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• On the post: US Paid Millions For Bogus (Patented) Intelligence Software; Now Trying To Cover It Up Claiming 'National Security'

  

  jackwagon ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2011 @ 10:17am

  in bed with the govt

  a google search returned a MSNBC article where Dennis Montgomery was rolling over on former NV Rep/Governor Jim Gibbons...

• On the post: Father Of The Great Firewall Defends Chinese Internet Censorship By Noting The US Does The Same Thing

  

  jackwagon ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2011 @ 11:43am

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  a troll button would be nice

• On the post: Next Tech Area To Be Hindered By Patents: Nanotech… And Much Of It Is Funded With Your Tax Dollars

  

  jackwagon ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2011 @ 11:19am

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  I thought that was the line at the voting booth

• On the post: Homeland Security Won't Even Admit Whether Or Not It Seized Mooo.com, Taking Down 84,000 Innocent Sites

  

  jackwagon ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2011 @ 11:04am

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  and put a responder on your email that said you were supporting child porn when someone contacted you? Still ok with it?

• On the post: Did Homeland Security Seize… And Then Unseize… A Dynamic DNS Domain?

  

  jackwagon ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2011 @ 09:59am

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  and if they would have issued a takedown notice instead of seizing the domains, I'm confident mooo would have complied. If they don't comply, then seize the domains and issue fines. Problem solved. It's called due process.

• On the post: Did Homeland Security Seize… And Then Unseize… A Dynamic DNS Domain?

  

  jackwagon ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2011 @ 09:50am

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  Could be? Yes. That's what happened. Should be? No. The folks in ICE and HS (and now you) have demonstrated they don't understand the technology they're legislating.

• On the post: Did Homeland Security Seize… And Then Unseize… A Dynamic DNS Domain?

  

  jackwagon ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2011 @ 09:39am

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  No one is claiming they aren't targeting child porn. The assertion is that they're doing it badly and that due process and a working knowledge of the technology would greatly help the cause. Seizing a few domain names isn't helping reduce the amount of children being abused but it has caused damage to potentially thousands of innocent individuals and businesses, by linking them to child pornography.

• On the post: Will Google's New Hamfisted Censorship On Autocomplete Raise Questions Of Human Meddling?

  

  jackwagon ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2011 @ 03:23pm

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  *you're ugly. Autocomplete should check it's punctuation and grammar skills.

• On the post: Obama Nominates Former Top RIAA Lawyer To Be Solicitor General

  

  jackwagon ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2011 @ 11:21am

  Re: Re: How Sneakernet Works

  ...a lifetime to get anything? All you need is an external hard drive and an hour or two and you can have a few hundred gigs of mp3s (to keep as backups of music you legitimately purchased.) This is significantly faster than a torrent on a crappy DSL connection.

• On the post: Let's Try This Again: Even If There's No Corruption, The Appearance Of Corruption Hurts Representative Government

  

  jackwagon ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2011 @ 11:00am

  Corruption

  I feel that any and all campaign contributions made by corporations IS representative of the corruption that exists in our government. The article just pointed out one example of a flawed system.

• On the post: One Mentally Deranged Shooter Is No Reason To Throw Out The First Amendment

  

  jackwagon ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2011 @ 10:09am

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  Are you sure you don't want to know what kind of music he liked or video games he played? Surely you want to blame everyone that might have had any influence into the deranged actions of a lunatic.

• On the post: Yes, The Legal & Technical Errors In Homeland Security's Domain Seizure Affidavit Do Matter

  

  jackwagon ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2011 @ 02:39pm

  content

  Wouldn't it be relatively easy for the defendant to remove the allegedly infringing content from the server in the time between the domain name seizure and the alleged trial?