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• On the post: Patent Trolling Lawyers May Have Picked With The Wrong Company To Shake Down: Cloudflare Hits Back

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 12 May, 2017 @ 01:35am

  Re: Re: Re: I support journalism

  Thank you for reinforcing my point and distinguishing this blog from any form of journalism.
  
  How does a comment from an anonymous commenter say anything, one way or another, about the authors of this site?

• On the post: Patent Trolling Lawyers May Have Picked With The Wrong Company To Shake Down: Cloudflare Hits Back

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 12 May, 2017 @ 01:34am

  Hamiltonian?

  Great, it's the Hamiltonian fanboy again.
  
  Who's the "Hamiltonian" that get's referenced here at TD?

• On the post: The Weird Antitrust Questions Of A Google Chrome Ad Blocker

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2017 @ 06:05pm

  Re:

  All text ads with no scripting, images etc are generally safe. Anything else is a security risk.

  Curious: how many exploits can be done with scripting but without plugins?

• On the post: EU Plans To Weaken Encrypted Communications Despite Countless Warnings It Can't Be Done Safely

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2017 @ 08:02am

  Re: Re: Re:

  If the Government is horrible at keeping secrets, why in the world would we put them in charge of our privacy?

  Privacy rules aren't about preventing the leaks or theft of data (irregular events that organizations don't intentionally cause and don't want to happen), but about restricting what can be done with data (regular processes that organizations do intentionally cause and do want to happen). So skills a privacy aren't logically connected to skills at keeping secrets.

• On the post: James Comey's New Idea: An International Encryption Backdoor Partnership

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2017 @ 01:59pm

  Re: Re: What do you want to bet...

  Back when the Clinton administration was pushing mandated back-doors they wanted to exclude bankers as well as the government.

  Could you provide a reference for this, or at least some keywords to search for? My Google-fu has been unable to turn up anything.

• On the post: Georgia Lawmakers Look To Go Down Porn-Censoring Unconstitutional Rabbit Hole

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2017 @ 07:31pm

  Here's the complete text of the proposed law.

• On the post: New Filings In Our Ongoing Lawsuit

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2017 @ 01:36pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Legally speaking, Ayyadurai's claim that he is the inventor of email is an opinion based on cited facts.

  What about calling Ayyadurai a liar/fraud? Is calling someone a liar/fraud because of an opinion based on cited facts defamatory? Or is it itself an opinion based on cited facts?

• On the post: General Franco Is Still Dead And Michelle Lee Is Still Director Of The US Patent Office

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2017 @ 11:59pm

  Someone should submit a FOIA request for documents about why no one would admit the identity of the current director.

• On the post: Trump Administration Wants A Clean Reauthorization For NSA Surveillance

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2017 @ 08:20am

  Re:

  Take your witches and burn baby burn

  ??????

• On the post: 'Fake News' Now Means Whatever People Want It To Mean, And Legislating It Away Is A Slippery Slope Toward Censorship

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2017 @ 06:46am

  Details of the German ban law?

  Does anyone have any details on the German law banning "fake news"? Does it fine/imprison end user who link to or repeat news judged to be fake? Merely require that the social media platform black URLs to articles deemed to be fake? What?

• On the post: South Carolina Senator Wants To Charge Computer Purchasers $20 To Access Internet Porn

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2016 @ 01:47pm

  Re: Re: Reload windows

  Wouldn't that require putting the filter into the network card/adapter?
  
  ...
  
  Oh, wait, the Senator didn't think about things like that. Nevermind.

• On the post: Ridiculous German Court Ruling Means Linking Online Is Now A Liability

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2016 @ 12:59pm

  Re: They are fighting for their culture

  If the intent is to protect paper magazines and newspapers against encroachment by the Internet, then they're doing it a roundabout manner.

• On the post: Actor James Woods Gloats Over Death Of Random Twitter Troll He Sued To Unmask [Updated]

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2016 @ 02:05pm

  Having only have read his first tweet, I thought Woods was trying to deceive people into thinking that the John Doe had realized the futility of his fight, had given up and was waiting for Woods to steam-roller him. But in reality it's worse that that. Ugh.

• On the post: Charles Harder Sends Ridiculous Threat Letter To People On Behalf Of Melania Trump

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2016 @ 07:32pm

  Re: Re: Not defamation

  1) If the sentence before is the problem, that's what the complaint should mention.
  
  2) If that previous sentence is defamatory, it's defamatory against Donald Trump, not Melania, as the story neither states nor implies that Melania was complicit with what Trump did.

• On the post: Charles Harder Sends Ridiculous Threat Letter To People On Behalf Of Melania Trump

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2016 @ 05:20pm

  Re: Not defamation

  When it comes to right of publicity claims, does the truth or falsity of the defendant's statements have any bearing?

• On the post: Charles Harder Sends Ridiculous Threat Letter To People On Behalf Of Melania Trump

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2016 @ 05:18pm

  "Come after you personally"

  They already "came after you personally" as in criticize/condemn you for your comments, or as in sue (or threaten to sue) you?

• On the post: NYPD Says Releasing Basic Stingray Contract Info Will Result In A Supercriminal Apocalypse

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2016 @ 05:18pm

  Unredactable?

  Even if one were to believe their objections, why not just redact the model numbers and device quantities?

• On the post: Another Day, Another Anomaly: Paramount Issues DMCA Takedown On Ubuntu Linux Torrent

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2016 @ 10:34am

  So, once again, we have a major Hollywood entertainment entity -- which has been insisting for years that Google and others should "just know" when something is infringing and take it down and block all future infringements -- who can't even properly identify the content that it's claiming to hold the copyright over.

  No, see, they spend the minimum amount of money possible to create the bots, so naturally the bots get made by incompetent programmers. But Google has a bunch of super-genius programmers who can do anything.

• On the post: Mayor Who Sued His Own City Over A Public Records Request Ordered To Turn Over Official Emails Stashed In A Private Account

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2016 @ 09:52pm

  ... since [lawyer] had reviewed firsthand many of the emails ...

  I had thought this was a genuine issue of attorney/client communication. I'd never have dreamed that someone would try to claim that their lawyer reviewing a document transforms it into attorney/client communication.

• On the post: Agent's Testimony Shows FBI Not All That Interested In Ensuring The Integrity Of Its Forensic Evidence

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2016 @ 04:25pm

  Forced publication...

  Time after time their methods and "invented" tests could not survive a Daubert challenge were it not for the FBIs ability to force publication in journals.

  Wait, what?

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