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• On the post: Move Over, Series Of Tubes, The Internet Is Now A Bridge Over A Creek For A Dozen People?

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2017 @ 08:05am

  The Internet Is Now A Bridge Over A Creek...

  ...and Senator Ron Johnson is Daffy Duck as Robin Hood from the classic Warner Brothers cartoon.

• On the post: Canada Says It Won't Attend Special 301 Hearing Because USTR Prefers Industry Allegations To Facts And Data

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2017 @ 11:02am

  Re:

  Already in progress. Those who cross the border to escape Trump are being trained as mimes. The plan is to give later would-be border-crossers the impression of an invisible impenetrable wall.

• On the post: Canada Says It Won't Attend Special 301 Hearing Because USTR Prefers Industry Allegations To Facts And Data

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2017 @ 10:56am

  Re:

  Well there was that invalid and analytically flawed report by the shipping industry on US merchant sailors being impressed into the Royal Navy...

• On the post: New Accountability Add-On Triggers Cameras When Police Officers Unholster Their Guns

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2017 @ 02:54pm

  Hey Siri

  Record video when you hear the phrase "I can't breath."

• On the post: Canada Says It Won't Attend Special 301 Hearing Because USTR Prefers Industry Allegations To Facts And Data

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2017 @ 01:41pm

  I'll Just Throw This Idea Out There...

  Download Offsets. Third-world countries that aren't pirating due to poor connectivity can sell credits to offset pirate downloads elsewhere.

• On the post: EU Parliament Dumps Link Tax, Invites News Publishers To Sue If They Think Google's Making Them Broke

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2017 @ 12:16pm

  Re: Re: Yellow Pages

  Like cable TV they've gotten even MORE expensive as they've gotten less relevant. With their non-paid automated listings reaching bad joke level inaccuracy.
  
  I and my address are now incorrectly tied to three companies by the Yellow Pages. They won't communicate with you unless you sign a contract and pay them to correct their errors. In fact I think that's their new business model.

• On the post: Gothamist Purges Stories About The Ricketts Family While Joe Ricketts Was Negotiating To Buy Site

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2017 @ 12:27pm

  "Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history."
  - Frank Herbert, Dune

• On the post: EU Parliament Dumps Link Tax, Invites News Publishers To Sue If They Think Google's Making Them Broke

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2017 @ 11:13am

  Yellow Pages

  Remind me again.... Did businesses pay for Yellow Pages ads, or did the Yellow Pages pay businesses for the right to mention them?

• On the post: Won't Have Perfect 10's Silly Lawsuits Setting Precedent Anymore: Judge Appoints Receiver For Perfect 10's Assets

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2017 @ 11:09am

  Re:

  And that's how justice went blind.

• On the post: Wolfgang Puck Battles Elon Musk's Brother Over Trademark Rights For 'The Kitchen' In Restaurant Industry

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2017 @ 08:08pm

  Re: USPTO: "I didn't do it!"

  That's all very nice, waiter, but I just want the #$@&%!* meal I ordered 45 minutes ago.

• On the post: Prenda's John Steele Pleads Guilty, Admits To Basically Everything

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2017 @ 06:59pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Tears for the loss of a national icon

  Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty and squandered life. - Things you learn from an internet tough guy claiming "honor" while hiding behind an Anonymous Coward tag

• On the post: TSA Now Making Its Intrusive Searches Even More Gropey & Assaulty

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2017 @ 12:11pm

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  We almost got to that point. After the shoe bomber we all had to take off our shoes at the airport. There was a lot of joking that it was a good thing the bomber didn't put the bomb in his underwear. One attempted underwear bombing later, and here we are. Apparently the guy who made the bombs for that plot and others, Ibrahim al-Asiri, took the TSA's new pornscan & fondle routine as a challenge. He stuck a bomb up his brother's rectum, where it wouldn't be detected by the TSA's new methods. Then sent him off to assassinate a Saudi prince & security chief. (And apparently first in line for the Saudi throne.) The plot failed. He turned his brother into a bottle rocket, firing him through the ceiling while inflicting only minor injuries to the target. I'm assuming that the next family dinner with his parents was real quiet. Meanwhile back at the TSA, apparently cooler heads prevailed. We're not all being endoscoped for body cavity bombs. Yet.

• On the post: PR-Stupid JetSmarter Will Charge Journalists $2000 If They Don't Write Positive Reviews

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2017 @ 06:54am

  Re: Well then...

  Not good enough. You're still posted the comment using electrons, which have a negative charge.

• On the post: Trump Administration Wants A Clean Reauthorization For NSA Surveillance

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2017 @ 06:33am

  Re: Re:

  I miss the good old days when Sarah Palin was the craziest politician in America and her tie to Russia was that she could see it from her house.

• On the post: Bolivia Initiates Diplomatic Action With France Over Portrayal In Fictional Video Game

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2017 @ 12:49pm

  Now, the setting for the game is a fictionalized version of Bolivia where, contrary to reality, large swaths of the country are controlled by Mexican drug cartels that are wreaking all manner of havoc over the land.

  It could have been far worse. Instead of Mexican drug cartels, Ubisoft could have made the Bolivian government look corrupt and incompetent by portraying the IOC and FIFA wreaking all manner of havoc over the land.

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

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2017 @ 01:30am

  Re:

  No-one except the most delusional nutjobs is suggesting sedition or anyone trying to overthrow the government.

• On the post: PR-Stupid JetSmarter Will Charge Journalists $2000 If They Don't Write Positive Reviews

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2017 @ 06:52am

  A quick Google News search lists recent stories about JetSmarter.
  
  I'm guessing that a few reviews have already been taken down by those whose journalistic integrity might be cast in a bad light by accepting these conditions. And even with the conditions removed, it'll stop journalists from writing about them in the future.

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

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2017 @ 10:47pm

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  Obama's worst lie - your choice and others' - was a wishful thinking in that while there was nothing about ObamaCare that would prevent you from keeping your doctor, it wouldn't guarantee that you could keep your doctor any more than the old system did. Insurers drop policies and doctors change networks all the time. Just to put that into Trump era perspective, Trump has already repeated that lie regarding his own plan. Last Week tonight had fun with this last week (Feb 29th show, about 24 minutes in) complete with video of Trump making the promise. "They can have their doctors, they can have their plans, they can have everything." I stand by my claim: "Obama's worst lie and put it into a Trump speech. It would go entirely unnoticed, overshadowed by far worse Trump claims."

• On the post: Vice President Fails To Demand An FBI Investigation After His Private Email Account Is Hacked

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2017 @ 05:20pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Obfuscation

  "Classified Information" is a matter of federal law.

  ...which can cover things that affect a state or happen within it, leading to the governor's involvement. You know, like several things listed in the original story and repeated in the post you just responded to.

• On the post: Vice President Fails To Demand An FBI Investigation After His Private Email Account Is Hacked

  

  Roger Strong ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2017 @ 05:11pm

  Re: Ignoring key facts to fuel the narrative.

  Except for the part where she used her own private email server.

  Incorrect. The Bush II White House, Jeb! and several others used private servers. Colin Powell and others using AOL is WORSE, not better. Only people you trust would administer your private server. You have no control over the many, many people administering AOL server, and no knowledge of who they are.

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