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• On the post: Texas Senator Pushing A Bill That Would Allow The State To Sue Twitter For Banning Conservatives

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2019 @ 02:18pm

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  But they just want the Muslim terrorists banned. Brown people are scary. It's not like you have to worry about white people going around and shooting up or bombing a place. Wait...

• On the post: Tennessee Senate Unanimously Passes Actual Anti-SLAPP Bill

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2019 @ 02:14pm

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  Your guess is as good as mine. Most of the time this state drives me nuts trying to shut down anything progressive that Nashville and Memphis do but they occasionally have their breakthrough moments like this and being the first to offer free college tuition to all adult residents who don't have a degree.

• On the post: TSA Sending Air Marshals All Over The US To Tail Non-Terrorist US Citizens

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2018 @ 02:22pm

  Re: 'You are so going on MORE lists!'

  When everybody is on a list, nobody is on a list.

• On the post: FlightSimLabs Installs More Questionable Stuff On Users' Machines, Then Threatens Reddit

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2018 @ 06:57am

  Brilliant tactics

  Trying to bully/threaten users on Reddit is only about one or two steps less stupid than threatening 4chan. I can't imagine this works out well for them.

• On the post: 11th Circuit Says No Reasonable Suspicion Needed For Invasive Device Searches At The Border

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2018 @ 02:30pm

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  It's kind of at the point that if I ever go to Canada or another country I'm just going to wipe my phone before I leave. Don't want to get caught with MP3 files on it, I can't prove they aren't pirated (and some might be), or naughty pictures of myself and my fiancee). Just wipe it before I go and then wipe it again after I get back and spend a day restoring the backup.

• On the post: Senators Ask FCC Why It Did Nothing To Stop Their Names From Being Fraudulently Used During Net Neutrality Repeal

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 23 May, 2018 @ 07:36am

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  That is, of course, exactly what it was. It was pretty clear even then that their minds were likely already made up.

• On the post: The Music Industry Now Wants To Creep Past Site-Blocking Into App-Blocking

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2018 @ 01:31pm

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  I wouldn't even call bare Kodi a DVR. It's just a media player with a shitty interface. Like, seriously, whose idea was it to use the desktop-style interface on mobile. Just adding my seedbox as an FTP site takes about 5 minutes between trying to click on the tiny boxes and type in a password on keys smaller than my finger and which I can't see what characters I'm actually typing. There's also no way to cast it so I'm stuck watching things on a shitty 6 inch screen or dragging a laptop into the bedroom and disconnecting something to plug in the HDMI.

• On the post: Slowing Down Driverless Cars Would Be A Fatal Mistake

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2018 @ 07:25pm

  Re: Re: human statistics?

  Thanks but that's fatalities. Cars in general have gotten so safe that we're only averaging about 1 death for every 100 million miles. We need it for accidents in general.

• On the post: Slowing Down Driverless Cars Would Be A Fatal Mistake

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2018 @ 05:27pm

  human statistics?

  I would like to know, statistically speaking, how many accidents humans would have in 350,000 driven miles. Probably less than 64 but that's assuming each disengagement would have resulted in an accident too, unlikely. Also were the disengagements spread evenly or were the weighted towards the beginning of the year, suggesting they were improving?

• On the post: Five Years After His Arrest, Prosecutors Try To Push Back Justin Carter's 'Terroristic Threat' Trial

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2018 @ 06:27am

  Constitution

  Isn't there something in the constitution about the right to a speedy trial? In what universe can FIVE YEARS be considered a speedy trial? One would think they could get it dismissed on those grounds alone.

• On the post: An English-Language, Algorithmically-Personalized News Aggregator, Based In China — What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2018 @ 06:32am

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  The Roy Moore thing is more like "alternative facts."

• On the post: Virginia Politicians Looks To Tax Speech In The Form Of Porn In The Name Of Stemming Human Trafficking

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2018 @ 12:45pm

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  What would stop a parent from walking into AT&T and just buying a phone without saying oh it's for my kid? It's not like they're going to make you take a lie detector. Oh, you want to add another line of service? Great! Right this way please.

• On the post: Virginia Politicians Looks To Tax Speech In The Form Of Porn In The Name Of Stemming Human Trafficking

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2018 @ 12:44pm

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  Nah, even if it came preinstalled on Windows it's not likely you wouldn't be able to remove it. Aside from the whole blow it away and reinstall a clean copy option if you have local administrator access it's killable.

• On the post: Psychiatrist Sues A Bunch Of Redditors For Criticizing His Therapy Services

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2018 @ 01:32pm

  I see this going well

  Suing Redditors like this is probably about one step better than suing people on 4chan and it's likely to go down about as well.

• On the post: Dennis Prager Seeks Injunction To Keep YouTube From Administering Its Own Site While YouTube Seeks Dismissal

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2018 @ 08:06pm

  Re: "Levy: 2. Law to seize property in order to satisfy a judgment: often with on"

  Don McLean drove his Chevy to the levee, not levy. Different word.

• On the post: Charter, Disney Execs Pledge To Crack Down On Streaming Password Sharing 'Piracy'

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2017 @ 12:15pm

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  Nah, he was so upset he pirated that.

• On the post: Roy Moore's Threat Letter To Sue The Press Is An Artform In Bad Lawyering

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2017 @ 01:42pm

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  There's an old joke about a politician who could only lose an election if caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy. With the alt-right it's become reality.
  
  Man, I'm not even sure that would be enough. :(

• On the post: Cards Against Humanity's Trolling Of Trump's Border Wall Shows How The Internet Has Removed Gatekeepers

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2017 @ 02:57pm

  >Whatever you might think, it should be clear that this campaign is likely to piss off some decent chunk of the company's potential customer base. Why the company wants to do this is a valid question, but I'd like to point out why they can do this.
  
  The type of people who are fans of CAH are far more likely to be on the liberal side of things. I don't think that this is going to hurt their sales significantly at all and may even improve them. Also CAH are known to be trolls. Trolling the Trump administration is par for the course.

• On the post: With Denuvo Broken, Ubisoft Doubles Up On DRM for Assasin's Creed Origin, Tanking Everyone's Computers

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2017 @ 06:02pm

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  30 frames is probably fine. Since it's third person you can get away with a lower framerate. It's the first person stuff where you really want to shoot for 60 fps. I mean, yeah, the higher frame rate is great and all but it really doesn't make a significant difference. What DOES make a difference is not having the system continually stutter or drop down to teens or single digit frame rates momentarily because you put too much DRM on your shit.

• On the post: With Denuvo Broken, Ubisoft Doubles Up On DRM for Assasin's Creed Origin, Tanking Everyone's Computers

  

  Avatar28 ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2017 @ 05:57pm

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  This is also the flip side to the whole "you're only licensing it" bullshit. Since the license that allows you to use it is distinct from the physical copy they don't have to be the same. E.g. I have a license for Windows 10 on my computer. If I need to reinstall it it doesn't have to be the same copy I used originally. I can download a fresh copy and use that. As long as it's the same software (e.g. Windows 10 Pro) it's legit.

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