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• On the post: When The Problem Isn't Twitter But President Trump

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 28 May, 2020 @ 05:22am

  Re: Re: Re: Speech, free, but what if lies?

  Sadly, there are still people that believe what he says, and, even more sadly, they vote. I still regularly have people that I know try to assert that COVID 19 is no worse than the flu.

• On the post: Arkansas Can't Secure Financial Assistance Site So Governor Decides To Call The Person Discovering The Breach A Criminal

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 26 May, 2020 @ 11:26am

  Re: Re: 'bless your/his/her heart'

  Oooh! I like your definition better! I'll share that one next time playing cards at Mom's!

• On the post: Arkansas Can't Secure Financial Assistance Site So Governor Decides To Call The Person Discovering The Breach A Criminal

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 26 May, 2020 @ 10:43am

  'bless your/his/her heart'

  I'm southern, and we say 'bless you/his/her heart' a lot. The best translation for 'bless your heart' that I've heard is my mom's; "you poor idiot!" So, as for this so-called governor, yes, bless his heart and the heart of anyone that would accept his explanations. Mc

• On the post: As Facebook Agrees To Pay $52 Million In PTSD Payments To Moderators, Why Are Some Demanding More Human Moderators?

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 13 May, 2020 @ 11:27am

  Re:

• On the post: Jared Kushner's Coronavirus Task Force Is Using Private Email Accounts To Conduct Official Business

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2020 @ 07:07am

  Lock them up

  This is our information and needs to be controlled accordingly. I'm all for locking whoever mishandles information this way, especially if it's classified. I guess I would never make a good partisan, because I don't throw my principles in the toilet when it's someone in 'my party' misbehaving. People like this need to be charged and penalized.

• On the post: Senators Hawley & Feinstein Join Graham & Blumenthal In Announcing Bill To Undermine Both Encryption And Section 230

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2020 @ 04:56am

  Re: the problem with 'doing something,' or problems, rather

  All too many of the politicians and the public cry "we have to do something," to say that doing nothing is not an option. No, that is not true. When faced with the choice of doing nothing versus doing something stupid, doing nothing is the better choice.

• On the post: AT&T, Comcast Dramatically Cut Network Spending Despite Net Neutrality Repeal

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2020 @ 01:58pm

  Re: Waiting for disruption

  I am so hoping that StarLink lives up to the hype, as well as the potential competitors. If LEO satellites do deliver on low latency, I am going to buy lots of popcorn.

• On the post: AT&T, Comcast Dramatically Cut Network Spending Despite Net Neutrality Repeal

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2020 @ 09:31am

  Who would have guessed?!?!?

  Wow, I'm shocked! (/s)

  You mean to tell me that companies will invest less if motivation to invest disappears?

• On the post: Researchers Scientifically Create Video Games To Benefit Cognitive Function

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2020 @ 06:26am

  If I might make a few suggestions

  AC, you might want to get a dictionary. I took a look at four dictionaries before responding, just to make sure that I didn't readily see one that has the sort of confining definition of science that you use. Science as an active body of knowledge is accepted use, and that body of knowledge does serve as an active subject. You might want to get a 'grip' on a couple of other definitions, as well, such as 'grip' versus 'gripe,' and 'riggers' versus 'rigors.' Regards

• On the post: Alexander Vindman Now Threatens Bogus SLAPP Suit Against Fox News & Laura Ingraham

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2019 @ 04:56am

  maybe my favorite sentence from your writing

  >Even if you think that Fox News is terrible (it is), that Ingraham is not to be
  >trusted (she's not), and that her guests are fools (they are), this threat is still
  >completely bogus and silly.

  I really can't say enough how much I like this sentence.

  applause

• On the post: Games Blamed For Moral Decline And Addiction Throughout History

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2019 @ 04:55am

  'addictive'... depends on which definition you use

  Addictive used to mean that withholding a stimulus would put a person's health at risk. However, over the past decades, as 'news' organizations have worked to ever sensationalize, 'addictive' now means anything that a person enjoys doing more than once. The word is so watered down now, though some still associate with the original meaning, that we should just strike it from the dictionary.

