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• On the post: Julian Assange Arrested On Behalf Of The US, For Trying To Help Manning Crack CIA Password

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2019 @ 07:27am

  Hack The Planet

  "used special software, namely a Linux operating system... to obtain the portion of the password provided to Assange."

  They also released the actual footage submitted into evidence as proof of Manning and Assange hacking with their specialized software:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUlAQZB9Ng

• On the post: Be Careful What You Wish For: Twitter Temporarily Bans 'Get Out The Vote' Ads To Comply With 'Fake News' Law

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2019 @ 12:17pm

  Re:

  Seriously, if just keeping track of paid political ads is too complicated, and then they have to do it for all content?

• On the post: Horse Race Announcer Sues Over Bill Murray Film That Included His Trademarked Tagline

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2019 @ 07:54am

  "there is no potential customer confusion over which to be concerned"

  There's no potential for confusion because there's no potential for anyone to know or care who this guy is.

• On the post: Federal Court Says Teen's 'Fuck Cheer' Is Protected Speech

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2019 @ 03:29pm

  Re:

  No, because Verizon is not a government entity. A school is.

• On the post: FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2019 @ 01:40am

  HIPAA

  How the fuck is this not a major HIPAA violation?

• On the post: Here Comes The Splinternet: How The EU Is Helping Break Apart The Internet

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2019 @ 08:46am

  Re: Re:

  Politicians aren't exactly an unbiased sample though. The job attracts the power hungry. The meek may inherit the earth, but not any positions in politics.

• On the post: After Insisting That EU Copyright Directive Didn't Require Filters, France Immediately Starts Promoting Filters

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2019 @ 10:43am

  Re: Re: Filters are censorship

  Agreed, this plan is how to cause more piracy, not less.

• On the post: EU Puts An End To The Open Internet: Link Taxes And Filters Approved By Just 5 Votes

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2019 @ 12:18pm

  Re: Need the companies to start NOW

  Because of Article 11, even the links themselves, not just the snippets from the articles, are subject to fees/licensing. So, they won't even be able to just list the EU news sites in alphabetic order without paying them, and nothing in the language would imply that this only applies to just the article endpoints and not also the root of their site.

• On the post: EU Puts An End To The Open Internet: Link Taxes And Filters Approved By Just 5 Votes

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2019 @ 12:16pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  But under article 13, you won't be able to post your video just because the game company just "allows" it. YouTube would need to explicitly get a license from that particular game company and have some one explicitly verify that all the game footage in your video is from companies they have a license for before allowing you to post it or else risk massive fines. So, given the rate of videos being uploaded to Youtube, they should be able to have your new video approved for posting some time in the year 2384.

• On the post: EU Puts An End To The Open Internet: Link Taxes And Filters Approved By Just 5 Votes

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2019 @ 12:02pm

  Re: Re:

  I just mean that the UK not being in the EU might save them from getting geoblocked by the rest of the world.

• On the post: EU Puts An End To The Open Internet: Link Taxes And Filters Approved By Just 5 Votes

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2019 @ 12:01pm

  Re: Re:

  Why not, if the UK isn't a part of the EU, then sites hosted outside the EU won't have to geoblock them.

• On the post: EU Puts An End To The Open Internet: Link Taxes And Filters Approved By Just 5 Votes

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2019 @ 07:30am

  I wonder if this could end up making the UK glad for Brexit.

• On the post: Cable Industry Embarrassed By The Word 'Cable,' Stops Using It

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2019 @ 10:20am

  Re:

  The "Affordable Care Act" has a lot better reputation than "Obamacare".

• On the post: Cable Industry Embarrassed By The Word 'Cable,' Stops Using It

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2019 @ 10:19am

  Re:

  Making people feel better about it exactly what they're aiming at.

• On the post: CBP Detains 9-Year-Old US Citizen For 36 Hours, Accuses Her 14-Year-Old Brother Of Sex Trafficking

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2019 @ 12:20pm

  Re: Re: Totally biased Techdirt always claims malice not mistake

  Man, for an automated system, it seems to be reeaaallly good at recognizing and flagging you. It must be some kinda next level AI to consistently recognize your posts and never seem to mistakenly flag anyone else's posts. Techdirt should sell this technology to Google or something so that they can improve their Content ID system.

• On the post: @DevinCow Now Has More Twitter Followers Than Devin Nunes

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2019 @ 07:31am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  If we could actually get real ballot reform, we should switch to a ranked automatic runoff voting system.

• On the post: Terrified Of The Internet, Putin Signs Laws Making It Illegal To Criticize Government Leaders Online

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2019 @ 08:33am

  Re: Terrified of dissent, MM provides code here to "hide" it.

  I've never seen some one before obsessed with such a tiny and specific conspiracy theory.

• On the post: Court Dismissed Lawsuit Brought Against Social Media Companies Alleging An Anti-Conservative Conspiracy

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2019 @ 01:40pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Another win for leftist censorship

  How do I vote this "LOL" like a dozen more times? XD

• On the post: Appeals Court: Stored Communications Act Privacy Protections Cover Opened And Read Emails

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2019 @ 11:49am

  Judges, get your analogies straight!

  You know, I'm actually kinda okay with ruling by analogy. But you've got to have the right analogy. They want to make the claim that unopened emails are like letters abandoned at the post office. But that's not the right comparison at all. I can't open mail that's at the post office, I can't see if I have letters lying around at the post office waiting for me, I can't see who they're from or what the title at the top of the letter is.

  Unopened emails are more like the pile of unopened mail on my dinning table. Hell, what's the "bin" called where unopened mail sits in an email client: Inbox. Not POBox, not Mailbox; INBOX. Like those little trays you'd have on your desk at home or work.

• On the post: Everyone's Overreacting To The Wrong Thing About Facebook (Briefly) Blocking Elizabeth Warren's Ads

  

  Shufflepants ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2019 @ 11:32am

  Re: Umm.

  Just because you can do something, doesn't mean it's a good idea. It's quite possible that you pulling down the ad will do more to further the goal taking down your website than the ad on its own ever could. Especially if your website is supposedly dedicated to and used for communication.

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