That Anonymous Coward (profile), 9 Apr 2021 @ 11:42pm
Re: Everyone wins
Except for that whole pile of law that showed this wasn't a trademark case & Nike would have had their asses handed to them after a long battle.
Of course if MSCHF could have been sure about being awarded fees, they would have pushed this to the limit.
conservative shoppers...
we're okay with this being made by slave labor but you best not mention old scratch or we're gonna have problems.
Huh... ignoring actual problems to focus on imaginary ones.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 8 Apr 2021 @ 4:08am
Its hard to be upset that these chucklefucks put their names on something that confirms they are illiterate assholes.
What should really worry us is their fawning target audience who lap this crap up, will accept any reasoning why the cancel culture killed the bill & not oh the Constitution, & will keep these ignorant idiots in office.
Still a pandemic going on.
Still mutations showing up.
Still dumbasses pretending its just like the flu & masks will kill you faster than the covid.
And they put time into this finely crafted piece of shit rather than doing something to actually help those they claim to represent & care about. But then they get the government they wanted, its a pity they no longer live in reality.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Apr 2021 @ 6:51pm
So on this hand they have training & expertise...
On this other hand they think invasive cavity searches on the side of the road by opposite sex officers to the suspect is aokay...
Perhaps we shoudl train them about real things instead of overly used tropes from tv & movies.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Apr 2021 @ 6:45pm
Re:
Sadly no.
Clearview only exists to take a photo of an unknown & tell you who they are by doing some voodoo with the billions of scraped images.
Given the history of police using the information databases they already have access to to stalk ex's, hit on cuties they pulled over, & other really creepy rule violating actions (that end up with no real punishments) its more likely they were using them to try and get laid.
Sadly no one knows how good Clearview is, on the 'upside' their training dataset includes multiple skin tones & facial features, but its still a black box that shouldn't exist in legal proceedings.
Their sketchy history & actions combined with the founder being besties with notorious floor pooper Chuck isn't helping.
Given how police like to omit facts from cases once they've decided on a target, one wonders if one of them was dumb enough to use this tech to secure a conviction. Given the departments who claimed oh we never did that & then admitted oh I guess we did one has to wonder if they'll lie about verifiable facts can they be trusted in court.
For all of these advancements in tech that they keep saying we need... can anyone actually produce cases where it worked?
I mean we've got people railroaded into jails again b/c they relied on unproven tech that has a racial bias a few times now, but no real success stories. I mean I wonder if anyones run it on the Jan 6 protesters the way they've used them in other cases... I mean all of those white faces are perfect for the racist tech to id.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Apr 2021 @ 4:06am
Re: Re:
Possibly better, once you manage to dump an incumbent for failing to put the voters first you'd be shocked to see how the replacement will do their best to keep the voters happy with things beyond the same old talking points.
I mean its not like we've spent way more time on trying to pass laws to stop abortion from happening while ignoring the water supply in many places that is poisoning children.
Or looked closer at cancer clusters striking children.
But then unborn are a great demographic,
they require nothing
you don't have to ever do anything for them
people will blindly support you
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Apr 2021 @ 1:31am
Re: Re:
And given cameos...
It really is a pity that people are so distraught about someone might do something they don't agree with that they will vote for people that for $50 would run them down in the street.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 6 Apr 2021 @ 10:11pm
From the TAC playbook...
Require all elected officials to do this first for at least 5 years.
Require them to disclose all accounts they use & 100 points of data.
Require them to stop using encryption.
They always think this is a great idea until it comes to it applying to them, perhaps if they showed us how willing they were to do this & put their 100 points of data in a great big honey pot that will be raided early and often first they might understand.
Oh noes someone was mean to me online wait let me check... why yes nearly every platform offers a way for me to block that person & to report the harassment.
A solution in search of a problem, to hide the real problem... our leaders need the ultimate power to identify everyone so they can use that fear to keep hiding their sins.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 6 Apr 2021 @ 2:53am
Re: Re:
Its almost as if you stop trying to stop the "bad guys" from doing the "bad things" you have nightmares about & focus on the people who do pay you, their concerns, their desires... you get better responses.
There are rumors of a bygone age when companies cared more about the people who paid them & did their best to offer the best experiences for them. That pouring more resources into trying to keep the nightmares away lead to them forgetting that some people did pay them & deserve more than being treated as just a revenue stream to be milked.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 5 Apr 2021 @ 8:46pm
If cost of keeping available is < income per sale = WIN!
