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  • On the post: Shipyard Brewing Sues The Brewery It Is Trademark Bullying Over The Public Backlash To Its Trademark Bullying

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2018 @ 08:22am

    So... let's file a defamation claim by making a defamatory claim. Good job.

  • On the post: Blackburn Doubles Down On A Decade Of Lies As She Pushes Fake Net Neutrality Law

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2018 @ 10:24am

    Even if broadband investment had decreased at all, it would have only been the ISPs "taking their ball and going home". They are 20 years behind in their investment anyway, and just pocket all the subsidies.

  • On the post: Media Freaks Out About Facebook Changes; Maybe They Shouldn't Have Become So Reliant On Facebook

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2018 @ 10:05am

    The only downside i see is people have to like/comment/share anything to prioritize getting it into their feeds. Or does this not apply to accounts one is following? (And if not, how was it in the feed in the first place?) It seems "see first" still functions, but ok whatever. Don't forget to like and subscribe. *barf*

    Was only ever begrudgingly at FB for a short while, and they seem to change everything every few weeks anyway, so i am not sure my comment here has any validity anyway.

  • On the post: Senate To Vote Tuesday On Surveillance Bill; Four Senators Try To Rally Others To Oppose

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2018 @ 10:20am

    Re: Re: Re: Perversion in Politics (and no, this has nothing to do with sex)

    Select a pool of candidates like a draft. Idk. It may be too late for now.

  • On the post: Senator Portman Promises To Pass Bills To Harm Tech Companies If They Won't Support SESTA

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2018 @ 10:07am

    Re: Re: If SESTA passes

    I thought it was the walkway up to someone's house or something.

  • On the post: Senator Portman Promises To Pass Bills To Harm Tech Companies If They Won't Support SESTA

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2018 @ 10:03am

    Re: Re: I want to appologize to everyone...

    The point is about sitting Senators, not those who have been a Senator at some time.

  • On the post: Trump Doesn't Understand Surveillance Powers; House Votes To Give Him More Of It

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2018 @ 08:41am

    Re: Re: Trump Thinks Live Tweeting Fox News is His Job

    They already got used to that during Bush II.

  • On the post: FTC Takes Down Another Revenge Porn Site

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2018 @ 08:33am

    Re: Hey, maybe FTC is becoming active!

    Trump's agenda is... Trump.

    I'm surprised the FTC had enough funding to do it. Uh, activist government? Whatever. But the FTC is the Deep State. OK then.

  • On the post: FTC Takes Down Another Revenge Porn Site

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2018 @ 08:29am

    Re:

    LAAAAWWWRRRS!

  • On the post: FTC Takes Down Another Revenge Porn Site

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2018 @ 08:27am

    Re: Re: Re: If this didn't "undermine Section 230 immunity" it's because that isn't absolute as TD claims!

    Except 230 doesn't protect, and hasn't protected anyone, including Backpage operators, from being prosecuted for crimes they actually or allegedly committed.

    You still have no point here, and neither techdirt nor anyone else supporting the existence of Section 230 reversed on anything. Why would 230 protect those who run a site as a criminal enterprise? The answer is: It doesn't. But when your personal theory, which is yours, claims that we all just want to support criminals (because, you know, reasons), you have nothing else to make an argument with. All you can do is rinse and repeat.

  • On the post: Appeals Court OKs F-Bombs For Federal Trademark Protection

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2018 @ 08:05am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Children

    While many people don't care, there is a difference between "bitch" and "fuck" or "shit".

    Fine ham abounds.

  • On the post: Appeals Court OKs F-Bombs For Federal Trademark Protection

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2018 @ 08:00am

    Re: The movie "Idiocracy" was wildly optimistic that will take 500 years to undo civilization.

    Civilization has always been barbarous. But i don't know how this relates to being able to register a mark with "fuck" or something in it. The marks mean nothing other than you can now avoid the company based on it expressing its true self, if you like, without fear of someone else copying their mark.

  • On the post: FBI Says Device Encryption Is 'Evil' And A Threat To Public Safety

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2018 @ 07:16am

    Re:

    The FBI would have us give up our Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights to gain a little security Except it never provides even a little more security. (In their universe, however, 10 people die every day for every phone they can't unlock or contents they can't decrypt. Still waiting for that claim...)

