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• On the post: House Passes Election Security Bill That Finally Adds Security Researchers To The Mix

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2020 @ 09:18am

  No chance

  No way in Hell does this pass the Senate, much less get signed. Doesn't specify Russian Buddy brand Election Security.

• On the post: Twitch Experiments With Intrusive Ads That Piss Off Its Most Important Asset, Its Talent

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2020 @ 10:09pm

  I simply can't imagine that said data will show that intrusive ads that everyone hates are good for the company.

  I don't know what planet you live on, but...

  What's good for the company -- any company -- is profit. Always, only profit. All the evils that companies do to consumers -- intrusive ads, invasion of privacy, regulatory capture, intellectual property abuse, price gouging, and etc. -- it's all done in service of greater profit. The theory that companies should benefit anyone other than themselves went out before button shoes.

  You say that you "...can't imagine that said data will show...," well, the only data Twitch management will consider is the bottom line. Outraged comments will be ignored. "Talent" that votes with their feet will be ignored. If the bottom line tilts up, Twitch will do these ads, and the "talent" is given a blunt choice: live with it or go elsewhere.

• On the post: Content Moderation Case Study: Detecting Sarcasm Is Not Easy (2018)

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2020 @ 08:36pm

  Re:

  I see. But how do we go about identifying these people, "who might think it a good idea to be loudly upset"?

• On the post: Content Moderation Case Study: Detecting Sarcasm Is Not Easy (2018)

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2020 @ 08:31pm

  Re: Re: I'm sorry

  Your sarcasm detector failed -- Pixelation was being sarcastic. (I think.) And you are exactly right. How is anyone going to write an algorithm to detect sarcasm when even humans commonly fail to recognize it?

• On the post: FBI Horrified To Discover Ring Doorbells Can Tip Off Citizens To The Presence Of Federal Officers At Their Door

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2020 @ 08:03pm

  Atom blaster points both ways equally well. News at eleven.

• On the post: Secret Service Latest To Use Data Brokers To Dodge Warrant Requirements For Cell Site Location Data

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2020 @ 12:04pm

  Question on the amount

  ...to $1,999,394...

  Hmmmmmmm...Dodging a $2 million limit, guys? We know what you think about us peons dodging cash limits...

• On the post: Apple Goes In Even Harder Against Prepear Over Non-Apple Logo

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2020 @ 06:18am

  Re:

  Why stop there? They will soon be going after any logo with a fruit and a leaf. Your logo is a banana and an oak leaf? They gonna getcha. A green bean and a palmetto frond? You're in trouble. A pumpkin and a grass blade? You're doomed. Watermelon on a lily pad? You've just got to try their patience, don't you?

• On the post: Bizarre Court Ruling Helps Cable Broadband Monopoly Charter Tap Dance Around Merger Conditions

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2020 @ 07:29am

  Empty-headed rulings

  Only the DC court could hear "having to offer lower-cost broadband plans [to consumers]" and conclude that is bad for consumers.

  Upcoming ruling from the court: The prohibition on converting consumers to Soylent Green is bad for consumers.

• On the post: California Fusion Center Tracked Anti-Police Protests, Sent Info To 14,000 Police Officers

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2020 @ 11:25am

  Wondering

  If it was police protesting, I wonder if NCRIC would send out a daily list of those protests?

• On the post: Tone Deaf Facebook To Cripple VR Headsets Unless You Link It To Your Facebook Account

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2020 @ 11:21am

  Upcoming FB Buyouts

  Maytag. ("Now you have to sign in to FB to refrogerate your food or to wash dishes or clothes.)

  McDonald.s ("Sign into FB to get a Big Mac.")

  etc.

  The next wave of monopolizaton. Forced membership.

• On the post: FBI Lawyer Criminally Charged For Lying To The FISA Court

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2020 @ 09:28pm

  Not about the lie

  It wasn't the lie that got him punished. If FBI lies were all punished, there would be no one left to turn out the lights.

  This is a political persecution, pure and simple.

• On the post: San Diego Police Officers Are Using An Old Sedition Law To Punish People For Swearing Around Cops

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2020 @ 05:21pm

  Re: Make it happen, it will be fun to watch

  So ACLU won't grind our axe/bang our drum and there oughta be a Law forcing them to treat every idea I like as if it were the best idea ever? So, if Facebook/Twitter/ACLU are to be forced to support every white supremacist ideal...why shouldn't I expect, say, American Family Association to present every pro-choice argument I might want to make? If your answer is, "Organizations must only be forced to support ideas I like...," then you are don't really support free speech, your argument is bankrupt. ...or you could admit that PRIVATE persons and organizations should be entitled to walk away from ideas they don't support. In which case, Facebook, Twitter and ACLU are merely exercising their rights.

