Michael S.’s Comments

• Nov 25th, 2021 @ 5:26am

  Exclusives lead to

  on The Next 'Elder Scrolls' Game Will Be A PC, Xbox Exclusive

  Piratebay. If I can't buy it for my platform, I'll get it some other way.

• Feb 13th, 2020 @ 7:29am

  Backdoors...

  on US Takes Baby Steps Toward Providing Actual Public Evidence Of Huawei Spying

  I'm pretty confident that the chances of their being backdoors in Huawei equipement is as high as the chance of backdoors in Cisco equipement.

• Jun 17th, 2017 @ 2:27pm

  Smoke-filled room

  on This Week In Techdirt History: June 11th - 17th
  From the wikipedia link :
  
  The origin of the term was in a report by Raymond Clapper of United Press, describing rumors of the process by which Warren G. Harding was nominated as Republican candidate for the 1920 Presidential Election. After many indecisive votes, Harding, a relatively minor candidate, was, legend has it, chosen as a compromise candidate by Republican power-brokers in a private meeting in room 404[3] at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago after the convention had deadlocked.
  
  Pretty funny, room 404, democracy not found!
• Jun 14th, 2013 @ 7:58am

  ya right....

  on Microsoft Said To Give Zero Day Exploits To US Government Before It Patches Them
  "That's fairly incredible. You'd expect Microsoft and other tech companies to be focused on fixing the bugs first, not letting the NSA exploit the vulnerabilities on foreign computers."
  
  Sure...."foreign" computers.
• Mar 25th, 2013 @ 3:12pm

  Lemme guess....

  on The List Of Government Agencies That Can Get Your Data Under CISPA
  The list of agencies that DON'T have access is MUCH smaller....
• Feb 8th, 2013 @ 10:20am

  verdict

  on Monster Cable Finds Itself On The Other Side Of A Trademark Case (But Still Losing)
  Hmmm I kind of hope for a nice verdict against them and "Monster" compensation awards.
• Jan 27th, 2012 @ 6:44am

  Re:

  on The Onion Explains SOPA And PIPA (As Only The Onion Can)
  Would not be surprised. The MPAA and RIAA probably think The Onion is as reputable a news source as FOX news.
• Jan 6th, 2012 @ 10:53am

  Fine then...

  on Why SOPA Would Be A Disaster For Scientific Publishing
  So when (not 'if' unfortunately) this law passes, we should make it our mission to find these little informational tidbits and use them against the backers of this law. Fight fire with fire.... live by the sword, die by the sword. Personally I would love to see sony.com taken offline.
• Jun 3rd, 2011 @ 12:33pm

  Police and government

  on Apple Tries To Patent A 'Solution' To The 'Analog Hole': Transmitters That Block Your Camera From Working
  I see police and governments buying into this rather quickly.
• Apr 22nd, 2011 @ 2:20pm

  buying ads

  on Atlas Shrugged Movie Leaves Hollywood Scratching Its Head, Because It's Succeeding Without Them
  The way I see it, the more ads they feel that they need, the more the movie must not be worth seeing.
• Dec 6th, 2010 @ 6:37pm

  EasyDNS (as Mike S)

  on Mistakes Were Made: How Tons Of People Started Slamming EasyDNS For Actions Of EveryDNS
  I've done business with EasyDNS and they are top notch, sucks that this happened to them because of fact checking, lack there of I mean.