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• On the post: Momo Hoax Shows America's Susceptibility To Bullshit Goes Well Beyond Social Media

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2019 @ 07:38pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Spirits

  In Carlin's later years he may have gone off the rails - but everyone quotes him from his earlier rants. So what does that mean? He spoke for the common person and their fears.

• On the post: Clash Of EU's Poorly Thought Out Laws: German Data Protection Commissioner Warns That Article 13 Might Violate GDPR

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2019 @ 07:34pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  I think Smith, Hamilton and Blue_Balls are going berserk. And apparently hang on my every work, for some stupid reason. (or a good reason - paid astroturfing.)

• On the post: Clash Of EU's Poorly Thought Out Laws: German Data Protection Commissioner Warns That Article 13 Might Violate GDPR

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2019 @ 04:37pm

  Re:

  Oh, it takes more than one flag. I suspect that it doesn't take as many flags to knock an AC however, since there are a few AC's that decide to post "Buh copyright good, pirate bad" 50 times and those get flushed quickly.

• On the post: Swiss Supreme Court Refuses To Order ISPs To Block 'Pirate' Sites

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2019 @ 08:58pm

  ISP

  Stands for Internet Service Police, and therefore all mail (physical or electronic) should be stopped and vetted before being delivered, duh.

  Stopping the potential infringement of billionaires movies is far far more important that you rights to privacy or secure communications. Corporations own copyrights, so they can inspect your uploads at will, right?

• On the post: Clash Of EU's Poorly Thought Out Laws: German Data Protection Commissioner Warns That Article 13 Might Violate GDPR

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2019 @ 07:02am

  Re: Re:

  Mass censorship of this scale would be impressive. Not exactly brilliant. Such harsh penalties on vicarious or contributory infringement would need mandatory filters, and would chill all speech.
  But you aren't being paid to acknowledge that, eh mate?

• On the post: BlackBerry Continues Its Shameful Descent Into Patent Trolling By Suing Twitter

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2019 @ 01:16pm

  Obvious

  Hey, if they can hold a patent on keyboards why can't they own messenger services too?

  Lawsuits In Motion:
  https://gizmodo.com/blackberrys-war-against-ryan-secreasts-typo-keyboard-is-1686386918

• On the post: VP Of 'Students For Free Speech' Sues Critic For (Among Other Things) Calling Him A 'Free Speech Asshole'

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2019 @ 09:33am

  Free Asshole?

  Based on this article, I don't think it would be out of line to say that Di Franco is an asshole in my opinion.

• On the post: Momo Hoax Shows America's Susceptibility To Bullshit Goes Well Beyond Social Media

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2019 @ 06:38am

  Spirits

  I'd be nice if we could blame evil spirits for this kind of shit. They are so handy - when everything is just shitty, it's so important to pin the blame.
  We are just hard wired. We have to point our fingers and pick someone to take the heat.
  Blaming Youtube and Twitter often seems like trying to pin the guilt on evil spirits. We can't quite explain why they are at fault - but dammit, they are involved.

  Not that there isn't plenty they do wrong. Especially that privacy dumpster fire Facebook. But blaming them for spreading rumors is like blaming the post office for chain letters, or mailfraud.

• On the post: VPNs Are No Privacy Panacea, And Finding An Ethical Operator Is A Comical Shitshow

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2019 @ 02:31pm

  Re: Basement Guy

  I have to agree with first AC- basement dolphin onsie guy is definitely more trustworthy then comcast. While it's fun to hate on Comcast, you are missing the point. Onsie Guy is (could be) selling your data to Comcast and Sprint and hackers.

• On the post: A Big Copyright Mess: Miel Bredouw, Barstool Sports, Slob On My Carol Of The Bells And The DMCA

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2019 @ 02:29pm

  Re:

  Well opposition to 230 is certainly getting louder. Still incoherent, however.

• On the post: VPNs Are No Privacy Panacea, And Finding An Ethical Operator Is A Comical Shitshow

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2019 @ 02:26pm

  Re: Re: tunneling home

  If he is only using the VPN to get home, he really isn't even in the market for a VPN service at all and kinda off topic.

• On the post: Judge Refuses To Hand The Government Biker Gang's Trademark

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2019 @ 06:32pm

  Use it or lose it?

  So if the US government gained ownership of the trademark, wouldn't they be required to display it on their jackets? Because if you don't use a trademark, you can't claim ownership of it, right? (IANAL, obviously.)

• On the post: AT&T Begins Trying To Screw Up HBO In Earnest

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2019 @ 07:23am

  Re:

  Shouldn't that be incompetencies, unless nickel and dimeing consumers is a competency? I think that is the gist of it.

• On the post: Why Does MEP Axel Voss Keep Lying About Article 13?

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2019 @ 09:54am

  Because...

  Because he sees the Cheeto doing it on a daily basis and his supporters cheer him on instead of fact checking. So it must work, right?

• On the post: Chicago Tried To Justify Not Informing ACLU Of Social Media Monitoring Partner By Saying ACLU Is Really Mean

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2019 @ 10:07pm

  Is it because Chicago refuses to embrace catsup? It is, isn't it.

• On the post: US Telcos Teeter Toward Bankruptcy As Comcast's Broadband Monopoly Grows

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2019 @ 01:41pm

  Re: Re: RENTSEEKING

  That is an anecdotal example that does not reflect the broader DSL rollout. I had one of the first DSL setups in the East Bay and it worked like a champ.
  Working in IT, I was able to see many DSL rollouts and they went much better than the esteemed Mr. Pournelle described.

• On the post: The Tyranny Of Copyright: How A Once-Humble Legal Issue Has Tormented A Generation Of Speech

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2019 @ 06:58pm

  Consensus

  So does anyone really think that extending copyright to Life + 70 years is going to make more works available? Or that this is just a bullshit excuse to keep anything topical out of the public domain?

  "Johnny, it's been many generations - but you may now creative derivative works of Star Wars without fear. As long as they don't use characters introduced in the prequel or later - you will have to pass that task to your sons."

• On the post: Steven Spielberg Demands Netflix Get Off His Damn Lawn

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2019 @ 01:37pm

  Theater

  My home theater is much nicer than driving downtown, no asshats with cellphones, a bathroom, better food and a pause button. (Also, beer.)

  Perhaps Hollywood should stop trying to justify the "Theatre Experience" as some sacred cow.

  Get over it - the "Big Screen" is not integral to the picture.

• On the post: DOJ Moving Ahead With Its Attempt To Prosecute Julian Assange; Subpoenas Chelsea Manning

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2019 @ 01:33pm

  Harm

  Prosecutors seemed particularly interested in the potential for collateral damage in some of Assange’s leaks.

  Perhaps prosecutors should be more interested in the actual misdeeds and possible war crimes that were leaked?

• On the post: US Telcos Teeter Toward Bankruptcy As Comcast's Broadband Monopoly Grows

  

  darkflite ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2019 @ 08:02am

  Hedge Funds

  It's a wake up call to finance reform when hedge funds can burden these companies with massive debt and then walk away with the money.

  Is this how capitalism is supposed to work? Maybe we need to push out an update that blocks these shenanigans. (Or would that be "government interference in the free market"?)

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