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• On the post: Judge Mehta’s Google Antitrust Remedies: Threading The Needle Between Overkill And Underkill

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2025 @ 08:40pm

  Most windows users only use Edge to download chrome. They very much want it.

• On the post: Judge Mehta’s Google Antitrust Remedies: Threading The Needle Between Overkill And Underkill

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2025 @ 08:35pm

  Edge ships with every copy of Windows, yet Chrome accounts for something like 70% of the Windows browser market. Much of this is from the moat of technical advantages that a Google has built: integration with Android phones to share bookmarks, passwords, etc. A.whole.damn OS built around Chrome. Despite their home field advance, Edge can't compete because MSs complete failure to innovate, not to mention absolutely fuck their customers for decades. And all of this ignores that there is no such thing as a successful, independent, web browser.

• On the post: OK Anti-Woke Teachers Test From Prager U Is Impossible To Fail

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2025 @ 08:24pm

  Sup. Ryan Walters would have been better off collaborating with Sen. Raphael Cruz to assemble a quiz about appropriate venues for porn enthusiasm.

• On the post: Justice Jackson Correctly Defines The John Roberts Supreme Court As The Calvinball Court

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2025 @ 04:46pm

  DEI hires include veterans, people over the age of 55, etc.

• On the post: These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents To The CFPB For Help. Then They Voted To Gut The Agency.

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2025 @ 10:12am

  What other agencies? You degenerates are fitting them as well? And all so that Federal spending is UP.

• On the post: Train Maker Sues Hackers For Exposing Dodgy Efforts To Make Train Repairs More Difficult

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2025 @ 04:16pm

  No, I'm saying we need to protect our governments from the people.

• On the post: MAHA Draft Report: Pesticides, Processed Foods Unmentioned, But Conspiracy Theories Abound

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2025 @ 04:14pm

  You might as well be arguing about the use of the words decimate, awful, or manufacture.

• On the post: MAHA Draft Report: Pesticides, Processed Foods Unmentioned, But Conspiracy Theories Abound

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2025 @ 04:39am

  "gargle-gargle....." Is my guess.

• On the post: Train Maker Sues Hackers For Exposing Dodgy Efforts To Make Train Repairs More Difficult

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2025 @ 04:37am

  Your estimation of the sophistication of buyers for this equipment wildly out of sync with reality. It's entirely probably nobody with controls experience was consulted at all during the procurement process. Further, I'd like to point out that governments are the ones that require a law for reverse engineering the most. Access to code is always an additional cost, and well documented and supported code is expensive. But it's not something you need during the warranty or service period, so it's the first thing in the chopping block when the public comes with its axe. And it always does. So it effect, if their isn't a law or regulation requiring something in a public work bid, you government isn't going to require it....no matter if it's beat practices or not.

• On the post: MAHA Draft Report: Pesticides, Processed Foods Unmentioned, But Conspiracy Theories Abound

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2025 @ 04:10am

  Your pedantry is thoroughly unimpressive.

• On the post: Net Neutrality Advocates Won’t Appeal Trump Destruction, Say U.S. Courts Are Broken

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2025 @ 01:59am

  If I did my calculus right, that makes MAGA constipation. Right?

• On the post: MAHA Draft Report: Pesticides, Processed Foods Unmentioned, But Conspiracy Theories Abound

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2025 @ 01:49am

  We know you Republicans like to fuck 14 year olds, but anyone under 19 is a child still. Sorry pedo.

• On the post: The Collapse Of American Judgment

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2025 @ 04:27pm

  "An idiot, in modern use, is a stupid or foolish person" It's right there, man.

• On the post: Net Neutrality Advocates Won’t Appeal Trump Destruction, Say U.S. Courts Are Broken

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2025 @ 04:17pm

  Consumption is a race?

• On the post: Net Neutrality Advocates Won’t Appeal Trump Destruction, Say U.S. Courts Are Broken

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2025 @ 09:04am

  Also, I failed to point out that arguing that it's not being done now alleviates the need for a law preventing it is just an absurdity unto it self. This is without even considering the history of ISPs and their willingness to exploit their customer when given half the chance.

• On the post: Net Neutrality Advocates Won’t Appeal Trump Destruction, Say U.S. Courts Are Broken

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2025 @ 08:59am

  There is a distinction between 'common carrier' and 'information service' in the US, where the later give ISP the obligation to treat all customers and traffic equally at the federally. Ironically, because of the recent overturning of the Chevron ruling, the FCC can't declare it one or another. DNS is just but an example, and the fact that people aren't using it from their ISP doesn't it make it any less an important part of the definition. US Code 47 (The Communications Act of 1934) definition is much more than what Robb quoted: (24)Information service The term “information service” means the offering of a capability for generating, acquiring, storing, transforming, processing, retrieving, utilizing, or making available information via telecommunications, and includes electronic publishing, but does not include any use of any such capability for the management, control, or operation of a telecommunications system or the management of a telecommunications service. The key word here is 'capability', they don't have to offer it themselves. Frankly it's a straight forward reading of the definition to realize that "the internet" is clearly an information service, and you have to twist yourself into a pretzel to argue otherwise. To be complete, the act defines common carrier thusly: (11)Common carrier The term “common carrier” or “carrier” means any person engaged as a common carrier for hire, in interstate or foreign communication by wire or radio or interstate or foreign radio transmission of energy, except where reference is made to common carriers not subject to this chapter; but a person engaged in radio broadcasting shall not, insofar as such person is so engaged, be deemed a common carrier. So yes, your ISP is most certainly providing a common carrier by bringing you wire to your house, and an electrical signal. But that's not just what they offer, or charge for, as they offer access to the internet...and even charge for different quantity of a data, indicating it is much more than just communication by wire. By offering the capability of connecting to website, etc. they are clearly an information service. Further, they go to great lengths to make this experience better by including things like CDNs to improve streaming of services, outbound SPAM/bot detection to prevent users from getting blacklisted by other services, etc. Also remember anyone attempting to arguing the internet isn't a information service is a deeply serious person as they also simultaneously hold the idea that the internet service for reaching a social media site can be shaped any way the ISP wants, but the social media site can't restrict their ability to post whatever they want.

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

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2025 @ 09:16pm

  It's gallows humor because the dumbest passengers in the plane have decided they're smarter than the pilots and locked themselves in the cabin.

• On the post: Net Neutrality Advocates Won’t Appeal Trump Destruction, Say U.S. Courts Are Broken

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2025 @ 06:28pm

  You're confusing the transport and protocols with the applications and services. TCP/IP UDP, MPLS, those would be the equivalent of asphalt and concrete and makeup the back one. But they are useless, and would carry no information, without the services that provide the framework that provides the Internet. DNS, Telent, HTTPS, etc, are the services that are run as commonly accepted standards that gives users there experience of the internet. There are other WANs that utilize the same transport and protocols, run ing parallel to the internet, but using a different set of services making them not the internet. TL;DR; the premise that The Internet is not an information service is a fun dental misunderstanding of how it works.

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  Mamba ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2025 @ 06:12pm

  Stephen King answers your assinie questions?

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  Mamba ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2025 @ 02:48am

  "Outside of the words used, we have no way to know what the author meant!"

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