Chronno S. Trigger 's Techdirt Comments

Latest Comments (3157) comment rss

  • On the post: Survey: 27% Think A Gigabyte Is a Type Of South American Insect [Update: Or Not]

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2014 @ 07:44pm

    Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Mar 14th, 2014 @ 6:50pm

    When I went to public high school in 1999, we had computers in the library that were so locked down you couldn't do anything on them. The computer lab was still using Dos.

  • On the post: Survey: 27% Think A Gigabyte Is a Type Of South American Insect [Update: Or Not]

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2014 @ 07:41pm

    Re:

    Just as long as it's not pronounced with a soft G we're good.

  • On the post: Ridiculously Broad Ruling Against DVD Ripper Software Has Court Allow Seizure Of Domains, Social Media & More

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2014 @ 12:11pm

    Re:

    It was probably worded that way to get the banks to give back the money people would be paying to get the software.

  • On the post: Smokey Robinson Sues Ex-Wife To Prevent Her From Claiming 50% Of His Recaptured Motown Hits

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2014 @ 12:27pm

    Why is this even a case?

    If Smoky Robinson went out and sold his car today, he wouldn't have to give 50% to his ex-wife. He didn't own the copyright at the time of the divorce, why should he have to give her half of it now?

    Or is there a part of divorce law that forces him to give her 50% of all the assets he gets until the end of his life?

  • On the post: Does The European Commission Really Think The Internet Is A 'Value Tree' That Requires A 'Transmission Belt Of Euros'?

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2014 @ 12:07pm

    Re: Re: Re: And what exactly is wrong in presented picture?

    Hi, I'm a Network Administrator. 20 some odd years personal experience and 10 years professional. And in my professional (and personal) opinion, you're an idiot. Who do you work for so I can make sure to never hire them?

    You seriously don't know that a vary large group of people actually pay real money for hosted E-Mail servers (and an ass load of other hosted services)? Do you even Internet?

  • On the post: Keurig Insists Coffee DRM Brings 'Interactive-Enabled Benefits' And Is For Your Own Safety

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2014 @ 11:34am

    Re:

    Are you seriously defending this insanity?

    1. Did you also know that washing the appliance could cause damage? Are they going to prevent you from washing the thing in the wrong way?

    2. No it isn't new, ask the ink manufacturers how DRM is working for them.

  • On the post: Nintendo Kills Online Functionality For Wii, DS Titles, Highlighting Need For Greater User Control Over Content They Supposedly Own

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2014 @ 05:50pm

    Someone will do it. Someone will upgrade Warp Pipe to work with the Wii and allow multyplayer again. It's the only reason I haven't lost complete faith in humanity, someone will f**king make it work.

  • On the post: Judge Kozinski Refuses To Even Consider That His Ruling To Censor 'Innocence Of Muslims' On Copyright Grounds May Go Too Far

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2014 @ 12:03pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    I was going to call you "a raging moron", but then I thought maybe you're just from another country. Though I think the vast majority of the world knows what I'm about to explain to you.

    In the US there's this thing called the Bill of Rights. It is a document we hold above all else. One of the first things in this document is a thing called The First Amendment. It states that the United States Government cannot infringe upon it's citizens rights to free speech. Basically, all speech is protected in the US.

  • On the post: Federal Judge Paraphrases Mike Rogers; Tells Muslims Their Rights Can't Be Violated If They Don't Know They're Being Violated

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2014 @ 05:57am

    Let me paraphrase

    Muslims have been spied on by NYPD. No harm was done before that spying was reviled and no harm was really done after the revile ether. Judge William Martini thinks that violating our natural rights isn't harm.

    Everybody out of the boat, it's going down.

  • On the post: Valve: No, Our Gaming Anti-Cheat System Isn't Tracking Your Voracious Porn Habits

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2014 @ 02:41pm

    Re:

    I love these kind of comments. There's a rumor that Steam might, possibly, potentially, in some situations get some DNS information and people use it as justification for hatred. But somehow these people, who think that they should avoid anything because it could be used in the wrong way, are on a computer. Microsoft could do the same thing. Apple could. The many developers of Linux could as well. Hell, if we're really being paranoid about it, I'd be more worried about the Linux developers since they don't have incoming money on the line.

  • On the post: UK Town Starts Texting Residents To Remind Them They're Obese

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2014 @ 09:07am

    Re:

    "Where, pray tell, are they getting their info on who the "fatties" are? "

    They sign up. This is opt-in remember.

    I personally don't see a problem with this. It's impartial advice and encouragement that I would assume is free. This isn't something based on an ideology like Weight Watchers or the like.

    The number one reason why people can't stick to a diet is lack of enthusiasm. No one outside of yourself really cares about your diet, or even the little goals you accomplish. Yay, you took a walk today. Your 160lb friend doesn't give a crap. If you can't get the encouragement from your friends, a bot is your next best thing.

    It's the same for other things like drinking or smoking. It's a day by day, minute by minute kind of thing. It's easy to become disillusioned and fall back to old habits. This is why things like AA and Weight Watchers (and now UK government text messages) exist. Mutual support.

