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  • On the post: Skittles Photographer Actually Sues Trump Campaign Over Infringement

    DannyB ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2016 @ 10:34am

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    The Trump Foundation is for paying off the settlement once you can actually get the other party to agree to settle.

  • On the post: Skittles Photographer Actually Sues Trump Campaign Over Infringement

    DannyB ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2016 @ 10:33am

    Re: Re: Abolish copyright.

    The world has changed.

    Five years.

  • On the post: Skittles Photographer Actually Sues Trump Campaign Over Infringement

    DannyB ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2016 @ 10:32am

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    Copyright law being f'ed up doesn't mean that there aren't legitimate copyright claims of infringement. This is one. It may be petty, but it is technically correct.

    Trump, like everyone else, should only use images that they have an actual license to use. Even if it is a Creative Commons, or open source, or a commercial license, or other type of license. And you must comply with whatever license that allows you to use the copyrighted work.

    Why should this be different for Trump?

    Oh, wait. Nevermind. The rules don't apply to him.

  • On the post: Come On Elon! Tesla Stupidly Bans Owners From Using Self-Driving Teslas For Uber

    DannyB ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2016 @ 11:59am

    But Apple can't be allowed to do this!

    Oh, wait. We're talking about Tesla, not Apple.

    I didn't expect Tesla to do something like this. I would expect nothing less from Apple.

    Still, Tesla can't be allowed to do this.

  • On the post: FCC Fines T-Mobile For Abusing The Definition Of 'Unlimited' Data

    DannyB ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2016 @ 11:57am

    Causing significant problems?

    Zero Rating and Usage Caps don't cause anyone significant problems. Unless you're talking about those pesky customers. Oh, yeah. Them again. But for the mobile operators and ISPs zero rating is a great revenue double dipping scam. And usage caps can be a way to upsell customers, yes, those pesky nuisance customers again, to a more expensive service plan.

  • On the post: FCC Fines T-Mobile For Abusing The Definition Of 'Unlimited' Data

    DannyB ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2016 @ 11:51am

    Abusing the definition

    Does Comcast abuse the definition of Customer Service?

  • On the post: Vox Seems Kind Of Upset That We're Building Gigabit Networks With Bandwidth To Spare

    DannyB ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2016 @ 10:29am

    Nobody is sure what it's good for?

    Gigabit fiber? Nobody is sure what it's good for?

    It seem to actually remember from personal memory that this was said of:
    1. the internet
    2. dial up services prior to the internet
    3. personal computers
    And I know of:
    4. mainframe computers (maybe a world market for 5 total)

    It was also probably said of (but I have no personal knowledge):
    1. Pocket calculators
    2. Microwave ovens
    3. Television
    4. Satellites (artificial ones)
    5. Radio
    6. Automobiles
    7. The telephone (why wouldn't you go talk to the person directly?)
    8. Electricity to the home

    If you have no vision to see what something is good for, then you shouldn't be pontificating about it. If you don't see the future then become a manager, a CEO, or a political leader.

    Some of the things it is good for may not become apparent until we have it. Again, just look at:
    * the internet (who would have imagined the uses, excluding FaceTwit, but including YouTube, Wikipedia, Google, BitTorrent)
    * automobiles (there is now unbroken concrete from your doorstep to my doorstep, no matter where you live, trucking industry)
    * satellites (new applications never dreamed of, GPS, weather, remote sensing, spying)

    Once a new capability is in place, new things will develop on top of it that you couldn't have predicted.

    And finally just to expand upon "personal computers" and what are they good for? While looking at retro computers I came across a YouTube video of an interview with a 1980 computer store owner. He started answering with applications like, kitchen recipies, business applications like accounting, inventory, ordering, shipping, personal applications like contact list, email, calendar, and games, entertainment, etc. As I listened, I realized that every single one of his predictions had come true. We all carry devices in our pockets today that do these things and much more. Personal computers in the truest sense.

  • On the post: Vox Joins Growing Chorus Of Outlets Weirdly Crapping On Cord Cutting

    DannyB ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2016 @ 12:53pm

    Re: Vox partially owned by Comcast

    If Vox is partially owned by Comcast, then Vox probably has customer service.

  • On the post: Vox Joins Growing Chorus Of Outlets Weirdly Crapping On Cord Cutting

    DannyB ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2016 @ 12:25pm

    Re: Re: Why I cut the cord

    Hulu's commercial free service is great. It even started showing a commercial at the start of some TV programs (but not during).

    I tell you Advertising is an evil that destroys every medium that it ever touches. Not instantly, to be sure. But inevitably.

