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• On the post: 5G Phones Will Be Bigger & More Expensive With Crappy Battery Life. Excited Yet?

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2019 @ 11:36am

  Re: 4G Phones Will Be Bigger & More Expensive With Crappy Batter

  And they were. It took years for the phones to get smaller and use less power, and during the same time, coverage spread enough to be useful. So you really want to wait until the phones are ready, by which point the networks might be as well.

• On the post: 5G Phones Will Be Bigger & More Expensive With Crappy Battery Life. Excited Yet?

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2019 @ 11:34am

  Re: If you live somewhere cold...

  Or if you need to microwave a burrito.

• On the post: Beyond The Taco: Someone Is Now Trying To Trademark 'Breakfast Burrito'

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2019 @ 06:55am

  Re: Re:

  We've seen people say this specifically about patents, and it's the same department, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if that wasn't the unofficial policy. Besides, it keeps lawyers employed, and that is the primary purpose of Law - keeping lawyers fat and happy.

• On the post: Beyond The Taco: Someone Is Now Trying To Trademark 'Breakfast Burrito'

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2019 @ 06:49am

  Re: Living in a border town... we know they should fail.

  North Carolina isn't where the trademark is being filed, it's where the warning about the trademark came from. If you check, the trademark is out of Los Angeles, California.

• On the post: Trinidad And Tobago's 'You Can't Afford That' Forfeiture Law Claims Its First Victims

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2019 @ 10:26am

  Re: Re:

  Ah, so you do have something to hide. Good to know.

• On the post: Why Intermediary Liability Protections Matter: Our 'Copying Is Not Theft' T-Shirt May Be Collateral Damage To A Bad Court Ruling

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2019 @ 10:20am

  Re:

  Wow, literally everything you said is wrong. Cudos.

• On the post: Drug Tests Administered By Prison Staff Aren't Much Better Than The Terrible Ones Deployed By Cops

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2019 @ 10:36am

  Clearly

  It's time to put some actual science into forensic science.

• On the post: Bogus DMCA Notices Still A Huge Problem As Apple Gets Unfairly Blamed For Reddit Takedown

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2019 @ 05:50am

  Re: It's a feature not a bug

  That's one of the definitions of "law" that I've always felt applied quite often. Law - the means by which the rich avoid justice.

• On the post: Bogus DMCA Notices Still A Huge Problem As Apple Gets Unfairly Blamed For Reddit Takedown

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2019 @ 05:48am

  Re: Refundable Deposit

  It doesn't need to be so high - the biggest problem isn't individuals filing a few notices, it's automated systems filing tens of thousands to millions of notices every day. If you made it something reasonable for a smaller person/company, say $100, it would still work on suppressing the ridiculous automated systems. Of course, another way to fix it would be to actually allow 512(f) to be used. Even if it resulted in only minor fines, if you were fined say $200 to $500 PER NOTICE, that would again suppress the automated systems.

• On the post: Nevada's Top Court Says The State's Journalist Shield Law Also Applies To Bloggers

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2019 @ 05:42am

  Re: Re: 10 PRINT "Hello World"

  As mentioned above, PRINT has printed text to the screen since BASIC was implemented on computers with a monitor, i.e., the early 70s. Atari BASIC from 1979 used PRINT to display text on the screen.

• On the post: Be Careful What You Wish For: TikTok Tries To Stop Bullying On Its Platforms… By Suppressing Those It Thought Might Get Bullied

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2019 @ 06:00pm

  Re: Re: How the fuck did it get this far.

  It was Flavor Aid.

• On the post: Hungary Has Fined Facebook For 'Misleading Consumers' Because It Promoted Its Service As 'Free'

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2019 @ 02:16pm

  Not free

  This kind of "free" doesn't bug me nearly as much as "buy one, get one free". If you have to buy one to get another, it's definitely not free, it's at no additional charge.

