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• On the post: Tim Cushing's Subjectively Awesome Stuff Of No Particular Timeframe

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2014 @ 06:39am

  Re:

  My biggest issue with the browser version is using the mouse to scroll through feeds (with those passed being automatically marked as read) seems to get jumpy depending on what your mouse scroll is set at. So, I end up with all sorts of "read" items going unmarked as the I scroll through the list.
  
  I also find the sharing to be not as seamless.
  
  Generally, I don't have a problem with RAM, but as I do most of my work on a Chromebook, there are times when it starts slowing to a crawl when there are enough tabs open. On my actual PC, this isn't really an issue.

• On the post: Tim Cushing's Subjectively Awesome Stuff Of No Particular Timeframe

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2014 @ 06:36am

  Re:

  I game on a console. So, um, none.

• On the post: EA Deploys The Comcast Defense: 'It Only Sounds Like A Lot Of Complaints Because We Have So Damn Many Customers'

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2014 @ 04:56pm

  Re: what are you complaining about ??

  wat

• On the post: Speed Cam Contractor Redflex Accused Of Bribing Government Officials In 13 States

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2014 @ 10:31am

  Re:

  I have had the offending link taken down under and shot.
  
  Should go where I said it would go now.

• On the post: What The DMCA System Is NOT For: Shutting Down Twitter Accounts You Don't Like And Sending Anonymous Tips

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2014 @ 02:21pm

  Re: Re:

  The takedown notice system is severely flawed, but potentially workable.
  
  That is a better phrasing.

• On the post: Found Him: This Has To Be THE Dumbest Criminal

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2014 @ 08:01pm

  Don't knock Freeland.

• On the post: Baybrook Remodelers, Still In The Midst Of Suing People For Negative Reviews, Deploys A Disastrous SEO Hitman

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2014 @ 06:16pm

  Re: Question:

  No, but he did leave this awful free form verse after the post went live:
  
  http://imgur.com/3gAZX78

• On the post: South Carolina Senator Aims To Criminalize The Recording Of Criminal Activity

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2014 @ 07:42am

  Re: Sorry, South Carolina...

  Or at the very least, not allowed to Tivo it, thus creating an incriminating recording.

• On the post: Canadian Copyright Collective Calls It A Day After 15 Years Of Failing To Make Payments To Rights Holders

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2013 @ 10:38am

  Re: Pedantic Math error

  Whoops. I have fixed the date.

• On the post: Glenn Greenwald Says NSA, GCHQ Dismayed They Don't Have Access To In-Flight Internet Communication

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2013 @ 10:22am

  Re:

  The problem is collecting device info as the person makes their way through security. The PNR shows who's traveling but what devices they're carrying. Tracking down individual's information is easy. It's linking them to specific device info that might be harder. Phones are easy, thanks to phone metadata. Laptops and tablets would be a bit more difficult.

• On the post: Oklahoma Cops Think Falling Glitter Might Be A Biochemical Attack, Book Protesters On 'Terrorist Hoax' Charges When It Isn't

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2013 @ 02:15pm

  Re:

  timcushinghatesstupidity.com

• On the post: Seven House Judiciary Members Demand DOJ Investigate James Clapper For Lying To Congress

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2013 @ 02:44pm

  The ODNI is already heading this off:
  
  RE: INVESTIGATION OF CLAPPER FOR ALLEGED DISCHARGE OF UNTRUTH
  
  The Office would like to direct the esteemed members of the House Judiciary Committee to the following Fact Sheet, which should clarify the many misconceptions surrounding James Clapper's supposed misrepresentation of his own words.
  
  

  1. The NSA, along with the ODNI, has always self-reported all potential mistruths. Even when we don't.
  
  2. Clapper answer was not untruthful under this program.
  
  3. Director Clapper's answer was NOT a lie. It was simply a matter of the director "playing to the edges" of the "truth matrix."
  
