MikeW_CA’s Comments

• Jun 7th, 2016 @ 7:02am

  Re: B4$%s making profit

  on Broadband CEOs Admit Usage Caps Are Nothing More Than A Toll On Uncompetitive Markets
  Really sums up what's gone wrong with this country over the last 30-40 years. Before then, businesses used to make profits by pleasing their customers. Now, more and more businesses depend on making their profits by jacking their customers. Business ethics have become extinct, especially in the C Suites.
• Apr 28th, 2016 @ 6:38am

  The Spirit of Hoover lives.

  on FBI Says It Will Ignore Court Order If Told To Reveal Its Tor Browser Exploit, Because It Feels It's Above The Law...
  Keep in mind, the FBI Headquarters building is still named after J. Edgar Hoover. That should tell us what we need to know.
• Aug 20th, 2015 @ 7:55am

  Easy for him to say.

  on Jeb Bush Claims That Creating Encryption Harms America
  I suppose Jeb Bush has servants to do his online shopping and accountants to do his banking for him.
• Aug 20th, 2015 @ 7:48am

  Re:

  on Jeb Bush Claims That Creating Encryption Harms America
  It's not either-or. Like most politicians, he's probably both.
• Jun 27th, 2014 @ 7:39am

  Bring back Must Carry

  on The Aereo Ruling Is A Disaster For Tech, Because The 'Looks Like Cable' Test Provides No Guidance
  There is a simple solution the Aereo problem. Regulate the cable distribution of over-the-air TV like it used to be regulated. If a station broadcasts in the clear over the public airwaves, you should be able to (and may be required to, under some circumstances) deliver it unaltered over cable (and internet) without payment. Either that, or the FCC should be charging fairly high rent for the use of TV Broadcast channels.
• Jun 22nd, 2014 @ 1:02pm

  Re: Re: Can secret law even be legal?

  on Details Leak On How Secret Global Treaty Will Force Countries To Further Deregulate Financial Sector
  Right. Yet this would be different in that even the legislation itself would be secret. I don't doubt that government can keep secrets. This seems to differ from the TPP. In the case of that agreement, the negotiations are secret, but I thought that the agreement itself would be made public before being rammed through Congress. In this case, Congress would be saying "we hereby agree to certain things which are secret, and give those force of law by our approving them as a treaty." I agree that secret FISA rulings are abhorrent, as are secret legal memos authorizing torture, surveillance, or whatever.
  This is a new bend down the slippery slope, in my opinion.