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• On the post: UK's Home Secretary Says Terrorists Will Be The Real Winners If Country's Cell Coverage Dead Zones Are Fixed

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2014 @ 04:02pm

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  Zombies can't use cell phones.

• On the post: Guidelines On Who Might Be Suspicious: Too Nervous? Too Calm? Blending In? Standing Out? It's All Suspicious

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2014 @ 01:54pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  ..the TSA officers..

• On the post: There's A Reasonable Debate To Be Had About Showing The James Foley Beheading Video, But Claiming Its Illegal To Watch Is Ridiculous

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2014 @ 03:49pm

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  Later they added: "Don't worry, we will find something to charge you with."
  
  ..by looking through your last 10 years of emails and phone calls.

• On the post: President Obama Says He's Against Fast Lanes On The Internet, But FCC Proposal Would Allow Them

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2014 @ 03:07pm

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  What about fast pipes and slow pipes?!

• On the post: Photographer Still Insisting He Holds Copyright On Photo By A Monkey, Hints At Possibly Suing Wikimedia

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2014 @ 03:01pm

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  Exactly. Who puts a £5000 camera down and turns their back with monkies about? Has he not seen Monkey Trouble?

• On the post: 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)

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2014 @ 07:19pm

  Re: Re: Easy to beat

  Then put it on the internet and get another patent!

• On the post: 24 Hours Left To Support Our Crowdfunding Campaign On Net Neutrality: Now With Stretch Goals

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2014 @ 04:13pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  New stretch goal:
  
  $80,000 - To avoid ever having to see the Dark Helmet thong-back bikini calendar.

• On the post: Spain Likely To Pass 'Google Tax'; Makes Paying For News Snippets An 'Inalienable Right' And A New Bureaucracy To Collect It

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2014 @ 03:37pm

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  And then maybe the federal government will be able to start fixing your bridges!

• On the post: Copyright Office To Aereo: Quack All You Want, We Don't Think You're A Cable Service

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2014 @ 03:24pm

  Re: Re:

  Go tell their parents then.

• On the post: Techdirt's Comments To The FCC On Net Neutrality And Preserving An Open Internet

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2014 @ 07:16pm

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  Pot...Kettle.

• On the post: France Passes Anti-Amazon Law Eliminating Free Shipping; Amazon Responds With 0.01 Euro Shipping Fees

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2014 @ 03:55pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Efficiency isn't always the most valuable thing in the world

  Jobs are changing, sure.
  
  This.
  
  I don't know why it's so hard for some people to understand. Maybe the booksellers don't find new jobs straight away but most likely someone else somewhere does so only because of the closure of book stores.

• On the post: DHS Cites 'Credible Threat' As Reason For Forcing Travelers To The US To Hand Over Powered-Up Devices To Airport Security

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2014 @ 04:05pm

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  +1 for getting to talk about ghetto blasters.

• On the post: Want In-Depth Coverage Of Net Neutrality? Crowdfund Our Reporting – And Double Your Impact

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2014 @ 02:37pm

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  Worked for me in NZ.

• On the post: Australian Police Confiscate Pastafarian Man's Guns Because He Posed For His ID Card Wearing A Colander

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2014 @ 02:12pm

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  ..as it is in all sane countries.

• On the post: Pro Tip: If You're Going To Break And Enter Someone's Home, Don't Log Into Your Facebook

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2014 @ 09:12pm

  Re: Moral of the story

  I agree. Facebook did not go far enough in protecting Wigs privacy.

• On the post: No, A 'Supercomputer' Did NOT Pass The Turing Test For The First Time And Everyone Should Know Better

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2014 @ 03:26pm

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  He's not from Russia...yet.

• On the post: Everyone Go Crazy: Prepare To Blame The Internet For Murder-Inducing Ghost Stories

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2014 @ 03:26pm

  Re: How long before we learn...

  Maybe Google could remove all the crazy from the internet.
  
  The right to not have to read crazy person rants.

• On the post: Everyone Go Crazy: Prepare To Blame The Internet For Murder-Inducing Ghost Stories

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2014 @ 03:26pm

  Re: How long before we learn...

  Maybe Google could remove all the crazy from the internet.
  
  The right to not have to read crazy person rants.

• On the post: Google Trademark Bullies Obviously Non-Commercial Parody Site

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 20 May, 2014 @ 02:25pm

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  Damned if you do, damned if you don't..
  
  Figures.

• On the post: UK Parliament Finally Admits That Snowden Revelations Reveal That GCHQ Oversight Is Broken

  

  martyburns ( profile ), 11 May, 2014 @ 05:17pm

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  Why do you think they are arse holes?

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