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• On the post: FBI Documents Show More Evidence Of Agency's Sketchy Relationship With Best Buy's Geek Squad

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2018 @ 03:46pm

  Re:

  Exactly.

• On the post: FBI Documents Show More Evidence Of Agency's Sketchy Relationship With Best Buy's Geek Squad

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2018 @ 03:43pm

  Re: Re: Re: double negatives

  I was waiting for this and was satisfied within a minute. lol

• On the post: FBI Documents Show More Evidence Of Agency's Sketchy Relationship With Best Buy's Geek Squad

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2018 @ 03:41pm

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  Yes, it does happen like this, but not to the extent the FBI and repair employees are counting on. Personally, if it was not in the original work order, i would be asking the customer whether they wanted corrupt data recovery and a visual check to see how well that went. (Even for close friends for whom i can correctly assume they don't care and will respond in the affirmative.) Aside from that, would it not be an addition charge for the additional work?

• On the post: FBI Documents Show More Evidence Of Agency's Sketchy Relationship With Best Buy's Geek Squad

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2018 @ 03:33pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  You don't search visually through opened documents looking for an infection, and document corruption does not harm your system.
  
  I have managed, for years, to manually fix what automated tools do not, and then fix the issues caused by the changes an infection caused (including "missing system files" which are neither missing, nor system files) without looking at anyone's personal shit.
  
  I'd be happy to trawl everything on your drives for you next time you need a repair, if you like, but billing depends on how much i have to pointlessly snoop through for you.

• On the post: Top Court Throws Out Corporate Sovereignty For All Trade Deals Within EU; Those Involving Other Nations Likely To Suffer Same Fate

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2018 @ 09:42pm

  I've actually wondered how ISDS determinations are enforceable at all, in the first place. What if the country says go stick it in your ear?

• On the post: Nevada Supreme Court Overturns Lower Court's Abysmal Ruling On Las Vegas Shooting Coroner's Reports

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2018 @ 03:13pm

  Good the higher court was anti-pre-post prior restraint in this ridiculous attempt to keep two news organizations from having information to report which was already in the public domain. What this unknown family was thinking, i don't even

• On the post: Rhode Island Law Would Mandate Porn Filters, Charge You $20 Per Device To Bypass Them

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2018 @ 04:52pm

  Re: Re: If the ".XXX" domain is ever put in place, this'd be trivial "technologically", as you over-syllabalize it?

  Psst. There are no women on the internet. Also, women don't look at porn. Ever.

• On the post: Famous Racist Sues Twitter Claiming It Violates His Civil Rights As A Racist To Be Kicked Off The Platform

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2018 @ 04:40pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: provocative questions...

  In the mentioned Act, also one is a directly paying customer, communicating one-to-one, and the railroads and telegraph are the first way to communicate coast to coast faster than months (or weeks during the short life of the Pony Express).
  
  I would hazard a guess that the section of the Act was mostly directed to limit monopoly powers from hamstringing competition in markets.

• On the post: Nobody (Even His Industry BFFs) Likes Ajit Pai's Latest Attack On Low Income Broadband Programs

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2018 @ 04:07pm

  Re: Re: Moral bankruptcy of Pai

  Yep. So show me a human who isn't an idiot and who will stand for election somewhere. Better, a lot of them.
  
  There ain't no such thing as a free market, and there never was. That's just just a go-to story for egoists and corporations.

• On the post: Comcast Protected Browsing Blocks TorrentFreak, Showing Why Site-Blocking Sucks Out Loud Always

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2018 @ 03:16pm

  Re: Of course you pirates won't admit that Torrent Freak is a PRO-PIRATE site! Oh, they put on better front than Techdirt, but have distorted view of law that always favors piracy, and their weekly "Top 10 Films Pirated" is clearly to promote more.

  Is Torrent Freak pro-infringement? Perhaps. And that is completely irrelevant. The word "torrent"? Also irrelevant.
  
