Comment Re: Why do you hate freedom? (Score 1) 267
I can "ghost" MAC on every OS known to man - practically. Most of those with a Berkeley-derived TCP stack are
sudo ifconfig
What we want here is not to just selfishly hide - but to pollute their collection with billions of plausible "false positive" pseudo computers and mobiles.
Comment Re:NSA scorecard on on truth? (Score 1) 200
"We didn't spy on Congressional office holders, or their staffers. We don't conduct mass surveillance. We track only metadata. Our Agency leadership has been exceptionally truthful at all times, under every circumstance. We have never lied about these things in general public statements or in sworn testimony. Edward Snowden is a bad man, a liar and a dangerous enemy of the people of this country."
Comment I was actually thinking of buying minecraft soon (Score 1) 330
Friends are still happily playing it. Figured it might be a game that is fun for the long haul. Now I know it will be ruined. MS game DRM was what made me eschew modern games in the first place.
Comment Re:Ads (Score 1) 330
And so a whole new generation of gamers will learn the pain and heartache of a loved name from their childhood getting ruined by a poorly-thought-out corporate-developed sequel.
At least Star Control 3 wasn't a poorly thought out corporate developed sequel. The melee was so well thought out that there was an A.I. override built in and advertised in the manual to make the A.I. ships act suicidal. That takes planning.
Comment Re:Again? (Score 1) 200
Once a man knows you know he's a liar, you can no longer trust him to lie most of the time. You have to just stop listening to him.
Comment Re: Why do you hate freedom? (Score 2) 267
But you have cookies, and browser fingerprints, and logons, and device ID / Application ID info...
Riding on a free uplink doesn't do jack.
Comment Re: Reliability is key. (Score 1) 600
And this is good thing. The second amendment doesn't specify how much it costs to bear the arms. Only that you're allowed to. So yeah don't ban guns, just increase the cost of possessing them so that only those really really really into guns will go for it.
If we are going to do that, pay for your constitutional rights, how about about $1,000 per year to vote?
I like your ideas and want to subscribe to your newsletter.
Unfortunately, it will cost $100,000,000 per year to practice the free speech of publishing the newsletter, so it may never exist.
Comment Re: Why do you hate freedom? (Score 0) 267
I think we can really fuck with them. Chaff, deception traffic...
Let's get started on making more hay for their stacks, people! Hell. You'll run a client for SETI, why not run one to preserve your intelligent life, here on Earth!
Comment Re:So we're doomed to the world of Wall-E? (Score 1) 196
It depends on what you need to do, and what you know about it.
If you are not willing to walk away from it, on short notice? Then buying nothing is wise.
The trick about big financing is that you don't own a house - a bank owns you. Your on their plantation.
If you didn't barter or pay cash, you are on Massah's rules, Massah's time.
Comment Re:So we're doomed to the world of Wall-E? (Score 1) 196
Yes. Enjoy 15-30 years of BEARABLE slavery. But you OWN something... Just ask the taxman.
You have Stockholm syndrome - and don't recognize it. You should read about Edward Bernays, some time - before lashing out in pseudo-moral rage against a proposition who's arguments you fo not actually comprehend.
Comment Re:Typical (Score 1) 8
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
Comment Re:The Curse of Geolocation Strikes Again! (Score 1) 5
Crazy, isn't it?
Evidently, there is some unwritten law that states that Geolocation by IP address shall override any and all set preferences by the user on their device, and ignore any possibility that barring or redirecting the user makes no sense.
The tyranny of location! Don't worry. They have a fix for that with TPP and TTIP.
One law to rule them all, one law to bind them...
Comment MY fingerprint? (Score 1) 600
Seem pretty inconvenient. Now I'll have people all over asking me to unlock their guns. The worst will be the emergency runs. "Help! There's a man here whose gun you unlocked. I need you to unlock my gun or he'll kill my family!" *sigh*
Comment Re:Ask the US Postal Service (Score 1) 124
Yes. Now continue the train of thought.
