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• On the post: If You're Learning About It From Slate, Running Your Own Email Server Is A Horrendously Bad Idea

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2016 @ 04:45am

  Re:

  Don't use sendmail. Ever again. Since about 1998.

• On the post: The FBI's Megaupload Domains Are Now Hosting Porn Ads

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2016 @ 07:30am

  justification, well, like "judge ordered it"?

  And what exactly makes the FBI have these domains in the first place? It's not like they've won any judgement or even proved they were used for criminal activities. It does actually more look like some illegal scam on the side of the FBI.

• On the post: For The Third Time, Whatsapp Blocked (And Then Unblocked) By Brazilian Judges For Failing To Decrypt

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2016 @ 08:12am

  Re:

  This shitty generation could die already and leave us alone.
  Trouble is, it's not "that generation" that's responsible for the trouble. I'm actually meeting total luddites, technical idiots, nincompoops that have no idea about what's even mathematically possible, and they're all younger than me. And a lot more authoritarian.
  
  My generation is those that were teenagers when the Berlin wall fell. Apparently there's both an older generation of fuckwits that wants these walls again, like Trump, but also a younger one that's okay with them.

• On the post: DOJ Pushes Out Legislation Proposal To Undercut Microsoft Case Decision About Overseas Searches

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2016 @ 08:21am

  State of Law

  Did the DOJ ever hear about the foundations of the State of Law, namely the separation of power?
  
  Well, separation of power says THE FUCKING DOJ DOES NOT MAKE LAWS, not even propose! And if they're trying they're trying to subvert democracy itself. I'd call such an action treasonous and at least enough to fire all involved people within the DOJ immediately, with a ban of ever working in the DOJ again.

• On the post: Cy Vance Still Arguing For Mandated Encryption Backdoors; Believes Third Party Doctrine Supports His Theory

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2016 @ 08:38am

  Re:

  Yes, and he got it completely backwards:
  But smartphone encryption, one of the great public safety
  challenges of our time, remains almost entirely self-regulated.
  Encryption is the safety-measure here, it protects billions of people from identity theft, stalking, fraud and other crimes.
  
  If you want to increase security and safety, you need to outlaw non-encrypted phones and any kind of law-enforcement access or other backdoor.

• On the post: Sen. McCain Unhappy Apple Turned Down His Invitation To Be Encryption Hearing Punching Bag

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2016 @ 08:26am

  Indiana Pi Legislators

  Yes, exactly what came to my mind. "What kind of looney tune is that Cyrus Vance character? Who in his right mind asks some Indiana PI legislator about mathematics?".

• On the post: Ton Of Tech Industry Leaders Say Trump Would Be A Complete Disaster For Innovation

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2016 @ 02:07am

  Re: Re:

  Having said that - as a Brit - I have to admit that our last really good Prime Minister was Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
  
  You're probably right, although I think Winston Churchill was quite good -- but only in wartime. He was terrible otherwise.

• On the post: Ton Of Tech Industry Leaders Say Trump Would Be A Complete Disaster For Innovation

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2016 @ 01:59am

  Re: I don't know, but I do know that Hillary would be worse

  Hillary will finish what Obama started and put this country in the toilet.
  He didn't start it, whatever it was. Bush Jr. started it. Obama is doing exactly the same as Bush Jr., only worse.
  
  Hell, Obama and Bush Jr. are making Bush Senior, Clinton and Reagan look good.

• On the post: Ton Of Tech Industry Leaders Say Trump Would Be A Complete Disaster For Innovation

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2016 @ 01:51am

  Re: Re: Nether canidate is worth a pile of beans

  Just read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Gary_Johnson and I would vote for them.
  
  Of course, I don't really know whether they would pull an Obama as soon as they took office and reverted their positions by 180 degrees, but at least their positions aren't fascist and mercantilist crap from the get-go.

• On the post: Putin Says All Encryption Must Be Backdoored In Two Weeks

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2016 @ 11:25am

  Re: Cautionary fiction

  These days, young adult fiction is full of the stuff.
  That's because just about all the politicians try to ruin their respective countries by turning them into thoroughly oppressive dystopias.

• On the post: Documentary About Freeing Happy Birthday From Copyfraud Comes Out The Day After Happy Birthday Officially Declared Public Domain

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2016 @ 09:29am

  Re:

  Yes, that's precisely what is happening. There are still thousands of songs whose copyright is claimed fraudulently by people (or more likely: companies).
  
  Books too, just do a google book search for an author that died before 1900.

• On the post: Documentary About Freeing Happy Birthday From Copyfraud Comes Out The Day After Happy Birthday Officially Declared Public Domain

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2016 @ 09:26am

  Re:

  Ah, no. The German version use the same melody, the lyrics are "Zum Geburtstag viel Glück, zum Geburtstag viel Glück, zum Geburtstag liebe ... Zum Geburtstag viel Glück!".
  
  That's so close to the English lyrics I wouldn't even give a copyright on it, because it's not original enough. And I've also heard it in French and Italian. Same there.

• On the post: Police Claim They Arrested Man Who Burnt American Flag Because Of Threats He Received

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2016 @ 08:44am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Well....

  Burning the Quran? Well, I think the people that are burning books are the same people that also will burn people.
  
  And I don't give a rats ass about the Quran or the Bible. But burning books is something you just don't do.

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

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2016 @ 09:46am

  Swearing foreigners

  in nasty, terrible places like Switzerland
  
  Yes, we range the second-lowest when it comes to violent crimes (despite of having lots of guns; long guns however) but we also do something that must be terrifying for US Americans: We swear. A Lot. In public. On stages. In TV. On the fucking Internet. Everywhere.

• On the post: You'll Never Guess Which Portmanteau Everyone Is Suddenly Trying To Trademark

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2016 @ 12:16am

  Re: Texit Tangent

  That was my first thought when I read it. East Texas Court. Texit. This will be great. Please do.

• On the post: Google Comes Down On The Wrong Side Of The TPP

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2016 @ 01:36am

  Re:

  TPP contains some poison pills that are so bad
  
  It's more like carpet bombing than pills. TPP will lay waste to swathes of art and culture.

• On the post: Watch The President Use Fair Use To Support A Trade Deal That Undermines Fair Use

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2016 @ 01:30am

  It's called Mercantilism

  The more we sell abroad, the more higher-paying jobs we provide at home
  
  Yeah, and we do that by instituting protectionist laws around the world. That is mercantilism by any other name.
  
  And it won't help at home of course, because those "higher paying jobs" will be "lawyers", and not much else.

• On the post: Oculus Is Hurting VR's Development By Supporting Walled Gardens, Closed Ecosystems

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 24 May, 2016 @ 08:01am

  MacOS and Linux Support

  Not only that, but Oculus also halted support for MacOS and Linux:
  
  http://thenextweb.com/dd/2015/05/15/oculus-rift-drops-mac-and-linux-targets-windows-pcs-only/
  
  This was a big "fuck you" in my direction, so I'm going to vote with my boots.

• On the post: FBI Agent Testifies That The Agency's Tor-Exploiting Malware Isn't Actually Malware

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 23 May, 2016 @ 10:18pm

  FBI logic

  By the FBI's logic, disk-encrypting ransomware isn't malware, because if you pay, no lasting damage is done.

• On the post: Why Is Twitter Sending Legal Letters Warning People About Tweeting About The Gagged Topic Of A 'Celebrity Threesome'

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 21 May, 2016 @ 05:51am

  Re:

  Wow, this is good. Especially the second article, where they explain where the bounds of copyright on injunction letters are -- by example.

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