  We are all pirates and pro-infringement? Well OK then. I am glad you know each and every one of us better than we do ourselves, and what we say repeatedly should be ignored i suppose.
  
  Have a nice day.

• On the post: Rhode Island Law Would Mandate Porn Filters, Charge You $20 Per Device To Bypass Them

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2018 @ 04:57pm

  Oh good lord, the porn filter bill is the Human Trafficking Prevention Act. Whiskey Tango Alpha Foxtrot, on approach.

• On the post: Rhode Island Law Would Mandate Porn Filters, Charge You $20 Per Device To Bypass Them

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2018 @ 04:54pm

  Why is this back again? Or perhaps, why did it take a vacation? Hmmm.

• On the post: Famous Racist Sues Twitter Claiming It Violates His Civil Rights As A Racist To Be Kicked Off The Platform

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2018 @ 04:47pm

  _Read that again. The argument is that, in effect, because Twitter has failed to ban similar "left-wing groups" this is discrimination._
  
  Are there similar left wing groups? (There are some to be sure, but again they are more a minority than the white racist groups, who are also apparently right-wing by their own claims here.) Pretty sure the actual counterpart in a sensible argument is, do they kick off other hate extremists like extremists, terrorists, and their sympathizers? They sure as hell do that is they are Muslim or associated with some other "unamerican" polity.

• On the post: Trump Announces One-Sided Plan To Meet With Video Game Makers Over Gun Violence

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2018 @ 05:41pm

  Re: Strong words from clown mis-using: "whipping post = a post to which offenders are tied to be whipped as a legal punishment".

  Going to find me a person
  Going to tie him up
  To the whipping post
  And beat the living shit out of him 'til the guy in the audience is satisfied

• On the post: Angry Pick-Up Artist Says He Won't Issue Bogus YouTube Claim On Critic's Video; Issues Bogus Claim On Critic's Video

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2018 @ 05:31pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Awwww. Did you hunt the mammoth?

• On the post: Mike Godwin's First Essay On Encryption And The Constitution

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2018 @ 05:02pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Why do i suddenly have a Spike Jones tune running through my head?

• On the post: Wireless Carriers, Hardware Companies Use Flimsy IOT Security To Justify Attacks On Right To Repair Laws

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2018 @ 02:10pm

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  They all advertise like they are even remotely cognizant, never mind supportive, of small / family farming. They are not. And there is very little private farming acreage, on the whole.

• On the post: Wireless Carriers, Hardware Companies Use Flimsy IOT Security To Justify Attacks On Right To Repair Laws

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2018 @ 02:06pm

  Re: Re: And yet...

  There is a huge difference, for sure, but your not-driverless car is insecure already.
  
  Giant corporations with insecure products are certainly not fly-by-night, but they are at least partly dodgy. Whether or not you consider some of their devices to be "IoT" or not, they are insecure (possibly by design) and networked. Just, idk - Google, Cisco.
  
  I realize that some of you are arguing against some extreme claims, but you are, at the same instance, making somewhat extreme assumptions yourselves.
  
  Also, driverless cars are not yet in production. That rather tends to change things. Will these cars be magically better than current and historical automobiles?

• On the post: Wall Street Journal Explains Why SESTA Is A Terrible Idea And Is Unnecessary

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2018 @ 01:39pm

  Re: Was that a rhetorical question?

  They may have thought they might get cheap PR points, but that isn't really happening, and it is pretty damn clear by now. Job fail. I guess that goes under "we made so much noise that now we have to follow through even if it is a gunshot to the foot".

• On the post: After Controversial Traffic Stop, Police Chief Says He Won't Release Recordings To 'Anti-Police' Requesters

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2018 @ 01:31pm

  Re: Re:

  When a fair chunk of the things you experience in life are racially motivated, you become suspicious of the rest.
  
  Of course, one could have simply written a ticket and handed it to the driver without all the other opportunistic bullshit, but whatever.

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