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  • On the post: Trump May Not Be Serious About His NBC Threats… But He May Have Violated The First Amendment

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2017 @ 10:48am

    Re: Could you even imagine

    But Fox is the ONLY news organization that reports the truth that the 'liberal' media won't report! Fox told me themselves!

  • On the post: Trump May Not Be Serious About His NBC Threats… But He May Have Violated The First Amendment

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2017 @ 10:47am

    Re: NBC is not a "private person",

    LOL you don't have a clue. There's a number of less reputable news organizations that post all sorts of stuff that the mainstream news organizations won't dare touch. Occasionally they're reporting the truth but there's not enough proof for the mainstream media to touch it (for example they were reporting the Edwards love child for over a year before there was enough evidence for the mainstream media to dare to touch it). But usually it's just a load of garbage that's completely false. But those news organizations are rarely ever sued, because:

    • Yes corporations and media organizations DO have free speech and freedom of the press rights.
    • Winning a defamation lawsuit as a public figure is nearly impossible, and the lawsuit would just bring them more bad publicity.

  • On the post: DOJ Staffers: The T-Mobile Sprint Merger Will Reduce Competition And Should Be Blocked

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2017 @ 08:14am

    Re: Prior Restraint

    So by that logic a forest ranger shouldn't be able to do anything if they see someone pouring a bunch of gasoline on the trees, because they haven't started a forest fire yet? Hence it would be prior restraint to punish them for trying to start a forest fire?

    The damage from a monopoly isn't just in how they 'might' abuse their monopoly. It's long been shown that monopolies often hurt the whole economy, since the reduced competition allows them to raise prices and be less responsive to customer demands.

  • On the post: Emails Show ICE Couldn't Find Enough Dangerous Immigrants To Fulfill The Adminstration's Fantasies

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2017 @ 10:36am

    Re:

    These cities have publicly announced that they will be flouting the law
    There's a thing called 'separation of powers' built into the constitution that backs them up, you should read up on it. The Trump Administration has essentially zero options to crack down on sanctuary cities due to past legal precedents limiting executive power (including some rulings that happened under the Obama administration). They could try to, but the sanctuary cities are almost certainly going to triumph in court if they do. If you think it's garbage that the courts will side with the cities over the federal government, well, this is one of the problems in operating under such an old constitution that was written by people who feared a strong central government. That's why the federal government is weaker then most national governments if you compare our system to other nation's democracies.

  • On the post: Supreme Court Leaves Troubling CFAA Rulings In Place: Sharing Passwords Can Be Criminal Hacking

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2017 @ 06:37am

    Re: Re:

    Nah, it's so that we can throw more people into those for profit prisons of course!

    And we can brag to the public about putting more people behind bars to show we're fighting crime!

  • On the post: New 'Coalition For Responsible Sharing' About To Send Millions Of Take-Down Notices To Stop Researchers Sharing Their Own Papers

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2017 @ 06:35am

    Re:

    I prefer "Coalition for keeping the public ignorant by censoring scientific papers".

  • On the post: Groups Battle Trump FCC's Claim That One ISP In A Market Means There's Effective Competition

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2017 @ 07:20am

    > According to research by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), roughly half of the $40 billion in revenue made in this market is courtesy of a lack of competition and monopoly over-charging of smaller businesses.

    Stuff like this are why I've been saying for years that Wall Street are very short sighted in hating FIOS and other ISP infrastructure investments. They're undermining the entire US economy long term (and their own investments) just so that a few greedy people who own ISP stock in Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, etc. can make more money in the short term from lack of competition and lack of proper investment in infrastructure.

    It would be like all the drug companies in the world deciding they don't need a Research and Development department, because they can just jack up the prices on all the drugs they already sell to make more money. They'd make big money in the short term with their greatly reduced expenses, but at the expense of everyone else with their jacked up prices. And long term we'd all be screwed from the lack of investment in medical research.

  • On the post: Wall Street Predicts Apathetic Regulators And Limited Competition Will Let Comcast Double Broadband Prices

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2017 @ 08:47am

    Re: Re: Wall Street Predicts Apathetic Regulators

    Treating them as public utilities is what we should have done 2 decades ago.

    The worst part about this whole mess, and how Wall Street loves it, is how we're under-mining our own economy and economic growth with this madness.

    Slower Internet speeds hurt businesses and economic growth. It makes a lot of areas less attractive to move to and start businesses in. And that trickle down effect makes almost everyone poorer in the long run, including most Wall Street investors who are too short sighted realized that non-Comcast and non-Verizon stocks get hurt by their monopolies and lack of competition.

  • On the post: UK Home Secretary Calls Tech Leaders 'Patronizing' For Refusing To Believe Her 'Safe Backdoors' Spiels

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2017 @ 11:50am

    Only *millions*

    But what she wants are things tech companies can't provide without sacrificing the security of millions of non-terrorists..

    LOL only millions. LOL I wish.

    Multiply that by 1,000 and you'll be closer to the actual number.

  • On the post: Supreme Court Won't Review US Government Getting To Steal All Of Kim Dotcom's Stuff

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2017 @ 09:15am

    Re:

    The worst part is there's a bunch of Americans who insist that the bill of rights and those other protections don't apply to non-citizens like Kim DotCom.