• On the post: Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia Pet Just Applied For Trademark On Jingle For Some R-R-R-Reason

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2020 @ 09:23pm

  Re:

  Nah, not into oblivion. Just for a nice, lucrative 25% of their profits.

• On the post: Rich Dude Goes Back On His Promise About Forcing California Into A Dreadfully Bad Privacy Law, Brings A Worse Version Back

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2020 @ 03:11pm

  Wishing

  I wish I had a bazillion dollars to waste pushing my ideology on courts and voters.

• On the post: Why Is The Boys And Girls Club Trying To Kill A Cable Monopoly's Merger Conditions?

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2020 @ 12:35pm

  How cheap?

  I wonder if they'd write a letter for me, for $500? $50? $5? We already know they are for sale cheap, I'm just wondering how low they'll go?

• On the post: Tech Policy In The Time Of Trump: Mid-2020 Edition

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2020 @ 09:07pm

  Re: Re: Re: My Two Cents

  Perhaps if we tried net neutrality or capitalism in our markets, we would get better results.

• On the post: DOJ Says Massachusetts Drug Unit Routinely Engaged In And Lied About Excessive Force Deployment

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2020 @ 08:08am

  How to fix this?

  A pattern and practice of assault, battery, racism, falsification of evidence, false arrest, perjury, obstruction of justice and insubordination. Probably murder, since they don't seem to have met a line they won't cross.

  Collusion to avoid prosecution and refusal to be accountable. Breach of trust and breach of oath.

  How do you even start to fix this?

  Is it any wonder that some people want to burn it all down and start over?

• On the post: Documents Show SFPD Ignored The Press Pass The Department Had Issued To Brian Carmody In Order To Place Him Under Surveillance

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2020 @ 06:50pm

  A rule of thumb

  The quicker the capitulation, the quicker the settlement offer, the more likely worse wrongdoing is yet to be discovered.

  Follows the principle of "pleading to a lesser crime."

• On the post: Estate Of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Alleges Copyright Infringement Over Sherlock's Emotional Awakening

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2020 @ 02:45pm

  Under that theory...

  ...Shakespeare Estate owns 87% of everything copyrightable, and Aeosop Estate owns the rest.

• On the post: Detroit Police Chief Says Facial Recognition Software Involved In Bogus Arrest Is Wrong '96 Percent Of The Time'

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2020 @ 10:36am

  Police are the bad guys

  An inaccuracy of 94%? I could do better with a Ouija Board. I could do better throwing darts at a Michigan map blindfolded.

  Let's say that what he means is that 94% of matches generated prove to be false. Now I'm sure that's not what the sales pitch said, but who trusts those? If I had a piece of software that failed 94% of the time, I would ashcan it and a lawsuit against the vendor would follow. Not the police department, no siree. It must be meeting some need of theirs.

  What could that be? In this case, it probably produced seventeen "wild geese." Which brings us to the problem of picking out the Robert Williams, the goose. I wasn't there, but I'm betting it went something like this, as they looked through the seventeen candidates: "Too rich. Too sympathetic. Too professional. Too connected. Wait...here's a one that's poor...don't you think he looks right?"

  Which brings us to the eyewitness. Of course, the police probably helpted that along as well... "Which one of these six men is the shoplifter? Not sure? Which one looks most like him? Still not sure? Well did you look at #4?" [wink, wink, nudge, nudge]

  So now they have a candidate, and credit for the collar...and who cares about the goose's -- Robert William's rights? They probably figured he did something even if he was innocent. They certainly didn't expect him to bond out, and probably expected him to plead guilty to avoid a trial.

  Who wants to waste time finding real criminals when convicting an innocent is so easily?

  The point of all of this is...the bad guys here are the police. Yes the software is crap, but it probably wouldn't exist if if the police everywhere weren't so gung ho about it. It wouldn't still be installed in Detroit and being used, if police there didn't regard it as good enough. It comes down to the same old story: Police violating civil rights wholesale, and looking to expand the franchise -- with just a pinch of facial recognition companies to help them out.

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