Darkness Of Course (profile), 1 Aug 2018 @ 11:03am
A perfect headline
I had just shook my head last night when I saw the announcement. But your headline put a smile on my cynical face. At least SOMEONE understands the 1st Amendment.
Darkness Of Course (profile), 31 Jul 2018 @ 3:17pm
Regulating tech companies, again.
Of course the issue at hand is tech companies. Congress critters always want the tech firms to pay, to dance to their whims, and to do the impossible, aka Comey Crypto Dance Fever.
The only solution is to run these dogs out of the house, and the Senate.
Darkness Of Course (profile), 25 Jul 2018 @ 1:28pm
Comey the Crypto Clown, V2
Quote: Wray needs to stop complaining about the tech sector until his own agency can demonstrate its ability to approach the issue with facts, verified numbers, and intellectual honesty.
Well, first off that ain't gonna happen at our FBI. Comey the Crypto Clown (aka C2CC) started blowing this particular trumpet and Wray must feel the need to perpetuate the lies. Possibly these are signs that it's a systemic infection and only excising the offending organisms will allow the FBI to consider honoring their oaths.
Darkness Of Course (profile), 19 Jul 2018 @ 4:08pm
Re: Interesting but mostly shit talk.
Google won't charge for the kernel. They can charge for access to Google branded apps, including Google Play.
They can also charge for the right to put 'Android' on the device. Which they have been doing by insisting on a minimum set of features which include Chrome and Google's store.
The 'publisher' bullshit is just the right-wing-white-nationalist-racist crowd tactic entirely based on trying to end run section 230 as publishers aren't protected.
In fact, they are platforms, they are not publishers and you do not get to collect brownie points for pushing the agenda the hate crowds do.
Mostly their intent is to force FB/Twitter/Google to promote their hate speech as it's free speech and 1st Amendment blah-blah.
We know this bullshit. It will not pass muster here.
Even on YT they are pumping several minute long ads.
I'll give a channel I support 15-30s, more than that one must really expect a skip. If they try to block that, I back out of the channel. Often going back in will bypass the ad.
TV is dead to me. Wife still watches a little, but frankly I don't feel the need to get inundated. I'd rather read a book.
Welcome to trampling on Constitutional protections to anyone not wealthy enough to have a garage.
Imagine the horror if everyone could afford a garage, them 'keeping the citizens down' allows Virginia to interpret the Constitution in their own special way. Illegally.
EA is the leader of horrible consumer interaction.
EA used to be my goto for many games. That has changed. Of course, so has gaming on PC/Consoles. First the increase in graphics and processing power means more effort to create the game, and that entire snowball of escalating costs.
Then mobile started up and the gaming industry had to take notice. It is important to note that EA, and many publishers, are run by suits. The suits are cash focused and are risk adverse. The dearth of originality in AAA games is directly tied to people that don't understand gaming. To produce a successful game they believe that their game must check off the exact same checklists as the recent popular game. Popular standing in for the real phrase, huge sales.
Mobile gaming is largely free 2 play. And they do microtransactions to the max. That is what is noticed by EA suits. If they can transition away from their fan base to the mobile-like market heavy with micro-transactions and loot boxes they will.
Mobile gaming is the new cash cow. The games are much cheaper to produce. The graphics are lower quality and rudimentary at best. Compared to PC/Consoles that is. The entire customer base understands and supports many games with micro-transactions which includes loot boxes.
Loot boxes are here to stay until regulators get clued in on the fact that they are gambling. In every sense of the word. Regardless of their fancy footwork & bald faced lies.
Re: Re: Re: Re: It wouldn't help against law enforcement...
It is true. That the US government has lied, violated its own policies to enable the attack based on keeping Hollywood happy.
Just being right isn't enough when it comes to copyrights. Even the law doesn't matter as Kim didn't commit a criminal act. Civil, quite possibly. But FBI doesn't care. Grab the cash, that's the new FBI.
How could they patent a ML algo that uses MCT? Well, just by paying the fee. Silly human.
However, I like the image of their brain exploding when it's pointed out that MCT essential functionality is based on RNG. Given a different RNG (or adding one to the original) one might well wind up with a different solution.
And what *exactly* is the solution? The particular combination of input tables, output tables, cross linked values and the actual *order* of test items used to generate the ML algo.
There is a rathole here, and its patent lawyers all the way down.
First, the unbreakable lock that does not exist and the iterative nature of that type of development.
