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  • On the post: CCO Of Activision Blizzard Busy Blocking Everyone, Including Employees, On Twitter Amid Fair Employment Lawsuit

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2021 @ 09:03pm

    The entire leadership of Activision-Blizzard need to resign without the golden parachute: They should have enough money to not need that parachute.

    Bobby Kotick either inherited the problem or caused it. Either way, he should have stopped this but he didn't.

  • On the post: Appeals Court Says No Sovereign Immunity For Turkish Security Forces Who Attacked DC Protesters

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2021 @ 12:00pm

    Re:

    From what I've read in this article, the lawsuit is against Turkey itself, since it was their representative that the security was "protecting".

  • On the post: Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz Keeps On Losing In Court

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2021 @ 01:46pm

    Don't be a Liebowitz

    As Leonard French has said, "Don't be a Liebowitz."

  • On the post: Wired's Big 230 Piece Has A Narrative To Tell

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 07 May, 2021 @ 07:22pm

    Re: Dishonesty

    No, you only pay lip-service to the 1st amendment
    This reminds me of the scripture "They draw near me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me." In other words, he only says he likes the first amendment, but twists its definition to suit his purposes.

  • On the post: Accusations Of EA Employee Side-Selling 'FIFA' Rare In-Game Items Is A Problem If True

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2021 @ 10:04pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Nah, the lowly developers can be fired and hired with impunity. Why are they called Human Resources if we weren't meant to strip-mine them?

  • On the post: Activision Forces Online Check DRM Into New Game, Which Gets Cracked In One Day

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2021 @ 08:20pm

    Re: Re: 'Teach you to pay us...'

    One good thing I like about macOS is that it can mount ISOs, .toasts, and .DMGs.
    I still have Daemon Tools: macOS doesn't handle the more proprietary formats.

  • On the post: Activision Forces Online Check DRM Into New Game, Which Gets Cracked In One Day

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2021 @ 10:46pm

    Re:

    How far we have come.
    No, it's how far we have fallen.

  • On the post: Drone Operator Sues North Carolina Over Its First Amendment-Violating Surveyor Licensing Laws

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2021 @ 05:08pm

    Re: "government has plenty of rackets"

    Government regulatory and licensing powers, like any tool, can be used, misused, and abused. This is clearly in the second or third area for it to be "Drone operators will steal our business of surveying, even if they're just offering pictures."

  • On the post: Data Broker Looking To Sell Real-Time Vehicle Location Data To Government Agencies, Including The Military

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2021 @ 07:09pm

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    Misdemeanor? Nah, felony all along the way. Gotta get that disenfranchisement for undesirables in somehow.

  • On the post: Accusations Of EA Employee Side-Selling 'FIFA' Rare In-Game Items Is A Problem If True

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2021 @ 08:00pm

    Re: Re:

    Profits from loot boxes goes to the upper management, not the lowly developers.

  • On the post: Identifying Insurrectionists Is Going To Be Easy — Thanks To Social Media And All The Other Online Trails People Leave

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2021 @ 06:05pm

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    What makes you think they haven't? If there was anything meriting an arrest, it would have been brought up. Either they were smart enough to wear masks to prevent identification and were smart enough to not record their "rioting", or there was nothing that was actionable.

  • On the post: Lawmakers Complain About Comcast's Bullshit Expanded Usage Caps

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2021 @ 02:09pm

    Re: They don't even have their act together on this

    Minor correction: The binary version would be 1,073,741,824, not 1,024,000,000.

  • On the post: Portland, Maine Passes Facial Recognition Ban That Says The City Can Fire Employees For Violating It

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2020 @ 03:55pm

    Re: OKAYING EACH WAS CLEARLY TURNED ON.

    Or the system saw an ISP sending a lot of messages and flagged the ISP as a potential bot farm.

  • On the post: Senator Tillis Plans Major Copyright Overhaul: Recognizes Legit Problems, But Current Solutions Are Lacking

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2020 @ 03:40pm

    Re: Clearly, you hate people protecting their own work.

    Either A. Reply to your previous comment, or B. Put them all in one big post. Don't separate it out into separate threads. And I prefer B. It's less spammy that way.

