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• On the post: EU 'Protecting Consumers' By Forcing Them To Pay More For Android?

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2018 @ 09:19pm

  Budget potholes

  EU 'Protecting Consumers' By Forcing Them To Pay More For Android?

  Well, yeah, must plug those budget holes somehow. And don't plugging those budget holes "Protect Consumers" in the long run?

• On the post: Detailed And Thorough Debunking Of Bloomberg's Sketchy Story About Supply Chain Hack

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2018 @ 08:36pm

  What about the capabilities the BMC does have?

  This line from the Bloomberg is technically inaccurate because a powered off server’s storage with its sensitive code has no power and cannot be accessed.

  I'm not quite so easily convinced as these guys are. The article on BMC notes that it can be used to position an ISO (equivalent of plugging in a USB with an O/S into the server) and then turn the server on. (Or wait for it to be turned on.)

  It seems to me that if one can control the BMC, the server is pwned... even if it does happen to be powered down.

• On the post: Texas Teens Can't Graduate High School Until They've Been Told How To Behave Around Cops

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2018 @ 06:40pm

  Re:

  Addendum video

• On the post: Texas Teens Can't Graduate High School Until They've Been Told How To Behave Around Cops

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2018 @ 06:31pm

  Texas: Although it is lawful for you to remain silent during a traffic stop, you are required by law to truthfully identify yourself when asked to do so by an officer.

  Cushing: The law does not require this.

  The law may not require this. Time and again, we've seen that law officers do. If you refuse, you will be arrested.

  I understand that the law is supposed to dominate. But no one will make the officers follow this law, so the practice is the rules of the road.

• On the post: TSA Announces Plans To Subject Domestic Travelers To Biometric Screening

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2018 @ 09:19pm

  Re:

  ...chips which will have problems, and will be falsified, and so they'll demand we carry the paper as backup.

• On the post: TSA Announces Plans To Subject Domestic Travelers To Biometric Screening

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2018 @ 09:16pm

  Re:

  That favorite euphemism of business and government, "Serving you better," always means you're getting screwed.

• On the post: TSA Announces Plans To Subject Domestic Travelers To Biometric Screening

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2018 @ 09:12pm

  Re: Re: Papers please?

  No, I'm sure this perfect new facial recognition technology will somehow identify everyone dodgy as being that master terrorist Kaalim el-Niazi Nazmi al-Dib, man of a thousand faces. The fake ID (even that made by government spooks) will not work anymore and we will all be mucho safer. In TSA we trust!

• On the post: DOJ, Trump Decide The Federal Government Needs To Give Chicago The Police Department It Doesn't Want

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2018 @ 07:56pm

  Re: Beatings will continue until moral improves

  A more accurate title would be:

  Beatings will increase until moral improves

• On the post: The American Idol People Bullied A Local County Fair Out Of Its 'Yolo Idol' Event For Some Reason

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2018 @ 05:45pm

  Re: This is crappy but..

  From Wikipedia:

  Due to the acronym YOLO meaning "you only live once," Yolo County and the unincorporated community of Yolo have unusual place names.

  So they should not change their name.They should file for a top-level domain name. And sue Fremantlemedia for any use of those four words in any movie titles.

• On the post: Washington State Laughs At Federal Attack On State Net Neutrality Laws

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2018 @ 10:35pm

  Gangland sophistry

  Never underestimate the sophistry of the gang that fostered the FCC repeal. Be prepared for SCOTUS (now operated by the same gang) to rule that the FCC was correct in its repeal...and then to rule that, somehow, the FCC can also magically overrule the states.
  
  This would follow the old adage: What one hand giveth [to the ISPs] the other hand also giveth [to the ISPs].

• On the post: Federal Court Dumps Another Lawsuit Against Twitter For Contributing To Worldwide Terrorism

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2018 @ 05:40am

  ...it's still plaintiffs seeking to hold social media companies directly responsible for violent acts committed by others.

  No, not even nearly that direct. It's plaintiffs seeking to hold social media companies directly responsible for people theoretically enticing people who might possibly have the right ideology to be encouraged to commit violent acts, into being recruited to commit violent acts.

  It's so remote it comes down to, "You're letting people of a religion I don't like discuss politics."

• On the post: Feds Finally Get Around To Using Someone's Face To Unlock Their Cellphone

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2018 @ 09:25pm

  Submission versus consent

  First, Michalski apparently consented to the search by using his face to unlock the phone. If this was as voluntary as it appears, it pretty much eliminates a Constitutional challenge.

