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  • On the post: James Comey To Congress: About Those Hillary Clinton Emails I Mentioned Last Week? Meh, Forget About It, Nothing To See

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2016 @ 07:41am

    Re: Comey's job

    Bill Clinton dismissed the FBI director he inherited, after accusations that director had acted improperly before the election.

  • On the post: James Comey To Congress: About Those Hillary Clinton Emails I Mentioned Last Week? Meh, Forget About It, Nothing To See

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2016 @ 07:08am

    Re: So the last sandbag is laid.

    It's just like how - in response to accusations from your crowd - Obama released his birth certificate in summer 2008. And it was authenticated by Vital Statistics at the same time.

    We heard the same cries of "Divert, delay, wait for executive privilege to invalidate the law" from the same people.

  • On the post: If The FBI Can't Stop All These Leaks About An Investigation, Why Would it Be Able To Keep Encryption Backdoor Secret?

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2016 @ 11:03am

    It's not just the FBI. Once they have their backdoor, other agencies will demand it too.

    Think of how Stingray cell site snoopers were for catching terrorists... and now they're in use by 13 federal agencies plus many state and local police agencies. They'll all demand the backdoor password.

    That goes for the police agencies in other countries too. If Apple gives American police a back door, Britain, Germany, Saudi Arabia and all the rest will demand it.

  • On the post: Adobe Asked Google To Censor Techdirt's Story On How Adobe's DRM Got Cracked

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2016 @ 10:25am

    Re: MarkMonitor Response...

    One day this will happen with drone strikes.

    /s

  • On the post: Thai Government Demands Popular Chat App Reveal Any Time Any User Insults The King

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2016 @ 08:59pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Trump's role model

    A geopolitical time bomb of self destructive smug arrogance who is also a criminal.

  • On the post: Nielsen Forced To Pull Report Offline After It Shows ESPN Losing More Subscribers Than Ever

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2016 @ 01:54pm

    "There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange."
    - Thomas W. Lamont, October 29, 1929 (Black Tuesday)

    There has been a little distress with ESPN subscriber data.

  • On the post: Belgian Court Fines Microsoft For Failing To Comply With Its Impossible Order

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2016 @ 03:24pm

    Re: Re: Are they really a software provider?

    That's making the assumption that the end user agreement holds up in court. As long as user aren't pirating the software on a commercial scale, they have little to worry about.

    For example Microsoft's development software sold here in Canada has long had EULA clauses dictating that programmers don't sell their programs into Cuba. Clauses dictating that programmers don't use the development software on Linux or other operating systems. But those commandments are toothless if not actually illegal, and are simply ignored.

    Internet updates mess that up, because a security update can sneak in unwanted changes. But that also happens with MacOS, Android and yes, even open source software.

  • On the post: Canada Copyright Troll Threatens Octogenarian Over Download Of A Zombie War Game

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2016 @ 12:34pm

    They do love to target seniors...

    A few months ago a family friend received about 30 such copyright notices, forwarded from his ISP under Canada's Notice on Notice regime.

    He's a senior citizen in his late 80s living in a retirement home. He has just the one PC connected to his cable modem, and no WiFi. He had never heard of BitTorrent or the obscure show in question.

    But seniors are lucrative targets for fraud and shakedowns. FaceBook and others have built databases of users that let advertisers and political campaigns "target market" by race, age and other demographics. No doubt this is just one more side-effect.

  • On the post: FBI Investigating New Information Regarding Hillary Clinton… Because Of The Anthony Weiner Sexting Investigation

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2016 @ 09:29pm

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    One more time: If Hillary is such a liar and a crook, then WHERE ARE THE BETTER ALTERNATIVES? Heck, for all of Hillary's dishonestly, she STILL comes across as more honest than anyone in the 2016 or 2012 clown cars. And that's a lot of competition to choose from. Not to mention a WHOLE LOT more honest than the Republican's 2016 best choice to lead the United States. Far more qualified too. Yeah, it's not a proud campaign slogan, but If Not Hillary, Then Who?

