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• On the post: Why Section 230 'Reform' Effectively Means Section 230 Repeal

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2021 @ 08:42am

  Re: Re: Re: Sign Of Growth

  dagnabbit, no way to delete this? (weird inline login UI submitted the comment before I'd actually gotten a chance to type it)

• On the post: Why Section 230 'Reform' Effectively Means Section 230 Repeal

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2021 @ 08:41am

  Re: Re: Sign Of Growth

  Though my understanding is that I paid with my data—usage patterns, friend-network information, posted content others ostensibly want to read, etc. Does this mean I can get them to give me all that data back and not keep any of it?

• On the post: Nike, USPS Reach A Licensing Deal For USPS-Inspired Sneakers

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 11 May, 2021 @ 06:05am

  That's an interesting pairing

  For those times you run too fast and need to slow your game by 1–3 weeks while delivering the ball to the wrong goal, damaged. Or you're cool with just losing the ball altogether. Or you don't want to play games on Sunday.

• On the post: AT&T Loses Another 1 Million TV Customers As Cord Cutting (And Greed) Take A Toll

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2020 @ 06:48am

  Let me fix that for you

  due to competition as well as lower gross adds from the continued focus on adding higher-value customers

  Here you go, ATT: "due to competition as well as lower gross adds from the continued focus on adding h̶i̶g̶h̶e̶r̶-̶v̶a̶l̶u̶e̶ ̶c̶u̶s̶t̶o̶m̶e̶r̶s̶ suckers who are willing to overpay."

• On the post: Minneapolis City Council Votes Unanimously To Disband Its Police Department

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2020 @ 12:16pm

  It's all cool until

  the former police & police union folks start importing crime to "prove" that the police were keeping crime low…

  But nah, that would never happen, right?

• On the post: Cop Sued For Bogus Arrest Of Man Who Broke Up The PD's Distracted Driving Sting

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2018 @ 04:23pm

  Sounds like this local case a while back

  The guy holding a "police ahead" sign here in the north-Dallas metroplex eventually had charges dropped but shouldn't police know this doesn't work?

• On the post: The MP3 Is About As 'Dead' As Pepe The Frog

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 15 May, 2017 @ 04:15pm

  Re: Sounds like...

  Whoops, forgot to sign in.

• On the post: No, The Wall St. Bull Sculptor Doesn't 'Have A Point'

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2017 @ 12:31pm

  Frankly, I'm pretty okay with this

  If copyright is only extended towards "art", it would free up a lot of commercial (formerly) "art" for reappropriation by culture.

• On the post: Investigation Finds IRS Seized Millions Of Dollars From Innocent Individuals And Business Owners

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2017 @ 12:06pm

  Don't worry officer

  I didn't hack into the bank and perform a wire-transfer of millions of dollars out of IRS accounts into offshore holding accounts. I was performing a citizen's arrest on the funds for the illegal asset-forfeiture seizures they supported.

• On the post: TSA Now Making Its Intrusive Searches Even More Gropey & Assaulty

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2017 @ 11:39am

  Yep.

  WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Transportation Security Administration announces its recent partnership with the Roman Catholic Church. Beginning in time for the Christmas travel season, the Vatican will supply additional staff to perform pat-down searches and monitor the full-body scanners.
  
  A small but vocal minority of fliers have expressed concern regarding the program. TSA spokesman Dick Tickle dismisses the opposition as an aggrieved minority, stating that the financial savings and increased security benefit taxpayers and travellers alike.
  
  "My co-workers and I are uncomfortable with the intimate nature of the pat-down searches required for those who opt out of the full-body scannings," notes TSA agent Willie G. Roper. "The priests don't seem to object, the people trust them, and they reportedly bring years of experience with them."
  
  Father John Geoghan eagerly looks forward to helping secure America's transportation network. "I've seen the images produced by the backscatter/millimeter-wave systems, and there's no hiding anything."
  
  Given the expected success of the new program, Tickle hints that the agency plans to extend its subcontracting relationships, starting with state correctional institutions. "A number of parolees and work-release prisoners have a difficult time finding jobs because of their record. In some cases, their names will appear on the sex-offender registry for the rest of their life. We offer them hope at reintegrating into society while making travel safer."

