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• On the post: Consumer Groups Say The FCC Just Blew $9 Billion To Deliver Broadband To Already Served Rich People

  

  stine ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2020 @ 12:18pm

  Re: All of the above notwithstanding...

  Your comment is spot on. SpaceX hasn't been a broadband provider before. Technically, SpaceX could have asked for funding for EVERY census block between 37 degrees north and the US-Canada border, but they didn't because they don't have the infrastructure, or plans for infrastructure, to support high-density populations (cities.)

• On the post: More Subsidies Alone Won't Fix What Ails U.S. Broadband

  

  stine ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2020 @ 07:57am

  Re: FTFY

  You've made that comment before, about at&t, haven't you?

• On the post: Trumpland Apparently Just Forgot About Its Manufactured TikTok Hysteria

  

  stine ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2020 @ 04:23pm

  Hey Karl.

  You need to read the article posted immediately after yours, to Techdirt.com, and then send yours out for a re-write.

• On the post: Happy 20th Birthday To 'No One Lives Forever', The Classic PC Game That Can't Be Sold Today Thanks To IP

  

  stine ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2020 @ 07:31am

  why not do it anyway?

  Surely if they get sued by all 3 of them, they can counter-sue the two who don't actually have that right to pay of the 3rd...

• On the post: Content Moderation Case Study: Moderating An Anonymous Social Network (2015)

  

  stine ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2020 @ 05:16pm

  do these authors live under a rock?

  If that's how they classify a social network, they need to rewrite that article after researching Christopher Poole and the forever infamous 4chan.org

• On the post: Judge: Trump Denying He Raped Someone Was Not Part Of His Official President's Duties

  

  stine ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2020 @ 05:02pm

  Re:

  But, according to the part above that you didn't read, he wasn't president at that time.

• On the post: Judge: Trump Denying He Raped Someone Was Not Part Of His Official President's Duties

  

  stine ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2020 @ 10:39pm

  Do you think the Dem's will go nuts

  If the president decides to classify his tax returns, business documents, and all of his tweets, do you think there would be enough courtrooms to handle all of the federal charges? This would work because the president is the ultimate classification authority.

• On the post: Tom Lehrer, Still Awesome, Releases Lyrics Into The Public Domain

  

  stine ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2020 @ 04:56am

  the pigeons's are in trouble now!

  Lets go!

• On the post: Trump's Law-Breaking Law Enforcement Commission Has Plenty Of Dystopian Ideas

  

  stine ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2020 @ 11:44am

  re: cops

  Does this mean that he'll direct the DoJ to prosecute every cop who bends or breaks the law? Or is his A.G. a fuckwad.

• On the post: Trademark Genericide And One Big Way The DOJ Admits That Its Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google Is Utter Garbage

  

  stine ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2020 @ 09:52am

  re: wolfram alpha

  Apparently the DoJ only uses Google Search, which is probably written into one of their official computer hardening documents...

  Alphabet, you should ask for a copy of their computer hardening documents, specifically in relation to standard sofware load information. If you're fortunate, it will contain "install Google Chrome and set it as the default browser..."

• On the post: Cambridge Analytica's Crime Was Not Violating Your Privacy Or Taking Data From Facebook, It Was A Massive Campaign Finance Scam

  

  stine ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2020 @ 02:30pm

  Re:

  Didn't Facebook boot them for improperly (according to the rules they were supposed to follow) accessing user data?

• On the post: Five Eyes Countries Band Together To Complain About Facebook And End-To-End Encryption

  

  stine ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2020 @ 12:02pm

  Re: Re: Backdoor backblow

  How? You do realized that both transmitted and at-rest data are encrypted using exactly the same set of ciphers, right?

• On the post: DOJ Seizes Domains, Claiming They Pushed Iranian Disinformation; Should Raise 1st Amendment Concerns

  

  stine ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2020 @ 12:42am

  in answer to your question

  Yes, yes we would.

• On the post: Texas Grand Jury Indicts Netflix For 'Lewd Exhibition' Of Children In Its Movie 'Cuties'

  

  stine ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2020 @ 07:38pm

  Re: Re: Zoom

  No shit sherlock.

• On the post: After Years Of Claiming It Doesn't Use Facial Recognition Software, The LAPD Admits It Has Used It 30,000 Times Since 2009

  

  stine ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2020 @ 06:09am

  hmmm

  Sounds like some LAPD and/or LA city attorney needs to be disbarred for making that false determination. if it turns out that it was only the LAPD chief (or mayor) who made that decision, then loss-of-pension or job or both is due.

• On the post: Oracle Is Wrong About Having Permission To Reimplement Amazon's API. But They Shouldn't Need It.

  

  stine ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2020 @ 01:59pm

  Re:

  And Prenda Law, they were source of much amusement.

• On the post: Would You Believe That Infamous Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz Is In Trouble Again?

  

  stine ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2020 @ 06:19am

  Re: Re:

  In the music department...more or less...

• On the post: Actual Facts Undercut Media's Narrative That Law Enforcement Task Force Broke Up A Multi-State Sex Trafficking Operation

  

  stine ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2020 @ 05:01am

  good.

  I'm glad I'm not the only person who was infuriated by the headlines in the AJC when this operation was announced. I'm glad that there were children who have been returned to their parents. I'm almost as glad that some were returned to their legal guardian (because I think many custody cases are decided in favor of the mother regardless of her non-biological abilities.)

• On the post: It's Time To Start Dismantling One Of The Nation's Oldest Racist Institutions: Law Enforcement

  

  stine ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2020 @ 05:16pm

  First thing

  Take away everything larger than a .22 calibre including all rifles, trucks, apcs, and everything they purchased from the feds. If they need backup, keep a swat team, they're actually usefull when they aren't used first, or even second; they're a last resort.

• On the post: Bridgefy, A Messaging App Hyped As Great For Protesters, Is A Security Mess

  

  stine ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2020 @ 07:29am

  really?

  My instinct tells me THIS IS WHY it was hyped for protesters...

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