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• On the post: FBI Tried To Get Google To Turn Over Identifying Info On Hundreds Of Phone Owners

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2018 @ 09:51pm

  Re: Re: Re: from the sensationalism dept.

  Oh, common USA measures? Then why not use 4,840,000 square feet?

• On the post: Movie Company Sues Post-Production Studio For $5 Million For Leaking 'Kickboxer' Film That Grossed $5k Domestically

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2018 @ 10:16pm

  Hey, profit$.

• On the post: FBI Tried To Get Google To Turn Over Identifying Info On Hundreds Of Phone Owners

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2018 @ 10:50pm

  Re: from the sensationalism dept.

  BTW, I saw what you did with the units there. In the future I suggest you give it as 0.025 Leagues. It sounds even smaller that way.

• On the post: FBI Tried To Get Google To Turn Over Identifying Info On Hundreds Of Phone Owners

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2018 @ 10:37pm

  Re: Re: Re: Ummm..

  They certainly know who is using my phone, even though I got my Samsung cell phone from T-Mobile. To use the Google services on my cell phone, I had to establish a Google account, and configure the account into the phone.
  
  Phone => Google Account => Google => Me.

• On the post: A Senator Says U.S. Broadband Maps 'Stink.' Here's Why Nobody Wants To Fix Them.

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2018 @ 10:14pm

  Re:

  A company may not include an area in its service map unless it actually sells service to at least 3% of the residents of that area, or 7 service locations, whichever is greater. AKA, "If you cannot sell broadband service to residents, you don't serve broadband."

• On the post: FBI Tried To Get Google To Turn Over Identifying Info On Hundreds Of Phone Owners

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2018 @ 09:12pm

  Re: from the sensationalism dept.

  45 hectares is 111 Acres. Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom is 107 acres; average daily attendance is about 56000 people.

• On the post: Nintendo Using Copyright To Erase Video Game History

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2018 @ 08:22pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Censorship is undesirable regardless of who is doing it. Just ask Alex Jones. (Whether he is actually being censored or not, he certainly agrees it is undesirable.)
  
  The company is within its rights. Does that mean we should not discuss, or deplore, what is doing within its rights as a public policy issue?

• On the post: We're Bad At Regulating Privacy, Because We Don't Understand Privacy

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2018 @ 08:06pm

  Trade-off?

  The argument is a bit simplistic, the privacy issue is about much more than just a simple trade-off.
  
  Instead of a grocery store example, let's say I have erectile disfunction and I share that with my doctor so I can get some Viagra. If that information remains between me and the doctor, that is a trade-off.
  
  But it's a very different issue if I go home and there's a post about my purchase on Facebook, "Coyne is using Viagra, you should, too."
  
  A trade-off is when I make a deal I make for a specific benefit. The biggest problem nowadays is that I have no idea who I'm making a deal with, or the extent of the sharing involved in the deal.

• On the post: Ajit Pai Does Something Right, Will Reform Stupid Utility Pole Rules To Speed Up Fiber Deployment

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2018 @ 09:44am

  Ajit Pai Does Something Right, Will Reform Stupid Utility Pole Rules To Speed Up Fiber Deployment

  I'm going to keep betting on stupid. My leading guess is that the new rules will protect incumbents and exclude newcomers.

• On the post: Bill Says US Tech Companies Must Let The Feds Know When Foreign Companies Poke Around In Their Source Code

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2018 @ 04:43am

  Maybe not the first priority?

  This is probably not even about NSA back doors. It's probably about that idiotic encryption export restriction. Can't allow other countries to see/steal our super-super-secret encryption that any foreign national can just buy a book about.
  
  Maybe instead we should be worrying about what is in some of the foreign products that we incautiously use here in the United States.

• On the post: Election Security Has Become A Partisan Issue As Senate Votes Down Funding

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2018 @ 07:38pm

  Re: What's the alternative explanation, then?

  The election security scandal is tied to the Russian scandal. The Russian scandal is tied to Trump. Trump is a Republican. The Democrats are obviously trying use the connected scandals to embarrass the Republicans.
  
