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• On the post: Kevin McCarthy’s First Order Of Business: Waste A Ton Of Time Misleading The Public Over The Bogus Twitter Files

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2023 @ 03:37pm

  Remember when Congress dealt with actual problems instead of imagining new ways to claim victimhood & try to punish other citizens for existing and not believing in their imaginary friend?

• On the post: Arizona Government Thinks It Should Be Able To Decide What You Wear And When

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2023 @ 03:35pm

  looks at the state of the nation And you decided the biggest problem in your state was drag queens? What the fsck is wrong with you?

• On the post: Copyright Has Kept De La Soul’s Classic 1st Album Off Streaming… Until Now

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2023 @ 08:51am

  gasp! The website for the movie has links to purchase copies, I found a full copy on vimeo of dubious parentage, I found a full copy on youtube from what appeared to be a production company but only 1 video...

• On the post: ProPublica Exposes Even More Cop Junk Science: Using 911 Calls To Determine If People Are Lying

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2023 @ 08:40am

  Miss Cleo if your nasty... The fact that they are loudly declaring their wins, while at the same time trying to avoid anyone admitting they used the "program" tells a court everything it needs to know. This isn't science. This isn't vetted. This has put innocent people in jail by influencing juries to believe that someone screaming into a phone used 4 words that mean they totally did the murder. If the use of 4 words can prove guilt, how come only 1 asshole sells the training & reminds users of it to avoid the courts finding out its his program?

• On the post: HBO Max Keeps Losing Popular Content, Highlighting The Raging Stupidity Of Pointless Media Megamergers

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2023 @ 11:07am

  Because they have to pay not only themselves but a few pennies to the stars and well that harms the bottom line, so we can't have that. That thing where some companies shouldn't have made their own streaming services & just signed beneficial deals with which ever streamer was willing to pay more for the rights for a while. but then someone would have tried to add the cable bundle thing to demand more cash by also demanding they carry content no one really wants to watch while pretending it's worth having to pay them more to get it.

• On the post: You No Longer Own What You Buy: Arlo Cameras Lose Updates, Cloud Storage

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2023 @ 02:30pm

  Well that explain the recent large offering of Arlo products on Woot.com

• On the post: Grab A US Military Device Full Of Biometric Data For Only $68 At Ebay! [Sponsored]

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2023 @ 08:26am

  "Devices vanish into the fog of war." (stares at the number of silk wedding gowns with rather parachute looking designs after a war) "The fact that it still attempts to connect to military servers suggests no one’s aware the device is lost." Imma call bullshit on this, simply because there is no fscking way in hell that anyone ever considered building in remote shutdown/blocking into it let alone any way to actually track the device. One does wonder how long it will take someone to get the hardcoded credentials out of the device and see what it connects to and what access it has.

• On the post: Power Companies Caught Paying Local News Outlets For Glowing Coverage

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2023 @ 10:27am

  To paraphrase a bad movie... All media is Fox News.

• On the post: As Old Session Of Congress Closed, One Final Bipartisan Bill To Pressure Websites To Censor Controversial Content Is Introduced

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2023 @ 01:34pm

  Can I sue the mf'ers in Congress who keep screaming that teh gays are groomers out to get kids & send their followers off to shoot us? Why not? It's the same liability they seek to impose on others, so I think its perfectly fair and I can sue the braying jackasses who manage to rile people up to shoot up places where gays are to "protect" the children from imaginary threats.

• On the post: Louisiana Law Now Requires Age Verification At Any Site Containing More Than One-Third Porn

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2023 @ 01:31pm

  I look forward to the database leaking & spending 20 minutes cross matching those who wanted teh porn & who holds office.

• On the post: How Dare Signal Protect Its Users From Surveillance, Asks Ethicist Who Advises The FBI

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2023 @ 01:29pm

  I look forward to Mr. Blackman posting his browser history online. No not the cleaned up one, the real one. Until he's willing to do that perhaps he should STFU.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of 2022 At Techdirt

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 01 Jan, 2023 @ 07:15pm

  And now you get to have that nagging feeling in the back of your mind that will you manage to do it again...

• On the post: ITC Blocks Import Of Apple Watches Based On Claimed Infringement… But The Patents Have Already Been Declared Invalid

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2022 @ 06:37pm

  pulls out the nerf bat & begins swinging

• On the post: Madison Square Garden’s Facial Recognition Tech Boots Lawyers Litigating Against The Venue

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2022 @ 02:03pm

  There is that tv trope where dude sells a mask of his own face to give people privacy in the surveillance state... Imagine securities response when 15 of the same lawyer walk in different doors.

• On the post: Appeals Court Tosses Stupid Lawsuit Filed By Anti-Vaxxer Claiming Federal Government Made Twitter Ban Her Account

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2022 @ 02:00pm

  Bitch you aren't important enough for the government to even notice, you had a lawsuit and didn't change my mind.

• On the post: ITC Blocks Import Of Apple Watches Based On Claimed Infringement… But The Patents Have Already Been Declared Invalid

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2022 @ 01:57pm

  But we don't dare touch the sacred IP cow as it might harm the lawyers who depend upon it to make a living by inflicting pain and misery on everyone else.

• On the post: TikTok Admits It Used App Data To Spy On Journalists To Try To Find Source Of Leak

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 26 Dec, 2022 @ 03:22pm

  All of the hand wringing over former FBI, CIA, NSA people taking jobs at TikTok after they have retired makes me wonder if they are just terrified that they might learn how they were collecting data on citizens all along was in violation of the law.

• On the post: UK IP Office Tries To Claim Netflix Password Sharing Is Illegal

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 26 Dec, 2022 @ 03:20pm

  "where the intent is to allow a user to access copyright-protected works without payment" Well since those sharing the password with others have already paid for it, whats the fscking problem other than some idiots trying to decide suddenly that just because we sold you 4 concurrent streams we meant 4 concurrent streams to ONLY 1 house.

• On the post: Madison Square Garden’s Facial Recognition Tech Boots Lawyers Litigating Against The Venue

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 26 Dec, 2022 @ 03:00pm

  pulls out the typo bat & swings "He’s just one of several" She, pumpkin, she. I think we should count this as a win for all POC who are members of the bar, it won't work correctly on them. How many lawyers need to make it past their draconian measures before they mothball it? And just because no bad idea goes unpunished, how long until those working for MSG find themselves unwelcome in restaurants, stores, & other businesses who don't want to risk allowing clearly mentally unwell people onto the property?

• On the post: California City Residents Pay $300,000 To Veteran Brutalized By Officer Who Didn’t Want To Be Filmed

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2022 @ 11:44am

  Or... hear me out... we can stop acting like everything is a fscking binary choice.

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