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• On the post: How The Death Of Net Neutrality Could Hamstring The Internet Of Things

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2017 @ 05:01pm

  Death Of Net Neutrality Could Hamstring The Internet Of Things

  That almost sounds like a bonus.

• On the post: How The Death Of Net Neutrality Could Hamstring The Internet Of Things

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2017 @ 02:05pm

  Net Neutrality Could Hamstring The Internet Of Things

  That almost sounds like a benefit.

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

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 21 May, 2017 @ 04:45pm

  Re: Last 21 digits of Pi

  Damn you, my password is/was "the last 21 digits of pi" now I've had to change it.

• On the post: Australia's Copyright Agency Keeps $11 Million Meant For Authors, Uses It To Fight Introduction Of Fair Use

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2017 @ 11:15pm

  There ya go.

  Mr Williams, who joined the Copyright Agency’s Board in January, is a former Chief Executive at each of NewsCorp Australia, FOXTEL, Fox Studios Australia, the Australian Film Commission, Southern Star Entertainment and Musica Viva Australia and was also a senior executive at the ABC.
  
  https://www.copyright.com.au/2015/06/kim-williams-appointed-as-chair-of-the-copyright-agency/

• On the post: New Survey: Most Millennials Both Pay For Streaming Services And Use Pirate Streams When Content Isn't Legally Available

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2017 @ 04:22pm

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  I keep copy of Windows 10 on a VM (it was the free version released to Windows Insider Program members, which I joined so I could have a legal copy of Windows without paying for it), it never connects to the Internet, so spying by Microsoft isn't an issue, and I don't care about updates... it never connects to the Internet, so I'm not worried about security issues (any problems that might be caused by shonky software are easily fixed by restoring the VM from backup).
  
  I keep it around just in case I need Windows for anything where the Corporate gatekeepers have made life difficult for us Linux users, so far I haven't had any real issues, since I don't bother with BluRay. An issue with an update of the Linux version of MakeMKV caused a temporary need for the Windows version, and that's about it.

• On the post: New Survey: Most Millennials Both Pay For Streaming Services And Use Pirate Streams When Content Isn't Legally Available

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2017 @ 03:18pm

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  Also Redbox appear to be US based. So if they do rent actual DVDs, then I'm pretty sure they don't cater to my country.

• On the post: New Survey: Most Millennials Both Pay For Streaming Services And Use Pirate Streams When Content Isn't Legally Available

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2017 @ 03:01pm

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  I've tried the Piblic Library, they have bugger all to choose from.
  
  Never heard of Redbox, but a quick search reveals "Stream movies on-demand, no subscriptions needed."... Stramimng isn't an option for me
  
  But speaking of Rentals, all the old school Movie rental outlets seem to be closing down, due, no doubt, because of competition from Streaming services.
  
  Yep do the lending from friends this too, then rip the movies to HDD.
  
  I also search Farmers markets for "pre loved" copies.
  
  So for most stuff there's purchases and Bittorrent. Many movies, and TV series, are not available, especially older ones, for purchase, due to artificial scarcity, where the gatekeepers stop producing them.
  
  It would actually be so easy to enable the retail stores to simply burn copies of older stuff, but no we have to have fancy packaging in and limited runs to keep the prices higher.

• On the post: Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2017 @ 02:41pm

  I whish my Credic Card came whith a photo of a Smart Chip

  Because then I wouldn't have to ram a screwdriver though it.

• On the post: New Survey: Most Millennials Both Pay For Streaming Services And Use Pirate Streams When Content Isn't Legally Available

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2017 @ 03:21pm

  It's not just the Millenials

  It never was, but I for one am glad they are a handy club with which to beat the corporate gatekeepers.

• On the post: The Weird Antitrust Questions Of A Google Chrome Ad Blocker

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2017 @ 09:51pm

  Don't use Chrome

  Won't use Chrome. The Ad and Script blockers I currently use block ALL ads, all of the time, so in the end I don't really care.
  
  Google does seem in a bit of a bind here though, as they seem to be damned if they do and damned if they don't, but I suppose that's what you get when your business model is based on doing something that people feel is more than a little egregious.

