Eric Stein 's BestNetTech Comments

Latest Comments (31)

• On the post: Hey Zuck, Remember When You Said You’d Never Again Cave To Government Pressure? About That…

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2025 @ 12:52pm

  Free speech and incitement

  Hmmm, last I remember free speech had consequences if one used it to obstruct justice. You may not think of ICE as being an instrument of justice, but I think the courts are clear on that. Zuck knows where the butter on his bread gets churned, but you guys seem to have forgotten.

• On the post: New York State Votes To Kick Charter Out Of The State For Poor Service, Failing To Meet Merger Conditions

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2018 @ 11:12am

  Squirrel!

  Rocket J Squirrell says Oh. Yeah!

• On the post: Bad Copyright Laws Scaring Off Necessary Investment In New Digital Platforms

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2015 @ 09:55am

  These are the metaphors, this is the explanation

  I think this is the kind of article that BestNetTech was created for. This is the article I would have wanted to send to my father. It's one of the clearest explanations of the drag of copyright I've seen here in a long time. Bravo Mike, this feels like the mission.
  
  Music island seem like a place where Lord of the Flies is played out daily.

• On the post: Leaked Intelligence Document Calls For More, Not Less Encryption To Protect Companies And Citizens From Cybercriminals

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2015 @ 12:59pm

  If this is sanctioned by our government, our course will be clear.

• On the post: Illinois Legislature Passes Recording Ban To Protect Public Servants – Not The Public

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 11 Dec, 2014 @ 11:53am

  Re: Re: Re: Future ghost state..

  I prefer to think that the sledgehammer breaks the helmets back

• On the post: Illinois Legislature Passes Recording Ban To Protect Public Servants – Not The Public

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 11 Dec, 2014 @ 11:50am

  Re: Forgot to mention

  the only margin we're concerned with in this case is 5-4

• On the post: Illinois Legislature Passes Recording Ban To Protect Public Servants – Not The Public

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 11 Dec, 2014 @ 11:38am

  Re: Re:

  didn't you see "The Blues Brothers"
  
  get back to us when we launch our first automatically dissolving tanker truck full of unpleasant odors in Chicago.
  
  or we could just give the whole damn state to Canada.

• On the post: NYPD Baffled By Tech Advances Like Laptops And WiFi

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2014 @ 09:20pm

  Re: You owe me a keyboard

  I beleive it was George who put it
  
  If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten

• On the post: New Snowden Documents Expose NSA's 'Core Secrets:' Infiltration Of Foreign Companies Aimed At 'Exploiting Network Technology'

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2014 @ 12:45pm

  Re: When you say that, why am I reminded of this?

  Interesting. But wouldn't you prefer something a little more recent?
  
  We are building a religion
  We are building it bigger
  We are widening the corridors
  And adding more lanes
  
  We are building a religion
  A limited edition
  We are now accepting callers
  For these pendant key chains
  
  To resist it is useless
  It is useless to resist it
  His cigarette is burning
  But he never seems to ash
  
  He is grooming his poodle
  He is living comfort eagle
  You can meet at his location
  But you'd better come with cash
  
  Now his hat is on backwards
  He can show you his tattoos
  He is in the music business
  He is calling you "DUDE!"
  
  "Comfort Eagle"
  CAKE

• On the post: Former NYPD Chief Ray Kelly Still Trying To Sell His Post-Stop-And-Frisk Apocalypse But The Stats Aren't Backing Him Up

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2014 @ 04:38am

  "Stop-and-frisk was awesome."
  Oh yeah! It was awesome the way a tank that wants to get into your pants is awesome.
  "If you feel targeted, it's probably because you look and act like a shitbird."
  Or maybe I'm just black or hispanic. Try reading the numbers as well as looking at the pictures and the headlines
  "You think NYC innovated this?"
  We don't care, we're just happy they've stopped
  "Try that act in a small Southern town and you'll see stop-and-frisk in action for real. It's a logical and useful response to bullshit in the streets..."
  There really is very little bullshit in the streets of NYC. Perhaps you're thinking of Pamplona
  "alternate responses CLEARLY not forthcoming from second-guessers like yourselves."
  It's true that your post are not required to make sense, perhaps you could put aside your fugue state and join the conversation.

• On the post: Is Adobe's Ebook Reader Spying On What You Read — And What You Have On Your Computer?

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2014 @ 01:16pm

  Re:

  It's not like Adobe's an individual - they're working for the machine, so they get a pass. I'm sure they'll get around to prosecuting Adobe as soon as they're done with Microsuck and AP&P. If you're screwin' the public, well, you get the idear. Them public screwin' passes, they're not available to individuals.

