Sean Murphy’s Comments

• Jul 2nd, 2015 @ 10:56am

  (untitled comment)

  on MLB Network DMCAs Video Of Bob Costas Torching MLB Pitcher, Which We'll Now Discuss At Length
  Or, MLB is desperate for any attention it can get, and is exploiting the Streisand effect, and you're falling for it.
  
  Or, maybe I'm modeling MLB with too much recursion.
• Dec 23rd, 2014 @ 8:35am

  Monopoly Promotes Abuse.

  on Comcast Lobbyists Give Lawmakers Golden Tickets: Secret Phone Numbers To Reach Good Customer Service
  And here we have a great example of the Cable Monopoly giving special treatment to the Violence Monopoly to ensure that the Violence Monopoly keeps the Cable Monopoly from having to deal with a competitive marketplace.
  
  Worse, it's being done with YOUR money.
• Oct 3rd, 2014 @ 8:53am

  The Olympics are over - Now what?

  on Almost No One Wants To Host The Olympics, Because It's A Costly, Corrupt Mess
  After a nation hosts the Olympics, the Olympic athletes, TV cameras, and fans leave. The country now has a huge, brand new stadium nobody wants to use, a few ski courses only highly skilled professionals can safely traverse, and all the debt incurred building these unwanted things. These things then proceed to rot.
  
  What a waste of money.
• Jul 10th, 2014 @ 6:42am

  A Tilted Kilt just opened near me

  on Tilted Kilt Files Trademark Suit Against Golf Course With Kilted Employees
  I was going to go try them out.
  
  Now, I'm not.
• Oct 25th, 2013 @ 12:17pm

  North Carolina is just as bad

  on MN Supreme Court Finds DUI Blood Draws Aren't 'Coerced,' Despite Refusal Resulting In Criminal Charges
  In NC, it's the breath test that is "implied consent". Several years ago, my grandfather, who had severe emphysema and required oxygen, was convicted for DUI on the grounds that he refused the test, after he was physically unable to exhale enough air for the breath test.
• Aug 9th, 2013 @ 6:41am

  Bitmessage

  on Another Secure Email Service Shuts Down To Avoid Having To Do So Later
  Check out Bitmessage. Encrypted, peer-to-peer, open-source messaging system. It would be very difficult, if not impossible to shut down.
  
  https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page
• May 31st, 2013 @ 12:51pm

  Sounds like a good plan

  on Australian Spies Want To Hack Tor After Realizing It Routes Around Their Surveillance
  The authorities will spy on Tor, and the criminals and hackers will re-implement it with better security and use newTor.
• Feb 12th, 2013 @ 6:20am

  Re: Re: Property rights?

  on Ron Paul, UN Hater, Asks UN To Take RonPaul.com Forcefully From Ron Paul's Biggest Supporters
  I hope that's the case Dave. I would like to believe Ron is as principled as he has claimed for all these years and this is a case of lawyers being lawyers. We shall see how it turns out.
• Feb 11th, 2013 @ 10:19am

  Property rights?

  on Ron Paul, UN Hater, Asks UN To Take RonPaul.com Forcefully From Ron Paul's Biggest Supporters
  It seems to me that Ron Paul had 20+ years to assert his right to the domain RonPaul.com, as prior to 2008 it was unowned and unregistered The current owners found the unowned property, and homesteaded it. They marked it as their own (registered it) and used their labor to improve the property (wrote the website, advertised its services etc.). Now Ron Paul wishes to own the property RonPaul.com. It is a unique item of value to the current owners. They do not wish to part with it to anybody but Mr. Paul, and only under the terms of their 'Liberty Package'. Mr Paul believes the deal offered is unacceptable. He is under no obligation to take the deal offered. He is however, under a moral obligation to not use force to acquire the property. He has chosen to contact the United Nations, a governmental agency of force, to seize the property from the current owners without compensation. That's theft. Ron Paul should be able to recognize it for what is is, being a libertarian and all.
• Jan 15th, 2013 @ 11:49am

  Re:

  on How The FBI's Desire To Wiretap Every New Technology Makes Us Less Safe

  There are plenty of whiz kids out there that have a gift far greater than most of us will ever even begin to dream of. They can look at it and instantly know how to fuck it up.

  
  
  And enough of them will share how it's done that soon everybody will know. Pirate bay proxies all over again, which is just DRM all over again.
• Jan 15th, 2013 @ 10:38am

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  on How The FBI's Desire To Wiretap Every New Technology Makes Us Less Safe
  Sure, you can lock the door to your house to keep crooks out, but only the front door. The back door needs to stay open so the cops can come in and look for crooks.
• Dec 21st, 2012 @ 4:59am

  Ob

  on UK Pirate Party Pressured Into Taking Down Proxy... Leading To Other Proxies Opening Up
  The more you tighten your grip BPI, the more systems will slip through your fingers.