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  • On the post: Do You Want A Police State? Because This Is How You Get A Police State

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 10:06am

    Re: Re: Re: Bullfucking shit!

    The people must have the right to keep and bear arms so that they can form militia as needed to defend against enemies foreign or domestic.
    Which may even have been a good idea back in about 1800 when state-of-the-art military technology was pretty much a rotary machine gun and technology within reach of the "average" citizen could match it with enough determination.... Now, the only people capable of coming within an order of magnitude of matching death technology with the government are billionaires who are more likely to side with government and frankly putting some of that stuff in the hands of the "average" citizen would just be bat-poop crazy (even more so than the government having it)

  • On the post: Arrested Flag Burner Sues Arresting Officers

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2017 @ 08:38am

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    maybe its just me but “Open dissent is the highest form of American patriotism,” rings extremely hollow.
    Then try Aaron Sorkin's prose for the same sentiment: A. J. MacInerney: The President doesn't answer to you, Lewis! Lewis Rothschild: Oh, yes he does A.J. I'm a citizen, this is my President. And in this country it is not only permissible to question our leaders it's our responsibility! Still hollow?

  • On the post: Microsoft Sort Of Addresses Windows 10 Privacy Complaints With New Privacy Dashboard

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2017 @ 09:31am

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    "The problem is that Microsoft has often hidden behind claims that it has to collect a lot of this data or the operating system won't work"
    Yeah, this one's even harder to swallow... So, Mr. Microsoft, you're claiming that if you try and use Windows 10 on a network without an internet connection, or (shock, horror!) airgapped, it'll just randomly fail.... is that right? Wow, way to build an OS!

  • On the post: Aussie Productivity Commission Doubles Down On Fair Use And Serious Copyright & Patent Reform

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2017 @ 10:55am

    Re: Quite a useful mob, the Productivity Commission

    Our Productivity Commission in general produces great stuff. It's independent of Government and full of economists, statisticians, researchers and the like.
    "Pah! Experts! What do they know about anything? My faith-based bullshit shouting is way more valuable!" - Politicians

  • On the post: Man Has To Beg LG To Uncripple His 'Smart' TV After Ransomware Attack

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2017 @ 10:15am

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    Silly question maybe but why we need TVs smarter than "display good quality image and that's it" when there are much better devices that can do everything the smartness can do with added security, comfort and reliability? I'd gladly skip $100 or more to get a stripped down TV...
    Yeah, not a silly question all att, but unfortunately if you want a large screen, an equivalent "dumb" TV is not +$100, it's more likely twice-or-more the price. This, though, is exactly my "smart" TV has been dumbed-down since purchase to being just a screen for rather smarter devices.

  • On the post: I Thought Piracy Was Killing Entertainment? New Record In Scripted Shows In 2016

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2016 @ 10:14am

    Re:

    BUT, BUT... WE'D BE EARNING TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IF IT WASN'T FOR PIRACY!! Our math proves it.* - Hollywood.
    *(except when it's tax season, then we lost trillions)

  • On the post: Publishing Lobbyists Suck Up To Trump With Lies About Copyright, Ask Him To Kill DMCA Safe Harbors

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2016 @ 10:16am

    Unsurprising

    To pretend that the Constitutional clause on copyrights and patents means that any and all monopolies are good is ridiculous and misleading.

    Yeah, but from their point of view, it's a pretty good play to go for considering the apparent attention span of the target audience. How likely is he to go looking for actual facts?

  • On the post: Photographers And Filmmakers Call For Encryption To Be Built Into Cameras As Standard

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2016 @ 10:25am

    Inmportant

    Note to the UK government:

    They might simply pass laws that forbid the use of cameras that encrypt images. By declaring them illegal, governments could seize them at the border or whenever they are found. However, that's a fairly mild response. If the material on a camera seized by the authorities turns out to be encrypted, many would demand the password. If the photographer is lucky, a refusal might mean being thrown out of the country, probably without the camera. In the worst case, government thugs and criminals may try to obtain the necessary passwords the old-fashioned way -- by beating it out of the photographer.

    This is not, repeat NOT, a playbook for how to handle encrypted cameras.

  • On the post: Iran The Latest Country To Use 'Fake News' As An Excuse For Widespread Censorship

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2016 @ 06:34am

    Re: If it looks like a duck...

    For example, the United States of America.
    You forgot to mention the UK... I think we're slightly ahead on the "Authoritarian" count at the moment, even if you managed to pip us at the post in the "put a dangerous asshat in charge" stakes.

  • On the post: HBO Issues Takedown For Artwork Made By Autistic Teenager Because Bullies Gonna Bully Y'all

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2016 @ 10:53am

    Can we have another chorus of...

    "Nothing is going to change until there's a penalty for wilfully getting a DMCA takedown wrong"?

