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• On the post: 1.28 Million US Residents Cut The TV Cord Last Quarter

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 13 May, 2019 @ 01:53pm

  crapp content as well

  "Often, angry users who cut the cord (usually due to high prices or terrible customer service)".... Nothing worth watching as well.

  I took my TV to the landfill about 17 yrs ago. It was so much fun pushing the thing off the back of the truck and hearing the thing shatter. And I haven't missed it one bit!

• On the post: Today In Bananas Copyright Law: Court Urged To Rule That A Banana Costume Is Not Infringing

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2019 @ 01:05pm

  Re: Turd costume

  Owners being a collection of little turds.. Plop! Plop!

• On the post: Today In Bananas Copyright Law: Court Urged To Rule That A Banana Costume Is Not Infringing

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2019 @ 01:02pm

  Turd costume

  Does Rasta also sell a turd costume? Oh! So that is what their lawyer actually looks like IRL.

• On the post: The UK's Dubious Plan For Age-Based Porn Filters Begins On July 15

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2019 @ 10:08pm

  Good old BitTorrent to the rescue

  Good old BitTorrent to the rescue.

• On the post: Peachtree Officials Come To Their Senses, Vote Down Plan To Finance Lawsuits Against Critics Following Widespread Criticism

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2019 @ 10:02pm

  Residents watch closely

  Peachtree, GA residents need to watch their city officials quite closely. They appear quite capable of more stupid proposals

• On the post: The End Of The Absurdity: Iceland, The Country, Successfully Invalidates The Trademark Of Iceland Foods, The Grocer

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2019 @ 11:31pm

  Iceland sovereign??

  Iceland sovereign??

  The Fact that Iceland had to go upon bended knee to the Lords of EU to petition for redress indicated that Iceland really isn't all that sovereign anymore.

• On the post: FBI Director Chris Wray Needs To Shut The Fuck Up About Encryption

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2019 @ 09:47am

  Upping the encryption game.

  Upping the encryption game;

  Encrypt harder. Encrypt more. Encrypt everything you possibly can.

• On the post: Calling Out Copyright Troll Mathew Higbee

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2019 @ 12:49pm

  Sigh! More popcorn.

  I have grown quite tired of the taste of popcorn. And the little brown kernel skins keep getting stuck between my teeth.

• On the post: Wrestler Booker T Sues Activision For Copyright Infringement Over Fairly Generic Character Depiction

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2019 @ 05:50am

  You're so vain

  You're so vain You probably think this game is about you You're so vain, I'll bet you think this game is about you Don't you? Don't you?

• On the post: Hollywood's Kinder, Gentler DRM Didn't Even Last A Decade… And Is Still Screwing Over Movie Fans

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2019 @ 04:25pm

  3 Stooges Boinked

  Call out the 3 Stooges to give all the people who purchased this a good BOINKING for being so dumb and gullible.

• On the post: Facebook's Privacy Problems Are Piling Up Too Quickly To Chronicle

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2019 @ 07:38pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  P2P is quite nice for distributed content delivery. I myself dedicate about 300 kbps during the day and about 900 kbps during the night of my bandwidth to distribute content that YouTube, etc has seen fit to ban. Storage is cheap and getting cheaper.. 2 TB harddrives for as little at $55. And even with ISPs instituting minuscule monthly bandwidth usage allowances I rarely use more than 60% of the allowance each month. BTW.. don't forget BitChute.

• On the post: Facebook's Privacy Problems Are Piling Up Too Quickly To Chronicle

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2019 @ 03:28pm

  I want to sell you a bridge

  I you really and truly believe that Facebook gives a BLEEP about privacy then I have this really old iron bridge to sell you.

  Hint: Selling information about the users of Facebook is how they pay their bills and Zuck sucks in lots of money. So.. collect more data, more data to sell, more money is made by Facebook and Zuck.

  Zucker's bank balnaces keep getting larger and larger. He really really love all the suckers who use Facebook.

  New meme: Zucker's suckers.

• On the post: California Cops Continue To Pretend New Public Records Law Allows Them To Erase Years Of Past Misconduct From The Record

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2019 @ 04:10pm

  CA legislature failed.

  I see this as an example of where the California legislature failed to make the language quite clear about what they meant. So they meant retroactive...A sentence so stating would of ended all dispute. Didn't we just see an article here about a half-baked price of legislation from California about privacy?
  
  This here openrecords law sounds like it was half-baked as well.

• On the post: Study Again Finds That Most VPNs Are Shady As Hell

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2019 @ 07:47pm

  Chaining VPNs and anoymous payment

  In the Desktop sphere of things there is such a thing as chaining several VPN services to enhance anonymity.
  
  Anonymous payment is also quite important.

• On the post: Foreign Stream-Ripping Site Wins Against Music Labels Based On Jurisdiction

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2019 @ 11:01am

  People will ALWAYS find a way.

  People will always find a way to rip them Youtube streams.
  
  Remove all stream ripper browser plugins and still there will be ways to do it.

• On the post: Turkish Court Jails Journalist For Telling The Truth About A Politician's Offshore Tax Shelter

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2019 @ 03:51pm

  Re: Re: Re: Contraire

  Two quite overt(not secret) events that thumbed their noses to exiting authority /law come to mind.
  
  1. Martin Luther vs the quite powerful, at the time, Catholic Church and it;s Pope.
  
  2. The 1776 American Revolution. They really - overtly - told the English King where to stick it, even drew him a map, and broke quite a few English laws in the process.

• On the post: Turkish Court Jails Journalist For Telling The Truth About A Politician's Offshore Tax Shelter

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2019 @ 03:40pm

  Re: Re: Re: Contraire

  Sometimes it takes a martyr to get things done... We all already know which side of that equation you are one.

• On the post: Turkish Court Jails Journalist For Telling The Truth About A Politician's Offshore Tax Shelter

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2019 @ 10:56am

  Re: Contraire

  You might want to aquaint yourself with the Underground Railroad.. Back in the day when slavery was legal, aiding a slave to flee was a crime, there was such a thing called the Underground Railroad. Anyone who aided a fleeing slave was a criminal, yet what they did was probably the most noble and humane thing a person could do. Your sort of 'criminals' I'm sure. What it more -- they knew damn well beforehand that what they were doing was considered a crime but did it anyway.

• On the post: Why Does Everyone Else Want To Stop Netflix Password Sharing, When Netflix Is Fine With It?

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2019 @ 10:38am

  Securiy Problems.

  If a said ISP can actually tell that there is password sharing going on then there is a BIG security problem with the authentication and logon process that Netflix uses. This should all be done in such a way that ISP can't tell what account ID's and passwords are being used. Only Netflix should/would know who is logged in and from which IP addresses.

• On the post: Federal Judge Says Compelling People To Unlock Phones With Their Fingerprints/Faces Violates The 5th Amendment

  

  afn29129 David ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2019 @ 11:00am

  The weaknesses revealed

  The weaknesses revealed.
  
  This just illustrates the folly of using bio-metrics to try and replace passwords. Yes, use bio-data for identification, and then use passwords for access. Of course you should use good, not guessable (or brute forceable), passwords.

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