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• On the post: FBI Informants Still Committing Serious Crimes Thousands Of Times A Year

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 18 May, 2021 @ 11:28am

  They say crime doesn't pay...

  ...but crime DOES pay if you're a snitch.

• On the post: The Dish 'Fix' For The T-Mobile Merger Is Looking More And More Like A Ridiculous Mess

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 10 May, 2021 @ 01:12pm

  Dish: wastebasket?

  Perhaps what we are looking at here is a wastebasket. One in which you dump scarce resources and unwanted customers. Give it a fresh coat of paint and show iti off as a bright new compeititor -- all the while snickering into your fist because you know it is just a wastebasket.

• On the post: Data Broker Looking To Sell Real-Time Vehicle Location Data To Government Agencies, Including The Military

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2021 @ 07:19am

  Re:

  Spy technology is used for regulating the unwashed masses, never the nobility.

• On the post: Small Idaho ISP 'Punishes' Twitter And Facebook's 'Censorship' … By Blocking Access To Them Entirely

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2021 @ 06:48pm

  Re:

  Someone should sue them for censorship. I bet it takes them 10 seconds to figure out why it is not censorship for a company like them to do this. And I also bet they're too dumb to see the parallel.

• On the post: Twitch's No Good, Very Bad Time Continues: Part 2

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2020 @ 04:30am

  Must be something

  Any news on whether Twitch is now a wholly owned subsidiary of RIAA? Of Hell? (Would there be a difference?)

• On the post: Appeals Court Strips Immunity From Detectives Who Turned A Rape Report Into 18 Hours Of Terror For The Victim

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2020 @ 07:51pm

  Murder is better

  After reading of similar events in the past: I theorize that officers (fed and state) prefer a witness be murdered in many cases. The reason would be simple: it is easier to get a life sentence conviction for murder than (in this case) what they probably thought to be a he/she said rape case.

  It's otherwise hard to see why -- as in this case -- officers so frequently clue in perpetrators about talking witnesses...and then leave those witnesses swinging in the breeze, without protection.

• On the post: How Should Social Media Handle Election Polls That Turned Out To Be Misinformation?

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2020 @ 03:43pm

  Re: Re: Should we forecast?

  Suppose the goal is to identify practical means of distinguish: 1) A poll that wiil influence the election
  2) A poll that will influence an election in an incorrect way To accomplish (1) you will need to know the forecast model that is used and whether or not it is correctly applied and/or applied without bias. How do you propose that a media company might practically do that? To accomplish (2) you need to know the eventual outcome of the election. To predict that, I suppose you plan to use a poll...which takes us back to (1). The forecasting model is the common feature of all the items I named. It comes to a question of which a particular model -- or any model, for that matter -- will produce correct results. I suppose, of course you could use the time-honored method of blockinig polls that, in your opinion, influence the election in the direction you don't like...

• On the post: How Should Social Media Handle Election Polls That Turned Out To Be Misinformation?

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2020 @ 10:17am

  Should we forecast?

  If a poll "impacts voter behavior", how do we even know if it was wrong? If weather forecasts are often wrong, should all weather forecasts be blocked? Prediction related to COVID was wrong several times, so if the the black death comes around, should we block all predictions? Should classification of carcinogens be banned because we don't actually know who will get cancer?

  Prediction of the future is a very special case.

• On the post: AT&T Gives Up On DSL, Leaving Many Out Of Broadband's Reach

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2020 @ 12:03pm

  Reading between the lines

  First the Dish dump, now this. Both very uncharacteristic. Is AT&T hinting of bankruptcy?

• On the post: Devin Nunes Asks Appeals Court To Invalidate Bedrock Supreme Court 1st Amendment Ruling

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2020 @ 02:42pm

  Impressively thin skin

  For some people, it truly is the principle of the thing. If SCOTUS lets him down, where does he go from there?

  Constitutional Amendment to repeal the First Amendment?

  Constitutional convention?

  Revolution?

• On the post: NY Times Editorial Pages Fuck Up Again: Publishes Chinese Official's Ridiculous Defense Of Stifling Freedom In Hong Kong

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2020 @ 10:33pm

  Fourth Estate Problem

  This is not an NYT, FOX, or CNN problem. This is a Fourth Estate problem.

