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• On the post: Yes, Switching To HTTPS Is Important, And No It's Not A Bad Thing

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 18 May, 2015 @ 07:53am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Troublesome certificates...

  The day that Verizon abuses it's CA power to impersonate websites is the day that some browsers, especially Mozilla and Chrome, will drop Verizon's CA trust completely.
  
  That will suddenly mean that all of Verizon's CA signed certificates look suspicious to millions of users.
  
  Suddenly everyone who ever bought a certificate from Verizon will get a new one from a different CA, and possibly sue Verizon for making their old certificate suddenly worthless.

• On the post: US Officials Leak Info About ISIS Raid More Sensitive Than Anything Snowden Ever Leaked

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 18 May, 2015 @ 02:51pm

  There are different kinds of Leaks

  There are two different kinds of Leaks of Classified information.
  
  1. A person who swore to maintain the secrecy of classified information reveals it to the public.
  2. A person who swore to maintain the secrecy of classified information reveals it to the public.
  
  In leak number 1, the fact the the government is creating an apparatus to become a police state is kept as a secret. In leak number 2., the the public becomes aware that the government is becoming a police state.
  
  Leak number 1 can go overlooked. Leak number 2 cannot be overlooked.

• On the post: Yes, Switching To HTTPS Is Important, And No It's Not A Bad Thing

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 18 May, 2015 @ 07:44am

  Re: Re: Re: And held for "moderation"

  His Brian also allowed him to write:
  
  > protest when people start telling you your
  > not allowed to speak
  
  
  
  Your never going too get you're weigh on this.
  Their are just two many people out they're using there words wrong too get to upset.
  Sew don't loose you're cool about it.
  You can sea mini common examples that exist of incorrect usage.
  People pick the write words two use according too there porpoises.
  But you'd have two be a fool to begin or end a sentence with the word "but".
  And only an idiot would begin or end a sentence with "and".
  And a preposition is a very bad word too end a sentence with.
  

• On the post: Yes, Switching To HTTPS Is Important, And No It's Not A Bad Thing

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 18 May, 2015 @ 07:41am

  Re: Re: Re: And held for "moderation"

  you have to protest when people start telling you your
  > not allowed to speak even if they are not stopping you!
  
  Nobody is telling you that you are not allowed to speak.
  
  But people can tell you to speak your mind elsewhere.
  
  I would immediately jump to your defense if I actually believed your freedom of speech were in danger. It is not. Your ultimate remedy would be to set up your own website and speak all you want to. Yes, really! Attract vast numbers of people from far and wide who want to come and hear your wiz-dumb.

• On the post: Yes, Switching To HTTPS Is Important, And No It's Not A Bad Thing

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 18 May, 2015 @ 07:34am

  The most hilarious thing I've read all week

  I won't try to refute it. To merely state it again is to refute it.
  

  Comcast injects ads into unencrypted traffic, because "it's a courtesy, and it helps address some concerns that people might not be absolutely sure they're on a hotspot from Comcast".

  Ok, you can stop laughing now. Stop it! Stop it, I say!
  
  If I am concerned whether I am on a hotspot from Comcast, I need look no further than to check my download speeds, or whether certain protocols or even port numbers get throttled.

• On the post: Senate Fight Is On Over NSA Surveillance Reform

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 15 May, 2015 @ 06:58am

  I prefer a Steel Cage Match

  Let the Senate fight it out. Give them all the weapons they need.
  
  When they're all gone, vote new ones in. Let the old ones be an example of what not to do.

• On the post: Hollywood Studios Call Six Strikes A 'Sham,' Cue Plans For Something Much Worse

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 14 May, 2015 @ 01:42pm

  Re: Misleading name

  ISTF = Internet Slime Task Farce

• On the post: Hollywood Studios Call Six Strikes A 'Sham,' Cue Plans For Something Much Worse

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 14 May, 2015 @ 01:40pm

  Re: Good tacit admission: "the first time they're found to infringe."

  Guilty as ACCUSED. No due process needed. Off with their heads.

• On the post: Hollywood Studios Call Six Strikes A 'Sham,' Cue Plans For Something Much Worse

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 14 May, 2015 @ 01:39pm

  Re: the first time they're found to infringe.

  The first time they're ALLEGED to infringe.

• On the post: Hollywood Studios Call Six Strikes A 'Sham,' Cue Plans For Something Much Worse

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 14 May, 2015 @ 01:38pm

  Re: Re: Misleading name

  And not to forget Consumer Research.

• On the post: Hollywood Studios Call Six Strikes A 'Sham,' Cue Plans For Something Much Worse

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 14 May, 2015 @ 01:37pm

  Re: Why don't their heads explode?

  Sick Strikes doesn't work.
  
  Never did work.

• On the post: Cable Industry Tries To Distance Itself From Decades Of Poor Service By Eliminating The Word 'Cable'

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 13 May, 2015 @ 12:57pm

  Re: Re: Honest question

  But what if I use the Internet and DO NOT use the web at all?

• On the post: No, RIAA, It's Not The End Of The World For Musicians

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 13 May, 2015 @ 12:48pm

  Re: Re: Re: You're not forced to pay for copyrighted works.

  Copyright is to promote the useful arts and science according to the US Constitution.

• On the post: No, RIAA, It's Not The End Of The World For Musicians

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 13 May, 2015 @ 12:45pm

  Re: piracy too benign a term

  Piracy is too benign a term for what the RIAA does to artists.
  
  Piracy is too harsh a term for copyright infringement done by fans.

• On the post: Cable Industry Tries To Distance Itself From Decades Of Poor Service By Eliminating The Word 'Cable'

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 13 May, 2015 @ 09:22am

  Re: Re:

  they need to do two things:
  > stop being awful, and change the names of the companies.
  
  
  If you give them two things, they will consider it a choice. Executives will pick "change the name", decree that the problem is fixed, and continue being awful.
  
  If you give them one thing: stop being awful
  they will have to actually think about it, even if the thought of treating customers well makes the executives very uncomfortable.

• On the post: Konami Gets YouTube To Take Down Video It Doesn't Like; Streisand Effect Ensures Neverending Discussion Of Video

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 12 May, 2015 @ 06:05am

  New Laws are Needed

  This proves that the DMCA is insufficient to protect content owners from embarrassment online and why we need SOPA and stronger forms of censorship to be enacted into law.

• On the post: Konami Gets YouTube To Take Down Video It Doesn't Like; Streisand Effect Ensures Neverending Discussion Of Video

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 12 May, 2015 @ 06:04am

  Incentives

  If Konami did not use the DMCA to censor this video, then what incentive would others have to create new and original forms of censorship?

• On the post: Verizon Buys AOL, Because Two Lumbering Dinosaurs Who Can't Figure Out The Modern Internet Must Be Better Together

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 12 May, 2015 @ 11:29am

  It's bandwidth envy

  Verizon is envious of the speeds that dialup AOL users once enjoyed and would like to improve their network to match.

• On the post: Verizon Buys AOL, Because Two Lumbering Dinosaurs Who Can't Figure Out The Modern Internet Must Be Better Together

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 12 May, 2015 @ 09:37am

  It is NOT ten years too late for Verizon to acquire AOL

  It is twenty years too late.

• On the post: Konami Gets YouTube To Take Down Video It Doesn't Like; Streisand Effect Ensures Neverending Discussion Of Video

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 12 May, 2015 @ 06:01am

  It's another anomaly

  One more in a vastly long series of 'anomalies' where copyright proves itself to be a censorship tool.

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