    Shit man, her husband is an adulterer, an impeached liar, AND quite possibly a rapist...
    So, "Don't vote for someone married to an adulterer, liar and possible rapist, whom we knew 23 years ago that the marriage was essentially over and still on paper for political convenience only; vote for someone who IS the adulterer, liar and possible rapist." You know full well that Hillary had divorced Bill, you and everyone else smearing her not doing so would instead be smearing her for being an anti-family-values divorcee.

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

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2016 @ 07:49pm

    Re: Relationship between funny and insightful

    Having made the Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week lists a few times, I think the problem is the inability to leverage those wins into political power, lucrative endorsement deals, movie cameos, honorary degrees, universal adoration from the opposite sex and Canadian Tire money.

    OK, That One Guy did it. But only him.

  • On the post: FBI Investigating New Information Regarding Hillary Clinton… Because Of The Anthony Weiner Sexting Investigation

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2016 @ 11:39am

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    I'm not a Republican idiot.
    A hyper-partisan Republican-siding "not a Republican" idiot then. That's not a presumption. For what it's worth, I'm not a Democrat.
    it's disgusting.
    You're spending too much time channelling Trump.
    Ever single post Mike or anyone at Techdirt has made regarding the Clintons, you chime in with "look at the Republicans, they are just as bad".
    ONE issue and one issue only: Mail servers. When Republicans (and I'm hyper-partisan "but I'm not Republicans") pillory Hillary for what is standard practice by Republicans, then pointing that it's standard practice for Republicans is not only fair, it's obligatory.
    I focus on what I can do, not what someone else did.
    Same here. That's what I'm doing. If you focus ONLY on the one person you don't like - while not only ignoring that EVERYONE is doing it, but having a partisan hissy fit when others point it out - then you're not interested in having the problem solved. When everyone is doing it, you need to admit that everyone is doing it. That's the first step to a solution. Look at the sheer Anonymous Coward denial above:
    You can bet your ass that if any of them were running for President, every other word in print would contain the term "email scandal". But those guys aren't currently running for the highest office in the land are they?
    If it were up to YOU we'd never know that this was an outright lie. We'd never hear that Jeb!, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal, Mitt Romney - all "running for the highest office in the land" - did the same. We'd never hear that it was standard practice in the previous Republican administration. We don't hear from you at all about that. You want it suppressed, because it ruins your favorite anti-Hillary talking point. You're not interested in fixing the problem.

  • On the post: FBI Investigating New Information Regarding Hillary Clinton… Because Of The Anthony Weiner Sexting Investigation

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2016 @ 09:03pm

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    Oh, spare us.

    Anyone who insists that the one person they don't like be punished - while ignoring everyone in their own party doing the same thing - is not interested in fixing the problem.

    If your fellow Anonymous Cowards would demand non-partisan prosecution of EVERYONE doing it, they'd have some credibility. They don't.

    Yeah, we deserve better. So again, if Hillary is so bad, why can't Republicans serve up something better? Sixteen Republican candidates in the 2016 primaries and NOT ONE compares better... and the final selection is far worse. In 2012 Romney would merely be in the same ballpark as Hillary and the rest earned the term "clown car."

  • On the post: How Facebook's Racial Segmentation Is Helping Trump Campaign Try To Suppress African American Voting

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2016 @ 08:44pm

    Re: Re:

    No-one claims that it is. The use of driver's licencing for voter suppression is a different matter. For example Alabama passing a law requiring IDs from driver’s license offices.... and then shutting down the driver’s license offices in several heavily black counties. Federal judges fully recognized this when they overturned North Carolina’s new voter ID law, declaring that the restrictions “target African Americans with almost surgical precision.” The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the law was adopted with “discriminatory intent” despite lawmakers’ claims that the ID provision and other changes were designed to prevent voter fraud. Other states have had similar laws overturned for similar reasons.

  • On the post: FBI Investigating New Information Regarding Hillary Clinton… Because Of The Anthony Weiner Sexting Investigation

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2016 @ 04:43pm

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    Incorrect on all counts. Jeb! as governor used his own server as Florida governor to discuss security and military issues such as troop deployments to the Middle East and the protection of nuclear plants. Perry, Jindal and the others also used private servers, and you can bet they weren't just swapping cookie recipes. Likewise Bush II, Cheney, Rove and anyone else connected to the Bush White House email controversy were using an off-site private server for government business. As for Secretaries of State Colin Powell. are you really suggesting that an AOL account is more secure than a private server?

