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• On the post: Penis Pump Company Threatens To Report Techdirt To Interpol Because We Wrote About Its Bogus DMCA Demands

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2016 @ 10:00am

  I've no doubt Techdirt will rise to this challenge.

• On the post: Legislator Wants To Ban People From Posting Pictures Of Accidents To Social Media… For At Least One Hour

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2016 @ 11:11am

  I've just assumed that this was just to give traditional media a chance to stay ahead of new media in reporting stories.

• On the post: GQ And Forbes Go After Ad Blocker Users Rather Than Their Own Shitty Advertising Inventory

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2016 @ 02:41pm

  Honestly, just consider the minority of users who use ad blockers as loss leaders. Odds are, if the article is good enough, it may be shared and bring in other users that would not have normally come to the site and probably don't use an ad blocker.
  
  Either way, there are enough news sources these days, if they want to actively encourage people not to use them as a source, somebody else will be welcoming.

• On the post: DOJ Drops All Charges Against Professor After Realizing No One Checked To See If What He Sent To China Was Actually A Secret

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2015 @ 07:02am

  Stupid truth getting in the way of a press release about stopping terrorism.

• On the post: St. Louis County Still Considering Bringing Trespassing Charges Against Journalists Police Arrested In Ferguson

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2015 @ 06:35am

  Discovery

  Wait. They don't want to give them the information, but if they charge them it all becomes discoverable and they would have to give it to them. Genius.

• On the post: Twitter Just Cut Off Politwoops In Another Effort To Keep The Platform Closed

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2015 @ 02:22pm

  My guess: Trying not to piss off the candidates for 2016. Stay on their good side so they can minimize the contributions they need to make to get what they want.

• On the post: Facebook's Zuckerberg Thinks Aggressively Violating Net Neutrality Is Fine…If You Just Mean Well

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2015 @ 11:09am

  Throughout history, there are a lot of people we look upon as villains that meant well at the time. Tread lightly.

• On the post: TSA's Investigation Into Groping Agents Ensured They Wouldn't Be Prosecuted

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2015 @ 05:56am

  Fortunately, it looks like some possible victims are coming forward.
  http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-victims-denver-airport-groping-scandal-20150415-story.html

• On the post: Homeland Security Will Finally Admit To Banned Flyers That They're On The No Fly List

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2015 @ 10:45am

  Eh, probably just make another list with another name and use it instead.

• On the post: Former Security Director For Lottery Charged With Tampering Equipment Before Secretly Buying $14.3 Million Winning Ticket

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2015 @ 12:31pm

  Re: Re: I'm surprised they use computers for the drawing

  Some like powerball do. But our State drawings use computers to do the "draw".

• On the post: Former Security Director For Lottery Charged With Tampering Equipment Before Secretly Buying $14.3 Million Winning Ticket

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2015 @ 12:34pm

  So why are they not using a USB port blocker to lock all of the open ports? Require 2 or more people to get the key out of a safe and this would have been harder to pull off.

• On the post: Google's Ridiculous AdSense Morality Police Strike Again

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2015 @ 10:56am

  Govt- "Hey, we'll help you out with that whole FCC thing, if you'll do us a little favor" wink wink-nudge nudge.

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

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2015 @ 06:17am

  Well, this is just great. They could be using this money to keep lobbying for taking away our employee benefits. Don't they know what is important?

• On the post: NY Court Orders Sheriff To Reveal Details On Stingray Mobile Phone Surveillance

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2015 @ 01:48pm

  Tomorrow's headline: US Marshals confiscate records ordered released citing unspecified threat.

• On the post: Hillary Clinton Finally Answers Questions About Her Email… And It Only Raises More Questions

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2015 @ 05:35am

  I loved they said they were going to post the emails, but they needed to go through and redact them for security purposes. If nothing sent by it was classified, why is there a need to redact anything.

• On the post: Rogers Exec Pouts About VPNs, Publicly Dreams Of Canadian Ban

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2015 @ 11:18am

  I bet Rogers uses a VPN to access their internal networks. Perhaps they should lead the way and stop using theirs first.

• On the post: Lenovo CTO Claims Concerns Over Superfish Are Simply 'Theoretical'

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2015 @ 11:24am

  Re: Re:

  There is already a root certificate in our certificate stores listed as belonging to the US government. I'm sure there are others in there we don't know about.

• On the post: Lenovo CTO Claims Concerns Over Superfish Are Simply 'Theoretical'

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2015 @ 11:08am

  Every active exploit was at one point simply theoretical. Since this is such a juicy vector, I can't imagine it will be long before it's part of the standard toolkit. If it isn't already.

• On the post: Comcast Sued Over Router Update That Makes Your Wi-Fi Hotspot Public, Ignores Your Opt-Out Preferences

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2014 @ 12:10pm

  I can't even get the website to let me opt out even once. I've been trying for months. Even tried today, just get the "whoops, something went wrong" error. I'm sure they are taking it seriously.

• On the post: French Publishers Think They Can Fix Online Advertising By Suing The Company Behind AdBlockPlus

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2014 @ 08:13am

  How many stories have we seen where a virus was distributed by an online ad? No thank you. It is my job as a user to minimize the vectors that malware can creep into my system. Since ad networks have proven to be a vector, it is not only my prerogative, but perhaps my duty as a responsible user, to block them.

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