  Therefore all of the connected scandals are partisan issues. Simple.

• On the post: Stupid Patent Of The Month: Upaid Sues 'Offending Laundromats' For Using Prepaid Cards

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2018 @ 06:35am

  Re: Pre-paid coffee in 1990...

  When I went to college in 1975, we had a prepaid cafeteria minimum that was accessed via a card.

• On the post: Cops Slowly Wise Up To The SIM Hijacking Trend Carriers Don't Want To Seriously Address

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2018 @ 06:47am

  T-Mobile note

  The T-Mobile paragraph is not correct. They have recommended a pin at time of phone purchase since at least 2013, the date I recorded my pin.

• On the post: Chinese Law Enforcement Alchemists Turn Shit To Drug Bust Gold

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2018 @ 09:09pm

  SmartPipe in real life

  This looks to me like the first staggering steps of the SmartPipe "concept" implemented in real life. Oh, it's obviously not general yet, but big brother must start somewhere.

  But, make no mistake, it is coming. As the detectors necessary to process effluent become cheaper, there will be more and more pressure by the governments to install this on everyone's home. The expressed purpose will be to track illegal flushing, but somehow drugs will just happen to be included as well.

• On the post: Grandstanding Idiots In Congress Attack Social Media For Censoring Too Much And Too Little Without Understanding Anything

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2018 @ 11:12pm

  Gohmert just couldn't say that word, could he?

  I can hear him stumbling: "The Russians helped Trum...Trum...Trum...Trum...Trum...Trum......Troo-man, that's right, Truman got elected."
  
  Why is saying that word so hard?

• On the post: DHS Tells Records Requester It Can't Find Documents It Posted To Its Own Website

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2018 @ 07:47pm

  Not surprised

  Nothing new here. When bureaucrats don't want to give a document over for FOIA, they aren't able to find it if it is stuck to their ass, with both hands.

• On the post: More Police Admitting That FOSTA/SESTA Has Made It Much More Difficult To Catch Pimps And Traffickers

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2018 @ 06:14pm

  Re:

  Either that or they were profiting from sex trafficking.
  
  It wouldn't surprise me a bit if the so-called "support" was shot full of lobbyists hired by crooks looking to protect their sex trafficking business.
  
  Especially given how all those supporters seem to have evaporated like water drops on a hot stove.

• On the post: Elsevier Will Monitor Open Science In EU Using Measurement System That Favors Its Own Titles

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2018 @ 09:10pm

  What a coincidence

  What a coincidence that the deal was announced exactly one day after the appeal period closed. That absolutely reeks of corruption.

• On the post: 'See Something, Say Something' But For Immigrants Continues To Collect Little But Petty Complaints From Petty Americans

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2018 @ 07:14am

  Re:

  See something say something CAN work if there is proper triage on the calls and proper followup on those found useful.

  Let's see if I have this straight: Your solution is to spend another $1 million annually to create a pre-VOICE call center to screen the calls and eliminate the junk before passing it on to VOICE? Okay, I can see the political value. Now VOICE would get 100% good phone calls... well, except for those undreminers who managed to scam their way through pre-VOICE. Would feed nicely into the anti-immigration argument. But it wouldn't increase the volume of relevant calls to VOICE. Basically, it would just mean that we are spending $2 million dollars a year, the second million of which is a political stunt, to game what is already a political stunt. I don't know about everyone else, but I hate political stunts, and this would be just a real loser in my view.

• On the post: Judge Says Parents Can Continue With Lawsuit Against Police Officer Who Helped Kill Their Son

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 04 Jul, 2018 @ 08:15am

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  The kid killed himself by repeatedly smashing his head into metal and concrete. Almost 50 times.

  It strikes me that the same thing could be said of a person who was pushed down a long flight of steel-railed concrete steps. Who would be at fault, the pusher or the pushee? Or are you holding that the pusher is responsible if a civilian, but if the pusher is a cop then the pushee MUST BE responsible? That cops are above all law?

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