Matt’s Comments

• Jan 4th, 2017 @ 6:59am

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  on Man Has To Beg LG To Uncripple His 'Smart' TV After Ransomware Attack
  In my recent TV shopping there a lot of non-smart TVs were more than their equivalent "smart" versions (and this wasn't during black friday sales)
• Aug 19th, 2016 @ 8:51am

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  on Court To Prenda's John Steele: Okay, Now We'll Sum Up How Much You Cost Taxpayers And Need To Pay
  Warming up the popcorn machine now
• May 6th, 2016 @ 10:55am

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  on UK Sports Star Threatens American Newspaper For Posting Public Information About His New Home
  Is it too late to nominate Ken Kurson for presidential?
• Jan 7th, 2016 @ 5:34am

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  on Pioneer In Internet Anonymity Hands FBI A Huge Gift In Building Dangerous Backdoored Encryption System
  I guess I don't understand the premise, if it's as good at protecting privacy and anonymity as it claims... how exactly are these nine eyes going to know who the bad guys are to decrypt or for that matter know if what they are doing is bad (it's supposed to be encrypted after all). That suggests that there is no anonymity or privacy or real encryption
• May 6th, 2015 @ 6:26am

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  on Would You Order Broadband From A Company That Can't Even Figure Out How To Let You Sign Up Online?
  Unfortunately it's my only choice. Technically I have cable in my neighborhood but the nearest cable terminates somewhere in my yard and in addition to tripling my internet costs I'd have to pay for them to dig up my lawn to try and find it on top of an installation fee.
• May 5th, 2014 @ 9:09am

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  on Congress Has Voted Proactively To Remain Clueless About Technology
  Great idea if "objective" government agencies only ever provide objective data
• Jul 9th, 2013 @ 7:17am

  Small correction

  on Way To Go Florida: Governor Signs Law That Accidentally Bans All Computers & Smartphones
  "Can we just have lawmakers recognize, once and for all, that they're really bad at legislating technology?"
  
  Should really be this:
  
  "Can we just have lawmakers recognize, once and for all, that they're really bad at legislating?"
• Jul 2nd, 2013 @ 10:56am

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  on Ohio AG Gets Urban Outfitters To Pull Satirical Prescription Coffee Mugs From Stores, Citing His Own Lack Of Humor
  Their next target is probably the "Life's a Beach" coffee mugs.
• Oct 14th, 2011 @ 10:21am

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  on US Postal Service Sends Postage Due Bill To Guy Who Put Block Party Invites Into Neighbors' Mailboxes
  I guess I'd be a little more sympathetic if my mail man didn't see new mail in my box, recognize it was properly postaged and addressed and put it back in the box with my new mail. After all it's not like the rent check is in any hurry.
• Oct 14th, 2011 @ 5:13am

  Re: WTF?!?

  on US Postal Service Sends Postage Due Bill To Guy Who Put Block Party Invites Into Neighbors' Mailboxes
  You are supposed to write a letter and hope it doesn't get stuffed in a closet so they don't have to deliver it (http://www.hinterlandgazette.com/2009/12/union-leader-ray-arcovio-claims.html)
• Oct 14th, 2011 @ 5:10am

  Re: WHAT!

  on US Postal Service Sends Postage Due Bill To Guy Who Put Block Party Invites Into Neighbors' Mailboxes
  Not for first class mail (and really there aren't many truly free market's left)
• Oct 14th, 2011 @ 5:08am

  Re: Who owns mailboxes?

  on US Postal Service Sends Postage Due Bill To Guy Who Put Block Party Invites Into Neighbors' Mailboxes
  It's part of the USPS's monopoly protections, this is why UPS and Fedex can't deliver anything to your mailbox.
  
  I can't find my original source but I believe the USPS also has the power to prevent UPS and Fedex from undercutting their prices (or in other words set's the minimum price they can charge)
• Jul 15th, 2011 @ 7:32am

  Meh....

  on It's Baaaaaaack, Yet Again: Totally Pointless, Unnecessary & Damaging Fashion Copyright Bill Returns
  I hated clothes shopping anyway.
• Jun 24th, 2011 @ 5:36am

  Re: Re: Re: Do you at all grasp the import of what you write?

  on Winklevii Trying Again: Suing Facebook Yet Again With A Different Argument
  I guess I didn't read sarcasm in the original post. I may have missed it but I know people that truly believe what out_of_the_blue posted so it wouldn't surprise me in the least if it was not sarcasm.
• Jun 23rd, 2011 @ 12:56pm

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  on TSA Chief Pistole: Maybe We Can Stop Petting Your Children
  "What's it called when a government perpetrates terrorism against its own state?"
  
  government
  
  /also not a joke
• Jun 22nd, 2011 @ 8:42am

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  on Disney: When We Copy, It's Inspiration; When You Copy, It's Infringement
  I'm not defending disney on this but a lot of the "distinct" features on this car aren't unique to it. In fact I imagine a lot of the features on this car were inspired from other cars.
  
  But really that just shows how ridiculous Disney's position on this stuff is. By copying this car Disney isn't hurting it, it's making it a lot more known.
• May 27th, 2011 @ 11:32am

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  on Al Franken Grandstands Over Meaningless Privacy Policies
  For politicians it is almost always about the appearance and not end result.
  
  If franken can require Apple and Google to require privacy policies he gets to point to something he's "done" even though it's changed nothing.
• May 17th, 2011 @ 1:25pm

  Re: Re: It will cost more

  on Should Young People Have Their Votes Count More?
  Hate to break it to you but the Ms. I-built-the-GPS-nav-system-of-the-DARPA-grand-challenge-winning-automated-car probably won't be volunterring for this, it'll more like be Ms. I-can't-be-bothered-to-pay-attention-to-what-I'm-getting-paid-to-do-because-i'm-busy-with-facebook/t exting/etc.
• May 16th, 2011 @ 9:59am

  Re: Re: Seems easy enough...

  on The Stupidity Of 'You Must Be A Criminal' Copyright Taxes: The SD Card Edition
  The article mentioned that this was for all SD cards regardless of stated purpose.
• May 16th, 2011 @ 9:54am

  Seems easy enough...

  on The Stupidity Of 'You Must Be A Criminal' Copyright Taxes: The SD Card Edition
  Introducing the TE card backwards compatible with SD cards, not subject to ridiculous SD card tax.

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