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• On the post: Judge Orders Lying, Cheating Government To Return $167,000 To The Man They Stole It From

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2015 @ 11:10am

  The one silver lining...

  The one silver lining in all of this is that at least the officers who were in breach of their duties will be paying for this out of their own pockets and no tax payers will be on the hook.
  
  BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Hilarious. Sorry guys, couldn't keep a straight face...

• On the post: Newsday Editor: Carve Hate Speech Out Of First Amendment, Hold Websites Responsible If Users Post Hate Speech

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2015 @ 10:50am

  Hey Newsweek...

  Good luck hiring hundreds of people to review all your comment for hate speech using your already hemorrhaging pile of cash!

• On the post: The Ridiculous Redactions The DOJ Required To Try To Hide The Details Of Its Google Gag Order

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2015 @ 12:23pm

  OCR

  Do you even OCR, bro???

• On the post: Verizon At Least Shows It Has A Sense Of Humor About Net Neutrality, Even If It's Incapable Of Respecting It

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2015 @ 10:11am

  Re: Re: Copyright laws

  Channeling my inner Homer Simpson: "The Constitution? Is that thing still around?"

• On the post: Mandatory Sentencing Guidelines Have Nothing To Do With 'Justice'

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2015 @ 09:44am

  Re: Re: Only 14 months?

  But it will cost $X per year for 20 years without monitoring and treatment. Do you think that monitoring and treatment will cost $4X per year?
  
  In 2010, the average was right around $30k for a high security inmate. So if we spent up to $120k per year for 5 years, we'd be better off. That is basically giving that guy his own psychologist for 5 years. You have to imagine we could have one psychologist treat at least a half dozen of these dudes per year.

• On the post: Verizon Makes It Very Clear Its 'Spectrum Crunch' Never Existed

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2015 @ 10:48am

  Finger gun

  I'm just picturing Verizon execs in the FCC offices with their finger guns in their jacket pocket and threatening to shoot.

• On the post: Internet Comes Through For Developer Of Key Email Encryption Tool

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2015 @ 09:32am

  Re:

  I'm confused about the use of the term "unfortunate" in the sentence. It's unfortunate that people don't implicitly know about a problem that they don't explicitly know about? Well duh.
  
  Maybe a better way to put it would have been, "Unfortunately people didn't know about the problem, but fortunately they do now because some cared enough to write an article about it."

• On the post: Rep. Jared Polis Calls For 24 Hour Surveillance On Senator Marco Rubio

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2015 @ 06:59am

  Re: He would be more effective if he didn't pull these stunts

  I don't think he is doing funny business here. If he was calling Marco Rubio "Marco Boobio" instead, then I would say you have a point.
  
  This is satire which typically is NOT funny. Mass surveillance is a serious issue and Marco Rubio is actually the one making light of it. His meh-its-no-big-deal attitude is a problem and by satirically pointing out that Marco should be subject to it, he is bring the seriousness of the situation to the forefront.

• On the post: Game Developer Deploys Interesting Sales Strategy By Telling Fans Not To Buy His Game As A Gift For Others

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2014 @ 10:15pm

  Me too

  I'm going to agree with the dev as well. Unleashing Starbound on your bro because you are both gushing over it on the phone is way different than buying an unknown game that is unfinished on someone who may or may not be interested in the first place.

• On the post: Hollywood's Secret War On Net Neutrality Is A Key Part Of Its Plan Stop You From Accessing Websites It Doesn't Like

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2014 @ 09:34pm

  Re: Re:

  While replacing the global DNS infrastructure would be an expensive pain in the ass, it's preferable to allowing the Internet to be broken in order to serve the myopic vision of a dying industry.
  
  You say dying industry, but as the article points out, the film industry is booming.
  
  To be more exact, top-down industry representation is dying. Groups like the MPAA just aren't really needed any more and their support is drying up, slowly but surely.
  
  In any case, as you point out, I think the challenge to DNS is a good thing, much like NSA over-reach has been for encryption. Something like DNS 2.0 can't really grow until it is has been sufficiently stressed to the breaking point.

• On the post: FTC Sues AT&T For Selling 'Unlimited' Data Plans That Were Actually Throttled

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2014 @ 08:07pm

  So hot...

  All this talk of throttling and cramming is really getting me all hot and bothered. I'm totally into the weird stuff.

• On the post: Almost No One Wants To Host The Olympics, Because It's A Costly, Corrupt Mess

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2014 @ 10:13am

  insert tasteless comment here

  insert tasteless joke about the IOC and the Special Olympics here

• On the post: Absolutely Disgusting: Eric Holder Implies That Mobile Encryption Will Lead To Dead & Abused Kids

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2014 @ 07:24am

  Safe - misnomer?

  Just had an awesome idea. How about we make a law saying that safes cannot have doors on them. Think about what people put in safes: criminal stuff! Obviously! There are probably hundreds of kidnapped kids locked in safes RIGHT NOW!

• On the post: Eric Holder Was The Worst Attorney General For The Press In A Generation: We Deserve Better

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2014 @ 09:53am

  Too bad...

  "Despite the fact that the investigation has been widely condemned by legal experts and Constitutional scholars—former Times general counsel James Goodale said Holder might as well be investigating WikiLeaks for “a conspiracy to commit journalism”—recent court documents show the grand jury is still active."
  
  Too bad we don't have a constitutional scholar in charge over the DoJ that could step in and make sure what they are doing is constitutional.
  
  Wait! What? Obama is a constitutional scholar?!? WTF!?!

• On the post: Defense Contractors' Funds Fuel Vote To Keep Dept. Of Defense's Police Militarization Program Funded

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2014 @ 10:19am

  Re: Feds maintain ownership -- not local police

  Of course there is a stipulation with accepting the equipment that it must be used within a year. That is what I call a nudge.

• On the post: Obama Review Of Military Gear Handed To Law Enforcement; Thinks Real Problem Is 'Training And Guidance'

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2014 @ 10:16am

  Hall monitors and bullies

  Ah, so now that the hall monitors have the bullies' baseball bats and brass knuckles, they now need to be trained by the bullies to use the stuff. Now it makes sense.

• On the post: Defense Contractors' Funds Fuel Vote To Keep Dept. Of Defense's Police Militarization Program Funded

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2014 @ 07:31am

  Remember sequestration?

  Remember how hard sequestration was on the DOD? Poor guys. They have to sell all this equipment for pennies on the dollar just to make ends meet.

• On the post: How Various Law Enforcement Agencies Could Hack Your Computer Via YouTube Videos

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2014 @ 10:32am

  Re: Is there any protection other than using https?

  I was curious about the same. I use Chrome on Ubuntu and wondered if that added any protection. At least I would not be vulnerable to all the Windows exploits.
  
  Do these have to do with the OS at all?

• On the post: SWAT Team Shows Up In Ferguson, Detains Reporters Live Tweeting Their Actions

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2014 @ 08:47pm

  Re: Disturbing

  I'm not certain, but it didn't look like the officer in the McDs was one of the SWAT guys. Probably was just some dumb rook who was getting his first taste of the riot gear.

• On the post: SWAT Team Shows Up In Ferguson, Detains Reporters Live Tweeting Their Actions

  

  ahow628 ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2014 @ 08:45pm

  So cool!

  But holy shit do those guys look cool in that SWAT gear!

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