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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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'

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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'

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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.

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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2019 @ 05:35pm

  Re:

  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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2019 @ 01:59pm

  Re:

  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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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

  

  JoeCool2 ( 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.

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