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• On the post: It Doesn't Take A Genius To Recognize How Dumb Genius' Lawsuit Against Google Is Over 'Stolen' Lyrics

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2019 @ 12:43pm

  Re: Re: Watermark removal

  All the old editors had something akin to "show control codes". Whatever happened to that? In fact, more than half the editors out now simply refuse to open a plain text file if they detect unknown codes in it.

• On the post: DHS Wanted To Add US Citizens To The Long List Of People Subjected To Mandatory Face Scans At Airports… But Has Backed Down For Now

  

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

  Re: Re: Necessary Precaution

  You clearly haven't been visiting long. It's DannyB. Of COURSE he's being sarcastic. :)

• On the post: DHS Wanted To Add US Citizens To The Long List Of People Subjected To Mandatory Face Scans At Airports… But Has Backed Down For Now

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2019 @ 04:42am

  Re:

  The people who use the phrase "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" who aren't being sarcastic usually turn out to have the most to hide, which is why the phrase they spout almost never applies to them, just the peons.

• On the post: Devin Nunes' Virginia SLAPP Suits Causing Virginia Legislators To Consider A New Anti-SLAPP Law

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2019 @ 05:35pm

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  They should if it's a SLAPP suit. That's the point here - poor people don't launch frivolous lawsuits just to punish people for talking bad about them - they can't afford to. The rich do it all the time since they have plenty of money to waste on such cases. They'll even admit on camera that they knew they didn't have a chance of winning, but they went ahead anyway to force the defendant to spend the time and money fighting their frivolous case.

• On the post: State's Rejection Of Driver's 'IMGOD' Vanity Plate Unconstitutional, Federal Court Rules

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2019 @ 07:01pm

  Re:

  The problem there is that vanity plates make a ton of money for the state.

• On the post: ICE Says Students Duped By Its Fake College Sting Should Have Known It Was A Sting

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2019 @ 03:21pm

  Re:

  Their kindergarten teacher gave them a banana sticker and a sad pat on the head.

• On the post: UNC Gave Racists $2.5 Million To Settle A Lawsuit That Hadn't Been Filed Yet, And The Racists Are Abusing The DMCA To Hide The Details

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2019 @ 01:59pm

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  Given UNC is a state university, the state should have standing. So the state's Attorney General. I wonder if he's a member of the SCV...

• On the post: UNC Gave Racists $2.5 Million To Settle A Lawsuit That Hadn't Been Filed Yet, And The Racists Are Abusing The DMCA To Hide The Details

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2019 @ 01:56pm

  Re:

  No, settling is what draws the vultures. Now that UNC has shown they'll capitulate to baseless threats, every vulture in the state is going to jump on them.

• On the post: Egyptian Government Plans To Track The Movement Of 10 Million Vehicles With Low-Cost RFID Stickers

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2019 @ 04:41am

  Re: Re: jamming is against FCC regs

  There are a few articles here where Hotels/Convention Centers got in trouble over jamming wifi to force people to use their service. So it does happen, just not too often.

• On the post: Will Google's Stadia Game Streaming Platform Be A Dud?

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2019 @ 02:36pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Buffering

  Yeah, clearly NOT DOCSIS 3.1. Ran the ping for a while again and eventually got a 31ms min latency! Wow! Doing really good this afternoon. :D

• On the post: Apple and Intel Sue SoftBank-Funded Patent Troll, Claiming Antitrust Violations For Patent Trolling

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2019 @ 12:24pm

  Re:

  I think the opposite might be the case, that there's NO chance of any cohesion that would yield even one place to get all the videos. If anything there is too much competition not too little.

  I don't think you read it right. He's saying that we're increasing seeing movie studios setting up their own streaming service, and the only place to see that studio's movies is on their service. And that's increasingly true. Studios are pulling their movies from places like Hulu and Netflix and putting them on their own services. Old anti-trust violation: Paramount forcing people to watch Paramount movies in a Paramount theater.
  New anti-trust violation: Disney forcing people to watch Disney movies via Disney streaming service.

