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• On the post: Rancher Sues CBP After Officers Install A Camera On His Private Property

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2018 @ 09:15am

  Re: Wait a minute...a camera?

  Idiocy, intimidation, or both.

• On the post: Rancher Sues CBP After Officers Install A Camera On His Private Property

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2018 @ 09:12am

  Re: Restricted-rights zones at borders

  No such exclusive zones were established back when this country was being founded That would have made it difficult to continually colonize both First Nations territories, and those of other European-derived countries, by using the Manifest Destiny-driven bait and cannon fodder that was us. We were the exclusionary (or excuse-ionary) zone.

• On the post: Rancher Sues CBP After Officers Install A Camera On His Private Property

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2018 @ 09:06am

  Re: Re: What right has the government

  Yes, we are all completely mystified by fear and authoritarianism. How does it work?

• On the post: Charter Spectrum Fails To Wiggle Out From Under State Lawsuit For Crappy Service

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2018 @ 08:44am

  The FCC repealing NN rules means no one can hold us accountable for anything, ever.
  
  Nice try. Unfortunately, this sort of game works all too often.

• On the post: Game Studio Threatens Employees' Jobs If They Don't Write Positive Reviews Of Own Game, Then Steam Pulls Game Entirely

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2018 @ 07:07am

  Re:

  dafuq lol

• On the post: Disney's Stupid Lawsuit Against Redbox Results In Judge Saying Disney Is Engaged In Copyright Misuse

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2018 @ 03:23pm

  Re:

  Ah hahaha. The crusade regarding the mouse has always been to free him from his evil stepmother. People are upset with the witch's special magically growing privileges, they love the mouse.
  
  Techdirt writes plenty on YouTube, heck, a post on that subject might even be in the publishing queue. Good way to suggest a topic and make your stupid implications.

• On the post: Court Destroys Future Public Art Installations By Holding Building Owner Liable For Destroying This One

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2018 @ 02:44pm

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  I was thinking along the lines of, the artists may preserve their work by paying for special demolition to remove to another location the walls, at their own expense, and compensating any additional demolition costs that would impose on the property owner.

• On the post: Trump Blames School Shootings On Violent Video Games, Movies; Suggests We Need Some Sort Of Rating System For Them

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2018 @ 03:01pm

  I just don't know from where in our society anyone gets the idea that it's ok to kill people who caused you problems, along with 10x collateral damage. Surely, the US Weekly School Shooter must get their mindset from video games or jazz or something. Maybe it's weed.

• On the post: Ubisoft Perma-Bans Creator Of Cool, Non-Cheating Tool For 'The Division' Because It Was Made With Cheating Software

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2018 @ 06:04pm

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  The "Cheat Engine" in question is basically an application for reading and searching what is in RAM. It's actually a general tool that can be used for anything involving poking at what is stored in memory. One would not "use it in" another program as such, yeah. This guy used it to find the camera (and some other) controls, apparently.
  
  He didn't get permabanned from 21 other games... but sure, if it were me, i would have considered how the tool might be abused. If i were Ubisoft, i would have considered other options first, even if i didn't like the camera tool beside the claim that it could be used as an in-game spy-god.

• On the post: Germany's Speech Laws Continue To Be A Raging Dumpster Fire Of Censorial Stupidity

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2018 @ 04:40pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Or a good faith claim that it was a mistake or whatever.
  
  But then, the concept of good faith has been so thoroughly bastardized as to make no difference whatsoever anyway.

• On the post: Germany's Speech Laws Continue To Be A Raging Dumpster Fire Of Censorial Stupidity

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2018 @ 04:36pm

  Re: Re: Techdirt is jeering how difficult reform is. You drug addicts know detox is painful. Society should have never "liberalized". Nor should "the economy" have been turned over to central bankers. ALL these bad results were entirely predicted!

  Actually sometime i have to wonder what definition of "liberal" someone is using, and whether it is something they just made up themselves without bothering to verbally define it.

• On the post: More Than Half Of U.S. States Now Pushing Their Own Net Neutrality Rules

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2018 @ 04:31pm

  Re: In these cases the global nature of the internet is irrelevant…

  Corporations are incorporated in a specific jurisdiction, so no.

• On the post: France Says 'No' To Company Hack-Backs Following Online Attacks — But Wants To Keep The Option Open For Itself

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2018 @ 04:26pm

  Re: mistaken hackbacks

  This, exactly. Or claimed mistaken hackbacks. Or claims there were hacks to hack back against.
  
  Having the concept so formed, it makes it easier to think of doing it, and doing it faster than actual evidence can be produced.
  
  They were stockpiling weaponized hacks, and moving them around so no one could find them, i swear.

• On the post: France Says 'No' To Company Hack-Backs Following Online Attacks — But Wants To Keep The Option Open For Itself

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2018 @ 04:21pm

  Re: "subverting nations" -- Yup, as predicted you Techdirt clowns are ACTUALLY claiming that 13 Russians with a couple million bucks swayed the election! -- You pack a lot of lies into few words, you low-profile foreign influencer, YOU.

  Yeah it was just those thirteen, and yeah, they totally swayed the election. @@
  
  God, i hope there are communists somewhere, that would be great for all sorts of reasons.

• On the post: EU Publishers Acknowledge Snippet Tax Concerns, But Say: 'It's OK, You Can Trust Us'

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2018 @ 02:25pm

  Now can we demand payment from "publishers" who quote us or what. This should work equally for everyone.

• On the post: Inspector General For Intelligence Community Buried Report Showing Whistleblower Retaliation

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2018 @ 02:16pm

  Seems like the usual suck has been upgraded. Of course, the mere fact that pointing out something wrong is being a "whistleblower" frames everything in a bad way in the first place.

• On the post: Facebook 'Security': A New VPN That's Spyware And Two-Factor Authentication That Spams You

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2018 @ 02:04pm

  Re: Re:

  For sure, there will be people you simply lose if you don't use FB, even though they hate it too, getting them on a reasonable messaging client like Threema is akin to pulling teeth since they have to use FB for other stuff anyway. In some situations, it is outright required by school or work.

• On the post: Facebook 'Security': A New VPN That's Spyware And Two-Factor Authentication That Spams You

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2018 @ 12:39pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Kind of like Zuckerberg?

• On the post: NSA Exploit Now Powering Cryptocurrency Mining Malware

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2018 @ 12:31pm

  Re: Phew!

  The NSA didn't writer the miner...

• On the post: FCC Broadband Availability Data Derided As Inaccurate, 'Shameful'

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2018 @ 12:22pm

  Re: Re:

  You mean Verizon stopped suspending poles from wires in your neighborhood? Geez, they really are getting cheap.

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