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• On the post: The Wall Street Journal Doubles Down On Dumb: Falsely Claims Net Neutrality ('Obamanet') Has Crushed Broadband Investment

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2015 @ 01:36pm

  Presidential candidates

  So with bush out of the question, seeing as how he's looking to kill NN, who's the best option? Given if by some miracle Donald trump is somehow elected, I doubt he'd go against it seeing as how logic says he'd understand how competition works.

• On the post: DOJ Drops All Charges Against Professor After Realizing No One Checked To See If What He Sent To China Was Actually A Secret

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2015 @ 01:37pm

  Re: Re: Re: Collective embarrassment is meaningless, make it personal

  In which case the expenses for such advertising space should come from those who made the mistake, as That one Guy suggested.

• On the post: Jeb Bush Proudly Promises To Axe Net Neutrality If Elected

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2015 @ 11:24am

  Re: Re: Well fuck

  Yeah that double post happens. Don't know why.

• On the post: Jeb Bush Proudly Promises To Axe Net Neutrality If Elected

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2015 @ 09:42am

  Well fuck

  Here I thought life would turn out swell with the new rules.

• On the post: Jeb Bush Proudly Promises To Axe Net Neutrality If Elected

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2015 @ 09:42am

  Well fuck

  Here I thought life would turn out swell with the new rules.

• On the post: Judge Says Warner Chappell Doesn't Hold The Copyright On Happy Birthday (But Not That It's Public Domain)

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2015 @ 07:48am

  I'll take that as a win

  Because assuming I read everything correctly(unlikely given I haven't sleep in some time) Warner can't shake people down anymore for singing it and wishing someone a happy birthday.

• On the post: Government-Mandated Parental Spyware Found To Be Leaking Personal Data At An Alarming Rate

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2015 @ 11:25am

  Re: Re: 'Not our problem, now pick up that can'

  By action you mean going after the entities who posted it.

• On the post: Monkey Business: PETA Sues On Behalf Of The Monkey Selfie; Claims Copyright Belongs To The Monkey

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2015 @ 02:34pm

  Bright side: expiration of the copyright

  Even if, by sheer luck and stupidity of the court, the copyright does end up in the hands of the monkey, it'll be another question entirely whether "X years plus life of author" meaning, assuming my understanding of this is correct, once the monkey that took the picture, naruto, kicks the bucket, the photo will enter the public domain. The fact his life expectancy is significantly shorter than a human's is a bonus.

• On the post: India's Government Looking At Mandating Backdoors In Encryption

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2015 @ 02:53pm

  Re: Re: The only positive

  Ok I'm blind.

• On the post: Wired Releases A Story Early To Apple News Users; Wired Readers Not Happy

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2015 @ 01:59pm

  Re:

  The main difference here being that TD doesn't make their insider and crystal ball options exclusive to a platform or OS. At least not that I'm aware of. I don't use it myself.

• On the post: India's Government Looking At Mandating Backdoors In Encryption

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2015 @ 12:31pm

  The only positive

  At least they're not looking to backdoor all encryption, just encryption for their citizens and businesses.
  P.s out of curiosity how does TD do formatting? I'd take a shot in the dark and guess it uses the same one reddit does?

• On the post: CIA, FBI And Much Of US Military Aren't Doing The Most Basic Things To Encrypt Email

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2015 @ 10:32am

  I give up; let trump become president.

  Because as terrible as having him in office will be, given the incompetence of the rest of the government, we can't get much worse.

• On the post: Austrian Ruling Likely To Have Big implications For Copyright Levies Across EU

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2015 @ 10:17am

  A comment section not littered with trolls. The rarity.

• On the post: Cop Invents Device That Sniffs MAC Addresses To Locate Stolen Devices

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2015 @ 01:48pm

  Conflicted

  On one hand I can see the value something like this could have in weeding out suspects. On the other I can see how future iterations of this could be used in manner similar to stingrays.

• On the post: Nintendo Hates You: Massive Takedowns Of YouTube Videos Featuring Mario Bros. Fan-Created Levels

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2015 @ 10:06pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Also wow. You'd have figured he'd know not to piss off Anonymous of all people. That's about as close to asking for it you can get.

• On the post: Nintendo Hates You: Massive Takedowns Of YouTube Videos Featuring Mario Bros. Fan-Created Levels

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2015 @ 10:01pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Thanks I did try googling it but all I found was they're some company, subsidiary of so and-so.

• On the post: Nintendo Hates You: Massive Takedowns Of YouTube Videos Featuring Mario Bros. Fan-Created Levels

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2015 @ 02:41pm

  Re: Re:

  I'm too young to know about a lot of this, mind filling me in? The bit about HB Gary that is.

• On the post: Nintendo Hates You: Massive Takedowns Of YouTube Videos Featuring Mario Bros. Fan-Created Levels

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2015 @ 02:48pm

  This is why Nintendo is on my shit list.

  Because they're are the only company that pulls this crap of trying to control every single piece of coverage they get. And yes MS did that under the table deal with Machinima, and Warner Brothers with shadow of mordor, but they don't do it on the level and to the the extent Nintendo does.

• On the post: Adam Miller Says He'll Reopen Bogus Copyright Lawsuit Against Critic, Declares 'War' On 'Communists' Who Mock Faith Healing

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2015 @ 06:02pm

  Déjà vu

  This reminds of the time my psycho father accused me of being Chinese(I'm extremely white) and being sent by the soviet Union to kidnap jimmy carter and assassinate Jeb Bush, Donald trump, and Dick Cheney.
  Same level of sanity and logic on display here. And yes he actually did believe that. Still might, haven't checked recently.

• On the post: US Counterterrorism Official Says US Is 'The Angel Of Death' And Should Be Target Killing ISIS Tweeters

  

  Blackfiredragon13 ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2015 @ 12:50pm

  Hypocritical at best

  In country quite literally built on the idea of free speech and expression it's disturbing to see something that's about as far from it as possible.
  
  Another thing that concerns me, to what extent are they considering people to be pro-Isis? If I criticize the US' foreign policies and their "double tap" drone strike methods/tactics, will I get labeled as "pro-Isis" and have to worry about being a target?

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