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• On the post: Short Sighted Newspaper Association Asks Trump To Whittle Down Fair Use, Because It Hates Google

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2016 @ 09:52am

  Simple solution for Google: "We delist you unless you sign this contract giving us the right to use your headline and a short blurb from every article you post"
  
  Actually, now that I'm thinking about that, Google's name should be the first behind this because it creates such an insane barrier to entry noone would ever be able to compete with them.

• On the post: FBI Investigates Journalist For An Obvious Joke Tweet, Because What The Hell Is Wrong With The FBI?

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2016 @ 08:57am

  Really?

  Considering the how often I hear reports of boxes of votes getting found during a recount (seems like this comes up every year), and the people working at the polling stations are just run-of-the-mill public (at my polling station, I recognised one of the staff, because she's also a waitress at a restaurant I frequent, such is life in a small-town), I don't find following up on someone saying they were tampering with votes to be that bad. This agent got a report of a crime, followed up, and checked it out.
  
  TL;DNR: Good job FBI.

• On the post: Fake News About Fake News Leads To (Fake?) Defamation Threat

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2016 @ 10:17am

  The difference between reality and fiction

  is that fiction has to make sense.

• On the post: Court Case Management Software Upgrade Results In Bogus Felony Convictions, Wrongful Arrests

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2016 @ 09:43am

  Re:

  Seems not to be the case in Tenn.

• On the post: Encryption Survey Indicates Law Enforcement Feels It's Behind The Tech Curve; Is Willing To Create Backdoors To Catch Up

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2016 @ 09:30am

  Re:

  I nominate you to write these things for Italy, You've already got use of the caps lock key down!
  
  (seriously though, I do agree that there is no middle ground here.)

• On the post: Trump Appoints Third Anti-Net Neutrality Advisor To Telecom Transition Team

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2016 @ 03:08pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Finally!

  Are you sure binary thinking isn't on the continuum of the ills of society?

• On the post: China Files A Million Patents In A Year, As Government Plans To Increase Patentability Of Software

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2016 @ 01:17pm

  Re:

  I'm sure Samsung will be happy to donate to build it.

• On the post: Activist Appeals Court Decision Stating Public Has No First Amendment Right To Record In Public Areas

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2016 @ 12:57pm

  "having a 10/22 rifle in his car could result in his summary execution by an officer that felt concerned for his safety by a firearm being in the vehicle and that a jury would acquit the officer of his homicide due to officer safety concerns"
  
  The cop's not wrong. They seem to be able to get away with murder pretty easy.

• On the post: In His Final Days, Obama Quietly Expands War Powers Before Handing Them Off To Trump

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2016 @ 08:02am

  Can he use this to go after the

  damn telemarketers who keep calling me?
  
  (that's only half a joke...)

• On the post: Bill Introduced To Push Back Approval Of DOJ's Proposed Rule 41 Changes

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2016 @ 08:39am

  Re: Re:

  I think you're confused, they are not non-terrorists once proven wrong, just not yet radicalized.

• On the post: MacWorld, PCWorld Kill Site Comments Because They 'Value And Welcome Feedback'

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2016 @ 12:17pm

  Maybe they mean in the sense of a OpAmp wired as a Schmitt Trigger?

• On the post: IRS Demands All Info On All Coinbase Customers

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2016 @ 09:52am

  Re: Re: Badly placed efforts, if you ask me.

  You don't pay a tax on holding it. You do pay a tax when you "sell" it (which is to say, convert it back into recognised currency). You can hold it as long as you want, that's not what incurs a tax burden.

• On the post: NSA Leaked More Hacking Tools, Leading To Calls To Fire Its Director… Who Ran To Trump For Support

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2016 @ 10:00am

  That conflict of interest is actually codified in the NSA charter. The NSA has two mandates, the first is to capture and analyze signals intelligence, but the second is to ensure the security of US transmissions. This has always created a conflict where the NSA would make recommendations about encryption algorithms, and noone would really know which mandate they were working from.

• On the post: IRS Demands All Info On All Coinbase Customers

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2016 @ 09:54am

  I think my lawerly friends have a word for this

  I believe it is referred to as a "fishing expedition." It should be denied.

• On the post: In Rare Win, Man Arrested On Bogus Drug Charges Gets Everything Back, Including $150,000 The Government Really Didn't Want To Give Up

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2016 @ 04:37pm

  Re: Thieves

  It's not making them out to be scumbag thieves; being scumbag thieves is what's doing that!

• On the post: Bug Related To HDCP DRM Is Giving New Playstation PS4 Pro Owners Headaches

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2016 @ 02:02pm

  Re: Mine worked fine

  It's also not just a matter of TV. To paraphrase Michael Keaton's Batman, A PS4p and an LG TV might work, but run it through a nice (but slightly dated) sound system and you get problems.

• On the post: Argentina Orders Telecoms To Create A Permanent Database Of All Mobile Phone Users

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2016 @ 09:42am

  Re: Re:

  Of course you know that US courts have held that having more than one phone is an indication that you are a drug dealer.
  
  Along with using electricity, using heat, having cash, and (in true Michael Palin style) "'e looks like one." If the cops want to say they have a reason for suspecting you of dealing drugs, they're given so much alarming leeway it really doesn't matter.

• On the post: Another Court Says Personal Email Accounts Still Subject To Public Records Requests

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2016 @ 09:27am

  Re: Archival requirements

  If it's subject to records requests, I see no reason it wouldn't be subject to retention laws as well. That it's not getting retained is a problem, but it's a legal problem for the person using the account.
  
  (IANAL)

• On the post: Trump Transition Website Has Some Copyright Problems — Both In Copying Content & In Claiming Copyright

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2016 @ 04:12pm

  Re:

  Even you accept that copying in this instance is okay, turning around and claiming you have copyright on it is not.
  
  There's no two bones about it; when the little people get the book tossed at them harder than rape for making an image which is vaguely similar to another, the ruling elite shouldn't get off with a slap on the wrist for it. Not the left, right, or middle.

• On the post: Will Cutting Off Ads From Google & Facebook Really Stop Fake News?

  

  oninoshiko ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2016 @ 03:50pm

  Re: Re: The Onion

  While the OP may have written in jest, like any great joke, it hides a kernel of truth.
  
  The question is, is that distinction one that Facebook and Google('s algorithms?) will properly make? How about other less well known satirical sites? What about satirical columns in "conventional news" sites? Back to the Onion, what about the Onion's "AV Club" (which is actually legit (entertainment) news/reviews)?
  
  As to making every attempt to appear legit and being mistaken for legitimate news: the Onion has always had a similar format as legitimate papers, and ends up getting mistaken for one multiple times every year.

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