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  • On the post: FBI Tells The Governor Of Florida About Election Hacking, But Says He Can't Tell Anyone Else

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 16 May, 2019 @ 08:08am

    Re: "This isn't how a democracy should be run"

    If this was a democracy, 49% of the population would be sold to The Soylent Corporation as raw material. The Framers had it right in restricting the vote to land owners. They've got skin in the game.

  • On the post: Consensus Quietly Builds That 5G Was Overhyped, Rushed To Market

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 16 May, 2019 @ 08:05am

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    First off, it's nice to finally see someone other than myself pointing out that 5G doesn't exist. As to your towers every mile and another commentators observation that fiber is better, et al.... ...you're missing the strategy. You can blame ALL of this on one specific, unethical model. Hyperspeed computerized trading. The market sharks run millions of trades a minute, sight unseen by computers based not on how "good" a stock is, but by miniscule fractions of a point fluctuations. "5G" as proposed is never going to happen. By making sure it's so cumbersome and impossible to implement, the "providers" ensure that their actual costs are so minimal over so long a time (ever try to get a permit for a cell tower?) that hypertrading won't be "harmed". The same for fiber deployment. I'm in NY. I can't really disagree with how deployment is done, as it's a damned good business model. By servicing JUST NYC with fiber, I've now got millions of subscribers with a minimal outlay in labor and materials. If I go outside of a dense population center like a city, I've now got to string hundreds of miles of fiber and maintain it. That's one of the reasons copper telephone deployment was federally controlled. And it's THE driving reason companies like Verizon are letting copper rot on the poles. The "fix"? Dig up the "rural deployment" laws from the dim past concerning electrical and telephone service and apply them to fiber/cable. AND ENFORCE THEM.

  • On the post: DC Legislators Push FOIA Amendment That Would Shield Government Emails From FOIA Requesters [UPDATE]

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 16 May, 2019 @ 06:24am

    Re: Compromise

    Yeah! Put them all in one repository! Then every FOIA request can be responded to with "We got hacked", "Sorry, the server is down", or "our interwebs isn't working"....

  • On the post: Governments And Internet Companies Agree On Questionable Voluntary Pact On Extremist Content Online

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 16 May, 2019 @ 12:29pm

    Ludicrous...

    ...grandstanding.

    Non-binding, fully voluntary...

    Sounds like Vermont's incessant PSA's for teenagers to "Sign the Pledge!" not to text while driving. I guess they consider teenagers to stupid to realize that if they sign and get in an accident while texting and driving, "the Pledge" will be used against them in court.

    The same goes for this nonsense. If a country signs on, the only effect is that they'll be hounded for not following it to the letter.

  • On the post: Axon Hints It May Ruin A City's Credit Rating For Cancelling Its Contract For Body Cam Footage Storage

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 16 May, 2019 @ 05:17am

    Re: Re: Now we know why body cams aren't turned on or left on.

    It's worse. There's 9 months left on the contract. If they're paying quarterly, that's only $3,000 to run it out. They spend more than that yearly on floor wax.

  • On the post: Axon Hints It May Ruin A City's Credit Rating For Cancelling Its Contract For Body Cam Footage Storage

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 16 May, 2019 @ 05:15am

    Re: Re: Re:

    This is a bit different than a blood sample. The bodycam sends directly to the third party cloud, and retrieval has to be paid for. In your scenario, they'd be pulling the memory chip from the cams at the end of each shift, sealing them in evidence bags, and couriering them to the "storage facility". I've got 32TB of storage on the system I'm using to type this. At 480p, that's hundreds of thousands of hours of video. And it cost me about half of the yearly fee the SFPD is paying. On a home system. There's absolutely no reason for the police to be using a third party "storage" company for bodycam footage.

  • On the post: Pai FCC 'Solution' To Nation's Great Robocall Apocalypse? More Meetings

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 16 May, 2019 @ 05:09am

    Re: Re: I'm wondering...

    Exactly. And to come out and admit that "his" FCC no longer has the authority to do even this would convince the last six people in the US who don't believe he's bought and paid for.

  • On the post: Pai FCC 'Solution' To Nation's Great Robocall Apocalypse? More Meetings

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 16 May, 2019 @ 05:06am

    Re: Re: Re: only 1 eason to allow robocals.

    First hit on a search: "ANI (Automatic Number Identification) is a service that provides the receiver of a telephone call with the number of the calling phone. The method of providing this information is determined by the service provider (such as AT&T, MCI, Sprint, and so forth)." It's also used for 800 series number billings.

