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• On the post: Verizon Begins Locking Down Its Phones Again, Purportedly To 'Stop Theft'

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2018 @ 01:29pm

  Re: Will it even stop theft?

  Sure. No one will ever again take another person's phone. Because maaaaagic.

• On the post: Smart Meter Company Landis+Gyr Now Using Copyright To Try To Hide Public Records

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2018 @ 01:35pm

  Any company doing business with government in such a manner should expect it's relevant records to be public, as should we all. This is ridiculous.

• On the post: Georgia Senate Thinks It Can Fix Its Election Security Issues By Criminalizing Password Sharing, Security Research

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2018 @ 01:20pm

  _“one of only three states in the nation where it is not illegal to access a computer, so long as nothing is disrupted or stolen. This doesn’t make any sense. Unlawfully accessing any computer in Georgia should be a crime, and we must fix this loophole."_
  
  That is circular as hell.

• On the post: How We Got To The Point That Hollywood Is Trying To Attack The Internet Via NAFTA

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2018 @ 11:24am

  Re: Your next-to-last paragraph simply lies that "knowledge" and "information" are same as entertainments. They are not. You are claiming "public good" will result from changing current copyright balance. It will not. You are claiming that copyright holde

  Then the authors should have that right, and it should be non-transferrable. And not forever. It should be reduced to the original term. And it should not be automatic, for people who don't want that.
  
  Mike has no problem with copyright as far as i know, but he has some problems with the current implementations and gatekeeping organizations, as do many people. Including artists who never get their cut from collection societies.
  
  Your bullshit claims are transparent.

• On the post: More Than 4,000 Government Websites Infected With Covert Cryptocurrency Miner

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2018 @ 12:46pm

  Yeah, i'll take the ads.

• On the post: White Paper Points Out Just How Irresponsible 'Responsible Encryption' Is

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2018 @ 10:33am

  these solutions "don't scale."

  They should never scale.

• On the post: Camera Makers Still Showing Zero Interest In Protecting Users With Built-In Encryption

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2018 @ 06:33am

  Roadmap: Not dealing with decryption requests from LEOs. Done.

• On the post: Will Cy Vance's Anti-Encryption Pitch Change Now That The NYPD's Using iPhones?

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2018 @ 12:38pm

  Re: Re: Double Standards

  They would just want their phones with a special OS that has real encryption, while everyone else has to buy their phones with brokencryption.

• On the post: Hollywood Has Some Wild Ideas For Copyright In NAFTA

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2018 @ 06:32pm

  Re:

  Food luck with that.

• On the post: Washington's Growing AI Anxiety

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2018 @ 02:27pm

  Re: Re:

  But the stupid legislation inspired by such movies is no joke.

• On the post: Mike Godwin Remembers John Perry Barlow

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2018 @ 07:56am

  Re:

  So expected that you mentioned it in the first paragraph?
  
  Maybe it's just me, but i find a good way to describe another human being is by showing how they changed your life. Otherwise you get crappy second-grade history book-type litanies of facts or the stupid sort of eulogy where one arrogantly speaks for everyone else.

• On the post: An English-Language, Algorithmically-Personalized News Aggregator, Based In China — What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2018 @ 07:47am

  Re:

  There's "fake news", and then there's the Weekly World News.

• On the post: Techdirt, Volokh Conspiracy Targeted With Bogus Defamation Claim For Publishing A Bunch Of Facts

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2018 @ 07:45am

  Re: Re: trump card

  _a Mille Bornes "Out of Gas"_
  
  Eventually crevé!, also.

• On the post: ESPN Still Isn't Quite Getting The Message Cord Cutters Are Sending

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2018 @ 07:40am

  Re: Techdirt with lame topics spaced 3 hours apart yet presumes to advise multi-billion ESPN: "ur doin' it all rong!"

  Lol, cost of housing is not news for the Bay Area. Sucks when the previous gentry get out-gentrified, doesn't it? And i am sure the whole state will weep when that anti-"sanctuary" person up and leaves. Waa.

• On the post: Mike Godwin Remembers John Perry Barlow

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2018 @ 01:50pm

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  I know, right? He talked about other non-Barlow people too. What a jerk.

• On the post: The Nunes Memo Has Effectively Destroyed Intelligence Oversight

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2018 @ 11:45am

  Re: Re:

  Nah. It was like a perfect gallery call after reading though everything else.

• On the post: The Nunes Memo Has Effectively Destroyed Intelligence Oversight

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2018 @ 11:44am

  Re: Reading legal documents

  And this guy is a legislator...

• On the post: Director Of Thor: Ragnarok Pirated Clips For His Sizzle Reel

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2018 @ 07:43am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fair use?

  Certainly. And as you note, fair use isn't a factor if obtaining content in an infringing manner,regardless of the protocol used in transferring packets.

• On the post: Director Of Thor: Ragnarok Pirated Clips For His Sizzle Reel

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2018 @ 07:01am

  Re: Re: Re: Fair use?

  The fact that Waititi thought it was illicit or infringing says something, though.

• On the post: Director Of Thor: Ragnarok Pirated Clips For His Sizzle Reel

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2018 @ 06:58am

  Re:

  It was based on stories from Assistant Editors Month.

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