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  • On the post: Judge Upholds Texas’ Ban Of TikTok On State-Owned Devices

    pjcamp ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2023 @ 04:06pm

    While there are some intolerant progressives...

    ... the culture war is a Republican creation pursued by Republican politicians to separate people from their economic interests. The progressive equivalent is cancel culture, not social media bans.

  • On the post: Judge Upholds Texas’ Ban Of TikTok On State-Owned Devices

    pjcamp ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2023 @ 04:04pm

    Please do pay attention

    "the Texas ban of TikTok on state-owned devices and at state institutions" Students may be surprised to learn that when they use their personal devices at a state institution they are using the state owned wifi network.

  • On the post: Judge Upholds Texas’ Ban Of TikTok On State-Owned Devices

    pjcamp ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2023 @ 04:02pm

    I don't think you understand what a bill of attainder is

    Try here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder Bills of attainder are legislatively determined criminal punishment without benefit of trial, usually because the trial would likely come out the wrong way. Not being able to put your app on someone's phone is not a criminal punishment. You've not been sent to prison nor has your property been taken from you. It MIGHT be a First Amendment violation but I doubt it. Even if it were, that would be a civil, not criminal, issue.

  • On the post: Streaming TV Prices Double As ‘Enshittification’ Takes Root, Likely Driving Users Back To Piracy

    pjcamp ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2023 @ 10:34am

    Well THAT'S not true

    "... there’s absolutely zero indication that anybody in the video entertainment industry learned anything from experience." They learned two of the most important things. If people have no choices, you can charge whatever you want. Similarly, you can cut service and people may complain but what are they going to do? TL;DR: They learned that monopolies are lovely things.

  • On the post: Google Fiber Back From The Dead, Unveils 20 Gbps Fiber

    pjcamp ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2023 @ 02:21pm

    Google Fiber Back From The Dead

    Prove it. I live in a city Google Fiber "expanded" to over a decade ago. It is still most notable by the complete inability to get it anywhere in town. They even closed their little fiber store. I guess it made them sad to tell everyone who walked through the door that they couldn't have it. Google Fiber is and always has been fiber to the press release, not to the home.

  • On the post: Judge Dismisses Most Of The First Of The Many ‘How Dare AI Train On My Material’ Lawsuits

    pjcamp ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2023 @ 10:26am

    You don't have to register to have a copyright

    Anything you write is copyrighted when you write it. But if you're going to go to court, you generally have to prove when you wrote it. Registration is a convenient way to do that. But there is also the "poor man's registration" -- put your document in a sealed envelope and mail it to yourself. The postmark then has a date on it.

  • On the post: Netflix’s Idea Of Innovation: Two Big Price Hikes In A Row

    pjcamp ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2023 @ 09:58am

    I dunno

    I think they're trying to force everyone into ads.

  • On the post: The Enshittification Of Streaming Accelerates With Price Hikes, More Password Sharing Crackdowns

    pjcamp ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2023 @ 11:18am

    It's the new Gilded Age

    How long did that take to unwind? 40 years?

  • On the post: Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It

    pjcamp ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2023 @ 04:26pm

    Taibbi used to have a brain

    But I think he left it in a bar somewhere. Maybe one of those Tile things would be in order.

  • On the post: Biden FCC, Like Trump FCC, Spends A Disproportionate Amount Of Time Hyperventilating About China

    pjcamp ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2023 @ 10:04am

    It isn't "Biden-controlled"

    Yeah. So about that. Biden's FCC nominee has been stuck in Chuck Schumer nomination hell for two years. Because, let's face it, if any Democrat will do whatever business wants, that Democrat is Schumer. And business does not want to see net neutrality return, business does not want consolidation to slow down, business does not want to be made to produce accurate broadband maps . . . name the regulation of your choice and business does not want it to happen. Biden seems to have no interest in making Schumer hold a confirmation vote or in telling Democratic senators that this is the nominee and they will vote for her if they ever expect anything for their state in the future. So the only thing commissioners have been able to do for two years is shoot their mouths off. If you are a reporter covering the FCC, that is the only thing you have to write about.

  • On the post: The Electric Car Could Finally Put AM Radio Out To Pasture

    pjcamp ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2022 @ 12:25pm

    There's AM radio?

