Jollygreengiant’s Comments

• Jan 15th, 2022 @ 4:31am

  My POV

  on Appeals Court Says It's Entirely Possible For Cops To Pinpoint Marijuana Odors In Moving Cars

  When I'm riding my motorcycle through traffic, the smell of MJ from some cars is really obvious, you can smell it some 40-50 yards behind. If you smoke it a lot, as with tobacco, I bet your car will smell of it whether you're smoking at the time or not. So, I'm inclined to believe this, though I expect pinpointing the target would be more difficult from a car where you're not so exposed to the passing air.

• Jun 9th, 2018 @ 11:00am

  Little pig, little pig.

  on Three Takes On Microsoft Acquiring Github
  Microsoft may have changed, but they're still there to make money, and screw over Linux. They keep on trying on a new sheepskin coat every few months, but deep down there's still a big, bad, capitalist wolf after Linux's FUD and guts. How much do you think MS would care if there was a 'mysterious' intermittant 'problem' with a lot of open-source repos that caused a lot of issues for the Linux devs?
• Feb 1st, 2018 @ 3:19am

  Re: Constitutional right to bear vehicles.

  on ICE Finally Gets The Nationwide License Plate Database It's Spent Years Asking For
  "Right to bare arms"? ... Rolls up sleeves.
• Feb 1st, 2018 @ 3:16am

  Re: bigger picture

  on ICE Finally Gets The Nationwide License Plate Database It's Spent Years Asking For
  So the police can tell who it is they've just shot.
• Jan 31st, 2018 @ 12:18pm

  (untitled comment)

  on ICE Finally Gets The Nationwide License Plate Database It's Spent Years Asking For
  But you just try asking for a national gun database and see what happens...
• Oct 6th, 2016 @ 6:51am

  The big question.

  on FBI Arrested NSA Contractor For Walking Off With 'Highly Classified Information'
  So, $1000 dollars of NSA equipment. Is that one, or two, lightbulbs, do you think?
• Jul 2nd, 2016 @ 11:12am

  It's a strawman...

  on People Support Ethical Automated Cars That Prioritize The Lives Of Others -- Unless They're Riding In One
  By the time we get to a position where your car knows that there are other vehicles with higher value occupants, surely it, and all the other vehicles, will have enough situational awareness to NEVER get into an accident in the first place? Otherwise, how could the vehicle even attempt to make such a decision in the first place? Even a wildly out of control vehicle will be reported over the intercar network so those ahead of it can take avoiding action.
• May 2nd, 2016 @ 10:27am

  Re: Damn you PETA

  on Facebook Has Lost The War It Declared On Fake News
  No, that's true. Read the story here: http://techdirt-clickbat.com/mug-hormone-story.asp
• Sep 4th, 2015 @ 11:05am

  (untitled comment)

  on Thomas Goolnik Really Wants To Be Forgotten: Google Disappears Our Post About His Right To Be Forgotten Request
  So amusing that three of the top five results for him on duckduckgo are Techdirt articles. The other two are the FTC page detailing a complaint regarding a scamming company and a linkedin page. I won't mention what the other links lead to, but no wonder Thomas Goolnik wants his history erased.
• Sep 10th, 2014 @ 1:08pm

  Have they not heard of...

  on Switzerland Could Offer Snowden Safe Conduct To Testify About Surveillance, But Accepting Seems Risky
  Skype.
• Sep 10th, 2014 @ 1:07pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  on Switzerland Could Offer Snowden Safe Conduct To Testify About Surveillance, But Accepting Seems Risky
  Snowballing?
• Sep 10th, 2014 @ 1:06pm

  Re: Intercepted in flight

  on Switzerland Could Offer Snowden Safe Conduct To Testify About Surveillance, But Accepting Seems Risky
  Why bother with interception? I'm sure they could easily stuff the plane with service people and just fly it straight to gitmo.
• Jan 7th, 2014 @ 12:26pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Not Cool: MPAA Joins The W3C
  I have to agree. The W3C can decree as many standards as it likes, but if general opinion among developers is that it no longer deserves that role, it's standards won't get supported. Who fancies starting the New Open Markup Standards commitee? I think NOMS has a long way to go!
• Oct 19th, 2013 @ 3:00am

  (untitled comment)

  on Energy Companies Trying To Abuse Intellectual Property Law To Hinder Research Into Impact Of Fracking
  The way I see it, the moment the chemical leaves the pipe, it leaves the company's control, and at that point there's no difference between this and a chemical spill. I don't see any company being able to deny govt. agencies access to the recipe of what they've just poured into a water-course on the basis of 'trade secrets'
• Oct 7th, 2013 @ 3:42pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Every Time A State Tries To 'Protect The Children' Online, It Makes Things Worse
  The best way to protect them is let them fly themselves out of Minnesota. Oh, they already do that?
• Oct 7th, 2013 @ 3:37pm

  Re: Re:

  on 9-Year-Old Sneaks Onto Flight; TSA Blames The Government Shutdown, Then Says It Did Its Job Just Fine
  No, that's on a runway...
• Sep 25th, 2013 @ 12:34pm

  Re: Whistleblower

  on DOJ Puts Another Leaker In Jail: The War On Whistleblowers Rolls On
  From what I've read he gave away information about the underpants bomb, which could have only come from a small group of people, thus endangering the life of an undercover informant.
• Mar 11th, 2013 @ 1:49pm

  Re: Caused to be Served

  on Verizon Steps In On Prenda Case; Says Brett Gibbs Never Informed Them Of Judge's Order Killing Subpoenas
  You fool! Isn't it obvious he asked Alan Cooper to do this?
• Feb 5th, 2013 @ 7:02am

  Covert data transfer

  on DailyDirt: Storing Data On DNA
  Did you know that during sex the man transfers approximately 1.6TB of data?
• Nov 12th, 2012 @ 2:01pm

  Not only, but also...

  on Apple Learns That Suing A Key Supplier May Not Be So Smart; Samsung Jacks Up Prices On Apple
  I believe Samsung also manufacture that lovely "retina" display that Apple use. How can anyone not understand that suing your own supplier will only increase your own costs?

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