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  • On the post: Latest Twitter Problem: Its API Has Been Down And No Info Has Been Provided

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2023 @ 12:49am

    And…?

    Oh no! Shitter has a problem. The world must join reality. Techdirt going to do an article about the Biden theft of classified documents? That were found before the election? And not reported? Or just going to ignore the over use of force for a highly secured facility under Trump control. And the lack of pomp for Biden’s collection?

  • On the post: England Makes Gigabit Broadband A Requirement For All New Home Builds

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2023 @ 10:18pm

    Perceptions

    I don’t really see much of a “thing” here. Most countries at that level, UK, US, etc, are gigabit ready. In the last 10 years, it would be hard, and likely more expensive, to use less capable wiring. Cat5 and fibre are so common you would have to work hard to build below 1kT

  • On the post: Biden WSJ Tech Op-ed: More Of The Same Confused Stuff He Said Last Time

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2023 @ 09:51pm

    Wow

    “We should limit targeted advertising and ban it altogether for children.”
    This sounds bad at first pass to anyone who understands how websites stay online. It becomes outrageous when you understand how many ways it would violate the user’s rights. Those of us who prefer relevant advertising are, yes, a minority. But a very large minority. Many of us are part of the tech industry, fully understanding how advertising keeps sites on the web, and free. There are many issues in such a restriction of targeting. Starting with adults. I have an absolute right in this country to conduct my business with companies of my, not some politician’s, choice. If I wish to increase the ability of helping the site stay online with click through adverts, that is my absolute right. I like to support the creative efforts of those sites I utilise. I pay for services I have little use for here at techdirt. Because it keeps the site running. And some sites with in-linking get commissions from my buying. Others get advert revenue from my clicking on banners. Don’t you {generic} dare make that harder. The flip side of this, children. This is difficult. But the decision must be held by the patent(s). Any disabling by the government is a circle back to my first point. The real problem is opt-x doesn’t carry consequences. If a person doesn’t like to receive relative advertising they should opt out. And that should be honoured with criminal penalties for failure. However; I’ve said this before. As soon as some nanny politicians pass a law that makes it harder for sites to track me, there WILL be a class-action filed. Want to place bets how easy it will be for me to not pay a penny to lawyers on this? Or how fast the law gets struck down? What will happen is either sites go off line, or charge. And a few percent become unusable advert junk with floating ads and with-you scrolling images. The only good takeaway here is
    “So Biden’s big plan here would actually encourages websites to turn a blind eye to bad stuff on their platform.”
    That would mean less censoring.

  • On the post: FF16 Dev’s Response To Exclusivity Complaints: ‘Just Buy A PS5!”

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 01:27pm

    You leave out that Sony has, and continues, to put out censored games available on other platforms in their original form. If you buy for or from Sony, you support censorship.

  • On the post: Kevin McCarthy’s First Order Of Business: Waste A Ton Of Time Misleading The Public Over The Bogus Twitter Files

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 01:02pm

    Fact, government law enforcement agencies used services that clearly identify them as such. If you think they won’t side with “ok” if there is any ambiguity, your an idiot.

  • On the post: Kevin McCarthy’s First Order Of Business: Waste A Ton Of Time Misleading The Public Over The Bogus Twitter Files

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 12:54pm

    Except it was granted in 40% of cases. Many appear to be border line but not explicit violations from minimal releasing.

  • On the post: Kevin McCarthy’s First Order Of Business: Waste A Ton Of Time Misleading The Public Over The Bogus Twitter Files

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 12:49pm

    Wake up. When a government law enforcement employee flags someone using a government account, chances are the person gets banned or blocked. Are you going to say now to an alphabet agency?

  • On the post: Independent Reporting Shows Cops Are Still Killing People At An Alarming Rate

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 12:38pm

    Btw, I don’t like the term righteous her. Justified, not righteous.

  • On the post: Independent Reporting Shows Cops Are Still Killing People At An Alarming Rate

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 03:26am

    Police activity is a good start. Look it up. Prove otherwise. Because the numbers are much clearer than the crap pile presented here. See below.

