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• On the post: Georgia Scrambles To Patch Massive Vulnerabilities In Its Voter Registration System After Insisting It Was Totally Secure

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2018 @ 06:41am

  Voting systems hopelessly insecure

  Eeyore is my role model. Ever the realist.
  
  Since voting is hopelessly insecure, the president should simply decree (by executive odor?) the outcome of the election. It would save a massive amount of human time spent voting. It would save all of the costs of operating elections.

• On the post: Ajit Pai, Telecom Lobbyists Are Now Coordinating Their Lies In Perfect Symmetry

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2018 @ 09:24am

  Re: Re: Didn't they do this before?

  Do you mean Ajit Pai or the guy who appointed him to the FCC?

• On the post: Ajit Pai, Telecom Lobbyists Are Now Coordinating Their Lies In Perfect Symmetry

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2018 @ 06:27am

  Didn't they do this before?

  Weren't all those fake anti-Net Neutrality comments to the FCC also perfectly coordinated?

• On the post: Internet Memes Are Making UK Children Fat, Say Researchers Who Don't Understand Memes

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2018 @ 06:23am

  MEME-lite. Less filling, just as inciteful

  People should switch to lower calorie memes.
  
  The Windows Support guy said Windows would work better if I Power Cycle at least twice a day. But I don't even own a bike.

• On the post: UK Refreshes Stupid Porn Filter Law, Making It Fresher But No Less Stupid

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2018 @ 06:15am

  It still stinks as bad

  A bad law, like a soiled diaper can be 'freshened' by replacing its contents with newer, fresher contents. But it does not become more appealing, useful, helpful or otherwise beneficial in any way.

• On the post: Will Donald Trump Support A Federal Anti-SLAPP Law Now That It's Helped Him Win Stormy Daniels' Defamation Suit?

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2018 @ 12:16pm

  Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

  [the jackass] later admitted that he felt like he succeeded in forcing O'Brien to spend money in court

  I seem to remember from the Groklaw days that it is a violation of FRCP to deliberately try to increase the litigation costs of the other party.

• On the post: Fake Comments Are Plaguing Government Agencies And Nobody Much Seems To Care

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2018 @ 06:39am

  What do you mean Nobody seems to care?

  The government cares about fake comments. Fake comments are valuable to the government and are used to support certain policies.
  
  The other beauty of fake comments is that when they don't support a favorite policy, the comments can be pointed out as being fake -- even if they're real. Simply because of the volume of fake comments. Everybody wins. (Except for the public.)

• On the post: Body Cam Company Files Patent For Built-In Facial Recognition Tech

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2018 @ 06:01am

  At least this patent is novel

  It's a novel idea. It's like regular face recognition . . . but it's done on a computer!

• On the post: African Countries Shooting Themselves In The Digital Foot By Imposing Taxes And Levies On Internet Use

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2018 @ 05:58am

  Maybe Africa is on to something

  If social media is what is tearing the fabric of society apart, maybe the US should charge $1000 / day to access social media. For the same reasons there are high taxes on cigarettes. Just sayin'
  
  If I have never and will never create a FaceTwit InstaWhats account, can I get a tax credit?

• On the post: Travelers To New Zealand Now Face $3,000 Fines If They Don't Give Their Device Passwords To Customs Agents

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2018 @ 05:54am

  Great News for Terrorists !!!

  Attention Terrorists! Good news!
  
  New Zealand welcomes you! While customs is busy searching grandma's and the teenager's phones, you can avoid having your digital devices strip searched for a mere $3,000.00. A small price to pay. For everything else there's mastercard.

• On the post: Court Shoots Down Record Label's Attempt To Expand The Definition Of 'Vicarious' Infringement

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2018 @ 06:11am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Here's one Hollywood will love.
  
  Repeat infringer policy number of strikes required: 1 Googol. (10 ^ 100)

• On the post: Court Shoots Down Record Label's Attempt To Expand The Definition Of 'Vicarious' Infringement

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2018 @ 06:25am

  Re:

  I propose a new ISP repeat infringer policy. (let the wookie win) Infinity minus one strikes. Don't laugh. Remember back in the day. The fights over copyright length extension. Jack Valenti. The constitution doesn't say how long copyright can last, it only says "for limited times". Jack Valenti proposed extending copyright to infinity minus one day. So this repeat infringer policy seems fair. And how could the MPAA complain after what Jack Valenti said.

• On the post: ESPN Has Finally Realized This Whole Streaming Thing Has Legs

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2018 @ 06:12am

  Ground shifting beneath their feet

  ESPN didn't obey the evacuation order. They stayed while they felt the earth shifting beneath their feet. They will expect rescuers to come help them. Maybe at taxpayer expense.

• On the post: Giving Cops The Finger Is Protected Speech, Says Another Federal Court

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2018 @ 06:09am

  Safe Spaces

  Some cops need to have their patrol duty restricted to patrolling only safe spaces where they won't be offended.

• On the post: No, Next-Gen Wireless (5G) Won't Magically Fix The Broken U.S. Broadband Market

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2018 @ 05:46am

  Re: Re: Re:

  I'm sure they can measure milliseconds as accurately as they can measure megabytes. :-)

• On the post: No, Next-Gen Wireless (5G) Won't Magically Fix The Broken U.S. Broadband Market

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2018 @ 12:16pm

  Re:

  It depends on how fast the station wagon is going.
  
  Also the latency of the station wagon transport is an important factor to understand depending on your data transfer needs.

• On the post: No, Next-Gen Wireless (5G) Won't Magically Fix The Broken U.S. Broadband Market

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2018 @ 07:13am

  If 5G won't fix the market . . .

  The marketing department needs to announce . . .
  
  New!!! Improved!!!
  
  6G Wirelsss Networks!!!

• On the post: ICE Leads The Nation In Encryption-Cracking Expenditures

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2018 @ 06:05am

  The FBI also hasn't been honest

  The FBI also hasn't been honest about . . .

  I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you that the FIB isn't honest.

• On the post: California Police Officers Used Self-Destructing Messaging App For Years

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2018 @ 05:57am

  Re:

  Jeff Sessions would say, as all police say: if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide.
  
  Except that this doesn't apply to police.

• On the post: Ron Wyden Wants Federal Government To Do More To Protect Personal Devices/Accounts Used By Senators And Staffers

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2018 @ 07:52am

  How about protecting the rest of us?

  Everyone else has personal devices too!
  
  Our devices are subject to attack by state sponsored hackers.
  
  The US government needs to protect us from certain governments that want to take away our crypto and security by requiring back doors. (Oh, wait...)
  
  But maybe I'm paranoid. Maybe there is No Such Agency that would want to spy on US citizens.

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