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  • On the post: As Merger Mania Rises, Cable And Broadband Customer Satisfaction Worse Than Ever

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2015 @ 07:35am

    Banking conspriacy

    My one friend has a large conspiracy theory that the large banks purposefully want the big ISPs as bad as possible.
    Think about it. They Steal Millions and BILLIONS from people. They do their best to screw with international currencies(and just got caught doing so). The big banks literally RUIN lives.
    But Comcast is so terrible they consistently get rated worse than the people who actually ruin lives and steal millions and billions of dollars.
    How?
    Never mind how a video game company, EA, could win most hated company in America over won who literally made people homeless and bankrupted people.

  • On the post: As Merger Mania Rises, Cable And Broadband Customer Satisfaction Worse Than Ever

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2015 @ 07:29am

    Local Telco

    Just had Local Telco Cincinnati Bell set me up with 1Gig Fiber for $70 a month.
    The next week TWC sent me a letter begging me to come back with their "blazing speed" 15 Mb for $50 a month.
    Go suck lemons TWC.

  • On the post: Judge Orders Newspaper To Delete Article, Newspaper Reminds Judge That It's In The US And The 1st Amendment Exists

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2015 @ 12:37pm

    Re: Re: Family Court

    That would be correct.
    And Civil cases are where lawyers make the REAL money. In fact in family courts lawyers have been shown to purposefully drag out cases for the sole purpose of dragging out fees.
    It is disgusting.

  • On the post: Judge Orders Newspaper To Delete Article, Newspaper Reminds Judge That It's In The US And The 1st Amendment Exists

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2015 @ 06:10am

    Family Court

    A lot of the Constitution doesn't really apply to family court(like the right to an attorney, right to a speedy trial, ect). It is completely amazing what people get away with in family court.
    Apparently this stupid judge forgot that the first amendment still does apply in the real world though...

  • On the post: Richard Prince Continues To Push The Boundaries Of Copyright Law In Selling Other People's Instagram Selfies

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 27 May, 2015 @ 11:20am

    Hardly

    I can see how changing some of the backgrounds in previous works might be "transformative".
    But how the eff is adding your own captions "transformative" to a picture? The actual picture itself was not at all altered.

  • On the post: Music Licensing Groups Argue That A Homeowners Association Playing Music At The Pool Is A Public Performance

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2015 @ 11:35am

    Whom exactly needs a License?

    Does a bar need one? How about my barber shop? My Dentist's Office? Does Macy's have a license? The Mall in general have some type of license?

    All of those places openly play music. Want to bet how many of them have supposed license to do so?

  • On the post: If Virginia Elections Weren't Hacked, It's Only Because No One Tried

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2015 @ 06:16am

    why why why

    Why are any of the stand alone voting machines connected to the net?
    My old Crypto Professor used to say "The only really secure connection is NO connection".
    Each voting station should be a stand alone box, not connected to ANYTHING. At the start of the day you load it with the polling options. At the end of the day you pull the flash drive for storage, syncing with the rest of the machines, and finally to upload the results. Secondarily every person should get a "receipt" print off of their vote as a backup.

    How is this a hard god damn concept?

  • On the post: The Mere Threat Of Google Fiber Has Time Warner Cable Offering Speeds Six Times Faster At The Same Price

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2015 @ 07:06am

    Cincinnati

    Here in Cincinnati there is a local telco called Cincinnati Bell
    http://www.cincinnatibell.com/internet/
    recently they started offering 1 Gbps Fiber for $70 a month!
    Suddenly TWC in our area started blasting the TV with 100 Mbps ads constantly for a reasonable price, even though as little as a couple years ago they wouldn't even offer 30 megs for a comparable price.
    Funny how competition works.

  • On the post: University Student Government Can't Take A Joke; Pulls Paper's Funding After 'Offensive' April Fool's Issue

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2015 @ 10:46am

    Re: Snowflake

    Where do people keep getting this widespread narrative from?
    I graduated in 2009 and never saw anything at all about "protecting students from uncomfortable ideas". Not in the slightest.
    We have a few spotty stories either from a few over reactionary Admins, or idiot twitter people, and suddenly that is representative of EVERY college campus and EVERY college classroom?
    That is simply a false and ridiculous narrative by people who read news articles and are not actually on a college campus.

  • On the post: Comcast, CenturyLink Give New Home Owner Kafka-esque Introduction To U.S. Broadband Market

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2015 @ 08:44am

    Go away asking price

    The thing is the likely offered that off hand like "lets just say it is $60k to make him go away". Then suddenly when he accepted they had no idea what to do. Like "oh shit we never had anybody call our bluff and actually say yes to our ridiculous demands before. We have no idea what to do now! Lets just yank his chain around and then pull the rug our from under him to we don't actually have to do it."

  • On the post: When Analyzing Cord Cutting Options, Most TV Analysts Continue To Pretend Piracy Simply Doesn't Exist

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2015 @ 11:03am

    Plex

    This story reminds me how nice Plex is.
    Why are big companies just SO bad at designing media interfaces? Why have they not hired one of the XBMC/Plex guys to do it over for them?

