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• On the post: One Year Later, ISP Claims That Title II Would Demolish Broadband Investment Found To Be Total, Indisputable Bullshit

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 03:52pm

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  Ooooooh! Curse you, Mike Masnick!

  
  You can't blame Mike for this. You have to blame the wonderful Consumerist for having a diligent, hard working reporter, the wonderful people at Consumer Reports (who bought them), and Tom Wheeler for being in a position to use wonderful ammunition they've offered him on a platter.

• On the post: One Year Later, ISP Claims That Title II Would Demolish Broadband Investment Found To Be Total, Indisputable Bullshit

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 03:46pm

  Re: Re: Re: I translated your post into Morse so Verizon could read it.

  I just finished a SciFi novel where a woman fired her maser rifle out a hole in a window, firing Morse coded shots at her gang's headquarters (to summon help). By this time in the novel (2076) Morse code was ancient history. All the spyeyes saw it being done, but it was essentially encrypted by time.
  

  Perfect job, Joe.

  
  Ack!

• On the post: One Year Later, ISP Claims That Title II Would Demolish Broadband Investment Found To Be Total, Indisputable Bullshit

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 03:39pm

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  I see, another internet grammar nazi.

  
  Yes, and you didn't capitalize Nazi. It's a proper noun. :-)
  
  People do get onto the net whose first language is not English. They're all using varying levels of device capabilities (ie. capitalization may be difficult). Complaining about this nowadays is just irritating. I only mind those who're intentionally irritating (like not capitalizing the first word in a sentence which is shot through with capitalized acronyms; how precious).

• On the post: Techdirt Crowdsourcing: How Will The TSA Idiotically Respond To The Laptop Terror Bomb?

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 02:05pm

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  You *could* have responded by mocking me for missing the (parody) part of the moniker on the comment I responded to (which I just noticed), leaving me feeling suitably embarrassed for responding to it seriously.

  
  He could have, but everyone knows you're just such an excellent poster that you'd get around to doing that yourself anyway, and then they'd look foolish.
  
  Ya just can't win some times.

• On the post: Drug Dogs Don't Even Have To Be Right Half The Time To Be Considered 'Reliable' By The Courts

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 12:51pm

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  With that in mind it's easy to say that a 10% accuracy rate is enough...

  
  Not perfect, but helpful in some situations? That sounds like a lot of things we continue using all the time.
  
  I'm more annoyed that sneaky dog handlers can teach their animal to alert on cue, not that dogs are imperfect.

• On the post: Court Says 10 Weeks Of Warrantless Surveillance Is Perfectly Constitutional

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 12:18pm

  Re: Re: Re: Where's my flying car?

  How's about I point my six inch Newtonian reflector at it from the hill on the other side of the next farm? You can fit a CCD camera onto the thing that'll resolve stuff the human eye can't.
  
  You don't want to be seen walking around with a weapon in plain sight, don't do it. Simple.

• On the post: Court Says 10 Weeks Of Warrantless Surveillance Is Perfectly Constitutional

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 12:03pm

  Re: Playing the odds...

  The Fourth Amendment seeks to protect us from such a fishing expedition. It is unfortunate that the Court has elected to disregard these protections.

  
  I don't agree. It constrains how the authorities may lawfully fish. If this camera was pointing into a window filming what happened inside, that's another thing. This guy was walking around in plain sight with an easily seen weapon. If you'd been there at that time, you'd have seen it. If a LEO were there at the time, they might be seen and that would have tipped off the perp.
  
  I've no complaint against this ruling. Don't do things in public view if you don't want them to be seen.

• On the post: Court Says 10 Weeks Of Warrantless Surveillance Is Perfectly Constitutional

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 11:55am

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  I didn't actually read the post, ...

  
  ... and it shows.

• On the post: Honda Tried To Get Jalopnik To Dox Commenter, Delete Posts, Meets The Streisand Effect Instead

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 11:32am

  Re: Re: Re: Good Job Honda.

  Honda can claim, but when they've basically already admitted that the commentator was telling an accurate truth ...

  
  Did they? It may be that what Hondanonymous claimed is untrue so they want to fire his incompetent ass for being ignorant of the company's products' attributes.

• On the post: Honda Tried To Get Jalopnik To Dox Commenter, Delete Posts, Meets The Streisand Effect Instead

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 11:24am

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  Don't tell me they're up on arson charges too?