  • On the post: Please Stop Trying To Argue That Netflix Should Be More Like Traditional Cable TV

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2014 @ 03:34pm

    I have a media center system running on XBMC and a central MySQL database. It's got a plugin that will organize your library into different channels and keep a TV Guide style setup so you can channel surf and browse a schedule and such. Worked better then the interface of my Comcast box. I turned it off after about a week because it just wasn't worth it. Why flip threw possibly dozens of channels of things you probably don't want to watch at the time when you can just flip threw the library to what you do want to watch?

    Basically I'm saying that Netflix doesn't need a channel surf function. No one would use it after a while.

  • On the post: Netflix, YouTube Streaming Gets Worse on Major ISPs, Who In Turn Blame the Deep, Dark Mysteries of the Internet

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2014 @ 06:11pm

    The problem with residential connections

    This guy states a few facts that suggest a vary possible reason for the discrepancy.

    Business connections are dedicated connections, you don't share the bandwidth. With a residential connection, you do.

    Then we can probably safely assume that his business testing was done during business hours and home testing was done after. I have found that during the day my connection to Youtube is amazing, 1080p video, but right around 3:30pm every single day I can't watch the 144p videos. It picks back up again after 11:30pm. Took me a little while to figure it out, but it turns out that the connection would start sucking right as the kids started getting home from school. Weekends, summer, and the random snow days didn't have this problem. The kids would come home, play games, watch videos, and kill the internet connection for the entire neighborhood.

    The "Deep, dark mysteries of the Internet" are a damn good excuse because they're true. We're going to need something much more then random ping tests to prove Verizon is throttling.

  • On the post: You Want People To Have Strong Passwords? What Are You, Some Kind Of Communist?

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2014 @ 08:51am

    Re:

    "We don't blame the homeowner when their house gets robbed"

    Fun fact, we do. The home owners insurance (and car insurance as well) will not cover losses due to negligence. You leave your door unlocked, you are responsible for the losses.

    If (and that's a big if) they catch the person who did it, then you can try to get your stuff back or compensation from them, but the insurance companies will do nothing.

    I don't see why shared blame is not a thing in some people's worlds.

  • On the post: TSA To Gun Show Attendees: Don't Think You're Getting On Board With Your Bullet-Encased-In-Acrylic Keychains

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2014 @ 08:42pm

    I may be a little out of it (I did just get out of surgery today) so forgive me if I seem a little off. But who the hell would think that there's a live bullet in a key chain? You don't put a live bullet into a trinket, it's too expensive. It's probably not even metal.

    However, I'm completely not surprised that this would be banned. It may be fake but the TSA banns everything fake.

  • On the post: Really Bad Idea: Senator Klobuchar Wants To Mandate A 'Kill Switch' In All Mobile Phones

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2014 @ 08:13pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: first, second

    I don't want to sound like an ad bot (like that Comcast guy earlier), but this seems vary relevant to the conversation.

    There's a program I use called Prey that I thought of the second I started reading this article. It's even more relevant now that you suggested a SIM card change detection. Prey does all of these things. And guess what, it's free (for 3 devices).

    Why do we need a law?

  • On the post: NSA Interception In Action? Tor Developer's Computer Gets Mysteriously Re-Routed To Virginia

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2014 @ 01:35pm

    Re: Wow!

    Everything posted here is just hypothesis. The idea that it was a shipping mix-up has already been postulated in the article and by Andrea herself. That is, as you say, the simplest possibility and has already been hashed out as far as possible. The other possibilities are just more interesting.

    No one here is saying with 100% certainty that the US government is behind it. We're just it's vary possible and this is how they might have done it.

  • On the post: NSA Interception In Action? Tor Developer's Computer Gets Mysteriously Re-Routed To Virginia

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2014 @ 01:28pm

    Re: Re:

    Windows will not run autorun from a USB drive since Windows XP (and I think one of the XP updates disabled that).

    If it's anything, it's probably a small chip that sits between the keyboard itself and the USB output. It then installs itself like a keyboard and uses some glitch (or possibly a back door) in the keyboard driver.

  • On the post: NSA Interception In Action? Tor Developer's Computer Gets Mysteriously Re-Routed To Virginia

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2014 @ 01:21pm

    Re: Re: Buy in person, pay in cash

    I was thinking the same exact thing as Applesauce was. If you really want to make sure that they can't do this, you have to buy from a brick and mortar store. Some place that the NSA wouldn't expect, or at least won't have the budget to cover. Too bad you can't get a replacement laptop keyboard from Best Buy.

  • On the post: NSA Interception In Action? Tor Developer's Computer Gets Mysteriously Re-Routed To Virginia

    Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2014 @ 01:17pm

    Re:

    It says the carrier is USPS. UPS or FedEx probably weren't involved at all. I've gotten several packages delivered from Amazon directly threw USPS.

    Though, I wouldn't trust UPS ether. They've taken to using USPS themselves for the last leg of the trip.

Next >>