• On the post: Be Careful What You Wish For: TikTok Tries To Stop Bullying On Its Platforms… By Suppressing Those It Thought Might Get Bullied

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2019 @ 05:32am

  Re: Well that's one way to deal with bullies/trolls...

  It's not that unique - schools have been doing this same tactic for many decades. Separate the people who might get bullied into different classes, then ignore any bullying until the bullied party throws a punch, then expel the bullied party. It's always much easier to "deal" with the few bullied people than all the bullies. Less screaming from A-Type parents as well. (A-Type in this case meaning Asshole).

• On the post: Russia Blocks All Of Shutterstock Due To 'Offensive' Image Involving The Russian Flag

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2019 @ 06:35am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Yep. Governments and major corporations long for the era before the internet when they had (near) absolute control over what people saw/heard/read. The artificial scarcity meant they could shovel money straight into their pockets, and the control meant it was much easier to cover up certain things while forcing their agenda on everyone.

• On the post: Four Congressional Reps Ask Bill Barr To Restart His War On Porn

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2019 @ 12:10pm

  Selective memory

  Nine in every ten boys under the age of 18 have seen porn.

  Gee, what a selective memory these people have. This is no different than any other period in history. Back in the 70s, I'd say this figure was 99 in 100. Despite not having the internet, porn was easy for boys to get. I probably saw my first Playboy at 9 or 10. Every boy I've ever known has seen pornography before age 12, much less 18. How is it any more a "danger" now that it was then? Somehow, kids today are somehow at risk where their parents and their parents and all other elders somehow weren't.

• On the post: Study Says US Ranked 68th Out Of 100 In Mobile Video Quality

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2019 @ 01:07pm

  Re: Re: The complaint..

  That's ECA - he's being sarcastic as usual. He can be a bit hard to read sometimes, but he's certainly not on the wrong side of things most of the time. Just another one of the TD regulars that you might not realize are joking or being sarcastic or employing dark humor if you didn't know them.

• On the post: Ex-Governor Tries To Silence A Critic With A Bar Complaint; Gains Critic 70,000+ New Twitter Followers

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2019 @ 01:02pm

  Re:

  If you want a private beach, you buy your own island.

• On the post: Study Says US Ranked 68th Out Of 100 In Mobile Video Quality

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2019 @ 10:03am

  Re:

  Indeed. I expect that the telecos spend more on figuring out the fewest number of towers to cover an area than on actually building said towers. That's an issue where I live now - I barely have 4G (or 3G or 2G for that matter) because the towers are spread so thin that many areas have rather poor reception. It's not like I live in the sticks, either. I live in a city of over 100k. I have trouble receiving voice, forget about video. Fortunately for me, I don't use my phone in that manner.

• On the post: Ex-Governor Tries To Silence A Critic With A Bar Complaint; Gains Critic 70,000+ New Twitter Followers

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2019 @ 01:01pm

  Of course

  “I’ve had underage kids smoking pot and openly drinking,” Huckabee wrote. (Did he check their IDs?)

  He didn't need to - they were clearly younger than the 35 year-old high schoolers on TV, so they MUST be underage. ;)

  At one point, he even described witnessing a sexual encounter atop our shimmering emerald coast waters. “Two weeks ago, a young couple stripped naked and conducted various sex acts including intercourse on a YOLO board in clear sight of the beach in front of my home at 2 in the afternoon…”

  He was upset because he ran out of lotion.

• On the post: Disney's Decision Not To Renew SecuROM License Bricks 'Tron: Evolution'

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2019 @ 07:24am

  Re:

  after 9 years who would be playing this game anyway.

  Strange as it seems, many people don't just play a game for a day or two and then never again... unless the game sucks bad. I still play many games from the 80s and 90s.

  it would be hard to release a patch to remove drm from the game .

  Sorry, but that's super-easy, barely an inconvenience. GOG does it all the time, and they're not even the developers of the games they remove DRM from. The actual developer can do this in less than an hour, depending on the complexity of the build system. Most games would take less than 5 minutes to rebuild without DRM.

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