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  • On the post: Israel, Ice Cream, Trademarks: This Year's Dumbest Controversy Results In Trademark Skullduggery

    pyrosf ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2021 @ 09:11pm

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    I am more shocked that they think that the decision to not sell in a very small geographic area is enough to let someone else sell a products under the same mark. This would be like Coke saying it won't sell in Russia Occupied Ukraine would allow someone else to sell under the coke trademark. Many many businesses should be filing friend of the court to tell them this is a really dumb idea.

  • On the post: 'Resident Evil 8: Village' Broken Due To DRM, Cracked Version Fixes It

    pyrosf ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2021 @ 05:40am

    Re: Re: Developer's POV

    I have seen publishers add DRM after the game goes gold. Like, QA is done, it works, ship it. Then Boom! Game release with horrific stutter, or game runs in a Sandbox inside a VM with a cap on data IO.

  • On the post: Trump Notifies Attorney General He's Challenging The Constitutionality Of Section 230 On The Dumbest Grounds Possible

    pyrosf ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2021 @ 11:22am

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    He employees people willing to take his money. Sometimes they get stiffed. I am personally happy to take a fools money. Lawyers beware Your getting fucked over if you lie to the court.

  • On the post: Cord-Cutting Leads To Gaming Studios Exploring In-Game Ads To Unlock Gaming Perks

    pyrosf ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2021 @ 09:52am

    Re: The Workarounds Are Inevitable

    In many cases, those videos are built to cover up load times as the first load of a game can require unpacking huge amounts of assets and loading them into memory. You might be running a top of the line PC, but for games like this to run on everything you can see some long loading times based on the PC spec.

  • On the post: LA Court Abusing Copyright Law To Take Down (Unauthorized) Recording Of Britney Spears Hearing

    pyrosf ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2021 @ 09:40am

    Re: Re: YouTube mistake?

    They will of course have a registered agent, likely a law firm, for court orders.

  • On the post: After Eight Years And Three Reviews Of The Case, Indiana Supreme Court Rules Police Must Return Seized Car To Its Owner

    pyrosf ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2021 @ 06:12am

    Re: Eight years for something that should have taken five minute

    Alternatively cops will take the "I am not an appraiser" point of view. Car was involved with drugs and we have no idea what it's worth. Now you have to go to court just to show the car was valued and they can argue the value all day long.

  • On the post: A Conversation About Video Game Preservation In The Gaming Industry Is Long, Long Overdue

    pyrosf ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2021 @ 08:28pm

    Re: Ironic…

    Your not thinking like an executive in the gaming industry. The suits at EA care about 1 thing only, making money. Planning to close servers and shutdown old games means those old games are no longer competing with your shinny new game. More over, the issue of community was a major issue and splitting the community over old and new games also means less eyeballs looking at your new stuff. I am totally sure some bean counter said, "If we shutdown X at the same time as we launch Y then we get 5% more sales at full MSRP".

  • On the post: Stadia Exodus Continues As Product Head For Stadia Exits

    pyrosf ( profile ), 10 May, 2021 @ 06:57am

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    Google is of course (and wants to be) the Anti Microsoft firm. Legacy code is to be refactored or tossed. Any product that can earn 100x returns is kept and everything else is starved for resources since you need to earn 100x / Dev working on it to justify its existence. Google simply exists to explore as many markets as it can searching for those 100x returns and end any project that wont make that as soon as they can figure it out. No one has the appetite to build a normal business up from the ground like ever inside the firm.

  • On the post: PlayStation Y2K-Like Battery Bug About To Become A Problem As Sony Shuts Down Check In Servers

    pyrosf ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2021 @ 09:06am

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    The system needs to call home sometimes. For example when the battery gets replaced. Failure to do so means the system becomes a brick. Home is going offline, and home cant be replaced by anyone but Sony. So when all batteries die all old systems stop working for good and lawsuits might happen.

  • On the post: Mastercard Lays Down New Rules For Streaming Sites That Require Them To Review Content Before Publication

    pyrosf ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2021 @ 11:35pm

    Re: Re: crypto tokens

    Its only useful if you can cash out the tokens. If Dollar Coin gets picked up by Only Fans, then any transaction with Dollar Coin will be suspect. Banks and Payment networks will have to block its use making it very hard to actully use. The entire network could get banned by a rule like this because some people use it for this function. Our payment networks love the concept of corrupt money since it makes it super easy to ban all of coinbase or whatever flavor of new coin exchange comes out for being corrupt money laundering systems.

  • On the post: Comcast Insists It's An Innocent Little Daisy On Consumer Privacy

    pyrosf ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2019 @ 10:17am

    Re: Re: Yeah, but Google

    Even with out being able to look at the packet, you can tell data by frequency and size of the data being transmitted. Gamers often use UDP with lots of small packets. Movies buffer huge amounts of data then drip feed. Bittorrent connects to hundreds of addresses all at once. Given time I can tell what your doing even without knowing anymore then the packet size and frequency.