  • On the post: Cops To Congress: Please Leave Us And Our License Plates Readers Alone

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2015 @ 11:27am

    snarky

    In 2008, the Oakland Police Department (OPD) reported to the city council that after using just four LPR units for 16 months, it had read 793,273 plates, with hits on just 2,012 of them—a "hit rate" of just 0.2 percent. In other words, nearly all of the data collected is innocuous. Despite this, in that same report, then-OPD Deputy Chief Dave Kozicki (who has since retired) dubbed the LPR setup an "overwhelming success."

    You can be snarky about the "0.2%" hit rate, but look at this from another perspective. 16 months is 1.3 years or ~486 Days. That is 2,012 hits over ~486 days or ~4.1 hits PER day that they may otherwise completely miss.
    When you are Tell Chief Dave Kozicki that the OPD catches 4 extra "bad guys" PER DAY because of LPR of COURSE he will say it is an "overwhelming success."
    And I, for one, will actually on that metric actually agree with him. Does LPR have problems? Of course it does. It needs checks and balances and it needs proper training for its users.
    But being snarky about the whole "0.2% hit rate" completely misses the point. And that point is that MOST people are actually "good" people, and LPR for quickly and efficiently helps officers find the actual bad guys.

  • On the post: State Of Tennessee Sues The FCC For Daring To Step In And Block Its Law Blocking Muni-Broadband

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2015 @ 08:11am

    Re: Re: State rights

    Science is nothing more than a religion now?
    you and I have a vastly different understanding of science literature then.

  • On the post: State Of Tennessee Sues The FCC For Daring To Step In And Block Its Law Blocking Muni-Broadband

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2015 @ 06:36am

    Single Issue voters

    Tenn. voters, just like almost every single state voters, tend to be single issue voters. That is just how our political system works, especially in our more extreme gerrymandered ways.
    And people DO NOT focus on the "day to day" things that ACTUALLY MATTER. They focus on the big scary things that Politicians sell them. Like "government taking away our guns" or "government trying to take your right to vote away".
    At the end of the day you can shout about "X party/person is screwing your whole state" but since that is the party of "X Issue" they support that is more important to them...nothing will change.

  • On the post: France To Require Internet Companies To Detect 'Suspicious' Behavior Automatically, And To Decrypt Communications On Demand

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2015 @ 08:18am

    Apply everything to the real world

    None of these people "get it" because they somehow treat the digital world different than the "real" world. How about when we are talking about these things we interpret them in "real" world sense.

    Banning end-to-end Encryption. Forget the whole government easily reading your mail. How about the mailman. How would you feel if all of the mail being delivered wasn't in envelopes but open? No? Well how about you can still put it in envelopes but keep a "backdoor", aka no glue to hold it shut. Does that sound ok? That is what these governments are mandating.

    Now lets get to no phone encryption. To better protect you the government is now mandating you are not allowed to have doors on your house. Wait you don't like that suddenly. But it is for YOUR SAFETY to CATCH BAD GUYS! Ok fine you can have doors but the padlocks must open from the outside with a screwdriver. No exceptions or you go to jail.

    Man what a wonderful and free society we live in!

  • On the post: With Absolutely No Legal Basis To Do So, University Counsel Demands Yik Yak Take Down Posts, Turn Over User Info

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2015 @ 06:16am

    Kinda glad

    Anybody else kinda glad this stuff wasn't around when they were in school?
    All the stupid stuff we did is forever lost. Where as my kid's stupid items may forever be burned into the legacy of the internet.

  • On the post: Capcom Removes Advertised Offline Co-Op From Resident Evil Reboot, Updates Steam Page After Sales Begin

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2015 @ 05:56am

    Not a reboot

    I would not quantify Resident Evil Revelations as a "Reboot". It uses the same characters and continues the same story as the main series with zero inconsistencies. It is a "throw back" to the play style more akin to RE1-3 but it is definitively NOT a "reboot".

    I say this because it was really confused reading the title for the story because I was thinking "wait, since when did Resident Evil HD have co-op in the first place?"

  • On the post: In Wake Of NSA Leaks, China Drops Major US Tech Companies From Its Approved Supplier List

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2015 @ 07:01am

    They will blame

    They will continue to blame Snowden, but we all know it was a matter of time before they were found out eventually anyway. And once they were found out it just would have been worse. The hubris to think they could have long term kept that going without being found out, that only Snowden was the reason they ever would have gotten caught, it rather astounding.

  • On the post: The FCC's Historic Day: Voting Yes For Net Neutrality, Voting No On Protectionist State Telecom Law

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2015 @ 01:15pm

    Prove that link?

    I see you quoted that motherboard article claiming that we are solely waiting on Ajit Pai and Michael O'Reilly to confirm their edits.
    Can anybody cite some sort of source for that? I mean is there any source saying that the other three members have submitted their edits and we are solely waiting on those two members?
    That article just seems lacking credibility to me on that front.

  • On the post: The FCC's Historic Day: Voting Yes For Net Neutrality, Voting No On Protectionist State Telecom Law

    Geno0wl ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2015 @ 10:50am

    Hear that Sound?

    Hear that sound?
    It is the simultaneous sound of internet users rejoicing and Verizon/Comcast Lawyers happy they are about to get a lot of money!

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