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• On the post: Fourth Circuit Appeals Court Says Right To Access Court Documents Begins When The Documents Are Filed

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2021 @ 05:13pm

  At issue is a basic theory about turf

  Raced cars back in my younger days, although still during the alleged adult section. We're from Portland (PDX) and went to race near San Francisco.

  We were used to friendly people, Oregonians. We butted heads with a few over silly things, nothing would deter the jerks, not even their rule books.

  My engineer explained it as: Turf. It doesn't matter what the rules say, it's their turf. It's always been their turf. And right or wrong they will defend it against anyone, even if that someone has the right to access the turf.

• On the post: Law Enforcement Officer Openly Admits He's Playing Copyrighted Music To Prevent Citizen's Recording From Being Uploaded To YouTube

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2021 @ 05:35pm

  Streisand Effect recognition

  Yet another main stream press article, this one about the cop, his actions, the video, and Mike's Effect. Which was linked to the BBC referencing Mike's Effect. But the article didn't reference him or Techdirt at all.

  Of course, I commented, gave them both the Techdirt links as well as Wikipedia. I pointed out that as least Wikipedia had proper links to Mike, Techdirt, and the actual definition of The Streisand Effect.

  I might give up and have a file to save time dope slapping them in the future.

• On the post: Trump Allegedly Demanded Parler Kick Off His Critics If It Wanted Him On The Platform

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2021 @ 01:54pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  What about slithering. Or sleazing, which was He Who Lost former mode of travel when he was nothing but a slumlord.

• On the post: Content Moderation Case Study: Instagram Takes Down Instagram Account Of Book About Instagram (2020)

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2021 @ 10:08pm

  Amazing Amazon AI

  That's my guess. Amazon is big on it. Loves them some AI. Which doesn't exist. Their Machine Learning does. Which is mostly tables of numbers and training data. Which is us. Our data.

  They set the numbers and run the data through the grinder that is ML. If they don't like the results, they tweak a couple of numbers in the tables and train again.

  This is not programming.

  This is not knowing how to do programming. But, as long as the boss writes the check what's the problem?

  Well, accounts getting zeroed because the ML traffic cop got a bit stuck. And nobody reacts until they get more bad press. Surprise!

  Well, no. I am not surprised.

• On the post: Fuck This Cheer In Particular Says The Supreme Court In Decision Upholding Students' Free Speech Rights

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2021 @ 02:09pm

  Butt our precious feelings

  Dude, move on. Let her go, she's just not into letting you violate her 1st Amend rights.

  I am so glad the voters in their district are willfully spending money on anti-fuck speech than supporting the 1st Amend in all its cuts both ways tendencies.

• On the post: No, Facebook's Argument In Response To Muslim Advocates' Lawsuit Is Not 'Awkward'; Facebook Caving On 230 Is What's Awkward

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2021 @ 12:15am

  Re: Re: I do believe you saw a moron

  A moron in a rage. Maybe we should teach civics again. Like to get an online account. Court =/= FTC. Law =/= some Moron's trumped up BS more closely related to telling some gossip over the trailer park fence. See, I totally respected the moron because I capped the M once.

• On the post: No, Facebook's Argument In Response To Muslim Advocates' Lawsuit Is Not 'Awkward'; Facebook Caving On 230 Is What's Awkward

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2021 @ 12:11am

  Re: FTC is not a court

  So, maby get a least some of your facts right. Another part you completely screwed up, this case has NOTHING to do with FB getting fined $5B for ... privacy blunders. Okay, it is FB, bald face lies re users privacy. Come on, pretend to be human. Or they will take away your troll license ya lil' bot.

• On the post: Content Moderation Case Study: Twitter Suspends Users Who Tweet The Word 'Memphis' (2021)

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2021 @ 09:21pm

  How you can explain ...

  What you do not understand?

  Twitter Nerds are now ML Nerds. You all know Machine Learning, it's referred to as its impossible counterpart, Artificial Intelligence - which it ain't.

  Take a bunch of computers. Fill some tables up with numbers, run a zillion tweets through them and release the Kraken on Memphis!

  There is no possible explanation. Well, beyond Natural Stupidity.

• On the post: Arizona County's Voting Machines Rendered Unusable By OAN-Financed Vote Auditors

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 24 May, 2021 @ 04:48pm

  Re: Burden of proof is on "officials".

  You are spamming the site with repeated falsehoods, and lies. Additionally you are insulting TechDirt and everyone in it, quite often because you do not understand the very basics of how networks, the internet, the web, web sites, and web site commenting works. You generate spam. Many respond via the "spam flag" on the insightful/funny/copy functions/flag <- Spam filter flag. You are a spammer. And a liar. And a nutjob. See, simple to explain, difficult for an idiot to understand. My 1st Amend rights align with Mike's. We don't want to be associated with you: Read the 1st, Dummy. The 1st Amendment that is. If you need help, see your doctor.