  • On the post: Trump Takes Undeserved Credit For Softbank Investment & Job Promises, As Company Sells Him On A T-Mobile Sprint Merger

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2016 @ 07:37am

    Well, yay..

    and Son gets to fill Trump's head with the idea that if he supports his looming merger -- money, jobs and miracles will rain from the sky

    Well, money will probably rain from the sky into Softbank's pockets... and maybe Trump's too. Jobs will almost certainly rain from the sky like anything else that falls when dropped.... and it'll be a miracle if the public don't end up feeling like they've been pissed on from a great right.

    Does that count?

    In short, the $50 billion investment and the 50,000 jobs are largely fairy tail numbers wholly unrelated to Donald Trump doing much of anything.

    By the way, that would be "tale", as in; "Tale told by an idiot", which quote is singularly appropriate given the teller of said "aren't I wonderful" tale. 'Far as I know, fairies don't come with butt-ornamentation.

  • On the post: This Is A Really Bad Idea: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube & Microsoft Agree To Block 'Terrorist' Content

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2016 @ 05:15am

    Re: THE FOUR PILLARS OF SECURITY

    I'll skip right past the impossibility of the kind of split you seem to be suggesting considering how often that particular deceased equine has been soundly beaten and go straight to:
    Who gets to define "evil" and "non-evil"? The government? The media? People with a capital letter fetish? I'm guessing they'll all suck at it equally.

  • On the post: Encryption Survey Indicates Law Enforcement Feels It's Behind The Tech Curve; Is Willing To Create Backdoors To Catch Up

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2016 @ 05:56am

    Re: Re: An analogy, you say? Certainly Sir, fresh analogy coming right up!

    That is almost possible today, BMW traps alleged thief by remotely locking him in car
    Yeah, sadly too easy with modern cars, and it's going really well so far!

  • On the post: Encryption Survey Indicates Law Enforcement Feels It's Behind The Tech Curve; Is Willing To Create Backdoors To Catch Up

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2016 @ 05:19am

    An analogy, you say? Certainly Sir, fresh analogy coming right up!

    Law enforcement insists their cars aren't fast enough to catch criminals and insists that all car manufacturers fit devices to blow all four wheels off the vehicle when activated by secret road-side buttons.

    Road safety advocates point out the obvious danger of wheels being able to come off cars so easily and the danger of having buttons that might be found to do it.

    Law enforcement scoffs at the privacy advocates, calls them all terrorists and fits the buttons anyway.

    Almost instantly, most criminals start driving foreign cars that haven't had the explosive wheels fitted. Law enforcement kills several motorists in error while catching a handful of criminals. Many other motorists killed in multi-car pile-ups as other criminals find the buttons by the road and start merrily pushing them.

  • On the post: Following Public Records Request, State Legislature Votes To Make Government Contracts Secret

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2016 @ 03:25pm

    Well, duh!

    The public deserves to know how its money is being spent

    Yeah, didn't you guys fight a war with us over that at some point? I vaguely remember, "no taxation without representation" being a thing at some point... right?

  • On the post: CNN Uses Copyright To Block Viral Clip Of Van Jones' Impassioned Statement

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2016 @ 05:12am

    Re: Emotional blather based on lies

    Come to the table and talk ideas or keep suffering defeat
    Who the hell would they talk to? Like the UK, modern US politics is based on selecting whichever faeces-throwing primate is left least odoriferous when the music stops. Any table in the middle of that is undoubtedly going to be covered in shit.

  • On the post: If You're Blaming Facebook For The Election Results, You're An Idiot

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2016 @ 01:37am

    Re:

    Maybe Trump will be the Tom Wheeler of the Presidency and do a complete 180 on all expectations of him?
    Don't you think it's worrying that the best-case scenario you can hope for is that he was lying through his teeth every time he opened his mouth?

  • On the post: What The Election Means For Stuff Techdirt Cares About?

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2016 @ 03:21pm

    Re: Re: Dammit

    Yeah, thought we'd aced it... but you had to go trump it, didn't you?

  • On the post: What The Election Means For Stuff Techdirt Cares About?

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2016 @ 02:54am

    Dammit

    ...and I thought with Brexit, we'd finally beaten you guys in the, "Dumbest nation on Earth", stakes. But nope, you pull one out of the bag at the last minute to stay top dog.

  • On the post: Intelligence Contractors Being Paid Millions To Surf The Web, Sext With Teens, Have Affairs With Co-Workers

    Not an Electronic Rodent ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2016 @ 12:53am

    A steal at twice the price

    Jason Leopold points out CENTRA was contracted to review CIA torture documents. Or NOT review them, as appears to be the case here.

    plus

    Total cost to taxpayers for [redacted] not being at work? Almost $30,000.

    ...from the government's point of view, you'd have to consider that $30,000 to appear to be doing something it has no interest in doing anyway is good value!

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