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• On the post: Jeb Bush Compliments Obama For Continuing And Expanding His Brother's War On Terror

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2015 @ 04:10am

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  NEWS FLASH: As an American you're more likely to be shot, or in a car accident, or any number of horrible things than be killed or maimed in a terrorist attack on US soil.
  

  Who wants to live under constant surveillance in a police state? It may just be the least bad option.

  FTFY

• On the post: Jeb Bush Compliments Obama For Continuing And Expanding His Brother's War On Terror

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2015 @ 03:49pm

  More Bad News

  And to and insult to injury, it appears several more candidates have voiced support for the drone program. Rand's lack of a hard condemnation is disappointing but not surprising.

• On the post: Australia Considers New Copyright Law That Could Be Interpreted To Ban VPNs

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2015 @ 03:56am

  Snowclone Time

  "If we outlaw VPNs then only outlaws will have VPNs"

• On the post: ALEC Threatens To Sue Critics That Point Out It Helps Keep Broadband Uncompetitive

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2015 @ 07:57pm

  Re: Business as Usual

  This is a 'have to criticize both sides' false equivalence. I might take this argument seriously IF you can show behavior from pro-net neutrality groups that 1) comes anywhere close to bad-faith behavior and 2) is as widespread/systemic as it is in the anti-net neutrality side.

• On the post: Daily Deal: Linux Learner Bundle

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2015 @ 07:56am

  Re: Reading Techdirt right now on a Linux box?

  I run Lubuntu as my primary OS - still have my Windows partition should I need it for a Windows-only program.

• On the post: Wireless, Cable Industries Show Their Love Of An 'Open Internet' By Suing To Overturn Net Neutrality Rules

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2015 @ 10:25am

  "This appeal is not about net neutrality but the FCC’s unnecessary action to apply outdated utility style regulation to the most innovative network in our history,” said Michael Powell, NCTA President & CEO.

  PROTIP: maybe it's not a good idea to call a law 'outdated' when it was passed in the far-off year of 1996.

• On the post: 2009 DHS Document Says Border Patrol Can Search/Copy The Contents Of Your Device Just Because It Wants To

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2015 @ 03:25am

  This includes cases where the agents image the entire contents of the device in order to perform a search later. In fact, in most cases where this is done, the person is cut out of the informational loop.

  Know what? Next time I have to cross the border, I'm making sure I power cycle my encrypted devices...

• On the post: Copyrights & Patents Have Become A Religion; All Data Will Be Ignored

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2015 @ 06:12pm

  Copyright is the new (or old?) "Job Creator"

• On the post: How Not To Apologize: Detective Pat Cherry Of The NYPD's Joint Terrorism Task Force Edition

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2015 @ 04:03am

  All the driver asked was what he was being pulled over for. And Cherry refused to answer, choosing instead to berate the driver for not being a purebred American, among other things.

  Wait, you're telling me the officer is an advocate for Native American rights? Totally puts the incident in a new ligh- oh...

• On the post: Following Canada's Bad Example, Now UK Wants To Muzzle Scientists And Their Inconvenient Truths

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2015 @ 04:08am

  Harmful - Both Politically and Economically

  Uhh, has anyone in the UK considered the possibility this policy will result in a MASSIVE brain-drain in the UK?

• On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 16: Rethinking Work, Income & Leisure: Albert Wenger On Basic Income

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2015 @ 05:41pm

  And double post, but I wanted to highlight that everyone's favorite whistleblower has endorsed basic income in an interview last year

• On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 16: Rethinking Work, Income & Leisure: Albert Wenger On Basic Income

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2015 @ 05:33pm

  I'm Offended, Mike

  You speak of Red Team vs Blue Team - where is Green Team, Purple Team (Pirate), etc etc?

• On the post: The Cartoonist Has No Idea How Net Neutrality Works

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2015 @ 03:41pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  What makes you think that it is "Net Neutrality" concept that is the problem that they have, and not the government agency itself?

  The root cause of the problem is that the FCC has been captured by corporate interests who act against the wishes of the public - like the pro-telco FCC commissioners that are holding up the release of the new rules. And keep in mind that Antonin Scalia - who is probably the closest in terms of political views to these cartoonists - says Title II is the most constitutionally sound way to obtain Net Neutrality!
  

  May as well give that over to the NSA,... Oh, basically they did.

  You're conflating two separate issues. Do you realize the pro-NN crowd - including EFF and ACLU - is and has been vehemently trying to push back against the NSA?
  

  File this somewhere and see if later down the road I am not correct. I will be.

  I suspect you'd say the same thing about phone companies if we were having this discussion in 1934.

• On the post: The Cartoonist Has No Idea How Net Neutrality Works

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2015 @ 05:02am

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  Remember, these are the low-information voters who'll believe that Net Neutrality is a Marxist plot

• On the post: Clapper: The Attacks We Didn't Prevent In The Past Can't Be Prevented In The Future If Section 215 Is Allowed To Die

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2015 @ 04:26pm

  In a followup statement, Clapper articulated that he was simply trying to give the "least untruthful answer"

• On the post: Marsha Blackburn Rushes To The Defense Of Awful, Protectionist State Broadband Laws

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2015 @ 03:19pm

  This isn't the first time politicians from the South invoked 'states rights' to maintain a horrible status quo...

• On the post: Mandatory Sentencing Guidelines Have Nothing To Do With 'Justice'

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2015 @ 04:23am

  Re: Private Prison Contracts

  Better solution: let's do away with private prisons completely. No matter which way you slice it, making imprisonment a profitable enterprise means that said companies will lobby congress for harsher sentencing criminalization of acts that should otherwise not be criminal. A typical private prison has a contract with the state where they need to keep a minimum headcount, and if the state falls short of supplying them w/prisoners the state has to pay them a HUGE sum of money.
  

  The private prison would then be under no constraint to keep the offender in prison for any fixed length of time

  Major problem here - what happens if they start blackmailing people over the fact they are going to release "violent" criminals - and the only remedy is to pay them off? Or decide they will simply imprison the prisoner for life, budget be damned?

• On the post: Lawmaker Who Said Snowden Committed Treason, Now On The Other Side Of Metadata Surveillance

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2015 @ 04:06am

  Even if you do think this scandal is overblown, remember that both corruption and the appearance of corruption are corrosive in their effects. That and if a pleb like you or I did this sort of thing as part of employment we'd be screwed.

• On the post: NYPD Union Turns On President Pat Lynch For Using Two Officers' Deaths To Fight A Pointless War With The Mayor

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2015 @ 03:53am

  During memorial services for the slain cops, attending officers turned their backs on Mayor De Blasio for his daring to suggest his mixed-race son might have more to fear from the city's stop-and-friskers than whites.

  Color me surprised that an officer with the last name of 'Lynch' is hostile to the needs and desires of the black community.

• On the post: Trade Agreements Should Protect An Open Internet, Not Kill It

  

  cypherspace ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2015 @ 04:15pm

  I think it's really telling that the party that has been in opposition to the President - fighting him tooth and nail and even forcing a shutdown - are now lining up alongside him to pass trade deals like these. That should definitely set off your inner 'PANIC' sense.

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