Charles Roth’s Comments

• Sep 16th, 2016 @ 11:52am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  on House Intel Committee Says Snowden's Not A Whistleblower, 'Cause He Once Emailed His Boss's Boss
  To follow in the same metaphor, "only a fool fights in a burning house".
  
  Your moral high ground will do you (and more importantly) the rest of this country no good whatsoever if the real serial fabricator/narcissist gets into the white house.
• Sep 16th, 2016 @ 8:10am

  intel committee membership?

  on House Intel Committee Says Snowden's Not A Whistleblower, 'Cause He Once Emailed His Boss's Boss
  Thanks, all, for the (multiple) pointers to the committee membership. Write them and complain! It's hard to believe sometimes, but (at least some of them) do pay attention, if only in a self-serving way.
• Sep 16th, 2016 @ 7:26am

  intel committee membership?

  on House Intel Committee Says Snowden's Not A Whistleblower, 'Cause He Once Emailed His Boss's Boss
  Does anyone know, or can find, the actual names of the members of the House intel committee? I can't read the signatures on their actual letter.
  
  They deserve some calls and letters, calling them out for their cowardice.
• Jan 15th, 2016 @ 12:26pm

  Sousa was right

  on No, The Internet Hasn't Destroyed Quality Music Either
  While I agree with almost all of the above...
  
  ... in this case, Sousa was partly right. People singing together is a rarity, where once it was common.
  
  That *IS* a loss. It's not a justification to stop new forms of music. But always beware the Law of Unintended Consequences!
• Jan 7th, 2016 @ 9:48am

  So DO SOMETHING already!

  on CBS Sues Over Star Trek Fan Film Because It Sounds Like It's Going To Be Pretty Good
  Thank you, TechDirt, for posting this.
  
  Thank you, the 2 or 3 of you who offered interesting and useful analysis of what might be going on here.
  
  The rest of you -- WTF?! Did you actually DO anything besides complain?
  
  I bought 2 shares of CBS (total cost, about $ 90 US). I then wrote an old-fashioned letter (remember those?) to EVERY SINGLE DAMNED MEMBER of the CBS board of directors, explaining why this was a stupid, stupid, business decision. And, as a share-holder, I requested a response.
  
  To mix universes, "There is no try. There is only do, or do not."
• Oct 20th, 2015 @ 12:09pm

  BBC?

  on Daily Deal: Last Chance For Private Internet Access VPN Deal
  But I can I use it to view Downton Abbey on the BBC? :-)
• Oct 7th, 2015 @ 6:01pm

  TPP and greenvelope.com

  on TPP Also Locks In Broken Anti-Circumvention Rules That Destroy Your Freedoms
  Hmm, sam@greenvelope.com didn't bounce. Might try that.
• Oct 7th, 2015 @ 5:58pm

  TPP and greenvelope.com

  on TPP Also Locks In Broken Anti-Circumvention Rules That Destroy Your Freedoms
  I just received a "mail.whitehouse.gov" email (which I usually appreciate), from Sam Franklin, apparently the founder of greenvelope.com, extolling the virtues of the TPP.
  
  I immediately wrote back to the only direct contact I could find for him (info@greenvelope.com), calling "foul" on his white-wash.
  
  I encourage others to do the same. If I actually get a better address for him, I will post it here.
• Sep 29th, 2015 @ 12:26pm

  Is this fair? Signal/Noise

  on Toronto Sun: We Value Criticism And The Voice Of The Reader So Much, We're Killing Both
  I'm intrigued by "comment moderators can be hired for a pittance". If that's really true, I smell an interesting business model. "Farms" of moderators (hopefully better/more ethical than Putin's farms of commenters!) could be offered to troubled newspapers etc. as a cheap service.
  
  *Is* it true? Normally humans are the *most* expensive part of any such loop.
• Sep 28th, 2015 @ 5:34pm

  Is this fair? Signal/Noise

  on Toronto Sun: We Value Criticism And The Voice Of The Reader So Much, We're Killing Both
  Let's take a big step back, for a moment. I suggest (I may be wrong) that the signal-to-noise ratio on the various newspaper-and-other outlets has been, and is continuing to drop.
  
  Frankly, I don't think there IS a good, automated, way to keep decent, non-troll discussions on track, in a way that doesn't scare off the average, non-techie commenter.
  
  I speak to this with some knowledge and history: I built one of the very first web-based discussion systems (http://caucus.com, 1995, with non-web versions back to 1986). This is A HARD PROBLEM, folks.
  
  I think it may be fixable, but not by just waving or wringing our hands at it.
  
  I agree that the lies about "how we value our readers input" are just that, lies. But I suggest that there is a reason they are lying -- they feel helpless, and they may be right.
• Jul 8th, 2015 @ 1:45pm

  ICANN comment didn't work

  on ICANN's Threat To Privacy Is Not Theoretical
  I followed the link to send a comment to ICANN, which in turn sets up and prepares to send an email. When I hit "send", the email bounced back with this error:
  
  
  : connect to
  pechora1.icann.org[2620:0:2d0:201::1:71]:25: Network is unreachable
  
  : connect to
  pechora1.icann.org[2620:0:2d0:201::1:71]:25: Network is unreachable
• Jan 26th, 2015 @ 2:40pm

  Namecheap

  on Tomorrow Is Move Your Domain Day: Support The EFF And Get A Year For Free
  Sincere curiousity -- Namecheap vs Google domains? I'm slowly moving domains off GoDaddy.