanging fruit. (Or shit they totally make up or otherwise induce themselves.)
  
  Lots of sound and fury signifying tantrums, security theatre, and probably some issue with intestinal gasses.

• On the post: Judge Allows Fourth Amendment Challenge Of Warrantless Device Searches At The Border To Continue

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 20 May, 2018 @ 12:22am

  The government also argued allegations of future harm were too vague to support a lawsuit.

  They are certainly more than too damn vague to support the searches.

• On the post: Trump's Lawyer's Lawyer Threatens Defamation Over Claims Stormy Daniels Did Not Make

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2018 @ 09:55am

  Re: Why the "real name" tag?

  You realize that she uses both names, unlike Carey Grant, and media will refer to her by one, the other, or both, and mentioning them both helps to identify her. Like James Tiptree Jr.

• On the post: Playboy Decides Not To Appeal Silly Boing Boing Lawsuit In The Most Petulant Manner Possible

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2018 @ 06:56pm

  Re:

  marked as insightful or something, for incessantly goading another troll.

• On the post: Cable's Top Lobbyist Again Calls For Hyper Regulation Of Silicon Valley

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2018 @ 04:13pm

  Re: Re:

  Interesting conclusion in your opening statement there.

• On the post: FBI Documents Show More Evidence Of Agency's Sketchy Relationship With Best Buy's Geek Squad

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2018 @ 03:50pm

  Re: DO NOT take your computer to Best Buy. Ever!

  I would never take a computer to be repaired at a place where someone wants to sell you a new router with "wiffy".

• On the post: FBI Documents Show More Evidence Of Agency's Sketchy Relationship With Best Buy's Geek Squad

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2018 @ 03:48pm

  Re: Re:

  They are probably also easy for a government agency to infect in hopes that this prompts a particular person to take a machine in for repair.
  
  Or maybe the FBI pays some of those malware scam Indian call centers already.

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