cypherspace’s Comments

• Nov 30th, 2015 @ 4:15am

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  on Details Of How The Paris Attacks Were Carried Out Show Little Effort By Attackers To Hide Themselves
  I know that WSJ's staff reporters and editorial board are two separate entities, but the latter outright worships the national security state. As a result of this report their next anti-crypto op-ed will be more entertaining than normal.
• Nov 20th, 2015 @ 4:03am

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  on Loretta Lynch Essentially Says The Ferguson Effect Is Bullshit
  Ted Cruz held a Congressional "hearing" on the Ferguson Effect this week and how Obama Hates Cops. Which is hilarious in a really dark way - with a few superficial exceptions this administration has expanded the powers of the post-9/11 national security state to unprecedented levels. Your tax dollars at work people...
• Nov 16th, 2015 @ 3:33pm

  Re: Rubio won't do the work to reform CFAA

  on Did Marco Rubio's Campaign Violate The CFAA? Will He Commit To Reforming It?
  If anything I would expect him to make the CFAA worse. He's already proven himself a supporter of the national security state. So it's a good thing he's not running for re-election to the Senate next year.
• Nov 16th, 2015 @ 4:07am

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  on As Predicted: Encryption Haters Are Already Blaming Snowden (?!?) For The Paris Attacks
  They're also blaming video game [consoles]. As for the archived NYT article, that newspaper has had a long history of transcribing government-approved stenography (see Miller, Judy).
• Nov 11th, 2015 @ 4:23am

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  on Colorado Residents Vote Overwhelmingly In Favor Of Municipal Broadband

  ISPs were able to pass twenty such laws in large part because, by framing community broadband efforts as "socialism run amok" and a dangerous infringement on free enterprise, they were able to distract the public with its own partisan bickering.

  They are loathe to admit this but in reality, the situation is "socialism" for the ISPs (via taxpayer subsidies), rugged individualism for everyone else. But what makes me really laugh about this is some of these muni broadband networks are legit co-operatives and are actually run as such.
• Oct 23rd, 2015 @ 6:45pm

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  on Court Dismisses Wikimedia's Lawsuit Over NSA Surveillance
  On a related note, we know that FISA judges have been purchasing Verizon stock. Gotta wonder if other judges are double-dipping too...
• Oct 15th, 2015 @ 5:28pm

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  on Konami Ingeniously Fuses Two Things Everybody Hates: Insurance And In-Game Microtransactions
  No Karl, don't you get it?! It's obviously some sort of deep commentary Kojima is trying to make about the relationship between gamers, war, and profiting off of...ok you know what, I'm just going to leave all the 2deep4u back in MGS2 where it belongs.
• Oct 9th, 2015 @ 4:08am

  Re: The Washington post

  on Once More: The TPP Agreement Is Not A Free Trade Agreement, It's A Protectionist Anti-Free Trade Agreement
  It's the stump of the tree chopped down by Washington himself!
• Oct 9th, 2015 @ 4:05am

  Re: The irony is strong in these ones...

  on Once More: The TPP Agreement Is Not A Free Trade Agreement, It's A Protectionist Anti-Free Trade Agreement
  Alternatively, they are familiar enough with past trade agreements to have a rough idea of how the TPP will work. But 'conventional' journalism is just too dense / bought-out to make this conclusion.,
• Oct 8th, 2015 @ 5:08pm

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  on No, Making Fun Of Donald Trump's Stupid Red Hat Isn't Trademark Infringement
  If there is one thing Trump's candidacy is good for, it's for demonstrating what a complete farce our political system has become. I really can't shed any tears about the "journalistic" stenographers who've provoked his wrath.
  
  "But Trump can't be bought off by donors and lobbyists!" - Yeah, because for the better part of 30+ years that's exactly what he's been doing to our politicians. Guess we've finally decided to cut out the middleman and let the plutocrats run for office.
• Oct 6th, 2015 @ 4:34pm

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  on Reddit's New 'Upvoted' Clickbait Website Will Ignore Everything That's Great About Reddit
  It's almost like Clickhole was prophetic in this regard...
• Oct 6th, 2015 @ 4:33pm

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  on The TPP And The Tobacco Carve-out Bring Together Strange Bedfellows... While Highlighting The Problems Of The TPP
  Wow, so Congress is so greedy it might just turn on itself because the TPP only gives them 99.99% of what they asked for? I'll believe it when I see it.
• Oct 6th, 2015 @ 4:05am

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  on Train Simulator 2016 And How We've Reached The Crest Of The Dumb DLC Wave
  For the cost of all the Train Simulator DLC I could probably get a lifetime ticket on any passenger railway that I wanted.
• Oct 5th, 2015 @ 3:46pm

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  on After Pulling An All-Nighter, Negotiators Finish TPP; But Don't Expect To See The Text For A While
  Sometimes I like to troll the 'it wasn't about slavery' posts with 'then was it really about oil?' - the reactions are always good for a laugh. And w/r/t the TPP, I'm sure parts of it really do have to do with oil.
• Aug 17th, 2015 @ 7:34pm

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  on AT&T's Long History Of Fraudulent And Abusive Behavior Apparently Of No Concern To The NSA

  As we recently covered, ProPublica (in conjunction with the New York Times) published another set of documents exposing AT&T's long-running position as Alfred to the NSA's bulk collection Batman.

  Actually I'd make the argument that AT&T is Lucius Fox. It makes alot more sense if you watched TDK and remember how they located Joker in the climax...(don't take this too seriously!)
• Aug 10th, 2015 @ 4:17am

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  on Chicago's Secret Homan Square Detention Facility Way Worse Than Anyone Thought
  Uhm, what? I saw plenty of concern from left-leaning groups. That's just a myth propagated by talk radio.
• Jul 22nd, 2015 @ 3:56am

  Re: schools & police (or public education vs public depredation)

  on Suspended Cop Sends Email To Department Thanking Them For The Paid Time Off
  Thats the School-to-Prison pipeline in action, prison-industrial complex drools itself over this policy. And to be honest - the more I think about it, it's not that the system is 'broken'- its screwed up by design!
• Jul 15th, 2015 @ 3:50am

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  on America's Best Has Some Fun With Scott Walker's Super-Similar Campaign Logo

  While some corporations have made notorious claims on political matters, and occasionally even get behind candidates, the vast majority of companies know that they're better off endorsing nobody and nothing.

  That's what campaign donations are for - more discrete and more effective at peddling influence anyways.
• Jun 26th, 2015 @ 7:41pm

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  on Guy Writes New James Bond Book... Only Available Where Bond Is In The Public Domain

  In the meantime, with Bond in the public domain in Canada, it's not just new Bond books we're seeing, but other interesting projects as well -- such as a new unauthorized anthology of Bond stories called License Expired.

  With a title like that Bond is going meta on the IP debate.
• Jun 16th, 2015 @ 3:38pm

  Re: Separation of powers

  on Congress Doesn't Really Have The Votes To Move Fast Track Forward, Everyone Starts Pointing Fingers
  Because their financial backers say so.

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