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• On the post: Senators Whine About FCC's 25 Mbps Broadband Standard, Insist Nobody Needs That Much Bandwidth

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2016 @ 12:00pm

  So the old saying is true.

  If the opposite of "pro" is "con", the opposite of "progress" really is "congress".

• On the post: Our Response To The Latest Ridiculous Legal Threat Against Us: Milorad Trkulja Can Go Pound Sand

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2015 @ 12:19pm

  Re:

  He's not the commenter BestNetTech needs, but the commenter Michael Trkulja deserves.

• On the post: Predictable: The Fragmented Media Will Give Us All Our Post-Oregon-Shooting Outrage Blankets

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2015 @ 12:13pm

  Re:

  Reluctant? They're practically tripping over themselves not to follow suit. Here's CNN (as just one example) going right from that sheriff's statement, to proudly announcing that they are reporting his name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5U_XD4kDJ4 (The YouTube uploader bleeped his name out.)
  
  And then they go and read his statement about how you get more press with a higher kill count, totally oblivious to how they're just giving him exactly what he wants.

• On the post: Amazon Bans Sale Of Competing Apple TV, Chromecast Devices To 'Avoid Customer Confusion'

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2015 @ 02:07pm

  Game consoles should be fine.

  > Apparently other streaming competitors like the Roku and game consoles have yet to see Amazon's ire and will remain sold, for now.
  
  If I read it correctly, they're not carrying devices that don't work with their service. I watch Amazon Video on my Xbox just fine. And going by Roku's website, Amazon Video works there, too. So they wouldn't block those for that reason.
  
  Does it mean they could decide to drop products that also support competitors (regardless of whether they also support Amazon Video)? That would be a bigger can of worms.

• On the post: T-Mobile CEO Vows To Hunt Down 'Thieves&#39 And 'Clever Hackers' That 'Abuse' Company's Unlimited Data Plans

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2015 @ 08:33am

  Re:

  Considering they dropped support for my phone 4 months after I bought it (it still works, but it was excluded from receiving any further OS or firmware updates), and they just did the same to another one two months after they started selling it, I have no intention of buying another T-Mobile-branded phone.
  
  If they want to keep me as a customer, they'd better not consider me a "bad guy" for buying a phone without their brand, locks, and lack of support.

• On the post: Spanish Police Park In Handicapped Spot, Fine Person Who Caught Them For 'Impugning Their Honor'

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2015 @ 07:44am

  Re:

  Perhaps an inquisition would help the populace understand their place.

  
  I'll bet they wouldn't expect that.

• On the post: TSA Decides Sorority Souvenir Book Carried By Dozens Of Travelers Probably A Bomb

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2015 @ 11:52am

  How does a book look like a bomb?

  thick booklets at the convention that could be mistaken for explosives when packed into checked bags

  
  
  What is wrong with their detection equipment that a book looks like a bomb?
  
  How many college students will have to go through this if -- god forbid -- they dare to take a textbook on a flight?
  
  Or maybe that's the whole plan, to keep people dumb by forbidding books....

• On the post: 4th Amendment Lives: Court Tells US Government Get A Warrant If It Wants Mobile Phone Location Info

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2015 @ 01:50pm

  There's a waterproof phone?

  I'm curious what phone those 12% are using in the shower, and how (or if) it manages to survive. Think of how much time I could save in my morning routine if I could read my daily email while I shower!

• On the post: France Gives In To Insanity And Rioting Taxi Drivers: Cracks Down On Uber

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2015 @ 01:11pm

  So, the French government surrendered?

  I normally don't like going for the cheap "French surrender" joke, but this is one of those cases where it just seems to fit perfectly.

• On the post: South Carolina Massacre Results In Apple Going Flag-Stupid In The App Store

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2015 @ 02:08pm

  The Warner Bros example is a bit ironic.

  While they still sell the DVDs of their cartoons with the "ethnic and racial prejudices" of the time, they've cancelled the license to sell Dukes of Hazzard General Lee toys with the flag on it.

• On the post: Federal Election Committee Tries To Shut Down 'Stop Hillary' PAC Because Donors Might Think Hillary Clinton Is Behind It

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2015 @ 02:44pm

  Re: Doom is coming

  I've heard Mickey Mouse is a copyright maximalist. Not a very appealing candidate.

• On the post: According To The Government, Clearing Your Browser History Is A Felony

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2015 @ 08:34am

  Re:

  Is it destruction of evidence if the browser doesn't write the history file in the first place?

• On the post: Valve Tries Out Paid Mods Platform; It Fails Completely

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2015 @ 03:18pm

  Also, people are entitled.

  I was amazed (until I realized I was reading Reddit) how much vitriol was being spewed towards the modders themselves, for daring to make money on what they should be giving the community for free.

• On the post: Would It Have Been Better To Let The Indiana Religious Freedom Law Stand And Let The Internet And Free Market Work?

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2015 @ 08:08pm

  Re: Re: It's having to endorse a position is what is wrong

  Way to prove his point.

• On the post: University Student Government Can't Take A Joke; Pulls Paper's Funding After 'Offensive' April Fool's Issue

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2015 @ 11:48am

  Re: The outrage should be about the illiteracy

  "meeting where a medium can be reached" What kind of medium would that be? The sort who talks to the dead?

  
  
  That would be the diminutive soothsayer that escaped custody. The story was on page 3, "Small Medium at Large".

• On the post: New York Times Turns Ads Off On 'Sensitive' Stories

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2015 @ 04:55pm

  Maybe I'm just more cynical in my old age, but I have a feeling it's less an unwillingness to use a tragedy for advertising, and more to avoid the backlash they're likely to get when, say, their keyword-based advertising server automatically serves up ads for pool cleaning products on a story about a fatal drowning accident.

• On the post: Can't Make This Up: Katy Perry's Lawyers Use Left Shark Photo Taken By Guy They're Threatening In Trademark Application

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2015 @ 03:29pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  No, because of the copy-right.

• On the post: Yet Another Horrible Comcast Customer Service Experience Goes Viral

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 31 Dec, 2014 @ 11:12am

  Re: Re: Re: Lawa laws laws

  I mean as their consent to me recording.

• On the post: Yet Another Horrible Comcast Customer Service Experience Goes Viral

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 31 Dec, 2014 @ 10:50am

  Re: Lawa laws laws

  In the case of customers of Comcast and others, the truth is that recording conversations is not legal unless you have advised them of this and then only when they acknowledge it is it legal..

  
  
  Typically, when you call, you get the recorded message "To ensure customer service, this call may be recorded or monitored." At which point, I say, "Thank you, I will." Could that be considered acknowledgement?

• On the post: Irony: Sony Turns To Google, The Company It Was Plotting Against, To Stream The Interview

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2014 @ 11:56am

  Re:

  It's also available on Xbox Video, which supports your theory....

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