  • On the post: Independent Reporting Shows Cops Are Still Killing People At An Alarming Rate

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 03:23am

    Hidding the numbers

    “during a traffic stop, a mental health and welfare check, or a non-violent offense. 
    Author conveniently lumps in the single digit percentage of welfare/mental checks in with the overwhelming traffic and “nonviolent”. Body cam and dash footage is available for the vast majority of cases these days. You fail to mention that the vast majority of such violent traffic stops involve actual criminals who commit further crimes during the traffic stop. Such a driving away at high speed, pulling a gun or knifnin the cops, running away from the scene. Etc, Don’t break the law. The vast majority, that is, 99%,, of people who are not criminals and are of sound mind, don’t get killed during police encounters. Pretend and fudge and politicise the numbers all you want. But the author here is ignorant of what they are reporting on, or intentionally disingenuous.

  • On the post: Oregon Supreme Court Applies SCOTUS Ruling Retroactively, Overturns All Non-Unanimous Jury Convictions

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 03:08am

    WTF

    Did I miss something? Since when was unanimous needed for anything other than the death penalty? Or even then in some states. The whole jury of your peers idea is to judge you based on the community in which the violation took place. Or does that not matter.

  • On the post: Copyright Has Kept De La Soul’s Classic 1st Album Off Streaming… Until Now

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 03:06am

    It’s free and legal

    “which is worth watching if you can find it. ”
    It’s legally free in a dozen plus sites. Including Tubi!

  • On the post: No, The FBI Is NOT ‘Paying Twitter To Censor’

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2023 @ 03:05pm

    FBI, cia, ice, whatever three letter alphabet soup you can think of.

  • On the post: Wireless Carriers Find That Nobody Cares About 5G Despite Years Of Hype

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2023 @ 10:21pm

    Speak truth

    5G is absolutely revolutionary for those who have it. The real problem is with selfish people. I say this a a resident of a town where idiots voted against a tower, because “property values” the public is its own worst enemy .

  • On the post: Media Organizations Ask US To Drop Charges Against Assange

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2023 @ 10:09pm

    Yet the video, both full and edited, show very, very, poor choices that day. One can have been in uniform and understand heat of battle and fog of war, and still recognise identification of target. Or lack of identification What happened that day was a tragedy and a travesty.

  • On the post: Media Organizations Ask US To Drop Charges Against Assange

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2023 @ 10:03pm

    He did NOT hack anything. He accepted information of a public interest and published it. Keep in mind it is well documented that trump had interest in pardoning him. Ultimately choosing his political future over doing the right thing. It was not the trump administration that chose to charge, it was alphabet soup that long worked out of his control.

  • On the post: Appeals Court Tosses Stupid Lawsuit Filed By Anti-Vaxxer Claiming Federal Government Made Twitter Ban Her Account

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2023 @ 09:54pm

    • rural should be natural

  • On the post: Law Enforcement Is Extracting Tons Of Data From Vehicle Infotainment Systems

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2023 @ 09:53pm

    Why?

    Why are you concerned with what the police know? Did you do something wrong or consort with those that break the law? I don’t speed. I don’t drive like a dumb arse that deserves to die. What’s the big deal? Huh? If the complaint is hacks and such, yes, patch. But if a cop asked where I have been and where I am going, have at it. What are you afraid of?

  • On the post: Appeals Court Tosses Stupid Lawsuit Filed By Anti-Vaxxer Claiming Federal Government Made Twitter Ban Her Account

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2023 @ 11:11am

    Imagine that, misrepresent what the link says. Closed classes doesn’t reduce “spread”. It reduces new positive cases. They are directly related but not the same. Children have a sub-1% reaction rate. Far lower than the ~9% reaction rate in healthy adults and about the same as severe reactions in total adult populations. If the parents and staff are vaccinated, and the children have a sub-1% reaction rate… explain the benefit of reduced educational performance vs near-0 reaction rate? You fall within the nanny state method. That there is some imaginary good in protecting the dumb. If as an adult, you don’t get the vaccine you’d deserve to get infected. If you get sick. It’s your fault. If you die, that’s a rural selection. One less stupid person for the bleeding hearts to protect with the people’s money. Say what you want about my morality and apathy. But stop wasting money on idiots. And stop putting up road blocks in education! Our schools are already a failure. With refusing to fail kids and only teaching test questions. We are on of the lowest ranking countries in the world and still one of the highest spenders on learning.

  • On the post: Appeals Court Tosses Stupid Lawsuit Filed By Anti-Vaxxer Claiming Federal Government Made Twitter Ban Her Account

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2023 @ 10:56am

    Have some sort of love fetish for her, eh? Have to bring her up out of context. And intentionally misrepresent my view on her? Clinton will never go to jail. Nobody hates her that much (even me) to waste that much money. Even if she didn’t buy her way out of her situation, lame duck Biden would immediately pardon his puppet master.

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