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• On the post: Why Are There Currently No Ads On Techdirt? Apparently Google Thinks We're Dangerous

  

  crade ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2020 @ 02:05pm

  Re: Re: Re: Daily Deals

  I see. They are formatted as content (because they are both content and ads), which is why They also have the clear daily deals headers and disclaimer on them. But there is no deception and even without those it's not set up to get people to accidentally click on it. The links in techdirt articles are references ; there is no reason people would go around clicking the article links without reading first.

• On the post: Why Are There Currently No Ads On Techdirt? Apparently Google Thinks We're Dangerous

  

  crade ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2020 @ 12:21pm

  Re: Daily Deals

  Except they aren't Google ads

• On the post: Why Are There Currently No Ads On Techdirt? Apparently Google Thinks We're Dangerous

  

  crade ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2020 @ 06:44am

  gmail allows users to flag content as spam/scam. Google may not be targeting you for your ideology but disingenuous users (even an organized or semi organized group of them) certainly could be

• On the post: Apple Opposes Trademark Application For Recipe App's Pear-Shaped Logo

  

  crade ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2020 @ 08:20am

  Re: Not legal advice

  Because Apple's lawyers will keep stalling any way they can to make it take longer and longer to make sure that your court costs keep going up and up and there are lots of ways they can legally stall and draw it out.

• On the post: Apple Opposes Trademark Application For Recipe App's Pear-Shaped Logo

  

  crade ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2020 @ 06:33am

  A moron in a hurry could mistake the fridge for the microwave and trademark law is dumb.

• On the post: Crystal Dynamics Explains Spider-Man PS4 Exclusivity By Saying A Bunch Of… Words, I Guess?

  

  crade ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2020 @ 06:32am

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  I'm not implying I'm saying directly. they are generic PC hardware that would run other operating systems just fine but are intentionally locked from doing so (whether you call it drm or not), and those locks are what defines them as consoles instead of PCs. When they took the locks off the PS3 for a bit, for all intents and purposes it wasn't a console anymore, it was a general purpose machine and people put them in racks and started running server farms off them (which sony didn't like because they sold the ps3 cheap in the hopes of making money off the gatekeeper fees on the games)

• On the post: Crystal Dynamics Explains Spider-Man PS4 Exclusivity By Saying A Bunch Of… Words, I Guess?

  

  crade ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2020 @ 04:21pm

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  They are specifically and intentionally locked from running other Operating systems. You are prevented from building and installing your own O.S. on them. Sony allowed this for while with the PS3, but they locked it back down when people started using it to do cool stuff

• On the post: Crystal Dynamics Explains Spider-Man PS4 Exclusivity By Saying A Bunch Of… Words, I Guess?

  

  crade ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2020 @ 06:31am

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  And likewise the OSes that run on them would just run on other pcs too if they weren't locked from doing so. It's possible that there might be some driver issues here and there but nothing significant

• On the post: Crystal Dynamics Explains Spider-Man PS4 Exclusivity By Saying A Bunch Of… Words, I Guess?

  

  crade ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2020 @ 06:16am

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  The hardware xbox and playstation use is just regular x86 hardware. If you hack through the locks that prevent you from running your choice of software on them they would run linux or windows with the same amount of little tweaks as any other new PC.

• On the post: Console Exclusive Games Have Given Way To Console Exclusive Game Characters

  

  crade ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2020 @ 09:02pm

  "Maybe there is math out there that makes having a game publisher limit itself to one sliver of the potential market make sense, but somehow I have a hard time believing it."
  For a while some idiots would actually buy two copies but I'm pretty sure they figured out it wasn't enough to matter and now
  exclusives aren't for the game publishers, they are for the console makers. The game publishers will be getting some perk of some sort from the console makers in exchange.

• On the post: Crystal Dynamics Explains Spider-Man PS4 Exclusivity By Saying A Bunch Of… Words, I Guess?

  

  crade ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2020 @ 11:53am

  Re: Re:

  Yeah for this purpose I guess I only consider xbox and PS3 consoles :) The switch is just a hanger on from an extinct era when consoles were legitimately specialized

• On the post: Crystal Dynamics Explains Spider-Man PS4 Exclusivity By Saying A Bunch Of… Words, I Guess?

  

  crade ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2020 @ 06:15am

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  You are talking about things that separate "console games" from "pc games". I'm saying fake exclusivity is what creates this distinction. The only reason you think there are "console games" and "pc games" is that "console games" have drm to make pretend they can only run on consoles (that this version of the game at least is exclusive to those consoles) and consoles have drm to pretend the console can exclusively run games specially made for that console.

• On the post: Crystal Dynamics Explains Spider-Man PS4 Exclusivity By Saying A Bunch Of… Words, I Guess?

  

  crade ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2020 @ 08:14pm

  Artificial exclusivity is the only remaining defining feature of consoles. There is nothing else that separates them from other consoles and PCs, and it is their only remaining selling point. Yes they are cheaper than PCs, but only because they are subsidized by that artificially exclusivity.. blocking the games from playing on other consoles and pcs whose hardware is indistinguishable but for the exclusivity. I would agree that I don't think it "makes sense" but only because consoles don't make any sense. How does it make sense to sell consoles at a loss in order to sell games but intentionally block people from buying and playing the games on other machines? Only because they are middlemen.

• On the post: Taylor Swift Changes Artwork For New Album, Merch After Online Retailer Complains Of Similarities

  

  crade ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2020 @ 01:46pm

  Re: Re: "folkore" is a very common term in the USPTO databases

  I can't find anything that folklore sells that is remotely similar to that sweater (or any sweater really)
  and they don't seem to print their logo on their clothes in a way that is similar at all to what the album sweater is doing. I don't think there is any valid reason to say a tshirt with the logo on the back is any different from this.

• On the post: Taylor Swift Changes Artwork For New Album, Merch After Online Retailer Complains Of Similarities

  

  crade ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2020 @ 01:41pm

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  And they are both in black ink I guess

• On the post: Taylor Swift Changes Artwork For New Album, Merch After Online Retailer Complains Of Similarities

  

  crade ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2020 @ 01:39pm

  Re:

  the only similarity that I can see other than the words themselves is the word "the" printed vertically along the f.

• On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 250: Modeling The Pandemic

  

  crade ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2020 @ 02:52pm

  I am having a hard time understanding how you can model things that are based on personal decisions like policy while only having basic statistical info.. How could you tell things like how likely people would be to wear masks in area A vs area B or how susceptible people might be to bad info in area A vs B or how likely they are to gather together? Do you try to predict things like which areas will have gatherings and protests? What sort of decisions does your system allow your "people" to perform based on their statistical features?

• On the post: Former Rep. Chris Cox Used His Testimony At Tuesday's Senate Hearing On The Internet's Foundational Law To Do Some Myth-Busting

  

  crade ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2020 @ 07:01am

  "mostly didn’t know enough to lobby"
  But they knew enough not to lobby.

• On the post: Top NYPD Official Says Cops Don't Need To Worry About Being Criminally Charged For Violating Chokehold Ban

  

  crade ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2020 @ 12:32pm

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  He was probably hit with the touch of death earlier that day. No way it could have been the blatantly obvious explanation.

• On the post: Top NYPD Official Says Cops Don't Need To Worry About Being Criminally Charged For Violating Chokehold Ban

  

  crade ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2020 @ 12:18pm

  Re:

  "george floyd died from a fentanyl overdose"
  No no the cops sat on him too long for that they would have to have injected him while sitting on him.
  No it was because he ate a bad peanut earlier that day

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