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• On the post: Highly-Dubious Spiritualist Making Highly-Dubious Claims Loses Highly-Dubious Defamation Lawsuit Against Critic

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2016 @ 05:33pm

  Allow me to introduce you two.

  Trivedi Effect, meet Streisand Effect!

• On the post: Highly-Dubious Spiritualist Making Highly-Dubious Claims Loses Highly-Dubious Defamation Lawsuit Against Critic

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2016 @ 05:33pm

  Allow me to introduce you two.

• On the post: Why Are People Using Ad Blockers? Ads Can Eat Up To 79% Of Mobile Data Allotments

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2016 @ 08:49am

  GQ? Wired? Forbes?

  Jeez who do these guys think they are? Comcast? We might have to put up with Comcast's BS for now but not these assclowns. There's a million other places to get news/info/whatever online.

• On the post: UK's Snooper's Charter Hands Over Access To User Data To Several Non-Law Enforcement Agencies

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2015 @ 05:05am

  The Nazis scattered to the four winds after WW2 and, they say, mostly ended up in Argentina.
  
  It seems they were wrong - the Nazis are all in the UK now.

• On the post: 'We Should Put A Metal Detector On The Other Side': The Laughable Waste Of TSA Body Scanners

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2015 @ 08:30am

  Re: Are you fucking kidding me?

  People's genitals.

• On the post: Comcast Really Wants Me To Stop Calling Their Top Lobbyist A 'Top Lobbyist'

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2015 @ 07:38am

  Hey if the shoe fits...

  well, you know the rest.

• On the post: Verizon Support Wants You To Know That Twitter Is A Perfectly Secure Way To Send Them Your Social Security Number

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2015 @ 07:22am

  Most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care?

• On the post: Google Fiber Has Accomplished More For Broadband Than Our National Broadband Plan Ever Did

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2015 @ 08:20am

  Re: Fiber where?

  In general I agree with you, that rural areas are mostly no better off than before Google. But like Karl said, what Google has done is kick the incumbents in the nads and make them compete at least a little bit, no matter how lame and uninspired said competition is.
  
  Also to show the rest of the country how much better their service could be.

• On the post: Guy Who Inspired The Term 'Patent Troll' May Be Leaving The Patent Trolling Business

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2015 @ 10:40am

  "I can take it once, twice, but am I going to take it three or four times? No. Why should I?"
  
  Spoken like a true assclown, he can dish it out but he sure can't take it.
  
  How many times did he force others to waste millions on frivolous litigation? I'll bet it was a hell of a lot more than four.

• On the post: Report: FBI's PATRIOT Act Snooping Goes Beyond Business Records, Subject To Few Restrictions

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 21 May, 2015 @ 02:09pm

  "Section 215 is dying."

  About goddamn time IMNSHO.

• On the post: Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood Insists His Emails With The MPAA Are Super Secret

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 19 May, 2015 @ 10:28am

  What Hood's probably thinking right now...

  Quick! To the Shredder-mobile!
  
  (btw his name is more than a little ironic, he seems like quite a "hood" to me).

• On the post: Dear Tom Wheeler: I'm Sorry I Thought You Were A Mindless Cable Shill

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2015 @ 11:41am

  Re:

  Yeah, I must say I too was expecting the worst initially. Glad that so far (publicly at least) my initial expectations were wrong.
  
  Of course all the net neutrality lawsuits could succeed (which I doubt by the way) but at least Wheeler has tried to make things better, which is more than I can say of his predecessor in the role.

• On the post: TSA Agents Outwitted By Cory Doctorow's Unlocked, 'TSA-Safe' Suitcase

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2015 @ 11:22am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How about an impenetrable cable tie?

  "they said the driver attempted to deliver and found me not home. (Another lie; I was there the whole time and no one ever came.)"
  
  I've had that happen with Fedex. Was waiting at home for it, sitting 15 feet from my door, and went out a bit later to find a note "sorry we missed you, come pick it up tomorrow". A-hole, couldn't you at least be arsed to knock on the GD door?
  
  Or 2-3 times I left a note on the door instructing them to leave the package in the leasing office and they leave it on my doorstep anyway. In the rain, snow, whatever.

• On the post: Why Not? AT&T Adds Its Name To The Pile Of Lawsuits Against The FCC's Net Neutrality Rules

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2015 @ 05:49pm

  "And, just think, instead of spending all that money on lawyers and press releases about future plans to deliver faster broadband, AT&T could actually be investing in building a better network for its subscribers. But what fun is that?"
  
  This. So much this.

• On the post: Capcom Removes Advertised Offline Co-Op From Resident Evil Reboot, Updates Steam Page After Sales Begin

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2015 @ 04:20am

  No great loss.

  The RE series has sucked since RE5. 6 was even worse. The magic is gone.

• On the post: Microsoft Steps In To Clean Up Lenovo's Superfish Mess — While Lenovo Stumbles And Superfish Remains Silent

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2015 @ 12:56pm

  Who'd have thought the day would come...

  When Microsoft would be the GOOD guys?
  
  Hell has indeed frozen over.

• On the post: What Billions In Subsidies Bought: The Final Map Of Verizon's FiOS Fiber

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2015 @ 07:48am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: FIOS user here

  Actually, I read his comment to mean that HIS experience was anecdotal.

• On the post: Despite Endless Improvement Promises, Comcast, Time Warner Cable Still Least Liked Companies — In Any Industry

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 01 Jan, 2015 @ 11:06am

  Re: Re: What's wrong with Cox?

  I agree with all of the above except the part about IMAP. They finally do have it (mail.twc.com), at least for us (Austin TX). This is within the last 6-9 months, after the rest of the entire civilized email world has had it for at least 10+ years.
  
  Just another example what a lack of real competition results in.

• On the post: Mississippi Attorney General Dares Reporters To Find Any Evidence Of Hollywood Funding… So We Did

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2014 @ 07:18am

  These are not the monies you're looking for.

• On the post: Sony Jabs Hornets Nest, Allegedly Engages In DDoS Attacks Against Sites Hosting Leaked Documents

  

  Namel3ss ( profile ), 15 Dec, 2014 @ 07:35am

  Re: Re:

  Yes, the CDs had a data track with the rootkit on it, and it would install itself even if the user declined the EULA. Also there was no uninstaller until Sony released one after the s**t hit the fan, and even then it didn't work until they patched it a couple times. Obviously the whole thing was never intended to be uninstalled, and of course extremely intrusive. How no one (AFAIK) went to jail is just amazing.
  
  This is why disabling autorun was one way to avoid the issue, but IIRC at the time WinXP had autorun enabled by default.
  
  I've never bought any Sony music since.

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