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• On the post: Whether Or Not You Believe Russia Interfered In The Election, We Should All Be Worried About Escalation Based On Secret Info

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2017 @ 09:06am

  Re: Precedent ??

  unfortunately, this seems very accurate. Everything pretty much points to a downward trend of government steadily reducing accountability for 10+ years.

• On the post: Hollywood Accounting Back In Court: How Has Spinal Tap Only Earned $81 In Merchandise Sales For Its Creators?

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2016 @ 11:18am

  Re:

  I really wonder how Hollywood doesn't get investigated by the IRS for the enormous tax dodge from declaring these losses as well. It's not just spinal tap, our own gov't is being shorted on their own pay.

• On the post: NSA Says Federal Cyber Strategy Needs More NSA More Often, And On The Information Sharing Ground Floor

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2016 @ 08:26am

  NSA is not exactly beneficial

  The NSA doesn't exactly provide benefit - they are a detriment, so why would we want that hot garbage being focused on hamstringing our own country?

• On the post: 'Nice Internet You've Got There… You Wouldn't Want Something To Happen To It…'

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2016 @ 11:00am

  not dyn, dyin

  I think today they're more like dyin dns. Sucks, though.

• On the post: Our 'Copying Is Not Theft' T-Shirt Seems To REALLY Upset Some People

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2016 @ 01:24pm

  Re:

  I can only think of two possibilities here:
  
  1: Organizations like the MPAA, FACT, RIAA are going fucking crazy over techdirt posts.
  2: People really are that stupid.
  
  I'm tending towards it being the former, that this is another form of "Any permissions granted to anyone ever (such as freedom, fair use, etc) is a risk to our own permissions!"

• On the post: PayPal Stops A Payment Just Because The Payee's Memo Included The Word 'Cuba'

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2016 @ 01:52pm

  Re: If you are still using PayPal...

  Paypal is someone who nobody should be doing business with. I'm amazed how many people somehow go the other direction and bet their livings on paypal, who at their discretion can basically bankrupt someone.

• On the post: Xbox Fitness Users Shelled Out Big Bucks For Workout Programs They'll Soon Be Totally Unable To Use

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2016 @ 10:59am

  All I can think is

  Shades of PS3 linux. I would expect some lawsuits here once people wise up. Ninja is right on, but then again this is why I'll never buy a console or anything associated ever. The minute you buy a console everything is license/rental.

• On the post: Disappointing: Twitch Brings CFAA & Trademark Claim Against Bot Operators

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2016 @ 10:27am

  waitamin

  Didn't google buy twitch?

• On the post: Shameful: House Panel Votes Down Plan To Make Public Domain Congressional Research Public

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 24 May, 2016 @ 06:18pm

  FOIA?

  Could we simply FOIA all CRS research and index it somewhere?

• On the post: The Cable Industry Wants Netflix Investigated… For Throttling Itself

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2016 @ 11:14am

  That isn't why this is happening

  Cable industry simply wants heat off themselves. It's much easier to point at those who you are exploiting and get a focus on them to reduce the focus on your own activities.

• On the post: FBI Director: We're Only Forcing Apple To Undermine Security Because We Chase Down Every Lead

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2016 @ 07:10am

  What about 9/11?

  If the FBI is all about chasing every lead, why don't we ask them directly what happened with 9/11?
  
  Oh right.
  
  *drops mic*

• On the post: The Cable Industry's Response To A Banner Year For Cord Cutting? Massive Across The Board Price Increases For 2016

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2015 @ 09:50am

  Re:

  I think they want to force cord cutting, because every savvy consumer is going to change their plan come January.
  
  I held off on the HBO bundle with comcast for a few months because HBO's product wasn't out yet, but now that it is I'm cord cutting comcast in January myself.

• On the post: Happy New Year From Comcast: Price Hikes And Misleading Fees For Everybody

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 24 Nov, 2015 @ 10:01am

  this is perfect!