• On the post: Unsurprisingly, Ajit Pai's FCC Thinks The T-Mobile Sprint Merger Will Be Wonderful

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 22 May, 2019 @ 09:32am

  free markets

  These bozos don't see the free market that helps us citizens; they're more interested in a free market where they sell their votes and influence to the highest corporate bidders.

• On the post: Chinese Spies Intercepted NSA Malware Attack, Weaponized It Against Targets Around The World

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 09 May, 2019 @ 05:05am

  exploits and backdoors

  This is more proof that encryption backdoors are a brain-dead and stupid idea. If the NSA can't protect their exploits and toolkits, there's no way that they'll keep their keys to our data secure.

• On the post: Auto Finance Company Sues Massachusetts City Over Its Unconstitutional Sale Of Seized Vehicles

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2019 @ 01:54pm

  Hoping for a good popcorn moment!

  Yes, I'm overly optimistic, but I'm hoping that the police department stole from the wrong owner this time. Honda has the deep pockets and a definite interest in making sure that this doesn't set a precedent. I am hoping that they truly unleash the dogs on these larcenous public officials.

• On the post: FCC Accused Of Colluding With Big Carriers On 5G Policy

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2019 @ 07:42am

  adding insult to injury

  So, after the telcos legislatively fight against any sort of competition, they now expect to effectively have local governments subsidize their expenditures. Localities can't even recover implementation costs regarding poles that AT&T has fought hard to keep competitors from using.

• On the post: London Metropolitan Police Deploy Facial Recognition Tech Sporting A 100% Failure Rate

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2018 @ 06:00am

  who makes balaclavas?

  If there is a key balaclava manufacturer, I want to invest now!

• On the post: Study Shows That No, Netflix Isn't Killing Movie Theaters

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2018 @ 09:07am

  Re: 20 $ popcorn and pop is killing movie theatres

  You hit the nail on the head. If drinks and snacks were priced at market value or if they had current movie pricing with cheap tickets, then I'd be fine. However, I feel like overcharging for refreshments on top of current ticket prices is unacceptable, and I wait to see movies after they've left the theater by Redbox or whatever.

• On the post: Big Telecom Wants To Tax Netflix To Pay For Broadband Upgrades ISPs Refuse To Deploy Themselves

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2018 @ 08:28am

  foxes and henhouses

  >A better question might be how many times will we let
  >>them fail to spend the money we give them on what they
  >> are supposed to spend it on?
  
  This will continue until we stop electing officials that sell their votes to the telecoms. Those are same people that are responsible for holding industry accountable, but they're now well-paid to look the other way.

• On the post: How Bike-Sharing Services And Electric Vehicles Are Sending Personal Data To The Chinese Government

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2018 @ 10:55am

  Re: Anonymized and controlled transmissions

  My wife just bought a new car that she really likes, but the bells and whistles bother me a lot. She handed me a key fob for me, and the car senses when the fob is in the car to adjust seat and settings for me. That disturbs me, since the car is connected, acts as a wifi hotspot, and also has a blackbox to track the car's data.
  
  Don't think I'm not aware that just carrying a smartphone means that I'm tracked. I'm not comfortable with it, though I know that the data would (should) just prove that I'm one of the most boring people in the world and clear me if there were ever in the need. Still, we should have some privacy.

• On the post: When A 'Trade War' Involves Seizing And Imprisoning Foreign Execs, It's No Longer Just About Trade

  

  mac insand ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2018 @ 10:02am

  people that throw lots of stones

  From what I've seen, people that throw lots of stones generally live in glass houses; they reveal more about what they do than they do the accused. If someone regularly calls others liars, I've learned to not trust what they say. Some people accuse others of taking their things with no basis, and I know to watch my things carefully around them. Republicans have been screaming election fraud, and we are now learning why election fraud is so heavily on their minds. If the US is working so hard to push the theory that China is putting backdoors and spyware into Huawei's phones, then I want my next phone to be made and manufactured as far from the US as possible.

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