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• On the post: Twitter Blocks Animated PNGs After A Bunch Of Shitbirds Spend National Epilepsy Month Harassing Epileptics

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2020 @ 01:25pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  FFMPEG can both encode and decode APNG (since 2015). So converting APNG to MP4 is trivial.

• On the post: Twitter Blocks Animated PNGs After A Bunch Of Shitbirds Spend National Epilepsy Month Harassing Epileptics

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2020 @ 03:12pm

  Re: Re:

  So fix the bug. Banning APNG rather than fixing a known bug is stupid.

• On the post: EU Patent Office Rejects Two Patent Applications In Which An AI Was Designated As The Inventor

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2020 @ 04:41am

  Re: Because

  Extended - lawyers want to buy an AI and then sit back while it generates patent after patent after patent, and then collect the rent while producing nothing. Why pay engineers/scientists an actual salary to (slowly) come up with patents when an AI can churn them out 24/7 without pay?

• On the post: EU Patent Office Rejects Two Patent Applications In Which An AI Was Designated As The Inventor

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2020 @ 04:38am

  Because

  But why? AI doesn't need the monopoly control as incentive to create an invention. That's not what motivates the AI. What's wrong with just letting the AI come up with those cures for cancer and workable solutions for reversing climate change and just giving them to the world to make the world a better place?

  Because that doesn't make corporations and their execs filthy stinking rich off the backs of other people who do the actual work. You're requiring THEM to do the work instead.

• On the post: NIST Study Of 189 Facial Recognition Algorithms Finds Minorities Are Misidentified Almost 100 Times More Often Than White Men

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2019 @ 10:12am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Fb tag recommended

  Because the real reason is that most/all the programmers are white men, so they code for themselves, not even considering that there are other people in the world. It would be easy enough to add automatic contrast and brightness control, but you have to realize it's needed first.

• On the post: NYTimes Predicted San Francisco Would 'Drown In Millionaires' Post IPO Boom; Now Whines That It Never Happened

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 26 Dec, 2019 @ 03:27pm

  Re: Re: Not what they do

  Some say eating live babies is a God-given right. Others say it's a horrific abomination. As always, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. ;)

• On the post: Austrian Hotel Drops Libel Lawsuit Against Guest Who Complained About Pictures Of Nazis In The Lobby

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 26 Dec, 2019 @ 03:17pm

  Re: Re: Well that was awkward

  Being in Austria and knowing all the laws there and in Germany over Nazi symbols, you'd have thought they would have taken the ten seconds needed to edit the picture in Photoshop/GIMP/any other graphics editing app to remove anything offensive. Even if it was the only picture they had, that doesn't mean you can't make minor edits to prevent people from thinking you're a bunch of Nazi sympathizers.

• On the post: Spectrum Customers Stuck With Thousands In Home Security Gear They Can't Use

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2019 @ 08:15am

  Re: Re: others

  That Android phone still works, it's just not as secure anymore. In this case, people's equipment will no longer work simply because the company quit supporting it.

• On the post: Spectrum Customers Stuck With Thousands In Home Security Gear They Can't Use

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2019 @ 07:09am

  Re:

  That's a sucker bet if I ever saw one.

• On the post: Spectrum Customers Stuck With Thousands In Home Security Gear They Can't Use

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2019 @ 07:08am

  Typical

  Isn't this just typical of cable companies... they raised my internet bill another dollar per month last month. We always say they "nickel and dime" their customers, but given inflation, maybe we should start saying they "Washington and Lincoln" their customers instead.

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

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2019 @ 10:05am

  Re: Solution

  You haven't been paying attention over the last five to ten years, have you? Canada has been worse for copyright and other IP laws now for years. They elected some idiots and flipped from someone to admire into someone to hold up as an example of "at least we're not them".

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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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?

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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'

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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'

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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.

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