• On the post: Australian Man Booted From Plane After Passenger Complains About His 'Terroristic' Notepad Doodles

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2014 @ 07:33pm

  Re: Re: The terrorists have already won

  @What, never?
  
  How do you know this? Is 1% a figure that you've actually calculated, or one that, like most of your so-called proclamations, you've conveniently obtained from a secret compartment, the nature of I will encourage the group to speculate about with a fervor that exceeds the stench coming from your mouth/other device.
  
  Oh, I forgot my ad-hom, you vacuous, coffee nosed, malodorous, pervert.

• On the post: Australian Man Booted From Plane After Passenger Complains About His 'Terroristic' Notepad Doodles

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2014 @ 07:24pm

  Re:

  I blame Jung for this

• On the post: DHS Wants To Expand 'See Something, Say Something' To Retailers Selling You Pressure Cookers

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2014 @ 06:35am

  Re: See how fast this will grow...

  Well, not until it's been through you...
  
  Roughage, it won't have any exothermic potential if you don't eat it.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Should Touch Typing Replace Cursive?

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2014 @ 10:42pm

  By how much?

  I hear many individuals blather about how this or that aspect of writing cursive, but what I don't hear is anyone - here or at the NYT saying what the magnitude, measure or amount of the difference is. This is the same as saying there is no difference at all, because magnitude is what we base our choices on, unless we make these changes for sentimental reasons, which is to say the craziest, most stupidest, most ignorant of what we choose these things for now. Certainly I would choose the candidate that was doing something useful. It's too bad that no one could use today's technology to make students' brainwaves wiggle like that doing something useful.

• On the post: Find Two Hours To Watch Glenn Greenwald Debate Michael Hayden

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 04 May, 2014 @ 06:31am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I think Hayden was misunderstood. What he meant to say was:
  
  ?If," ["the management consultant"] said tersely, ?we could for a moment move on to the subject of fiscal policy. . .?
  ?Fiscal policy!" whooped Ford Prefect. ?Fiscal policy!"
  The management consultant gave him a look that only a lungfish could have copied.
  ?Fiscal policy. . .? he repeated, ?that is what I said.?
  ?How can you have money,? demanded Ford, ?if none of you actually produces anything? It doesn't grow on trees you know.?
  ?If you would allow me to continue.. .?
  Ford nodded dejectedly.
  ?Thank you. Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich.?
  Ford stared in disbelief at the crowd who were murmuring appreciatively at this and greedily fingering the wads of leaves with which their track suits were stuffed.
  ?But we have also,? continued the management consultant, ?run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying one ship?s peanut."
  Murmurs of alarm came from the crowd. The management consultant waved them down.
  ?So in order to obviate this problem,? he continued, ?and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and. . .er, burn down all the forests. I think you'll all agree that's a sensible move under the circumstances."
  The crowd seemed a little uncertain about this for a second or two until someone pointed out how much this would increase the value of the leaves in their pockets whereupon they let out whoops of delight and gave the management consultant a standing ovation. The accountants among them looked forward to a profitable autumn aloft and it got an appreciative round from the crowd.?
  
  Leaf, meet flamethrower. Flamethrower, leaf. Now, make like a tree and get out of here.

• On the post: Tech Companies Increasingly Telling Users When Law Enforcement Comes Asking For Data

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 02 May, 2014 @ 07:30am

  Our tax dollars at work

  The problem is that the American government is increasingly un-American. Can you not say that the DOJ hates us for our freedom? Further proof of victory for Osama. Long may he remain dead.

• On the post: Why Do So Many People Describe Aereo 'Complying' With Copyright Law As The Company 'Circumventing' Copyright Law?

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2014 @ 04:40am

  Re: Re:

  Why wait for the court? Avoid the rush. Don't see the point in following copyright laws now!

• On the post: Police Chief: Not Wanting To Talk To Police Officers Is 'Odd'

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2014 @ 04:09am

  Re: Re: "as long as you're the police."

  The problem is that the police hate us for our freedom

• On the post: College Violates Student's Rights, Follows It Up By Deleting Critical Comments From Its Facebook Page

  

  Eric Stein ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2014 @ 07:44pm

  Check the site for the organization. oathkeepers.org is a group of current and former military and LE people and civilians whose 10 most important rules are about what they will NOT do. You could read this list as paranoia if you're in government, but I think most of us here would say it's just ten things we wouldn't put past our government.

Next >>