  • On the post: Federal Lawsuit Targets Vicious Gang Composed Of… Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputies

    pyrosf ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2019 @ 07:55pm

    Re: Re: What do you mean 'pretty please stop that' doesn't work?

    You need the governor involved at this point, He needs motivation from the city's insurance or from a federal agency basically telling them to shape up or be shut down. Insurance you ask? Its already been the most effective way to solve small and mid size law enforcement agencies by simply declining to insure them. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/insurance-companies-police/529833/

  • On the post: Weaponizing The GDPR: Gamers Want To Use It To Flood Blizzard With Requests As Protest Over China Appeasement

    pyrosf ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2019 @ 09:00pm

    Re: Re:

    If you do the minimum (geo blocking) you can always send a written response that you do not do business in that location and thus do not follow laws of that country. The person would then have to admit he's bypassing your filter (VPN) or did business with you while in the US and thus US laws apply. This is because sometimes IP addresses are the only bit of tracking info you have but they can easily be to broad due to shared IP ranges. So you can just as easily get in trouble over sharing information which gets you in hot water under other laws.

  • On the post: Weaponizing The GDPR: Gamers Want To Use It To Flood Blizzard With Requests As Protest Over China Appeasement

    pyrosf ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2019 @ 02:19pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    Based on personal experience with calls from clients for building GDPR compliance systems. The most common system we build right now is one where get a GDPR request, send an email or system notification to each of the relevant staff members, some poor guy stitches all the results together, legal does a review, and the response goes out to the requester. Banks and other places often add a step for confirming Identity. The bigger the firm the more likely a process like this is followed as a request for data often goes across firm lines of business, which means more databases, and more locations to search, and more limited available IT staff to build the needed connections for automation till 2025. Big multi-billion dollar firms are the most likely firms to be manual or a bunch of locally done scripts with minimal central control.

  • On the post: Weaponizing The GDPR: Gamers Want To Use It To Flood Blizzard With Requests As Protest Over China Appeasement

    pyrosf ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2019 @ 01:18pm

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    Compliance for Blizzard is 100% manual today. Most firms who setup compliance software assume a small flow of ongoing requests and skimp on automation as it's cheaper to let a human run the script and sanity check the results. Everything works fine when the load is like 10 requests per month. The systems often list risk factors for large amounts of requests breaking things or driving up huge compliance costs because automating the response can be super difficult.

  • On the post: Weaponizing The GDPR: Gamers Want To Use It To Flood Blizzard With Requests As Protest Over China Appeasement

    pyrosf ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2019 @ 11:42am

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    How many laws are left to Prosecutorial Discretion? Do those laws get fixed when a 16 year old is prosecuted for distribution of her own picture?

  • On the post: Weaponizing The GDPR: Gamers Want To Use It To Flood Blizzard With Requests As Protest Over China Appeasement

    pyrosf ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2019 @ 11:06am

    Re: Re:

    I work in this area, for some firms, a GDPR request is fairly easy to respond to as they only store customer contact information for shipping and purchase history. Think a small business selling products. At the other end of the business spectrim is a conglomerate like Bank of New York Mellon. 21 distinct business entities covering everything from bank accounts to investments to call centers. A single request could impact over 100 people, has subjective rules, and even legal limits to what data can be provided. The CEO may not care, but the C-Suite cares a heck of a lot when call center employees are going into overtime, work loads spike, and new software is needed to manage the request since you have so many moving parts no human could walk this through a firm of this size easily. Never mind internal politics and firewalls that prevent communication also need to be breached or the entire firm is on the hook for huge fines. I do suspect a judge would be not as crazy as to tell a firm getting hit by 100k requests in a single week that up to then was getting perhaps 10 to 20 requests that they should be fined for not clearing the backlog fast enough when the entire business is shut down more or less just to respond to requests. Yes the GDPR is that bad for large firms.

  • On the post: More Fallout From The Hong Kong Protests Hitting eSports

    pyrosf ( profile ), 11 Oct, 2019 @ 05:13pm

    Re: Blizzard also making it difficult to delete accounts

    This is more the case due to fraud then anything. Since deleting your account can not be reversed they want to be absolutely sure the account holder is the one doing it.

  • On the post: CBP Official Refuses To Give Journalist His Passport Until He 'Admits' He Writes 'Propaganda'

    pyrosf ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2019 @ 11:06am

    Re: Re: Signs of the future

    CBP officer: "Place your finger here please"
    Traveler: "That's my phone"
    CBP officer: "Since you an animal you have no rights, we are going to search your phone for drugs, evidence of other apes you work with, and anything else we might think we can charge you over".

  • On the post: Court Tells Man $172 Red Light Camera Ticket Is Actually Less Than $100 And Can't Be Challenged In Court

    pyrosf ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2019 @ 11:00pm

    Re: Re: Re: Sounds like this needs a constitutional challenge

    Not 100% true, They can take you to court for unpaid fines and get a judgement like all other creditors. They just cant do this automatically. At this point you can show up to court to plead poverty, or, like most people, not show, get a judgement, and be arrested for not paying a court judgement (not a fine). A LOT of debt collection firms have figured this out, its a national problem.

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