  • On the post: FBI Investigating New Information Regarding Hillary Clinton… Because Of The Anthony Weiner Sexting Investigation

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2016 @ 04:26pm

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    Every time this comes up...
    ....why would the response change?
    Why can't we just acknowledge that she's a crook and a liar?
    Well sure, but no more than any qualified Republican candidate in the last few election cycles, and a lot less than many of them. If she's so corrupt, then why can't the Republican party find a better alternative?
    You can bet your ass that if any of them were running for President, every other word in print would contain the term "email scandal".
    Jeb!, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal all ran for President in this election cycle. Mitt Romney was briefly considered and did some campaigning too. All have their own email scandals. Funny how "every other word in print" didn't contain the term "email scandal". Not to mention that Bush II, Cheney, Rove and the rest were IN the White House when they used an off-site private server.
    Can we just admit she's a liar and crook?
    If you just admit no more she's a liar and crook than any of the Republican alternatives in recent election cycles. And that her private email use was standard practice for Republicans.

  • On the post: FBI Investigating New Information Regarding Hillary Clinton… Because Of The Anthony Weiner Sexting Investigation

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2016 @ 04:41pm

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    She'd share her cell with Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Bush II, Cheney, Rove, Mitt Romney, Jeb!, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal and everyone else who did the same, plus all those who claim that they "don't use email" while having their aides use their private accounts to avoid FOIA requests.

    It might be easier to build a wall around Washington. Frankly I'm surprised that Trump hasn't thought of it.

  • On the post: FBI Investigating New Information Regarding Hillary Clinton… Because Of The Anthony Weiner Sexting Investigation

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2016 @ 02:34pm

    Re:

    _This wasn't some first year politician here Mike. She's a seasoned vet..._

    And she used a private email server just like all the other seasoned vets.

    Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. Bush II, Cheney, Rove and anyone else connected to the Bush White House email controversy. Mitt Romney, Jeb!, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal all have their own email scandals. And of course all those Congressman who claim that they "don't use email", while having their aides use their private accounts to avoid FOIA requests.

    Sure, there's an urgent question of why most everyone avoided the official servers. (Not that I expect you to ask it.) But when the FBI can't find any evidence of intentionally breaking the law, and she's acting completely within the prevailing standards, it's not incompetence.

  • On the post: FBI Investigating New Information Regarding Hillary Clinton… Because Of The Anthony Weiner Sexting Investigation

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2016 @ 01:45pm

    Re:

    (I trust everyone will resist the urge to suggest sequel names.)

  • On the post: How Facebook's Racial Segmentation Is Helping Trump Campaign Try To Suppress African American Voting

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2016 @ 01:08pm

    Canuck Amuck

    The fact that the Trump campaign has an idea of what demographic is going to vote for them and is targeting that demographic is smart advertising, not - in anyway - voter suppression.
    Another example: Over a million people in Canada are eligible to vote in US elections - dual citizens, Americans living in Canada, etc. This outnumbers the eligible voters in some US states. Likely a similar number of Canadian/US dual citizens live in the US. Here's the last four U.S. ambassadors to Canada jointly urging a million Canadian/US dual citizens to vote: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/letters/july-4-a-million-people-in-canada-can-vote-in-the-us-election-plus-other-letters-to-the-editor/article30729582/ US consulates have been doing the same: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/canada-america-election-1.3773837 It's safe to say that these puck-chasers tend to vote to the left. But what the ambassadors and consulates are doing isn't fraud. Any voter fraud would be insignificant by comparison. I'm sure that you and your fellow Trump supporters wouldn't have it any other way!

  • On the post: EU-Canada Trade Deal Dodges Belgian Veto For Now, But Faces Multiple Legal Challenges

    Roger Strong ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2016 @ 06:34pm

    Independence Day: ISDS

    Canada's longest-serving member of the Queen’s privy Council, the Honourable Paul Hellyer, P.C., along with two co-plaintiffs, Ann Emmett and George Crowell, both prominent members of the Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform ("COMER"),

    Paul Hellyer also accuses President George W. Bush of plotting an "Intergalactic War", preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens from the US military's forward base on the moon. Really.

    COMER's credibility isn't much better.

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