agalvan’s Comments

• Dec 14th, 2015 @ 8:55am

  (untitled comment)

  on Clueless Press Being Played To Suggest Encryption Played A Role In San Bernardino Attacks
  Perhaps we should start the following rumor:
  
  San Bernardino attackers able to ascertain they were not being followed thanks to golden-key-enabled encryption scheme used by cops.
  
  Perhaps then they will stop trying to break encryption; though I'm not holding my breath.
• Dec 4th, 2015 @ 10:04am

  Incomplete surveillance

  on Former Bush Press Secretary Says The Answer To Mass Shootings Is... More Domestic Surveillance
  Will the surveillance include knowing who buys guns ?
• Apr 24th, 2015 @ 3:26pm

  Useless conversation

  on DHS Opening Office In Silicon Valley To More Efficiently Complain To Tech Companies About Encryption
  The government asking a few companies to implement backdoors in the devices they make and sell will not change the fact that just about anyone can build a fully encrypted device and have fully encrypted conversations using said device.
  That is the world we live in.
  The conversation between Silicon Valley fighting for the fourth ammendment and the government fighting for backdoors is a waste of time in the world we live in today.
• Jan 7th, 2015 @ 3:58pm

  Miscalculation ??

  on DHS Watchdog Says Border Patrol's Drones Are Expensive, Useless
  From the article:
  
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  Even with 5,100 hours of flight time being logged, the eyes in the sky contributed to only 2,300 apprehensions.... An apprehension for every half-hour of flight time is a pretty good ratio
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  Except, that works out to one apprehension for every two hours of flight, or about 24,000 USD per apprehension.
• Dec 20th, 2013 @ 12:35am

  Quote

  on The Surveillance Reforms Obama Supported Before He Was President... Are Remarkably Similar To Task Force's Proposals
  Power corrupts.
  Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
• Jun 19th, 2013 @ 7:57am

  Interpretation

  on It's Come To This: Commentators Arguing That The Press Commits A Crime In Exposing NSA Surveillance
  Actually, Thiessen's interpretation of the law is valid only if "United States" = "Government of the United States". That sounds a lot like "l'etat, c'est moi".
• Nov 27th, 2012 @ 12:29pm

  Cognitive dissonance

  on Barnes & Noble Decides That Purchased Ebooks Are Only Yours Until Your Credit Card Expires
  I wonder if those who support B&N's actions also support the premise "Intellectual Property = Property."
• Aug 13th, 2012 @ 7:29am

  Should have seen it coming.

  on Amazon The Latest Tech Company To Realize It Needs To Waste A Ton Of Money Buying Patents
  They should have seen it coming when they patented one click shopping.
• Jun 8th, 2012 @ 12:47pm

  Don't forget

  on Commerce Dept: Steve Jobs Had Patents, Steve Jobs Made Cool Things; Thus Patents Are Great
  Let us not forget to appropriately protect that other fountain of innovation: the turtleneck sweater.
• May 17th, 2012 @ 4:20pm

  Wrong in many ways.

  on Canadian Politician Claims That Ripping A CD To Your iPod Is Like Buying Socks & Stealing Shoes To Go With Them
  He's right in a sense. You "purchase" not a CD but a permission to use the CD. The real question is: How much resources should be expended by law enforcement to find and punish people who trespass said "bought permission"? Given the permission being sold, I say not much.
  
  It's more like the clothing store saying: I don't sell socks, I sell permissions to use socks. If you plan to use your socks with shoes that's a whole other permission. That permission is sold separately.
• Apr 23rd, 2012 @ 9:15am

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  on The Band's Ex-Manager Accuses Reddit Of Profiting From Piracy In Debate With Co-Founder
  Taplin then comes up with his "solution." It's to have every ISP charge users $2 to $3/month which would go into a giant global pool that would be distributed to copyright holders.
  
  I'll go with that.
  By virtue of the present post I'm a "copyright holder". What's my cut ??