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• On the post: UK Man Gets 12-Month Sentence For Refusing To Turn Over Passwords To Police

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2017 @ 07:49am

  Re: Re:

  A six-figure salary bonus. Assuming that you're an investment banker.

• On the post: UK Man Gets 12-Month Sentence For Refusing To Turn Over Passwords To Police

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2017 @ 04:42am

  Re:

  Unfortunately such good constitutions are hard to find. The US constitution failed to stop the US from being turned into a torture state, and failed to punish those who did it. And failed to release those STILL being held without trial well over a decade later.

• On the post: British News Channel Touts Amazon Bomb Materials Moral Panic That Ends Up Being About Hobbyists And School Labs

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2017 @ 08:20am

  Re: Thermite isn't explosive you say? Stupid finds a way

  It might depend on what the thermite was sitting on. The Mythbusters (with the local bomb squad) showed that you'd get a detonation if the thermite were sitting on ice.

• On the post: British News Channel Touts Amazon Bomb Materials Moral Panic That Ends Up Being About Hobbyists And School Labs

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2017 @ 08:12am

  Re:

  I was already missing fingertips before high school. The encyclopaedias and other books in my grade 8 school taught me everything I needed to know about making black powder explosives.
  
  (Except perhaps, why not to.)

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

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2017 @ 05:57pm

  Re: Re:

  Someone will be along any moment now to propose a blockchain solution.

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

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2017 @ 03:13pm

  Re: One day

  Think of Monopoly's Community Chest card "You have won second prize in a beauty contest – Collect $10." Second place is funnier. (Who doesn't laugh at Bing?)

• On the post: 'Smart' Hospital IV Pump Vulnerable To Remote Hack Attack

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2017 @ 10:35pm

  Re: Good News!

  Religion is the opiate of the masses. For the non-religious, check out the developer bundles under the Techdirt Deals tab and learn how to supply your own!

• On the post: Company CEO Pleads Guilty After Forging Judge's Signatures On Bogus Court Orders Sent To Google

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2017 @ 10:25pm

  This is why you hire a professional reputation management consultant. You can watch each other's backs in prison.

• On the post: Report Details The NSA's Decade-Long Abuse Of Its Surveillance Powers

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2017 @ 12:31pm

  Re: Re: No oversight?

  This site has been warning people about this all along. YOU are the one scoffing at the site and its visitors, and calling them idiots when it does so. And we can count on you doing it again, merely adding this to a long list of articles that you've commented on and yet refuse to acknowledge exists. Get help.

• On the post: Turkish President Claims Jailed Journalists Are Actually Terrorists

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2017 @ 12:18pm

  ...spinning the beatings handed out by his bodyguards during his visit to the White House as an all-out assault by crazed anti-Turkey Americans...

  That incident was repeated yesterday at his speech in in New York.

• On the post: EU Buried Its Own $400,000 Study Showing Unauthorized Downloads Have Almost No Effect On Sales

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2017 @ 07:47am

  Re: Yes, people would watch more movies if cheaper and better.

  This study shows exactly what anyone reasonable expects: piracy reduces sales.

  No, because many if not most those sales were never going to happen regardless. People are paying to see a movie with friends at the same rate they did before piracy. Or to rent it or stream it. We KNOW this - because Hollywood is making record profits. But teens and others can't afford to pay for ALL the movies they want to see. Take away piracy, and the sales still don't happen.

• On the post: WhatsApp Reportedly Rejected UK Government Demand For Encryption Backdoor

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2017 @ 12:54pm

  Sky News understands that 80% of investigations into terrorism and serious crime are now impacted by encryption.

  The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) already requires every person in the financial industry to make every e-mail, cellphone text and financial record available to the SEC in order to enforce insider trading and other financial rules.

  Thousands of bankers involved in fraud set off the 2008/2009 financial crisis, costing the U.S. taxpayer trillions of dollars. All that surveillance produced zero convictions. Adding encryption would not have had any impact.

  Sky News should explain that before "understanding" the impact of encryption.