  Watch as all the savvy consumers understand that a price change = contract change, and cancel their contracts and/or sign a new contract without TV service (notably without HBO from comcast). From an economic standpoint it'd be cheaper to get HBO from HBO than from comcast.
  
  Bad, bad decision on their part.

• On the post: T-Mobile Exempts Video Streams From Wireless Data Caps, Sets A Horrible Precedent

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2015 @ 08:16pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: People still use 480p???

  There's no lack of understanding. I wasn't meaning to imply 480p as 480x320, I was implying that tablets have a higher resolution than 480p and no even vaguely recent tablet is 480x320 - as in below 480p, aka SD material/vhs quality.
  
  DVD quality is fine on devices that are 480p, but look awful on devices that are 720p or 1080p, depending on size/resolution. Can it work? Yes. As noted, the original anon said they are storing 480p more than using them for hotel wifi - to act like a hotel can't manage to give you 1.5mb/s downstream would only be likely in a poorly mismanaged hotel and/or in the middle of nowhere - and probably nowhere else. Hotels may not be perfect but we're not talking about breaching 150KB/s. I can't imagine a lot of hotels can't manage that. In addition, tmobile's HSPA will easily pull far above 150KB/s (assuming you have signal).

• On the post: T-Mobile Exempts Video Streams From Wireless Data Caps, Sets A Horrible Precedent

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2015 @ 05:02pm

  Re: Re: People still use 480p???

  This can't possibly be true. Your tablet is capable of more than 480p, because no tablet is 480x320.
  
  Whether you'll get downscaled because of awful wifi is entirely different, but there is zero truth to "I use 480p by choice".

• On the post: T-Mobile Exempts Video Streams From Wireless Data Caps, Sets A Horrible Precedent

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2015 @ 03:40pm

  It's awful, but the devil's in the details

  So there's a lot of sneaky stuff going on here.
  
  What people don't realize is tmobile is capping the speeds at which users can access video. In order to make it "Free for everyone", they are doing things such as forcing video to 480p. Suddenly everyone doing what they did before will be confused why everything looks terrible.
  
  This is, in modern terms, this is explicitly a data cap - which coincidentally and magically happens to be "Turned on by default" in 5 days. Can you turn it off? Yes, but that's not an excuse. Just like what TMO does after you reach their data cap, but now they'll do it for certain services from day one instead of when you reach a data cap. So now, it's not "Capped at usage", it's "Capped for everyone!" (unless you turn it off).
  
  So network neutrality violation? You bet, and an explicit one at that.

• On the post: Comcast's Christmas Present To Broadband Users: More Usage Caps In More Places

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2015 @ 12:36pm

  Re:

  Neither. It includes people who aren't comcast customers, who add a zero to the average. They used the same metrics as "passing" a household.

• On the post: Now That Nielsen Can Actually Be Bothered To Track Internet Video, The Numbers For Traditional TV Are Getting Ugly

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2015 @ 06:41am

  Re:

  That sounds nice if it actually were something that worked.
  
  In reality, adding new laws won't fix their problems. Even if they ban streaming services entirely new services will immediately prop up to get around the laws.
  
  So, too little too late.

• On the post: Chicago, Los Angeles Police Departments Have Been Using 'Stingrays On Steroids' For Over A Decade

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2015 @ 06:26pm

  I wouldn't be surprised

  It wouldn't even remotely surprise me if they're being used at every metropolitan train stop in chicago, just to "collect data". I hope someone FOIA's use around Ogilvie and Union Station in chicago.

• On the post: Vizio Latest Manufacturer To Offer More Ways For TVs To Watch Purchasers

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2015 @ 12:33pm

  anonymized and personalized?

  So what they're admitting here, is that they're stating it's anonymized, but acknowledging it's personalized (and not anonymous?) and thus as far from anonymized as possible?
  
  Whoops.

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