• On the post: Actual Lawyer Thinks That Criminalizing Showing Murder On Facebook Will Prevent Murders On Facebook

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2017 @ 06:47pm

  Re: lets deal with the hard stuff of overhauling the entire system

  Won't ever happen, the basic mindset response to crime and punishment is Biblical, and I don't mean Sermon on the Mount type Biblical. I mean ye Olde Testement Biblical, with vengeful gods that require genocide for even the smallest sins.

• On the post: UK Court Grants First Live Blocking Order To Stop New Infringing Streams As Soon As They Start

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2017 @ 03:38pm

  TLA time

  VPN

• On the post: Australian Guy Demands Techdirt Story Be Blocked In Australia Over Comments

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2017 @ 02:36pm

  Re:

  I'm part of an online community (not one of those you're the product like Facebook or Google +), we have a policy that what you post does not get deleted. So anyone who posts, has to either stand by their words or publicly retract them... or go away, if they can't handle the heat. Such posts usually end up in the Dungeon, but they are never deleted.

• On the post: Australian Guy Demands Techdirt Story Be Blocked In Australia Over Comments

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2017 @ 08:05pm

  That's very cruel

  I demand this entire page be removed from Google Search
  
  On behalf of
  
  Malcolm Roberts, and the people of Queensland.

• On the post: Basically The Entire Tech Industry Signs Onto A Legal Brief Opposing Trump's Exec Order

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2017 @ 04:02pm

  Re: More Cognitive Dissonance from Tech Dirt

  >>>Trump is legally entitled to limit immigration entry, as have almost all other Presidents in living memory and before.
  
  
  According to the the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1952 all Presidents up until Lyndon B Johnson were so entitled. unfortunately for your argument, and Trump LBJ signed The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965 into law, and this statute supersedes any preceding statues regarding Immigration, and what a President, and any other person can do.
  
  The 1965 Act was introduced into the House of Representatives by Representative Emanuel Celler, which voted 320 to 70 in favor of the act, while the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 76 to 18.[9] In the Senate, 52 Democrats voted yes, 14 no, and 1 abstained. Among Senate Republicans, 24 voted yes, 3 voted no, and 1 abstained.[10]
  
  In the House, 202 Democrats voted yes, 60 voted no and 12 abstained, 118 Republicans voted yes, 10 voted no and 11 abstained.[11] In total, 74% of Democrats and 85% of Republicans voted for passage of this bill.
  
  Most of the no votes were from the American South, which was then still strongly Democratic. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965

• On the post: Basically The Entire Tech Industry Signs Onto A Legal Brief Opposing Trump's Exec Order

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2017 @ 03:48pm

  Re: The main article is in error

  The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 says otherwise.

• On the post: Basically The Entire Tech Industry Signs Onto A Legal Brief Opposing Trump's Exec Order

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2017 @ 03:09pm

  Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

  This is the first time I've seen any mention of the 1965 Immigration act, in any reporting on the travel ban. Based on that act Trumps Travel Ban is simply illegal.
  
  It would also explain why Obama never issued such a Ban, in spite of his insistence, erroneously, that the 7 countries named are the source of Terrorists in the US.

• On the post: Trump Muzzles Federal Employees; Reporters Start Asking For Leaks

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2017 @ 08:15pm

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  Proof exists only in mathematics.
  
  For everything else, a well supported Theory, IS the Truth until a better Theory comes along. After that it isn't.
  
  Get over yourself.

• On the post: Trump Muzzles Federal Employees; Reporters Start Asking For Leaks

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2017 @ 02:51pm

  Re: @tracyanne

  Not sure what in the hell that means, but it's nice that someone noticed me. I thought for a while there I was invisible.

• On the post: Trump Muzzles Federal Employees; Reporters Start Asking For Leaks

  

  tracyanne ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2017 @ 12:43am

  Re: Re: Spamgourmet

  Interestingly the IP address of the sender will be that of the Spamgourmet server, and not that of the person sending the email, because the meta data of the sender is stripped before the email is redirected on to the recipient.

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