• On the post: Insanity: Theresa May Says Internet Companies Need To Remove 'Extremist' Content Within 2 Hours

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2017 @ 10:10am

  We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!

  -Trump tweet, Nov 6 2012, on Obama's re-election.

  Demanding the overthrow of the democratically elected US government is just one example of his extremist content.

  If Theresa May had her way a couple years ago, Trump would have been gone from social media. In turn, he likely wouldn't be President today.

  Hmm. Not the point I was going to make.

• On the post: With Court Ruling, Fan Subtitles Officially Copyright Infringement In Sweden

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2017 @ 09:07pm

  Re: YAY! Justice triumphs again!

  Kindly mark this post as abusive, as any honest and proper response to your post would be.

• On the post: Bogus Lawsuit-Slinging Rep Management Firm Sued By Pissed Consumer

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2017 @ 05:52pm

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  But first someone outside the legal profession must pay up to have those falsehoods looked at.
  
  Justice is like privacy; its evolution into a luxury commodity is almost complete.

• On the post: Florida Utilities Lobbied To Make It Illegal For Solar Users To Use Panels In Wake Of Hurricanes, Outages

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2017 @ 01:44pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Techdirt re-writer ignorant of bus-transfer switches.

  That's not what the sentence says.

  That's exactly what the sentence says.

  Even if the sentence did say that, it wouldn't be correct.

  The source news story - along with quotes from customers in exactly that situation and quotes from industry insiders - shows that it is indeed correct.

  That's just wrong.

  It's right. Read the story. Read the citations.

• On the post: Florida Utilities Lobbied To Make It Illegal For Solar Users To Use Panels In Wake Of Hurricanes, Outages

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2017 @ 12:38pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Techdirt re-writer ignorant of bus-transfer switches.

  Re-read the ENTIRE sentence. Heck, you even quoted it.
  
  The customer - the home owner - is not allowed to disconnect the building. And at that point, your house being powerless, there's no need for your hypothetical fireman or EMT to come along and connect it.
  
  All you can do is phone and make an appointment to be disconnected so you start generating your own power. Which in a hurricane will almost certainly be days later after the power is restored.

• On the post: Florida Utilities Lobbied To Make It Illegal For Solar Users To Use Panels In Wake Of Hurricanes, Outages

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2017 @ 12:11pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Techdirt re-writer ignorant of bus-transfer switches.

  From the source story:

  Astoundingly, state rules also mandate that solar customers include a switch that cleanly disconnects their panels from FPL's system while keeping the rest of a home's power lines connected. But during a disaster like the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, FPL customers aren't allowed to simply flip that switch and keep their panels going.

  When the hurricane hits and the power goes out, you'll have to phone and make an appointment to be disconnected to start generating your own power. That's "down there in the states", not Canada.

• On the post: Florida Utilities Lobbied To Make It Illegal For Solar Users To Use Panels In Wake Of Hurricanes, Outages

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2017 @ 11:05am

  Re: Re: Re: Techdirt re-writer ignorant of bus-transfer switches.

  I don't see -- so you'll have to show -- where it's "illegal" to use your solar-generator when it's NOT connected to the grid

  Here's a novel idea: Try reading the story. It quotes the source material....

  Thanks to power-company rules, it's impossible across Florida to simply buy a solar panel and power your individual home with it. You are instead legally mandated to connect your panels to your local electric grid. More egregious, FPL mandates that if the power goes out, your solar-power system must power down along with the rest of the grid, robbing potentially needy people of power during major outages.

  You're REQUIRED to connect your panels to the grid. Once a hurricane knocks out the power, you have to make an appointment for the power company to come out and disconnect your house from the (dead) grid. They'll be a bit busy at that point, so you'll probably have to wait until power is restored to generate your own.

  BTW: again, split up into three because Techdirt seems now to prevent long posts at least from TOR.

  So you make a fool of yourself across multiple posts. The net effect is the same.

• On the post: Verizon Hangs Up On Tens Of Thousands Of 'Unlimited' Wireless Customers For Using Too Much Data

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2017 @ 02:26pm

  I have unlimited respect for Verizon.
  
  Using their definition of "unlimited."

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