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• On the post: Josh Hawley: We Must Break Up Companies Whose Politics I Disagree With For Discriminating Against People Whose Politics I Agree With

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2021 @ 04:23pm

  I'm embarrassed to be from Missouri every time I see his name. Please know that not all Missourians are ignorant fools. But like Trump, this guy knows how to tap into the underlying hate and fear that many voters don't even recognize in themselves.

• On the post: Poof! Taylor Swift, Evermore Theme Park Lawsuits Dropped With No Money Exchanged

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2021 @ 06:49pm

  Re:

  If you cannot innovate, litigate.

• On the post: Small Idaho ISP 'Punishes' Twitter And Facebook's 'Censorship' … By Blocking Access To Them Entirely

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2021 @ 09:52pm

  I sense an opportunity for Starlink

  Elon should swoop in and offer customers of this ISP access to the Starlink beta at reduced cost. The goodwill would pay for itself.

• On the post: AT&T Is Sad Because Nobody Wants To Overpay For DirecTV

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2020 @ 05:55pm

  Quick! Raise rates again!

  That will make us more valuable so someone will pay more than $15 billion!

• On the post: Ridiculous: 'Cyberpunk 2077' Will Ship With A Mode Just To Help Streamers Avoid DMCA Notices

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2020 @ 05:38pm

  Re: We've seen this before

  Rebel Galaxy: Outlaw also has had a "stream-friendly music only" option since its release in August 2019. https://rebel-galaxy.com/information-for-streamers/

• On the post: How Linus Torvalds Invented Today's Work From Home Paradigm In 1991

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2020 @ 06:54am

  At first I thought this was going to be about how Linus Torvalds invented today's work from home paradigm in the same way that
  Shiva Ayyadurai "invented" email. I should have known better since the headline did not have scare quotes.

• On the post: Would You Believe That Infamous Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz Is In Trouble Again?

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2020 @ 06:47pm

  Re:

  Except for his grandfather.

• On the post: PayPal Blocks Purchases Of Tardigrade Merchandise For Potentially Violating US Sanctions Laws

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2020 @ 06:54pm

  When I read the headline I wondered why PayPal was blocking the sale of time machines that look like police boxes.

  I know better now.

• On the post: Judge Says The Bureau Of Prisons Violated Michael Cohen's 1st Amendment Rights In Sending Him Back To Prison

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2020 @ 04:14pm

  It's refreshing to see a judge have and apply common sense, without hiding behind legalistic excuses.

• On the post: Just As The Copyright Office Tries To Ignore The Problem Of Bad Takedowns, NBC & Disney Take Down NASA's Public Domain Space Launch

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2020 @ 03:17pm

  So weird that this keeps happening.

  It's almost like there is no penalty applied for filing a false DMCA takedown claim.

• On the post: As We're All Living, Working, And Socializing Via The Internet… MIT Tech Review Says It Proves Silicon Valley Innovation Is A Myth

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2020 @ 10:33am

  Old man yells at cloud

  This is all i can think of: https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/019/304/old.jpg

• On the post: Jack Daniels Gets Chewed Up In Trademark Case Over 'Bad Spaniels' Doggy Chew Toy

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2020 @ 06:33pm

  Re: Re:

  Great, just great. If the AC who is intelligent enough to read and type responses is confusing the two products, then this won't pass the "moron in a hurry" test and Jack Daniels wins.

• On the post: Facebook Still Can't Admit That Launching Libra During An International Privacy Scandal Is Idiotic

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2020 @ 02:19pm

  But everyone else is doing it!

  Sorry, Facebook, but blockchain is SO 2019.

• On the post: AI Company Has Access To Pretty Much Every Piece Of Surveillance Tech The State Of Utah Owns

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2020 @ 06:46am

  Re: You are being watched....

  Exactly my thought. Person of Interest was supposed to be a warning, not a how-to manual.

• On the post: Turns Out Most People Still Don't Hate 'Big Internet' As Much As Politicians And The Media Want Them To

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2020 @ 01:55pm

  I mostly just hate politicians and the media. Oh, and cilantro.

• On the post: Cop Shops Around The Nation Think It's Hilarious To Crack Jokes About Coronavirus-Contaminated Drugs

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2020 @ 03:58pm

  For once I am glad the cops around here have no sense of humor. It would be embarrassing to see my hometown make this list.

• On the post: Activision Tries To Bury Cover Art For New CoD Game Via Copyright Threat…So Let's All Look At It Together, Shall We?

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2020 @ 04:15am

  I dunno...

  ...still looks fake to me.

• On the post: What's Wrong With Students Reusing Papers?

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2020 @ 06:37am

  In college I turned in the same paper on cognitive development (with a different cover sheet) for both my cognitive psychology and developmental psych courses. The only concern I had was that it was the same professor for both classes (and he was my advisor). He never said a word, and I got an 89% on one and 92% on the other.

• On the post: DirectTV Forgot To Stop Charging Customers For Channels That Were Blacked Out

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2019 @ 04:17pm

  DirecTV just wanted to one-up Comcast customer service.

  Ars had a write-up on this a couple of weeks ago: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/directv-kept-charging-regional-sports-fee-while-channel-was-blacked-out/

  Comcast offers other regional sports programming, so they offered partial refunds for Altitude being blacked out. But DirecTV "...would have less of an excuse than Comcast to keep charging an RSN fee while Altitude was blacked out, because AT&T itself owns the other major RSN for professional sports in Colorado. TV providers claim they need to charge customers RSN fees to cover the high carriage prices charged by regional sports networks. But when the TV provider owns the network, as AT&T does with AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, those carriage payments are simply going from one part of the company to another."

• On the post: RomUniverse To Attempt To Crowdfund Legal Defense, Which Isn't Going Well At All

  

  deathspeed ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2019 @ 05:28am

  Shades of RIAA vs. Thomas

  I see parallels to Jammie Thomas fighting RIAA - an unsympathetic defendant who is clearly guilty of violating the letter of the law. This won't end well for anyone (except the attorneys).

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