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• On the post: Something Has Spooked AT&T Enough To Warrant Bringing Their Top Lobbyist Out Of Retirement

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2019 @ 11:35am

  Corporate Welfare

  Anything that can trigger a massive lobbying effort must be good for consumers. Can't wait to see what has them scared.

• On the post: Security Researchers Whose 'Penetration Test' Involved Breaking And Entering Now Facing Criminal Charges

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2019 @ 09:36pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: The line between pentesting and bank robbery

  And sometimes the commenters are replying to themselves. Nonsense. OG and AC are just good friends sharing the same computer. Not sock puppeting!

• On the post: Australian Aboriginal Flag Mess Is Getting Worse — All Thanks To Copyright

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2019 @ 09:33pm

  Re:

  When has copyright ever made anything better? It works as intended - enriching corporations and censoring creative works. It's making Corporations Great Again!!

• On the post: Security Researchers Whose 'Penetration Test' Involved Breaking And Entering Now Facing Criminal Charges

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2019 @ 03:46pm

  Re: Re: 'We never considered criminals might not ask...'

  Unfortunately the poor schmucks hired by the security company didn't know that. It was the job of the company that hired them to make sure everything was done right. The people who messed up are sitting in their office, not schlepping in the field.

• On the post: Senator Hawley Responds To Techdirt With A Bunch Of Nonsense And Lies About His Own Bill That He Doesn't Seem To Understand

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2019 @ 11:38am

  Re: subject Lies?

  A lies is when someone promises to leave and then comes back with a different username.

• On the post: University Of Alabama Is Using A Location-Tracking App To Punish Students For Leaving Football Games Early

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2019 @ 11:27am

  Re: Trolling is NOTreporting

  Oh hey good points. Obviously the bigger issue is your endorsement of Corporate Rights. Please explain again why Corporations should get the right of ceonsorship given to them by the government via copyright laws? Laws that most people don't benefit from or endorse?

• On the post: DOJ Decides To Help Publicize Snowden's Memoir By Suing Him For Failing To Run His Book By The CIA And NSA First

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2019 @ 10:04am

  Re: Re: Snowden Hates Trump

  Snowden once worked at a pizza parlor, and is thus part of the Clinton child-porn ring, per Blue Balls.

• On the post: DOJ Decides To Help Publicize Snowden's Memoir By Suing Him For Failing To Run His Book By The CIA And NSA First

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2019 @ 08:47am

  Re: Trolled away rights

  There IS good cause for ruling out common law See, there ya go again Blue Balls. You can't fault any of us for dismissing your rants when you can't define your terms. If you mean "Common Decency" then maybe you should say it, instead of trying to hijack a term that is already in use?

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• On the post: DOJ Decides To Help Publicize Snowden's Memoir By Suing Him For Failing To Run His Book By The CIA And NSA First

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2019 @ 08:36am

  Re: It all comes out in 2040

  So is that the date when your biblical prophecy shall be fulfilled and all that? Just curious - I always try to set a reminder and track such events. So far the forces of divine revelation aren't scoring so well on the accuracy of their predictions!

• On the post: History Repeats Itself: Twitter Launches Illegal SF Street Stencil Campaign Just As IBM DId Decades Ago

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2019 @ 09:22pm

  Re: Re: "...anyway, important thing is, you promised to leave

  Sup liar. Why you still here? Mostly because he has no where else to go. He has no honor, he lives in his parents basement, and everyone knows he is a liar with Blue Balls.

• On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 225: Does Dynamic Pricing Deserve The Hate?

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2019 @ 08:45pm

  Re: Trolls deserve hate.

  It's forbidden by common law and statute Please cite the statue in question. Unless that too is "Forbidden."

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• On the post: Does The Public Care About Tech Backlash? And Does That Matter?

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2019 @ 11:37am

  Re: Re: It's not like you have TROOLS to spare!

  It's almost like you don't actually have any argument other than "I hate that Mike guy." Not true! I know he has already ran off with his tail between his legs to tell his mom how badly he just burned TD, but... Blue Balls hates the Jew Conspiracy!
  He hates Google!
  He hates himself!! He loves giving Corporations arbitrary "Rights" via governmental authority, spreading big government, and enriching corporations at the expense of human culture. And for whatever reason, horizontal lines.

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• On the post: Nintendo's ROM Site War Continues With Huge Lawsuit Against Site Despite Not Sending DMCA Notices

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2019 @ 05:37am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Free!!

  Just Remember that Cadet Bonespurs has forged an impressive deal that makes taxpayers fork over $700 per detainee. Money that goes straight to Trump's business partners. Previously they were just given a ticket - which didn't cost taxpayers a dime, eh mate? If you were a real American you'd be taking your gun collection and freeing the detainees at the concentration camps instead of hugging the neo-nazi's...

• On the post: Hotel Owner Files Libel Suit Against Reviewer For Calling Nazis Nazis, Gets Support From Austrian Court

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2019 @ 12:17pm

  Interesting

  Wondered if the swastika and uniform was legal:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%E2%80%93World_War_II_legality_of_Nazi_flags#Austria

  Law seems pretty strict.

• On the post: You'd Think The FBI Would Be More Sensitive To Protecting Encrypted Communications Now That We Know The Russians Cracked The FBI's Comms

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2019 @ 12:07pm

  No matter

  No matter how bad it looks to the citizens, the intel community has it in their brain that their cracks/hacks/moles are far better than the other teams. Therefore it's in their best interest to keep the bugs coming, because our side will exploit them faster than the other side.

  It makes perfect sense. If you have an ego the size of a gas giant.

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law

• On the post: Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps For $60 After Years Of Battling Comcast

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2019 @ 06:40am

  Why fight it?

  Legislation is so much easier than competition.

  In 2007 the Telcos spent $1 million to cripple the broadband. What a great investment! They reaped that back in yearly profits from the price hikes.

  But as Reason would say, this is the goal of the free market. Take the most economical path to enrichment at the expense of anything that gets in the way. If it's cheaper to sabotage than innovate, then that is obviously the best course of action.

• On the post: Some Investors Are Fed Up With AT&T's Costly Obsession With Merger Mania

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2019 @ 07:34pm

  Re: Perverse Incentives

  Imagine if the people who would gain significant self enrichment from a merger are the very ones that can cause the merger to happen. ...isn't that the way mergers without already? Why imagine it?

• On the post: Ninth Circuit Upholds Its Previous Declaration That Cops Stealing Your Stuff Doesn't Violate The Constitution

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2019 @ 05:04pm

  Re: Re: Re: The Golden Rule is basis of all law. He who has the

  You would have left when you promised too. Yeah that post was a sterling example of how Blue Ball feels about honesty. But that is why he changes his name five times a day so no one will know he broke his word.

• On the post: Ninth Circuit Upholds Its Previous Declaration That Cops Stealing Your Stuff Doesn't Violate The Constitution

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2019 @ 03:43pm

  Re: Rule of Man? Or Rule of Law?

  The judicial doctrines of qualified/absolute immunity are the bastard children of a justice system (and apathetic electorate) that allows judges to empower themselves beyond the Constitution in twisting and contorting the law for expediency. Would you be speaking.... Common Law by any chance? Letting Judges and Juries decide court cases has it's flaws, but overall it works better than the alternatives.

• On the post: Ninth Circuit Upholds Its Previous Declaration That Cops Stealing Your Stuff Doesn't Violate The Constitution

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2019 @ 12:40pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Troll supports common law!

  I'm just trying to figure out if there is one SodCit here, or like five? I mean, if they actually had a definition they'd be shouting it out. It's like they just want to stomp around getting angry that we are "against them" when they can't even state their position?

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