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  1. Re:Thanks for vaccinating the other democracies on FCC Ends Decades-Old Rule Designed To Keep TV, Radio Under Local Control (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    Why should the electorate be informed? That would make it harder to get unqualified people elected. Such as why education funding keeps getting cut.

  2. Re:Don't bitch about the FCC on FCC Ends Decades-Old Rule Designed To Keep TV, Radio Under Local Control (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Noticing a pattern here? Why is there no middle?

  3. What is going on here? He was only expelled? A college student?!

    Didn't we have a middle school student charged with a felony for changing a desktop wallpaper a couple years ago?
    https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

    A college student pays $$$$$ for education and loses that for doing something he ought to have known better than do and was planned out ahead of time.

    A highschool student gets a felony destroying many of their job prospects for their entire life for a prank.

    How is this remotely fair? It's not even !@#$%^& consistent!

  4. Well I have an ISP that likes to inject stuff into unencrypted connections is that not reason enough to prefer https sites?

  5. Re:What's next? on EPA Announces Repeal of Major Obama-Era Carbon Emissions Rule (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Looks like tariffs on solar imports are next.

  6. Re:Stupid. on UK Government Could Imprison People For Looking At Terrorist Content (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wouldn't this make anyone who regularly watches the news a criminal?

  7. Re:Don't I know it. on Bitcoin Exchange BTCChina Says To Stop Trading, Sparking Further Slide (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow! it's over $3,000/coin now last I heard it was only up to $2,700.

  8. Re:change the default...opt in to sound, not opt o on Chrome Will Soon Let You Permanently Mute Websites (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    IDK I figure it has something to do with it's blacklisting and whitelisting functions.

    Https everywhere also requires it and it only works with URLs and it was made by the EFF.

    Otherwise "Clever mute" is the only similar one requiring less. I'm aware of.
    https://chrome.google.com/webs...

    It requires access to browsing history and permission to display notifications.

  9. Re:Finally on Chrome Will Soon Let You Permanently Mute Websites (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 2

    There is. Mute tab does this https://chrome.google.com/webs...

    Set the default to muted and go into
    chrome://flags/ and enable "Tab audio muting UI control".

    Then just click the little muted speaker to unmute the tab.

  10. Re:change the default...opt in to sound, not opt o on Chrome Will Soon Let You Permanently Mute Websites (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    You can actually do all of this now with mute tab https://chrome.google.com/webs...

    Set the default to muted and go into
    chrome://flags/ and enable Tab audio muting UI control.

  11. Re:how is this progress? on Verizon To Start Throttling All Smartphone Videos To 480p or 720p (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Other carriers don't have image size limits?

  12. I've got probably a 5 gallon buckets worth of bad laptop batteries i've yet to come up with a good use for them.

  13. Re:Google means search with google on Supreme Court Asked To Nullify the Google Trademark (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Bing using google? What madness!

    Actually letmegooglethatforyou.com, lmgtfy.com and lmbtfy.com are all run by the same entity (notice the logo) surprisingly letmebingthatforyou.com is not.

  14. Re:Google means search with google on Supreme Court Asked To Nullify the Google Trademark (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure there isn't a lmgtfy that....Never mind.
    http://lmgtfy.com/?s=b&q=let+m...

    You can set lmgtfy to use search engines other than google.
    That's disturbing.

  15. Fun! For a lemonade stand here you would need a "Transient Merchant and/or Itinerant Vendor License" which is $600/yr

    It is only available by the year.

    Hope you are planning on selling a lot of lemonade.

  16. Re:Conservatives and their "innovation" arguments on A 'Netflix Tax'? Yes, and It's Already a Thing in Some States (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? None of that in oklahoma yet. The ADSL2+ line is $45.00/mo

    Actual bill after taxes/fees $45.00/mo

    Maybe someday they will talk the isp's into selling connections actually worth taxing (hahahaha thats funny).

    IIUC the reason it currently isn't taxed is an attempt to get them to actually deploy effing broadband.

  17. Re:This is what happens when you can't raise taxes on A 'Netflix Tax'? Yes, and It's Already a Thing in Some States (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Well the deal with the lotteries was they figured out how much they expected the lotteries would bring in and took that much out of their allocated funding then when the lotto didn't bring in as much as expected the schools ended up with even less.

    Reminds me of the amazon tax that just went into effect here recently the state said it wasn't going to help their budget as they had already allocated the money they thought they would get from amazon in the budget before it passed.

    It's a nice shell game they claim the money is going to help one thing (and the money really does go there) but they take away other funding (to run other projects) so the intended project (like schools) ends up with the same funding as before or worse.

  18. Re:govenrment loves telecom on A 'Netflix Tax'? Yes, and It's Already a Thing in Some States (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Our phone bill at work is $35/mo for a POTS line with unlimited long distance however the actual bill is $58.76/mo after all the other taxes and fees.

    $23.76 in tax/fees

    Over 40% of the bill.

    That's a 67.88% tax rate!

  19. Why yes I do know I can do that however. on YouTube Has An Illegal TV Streaming Problem (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I usually want to watch a specific episode or episodes in order and that's just not usually something you can do with live streamed pirate marathons.

  20. Thanks for your condolences. I figure I'll have to move if I ever want to live nearby a theater again. As I don't see anyone wanting to build anything aside from convenience stores anywhere near here.

  21. Re:just as hollow on Tech Companies Urge Supreme Court To Boost Cellphone Privacy (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What's going on here? Am I missing something the summary implies location history something encryption isn't going to hep with when they are getting the info from the carrier not your phone.

  22. The only theater in town closed down a couple years ago so unless I want to drive to the next town over.

    So $4 in gas a trip loss of over an hour in drive time each trip so 3X a month i'll i've spent more in gas than the subscription then most likely many months there won't even be a movie showing I want to watch.

  23. Re:measuring policy complexity on The Man Who Wrote the Password Rules Regrets Doing So (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Ours are on a sticky note stuck to the monitor.

  24. Re:My max is two paid streaming services on Disney To Pull Its Movies From Netflix and Start Its Own Streaming Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Premium? You mean like how hulu started as a paid with ads service and now offers a premium service with less ads? (but they won't sell an ad free service because fuck you)

  25. Re:Progress of the Arts and Sciences on Disney To Pull Its Movies From Netflix and Start Its Own Streaming Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure but 1 cost as much or more as a whole month's subscription. Guardians of the galaxy 2 for example costs more than 2 months of prime video.