  • On the post: Section 230 Keeps The Internet Open For Innovation

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 16 May, 2019 @ 04:47am

    Re: Re:

    *"How does one burn an IP? IP = intellectual property?
    or IP = internet protocol?"* Idiotic Poster

  • On the post: FBI Tells The Governor Of Florida About Election Hacking, But Says He Can't Tell Anyone Else

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 16 May, 2019 @ 06:22am

    If it's a secret...

    ...why mention it at all?

    Because Mueller! FBI!

    By "disclosing" that he was "briefed" makes him a Key Player, Mr Important!

  • On the post: The Ultimate Bad Take: Bloomberg's Leonid Bershidsky Thinks A WhatsApp Vulnerability Proves End To End Encryption Is Useless

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 15 May, 2019 @ 01:08pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    Hey, I like it when the former firebrand "activists" hit about forty, and the week or so after they've sent their kids across the country to college realize... ...THEIR parents sent THEM off to college like that to get RID of them and their "causes" for a few years while they grew up... /s

  • On the post: Vox Admits It Got Section 230 Wrong, Fixes Its Mistake

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 15 May, 2019 @ 12:59pm

    Re:

    I take exception to the stereotype. I've never had a tenant file a valid complaint about myself, my buildings, or the services I provide. What I HAVE seen is incredible abuse from tenants. Surprisingly, do you know who you should never rent to? No, not welfare. Doctors and lawyers. They seem to feel they don't need to pay rent. Excuses from the doctors, and claims from the lawyers that XYZ in their lease hasn't been met (it has), so they're reducing their rent requirements. The look on the face of some self-described hotshot lawyer when I evict them in only eleven days start to finish is almost worth the lost rent...

  • On the post: Pai FCC 'Solution' To Nation's Great Robocall Apocalypse? More Meetings

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 15 May, 2019 @ 12:52pm

    Re: Hint: DIY

    Use Google Voice. Routes to any phones you want, accepts texts, does text to voice, voice to text, emails you your missed calls, and that's just the features I use. There's a pile more. That's the ONLY number I give out. Only a few friends and relatives have my direct number - the google number defaults to voice mail, effectively white listing.

  • On the post: Pai FCC 'Solution' To Nation's Great Robocall Apocalypse? More Meetings

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 15 May, 2019 @ 12:50pm

    Re: only 1 eason to allow robocals.

    20 years? MA BELL instituted ANI - Automatic Number Identification. The cops use it - that's why they say "and we don't have caller ID" in their snitch adverts. There's simply ZERO reason for an in-house PBX anymore, now that everything is digital and WILL hit VOIP at some point in the connection. Simply post the ANI to the CID and let phone company handle multi-line switching.

  • On the post: The Press Finally Realizing Jerry Nadler Is In Bed With The RIAA While In Charge Of Copyright Reform

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 15 May, 2019 @ 12:43pm

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    Sane NY'ers, yes, all 32,767 of us, have been trying to get Nadler and Silver imprisoned for decades. But since they're based out of NYC, they're untouchable Democrats. Was is Nadler or Brooks who said "It's good to be the king!"...

  • On the post: Axon Hints It May Ruin A City's Credit Rating For Cancelling Its Contract For Body Cam Footage Storage

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 15 May, 2019 @ 11:26am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: stupid careless cops

    Welcome to the 0.001% that actually pays attention to their finances. Amazing, isn't it? Not just what's pulled from paychecks, but every utility, service, and purchase is taxed. When you add them up for the year and divide by the number of paychecks you get in a year, it's staggering.

  • On the post: Vox Admits It Got Section 230 Wrong, Fixes Its Mistake

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 15 May, 2019 @ 09:05am

    Re: Re: Re:

    We should take a poll of users.... Of course, we'd have to filter out the sixteen troll baits and the 89,000 replies to the troll to get an accurate count...

  • On the post: AT&T, Verizon Employees Caught Up In DOJ SIM Hijacking Bust

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 15 May, 2019 @ 08:23am

    Re: Re: Re:

    Boy, are you every gonna be surprised when I die and the universe comes to an end... /s

  • On the post: Another Day, Another Company Scraping Photos To Train Facial Recognition AI

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 15 May, 2019 @ 08:19am

    Re:

    I recall a NYC case where the defense argued that wearing a ski mask as his defendants did during a robbery was a "part of their culture". Didn't fly...

  • On the post: The Ultimate Bad Take: Bloomberg's Leonid Bershidsky Thinks A WhatsApp Vulnerability Proves End To End Encryption Is Useless

    Roy Wilson ( profile ), 15 May, 2019 @ 08:16am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Reminds me....

    "True enough. For most apartment doors a simple crowbar WILL break them down in short order. " Not any of my apartments. Vertical bolts aren't all that expensive and are simple to install. Like I said, reasonable precautions. And, before some AC jumps me on them, YES, they do add to the value, therefor I can charge higher rents - because of the sense of higher security.

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