michaelb958’s Comments

• Feb 11th, 2015 @ 3:32am

  Surely someone's got to have standing!

  on Court Rejects EFF's Arguments Over NSA Internet Surveillance
  Oh for $DEITY's sake. Not allowing anyone to challenge surveillance programs defeats the point of having the option to challenge them. If no-one has standing until legal contortions requiring standing have been performed, then what's the damned point?!
• Nov 13th, 2014 @ 3:52pm

  New depths of "anti-terror" right here

  on UK's Home Secretary Says Terrorists Will Be The Real Winners If Country's Cell Coverage Dead Zones Are Fixed
  When I heard about the whole Snowden thing I was shocked.
  When big surveillance upgrades passed without argument (I live in Australia) I was somewhat surprised.
  When I read this post I was flabbergasted. I cannot even begin to explain what is wrong with this. It makes so little sense that I cannot process it at all.
  (Except, why would it be a problem, with all these extensive databases to cross-reference? Surely any government idiot can make carrier-independent queries?)
• Sep 9th, 2014 @ 1:43am

  This is my life with a Surface!

  on Marketing Failure: Microsoft Pays NFL To Use Its Surface Tablets -- And People Still Call Them 'iPad-Like Tools'
  I'm stuck with a Surface RT (don't laugh: needed a tablet, wanted something with intelligence, Surface 1 Pro wasn't out yet...). This is basically what continually happens to me. Every Single Time someone sees it for the first time, they call it an iPad. *sigh* (Disclaimer: I'm not an Apple fan.)