• On the post: Florida Man Signs Blatantly Corrupt And Unconstitutional Social Media Bill, Cementing Florida As Tech Laughing Stock

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 24 May, 2021 @ 04:38pm

  Re: Would it be cheaper to buy a theme park than pay the legal f

  In a science fiction story from my youth there was a spaceman that was fighting the good fight, went to a disputed star system and set up a one man spy site inside a comet/asteroid/small something or other. Took him to trial for spying. His reply: I wasn't spying, I was establishing a colony. Colony being the trigger, as that was the other side's justification for occupying a different system. How big is a theme park?
  I'm sure I could set one up in a parking spot. They log in to the special website and see the entire theme. Outside of the actual "theme park", its just a normal social media site, raking in cash, digging for big data, and ML additional levels of useless information to make the big bucks. Bonus: Our Theme Park has the highest occupancy numbers for any such park in the country.

• On the post: Content Moderation Case Study: YouTube's New Policy On Nazi Content Results In Removal Of Historical And Education Videos (2019)

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 13 May, 2021 @ 06:03pm

  Ah YouTube, I hardly knew ya

  The ineptness radiates from YouTube control like a beacon of hubris as they insist they can solve all the hard problems with their AI.

  Which is not AI. Merely ML. They routinely generate bad press by using ML on data that a simple regex could give the thumbs up or down to.

• On the post: Why Is Wired So Focused On Misrepresenting Section 230?

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 13 May, 2021 @ 05:48pm

  What's wrong with Wired?

  Well, nearly everything. Their cheap subscription rate is offset by sending out the magazine as well. I don't have a need for the printed magazine. And I do not want it.

  But, I ditched them years ago, after < 1y subscribed. Too many blunders, unchecked facts, and supporting people with an axe to grind.

• On the post: Texas Attorney General Unblocks Twitter Users Who Sued Him; Still Blocking Others

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 11 May, 2021 @ 01:44pm

  Moot point, semantics of same

  Elected officials using social media for communicating their official views/business cannot block users of said media services.

  I have never blocked anyone on Twatter.

  I do mute them thus their input is round filed and I never see it. It is 1st Amendment friendly because I am exercising my right of assembly, specifically not wanting to be in the cyber vicinity of fools and charlatans.

• On the post: How Smart Software And AI Helped Networks Thrive For Consumers During The Pandemic

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 07 May, 2021 @ 12:41am

  Love this article

  Because I am no longer a Comcast or Xfinity customer.
  So, smoke some week, relax, and keep pushing out the fabulous improvements that only SOUND like an improvement.

  Until some third party verifies your premise, I stand unconvinced.

  AND AN EX CUSTOMER!

• On the post: Fortnite, A Free Game, Made $9 Billion In Two Years

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 06 May, 2021 @ 03:50pm

  But the store ...

  The story of Epic's rise is interesting. Their store, less so. To the point it made me think of Malvina Reynolds, "The New Restaurant".

  Tag line, But the food was terrible.

  In Epic's case, But their store is terrible.

  http://www.malvinareynolds.com/mr118.htm

• On the post: What3Words Sends Ridiculous Legal Threat To Security Researcher Over Open Source Alternative

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 03 May, 2021 @ 01:26pm

  Turns out, code is free

  And unconstrained. After all, what are a few gits among coders? Not much effort at all.

  The researcher can rest easy. The work is available in America, where things are free unless they tick off the GQP.

• On the post: From Jurassic Park To Telepathic Monkeys, Elon Musk Press Hype Is Getting A Bit Thick

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2021 @ 07:26pm

  The problem with neural links of any kind

  The monkey always dies.

  Always. If the monkey survives the insertion, the testing, they never survive the dissection.

• On the post: FBI Flexes Rule 41 Powers, Uses Remote Access Technique To Neutralize Compromised Software All Over The US

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2021 @ 02:21pm

  I just looked, W10 is still there

  Exchange servers are commonly considered their worst product, but leaving them open gave them what, 10 to 20 seconds before they were reinfected again?

• On the post: I Guess They're Not All On The Same Side: Cops Brutalize Soldier For [Checks Notes] Leading Them To A Well-Lit Area

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2021 @ 01:26am

  Re: Big with the movie whining

  How about satire? I actually like the fumbling of the name of the movie because the movie was terrible. Terrible.

• On the post: Donald Trump Caused The Techlash

  

  Darkness Of Course ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2021 @ 02:43pm

  Don't forget the snake from Redmond

  MSFT had a decades long "Screw Google" campaign. It pushed the "too big" argument, and while personally failing at privacy urged that Google's entire business was about violating people/citizens/users privacy - for profit.

  Which, oddly enough, is at least as difficult to get out of MSFT privacy agreements as they are at Google.

  I am not saying they were the cause of this swing, but don't forget they have been paying for breakfast in DC for a long, long time.

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