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• On the post: Florida Legislators Push Bills Aimed At Making It More Difficult To Film Cops

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2023 @ 07:02am

  Legislators' oath?

  Don't Florida legislators have to swear an oath to uphold and defund the constitution?

• On the post: Parler’s New Owner Shuts Down Site: ‘No Reasonable Person Believes Twitter For Conservatives Is A Viable Business Model’

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2023 @ 06:30am

  No Reasonable Person Believes

  Trump believed it. Mike Pillow believed it.

• On the post: Overwhelmed By All The Generative AI Headlines? This Guide Is For You

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2023 @ 06:18am

  Don't hurt their feelings

  Computers really hate it when you anthropomorphize them.

• On the post: Verizon, T-Mobile Overstate Wireless Coverage To Nab Billions In Undeserved Subsidies

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2023 @ 06:54am

  It used to be called a CRIME

  A crime worthy of executive bonuses.

• On the post: New Details Show Leak Of Supreme Court’s Roe Reversal Could Have Come From Pretty Much Anyone

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2023 @ 06:19am

  Ensure Justice is done

  They need to arrest everyone to ensure the guilty are punished.

• On the post: OpenAI Wants To Help You Figure Out If Text Was Written By OpenAI; But What Happens When It’s Wrong?

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2023 @ 07:13am

  The best thing about Open AI

  The very most bestest thing about Open AI's Chat GPT is that its confidence in its answer more than makes up for any lack of accuracy in that answer. So nothing to see hear. Move along.

• On the post: BMW Further Embraces Making Basic Features A Costly Subscription Service

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2023 @ 06:38am

  Monthly subscription features are well worth it!

  By default the steering wheel allows the vehicle to make a 10 degree turn. Additional ten degree increments of tighter turning can be purchased for $25 per month. The basic car purchase allows use of the brakes up to 30 times per month. Additional packages of 30 uses of the brake can be purchased for an addition $25 per month. It's all quite reasonable actually.

• On the post: Arizona Government Thinks It Should Be Able To Decide What You Wear And When

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2023 @ 06:42am

  So it's for real?

  There really is going to be real actual fashion police in Arizona?

• On the post: Canada Wants To Implement A Link Tax

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2022 @ 06:33am

  Additions to the robots.txt file

  You can google for robots.txt Google and other "big tech" sites could implement a new rule that they will not use links to a news site unless the robots.txt file gives them express permission to do so without any monetary cost. Now the default would be that nobody links to the valuable news sites that want to extort money. If they want to allow linking for free, that is up to them to affirmatively give permission.

• On the post: 5G Hype Simply Didn’t Deliver

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2022 @ 06:38am

  NEW and IMPROVED 6G Hype -- IT WILL DELIVER !!

  The new and improved 6G Hype! Coming soon! It will bring you new and wonderful things! It will cure baldness and impotence! You can sign up early with an early bird deposit to get 6G as soon as we can figure out what it is and build it! Hurry! 6G capacity will be very limited. You will want to get yours reserved early. You can also get a new 6G compatible phone that might be compatible with whatever 6G will eventually be.

• On the post: AT&T Hit With $23 Million Fine For Bribing Illinois Lawmaker

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2022 @ 11:45am

  Apology

  AT&T would like to offer its deepest apologies to anyone among our management, stock holders or investors who were harmed by our thoughtless, selfish, criminal actions of bribing a lawmaker's ally in exchange for a vote. The company deeply regrets this incident and any harm or injury that it has caused to our public image or relations with our vendors or our bottom line. I would like to offer my personal assurance that a public scandal like this will not happen again in the future. We will do better. New policies are being created within the company to ensure that you will never again hear or read about an incident like this occurring within our company. I offer my deepest regrets to the board of directors for any embarrassment this has caused. To anyone else who has been harmed by our selfish and harmful actions, We would like to extend our sincerest indifference.

• On the post: University Rolls Back Bizarre Laboratory Surveillance Tech Deployment After Students Call Bullshit

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2022 @ 06:47am

  If at first you don't succeed . . .

  Next time the under desk censors need to be concealed better. They need to have a much more plausible explanation for the censors. 1. We are doing a study of what happens under lab desks 2. We don't want anyone to spread this information

• On the post: France Uses AI To Find Swimming Pools For Tax Purposes

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2022 @ 07:03am

  If a rich person has a pool, it is so unfair that they have to pay a tax on pools. Especially if they are more equal than other lesser people with pools. If you don't like the tax, then participate in the government process. If you are rich you already have a louder voice than other people who are inferior to yourself (eg, not rich). It seems fair to me for the government to use AI to locate swimming pools for this porpoise.

• On the post: Scientists Try To Out Maneuver Elon Musk’s Satellite Light Pollution

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2022 @ 07:10am

  Simple solution

  Dear scientists, in parts of your images which are obscured by crossing satellites, simply use CGI to generate eye popping amazing graphics of whatever you would like to see. With some tweaking, this can probably even be done for CGI of images that would not be in visible light. Such as infrared or x-ray images obscured by satellites. These could also be generated by suitable CGI rendering software. Now not only do you have better than life telescope images, but you also get to see whatever you want to see. Such as planets with sentient unicorns.

• On the post: UK Columnist: Because Salman Rushdie Got Stabbed, We Should Regulate Online Speech, Get Rid Of Anonymity, And Hold Social Media Responsible

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2022 @ 06:49am

  Blame Big Tech

  There was an arrest in my town for someone shoplifting! Social Media and Big Tech are obviously to blame! Something must be done!

• On the post: Dude Who Keeps Suing To Try To Get His AI To Get A Patent Or Copyright Loses Again: Appeals Court Once Again Says No

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2022 @ 10:26am

  If at first you don't succeed . . .

  1. try, try, try, try, try, try, try, keep trying, no matter how insane, try, try, . . .
  2. . . . use a shorter bungee.

• On the post: Colorado Appeals Court Again Reminds Cops That Marijuana Legalization Means Their Drug Dogs Are Mostly Useless

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2022 @ 07:04am

  Dogs can be retrained

  These drug dogs can be retrained for other porpoises. The RIAA and MPAA would propose to train the dogs to sniff out copyright infringing files on USB thumb drives, SD cards, laptops and phones. The dogs sensitive noses can easily discriminate between files that are properly licensed from those which are infringing.

• On the post: Comcast Loses 500k Video Customers, Fails To Add Broadband Users For First Time In History

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2022 @ 07:00am

  Comcast won't be affected by this loss

  This will not affect Comcast. They can easily work around this. Whenever they lose customers they can simply charge their remaining customers more to make up for the lost revenue from lost customers. Simple. Problem solved. If they lose more customers, they can simply do this again. It's a simple renewable solution. Like printing money. There are no drawbacks to worry about.

• On the post: China Completely Disappears Famed Online Influencer For (Accidentally) Referencing Tiananmen Square, Causing Lots Of People To Try To Figure Out Why

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2022 @ 06:10am

  Did they change the description?

  What do you mean "Disappears" someone? I thought the term was "Memory Hole". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole

• On the post: Company That Turned ‘Excited Delirium’ Into A Thing Thinks It Can Prevent School Shootings With Drone-Mounted Tasers [UPDATED]

  

  DannyB ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2022 @ 06:40am

  It might be easier for Axon to simply get a new set of members for its board of ethics. That would solve the problem. Doesn't require engineering resources.

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