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• On the post: After Backlash To AT&T Chicanery, California Salvages Tough Net Neutrality Law

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2018 @ 05:59pm

  No, those cables/fibers are built on public right-of-way land. "No company suing a local government, city or state, may have it's contract renewed. Any infrastructure previously built reverts to local ownership."
  
  The first place that makes that claim, makes it stick, watch others follow.
  
  And watch NSAT&T, and the rest, have strokes.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2018 @ 10:00pm

  Bwahahaha, Mine wouldn't have been nearly as funny if not for that anonymous followup. Hat's off to who ever wrote that. :)

• On the post: Fired FBI Official Now Discovering The 'Civilian' Delight Of Being Jerked Around By Govt' Agencies

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2018 @ 10:18am

  Tries to build a violin out of Quarks, but those are still too large.

• On the post: Once Again Congress Votes Proactively To Keep Itself Ignorant On Technology

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2018 @ 06:55pm

  Those who can't do, teach.
  
  Those who shouldn't, govern.

• On the post: Microsoft Defends Putting A Computer Recycler In Jail With Misleading Statement

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2018 @ 12:19pm

  Ok, dirt simple. I bought a laptop, Win10 pre-installed.
  
  Where is my damn Install Media and License Key in case I have to replace the SSD? Media, License, play all the word games you want. This laptop is licensed for Win10 and Microsoft failed to provide a way to re-install the O/S in case of hardware failure.

• On the post: ACLU: If Americans Want Privacy & Net Neutrality, They Should Build Their Own Broadband Networks

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2018 @ 03:58pm

  Sorry, I started to read this article and got a pop-up asking if I wanted to pay an extra penny per byte to view a webpage from a "subversive organization" ...
  
  :)

• On the post: Could It Be? Congress Actually Wants To Do The Right Thing On Electronic Voting!

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2018 @ 04:19pm

  I first heard the name Diebold in the 80's, when they made ATM's we had to interface with. The ATM's were of questionable quality, so when the split off the Election Systems group, well, I didn't think they'd just dumped the best of their engineers into that group.
  
  There is a reason they don't want you looking at the source code for their products.

• On the post: Tech Journalists Keep Completely Missing The Point Of Cord Cutting

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2017 @ 05:51pm

  "Too many writers bizarrely act as if you're not allowed to even acknowledge piracy exists because it's naughty."
  
  Writers versus Journalists, yep. One writes what they get paid to write, the other writes about the real world. Sadly, we have very few of the latter group around now.

• On the post: Tim Berners-Lee Sells Out His Creation: Officially Supports DRM In HTML

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2017 @ 04:45pm

  What part of "if they want to control what you can access, they benefit more than you" still isn't clear?

• On the post: Canadian Supreme Court Says It's Fine To Censor The Global Internet; Authoritarians & Hollywood Cheer…

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2017 @ 01:03pm

  No problem. Find ever internet link coming out of Canada and cut it.

• On the post: German Court Bans Google From Linking To Lumen Database Showing Takedown Notices

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2017 @ 12:15pm

  What's up with Germany these days?

  You misspelled "decades". This is the country that made complaining about email spam illegal because you were violating the copyright of the spammer by forwarding their message in your complaint.

• On the post: TV Cord Cutting Poised To Smash Records During Second Quarter

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2017 @ 09:30am

  Just canceled with Comcast yesterday. Got the monthly bill last Saturday, noticed another price increase and started thinking about when I'd last watched cable TV. When I couldn't recall watching anything in the last few months, that cinched it.
  
  The local OTA stations get me the PBS shows I like, on-line services get me the occasional movie or TV series.

• On the post: Chris Dodd 'Stepping Down' From MPAA

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 01 May, 2017 @ 03:25pm

  MPAA: "How great is your loyalty?"
  
  Dodd: "Without measure!"
  
  MPAA: "We are happy to hear that. Fall on your sword ..."

• On the post: Bad Take: Rep. Sensenbrenner's Response Over Internet Privacy Concerns: 'Nobody's Got To Use The Internet'

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2017 @ 08:56am

  "... Congress appears totally and completely out of touch ..."
  
  And We The People keep electing them, so who's further out of touch?

• On the post: More Financial Scandals Involving A Collecting Society: Remind Me Again Why They Are Credible Representatives Of Artists?

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2017 @ 09:46am

  The misunderstanding is about which artists are being supported. The music artists or the con artists. :)

• On the post: AT&T, Verizon Feign Ethical Outrage, Pile On Google's 'Extremist' Ad Woes

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2017 @ 08:47am

  McAT&GoApple want to be the only company left standing.
  
  I keep thinking about that silly line from "Demolition Man", "But all restaurants are Taco Bell, they won the franchise wars". Yeah, it becomes less funny every year.

• On the post: Vizio Fails To Dodge Class Action Over Its Spying 'Smart' Televisions

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2017 @ 11:49am

  Uh, what happens when EVERY company that sells TV's is just as bad and you need a new TV? Don't like your life being sold as marketing data? Don't buy a TV?
  
  How many people know enough and have a router smart enough, to configure a static IP address for that TV and then block that IP from EVER talking to an external IP again?

• On the post: Lindsay Lohan Won't Put Her GTA5 Lawsuit Out Of Its Misery

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2017 @ 12:51pm

  Lindsay Who? Wasn't that one of Henson's Muppet's that never got used because it couldn't be taken seriously, even by the puppeteers? :)

• On the post: Vizio Fined $2.2 Million For Not Telling Customers Their TVs Were Spying On Them

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2017 @ 12:07pm

  $2.2Mil per customer? Hey, I've got one of those TV's, what my cut of the settlement? :)

• On the post: Verizon Cracks Down On Unlimited Data Users, Claims Nobody Wants Unlimited Data Anyway

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2017 @ 02:08pm

  And working for one of the "weapons makers", IE network switch makers, I get to see Vz and everybody else always asking for more features that allow them to monitor/throttle traffic.

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