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• On the post: DHS Watchdog Says CBP's Drone Program Is An Insecure, Possibly Rights-Violating Mess

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2018 @ 07:05am

  Re: Re:

  That's money well spent. Imagine if they'd used it to topple some democratic government somewhere to install a dictator?

• On the post: Court Won't Let FBI Dodge Lawsuit By Removing American Citizen From No-Fly List Shortly Shortly After Being Sued

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2018 @ 11:43pm

  Re:

  It's not just an exception; it's the default.
  
  Hoarding zero-day exploits and asking for backdoors for "lawful interception" is ALSO undermining the security of the country and all the infrastructure and inhabitants. But still secret services and police forces do it.

• On the post: State Legislator Says 11-Year-Old Tased By Cop Deserved It And Her Parents Probably Suck

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2018 @ 03:03pm

  Parent problem

  Only, the parents responsible for the problem are John Beckers.

• On the post: Thanks To ISP Bahnhof, We Know Just How Crazy Copyright Trolling In Sweden Is Getting

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2018 @ 07:44am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Dammit. s/now/know/ Why does one only see ones typos when one has already clicked submit?

• On the post: Thanks To ISP Bahnhof, We Know Just How Crazy Copyright Trolling In Sweden Is Getting

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2018 @ 07:39am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  You're all fighting a losing battle against life's winners,
  
  I now. As a member of the public, with no strong lobby, I'm a constant victim of even more and newer prohibitions robbing my liberties, enacted by lawmakers to ensure their sponsors and lobbyist their rents.
  
  Liberty always looses against greed.

• On the post: Ajit Pai Whines About California's Net Neutrality Effort, Calls It 'Radical,' 'Illegal'

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2018 @ 08:53am

  capitalism is not sustainable

  The trouble is, as we're seeing right now, is that rampaging capitalism tends to destroy free markets. By either cornering them, or by influencing lawmakers (or in this case, the government in the form of the FCC chairman) to keep out or destroy competition.
  
  So basically, a free market is not something that just magically happens. It's something that needs curation.
  
  And the move to gut "net neutrality" is of course and anti-free-market one; there are some telcos that will profit, and all the content-providers and the public will loose.

• On the post: Apple Didn't Delete That Guys iTunes Movies, But What Happened Still Shows The Insanity Of Copyright

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2018 @ 11:17am

  Re: region licenses

  I suggest not. I think Apple simply needs to state that since you're accessing regionally licensed content, that if you leave the region, you won't have access to the content until you return to the region.
  
  No, they simply must allow you to access the content you have "bought" is accessible to you no matter where in the world you are.

• On the post: Guy In Charge Of EU Copyright Directive Claims He Didn't Know What He Voted On, Needs To Fix Things

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2018 @ 03:03am

  Well, Voss actually has no idea about copyright, he's a total nincompoop. No, Voss is just a bought and paid for asshole.

• On the post: Google Fights In EU Court Against Ability Of One Country To Censor The Global Internet

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2018 @ 01:14am

  Re: Right to Remember

  Similarly, since the GDPR, I am encountering more and more sites that maintain a complete block of visitors from the EU Actually, make this Europe. The GDPR is not valid in Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and most of the Balkans; but those idiots just blocked all the IP ranges that were distributed by RIPE.

• On the post: Google Fights In EU Court Against Ability Of One Country To Censor The Global Internet

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2018 @ 01:04am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pride vs Shame

  "Freedom Fries"? These things that come from the country formerly known as Belgium?
  
  Where they are called "pomme frite" or "patate frit", by the way. And that's what most people in Europe call them. Except the British, they call them "chips" (note: not "french chips").

• On the post: Police Officers At A Tactical Disadvantage Bravely Tase 87-Year-Old Woman Into Submission

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2018 @ 11:18pm

  Re: Re: al-Bishara

  ... while having an Arab name but being of Greek heritage, actually.