  • On the post: FBI Says Device Encryption Is 'Evil' And A Threat To Public Safety

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2018 @ 06:59am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: With 'friends' like these...

    This, exactly.

  • On the post: Chinese Internet Users Start To Rebel Against Lack Of Online Privacy

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2018 @ 06:27am

    Re: Re: We are right there with them

    True, but on the flip side of that, most traffic isn't unique. They only have to store content of interest once as a reference for anyone accessing it. (Including automatically displayed detritus like ads and decorations.) Sending text in one form or another is even smaller. Sure, individual audio/video communication is heavier, but that seems to be the most interesting to them in the first place. Not saying they do this, but avoiding storage of the same thing a million times is certainly possible, and reduces that 100 petabytes a month significantly. (Filtering spam and junk traffic, which makes up a significant portion of our PB/mo, would reduce storage even further.) Pretty sure the 100 PB figure also includes all the packet headers and other discardable overhead. You only need one copy of the endpoint IPs.

    It's still an insane amount of data, but nowhere near 100 PB/mo for storage. Not that it makes the original claim a lot more realistic. Currently.

    But the vacuum it all approach should have them in some deep copyright shit, technically, given the standard "bits were touched / duplicated" arguments made.

  • On the post: Shareholder Groups Say Apple Should Do More To Address Gadget 'Addiction' Among Young People: Should It?

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2018 @ 07:49am

    Wonder what they have to say about automobile addiction, working long hours for low pay addiction, addiction to reading books, addiction to proper medical services... idk, you name it.

    Professor Twenge's research shows that U.S. teenagers who spend 3 hours a day or more on electronic devices are 35% more likely, and those who spend 5 hours or more are 71% more likely, to have a risk factor for suicide than those who spend less than 1 hour.

    Honestly, what does this even mean, and who the hell is your control population? And is it considered that the correlation (never mind any claim of causation) is bass ackwards? Although i suppose exposure to people everywhere, leading to the realization that it isn't just your local population who may make you doubt humanity sometimes, could increase the likelihood that you develop a trait that someone considers a "risk factor for suicide". On the other hand, it could be a helpful realization. Sounds like a lot of shoehorning, cherry-picking, and unwarranted conclusions to me, though. (From all the citations, not just the pop-psych Twenge reference.)

    Oh, and JANA. Who ruined CNET Networks and drove them into the arms of CBSi. Thanks guys.

    On the other hand, good parental controls should have been a thing 15 years ago. Hell, applying any kinds of policies on your own devices and network should have been a thing. Control of, and access to the inner workings of your own device should be a thing. I just don't buy their story or "evidence". CSTRS, sure, I buy that they believe it.

  • On the post: FBI Says Device Encryption Is 'Evil' And A Threat To Public Safety

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2018 @ 07:10am

    At what point do they thank tech companies for getting people to put so much personal information in one or two devices in the first place, and storing it in the warrant-accessible cloud, and transmitting over far more capturable media than whispering in the park or making phone calls from unforeseen locations?

    I think the few phones they can't crack is hardly an issue. That they make it one belies their true intents, mainly the grab for more more power (encryption, then the next thing, then the next), and having something to harp on repeatedly to use as an excuse for their next failure to stop some sort of incident (whether it is something reasonably stop-able or not).

    Funny i never see complaints about encrypted desktops and laptops.

  • On the post: Scammy Lawyer Award Company Sends C&D To Website For Pointing Out Its Scammy Behavior

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2018 @ 06:38am

    emanate

    This sounds hilariously Platonic here.

    The "top 10%" designation means nothing,

    Some people will know to turn and walk away from an office displaying these plaques or crystals.

  • On the post: Dennis Prager Seeks Injunction To Keep YouTube From Administering Its Own Site While YouTube Seeks Dismissal

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2018 @ 04:40am

    _Defendants 'have more power over free speech and privacy than any president, king, or Supreme Court justice,'" _

    Well sure. No king, president, or judge ever gave you a novel medium and distribution method over which to communicate your thoughts, did they? Claiming they have more negative power over speech than any PTB is simply a hoot.

  • On the post: This Week In Techdirt History: December 31st – January 6th

    orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2018 @ 08:57am

    Re:

    Yeah, my time-dilation hope were raised and dashed yet again.

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