  Once upon a time, politicians of all stripes were afraid of the Fourth Estate, because if a politician did wrong, their career got destroyed -- couldn't win an election for dog catcher. Generally. It wasn't a perfect system, but what human system is?

  Then the Fourth Estate learned the "Rules of Acquisition" and became the Fourth Prostitutes, seeking money glorious money...their mantra is money and they have forgotten their role in society.

  The problem with being a prostitute is that you have to do a lot of service, in order to get the money. So all the issue of the Fourth Prostitutes are now servicing one agenda or another: Some do it for one side; some for the other; some do it for whoever comes around waving money; and some do it if someone comes around threatening to stop up a money flow.

  It's gotten so bad that the press is routinely physically attacked -- with impunity. Used to be that the only thing worse for your career than hurting a reporter was shooting a cop. These days they can't even work up a good ire for fear of annoying someone they're servicing.

  I am sure NYT publishing these articles was just a good day's servicing.

• On the post: California Intelligence Center's Facial Recognition Searches Are Turning Good Evidence Into Illegally-Obtained Evidence

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2020 @ 02:45pm

  Re: Turning valid evidence into illegal evidence?

  Oh, well. Looks like SFPD and will have to go back to parallel construction.

• On the post: Canadian Man Arrested For Not Being A Terrorist

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2020 @ 11:40am

  Stay behind the Joneses

  Memo to RCMP: Stop trying to outdo US DOJ.

• On the post: Why Do Republican Senators Seem To Want To Turn Every Website Into A Trash Heap Of Racism & Abuse?

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2020 @ 11:19am

  Possible reason

  Why Do Republican Senators Seem To Want To Turn Every Website Into A Trash Heap Of Racism & Abuse?

  Because they seem to want to turn the whole world into a trash heap of racism and abuse -- and they have to start somewhere?

• On the post: I See This Stupid New Section 230 Bill, And I Say It's A Stupid Section 230 Bill

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2020 @ 09:30am

  The meaning of haystack

  So... that's preposterously broad. If some comment spammer shows up in the Techdirt comments and posts some nonsense "promoting" drugs, I would have to file an official report with the DOJ? This would be an incredible burden for nearly any website.

  It's also going to be an incredible burden on the DOJ. When the first day -- and every day thereafter -- brings them a ten petabyte haystack to search for needles, do you think they will use the needles instead to grow Scarecrow's brain?

• On the post: Facebook Sued For Not Preventing A Bunch A White Guys With Guns From Traveling To A Protest To Shoot People

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2020 @ 11:33am

  Re:

  The cops don't have a bazillion $$$$ in the bank.

• On the post: If Patents Are So Important To Innovation, Why Do Innovative Companies Keep Opening Up Their Patents Rather Than Enforcing Them?

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2020 @ 09:54pm

  Creating vs. Milking

  Innovators create new things to sell, and are well aware others will jump to imitate (imitation is what we do best). They never stop creating; ignoring imitators; profiting before the imitators come out in force.

  IP lawyers find something to patent, and milk imitators until it all turns to dust, creating nothing. If it were up to IP lawyers we'd still be living in frigid caves, because warmth is patented.

• On the post: China Calls TikTok Deal 'Extortion'; Says It Will Not Approve

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2020 @ 11:25am

  Pot blackens self to match kettle, then calls kettle black

  This is wrong, wrong, wrong...So we're gonna do it, too.

• On the post: Trump Still Hates The 1st Amendment: Meeting With State Attorneys General To Tell Them To Investigate Internet Companies For Bias

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2020 @ 03:54am

  Not conservatives

  ...despite the fact that no one has shown any actual evidence of anti-conservative bias beyond assholes, trolls, and literal Nazis upset that they got banned.

  Ummmm...point...they haven't shown any evidence, either. Not of anti-conservative bias. Their so-called "conservative speech"...isn't.

• On the post: Fourth Circuit Appeals Court Seems Skeptical That Baltimore's Aerial Surveillance System Violates The Fourth Amendment

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2020 @ 09:05pm

  Curtilage

  “These are simple observations of public movements, and it’s not inside someone’s dwelling,

  You'd think a judge would know what "curtilage" is.

  Especially since he is probably having Persistent Surveillance Systems exclude his curtilage from observation.

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