  Was it truly consent? Or just submission to authority?

  When held at gunpoint by a mugger and one voluntarily gives over one's money, that does not imply consent.

• On the post: Brazil's Government Wants Twitter To Turn Over Data On Users Who Mocked Victim Of Assassination Attempt

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2018 @ 05:00am

  Time management

  If they didn't spend so much time investigating Twitter jokes, they might actually have time to find out who assassinated Marielle Franco.

• On the post: The DOJ's New Net Neutrality Lawsuit Is A Giant Middle Finger To State Rights, Consumers, Competition & The Democratic Process

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2018 @ 12:53pm

  Re: GOP running for office vs GOP in office

  The GOP depends upon people who watch political ads with wide-eyed credulous adoration.

• On the post: Court Won't Let FBI Dodge Lawsuit By Removing American Citizen From No-Fly List Shortly Shortly After Being Sued

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2018 @ 11:51pm

  Re: No Fly List = No Due Process

  Ah, yes, the usual b******* straw man argument about the Democrats and guns.
  
  What the no fly lists do is crap on citizen rights.
  
  Take these men: Their right to liberty? Crapped on. Pursuit of happiness? Crapped on. Due process? Crapped on. Redress? Crapped on. Representation? Crapped on. Ban on cruel and unusual punishment? Crapped on.
  
  Right to life could have been crapped on, too, in that UAE prison but they survived. (I can just hear the FBI agents complaining, "Why can't we crap on that, too? It would be so much easier to get rid of this infernal court case if these men were dead.")
  
  Even the right to bear arms...well, these men might still have that here in the US...but they couldn't get here, could they? Crapped on.
  
  So what were the Democrats up in arms about?
  
  Because the Republicans passed a law that barred the government from using no fly to interfere with Second Amendment rights. In essence, what that law says is, "Thou shalt respect the citizens' Second Amendment rights even if they are on the no fly list...BUT OTHERWISE WE ARE FINE WITH YOUR USE OF NO FLY TO CRAP ON EVERY OTHER CITIZEN RIGHT. Life? Liberty? All those other rights? Crap on those at will. But not our SACRED SECOND AMENDMENT COW!"
  
  And that is what the Democrats were up in arms about.

• On the post: Years Later, FTC Wins Case Against Roca Labs For Its Bogus Non-Disparagement Clause

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2018 @ 05:23am

  Summing up

  Let's see...

  • 3 years
  • probably 50,000 FTC attorney hours
  • company reduced to an empty shell, no money for penalties
  • principle will never lose a $
  • already doing business under another shell
  • no jail (of course)
  • "free market" administration no doubt planning to stifle "overreaching" FTC

  Yessiree, that will teach all those bad ol' companies to not use non-disparagement clauses.

• On the post: Study Buried For Four Years Shows Crime Lab DNA Testing Is Severely Flawed

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2018 @ 05:02am

  Not even a pretense of a fair test

  The study apparently wasn't even blind, which means the usual police/prosecutor pressure to match a suspect was lacking, and still 71% got it wrong.
  
  In real cases, with real pressure to get a conviction, it probably would have been 100%. Can't let the "bad guys" get away.

• On the post: Louisiana's Attorney General Wants To Break Up Google Over 'Bias'

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2018 @ 09:19pm

  Re: What am I missing here?

  It is not a matter of suppressing or censoring conservative agendas. The problem is that these sites persist in "promoting" liberal and Progressive agendas.
  
  Suppose the top three hyperlinks in every Google search result were the conservative leaders: you would still find the conservatives up in arms because the remaining links present liberal/progressive positions.
  
  Their concern is not fair presentation at all, but rather the utter silencing of "unwanted" viewpoints.
  
  But they will tell you it is not really censorship. No, not at all.

• On the post: White House Admits Exec Order To Regulate Social Media Is 'Real,' But No Idea Who Wrote It, And Won't Use It

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2018 @ 09:29pm

  It was written by Not Me, the same troublemaker who writes all childish excuses.

• On the post: Russian Company Wants To Gift A Trademark For 'Chemical Production' On Two Accused Russian Assassins

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2018 @ 09:59am

  Ha, ha, very funny this trademark joke. How about we tell a good one in return? No Russian product may enjoy the protection of a trademark in the UK. Isn't that a great joke?

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