• On the post: United Airlines Made Its App Stop Working On My Phone, And What This Says About How Broken The Mobile Tech Space Is

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2018 @ 12:58am

  Re: Software industry perspective

  This is besides the point. I don't expect app developers to program for ancient and insecure operating systems.
  
  I expect the phone manufacturers to support modern operating systems on their old phones.

• On the post: United Airlines Made Its App Stop Working On My Phone, And What This Says About How Broken The Mobile Tech Space Is

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2018 @ 12:53am

  Re: The answer seems simple

  Nope. It's being upset that your blueray-player can't play the latest bluerays, because they've changed the video codec and the manufacturer of your blueray player didn't produce the necessary firmware-upgrade for your player.

• On the post: United Airlines Made Its App Stop Working On My Phone, And What This Says About How Broken The Mobile Tech Space Is

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2018 @ 12:48am

  After-market distribution

  It gets worse.
  
  Even LineageOS only supports a small subset of rather contemporary phones.
  
  There are separate forks of LineageOS to support older phones:
  https://legacyxperia.github.io/
  https://www.unlegacy-android.org/projects/unlegacy-android/wiki
  
  Contrast this to the situation with true open-source Linux distributions, that run on ANY PC that was manufactured in the last 20 years (some exceptions may apply: only a few distributions are still available for 32bit systems. But these ALSO feature the newest software).
  
  In my opinion the manufacturers of the phones are to blame. They should support the newest Android on their phones for 10 years at least. Why the manufacturers? Because they are the ones that modify the basic Android to the point you have to have a special Android-distribution for their specific phone.

• On the post: Ajit Pai Coddles Big Telecom, Demonizes Silicon Valley

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 05 Sep, 2018 @ 08:53am

  Re: Expanding the mandate much?

  'seven words you can't say on US TV'
  
  There, I corrected it. Because not all the world features these puritan pukes fucking with free speech.

• On the post: And Here Come The Completely Ridiculous Lawsuits Over Internet Company 'Bias'

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2018 @ 10:40am

  Re: Net neutrality hypocracy

  *So, you support net neutrality because a private company shouldn’t be able to throttle internet traffic. But a private company should be allowed to throttle ideas of certain groups they don't like. *
  
  You're confusing access to the internet with people running their own services.

• On the post: Court Rules It's Fine If FCC Wants To Deem Just One Available ISP As 'Competition'

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2018 @ 08:57am

  Re: Humpty Dumpty approves

  That's been going on for decades. According to the USPTO, "algorithm" in a patent is something totally different than what it means in mathematics or computer science; and thus patentable. It's Indiana Pi-legislation all over.

• On the post: Australian Gov't Likes Intrusive Border Device Searches Just As Much As The US Does

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2018 @ 02:39am

  Re: Re:

  "the cloud that you can trust."
  
  It exists. It's called "your own server".

• On the post: Conservatives: Stop Crying Wolf On Tech Bias Or No One Will Ever Take You Seriously

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2018 @ 06:42am

  Re: Re: The facts have a left-leaning bias.

  how do liberal movements like #metoo wind up such trainwrecks?
  
  You think that's liberal? It's not, it's actually an appeal to authority.
  
  > #metoo is a great example of censorship against conservatives
  
  It's not that either. Its catering to one's own peer-group, it's victim-olympics. It's telling your own people how badly suppressed you are.
  
  Besides, what you are doing here, by complaining how conservatives are censored IS EXACTLY THE SAME. Victim-olympics.

• On the post: Conservatives: Stop Crying Wolf On Tech Bias Or No One Will Ever Take You Seriously

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2018 @ 06:27am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: A vast (not my party) conspiracy

  If anyone could complain about a (rightwing) conspiracy against himself, it's of course Bill Clinton. He was impeached because, ultimately, of lying about a blowjob. The question is who would start an investigation about a blowjob in the first place? Yep, puritan pukes.

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