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  • On the post: Insanity Wins As Appeals Court Overturns Google's Fair Use Victory For Java APIs

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2018 @ 11:07am

    Easy way to solve this...

    Give the CAFC all the documentation on the API.
    Let them ask as many questions as they'd like.
    Let them have access to Oracle programmers.

    Ask them to write a bit of code, using only the API, and then try to do something with it.

    No other languages/editors/IDEs/programming environments.
    Just API lines written in a text editor, saved as a file.

    Try to run the API program using only the API.

  • On the post: Terrified Of Losing In Court, ISPs (With Senator John Kennedy's Help) Push Hard For A Fake Net Neutrality Law

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2018 @ 08:56am

    I think I've figured it out...

    The FBI director is borrowing a page from the cellular industry and their re-definition of the term "unlimited" to mean "all sorts of limits and restrictions".

    He's redefining "strong encryption" and "security" to mean "weak encryption" and "insecurity".

    Just like the cellular industry, he's just not telling us that that is what he is doing.

  • On the post: Rhode Island Legislator Proposes A Tax On Video Games Based On Existing Entirely Voluntary Ratings System

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2018 @ 07:38am

    Thus, we're hit with another reminder of the axiom...

    The opposite of "Progress" is "Congress"...

  • On the post: FCC Boss 'Jokes' About Being A 'Verizon Puppet' At Tone Deaf Industry Gala

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2017 @ 06:04pm

    Re: Re: Verizon and Pai handed every state everything they needed to shut them down, shut them down hard!!!

    When it is a multitude of telecom, cable and other industry giants, all doing the same thing to get the same illegal action pushed through, it damned well IS RICO.

    Working together for the same criminal results, equals RICO act violation.

  • On the post: NY Attorney General Finds 2 Million Fake FCC Net Neutrality Comments

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2017 @ 06:01pm

    Pai is intentionally impeding an active criminal investigation...

    That's a criminal offense.
    The fact that he's doing it from across state lines makes it a Federal crime.
    He's just removed himself from office hasn't he? By making himself a federal criminal, most likely a felony charge, he'll have to be taken off to prison, which means he won't be able to run the office.
    Once all the details come to light, I am certain that those details will show criminal culpability in the "supposed" repeal of Net Neutrality that has been a complete sham from day one. Falsifying reports to congress, refusing to cooperate with State and Federal investigations. Stonewalling / impeding State and Federal criminal investigations, while laughing about it, and even detailing his crimes openly "as a joke".

    Pai is a bigger buffoon than I took him for. I took him for a slut for hire by the telecom/cable/internet industry giants. Now, it appears, that he's not just a slut, but a hitman for hire. His attempt at assassinating net-neutrality, openly laughing at the "rabble" while doing so... What an idiot...

  • On the post: FCC Boss 'Jokes' About Being A 'Verizon Puppet' At Tone Deaf Industry Gala

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 11 Dec, 2017 @ 08:11pm

    Verizon and Pai handed every state everything they needed to shut them down, shut them down hard!!!

    Way to go Team V...

    Every state AG will be penning out arrest warrants and asset seizures taking everything away from Pai and Verizon for their racketeering, collusion, RICO violations, any and every little charge that can be found and applied, will be applied, by the states.

    All of those state Senators and Representatives that have been holding their asses open for the Telecom industry will be squeezing things off at the base, pretty much assuring that their collective schlongs will require amputation and cauterization.


    Big V and Pai will have NO power after the states attorneys arrest those state level congress critters caught with their hands, mouths and asses on the remains of the Telecom industry's vestigial sexual organs.

    That our Federal level senators and representatives will be caught in the light doing what they've done best, fluffing and tweaking to keep the industry leaders hard in their respective place is riotously funny.

  • On the post: FCC Releases Net Neutrality Killing Order, Hopes You're Too Busy Cooking Turkey To Read It

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 25 Nov, 2017 @ 11:53pm

    Re: Specific Examples Where Net Neutrality Stopped or Slowed Innovation from ISPs

    < crickets... >

  • On the post: DHS Trying To Bury Report Showing Violations Of Travel Ban Court Orders By CBP Officers

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 25 Nov, 2017 @ 11:59pm

    If I were the IG, I'd say "Fuck Em All! Release the report!"

    'Nuff Said!

  • On the post: Reporter Arrested, Thrown To The Ground For Cursing

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2017 @ 09:16pm

    Looking forward to the civil rights violations case..

    Wonder how many of those cops will end up in prison? I'm hoping every last one of them. In my own personal opinion, those "bozos" (sorry bozos for the insult) deserve a minimum of 10 to 15 years, and preferably served @ Gitmo for their constitutional terrorism!!

  • On the post: Verizon Lobbies FCC To Block States From Protecting Broadband Privacy, Net Neutrality

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2017 @ 09:09pm

    In other words. 'Verizon orders trojan horse to attack!!"

    The Trojan horse was readily allowed inside the castle, waiting impatiently, got bored acted in bad faith on its own a few times, but finally, Verizon sent the signal, the attack on the Internet escalates per Verizon's marching orders to Ajit Pai.

  • On the post: Google Pulls YouTube From Amazon Echo: All About Control Or Just More Corporation On Corporation Violence?

