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• On the post: Federal Court Says Dismantling A Phone To Install Firmware Isn’t A ‘Search,’ Even If Was Done To Facilitate A Search

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2024 @ 04:42pm

  uhhh

  so cracking a safe isn't a search? that's probably the closest thing I could think of

• On the post: FTC Pushes New Rule To Try And Kill Bullshit ‘Junk Fees’

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2023 @ 01:23pm

  well that didn't take long

  https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/t-mobile-switches-users-to-pricier-plans-and-tells-them-its-not-a-price-hike/ Tmobile wasting no time before the FTC finishes gathering data.

• On the post: RIAA Piles On In The Effort To Kill The World’s Greatest Library: Sues Internet Archive For Making It Possible To Hear Old 78s

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2023 @ 01:37pm

  it's pretty obvious why they do this

  it's not solely trying to trample on content, they also don't want people to be able to counterclaim that they haven't actually made new or copyrightable music in the last 100 years and pointing to how they recycled songs would be the death of the riaa.

• On the post: Ford Submits A Patent That Would Allow Cars To Repossess Themselves

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2023 @ 01:59pm

  clearly this will end well

  hmm, and how long before it murders someone in one of a thousand ways and we get an oops?

• On the post: A New Ad-Based Tier Won’t Fix What Ails Netflix

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2022 @ 05:50am

  wtf

  so they raised prices only to put the original price back in, at ad supported? Wow, that's pretty blatant greed right there.

• On the post: Ring Partners With Cop Reality Show Producer To Produce New Third-Party Generated Clip Show

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2022 @ 09:12pm

  oh come now, they're not that bad. Just because they have the same Thiel/Federalist society plan of global slavery for all minorities/nonwhites (and eventually all non-christian male whites) doesn't mean that Amazon is a bad company!

• On the post: Cops Lie: Falsifying Traffic Stops Edition

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2022 @ 04:58am

  state trooper in Nebraska is the same, hope they find him

  Dude pulled me over to give a written warning, and I was out of state. Wrapped on the fucking window with a gun when he pulled us over and scared the shit out of my family. Googled it and turns out there's a bunch of posts about this shit happening.

• On the post: Ted Cruz, Mike Lee Join Dumb, Baseless GOP Quest To Pretend OAN Was Unfairly Censored

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2022 @ 09:24am

  nobody can play that game

  only pirates play that game. It's encrusted with so much drm that you can't even play it, even though it's a free game.

• On the post: Ted Cruz, Mike Lee Join Dumb, Baseless GOP Quest To Pretend OAN Was Unfairly Censored

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2022 @ 07:12am

  ah, yes. party of small government

  Clearly Republicants are all about small government. Isn't this actual/valid as trade secrets, as well?

• On the post: Announcing BestNetTech’s March Madness: Get Your Bracket For The Most Misunderstood Legal Concept

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2022 @ 08:49am

  yeah, this is somewhat my thoughts as well. People are petty and greedy, so willful misunderstanding of free speech/first amendment is what I expect at the top.

• On the post: Re-Funding The Police: Taxpayers On The Hook For Billions of Dollars Of Law Enforcement Lawsuit Settlements

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2022 @ 09:02am

  I see an additional effect, in theory

  In theory...wouldn't the worst offenders getting away with everything raise the baseline for any marginally bad cop who's less stupid about getting caught, to actually get caught for anything, thus perpetuating the cycle? IE: bad cop with 10 settlements = everyone hates him terrible cop with a history of atrocities but not as stupid with 0 settlements = looks great on the record now. Sounds like this is how it already operates, they're presumed innocent until they suddenly rack up a million settlements.

• On the post: No, U.S. Broadband Isn’t Miraculously Getting Cheaper

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2022 @ 07:42am

  makes perfect sense

  This is super obvious why they would do that. Because if you compare that to every other country in the world we're basically dead last. Our cost per mb is hilarious vs other countries.

• On the post: Washington State Bill Would Boost Definition Of Broadband To 100 Mbps

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2022 @ 05:39am

  this also tells you how comcast-centric they are

  The fact that the focus is not on a symmetrical connection tells you that they are firmly in the mindset of comcast as a normal connection metric. Vs actual fiber being normally something like 100/100, which ISP's would cry about.

• On the post: Big ISPs Avoided 2020 Law Banning Predatory Modem ‘Rental’ Fees By Simply Calling Them… Something Else

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2022 @ 04:56pm

  fspsb?

  ‘Frontier Secure Personal Security Bundle’ ($5.99 after ‘discount’), So: Full of Shit Predatory Super Bullshit fee is $5.99? wow.

• On the post: Anti-Vax Doctor Hires Anti-Vax Lawyer To Threaten A Dallas Publication With A ‘Deafamation’ Lawsuit

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2022 @ 12:55pm

  deafamation

  please, they're apparently deaf. To facts, and to logic.

• On the post: House Votes For COMPETES Act, Even With Its Problems, Almost Entirely On Party Lines

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2022 @ 04:18pm

  "they feel they need to hang all sorts of gifts on it"

  I think you missed the r in grifts

• On the post: Shitty U.S. Broadband Maps Are A Feature, Not A Bug

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2022 @ 10:01am

  The why here isn't a question

  It's super simple and dead obvious why news agencies are scared to report on the inefficiencies:
  they're afraid of the impact of pissing off the ISP's as the ISP's have continued to grow (and in many cases, control many media sources). So they do nothing because of course they won't.

• On the post: Judge Albright Names Lawyer For Patent Trolls As New Magistrate Judge For Waco

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2021 @ 03:53pm

  Re: Hard to undermine something that's been burned to the ground

  it's like the qualified immunity logic.
  Was there a letter somewhere that said they shouldn't have done that? whoops. meanwhile, patent trolls probably double their efforts after this

• On the post: Silly, Pandering Politicians Introduce Silly, Pandering 'Cyber Grinch' Law That Would Ban Buying Bots

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2021 @ 01:04pm

  Re: Wil Congress ever learn?

  exactly, it's a clear distraction from addressing the problem at hand.

• On the post: Lots Of Big Media Companies Had Access To The Facebook Files; Only Gizmodo Decided To Put In The Work To Make Them Public

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2021 @ 12:08pm

  Are they afraid?

  To me, this reads like a distinct possibility that the consortium is fearful of facebook/losing traffic to facebook.

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