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• On the post: Microsoft Buying Nokia Reminds Us That Dominant Tech Companies Can Disappear Quickly

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2013 @ 02:05pm

  Graph fail: The first graph should not have any white space in it. The left axis is in percent, and there is an "Others" category. I'm sure it doesn't change the story, but hey, what is the math equivalent of a grammar nazi? That must be what I am today.

• On the post: MLK Jr.'s Sons Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of 'I Have A Dream' By Suing His Daughter

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2013 @ 10:39am

  A little off-topic, but I've been thinking lately I wish I could publicly say this to President Obama at some town hall:
  
  If Martin Luther King were alive today, you'd be spying on him just like J. Edgar Hoover did.

• On the post: Evangelist Adorns Biblical Child Rearing Book With 'Modern Family' Portrait He Found Via Google

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2013 @ 07:50pm

  Someone reads www.cracked.com, not that I'm complaining! This site got me to start reading Cracked for my 5-minute time wasters. It's not bad.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Can We At Least Agree On The Meanings Of Words?

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2013 @ 08:27pm

  Re:

  Define "meaning".

• On the post: Ed Snowden Covered His Tracks Well; How Many Other NSA Staffers Did The Same?

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2013 @ 10:27am

  Re:

  I'm sure Average Joe can understand that perfectly well.

• On the post: The NSA Is Dianne Feinstein's And Mike Rogers' Abusive, Cheating Spouse

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2013 @ 10:24am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Oy. Yet more People Magazine level analysis.

  You should report posts, not people, and only for specific reasons. Auto-reporting people also undermines Techdirt.

• On the post: The NSA Is Dianne Feinstein's And Mike Rogers' Abusive, Cheating Spouse

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2013 @ 09:41am

  Re: Re: Oy. Yet more People Magazine level analysis.

  I didn't see anything wrong with that link.

• On the post: Modest Proposal: Use NSA's Metadata Collection To Create A Public Social Graph To Compete With Facebook & Google

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2013 @ 09:49am

  If the new economic divide is between the knows and the know-nots, this would be the equivalent of class warfare and wealth redistribution. But hey, after all the abuses maybe we need an Information New Deal. And maybe we need some Information Antitrust laws.

• On the post: Ed Snowden Covered His Tracks Well; How Many Other NSA Staffers Did The Same?

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2013 @ 08:41am

  Re: Re:

  Exactly.
  
  Whether your bogeyman of choice is George Soros or the Koch Brothers, I'm certain that they have their fingers in the NSA, most likely through contacts that their private security people have.
  
  This is not about some LOVINT abuses. This is about a new class divide between the knows and the know-nots.

• On the post: Ed Snowden Covered His Tracks Well; How Many Other NSA Staffers Did The Same?

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2013 @ 07:45am

  Abuses to spy on love interests, personal enemies, and the like are bad, but pedestrian.
  
  What I'm mostly concerned about are abuses at high level to spy on people who are supposed to provide whatever minimal checks and balances we still have on NSA.

• On the post: UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg Defends Hard Drive Destruction, But Not Miranda Detention

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2013 @ 06:26am

  You don't have to revise the law. You have to not use it against non-terrorists.

• On the post: UK's Suppression Of Freedom Of The Press Drives Guardian To Partner With NYT On Snowden Reporting

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2013 @ 08:45pm

  Re: Re:

  Fair enough, I'm getting tired of flogging that one anyway.
  
  But it's not idiocy. NY Times Judith Miller actively helped sell to the American public the worst thing they were ever sold, in my lifetime.

• On the post: UK's Suppression Of Freedom Of The Press Drives Guardian To Partner With NYT On Snowden Reporting

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2013 @ 04:20pm

  Well good for the NY Times then because they have a lot of old stuff to live down still.
  
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  Say what? Oh yeah: New York Times Judith Miller

• On the post: Snowden Accuses UK Gov't Of Leaking Documents He Never Leaked To Make Him Look Bad

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2013 @ 11:53am

  I think The Independent needs a new name. How about The Depends?

• On the post: NSA Tries Hand At Irony, Accuses WSJ Of Misleading Public

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2013 @ 09:25am

  "The reports leave readers with the impression that NSA is sifting through as much as 75% of the United States' online communications, which is simply not true."
  
  If they say it is simply not true, it must be true complexly.

• On the post: Suddenly The Terms And Conditions Of Your 'Cloud' Service Provider Matter A Lot More

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2013 @ 06:31am

  If I were the NSA/CIA, I'd set up some new "encrypted" emaila nd cloud storage services based in some other countries and see who I could get to use them.
  
  And since I thought of it you can be sure they did.

• On the post: Ask.fm Says Most Messages Came From Troubled Teen's Own IP Address While New Cyberbullying Law Is Widely Panned

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2013 @ 07:03pm

  I predict: Some teens get caught and prosecuted for cyberbullying and kill themselves.

• On the post: Stuxnet Leaks Came From Administration Itself

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2013 @ 12:19pm

  Espionage
  Aiding the enemy
  Treason
  Terrorism
  
  I expect to see these charges leveled against whoever did the leaks and everyone in the room when they were discussed and approved.

• On the post: Journalist For Time Magazine Announces His Eagerness To Defend US Drone Strike Killing Julian Assange

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2013 @ 09:12am

  Re: Well, he's writing Tim Geithner's book....

  He'll need lots of Ghost writer's ink.

• On the post: Down To Just A Few Possibilities: President Obama Either Lied Or Is Ignorant About The NSA

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2013 @ 03:17pm

  I think it's the second option: President Obama has as much access to the NSA as Dianne Feinstein. He only knows what they choose to tell him.
  
  But it could also be a variant of the first: President Obama lied but he had to because NSA is holding a virtual gun to his head.
  
  Either way I am starting to agree with Dennis Kucinich.

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