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• On the post: John Oliver Explains Why You Should Side With Apple Over The FBI Better Than Most Journalists

  

  PRK ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2016 @ 07:51am

  Who says incription must be mass produced?

  2 things:
  
  1. I understand the FBI can complete a work-around by isolating the chip and using brute force without any assistance from Apple.
  
  2. Going out on a limb here and I'm not an encryption wiz. However, why does encryption need to be developed on a 1-size-fits-all basis? Why can't the underlying code be set so that it achieves a different result for each phone? sort of like a PGP approach. Admittedly difficult and expensive but that would remove Apple from the issue.
  
  I'm sure many of you can let me know how silly that idea is?

• On the post: Daily Deal: Cafflano Coffeemaker And Cup

  

  PRK ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2016 @ 12:18am

  Worthless injunction

  The domain is an "IO" extension and the database is likely not in the US. There is a serious question as to the application of the injunction outside of the US. SHE COULD EASILY AVOID US infringement by blocking US IP address access.
  
  All the plaintiff has done is ensure publicity for the site.
  
  I am not familiar with the terms applied to subscribers whose credentials she is apparently using. Can you address those?

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  PRK ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2016 @ 09:12am

  Saddest Thing about Bowie's Death

  No, The saddest thing is that the "incentive" of life plus 70 wasn't enough for him to stay alive........

• On the post: Ben Carson's Lawyer Threatens CafePress Because Ben Carson Supporters Are Creating T-Shirts Supporting Carson

  

  PRK ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2015 @ 08:11am

  Privacy for a PAC

  Hummm, PAC asserts privacy rights of candidate......hummmm. Proves the PAC is neither independent nor very good at its job....promoting the candidate..... hummmm

• On the post: Daily Deal: Dripbit Online Backup Lifetime Subscription

  

  PRK ( profile ), 14 May, 2015 @ 07:38am

  Another NSA front??

  I love that you offer these deals. HOWEVER part of me simply presumes that the service is actuall offered by the NSA as test another way to scrape private data.
  
  I suggest you also offer your own assssmment of the credibility of the offer and the lack of at least an obvious backing of some nefarious governmental agency. Obviously without guaranty. But it sure would make me mormcmfortable knowing that Mike would use the service.
  
  Paul KEATING

• On the post: UK Government Belated FOI Transparency Lamented By The Man Who Pushed For It, 'Cash-Strapped' Agencies

  

  PRK ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2015 @ 09:18am

  Informational Vacuum Hoses

  At Buckinghamshire County Council, workers last year spent 11,276 hours handling more than 1,700 requests, costing the taxpayers more than $400,000. The leader of the council, Martin Tett, complained of the cost in “times of austerity.”
  
  “This is money we could be spending on other vital services, like children’s services or care for the elderly,” he said.
  
  More likely guns n Ammo.
  
  Why not just have the GCQ or such other "secret" entity simpely turn their informational vacuum hose on the public servants. There would be no shortage of information readily available. Instead they vacuum up what is outside teh government and the complain about having to produce information to the public that provides the "spending money" and votes to keep them in office.

• On the post: Rightscorp Discovering That Harassing Broadband Users Isn't The Cash Cow It Thought It Would Be

  

  PRK ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2015 @ 10:15am

  Fund Raiser!! Kickstarter

  How about a funding project to acquire as many shares as possible and then take control of the company so that this can stop!!!!!
  
  Everyone buy shares and either participate in the annual meeting or enter into a proxy/voting agreement to take control.

• On the post: Proposed Florida Body Camera Law Riddled With Exceptions At Behest Of Police Union

  

  PRK ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2015 @ 07:14am

  Sliding Scale of Privacy........

  you’re in the privacy of your own car with your partner" ....
  
  Hummm so if you are in a car AND you are a policeman you are in a "private" area not to be filmed (even indirectly) BUT....if you are Joe Public and you are in your car you are in ...... "public"???????

• On the post: Surprise: Spanish Newspapers Beg Government And EU To Stop Google News Shutting Down

  

  PRK ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2014 @ 10:24am

  AEDA is a collections agency

  what you missed Is that AEDA Is the COLLECTIONS AGENCY that was to received ALL the money. So what they wanted was (1) require Google (and other consolidation services) to pay AEDA, AND (2) prevent any content supplier from giving it away (so AEDA would have an assured revenue stream. NOW, when faced with shut-downs, (3) ask for a law preventing the consolidators from closing.
  
  They want to force Google to stay in business so Google will be forced to pay them. Talk about a twisted sense of entitlement!!!!

• On the post: Rogers, Hayden Claim Release Of CIA Torture Report Will Be The Tipping Point For Enemies Of The US

  

  PRK ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2014 @ 08:03am

  What planet do they live on????

  two Comments:
  
  "Our foreign partners are telling us this will cause violence and deaths. . . . Foreign leaders have approached the government and said, 'You do this, this will cause violence and deaths.' Our own intelligence community has assessed that this will cause violence and deaths."
  
