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• On the post: After Getting FOSTA Turned Into Law, Facebook Tells Its Users To Stop Using Naughty Words

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2018 @ 12:25pm

  So I guess those Monty Python references to that Roman centurion, Biggus Dickus, are a no-no?
  
  And what about my mushroom soup recipes? After Stormy Daniels started describing famous mushrooms...
  
  (giggles like 9-year-old)

• On the post: FCC Tries to Bury Report Showing Many Broadband Users Still Don't Get The Speeds They Pay For

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2018 @ 07:24am

  First thing I did was download the PDF of the Appendices. Just for the sake of someone eventually noticing 100K downloads of the "buried" part.

• On the post: Cubs, Nationals Launch Another Trademark Opposition Over A 'W' Logo

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2018 @ 06:04am

  This particular Starwood brand... one of many... has been named "W Hotels" since the brand's inception; hard to believe that any rendering of its name, which happens to be one letter, would be acceptable to these idiotic teams.

  I predict rough times ahead for the Yankee Inn of Lenox, Mass., and the Padre Hotel of Bakersfield, California.

• On the post: Lawsuit: Boston PD's 'Gang Database' Says People Who Wear Nikes And Have Been Beat Up By Gang Members Are 'Gang Associates'

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2018 @ 05:49am

  "... things like Chicago Bulls caps and Nike sneakers to be 'gang apparel.'"

  Some violent gangs wear blue uniforms and shiny black shoes. Hope they're on the list, too.

• On the post: Lawyers For Kobe Bryant Tout His Uselessness In Potential Trademark Opposition Fight

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2018 @ 04:17am

  Re:

  And not all of us are schoolyrad lawuers. Some are just inretsted onklooers.

• On the post: Judge Says Amazon Needs To Hand Over Recordings Created By Murder Victim's Echo Speaker

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2018 @ 01:16pm

  Re: Re:

  And, of course, we couldn't impinge upon the descendants' right to 70 years worth of revenue generation. Thanks, mom!

• On the post: Georgia Government Officials Celebrate Halloween By Engaging In Pointless Hassling Of Sex Offenders

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2018 @ 03:20pm

  Re: Re:

  Kind of like backing into a parking space.

• On the post: FBI Releases Guidelines On Impersonating Journalists, Seems Unworried About Its Impact On Actual Journalists

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2018 @ 03:38pm

  Crew shoots for months, hundreds of hours recorded, no usable final product... how is that a fake documentary crew? Sounds real to me. FBI Agents are probably pitching HBO as we speak.

• On the post: Canadian Privacy Commissioner Goes To Court To Determine If Canada Can Force Google To Delete History

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2018 @ 03:31pm

  Ironic... seeking forgetfulness on behalf of a nation which mostly says, "Eh?"

• On the post: African Nations Rife With Illegitimate Collection Societies: Nigeria Files Criminal Complaint Against COSON

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2018 @ 07:45am

  Re:

  His newfound best-bud told him that chucking paper towel rolls makes people love you...

• On the post: Vizio Customers Get A Pittance In Settlement Over Snooping Televisions

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2018 @ 04:30am

  $13? That's one of the biggest class action awards I've seen. Still holding a check from TD Bank that's supposed to make amends for lobby-located coin counting machines that chronically undercounted the contents of my pickle jar full of pocket change. I haven't needed the 56 cents yet.

• On the post: Hell Forms Bobsled Team After Police Chief Admits Fault In SWAT Raid Targeting Wrong Address

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2018 @ 07:43am

  Re: How about basic reporting standards?

  This isn't a news story, but it cites one in the first line. And if clicking-through is too much work, a mere roll-over reveals there's an underlying Washington Post news story one can refer to before (or after) reading the opinion piece posted here.

• On the post: China Actively Collecting Zero-Days For Use By Its Intelligence Agencies — Just Like The West

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2018 @ 11:06am

  Moo Shu DDOS

  Chinese programmers need less obvious ways to report exploits.
  
  This may explain why the fortune cookie I opened this weekend said, "L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) vulnerability may bring you sadness unless patched."

• On the post: New Jersey Judicial Commission Says State's Courts Are Maximizing Revenue, Minimizing Justice

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2018 @ 04:51am

  Poor prosecutorial decisions are hugely at fault. And it's helpful to differentiate the actual municipal court prosecutors involved here from the ennobled characters portrayed in TV crime dramas.
  
  In my experience in NJ municipal courts, the recent law school grad, unable to secure a slot in a regional powerhouse law firm, returns to her or his hometown and hangs out a shingle... wills, divorces and personal injury. Then, mostly because they're young and don't know any better, they get themselves appointed as a municipal assistant prosecutor. What follows is intoxicating: irrespective of their mediocre class rank or inexperience, ticketed motorists must bow low or curtsy before them, and beg for a reduction in the charges (and increase in fines). The municipal prosecutor, in that instant, is the most important person in the room; before court begins, a line is formed so that, one by one, each miscreant may appear before them and grovel. Local bigwigs, crabby neighbors, a teacher they always hated... heady stuff! And clearly, failure to kiss the ring could quickly escalate charges, especially for less savvy supplicants, or those who display a bit of 'tude. Bingo - no license, no ability to pay.
  
  This is no doubt compounded by the state's governmental structure -- few services are provided by regional governments, like counties or extended townships; a NJ County Sheriff enforces evictions and patrols county buildings, nothing more. New Jersey's 18th-19th century topology means hundreds and hundreds of small town Emperor-Prosecutors never develop enough professionalism to look at big-picture issues in small-time enforcement.

• On the post: Jeff Sessions Says If You Want More Shootings And Death, Listen To The ACLU And Black Lives Matter

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2018 @ 01:52pm

  Re: Re:

  Many would love to deliver a sockdolager to ol' Agent Orange.

• On the post: Tanzania Plans To Outlaw Fact-Checking Of Government Statistics

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2018 @ 02:55pm

  Re: Re: Fake News!

  I just fact-checked that statistic, and...

• On the post: Hollywood Chamber Of Commerce Trademark Bullies Kevin Smith's Podcast Over Hollywood Sign

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2018 @ 02:52pm

  Next target: Deputies who wear their five-pointed star badges while patrolling Hollywood, Florida.

• On the post: Manafort's Daughter's Lawyer Wants Twitter To Vanish Tweets Linking To Text Message Database

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2018 @ 04:58am

  But legal fees. Not having a legal leg to stand on is some consolation, but the financial penalties are daunting. The ultimate chilling effect!

• On the post: Nickelodeon Is Opposing A 12 Year Old New Zealand Girl's 'Slime' Trademark For Some Reason

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2018 @ 04:59am

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  Retainers and 12-year-olds, hmm? There's an orthodontia joke in here somewhere...

• On the post: In Defense Of Slow News

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2018 @ 11:00am

  I hear "slow news", and my mind jumps to a specific place - a service of the the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW), in which the news reports of the day are read at an excruciatingly slow speed, enabling comprehension by high school language class washouts like me.

  But I think there's a slightly deeper "slow news" significance here, too: slower dissemination enables more complete comprehension, in both the language example and in a TechDirt arm's-length review of a flash-bang "hot topic", one where nuance and more thorough understanding are fostered. I think a lot of us are nauseated by the "breaking news" culture, and "slow news" is the antidote.

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