• On the post: Attorney General Calls FOIA Requests 'Harassment' During Long Rant About How Much It Sucks To Be Running The Nation

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2019 @ 04:57pm

  Re: Re: Re: Short term thinking begets short term solutions

  Can someone please stick him in an old folks home where he can yell at clouds and watch Matlock?

• On the post: New York Residents Unprotected, Served Up To Criminals By NYPD Employees

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2019 @ 09:22am

  Re: Re: Re: Forgetting the true victims

  Why would there be a market for reinsurance if that were true?

  Because the goal is to keep the actual profits as high as possible (drained off via exec salaries) by eliminating the people who actually use their insurance while simultaneously using them as an excuse to raise everyone else's premiums.

• On the post: Interpol Confirms, Denies It's Against Strong Encryption

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2019 @ 06:01am

  Protected?

  You know what else protects children from predators? Encryption. Without it, predators can hack the phones of intended victims to tell right where they are 24/7. To monitor their calls, to find their routines, to see if their parents care where their kids are, to read their private messages to family and friends. Hell, with the right skills or enough money to buy the right software, they could remotely activate microphones and cameras on the kid's phones.

• On the post: New York Residents Unprotected, Served Up To Criminals By NYPD Employees

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2019 @ 02:45pm

  Re: Forgetting the true victims

  Insurance companies are never out that money - they just pass it along to customers as higher premium rates for everyone. They're guaranteed by law to make a profit, so they usually spend all their time finding ways to show they're losing money to justify another rate increase.

• On the post: Will Google's Stadia Game Streaming Platform Be A Dud?

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2019 @ 10:59am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Buffering

  Yeah, but it's pretty common for cable modem. I check it periodically, and it's never any different. Only +/- 5ms or so from what I posted above. Cable modem is fast, but has horrible latency. I got better latency on DSL, but the price/bps is horrible for DSL. Wish I could get fiber...

• On the post: Will Google's Stadia Game Streaming Platform Be A Dud?

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2019 @ 01:28pm

  Re: Re: Buffering

  5 to 10 ms? Lemme check my Spectrum high-speed broadband... let's ping google.

  --- www.google.com ping statistics ---
  51 packets transmitted, 50 received, 1% packet loss, time 50083ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 44.169/124.996/1216.346/161.458 ms, pipe 2

  Hmm, minimum latency of 44ms, average of 125ms... yeah, streamed games would be perfect over Spectrum broadband. ;)

• On the post: Lawsuit: An Officer's BS Claims About 'Odor Of Marijuana' Led To 14 SWAT Team Members Pointing Guns At Our Kids

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2019 @ 01:18pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Yes, they have a long list of new flavors. Instead of just horse piss, we now can also get donkey piss, cow piss, goat piss, sheep piss, and hundreds of others! ;)

• On the post: Troll Lawyer Shows Up In Court To Explain His 'Dead Grandfather' Excuse, Gets His 'Fitness To Practice' Questioned By The Judge

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2019 @ 12:35pm

  Re: Re:

  What makes him a troll is that he demands outrageous license terms, turning down offers of the going rate, or even just over the going rate. He doesn't want the going rate, he want 100X the going rate, and THAT makes him a troll.

• On the post: Will Google's Stadia Game Streaming Platform Be A Dud?

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2019 @ 03:46pm

  Not Yours

  The biggest issue I have with this is it's yet another way of showing we don't own what we buy. This is a blatant attempt at making damn sure that you don't own even the slightest bit of a game - you're renting not just the game, but the game machine the game runs on. You own the TV and the controller, and google owns the rest. Wanna mod the game? Sorry, it's not yours. Wanna keep playing after Google inevitably shuts it down. Sorry, all you ever got was a stream of video. Nothing to hack to make work later (even more of an issue than always connected games!).

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