It also allows them to boast a much larger catalog of games.
Opens the door to people who maybe never played halo to experience it from the beginning & keep buying through the franchise.
Games that spawned memes that people didn't always get, oh hey thats what they meant.
Oh look I grew up playing this game timmy, lets play it together. Generational fans.
Allowing games to be preserved isn't bad, wrong, evil...
It is a shared culture & while the industries love to lock it up forever or until they can't find a way to make another penny off of it.
But how can you look at the pissed off consumers who are discovering they can;t buy their favorite shows from when they were kids, or all the sound was remastered b/c licensing agreements ended.
There are people out there who want these things & my fsm if you can't figure out that goodwill from consumers is better than trying to squeeze another nickel out of them right now you should leave the business.
On the post: Wireless Provider Openly Shares Private Data Of Subscribers
Re: Hall of Shame
The problem is they have all done it.
This is made that much worse because the victims aren't photogenic enough to inspire outrage.
We can't even get laws demanding basic security standards with penalties for failing to follow them despite the huge failures over & over & over.
On the post: MSCHF Settles Upgraded Shoe Dispute With Nike And Promises (Wink, Wink) To Buy Back Satan Shoes
Re: Everyone wins
Except for that whole pile of law that showed this wasn't a trademark case & Nike would have had their asses handed to them after a long battle.
Of course if MSCHF could have been sure about being awarded fees, they would have pushed this to the limit.
conservative shoppers...
we're okay with this being made by slave labor but you best not mention old scratch or we're gonna have problems.
Huh... ignoring actual problems to focus on imaginary ones.
On the post: Crime Rates Drop After The City Of Baltimore Decides It's Not Going To Waste Resources Prosecuting Minor Offenses
Re:
stares in QI
You don't say.
On the post: Oracle's Projection: As It Accuses Google Of Snooping On You, It Has Built A Huge Data Operation That It Doesn't Want Regulated
hands you an L
2nd Para
On the post: Nike Sues MSCHF Over Its High Profile Satan Shoes, Claiming Unsafe Blood May Dilute The Exalted Nike Swoosh
And to end the lawsuit they have agreed to recall the shoes & refund people.
On the post: North Carolina State Senators Read Section 230 Completely Backwards, Introduces Laughably Confused Bill In Response
Its hard to be upset that these chucklefucks put their names on something that confirms they are illiterate assholes.
What should really worry us is their fawning target audience who lap this crap up, will accept any reasoning why the cancel culture killed the bill & not oh the Constitution, & will keep these ignorant idiots in office.
Still a pandemic going on.
Still mutations showing up.
Still dumbasses pretending its just like the flu & masks will kill you faster than the covid.
And they put time into this finely crafted piece of shit rather than doing something to actually help those they claim to represent & care about. But then they get the government they wanted, its a pity they no longer live in reality.
On the post: North Carolina State Senators Read Section 230 Completely Backwards, Introduces Laughably Confused Bill In Response
Re: Re: Re: Getting called a Nazi...
I bet he did nazi this coming...
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Re: Re: Accuracy costs effort, sloppiness is free
I could tell you, but they threatened Lumin with crippling lawfare so now you have to register & go through a bunch more steps to see the notices.
On the post: Fourth Circuit Appeals Court Takes Aim At Police Officers' 'Training And Expertise' Assertions
So on this hand they have training & expertise...
On this other hand they think invasive cavity searches on the side of the road by opposite sex officers to the suspect is aokay...
Perhaps we shoudl train them about real things instead of overly used tropes from tv & movies.
On the post: Documents Show Hundreds Of Cops Have Run Clearview Searches, Often Without Their Employers' Knowledge Or Permission
Re:
Sadly no.
Clearview only exists to take a photo of an unknown & tell you who they are by doing some voodoo with the billions of scraped images.
Given the history of police using the information databases they already have access to to stalk ex's, hit on cuties they pulled over, & other really creepy rule violating actions (that end up with no real punishments) its more likely they were using them to try and get laid.
Sadly no one knows how good Clearview is, on the 'upside' their training dataset includes multiple skin tones & facial features, but its still a black box that shouldn't exist in legal proceedings.
Their sketchy history & actions combined with the founder being besties with notorious floor pooper Chuck isn't helping.
Given how police like to omit facts from cases once they've decided on a target, one wonders if one of them was dumb enough to use this tech to secure a conviction. Given the departments who claimed oh we never did that & then admitted oh I guess we did one has to wonder if they'll lie about verifiable facts can they be trusted in court.
