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• On the post: Whether Or Not You Believe Russia Interfered In The Election, We Should All Be Worried About Escalation Based On Secret Info

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2017 @ 10:34am

  Re:

  Yes, that specific line wasn't coming to me, but I have had the same general feeling about President Trump's presidency as we were given for "President Clarke"

• On the post: How Pharmaceutical Companies Are Keeping Americans From Doing Something The Government Says They Can Do

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2016 @ 06:16am

  Re: Re:

  The next generation of consumers!

• On the post: Daily Deal: Scrivener (Ending Soon)

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2015 @ 10:50am

  Re: Re: Re: Poor wording

  Ah, I see the complaint there. When I came on the article, it had already been struck through and changed to Windows.

• On the post: Daily Deal: Scrivener (Ending Soon)

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2015 @ 08:55am

  Re: Poor wording

  And some people still have a preferred version between the two. Thus, preferred version is still correct.

• On the post: Cops Seize Car When Told To Get A Warrant, Tell Owner That's What He Gets For 'Exercising His Rights'

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2014 @ 09:36am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: General corruption?

  What do you think is the basic fundamental of human decency? Empathy.

• On the post: Copyright Office To Aereo: Quack All You Want, We Don't Think You're A Cable Service

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2014 @ 12:39pm

  It is possible, just barely, that the C.O. is actually attempting to provide Aereo some assistance here. Possibly, if this gets before the SC again, they can point to this "ruling" as evidence that no, they're not a cable company?
  
  Grasping at straws here...

• On the post: FTC Cracks Down On T-Mobile For Massive Bogus Charges And Fee Scam

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2014 @ 08:28am

  Addressed already

  This has been addressed by T-Mobile already. As of November 2013, they had a program in place:
  https://t-mobile.jive-mobile.com/#jive-document?content=%2Fapi%2Fcore%2Fv2%2Fdocuments%2F9863
  
  
  I found that link via the following article:
  http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/01/ftc-accuses-t-mobile-of-allowing-shady-scams-to-sneak-onto-your-phone-bill/

• On the post: NYPD Failed At Social Media This Time, But They Reacted Like Adults To That Failure

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2014 @ 09:58am

  Re: Re:

  OMG, don't say that. Hollywood is already remaking everything else, don't let them think that rebooting THIS would be a good idea.

• On the post: Member Of Intelligence Review Group Tells NSA: You Guys Have Done Amazing Work Protecting America… And Should Never, Ever Be Trusted

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2014 @ 07:19am

  Re: No there is still something wrong below the top level...

  I would almost agree that the problem is at the top of the chain, but there are a bunch of corrupt links in the middle as well
  
  Of course there is. Where do you think that the new "top of the chain" comes from? It doesn't form from a vacuum. People with the "right" character flaws get drawn to the top.
  
  The problem would be lessened with more effective oversight, however.

• On the post: Man Subjected To Multiple Rectal Searches And Enemas By Police Officers Receives $1.6 Million Settlement

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2014 @ 07:37am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Lets just hope they're different objects...or are presented in the other order.

• On the post: DailyDirt: The U.S. Postal Service

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2013 @ 12:50pm

  Re: Re: Re: USPS has a handicap

  In my experience, UPS tracking is also a joke. I ordered new phones from my cell provider on Tuesday. Tuesday night, they were listed as having been scanned for arrival at 6:11pm Eastern.
  
  The next updates were this morning, sometime between 11:30p when I went to bed, and 6:00 am when I got up. Sometime in that time frame, the package had shipped from Lexington, KY, to Wyoming, MI, where it was scanned for departure at 1:10 am, then arrived in Flint, MI at 3:10am.
  
  That's a 30+ hour block of time where there were no updates, yet apparently it placed on a truck, shipped to Michigan, unloaded then put on another truck.
  
  FedEX isn't any better.

• On the post: Schools Ban Tag, Cartwheels And 'Unstructured Play:' The Inevitable Outcome Of Unrealistic Promises And Expectations [UPDATED]

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2013 @ 09:29am

  Re: You miss a crucial point in the story

  However, that doesn't apply to the Michigan school situation.

• On the post: Ex-Prenda Lawyer Wonders If Team Prenda Believes Their Own Lies After Laughable Hearing

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2013 @ 07:33am

  Re:

  I think it's more likely "phone bill" rather than "meta-data".

• On the post: LeaseWeb Deletes Megaupload's Servers Without Warning, Destroying Key Evidence

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2013 @ 10:09am

  Re: NSA

  No, just yours.

• On the post: First Hand Account Of Judicial Smackdown Of Prenda In Minnesota

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 22 May, 2013 @ 11:23am

  Re:

  Was it the longest night of their lives, too?

• On the post: Trojan Author Includes Integrated Chat, Challenges Security Researchers Digging Through His Code

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2012 @ 07:38am

  Re:

  Lancelot, Galahad, and I will jump out of the rabbit...

• On the post: Tor Listens To Authors And Readers And Ditches DRM

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2012 @ 07:05am

  Re: Re:

  A few years indeed. I remember seeing books available in the Usenet newsgroups in the late 90's...

• On the post: Barnes & Noble Going Around Asking Everyone To Change All Links From Borders To B&N

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 25 Dec, 2011 @ 09:28am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: For sale

  I know, right? Instead of just letting people sink, they're actually going out of there way and saying "hey, this will eventually not work."

• On the post: Author Walter Jon Williams Asks For Fans To Help Him 'Pirate' His Own Works Better

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 25 May, 2011 @ 07:39am

  Re: Why not just post electronic versions?

  Not an author, but I am friends/acquaintances with several. The price of an e-book is very rarely left up to the author. Most of the time it is decided by the publisher. Hence, the stupidity with most prices.

• On the post: Old Spice Man Is Horsing Around On Social Media

  

  Vanye ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2010 @ 10:15am

  Re: Sales Metrics

  Its possible that Wal-Mart refused to provide the information, or didn't do it in a timely enough manner for the study.

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