    It's constant topic here in your attacks on copyright, patents, trademarks, and DMCA.
    Remember that the Constitution of the United States of America, the highest law of the land, has said Congress may enact such laws, not that they must. Also, it must be for the benefit of the arts and science. If the law starts harming innovation and media, something is wrong. Maybe the existing laws need to be re-written or abolished entirely.
    Boo hoo. -- If your "job" involves finding such
    then you're probably malicious / pirate.
    Nice line break.
    There are three main types of hackers: black-hat, grey-hat, and white hat. Black hat hackers look for exploits in code and systems to sell the information off. White hat hackers look for exploits in code and systems to make sure that they're safe from future hacks and exploits by telling the people that they hacked what they did. Grey hats do both. White hats make systems more secure by checking the vulnerabilities and reporting them to the company/people who control the site.
    DMCA works fine for everyone honest. Only pirates hate it.
    Nope. A lot of content creators on YouTube have had their livelihoods taken away by fraudulent DMCA notices. TotalBiscuit, the Cynical Brit, had a couple of strikes by Sega Japan against his Shining Force videos because Sega Japan went on a DMCA spree to drum up search rankings on the sequel Shining Ark. Yes, this is abuse of DMCA. Yes, his channel was affected. And it wasn't just his channel.
    He also had a couple of videos being critical of a couple of different indie games, both which were very poorly made. Both times, the developer issued a fraudulent DMCA claim. One of the games, Garry's Incident, got a special video where TotalBiscuit goes into the problems with DMCA and being a content creator on YouTube.
    do you want Airbus to allow Chinee knock-off parts on their assemblies of already multi-sourced death traps?
    If they work (both in stress tests and as replacements), I see no issue. Things go wrong when testing starts being skipped or ignored.
    You DO NOT "own" the content on a DVD or book.
    No, but you do own the physical item itself. If you cut out all the words of a book and paste them together randomly on a poster, is that copyright infringement? Can the author or publisher go after the person who bought the book for misuse of their product (and remember: books can be resold, so the original buyer might not have been the one to cut it up)? What about showing someone else a picture in a magazine: are you infringing on copyright by showing someone who didn't buy the magazine the picture? If not, why not?
    There needs to be some sense on what a user can do to the product they bought. Copying it and selling the copies verbatim is an obvious no-no; reselling an item after it's no longer wanted or needed is accepted. Other than that, it has become a legal grey area on self-modifying the stuff you built, such as third-party ink cartridges or the right to repair.

  • On the post: Beijing Tightens Grip On Hong Kong With Arrest Of Pro-Democracy Lawmakers

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2020 @ 10:54pm

    Beijing Biden?

    And people are complaining about Biden being pro-PRC. Through inaction, Trump has given Hong Kong to China. Xi will be calling his buddy Trump after this is over and congratulating him on distracting the world so that Communist China could take over Hong Kong.

  • On the post: Netflix Gets Cute Using DMCA Notices To Take Down Tweets Critical Of 'Cuties'

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2020 @ 10:23pm

    Goats

    What was Popehat's comments on goat fornicators again? Ah yes…

    The Rule of Goats: even if you say you're only fucking goats ironically, you're still a goatfucker

  • On the post: Portland's Facial Recognition Ban Won't Stop Private Citizens From Rolling Their Own Tech To ID Cops

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2020 @ 10:20pm

    Powerless? No. Less powerful? Yes.

    And how quickly would one person who went around killing police officers last? I guarantee that, unless the police are that hated by the public, the public would assist the police in tracking down any mass murderer, even if that murderer was a cop killer. What about a group of people? Or even a city? I think the answer is that if it went that far, the military would end up getting involved to quell the uprising.

  • On the post: Portland's Facial Recognition Ban Won't Stop Private Citizens From Rolling Their Own Tech To ID Cops

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2020 @ 10:16pm

    Re:

    But it made some people feel like retribution was done. Just a reminder to everyone: Vengeance isn't justice.

  • On the post: Netflix Gets Cute Using DMCA Notices To Take Down Tweets Critical Of 'Cuties'

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2020 @ 10:10pm

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    There are better ways of saying "I don't agree with you because of this fact and/or statement" than insulting people. And I agree: Cuties does not look like a cute coming of age story. SidAlpha even said that the main character isn't a good person: her actions could have killed a fellow student/young girl; she steals her cousin's phone and watches porn on it; when found out, she tries to do a striptease and, when rebuffed, retaliated by taking pictures of her nude crotch and sending it out on social media. That said, badmouthing a writer on the site, and doing it in an insulting way, will turn people against you, not the author.

  • On the post: Portland's Facial Recognition Ban Won't Stop Private Citizens From Rolling Their Own Tech To ID Cops

    MaddTheSane ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2020 @ 02:26pm

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    It's a power thing. Police have a lot of power over citizens. Currently, citizens have little power over police. People in power tend to abuse that power. Citizens have little power to abuse.

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