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• On the post: Microsoft Patent: Chatbots Made From The Online Habits Of Dead People

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2021 @ 01:25pm

  Mona Lisa Overdrive, 1988

  Finn.

• On the post: Broadband Market Failure Keeps Forcing Americans To Build Their Own ISPs

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2021 @ 08:46am

  Congratulations on your unregulated private infrastructure.

  I believe the laws are in place to change this, but we have the wrong people at the controls. I'm pretty sure unless and until we have the right people at the FCC and at the state level looking at punishing bad behavior, this continues. No solutions are going to bear fruit without penalties, because they only thing they understand is fucking with their money. --#

• On the post: Broadband Market Failure Keeps Forcing Americans To Build Their Own ISPs

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2021 @ 08:46am

  Congratulations on your unregulated private infrastructure.

  I believe the laws are in place to change this, but we have the wrong people at the controls. I'm pretty sure unless and until we have the right people at the FCC and at the state level looking at punishing bad behavior, this continues. No solutions are going to bear fruit without penalties, because they only thing they understand is fucking with their money. --#

• On the post: Elsevier Wants To Stop Indian Medics, Students And Academics Accessing Knowledge The Only Way Most Of Them Can Afford: Via Sci-Hub And Libgen

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2020 @ 06:17am

  Punch in the face?

  Metaphoric, I hope.

• On the post: Schools Are Using Phone-Cracking Tech To Access The Contents Of Students' Devices

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2020 @ 10:18am

  Whose phone is it, really?

  My children have phones because I bought them and maintain them. Therefore, those are my phones, and even though my children might be using them, I'm the owner. Where are my consent rights in this?

• On the post: GOP Confirms Unqualified Simington to FCC With Eye On Crippling Biden FCC

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2020 @ 12:22pm

  Okay, so fire some of the GOP commissioners

  I mean, let's do this. Let's fire them all. And let's start putting GOP people in prison.

• On the post: With Simington Vote, The GOP And Big Telecom Maneuver To Cripple The Biden FCC

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2020 @ 02:21pm

  Expand the FCC bench

  Make it seven instead of five, install actual people, then get to work.

  And stop trying to legislate the GOP away. Start imprisoning them.

• On the post: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Apologizes And Unblocks Critic Who Sued Her

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2019 @ 11:02am

  Lawyers stink.

  "...and the argument that harassment, by itself, would constitute a reason for blocking seems iffy, at best." Harassment is, from what I recall, criminal activity. I'm finding this "iffy" BS in direct conflict with that, and confused about how the 1st Amendment protects harassing behavior. -C

• On the post: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Apologizes And Unblocks Critic Who Sued Her

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2019 @ 11:02am

  Lawyers stink.

  "...and the argument that harassment, by itself, would constitute a reason for blocking seems iffy, at best." Harassment is, from what I recall, criminal activity. I'm finding this "iffy" BS in direct conflict with that, and confused about how the 1st Amendment protects harassing behavior. -C

• On the post: Knight Institute Warns Rep. Ocasio-Cortez That She, Like Trump, Can't Block People On Twitter

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2019 @ 05:15am

  So what if it's a slippery slope..?

  "2. Harassment is not a viewpoint. Some accounts, like the Daily Caller, posted fake nude photos of me & abused my comments to spread it. No one is entitled to abuse. https://t.co/0QWKqJFzRe" Figure it out. Harassment is a real problem, and shouldn't be tolerated. Throwing the "slippery slope" flag on it is a punt, a weak counter to the real point here. Weak. -C

• On the post: Tennessee Senate Unanimously Passes Actual Anti-SLAPP Bill

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2019 @ 04:53am

  It's a one-off

  They still elect Blackburn, and she still makes sure you can't run muni fiber or compete with her biggest donors.

• On the post: AT&T Successfully Derails California's Tough New Net Neutrality Law

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2018 @ 07:53am

  How is this not bribery?

  I just don't understand it.

• On the post: ICE Trying To Deport Journalist For Reporting On Abusive ICE Behavior

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 25 May, 2018 @ 05:10am

  Lost me at undocumented.

  I was 100% sympathetic to his plight until you used "undocumented" instead of illegal. Speak plainly.
  
  -C

• On the post: CBP Using Fake Math To Greatly Inflate Number Of Assaults On Border Patrol Officers

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2018 @ 06:15am

  Onething

  assault != battery

• On the post: Recordings Capture Cops Discussing Department's Most Rotten Apple

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2018 @ 05:32am

  Re: Re: Was a good cop, now a silent cop.

  "...and a bad cop."
  
  It's not that simple, but I know it must feel really good to think so.
  
  -C

• On the post: FCC Boss Under Fire For Facts-Optional Attack On Low-Income Broadband Programs

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2018 @ 08:23am

  He needs to go.

  He's just so bad at executing the basic mission of the FCC, and in typical lawyer fashion, routinely tortures the law to suit himself.
  
  Yes, I am damning all lawyers without prejudice.
  
  -C

• On the post: Judge Blocks Iowa Town From Shutting Down Or Suing Resident Over His Critical Website

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2018 @ 05:13am

  And now I'm reading about blood plants

  thinking it was going to be about biology and horticulture.

• On the post: California Introduces New, Tougher Net Neutrality Rules; Uses Ajit Pai's Abdication Of Authority Against The FCC

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2018 @ 08:26am

  A state where it would really matter: NJ

  NJ is the corporate home to Verizon, and has the population and density to make them an excellent testbed for pressuring the FCC, in addition to California.
  
  Moreover, the state is not your usual coastal liberal state, with some particularly dense (dense) Republican strongholds and a history of conservative positions held by Democrats in state. Pass a California-like bill here, and Verizon would lose their minds and snap that leash on Pai.
  
  -C

• On the post: Microsoft Helps Get A Computer Recycler Sentenced To 15 Months In Prison For Offering Unapproved Recovery Disks

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2018 @ 05:50am

  Right up until you assert,,,

  "To ensure someone gets tossed in jail for breaking the chain of planned obsolescence, Microsoft (and prosecutors) want the court to believe the existence of recovery disks that do nothing unless a person already has a licensed copy of Windows has somehow made the company $700,000 poorer."
  
  Was the planned obsolescence proved? No. You can't state it as fact.
  
  -C

• On the post: Police Union Boss Attacks New DA For Daring To Speak To Police Recruits About Deadly Force

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2018 @ 05:32am

  This DA might be onto something, if...

  ... he decided to allow police officers to carry PR-24s again.
  
  Despite what you might think, having a non-lethal baton gives a police officer an immediate non-lethal option to something less than a knife or gun in the fight. Well-trained and experience police officers with a PR-24 are easily a match for a knife as well, but that's besides the point. Point: once departments ditched batons, PR-24s, and other kinetic options, the move went to sprays -- which really don't work in all situations and comically get misued -- and technology like tasers and stun guns.
  
  Training is important. Having trained officers makes a huge difference in how they police. Training them to engage without killing is kinda obvious, but the move to point-and-click policing is making it easier to simply harm people who don't comply fast enough, and that removes a bit of humanity from the encounter.
  
  Good luck.
  
  -C

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