  4. If Clapper had answered truthfully, up to 54 terrorist investigations would have been compromised.
  
  5. Contrary to what everyone's saying (including the esteemed members of the HJC), Clapper at no time had access to the content of Ron Wyden's phone calls.
  
  6. Everybody lies to everybody. And once again, at no time did the NSA, nor Clapper himself, collect the content of any French metadata.
  
  7. Clapper's truth-dodging has been held to be legal under current law. Not only that, but his slippery wording is subject to several layers of oversight, both inside the DNI's office and inside the DNI's panic room.
  
  8. For all we know, Snowden has millions of sensitive documents and hates America. Therefore, you must acquit.
  
  9. If anyone can suggest a better way to fight terrorism than Clapper lying to Congress, we'd be more than happy to discuss those ideas.
  
  10. Once again, James Clapper is only lying, not collecting sensitive content from domestic end-to-end calls. Do we really have to keep stressing this point?
  
  10.(a) Also not collecting domestic email content (since 2011!).
  
  11. Clapper's desire to lie to Congress is no different than the average American's desire to lie to Congress. Our intelligence officials have the same concerns about privacy the rest of you little people do, only we can actually do something to protect ours.
  
  Oh. And Clapper probably didn't actually lie.

  
  We hope these Guidance Points will help you arrive at the correct conclusion pursuant to your investigation that we won't be assisting with one bit.
  
  Sincerely,
  Office of the Director of National Intelligence

• On the post: Photographer Sends C&D To Something Awful Over Photo 'Shopped To Add A Butt To A Bird

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2013 @ 03:03pm

  Re: Link's wrong (in the repro of the C&D)

  After three tries, I finally have that fixed. Should take you to the infamous ButtBird now.

• On the post: Photographer Sends C&D To Something Awful Over Photo 'Shopped To Add A Butt To A Bird

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2013 @ 12:38pm

  Re:

  Batman. Bateman. Both were played by the same actor. Interchangeable as far as I can tell. (Although I can more easily picture Patrick Bateman as an attorney...)

• On the post: Unarmed Man Charged With Assault Because NYC Police Shot At Him And Hit Random Pedestrians

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2013 @ 01:21pm

  Re: Throwing bottles at the wrong department...

  Right. The cops made a mistake. The DA's office ensured justice would be miscarried by tossing it down the staircase late in its third trimester.

• On the post: Unarmed Man Charged With Assault Because NYC Police Shot At Him And Hit Random Pedestrians

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2013 @ 01:17pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  I also need to look up ih8nyc.com.

• On the post: Unarmed Man Charged With Assault Because NYC Police Shot At Him And Hit Random Pedestrians

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2013 @ 12:47pm

  Re:

  Is that registered? Because I'm all over it if it isn't.

• On the post: 'Attribution Troll' Issues DMCA Notice To Remove Critical Posts From Techdirt, Boing Boing And Popehat

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2013 @ 11:51am

  Re: 123 Manazanita way

  Yep. From what I've gathered (with help from others), his REAL residence is most likely in Texas. The phone number listed sports a Houston area code.

• On the post: University With History Of Free Speech Violations Abuses Trademark Law In Clumsy Attempt To Shut Down Critical Blog

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2013 @ 12:23pm

  Re: Just a little bit of hypocrisy...

  > Even worse, those who use IP law as a silencing
  > weapon tend to be the most inept wielders.
  
  You mean like TechDirt's recent advocacy of using trademark law to silence/change the name of a team it doesn't like?
  
  Oh, man. You got us. Both instances use the word "trademark" so they're completely identical.

• On the post: Lancaster Cops Still Unclear On Public's Right To Record; Harass Same Citizen Who Recorded Them Last Week

  

  Tim Cushing ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2013 @ 06:04pm

  Re: Small correction

  I believe it's the Lancaster PD. I included a policy statement (PDF) from the Manheim Township in the last post, but the quoted PD statement (added in the update) was from someone referred to as simply "city police spokesman." (That's the same spokesman quoted in this post.)
  
  So, the Manheim policy may be irrelevant, but in both cases, this appears to involve Lancaster City PD.

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