    Last time I was on AM radio (which admittedly was a VERY long time ago), it was a wasteland of shouting ghosts darkly warning about Clinton conspiracies while hawking survival buckets and gold coins. Since that audience believes climate change doesn't exist and that God will put more oil in the ground as needed, I don't see this as having any particular impact.

  • On the post: Musk’s Starlink Says It’s ‘Unfair’ The FCC Pulled $886 Million In Subsidies Musk Claims He Doesn’t Want Anyway

    pjcamp ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2022 @ 12:27pm

    You missed the point

    Neither this article nor the FCC have complained about Starlink's potential ability to serve remote areas. In fact, Jessica Rosenworcel specifically applauded that. The point is that Starlink cannot do so at a low cost, which is the whole point of this fund. That Starlink tried to game the system by promising to service stupid places like the middle of highways. That Starlink cannot currently service 800,000 people with anything anyone would describe as broadband, let alone 20 million. That in exchange for this iffy service, Starlink wants an outsized portion of the money available. I get it. Satellites are expensive. It would be nice to be subsidized. But that doesn't mean you deserve to be subsidized. And those points have nothing at all to do with "hating Musk."

  • On the post: Elon Musk Demonstrates How Little He Understands About Content Moderation

    pjcamp ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2022 @ 08:35am

    Everyone ignorant is an expert

    The Dunning-Kreuger effect example ... I dunno ... 10,000?

  • On the post: Satellite Broadband Options Like Starlink Shouldn’t Be Getting Precious Broadband Subsidies

    pjcamp ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2022 @ 07:45am

    not every noun ending in s is plural

    Physics is a good example.

  • On the post: AT&T Now Trying To Ditch DirecTV After Bungled Merger Spree

    pjcamp ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2020 @ 09:01am

    AT&T turns everything it touches to sh(t

    I first subscribed to DirecTV in 2000, when I got angry at what was then Media One, now absorbed into Comcast. I was very happy with it for a long time. Service was good, technology was cutting edge. No reason to change since nothing else was cheaper.

    Then came AT&T.

    I used to use AT&T for internet until they imposed caps and overage charges. And when they bought DirecTV, customer service moved to an Asian call center where nobody knew anything, they just read scripts. The service itself, as well as the technology, began to lag the competition. And when AT&T announced there would never be another satellite launch, it was pretty clear they intended to force customers to there IPTV and streaming products.

    The only other option for traditional TV around here is Comcast, and I changed to them. I don't think streaming only is ready for prime time yet, at least not for me. It requires too many different services and is too hard to find content.

    I hate Comcast (used to use them for ISP as well). But they're better than DirecTV and that's saying something.

  • On the post: Verizon's Pivot From Stodgy Old Telco To Sexy Millennial Ad Brand Isn't Going So Well

    pjcamp ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2018 @ 11:04am

    Verizon

    The Samsung of broadband.

  • On the post: NY Times, Winner Of A Key 1st Amendment Case, Suddenly Seems Upset That 1st Amendment Protects Conservatives Too

    pjcamp ( profile ), 04 Jul, 2018 @ 03:28pm

    corporate rights

    BTW, there's no question that corporations have rights. The questions are: (1) Are corporations, required to pursue only the financial interests of their investors, equivalent to human beings with all the rights that actual humans have? and (2) Is money the same thing as speech?

    I do hope you're not coming down on the corporate side of either of those.

  • On the post: NY Times, Winner Of A Key 1st Amendment Case, Suddenly Seems Upset That 1st Amendment Protects Conservatives Too

    pjcamp ( profile ), 04 Jul, 2018 @ 03:23pm

    Beschizza delenda est

    That's an interesting comment as Beschizza regularly drops the speech suppression hammer in the forums at Boing Boing. In fact, that's the reason I quit visiting that site. He has made it into an echo chamber for the college PC crowd.

  • On the post: Man Butt Dials 911 While Discussing Murder Plot

    pjcamp ( profile ), 23 May, 2013 @ 07:49pm

    Roadmap

    I guess this gives us a roadmap to the lumps in his ass.

  • On the post: Jonathan Coulton Publicly Shames Fox For Copying His Arrangement In Glee

    pjcamp ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2013 @ 05:10pm

    Leaving on a Jet Plane?

    Coulton's getting steamed over this is particularly ironic given that his arrangement rips off, note for note, the melody from John Denver's Leaving on a Jet Plane.

    Anything he manages to squeeze out of Glee should merely pass through his hands on its way to the Denver estate.

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