You don't seem to understand the role technology plays in transforming how societies work.

You are basically giving extra protection to some people - but not all. I'm not cool with that. It doesn't matter what somebody else thinks. If baggy pants are demonized compared to khakis, and I tell the world you wear baggy pants, is that somehow more evil than telling the world you wear khakis? You're reaching way too deep. A 3rd party's reaction to information does not turn information from acceptable into hate crime.

This 30 day sentence is the right amount. Smart judge, for once.

Fucking awesome.

Browsers that getted sued for having ad blocking features.

It's only a frivolous lawsuit when someone besides Fox files it.

Then you should be painfully familiar with the phenomenon of which my sig speaks.

Fox claims that giving viewers the ability to skip commercials on recorded television shows demonstrates the "clear goal of violating copyrights and destroying the fundamental underpinnings of the broadcast television ecosystem."

Good! Let's tear down that century-old ecosystem, including the business models of those leeches. They're dying anyway. Let's start over from scratch and figure out how we can do it again, this time in ways that don't require stunting technological innovation.

Or just use TOR. And don't say "tor can be compromised". That's only true if they are already monitoring you. if you're doing something you've told nobody about and not already being monitored, you're fine.

Well, I'm not sure about the coins. It was a long time ago and my memory may be mixing things up: I have a tube brain.

When I was a young kid, my mother would fix the TV by pulling out all of the TV tubes, wrapping them in news pages, and then carrying them all down-town to a big drug store which had a coin-operated tube-tester machine. She'd plug them into the matching slots one by one and see which ones were good and which were sour. I couldn't help her because I was too short.

Then she'd go to the back of the store to find matches for the sour tubes based on the codes printed on the tube slots. (Often the label was worn/cooked off the tube itself such that the slot labels on the tester were the only way to tell.)

I'd generally consider her a "technophobe", but she did it in a very routine fashion as if she'd done it dozens of times before. People just got used to tubes back then.

At least TV's were partly repairable. Now the repair costs are often more than a new TV. Oh, and Get off my lawn!

You do realize being a garbage man or taxi driver or farmer is more dangerous than being a cop, right?