• On the post: Samsung Issues Takedown On Video Of Grand Theft Auto 5 Mod Turning Galaxy Note 7 Into A Weapon

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2016 @ 08:37am

  Re: Next GTA mod...

  This micro-fiction seemed rather apropos

• On the post: Samsung Issues Takedown On Video Of Grand Theft Auto 5 Mod Turning Galaxy Note 7 Into A Weapon

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2016 @ 10:46am

  Re: Re: Re: Next GTA mod...

  [visual of me equipping my Subpoena-o-matic™, firing 17 subpoenas per second at the enemy]

• On the post: Samsung Issues Takedown On Video Of Grand Theft Auto 5 Mod Turning Galaxy Note 7 Into A Weapon

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2016 @ 10:08am

  Next GTA mod...

  Next up, a GTA mod that allows you to loft DMCA takedown notices at your opponents to kill them with paperwork…

• On the post: When ISPs Become Anti-Troll Advocates: Bahnhof Turns The IP Tables On A Copyright Troll

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2016 @ 03:49am

  Re: iptables

  Was actually disappointed when it didn't involve the ISP throttling the troll's connection to the internet using some sort of bandwidth-shaping or destination blocking. I mean, blocking access to google (that den of copyright infringement!) would certainly slow down searches for infringement. ????

• On the post: Primatologist Tells Court That Macaque Monkeys Are, Like, Super Smart, So They Should Totally Get Copyrights

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2016 @ 11:53am

  Does the opposite apply?

  “Your honor, these representatives for {PETA,big media} are really, really dumb, so we move to declare their copyrights as void…”

• On the post: You're Entitled To Your Own Opinions, But Not Your Own Facts About Copyright, NY Times Edition

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 25 May, 2016 @ 05:10pm

  Re: Re: Re: copyright for the benefit of the creators

  I've noticed the same thing and come to the same conclusion that it wouldn't happen. But it does have a certain "burn it to the ground and start over" appeal.

• On the post: You're Entitled To Your Own Opinions, But Not Your Own Facts About Copyright, NY Times Edition

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 23 May, 2016 @ 12:19pm

  Re: copyright for the benefit of the creators

  Patently false at least in the US where the purpose is explicitly

  to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
  —United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 8

  Copyright is just an attempt at a means to advance "Science and useful Arts".

• On the post: Homeland Security Wants To Subpoena Us Over A Clearly Hyperbolic Techdirt Comment

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 09 May, 2016 @ 11:08am

  Re: Re: speech as the first step to doing something really bad

  There is no way for anyone to know if any speech is "NOT the first step in doing something really bad."

  Oh, I know of at least one phrase that nigh guarantees subsequent malfeasance. “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

• On the post: As Broadband Usage Caps Expand, Complaints To The FCC Skyrocket

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 01 May, 2016 @ 04:53pm

  Re: measuring Comcast

  Just making sure that your router logged all WAN traffic, not just HTTP/HTTPS. A 70GB discrepancy is still a HUGE difference and would be hard to reach on DNS/NTP-queries (or other common UDP traffic) alone, but I could see it being from IMAP/POP/SMTP or SSH/BitTorrent traffic.
  
  Or maybe Comcast is injecting 70GB of super-cookies in your HTTP(non-S) traffic and billing you for the privilege. ????

• On the post: Court Tells Cops They Can't Open A Flip Phone Without A Warrant

  

  Gumnos ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2016 @ 03:58am

  Re: Re:

  Options include accepting the spoliation of evidence as collateral damage for the illegal search; coming up with a Faraday-bag style isolation like you describe; or being willing to accept that a remote wipe is a possibility. If the phone's owner has been arrested, it's less likely that they have capabilities to execute a remote wipe, but it's a possibility.
  
  However, it's possible to force either the potential spoliation-of-battery-case-evidence or device-gets-wiped situation by writing some sort of "wake every 30 minutes and check if my owner has entered their pass-code at any time in the last 24hr, and if not, wipe myself" program.

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