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• Jan 30th, 2018 @ 5:07pm

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  on Minnesota Supreme Court Says Unlocking A Phone With A Fingerprint Isn't A Fifth Amendment Issue
  Has anyone created a killswitch app yet, that if the wrong passcode, or the wrong finger is used to unlocked the phone, it erases it instead? Doesn't seem hard.
• Jan 25th, 2018 @ 5:08pm

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  on Vice Media Goes After Vice Industry Token, A Porn Crypto-Currency Company, For Trademark
  Idiots. They should follow SyFy's lead, and call themselves Vyce.
• Jan 16th, 2018 @ 1:22pm

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  on The Other Side: Phoenix Comicon Proactively Changes Names To Avoid San Diego Comic-Con Bully
  Until a sensible judge determines that comic con or comicon is a generic term for a Comic Convention, all the competing comic cons should agree to something similar, and NOT allow SDCC to use it. Like Comic Convention. I mean, if SDCC really believed that they're exclusively entitled to comic con or even comicon, shouldn't the convention be called just Comic Con(tm).
• Nov 9th, 2017 @ 7:06pm

  Re: BoingBoing clearly wrong

  on Playboy Sues BoingBoing For Linking To Collection Of Centerfold Pictures
  Wait? You read Techdirt, and you don't know that you're totally wrong? Techdirt articles are almost always about digital rights. Did you even read this article, because it explains why you're wrong.
• May 22nd, 2017 @ 11:01am

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  on FCC Guards 'Manhandle' Reporter Just For Asking Questions At Net Neutrality Vote
  This regime just reeks of thuggish regimes, like Putin's and Erdoğan. Is this really the America the Alt-Right, or conservatives want? Seems kind of Commy, in the Totalitarian Authoritarian kind of way (not the community based, people's rule, way). You know, like Russia.
• May 18th, 2017 @ 4:04pm

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  on NY Senate Passes Bill That Would Add Cops And Firemen To List Of Protected Classes Under State's Hate Crime Law
  The premise behind Blue Lives Matter disgusts me, and now they're making it law. What a bunch of BS.
  
  #ACAB #FTP
• Nov 1st, 2016 @ 6:59pm

  Did a copyright troll write this law?

  on Copyright Office Fucks Over Thousands Of Sites With Plans To Remove Their DMCA Safe Harbors
  or was it the FBI/CIA/NSA/Facebook/Dianne Feinstein/Hillary Clinton (pick your privacy invading entity)?
  
  I assume that this DMCA policy takes precedence over basic Fair-use.
  
  Another case of Your rights, if you can afford them.
• May 24th, 2016 @ 2:10pm

  How hard can it be?

  on Reddit, Mozilla, Others Urge FCC To Formally Investigate Broadband Usage Caps And Zero Rating
  Especially when companies like T-mob are boasting about zero-rating.
• May 18th, 2016 @ 12:06pm

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  on IBM Wants To Patent A Printer That Won't Let You Output Unauthorized Copies
  This would be a perfect patent to troll, so it never gets made.
• Dec 15th, 2015 @ 9:21am

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  on DEA Loses Big Drug Case, Thanks To Illegal Wiretap Warrants Prosecutor Calls 'Procedural Errors'
  The only criminals here are the DEA.
• Sep 15th, 2015 @ 12:44am

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  on Court Rules Gran Turismo Protected By 1st Amendment In Including Company Logos For Realism
  They should be paying us, or subsidizing the costs of these games, for spamming us with their brands. Not the other way around. It's not like a racing game like Gran Turismo is going to be controversial like a game like GTA.
• Aug 11th, 2014 @ 1:49pm

  Probably just a new Trolling Tactic

  on Keith Alexander: I'm Worth $1 Million Per Month Because I'm Patenting A Way To Stop Hackers (Which I Didn't Tell The NSA)
  As swiss cheese our patent system is, he'll probably patent the _idea_ of entering a system without the proper authorization. The business model is to sue you if you don't log-in properly.
• Apr 21st, 2014 @ 2:57pm

  Should be obvious...

  on Can Anyone Name A Programmer Still Getting Paid For Code He Wrote In 1962?
  but it's clear that draconian enforcement of broken copyright laws are stifling innovation and creativity.
• Apr 25th, 2013 @ 12:57pm

  Re:

  on DOJ Helped AT&T, Others Avoid Wiretap Act, Promised Not To Charge Them If They Helped Spy On People
  When you encrypt your email, the FBI kills a kitten.
• Apr 25th, 2013 @ 12:56pm

  Re: Care that the laws be faithfully executed.

  on DOJ Helped AT&T, Others Avoid Wiretap Act, Promised Not To Charge Them If They Helped Spy On People
  Well, before religious types hijacked the word to mean One Thing, it meant to adhere, firmly, devotedly and loyally without question. So it's an appropriate word, but now since Faith is so strongly used to defend religion, it means squat.
• Apr 25th, 2013 @ 12:53pm

  Re: Do you really think

  on DOJ Helped AT&T, Others Avoid Wiretap Act, Promised Not To Charge Them If They Helped Spy On People
  One does not equate to the other.
  
  1. Yes, absolutely what they're doing.
  2. No, I did not shoot Kennedy.
• Apr 25th, 2013 @ 12:34pm

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  on CBS Will Sue Aereo In Boston, Preferably In The Alternate Reality Where CBS Is Winning
  Stealing OTA TV like stealing a free weekly paper, and giving it to a friend. Isn't TV based on paid advertising, and isn't it in the best interest of advertisers to have their ads seen by as many people as possible? Maybe the advertisers should get involved, and say, "Hey, we want those potential customers."
• Mar 13th, 2013 @ 10:19pm

  Took me forever to find an RSS feed reader I liked...

  on The Killing Of Google Reader Highlights The Risk Of Relying On A Single Provider
  ...and it happened to be Google Reader. I can tell you this, for sure, I will less likely be reading any blogs when Google Reader shuts down. It just may need to be the productivity kickstart I need. But scrolling through blogs via Google Reader changed everything. I seriously doubt I will visit all 220+ websites that I used to read via RSS feeds manually, and I'm sure as hell not going to go looking for a new reader. If anyone should raise hell, it should be the blogs.
• Mar 13th, 2013 @ 10:19pm

  Took me forever to find an RSS feed reader I liked...

  on The Killing Of Google Reader Highlights The Risk Of Relying On A Single Provider
  ...and it happened to be Google Reader. I can tell you this, for sure, I will less likely be reading any blogs when Google Reader shuts down. It just may need to be the productivity kickstart I need. But scrolling through blogs via Google Reader changed everything. I seriously doubt I will visit all 220+ websites that I used to read via RSS feeds manually, and I'm sure as hell not going to go looking for a new reader. If anyone should raise hell, it should be the blogs.
• Mar 6th, 2012 @ 11:36am

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  on Attacking The Hacker Hydra: Why FBI's LulzSec Takedown May Backfire
  �We�re chopping off the head of LulzSec.�?? and therefore "leaders" of Anonymous? What a joke. Lulzsec has been pretty silent, i.e. haven't brought'en me LULZ for a while and now we know why. LEO, and their authoritarian bosses, really don't understand what is going on, much less what it is about. By arresting these "leaders" they think they're making progress. The hydra analogy really fits, because these "heads" are really just MOUTHS, the really scary shit you will never hear about, until someone digs it up and shares it to the world, e.g. Stratfor/Wikileaks.

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