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2017 @ 02:26pm

    Re:

    Knee-jerk to return the favor that Amazon has done for years?

    Amazon is lucky Google just doesn't pull the plug on everything Amazon. Amazon's hardware and service offerings would plummet.

  • On the post: Google Pulls YouTube From Amazon Echo: All About Control Or Just More Corporation On Corporation Violence?

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2017 @ 02:24pm

    Re: Re: I'm with Google here

    The fault lies squarely upon Amazon.

    I really wish Google would turn off all their services on Amazon products.

    Sorry Alexa, you can't use Google search to find your answers anymore, and Bing just doesn't cut it.
    Perhaps you can resurrect AskJeeves or something similar.

  • On the post: Google Pulls YouTube From Amazon Echo: All About Control Or Just More Corporation On Corporation Violence?

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2017 @ 02:45pm

    Re: Do unto others as they have done unto you...

    http://chromecasthelp.net/

    That link gives info on what Google Chromecast users have to do to get Amazon Prime content to display on Chromecast.

    Requires another device running Chrome browser and "cast to" Chrome App.

    So yeah, Amazon did it first, Google just decided to reciprocate after Amazon released their product.

    I'd love it if Google extended that prohibition to all Amazon hardware.

  • On the post: Google Pulls YouTube From Amazon Echo: All About Control Or Just More Corporation On Corporation Violence?

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2017 @ 02:41pm

    Do unto others as they have done unto you...

    Ever notice that you can't get Amazon content on Google Chromecast?

    That was strictly Amazon playing hard ball demanding that Google give them preferential placement on Google's hardware, which obviously Google wasn't going to do.

    Perhaps Amazon will learn to play well with others after this.

  • On the post: Three Thoughts On EU's $2.7 Billion Antitrust Google Fine

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2017 @ 12:10pm

    Google does NOT have a monopoly.

    Google doesn't control it's place in the online search and advertising industries.

    Let me re-state that as it's crucial to this case.

    Google does NOT have a monopoly, and they do not control their position in the global online search and advertising industries.

    What Google does have, are the hearts and minds of hundreds of millions, if not billions of users world wide.

    All of these users choosing to use Google's services pushed Google's search and advertising businesses to the top of the market, but that is NOT something that is under Google's control.

    What that means is that the EU is fining Google because of the actions of other people.

    Google cannot be accused of abusing a market position that is outside of their control.

    If the EU doesn't like Google being top dog in online search and advertising, all they have to do is build a better search engine and build a better advertising business and promote them to people globally and if they truly are better, the people will flock to them.

    Trying to blame Google for abusing a position that they themselves cannot control makes the EU court system a laughing stock to the rest of the world.

  • On the post: Colorado Voters Will Get A Chance To Prevent Preteens From Using Smartphones

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2017 @ 10:54am

    Re: Re: Colorado Voters have always had that ability.

    That's a fallacy. It's an attempt to use the law to do a parent's job.

    It's a decision for the parents as to whether or not their child is responsible enough to have a phone.

    There's also the safety issue, parents may get "dumb phones" instead of smart phones so that their child can communicate with them if something happens.

    That law would prevent that communication and could cause direct harm to a child that might otherwise been able to reach out to their parent to get out of a dangerous situation.

    If I were a parent in Co, and something happened to my child because of that law, I'd sue the state for their next 10 year's budget.

  • On the post: Colorado Voters Will Get A Chance To Prevent Preteens From Using Smartphones

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2017 @ 09:07am

    Colorado Voters have always had that ability.

    It's called parenting.

    If a parent cannot, or will not take charge of their child's development and emplace appropriate limits on device usage, passing a law isn't going to improve anything.

    All that passing this law will do is criminalize the actions or lack of actions on the part of parents who are indifferent to their childrens' wellbeing.

  • On the post: Congress Getting Pissed Off Over Failure Of Intel Community To Reveal How Many Americans Are Being Spied On

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2017 @ 01:00pm

    Easy Fix...

    Until such time as the NSA delivers the numbers, and they've been validated by an international human rights organization, suspend 702, do not renew, in fact, kill off the entire Patriot Act as that in and of itself is unconstitutional.

  • On the post: It's Time For The FCC To Actually Listen: The Vast Majority Of FCC Commenters Support Net Neutrality

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 17 May, 2017 @ 02:45pm

    Send Ajit the pre-cursor for the lawsuit he'll be facing if he dismantles net-neutrality...

    Class action lawsuit filed against him personally for the damage reversing the rules will cause, fiscal as well as physical.

    When faced with over three hundred and twenty million litigants against his personal finances, he'll back down in about 0.6 seconds. For an android, that is nearly an eternity.

  • On the post: Magical Cop Detects Drugs Better Than Blood Tests; Continues To Lock Innocent People Up

    Larry Becke ( profile ), 17 May, 2017 @ 02:33pm

    Undercover Fed is what's needed.

    Have an Undercover fed drive around "suspiciously", until the "drug detection god" falls for the bait.

    Then, when he's about to make his "arrest", boom, feds swarm in, slam him into the ground, slap the cuffs on him and take him away for a one way trip to Gitmo for life.

    I figure if the "police officer" can't bother to follow the law, and makes false arrests as well as falsifying police reports, then he can just get sent somewhere to sit and rot for the rest of his life.

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