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• On the post: EFF And ACLU Explain To Tennessee School Board That Its New Internet Policy Violates Both The 1st & 4th Amendments

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2014 @ 12:05pm

  Why...

  Why do school administrators somehow believe they have the right to look through children's entire lives?
  I mean that is essentially what that policy says.
  What is so damning that a 14 year old can do that they are so afraid of?

• On the post: Latest In Cable Astroturfing: If You Squint, Twist, Spin And Mislead With Apples To Oranges Comparisons, US Broadband Is Great!

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2014 @ 01:46pm

  Thanking I actually live in Ohio

  Local Telco here is actually installing Fiber across the city. Offering 1 Gbps for $90 a month against TWC.
  http://www.cincinnatibell.com/internet/
  
  After actually getting Fiber with dedicated speeds(no "up to" BS) I will never go back to cable.
  Trying to pull in customers with compelling products and actual competition. It is amazing!

• On the post: DHS Agents Raid Lingerie Shop, Save America From Unlicensed Underwear

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2014 @ 07:45am

  What a waste

  I really don't understand how this is a good user of police resources when a cease and desist letter should have been the first step...

• On the post: Woman Faces Criminal Wiretapping Charges For Deploying Spyware On Her Husband's Phone

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2014 @ 07:40am

  Re:

  A lot of officers get phones provided to them from their departments. If that is the case then no.

• On the post: Woman Faces Criminal Wiretapping Charges For Deploying Spyware On Her Husband's Phone

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2014 @ 06:37am

  shocking

  The only thing shocking about this story is that this cop lost his job.

• On the post: Google Continues To Try To Appease Hollywood, Though It Is Unlikely To Ever Be Enough

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2014 @ 01:50pm

  Confirmation Bias.

  Look at the list of top grossing movies of all time. Notice how there are tons from the last decade?
  Yeah me too.
  So if google is leading to more piracy and Hollywood is hurting so badly then how exactly are those movies doing so well again?

• On the post: 5 Year Old Who Drew A Gun In Crayon Forced To Sign No-Suicide Contract With School

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2014 @ 06:13am

  So my question is did they have a form letter for this?
  Like they just have a stack of these forms in a drawer somewhere in case this happens?
  Who wants to bet this was some district school wide mandate for any student, with the obvious aim being towards middle school and high school students. And because school teachers and administrators want zero tolerance because that means they can always fall back on "not my fault I was only following the rules" this form was handed to a 5 year old.
  Seriously bizarrely stupid on all levels.

• On the post: If You're Going To Spread FUD About Evil Cyberlockers, Maybe Don't Use Two Debunked Studies As The Basis?

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2014 @ 11:53am

  Re:

  I had backups of photo libraries stored on megaupload before it went down. Backups of favorites and encryption keyset stored in rar files. I had even a few home videos of my kid crawling around. All before I had my own home RAID5 NAS(which is actually what pushed me to get one).
  I believe you are projecting your own use of cyberlockers onto the whole of everybody else here. Just because you use them solely for piracy doesn't mean they are not used by plenty of other legitimate people for legitimate purposes.

• On the post: Iowan 'Drug Interdiction' Officers Legally Steal $100K From Poker Players Passing Through Their State

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2014 @ 01:37pm

  For just winning a poker tourney these guys sure didn't have very good poker faces...

• On the post: FBI Director Angry At Homebuilders For Putting Up Walls That Hide Any Crimes Therein

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2014 @ 08:13am

  Not even a decade old

  Smart phone proliferation has not even reached a decade yet!
  Are these people so bad at their jobs now that they forgot how to do them in less than 10 years?
  What if ISIS or some other crazy group managed to actually fly a small plane above the US and put off a nuke, effectively EMPing a large part of the US? Would ALL of the FBI and CIA suddenly be absolutely 100% useless then because they don't have computers?

• On the post: Study Indicates College Textbook Piracy Is On The Rise, But Fails To Call Out Publishers For Skyrocketing Prices

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2014 @ 10:01am

  This is how you could always tell the professors who cares about their students from the ones who didn't.
  AKA the ones who built their own questions and posted them vs the ones who pulled from the ever changing current edition questions.
  Most of my major engineering classes didn't assign work out of the books, they opted for creating their own questions. They did this because they knew "new editions" were complete BS. There were even several teachers that held old editions of the books you could borrow for certain time frames.
  But again that was only for major engineering classes where you are a "proven" serious student and they know who you are. Not the throwaway bright eyed freshman who doesn't know any better.

• On the post: Technology Improves And The Internet Expands But School Acceptable Use Policies Still Lock Students Out Of The Benefits

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2014 @ 06:12am

  I will not capture video, audio, or pictures without the consent of all persons being recorded, their knowledge of the media’s intended use, as well as the approval of a staff member.
  
  
  Does that not come off to anybody else as a way to protect a staff member from a potentially embarrassing video from being taken?
  Also many of these seem redundant or at the very least should be combined into one point. Almost as if the person creating this didn't actually think this through only haphazardly made additions after the fact...

• On the post: Yet More Evidence That Offering Good Legal Alternatives Reduces Music Piracy

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2014 @ 01:16pm

  Re: article maker hasnt seen whats downloadable lately have ya

  Am I to take your post to insinuate that modern "Top 40 pop" music is garbage?
  Get off your high horse. Nobody cares that you don't like today's modern music. That is a trend most people go through. It is called "get off my lawn" syndrome.

• On the post: Yet More Evidence That Offering Good Legal Alternatives Reduces Music Piracy

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2014 @ 01:12pm

  Steam

  They can't acknowledge anything that would remotely go against their pulpit of "content is the only game in town".
  So of course they won't talk about this.

• On the post: Australian Court Disagrees With US: Claim Genes Are Totally Patentable

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2014 @ 01:53pm

  I guess the Aussie judges are more easily bought than US judges.

• On the post: Fact Checking Is Dead: Mainstream Media Goes Nuts Repeating Debunked Claims By The Fake 'Inventor Of Email'

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2014 @ 01:51pm

  My Aunt

  My Aunt worked for DARPA during the 60s and 70s. I actually asked her about this a couple days ago.
  She actually got kinda pissed about it some person taking credit for all the hard work of people whom she knew and worked with back then.
  
  This hack thinks he will be able to sell books and make money, and he is probably right. And for that reason he will never go away.

• On the post: Huffington Post Finally Removes Most Articles About Fake Email Inventor; Meanwhile, Ayyadurai Threatens To Sue His Critics

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2014 @ 06:59am

  Ironically

  There is a top feed on facebook today(if anybody still uses that here).
  
  "Fran Drescher: 'The Nanny' lead Fran Drescher marries email patent holder Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai"
  
  
  ugh. Wonder where that came from...

• On the post: Record Labels Issue Takedown To Take Kim Dotcom's Album Down From His Own Site

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2014 @ 06:03am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Which is why we should make it illegal to have automated Takedown systems...

• On the post: Premier League Uses Copyright To Pull Down YouTube Video Of Professor Advocating For Stronger Copyright For Premier League

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2014 @ 01:19pm

  Wake up Goal

  Now this should be a stiff wake up call to the professor in question about why harsh use of copyright is a stupid.
  But who wants to bet he doesn't learn that lesson.

• On the post: Indian Media Giant's New Policy For Employees: Hand Over Your Social Media Passwords

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2014 @ 05:55am

  I would rather

  I would just shut down my social media accounts than hand them over.
  Then start new ones with fake names.

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