pixelpusher220’s Comments

• Dec 25th, 2021 @ 9:31am

  Re: Insanity to give you what you want

  on Another Illinois Appeals Court Handles Compelled Password Production, Says There's No Fifth Amendment Issue Here
  And now my password is a multiplication problem. Battery Horse Staple Correct [5*7]
• Aug 4th, 2017 @ 6:08pm

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  on Def Leppard Claims Music Piracy Is Bringing Younger Audiences To Its Concerts
  what the Dead figured out was touring was the money maker that the labels couldn't siphon.
  
  It's different thing that what DL has done which is using the power the internet and the 'free' to drive fans to their shows.
  
  Both are significant.
• Aug 3rd, 2017 @ 5:14pm

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  on Twitter Suspends Popehat For Writing About Violent Threats He Received From Another Twitter User
  every email, his website, his business cards...
• Jun 15th, 2017 @ 6:16pm

  Re: He already knows the answer

  on Wyden Siren: Coats Is Answering A Different Question About Surveillance Of US Persons
  What we need is to have the laws say that our intelligence services may not POSSESS, Collect or Receive, domestic communications.
  
  As it is now, the Five Eyes simply collect each others domestic comms and give them to each other.
• Jun 10th, 2017 @ 5:40pm

  Re: YNOT share infrastructure

  on How The Death Of Net Neutrality Could Hamstring The Internet Of Things
  Indeed public infrastructure can be shared. The Cable and fiber currently deployed is NOT public infrastructure. Definitely should be but it isn't. As such, either a competitor has to put up their own poles over the entire area or run buried lines.
  
  Both things can be seriously stopped up by the existing provider.
  
  We absolutely should have the gov't in the ISP business; it's a utility like anything else.
  
  The corporations are the ones stopping things. Having politicians simply write laws in exchange for campaign donations root of the problem.
• May 31st, 2017 @ 6:12pm

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  on Could Firmware Expiration Dates Fix The Internet Of Broken Things...Before People Get Hurt?
  Yes you're moving the attack point, but it's basically the same as your router firewall doing the heavy lifting while behind the firewall you can run without one in relative safety if you choose.
  
  I almost think it needs to be a router function...which means a standard that needs to be fleshed out and followed.
• Apr 24th, 2017 @ 7:22pm

  Re: Re:

  on Daily Deal: Private Internet Access 2-Year Subscription
  US based I believe. I use PIA and am pretty happy with it. Occasionally their servers get blocked by Waze routing servers (and other such vanilla sites) but likely that's normal with any decent volume VPN.
  
  Speeds are more than adequate for browsing, torrenting or whatever you want to do.
  
  If you used a VPN from somewhere without a vigorous legal system, you can't really trust what your VPN provider is doing with your data.
• Mar 31st, 2017 @ 6:19pm

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  on How A Little Metadata Made It Possible To Find FBI Director James Comey's Secret Twitter Account
  "Well, I wouldn't go that far; lots of things get done with government money that aren't useful."
  
  aren't useful *right now*
  
  FTFY
• Mar 14th, 2017 @ 11:45am

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  on New Filings In Our Ongoing Lawsuit
  Would love to donate to the defense fund but your vendor uses Stripe for CC processing. They're terrible and routinely block transactions for no valid reason.
• Feb 25th, 2017 @ 10:49am

  Re: Re:

  on Just To Be Safe, We're Resetting All Techdirt Passwords In Response To Cloudbleed
  fuckton
• Feb 18th, 2017 @ 7:48pm

  Re: Re: CANT DONATE?????

  on Techdirt Survival Fund: I Support Journalism
  yeah it's Stripe. Bank hasn't seen any attempted transactions at all.
• Feb 18th, 2017 @ 5:24pm

  CANT DONATE?????

  on Techdirt Survival Fund: I Support Journalism
  your provider uses Stripe for CC transactions. I've had nothing but trouble with Stripe.
  
  Card is fine, data is fine. Stripe simply declines it. CC provider never even sees the transaction. 2 different cards.
• Nov 21st, 2016 @ 11:54am

  I support this

  on State Senator Wants To Turn First Amendment Activity Into 'Economic Terrorism'
  If there's someone who would end up qualifying under this statute...it's Donald J Trump. Easy to impeach a 'terrorist' isn't it?
• Oct 31st, 2016 @ 2:42pm

  Re: Yet another story reinforcing my whole-house VPN

  on Canada Copyright Troll Threatens Octogenarian Over Download Of A Zombie War Game
  I use PIA and while it works absolutely fabulous for my needs, it seemingly wouldn't work for full time usage as too many times their IPs get blocked by various mainstream sites, making those sites less than fully functional.
  
  The non-techies in house can't deal with that unfortunately.
  
  Any suggestions for when the VPN IP gets blocked?
• Oct 28th, 2016 @ 11:03pm

  You get what you pay for

  on Would You Be Tempted By This 'Grand Bargain' On Privacy?
  we PAY doctors, lawyers and accountants for their services.
  
  The data they collect is entirely separate from the services they provide to us.
  
  Unless this is proposing we pay Facebook/Google for the services they provide it doesn't fit the current reality
• Oct 20th, 2016 @ 9:48pm

  Re: Re: They'll Be Missed

  on This Is Huge: New Project Releases All Current (Non-Confidential) Congressional Research Service Reports
  They study them along with other violent causes of death and injury...it's just the guns that politically they aren't allowed to study.
  
  More correctly the CDC is banned on spending any money on such gun violence research.
• Oct 17th, 2016 @ 6:34pm

  Re: Re: Re: Eliminate License-Plates !

  on California DMV Rejects 1NFOS3C Vanity Plate Because Of 'Sexual Connotation'
  perhaps unlicensed drivers are a bigger problem expressly BECAUSE of license plates significantly reducing the number of unregistered cars?
• Oct 7th, 2016 @ 8:58pm

  Why would they care about quality?

  on Continued Disagreement And Confusion Over Yahoo Email Scanning
  The NSA Benefits from a sloppy install. Once they get the info having hackers come in and mess things up covers their tracks
• Aug 8th, 2016 @ 9:31pm

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  on Comcast/NBC Ignores Lessons From The Cord Cutting Age, Buries Olympics Under An Ocean Of Annoying Advertising
  Never fear even with a cable sub it's really hit or miss as to whether you can actually watch anything
• Aug 3rd, 2016 @ 4:53pm

  Why not just in 'restricted zones'?

  on FCC Demands TP-Link Support Open Source Third-Party Firmware On Its Routers
  Why aren't people who live near airports simply required to buy routers that comply.
  
  If someone lives in flyover country, hundreds of miles from an airport, why are they restricting what routers can be used?
  
  also, see drones and why aren't the restrictions for airport areas applied to the whole country

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