  There is no shortage of US foreign policy actions and inactions in the region to inflame enemies.
  
  WHERE were the brains when the underlying actions were hatched?
  
  In other words, it is not what you did but telling your parents about it that causes the problems? On what planet did these people get their education?

• On the post: Harry Reid Wants To Attach Part Of SOPA To Surveillance Reform Bill

  

  PRK ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2014 @ 08:08am

  Randaza ows UFC ????

  Hmmm.... Gift to Randaza and now a gift to UFC......So does Randanza own UFC? :-)

• On the post: A Dystopian Future Of Ads That Won't Stop Until You Say 'McDonald's' Could Be Avoided With More Transparency

  

  PRK ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2014 @ 07:54am

  Making the Smart TV Dumb Again

  How long will it take for some techie to create a dongle which intercepts the "smarts" of the TV and transmits substituted garbage back to the manufacturer......?

• On the post: FCC Comment Page Buckles To Its Knees After John Oliver Asks Everyone To Comment

  

  PRK ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2014 @ 03:47am

  ViaCom to the rescue!

  None of this would have happened if they had had Viacom's superfast connections.

• On the post: Europe On The Verge Of Destroying Online Comments And Free Speech

  

  PRK ( profile ), 29 May, 2014 @ 04:27am

  damned if you do - damned if you dont

  So, you can avoid liability by having everything in the US..........but everything is then read by the NSA.......
  
  You can avoid the NSA by having everything in Europe...........but then are liable for what some *&%$ dirtbag said gratuitously about the NSA.

• On the post: Ladar Levison Explains How The US Legal System Was Stacked Against Lavabit

  

  PRK ( profile ), 21 May, 2014 @ 04:20am

  Judicial "Authority"

  There is no way for a company to sustain the cost of having a highly qualified attorney "on-call" 24/7. And even if they could these types of things quickly snow-ball out of control making it impossible for anything but a small army of attorneys to deal with it.
  
  An example happened in Texas when an individual defendant was accused of firing too many attorneys and not paying them. The result was imposition of a personal receivership in which all assets were seized (including retirement plans). The claims by the attorneys that they were not paid was never resolved and remains pending. Meanwhile the receiver burned through the man's assets reportedly charging over $5 million in legal fees. See:http://www.thedomains.com/2012/12/24/appeals-court-overturns-bankruptcy-sale-of-baronondova-domains-axes-the-receivership/

• On the post: US Copyright Office Supports Artists Getting Paid Multiple Times For Same Work, Harming New Artists To Benefit Established Ones

  

  PRK ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2013 @ 03:36am

  How to Make Millions From Your Mistakes

  Good thing I sold those Apple shares at $20 awhile back. Now I can go collect a royalty on the subsequent gain without having put my capital at risk....

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  PRK ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2013 @ 02:49am

  empty offices

  Any government employee who is found to be willfully obstructing justice or willfully violating the constitutional rights of a citizen should be banned from working in the public sector ever again.
  
  If enacted such a law there would soon be no one left to enforce it.......

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  PRK ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2013 @ 04:05am

  Reversing Copyright Extensions

  I am surprised no one has figured this out. It is a long-term play. The extensions are
  just a way to earn more profits from a dying business.
  
  Step 1. Lobby to extend copyrights.
  
  Step 2. Abuse copyrights to engender a political backlash
  resulting in a "return" to a normal "period".
  
  Step 3. Object, but not too strongly, to the subsequent
  reduction in the copyright period to ensure
  reduction of the term.
  
  Step 4. Start measuring downloads of works that have now
  been "given back" to the public.
  
  Step 5. File a lawsuit against the US government seeking
  damages under the theory of Eminent domain.
  
  Cite the 5th Amendment as your authority.
  
  Argue that but for the reduction in term, all of the downloads would have been infringing.
  
  Argue that the fair value of the property is $150,000
  per copyright per download.
  
  Cite the Lanham Act as the Government's own admission
  to fair value per work per infringement.
  
  Retain Team Prenda to collect the judgment.
  
  Retire.

• On the post: UK Officials Argue That David Miranda Was, In Fact, A Terrorist

  

  PRK ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2013 @ 02:23am

  "If you have any material which, if disclosed, might "influence a government," you are, by definition, a terrorist."
  
  FINALLY, a way to get rid of lobbyists.............!!!!

• On the post: Leak Shows NSA Grabbed Data On 70 Million French Phone Calls In Less Than 30 Days

  

  PRK ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2013 @ 03:33am

  I understand that Bin Laden is claimed to have said, the 9/11 event was simply the trigger to the US's own self destruction. I am increasingly worried that that maniac may have been correct.

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