EvilBill’s Comments

• Dec 11th, 2013 @ 3:12pm

  Re: Re: Re: Catch-22

  on If You're An American Who Believes In The 4th Amendment, You Have No Excuse Not To Sign This Petition
  If that's the case, why draw attention to yourself by signing a petition that potentially labels you as a "troublemaker"?
  
  Too late. You already frequent and comment on techdirt.
• Dec 11th, 2013 @ 1:05pm

  Re:

  on If You're An American Who Believes In The 4th Amendment, You Have No Excuse Not To Sign This Petition

  Won't waste my time with this.

  
  
  Congratulations! You just failed without even trying.
  
  Having a defeatist attitude is totally one's prerogative. But following that up with inaction makes it a self fulfilling prophesy. Where is the harm in stating that one does not think it will work but still taking action and signing?
• Sep 10th, 2013 @ 10:00am

  (untitled comment)

  on The Problem With Too Much Data: Mistaking The Signal For The Noise
  Next on Hoarders...
• Sep 5th, 2013 @ 10:32am

  (untitled comment)

  on Insanity: PayPal Freezes Mailpile's Account, Demands Excessive Info To Get Access
  It is time to regulate paypal like a bank. The last time they were threatened with this, they suddenly got call-in numbers (where before it was web-form email only) and unlocked a lot of accounts such as mine, which had seven cents in it.
• Aug 28th, 2013 @ 9:49pm

  Opposite of Figuratively

  on DailyDirt: Can We At Least Agree On The Meanings Of Words?
  It antifiguratively bothers me what has happened to the word litterally.
• May 17th, 2013 @ 2:13pm

  FM Radios

  on Lots Of People Don't Turn Off Their Devices When They Fly
  A little OT, but there is a legitimate reason why FM radios used to be completely disallowed on a flight, at least back before GPS. The old navigation system, Loran, was in the frequency range just above FM radio. If an FM radio was poorly designed, then the local oscillator could have a side-band that would land directly on the Loran band and legitimately interfere with the the navigation signal. Especially since a radio signal in a metal tube (i.e. the plane) is very "loud" to a instrument at one end of the tube.
  
  I often wondered if the no-cell-phone rule was carry over from this.