• On the post: Facebook Prude-Patrol Nixes Another Work Of Art By A Feminist, Entirely Proving Her Decades-Old Point

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 10:47am

  Re: Easily rectified.

  I don't want to go back to the state before Western Civilization and the Sexual Revolution (which affected both attire and its meaning).

  
  You got me wondering, "Does this person remember codpieces?"
  
  We are very often very mixed up entities and that goes back a long way.

• On the post: Facebook Prude-Patrol Nixes Another Work Of Art By A Feminist, Entirely Proving Her Decades-Old Point

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 10:30am

  Re: The censorship is itself obscene

  To any innocent child thei si simply a picture of a woman eating an icecream.

  
  Yes, and that makes this learned behavior. What kind of pervert would teach a kid that?

• On the post: Facebook Prude-Patrol Nixes Another Work Of Art By A Feminist, Entirely Proving Her Decades-Old Point

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 10:27am

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  ... (though what you wrote today will still be there, to taunt you)

  
  I think you misspelled "haunt." Anyway, it's best if we individuals learn from others' mistakes, but even the best of us have to learn from our own sometimes. It's just an expensive education. Maybe he'll learn from it, maybe not.

• On the post: Facebook Prude-Patrol Nixes Another Work Of Art By A Feminist, Entirely Proving Her Decades-Old Point

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 10:17am

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  (also I am sure that as opposed as techdirt likes to pretend it is against censorship this comment will be deleted too ...

  
  You're funny. Stupid, but funny.

• On the post: Facebook Prude-Patrol Nixes Another Work Of Art By A Feminist, Entirely Proving Her Decades-Old Point

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 10:04am

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  Apparently I am a misogynist and a horrible person.

  
  Or, as a biological entity and person, there is really nothing evil about sexual acts on their own. Your misogyny is just your imagination running over. Enjoy the ride.

• On the post: Techdirt Crowdsourcing: How Will The TSA Idiotically Respond To The Laptop Terror Bomb?

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 01:33pm

  Checked luggage, of course.

  All laptops and similar devices must be in checked luggage, not carried onto the plane. Not only will this not solve the problem, it will also pointlessly inconvenience passengers.

• On the post: Facebook Prude-Patrol Nixes Another Work Of Art By A Feminist, Entirely Proving Her Decades-Old Point

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 09:58am

  I'd like to thank all those who participated in this performance.

  I can't remember enjoying any as enlightening, concise, and brilliantly performed spectacle as this. The script, casting, acting performances, and everything was just brilliantly handled.
  
  Better than Shakespeare in one short act. Bravo. Now that's art.

• On the post: Another Cop Treats Sexting Teens Like Child Pornographers

  

  tqk ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2016 @ 03:36pm

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  Fallacious argument. As you said yourself, tradition conservatism to the DETRIMENT of fathers and the benefit of mothers is still based on faulty assumptions about women.

  
  I agree, and men too! That male dominated society hasn't been all that much of a bed of roses either for a lot of males, forever just like for women. Feminists just feel they're oppressed by men. Aren't we all? Some men, yeah, but not all.
  
  Keep on keepin' on; don't let the bastards grind you down. Build alliances, and stampede grind every predator any of you see into the dust (think herd of wildebeest :-). "Pooh: Oh bother. Lock phasers on the Heffalump. Piglet, meet me in transporter room three. ..."

• On the post: States Wake Up, Realize AT&T Lobbyists Have Been Writing Awful Protectionist State Broadband Laws

  

  tqk ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2016 @ 06:38pm

  ISP?

  I miss the days when these outfits were called "telcos", which is what most are. ISP means "Internet Service Provider". That cellphones finally gained the ability to connect to the net is coincidental, yet everyone started calling AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and Time Warner ISPs.
  
  They don't provide service, for one thing. They're typical old style telcos in almost every way, a la Lily Tomlin. This story is a good example of that.
  
  We should call these outfits "Crappy Cellphone Connectivity Providers", or CCCP.

• On the post: PayPal Continues To Drive People To Bitcoin And Other Solutions As It Starts Cutting Off VPNs & Open Internet Solutions

  

  tqk ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2016 @ 01:54pm

  Re: Re: Re: What are other better options?

  The seller needs those and the number on the card you bought with cash. The credit card co. doesn't need your name and address. They just need the card no. to verify it's valid and stores enough money to make it a valid purchase.

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