  • On the post: CNN Tells Viewers It's Illegal For Them To Read Wikileaks Document Dumps. CNN Is Wrong

    DannyB ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2016 @ 12:17pm

    Re: Re: Reading is illegal?

    How much would I be saving by not paying full price?

  • On the post: CNN Tells Viewers It's Illegal For Them To Read Wikileaks Document Dumps. CNN Is Wrong

    DannyB ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2016 @ 12:15pm

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    To be objective, it may or may not be truth. But when not having to form your own opinion is a crime, you know big brother is working hard to keep us all safe.

  • On the post: CNN Tells Viewers It's Illegal For Them To Read Wikileaks Document Dumps. CNN Is Wrong

    DannyB ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2016 @ 12:12pm

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    I quit CNN cold turkey in 2013. Snowden coverage. Once you quit, you'll be glad you did. It's deliciously addictive, I know. But you really an quit. Just don't come back after the break. Ever. Just be done with it. They really don't have anything to tell you after the break. I promise.

  • On the post: CNN Tells Viewers It's Illegal For Them To Read Wikileaks Document Dumps. CNN Is Wrong

    DannyB ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2016 @ 12:09pm

    Re: That is awesomely funny...and sad

    It is truly sad that many on the left will. [believe this]

    Lost me right there in the 2nd sentence. There are as many right wing nutjobs that would believe this. Be equally condescending.

    I voted today. On vacation on erection day. Got a voted sticker on my shirt. So I would hate to think that something in the debate tonight might make me change my mind. Oh dear.

  • On the post: Comcast Sued For Misleading Fees It Claims Are Just Its Way Of Being 'Transparent'

    DannyB ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2016 @ 10:47am

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    Most of the fees on your bill can be removed by calling and asking for the no-anything plan. No cable. No internet. No phone. No service at all. Many of the charges on your bill will disappear.

  • On the post: Comcast Sued For Misleading Fees It Claims Are Just Its Way Of Being 'Transparent'

    DannyB ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2016 @ 10:44am

    Re:

    I haven't done, but am planning, to do the following instead.

    Get a Tablo. It's a DVR for an Antenna. But it does NOT plug in to your TV. Instead it plugs in to your Ethernet (or WiFi). You also have to provide your own USB pocket hard drive for the recordings. If you want program listings, there is a small charge (don't remember how much, but less than a single TiVo).

    To watch, you have to use your own device. An app for Android or iOS. Or an App on a Roku device. And they have a variety of client viewers. The beauty of this is that a Roku at ever TV not only gets you internet streaming, but recordings from your Tablo over your house local area net.

    Again, I haven't tried this yet, but it's in my near future plans.

  • On the post: CNN Tells Viewers It's Illegal For Them To Read Wikileaks Document Dumps. CNN Is Wrong

    DannyB ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2016 @ 12:05pm

    A solution

    DRM is the solution. Outlaw all printed paper (except for the convenience of special persons). All reading is on digital device screens. All content is DRM protected.

    Now you can't read anything illegal. Just as Newspeak will make thoughtcrime impossible. A glorious new world.

    The sender of an email can ensure you can no longer read it.

    The emails or texts between a government criminal conspirator and their lobbyist could become unreadable.

    It's all "secure" in their mind.

    But then Comey's head would explode because some nerd forgot to implement a government back door. Why can't things just magically be secure for the right people, and insecure for the right other people?

  • On the post: CNN Tells Viewers It's Illegal For Them To Read Wikileaks Document Dumps. CNN Is Wrong

    DannyB ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2016 @ 11:58am

    Reading is illegal?

    It should be very disturbing to even suggest that reading anything could be illegal.

    Again, just like the list (secret courts, secret laws, warrants, arrests, trials, evidence, convictions, prisons, etc.) we have become everything that we were fighting in the previous century.

  • On the post: Vox Joins Growing Chorus Of Outlets Weirdly Crapping On Cord Cutting

    DannyB ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2016 @ 10:53am

    Way better entertainment value

    If you subscribe to four major streaming services for $47, you get a LOT better entertainment from those services than crap served up by $47 worth of cable TV.

    IMO

  • On the post: FBI Facial Recognition Expert Helps Denver PD Arrest Wrong Man Twice For The Same Crime

    DannyB ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2016 @ 12:10pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Dangerous

    The police did not go full berserk on him. They went full "protect and serve" on him. This will be added to the next edition of the Newspeak dictionary.

  • On the post: FBI Facial Recognition Expert Helps Denver PD Arrest Wrong Man Twice For The Same Crime

    DannyB ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2016 @ 11:13am

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    It sounds like everyone needs to start hiding their faces when they go outside.

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