For all of these advancements in tech that they keep saying we need... can anyone actually produce cases where it worked?
I mean we've got people railroaded into jails again b/c they relied on unproven tech that has a racial bias a few times now, but no real success stories. I mean I wonder if anyones run it on the Jan 6 protesters the way they've used them in other cases... I mean all of those white faces are perfect for the racist tech to id.
On the post: Justice Thomas Goes Weird Again; Suggests Twitter Can't Moderate & Section 230 Violates 1st Amendment
Re: Re:
Possibly better, once you manage to dump an incumbent for failing to put the voters first you'd be shocked to see how the replacement will do their best to keep the voters happy with things beyond the same old talking points.
I mean its not like we've spent way more time on trying to pass laws to stop abortion from happening while ignoring the water supply in many places that is poisoning children.
Or looked closer at cancer clusters striking children.
But then unborn are a great demographic,
they require nothing
you don't have to ever do anything for them
people will blindly support you
On the post: Activision Once Again Abuses DMCA To Try To Bury Leak Of New 'CoD' Content
Re: Re:
And given cameos...
It really is a pity that people are so distraught about someone might do something they don't agree with that they will vote for people that for $50 would run them down in the street.
On the post: Australian Government Proposes Stripping Internet Users Of Their Anonymity
From the TAC playbook...
Require all elected officials to do this first for at least 5 years.
Require them to disclose all accounts they use & 100 points of data.
Require them to stop using encryption.
They always think this is a great idea until it comes to it applying to them, perhaps if they showed us how willing they were to do this & put their 100 points of data in a great big honey pot that will be raided early and often first they might understand.
Oh noes someone was mean to me online wait let me check... why yes nearly every platform offers a way for me to block that person & to report the harassment.
A solution in search of a problem, to hide the real problem... our leaders need the ultimate power to identify everyone so they can use that fear to keep hiding their sins.
On the post: DC Appeals Court Affirms Sidelining Of Attorney Larry Klayman, Who Attempted To 'Change Sides' In Litigation
I am reminded of that hit song, I am my own grandpa.
Something something state of mental health in this country should be a huge stain that should be dealt with but instead we just keep electing them.
On the post: Activision Once Again Abuses DMCA To Try To Bury Leak Of New 'CoD' Content
And yet somehow our elected leaders can't seem to find any flaws in the broken process.
On the post: Justice Thomas Goes Weird Again; Suggests Twitter Can't Moderate & Section 230 Violates 1st Amendment
Re: Re: Re:
That in which my brain crosslinked my time on Prodigy with my time on GEnie
On the post: Microsoft/Xbox Pushing Backwards Compatibility Hard, With Specific Nods Towards Game Preservation
Re: Re:
Its almost as if you stop trying to stop the "bad guys" from doing the "bad things" you have nightmares about & focus on the people who do pay you, their concerns, their desires... you get better responses.
There are rumors of a bygone age when companies cared more about the people who paid them & did their best to offer the best experiences for them. That pouring more resources into trying to keep the nightmares away lead to them forgetting that some people did pay them & deserve more than being treated as just a revenue stream to be milked.
On the post: Justice Thomas Goes Weird Again; Suggests Twitter Can't Moderate & Section 230 Violates 1st Amendment
Re: Re:
I miss Prodigy.
Blazing along at 300 baud as Aladdin pulled the new posts.
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Re: Re: Re: Ah to be treated like a lawyer...
<-- sociopath :)
On the post: Microsoft/Xbox Pushing Backwards Compatibility Hard, With Specific Nods Towards Game Preservation
If cost of keeping available is < income per sale = WIN!
It also allows them to boast a much larger catalog of games.
Opens the door to people who maybe never played halo to experience it from the beginning & keep buying through the franchise.
Games that spawned memes that people didn't always get, oh hey thats what they meant.
Oh look I grew up playing this game timmy, lets play it together. Generational fans.
Allowing games to be preserved isn't bad, wrong, evil...
It is a shared culture & while the industries love to lock it up forever or until they can't find a way to make another penny off of it.
But how can you look at the pissed off consumers who are discovering they can;t buy their favorite shows from when they were kids, or all the sound was remastered b/c licensing agreements ended.
There are people out there who want these things & my fsm if you can't figure out that goodwill from consumers is better than trying to squeeze another nickel out of them right now you should leave the business.
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