dysmey’s Comments

• Jan 25th, 2021 @ 12:55pm

  Hubris? You bet

  on Google Threatens To Pull Out Of Australia Entirely; Australians Demand That It Both Stay And Pay News Orgs For Giving Them Traffic

  Evidently it never occurs to Australians that:

  • Europe is a big market, and Australia with only 25 million people is not, so why should Google placate them?
  • Australia has no idea how much Americans (esp. Google) despise Rupert Murdoch and know that he is the news organization there; and
  • the other search engines like DuckDuckGo do not do news, and will certainly not start in Australia.
• Oct 29th, 2020 @ 8:30am

  blackburnism

  on The Senate Snowflake Grievance Committee Quizzes Tech CEOs On Tweets & Employee Viewpoints
  Well, there is a new name for cancel culture. Senator Blackburn is the embodiment of this sort of thing.
• Apr 11th, 2019 @ 8:09am

  Adieu O francais

  on EU Tells Internet Archive That Much Of Its Site Is 'Terrorist Content'

  The French agency told the Archive it needed to take down
  that content within 24 hours or the Archive may get blocked
  in France.

  The appropriate response, I think, would be "then block us", and then back up and take out of public view any French material. It is just as well: Fewer people would be able to read them, because French is being dropped as public school curriculum throughout the country due to cost and a growing sense of irrelevance.

• Dec 21st, 2017 @ 9:35am

  Missing paragraph

  on Keeper Security Files Bullshit SLAPP Suit Against Ars Technica, Letting Many More People Know Not To Use Its Software
  Part of the paragraph starting with "The lawsuit was filed in Illinois" is missing.
• Jan 27th, 2015 @ 11:54am

  No choice? (as Dysmey)

  on France Announces Plans To Hold The Internet Responsible For Terrorism
  The phrase "internet services will have no choice" is not clear. Does it mean they must censor in France, or censor everywhere? If it is just in France, then those 'internet services' will have to do what Google would have done anyway, and create a dumbed-down version of their services for the European market. Either that, or pull out entirely. It is not as if the Minitel country is of any importance to the Internet, right?
• Jan 28th, 2014 @ 8:19am

  Until Oklahoma takes Springtown's charter away... (as Andy West)

  on Police Banned From Enforcing Traffic Laws In Oklahoma Town Over Abuse Of Traffic Tickets For Money
  On U.S. 69 going north at Atoka, take U.S. 75 north and west to Coalgate. At Coalgate, follow north Main Street off of U.S. 75 onto state road 31. Keep on state road 31 out of Coalgate and past Cottonwood. At the intersection of state roads 31 and 131, take route 131. The road will join U.S. 69 near Reynolds Lake, far north of Springtown, bypassing the town entirely.
• Sep 15th, 2010 @ 10:07am

  Firing not a good idea. (as Andy)

  on Google Engineer Fired For Spying On Teen Users; Serious Privacy Concerns Raised
  It probably would have been better if the engineer had been demoted to a position that would keep him out of the accounts and GMail/Chat databases, yet let him keep doing useful work for Google. Just firing him, from what to some is Paradise to a traditional hacker, would leave him with little choice but to engage in crackery to make a living.