    I mean seriously, if you follow their logic then it would be perfectly ok for the US to jail foreigners who criticize the US government, because foreigners don't have the right to free speech in the US!

  • On the post: DOJ's Facebook Warrants Target Thousands Of Users For Protesting Inauguration

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2017 @ 01:06pm

    ... What case do these search warrants even have in the first place? I don't recall reading about any riots or anything by anti-Trump protesters.

    The only controversy about the inauguration I recall was it's very low turnout, and how Trump lied for over a month about the 'huge' turnout breaking Obama's turnout records.

  • On the post: Campaigners For SESTA See It As A First Step To Stomping Out Porn

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2017 @ 01:22pm

    Re:

    FYI the 'camel to pass through the eye of a needle' part is actually a mis-translation.

  • On the post: Campaigners For SESTA See It As A First Step To Stomping Out Porn

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2017 @ 01:21pm

    Re:

    China already has (as close as you can realistically come, with all porn outlawed) on their highly censored web where every site must identify who you really are with their government created Real ID system.

  • On the post: Showtime Won't Explain Why Its Website Was Hijacking User Browsers To Covertly Mine Cryptocurrency

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2017 @ 01:14pm

    Re: Re: What if this was done to a user....

    Well isn't banning the use of it kind of banning the mining of it by default?

    If you're mining it obviously you intend on 'using' it in some way when you sell it/spend it later.

  • On the post: Showtime Won't Explain Why Its Website Was Hijacking User Browsers To Covertly Mine Cryptocurrency

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2017 @ 01:12pm

    Re: Interesting idea though

    ...I don't know about you, but I keep literally 10+ tabs open at a time.

    What would happen if all 10 of those sites tried to make my computer mine crypto-currency for them?

    Even the best computers would probably choke and crash under that onslaught.

    Or the computer's anti-virus would start alerting the user like crazy that someone's trying to inject malware on your computer.

  • On the post: Republican Governors Association Sets Up Partisan News Site & Forgets To Tell Anyone As It Pumps Out 'News'

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2017 @ 08:49am

    Re: Re: Re: The only value the GOP has left...

    What ideas from liberals do libertarians even take?

    Sure they say they support equal rights, but they also oppose government measures to bring about those equal rights, like the 1964 civil rights act (the act that had real teeth at stopping mass discrimination against blacks in the south). They insist the private market should about that change by boycotting businesses that discriminate.

  • On the post: As 'Star Trek: Discovery' Shows, The Streaming Exclusivity Wars Risk Driving Users Back To Piracy

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2017 @ 08:43am

    Re:

    On the East Coast, folks who DVR'd the premeire on Sunday found half their time taken up by '60 Minutes' which ran 20+ minutes late due to CBS NFL coverage.
    LOL ONLY 20 minutes? I remember when I used to watch The Amazing Race on Sundays. It was delayed by sports EVERY SINGLE FREAKING WEEK! I thought I'd be good recording an extra hour of footage. But nope, CBS then had a 77 minute delay one week from a really long sports game. At that point I said "screw this" and removed The Amazing Race from my DVR and haven't watched it since (not even when they moved it to a night that never gets sports delays). Why should I feed 60 minutes and other shows ratings that I don't watch just because CBS is too incompetent to stop sports from screwing up their schedule every Sunday night? If I wanted to watch sports I'd buy an overpriced cable bundle.

  • On the post: DHS To Officially Require Immigrants' Files To Contain Social Media Info

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2017 @ 11:02am

    Re: Question

    That's a good point.

    In the last year the SCOTUS struck down a bill banning sex offenders from using 'social media websites' because the term is too broad.

    The SCOTUS pointed out that sites most wouldn't consider 'social media' like Amazon could qualify as social media (because you can post reviews that anyone can read on the site, same with many other online retailers).

    And honestly, I have no freaking clue how many 'social media websites' I'm registered at. there's so many web forums I made an account at and either never posted, or made a couple posts and then never visited again.

    Also, what happens if you register a new account at a social media website after submitting the paperwork? Do you have to inform the government? Will the government believe you lied on your paperwork if you don't tell them because you didn't include that new account on your paperwork?

  • On the post: Larry Lessig's Latest Big Challenge: Fixing The Way We Elect A President

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2017 @ 07:07am

    Re: The Great Compromise of 1787

    Part of the problem is also culture and technology has changed too much since the founding fathers day.

    Back then most considered themselves a citizen of their state first, and a citizen of the US second. General Robert E Lee's politics were generally much more aligned with the North, but he fought for the South out of loyalty to Virginia over the federal government.

    Today, almost no one considers themselves a citizen of their state over the federal government. The whole idea sounds absurd to most people. And people move across state lines all the time.

    Technology also changed things. Back then conducting a nationwide presidential election and tallying the results in only a few months would be a difficult logistical feat with ships and horses as the fastest way to travel. Having electors get together to pick the president made it much less logistically challenging.

    Today travel isn't an issue. We can have instant communication with people on the other side of the planet. Counting the votes, even if they were all paper ballots, before the inauguration wouldn't be an issue or logistical challenge at all.

  • On the post: After Backlash, Verizon Will Give Rural Data Users A Bit More Time To Get The Hell Off Its Network

    ShadowNinja ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2017 @ 06:48am

    Re: Re:

    Nah he ran out of data to post the rest of the messa

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