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• On the post: 'Serious Sam' Developer Teams Up With Denuvo Cracker To Pump Up Sales For Failed Game

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2018 @ 08:02am

  Re: Re: "When the game hit the market, Voksi didn't target it. "

  Another thing you don't understand, you establishment shill!
  
  Cracker-pirate-hacker culture means thumbing your nose at the rules, especially grammar and punctuation! And sometimes spelling. And logic. Maybe hygiene, too.
  
  
  /s

• On the post: As Trump Nominates Torture Boss To Head CIA, Congresswoman Suggests It's Sympathizing With Terrorists To Question Her Appointment

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2018 @ 12:05pm

  Re: The Reagan Principle

  To quote Mr. Spock on the value of dirty agents: "Only Nixon could go to China..."

• On the post: Wired's Big Cover Story On Facebook Gets Key Legal Point Totally Backwards, Demonstrating Why CDA 230 Is Actually Important

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2018 @ 11:09am

  A nice little "Erratum" item at Wired would go a long way toward clearing that up, and would be a searchable citation for fact checkers on the next publication's CDA 230 story.

• On the post: UK Begins Absolutely Bonkers 'Education' Of Grade Schoolers About Intellectual Property And Piracy

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2018 @ 05:23am

  Love to send over a few crates of the Jenkins-Boyle-Aoki graphic novels... "Theft: A History of Music" and "Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain". Then they'd learn a thing or two.

• On the post: Using AI To Identify Car Models In 50 Million Google Street Views Reveals A Wide Range Of Demographic Information

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2018 @ 05:17am

  Re:

  Wouldn't that be a great bot post, instead of "Love what you wrote - thumbs up!"

• On the post: Bigoted Landlord Files Criminal Complaint Against Critic Who Called Him Bigoted

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2018 @ 12:14pm

  Amicus brief to be filed by the Guild of British Plumbers...

• On the post: After The 'Octopus Incident' White House Threatened To Stop 'Menacing Logos' From Spy Satellites

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2018 @ 12:09pm

  Discovered - meeting notes

  Action items:

  • Rework Sponge Bob "Squidward" character - not menacing enough

  • Wait... boss says no menacing octopi

  • Suggest Lewis and Clark... historical, safe

  • Make them menacing like octopus

  Advice for the team:

  Stultum est queri de adversis, ubi culpa est tua.

  -Syrus

  (It's stupid to complain about misfortune that is your own fault.)

• On the post: Bigoted Landlord Files Criminal Complaint Against Critic Who Called Him Bigoted

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2018 @ 11:45am

  Here's to lysdexia!

  Misread that headline, and instantly prayed that I'd never need to know how big my landlord's toes are.

• On the post: Quack Doctor Treating Cancer With Baking Soda Sues Skeptic For Questioning Her Cancer Treatment Methods

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2018 @ 12:28pm

  Re: Re: Well technically...nah, she's still a quack.

  They've got these giant bags at Costco!

• On the post: FCC Announces National Roll Out Of Amber Alerts But For Cops

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2017 @ 04:59am

  Re: Re:

  If you roll over the highlighted links he cites, you'll see it's sarcasm... stories about dangerous criminals with badges and guns, and the danger they pose to average citizens. Subtle, but on-point.

• On the post: Good News: Trump Protestors Accused Of 'Hiding Behind The First Amendment' Acquitted

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2017 @ 12:23pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Cool! We can do that now? Hey, maybe this Drumpf guy isn't so bad after all..

• On the post: FBI Leaves It To Journalists To Notify US Government Targets Of Russian Hacking

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 27 Nov, 2017 @ 10:38am

  "The AP unquestionably has less manpower available..."

  Budgets are tight... full-blown agents are expensive. Sounds like the FBI needs a squad of $8/hr part-timers to do what the AP did so easily. And with Home Depot jobs harder and harder to come by, imagine how many 60+ applicants they'd have! Boost American employment stats!

  They could call them "Junior G-Men".

• On the post: Wireless Industry Lobbies To Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy, Net Neutrality

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2017 @ 06:50am

  If only there was an American political party that feared Federal overreach... that championed States' rights to regulate themselves... that was appalled at the swamp full of lobbyists and special interests...
  
  Oh, wait. Never mind.

• On the post: Most Senate Intelligence Committee Members Are Fine With Domestic Surveillance By The NSA

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2017 @ 06:45am

  "... stapled to the backend of a must pass appropriations bill..."

  Just like a migrant in the back of a cross-border Greyhound, hoping to avoid detection, the best place for garbage legislation to avoid scrutiny is the back of a 'bus... an omnibus spending bill.

• On the post: AT&T Promises Your Broadband Will Suck Less…But Only If It Gets Another Massive Tax Cut

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2017 @ 08:22am

  Re:

  "...make absolutely certain that they would vote according to your wishes..." Cool! Can we do that? Sounds so easy!

• On the post: A Great Use For Artificial Intelligence: Scamming Scammers By Wasting Their Time

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2017 @ 05:06am

  Re: know thy self

  Bet we can vote this comment into "Funniest of the Week".
  
  Looks like a lot of work went into composing this... you know, pressing each of those letter-buttons on the keyboard, clicking the "submit" box... things the training program never taught him.
  
  Vote now!

• On the post: Texas National Guard Latest Agency To Be Discovered Operating Flying Cell Tower Spoofers

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2017 @ 05:00am

  Re: Re: Assume the worst and you will rarely be disappointed

  Here's an idea: the DEA can buy Stingray-equipped Cessnas for Native American tribes, and train pilots to fly in circles. Since the tribes aren't apparently subject to US laws, no need to worry about those pesky warrants...

• On the post: AT&T Promises Your Broadband Will Suck Less…But Only If It Gets Another Massive Tax Cut

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2017 @ 08:19am

  The Verizon FiOS-Not-Available customers in NY-NJ would love to help the AT&T customers understand just how those subsidies work out in the end.

• On the post: AT&T Promises Your Broadband Will Suck Less…But Only If It Gets Another Massive Tax Cut

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2017 @ 05:12am

  "If the House bill is signed into law..."

  "Paging Rep. Marsha Blackburn... Marsha Blackburn, please come to the House visitors' gallery. A large fruit basket has been delivered with your name on it."

• On the post: Dead People Mysteriously Support The FCC's Attack On Net Neutrality

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2017 @ 06:41am

  Influencing an FCC public comments proceeding... what a specific task to undertake. Wonder how you do that -- is there a "dark directory" of proverbial bent-nosed paisans to call? Drop a note to Boris at the Villains, Thieves and Scoundrels Union?

  But seriously... there's a bunch of work needed to pull this off. It's not just a random (obituary) database to seed the commenters' name and address fields from; someone had to draft the nonsensical complaint text... and as I understand it, it wasn't just a matter of a couple of boilerplate responses, although the content repeats. Some group put forward a significant chunk of change for these services... interfered with a Federal rulemaking process. Special prosecutor! (/s)

  Disappointing, though, that they signed as dead people, instead of "Amanda Hugginkiss", "Heywood Yablowme" and "Mike Rotch".

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