Second, the physical vault at Apple, or Samsung. With special thoughts to Chinese phone devs.
Third, since the lock doesn't exist, the will to force crap down everyone throat is high, who is going to replace all the phones that *will* get bricked when the non-existing lock leaks the key.
Pretty much as much money as you can throw at it. Because this is serious rathole territory.
And yet again the programmers will be handling millions of requests to change a particular street, or in a particular direction or under certain weather conditions.
Sorry, you just ruined the concept and the implementation of the app.
The city can (yet has not) signed the street 'For Local Use' and therein lies the problem. Their reaction to their problem is to have Google/Waze fix it, like a gfixit.
Sign the street. Waze will adjust automatically, with no special cases.
On the post: Inspector General Says NSA Still Hasn't Implemented Its Post-Snowden Internal Security Measures
Who is leading the blind NSA?
Not all of it, but enough to slow up the systems necessary to stop the future Snowden from blowing the doors open, again.
Or it could be that ransomware has infiltrated the one server that has the plans to update the security.
On the post: Ignorant Hysteria Over 3D Printed Guns Leads To Courts Ignoring The First Amendment
A perfect headline
On the post: Senator Mark Warner Lays Out Ideas For Regulating Internet Platforms
Regulating tech companies, again.
The only solution is to run these dogs out of the house, and the Senate.
On the post: FBI Boss Chris Wray: We Put A Man On The Moon So Why Not Encryption Backdoors?
Comey the Crypto Clown, V2
Wray needs to stop complaining about the tech sector until his own agency can demonstrate its ability to approach the issue with facts, verified numbers, and intellectual honesty.
Well, first off that ain't gonna happen at our FBI. Comey the Crypto Clown (aka C2CC) started blowing this particular trumpet and Wray must feel the need to perpetuate the lies. Possibly these are signs that it's a systemic infection and only excising the offending organisms will allow the FBI to consider honoring their oaths.
On the post: Some Thoughts On The EU's Latest $5 Billion Google Antitrust Fine
We need an EU phone OS.
EU commission can start their version; More BS from EU.
On the post: Some Thoughts On The EU's Latest $5 Billion Google Antitrust Fine
Re: Interesting but mostly shit talk.
They can also charge for the right to put 'Android' on the device. Which they have been doing by insisting on a minimum set of features which include Chrome and Google's store.
On the post: Activism & Doxing: Stephen Miller, ICE And How Internet Platforms Have No Good Options
Re: you are clearly pushing a rope uphill
In fact, they are platforms, they are not publishers and you do not get to collect brownie points for pushing the agenda the hate crowds do.
Mostly their intent is to force FB/Twitter/Google to promote their hate speech as it's free speech and 1st Amendment blah-blah.
We know this bullshit. It will not pass muster here.
On the post: Broadcasters Hope To Counter Ad Skipping By Replacing Ads With Short 'Inspirational Videos'
Well that should work just fine
I'll give a channel I support 15-30s, more than that one must really expect a skip. If they try to block that, I back out of the channel. Often going back in will bypass the ad.
TV is dead to me. Wife still watches a little, but frankly I don't feel the need to get inundated. I'd rather read a book.
On the post: Court Tosses Out Silly Trollish Publicity Stunt Defamation Lawsuit
An interest career path for the lawyer.
It's trolls all the way down.
On the post: Congresswoman Says School Shootings Are Caused By Porn, Mental Illness, Single Parents... But Mostly Porn
Drivel from the Devil herself.
On the post: Supreme Court Says 4th Amendment -- Not The Automobile Exception -- Covers Vehicles Parked In Driveways
It's Virginia!
Imagine the horror if everyone could afford a garage, them 'keeping the citizens down' allows Virginia to interpret the Constitution in their own special way. Illegally.
On the post: Amazon Alexa Instantaneously Justifies Years Of Surveillance Paranoia
I use gmail.
I *know* the failure will happen. Thus I do not use it. If it goes out on the net, it is readable on the net.
It is somewhat funny that the Xbox One had the always on mic and got hammered for it. Yet, people actually buy Alexi and similar products. Strange.
On the post: Yelp's Newest Campaign: Asking Google To Do The Right Thing
Re: Given Yelp's lousy search engine...
On the post: Both Democrats And Republicans Blame The Messenger When Leaked Emails Are Made Available
Re: Re: yellow journalism
Of course, my reading list is curated by me. It includes Techdirt.com and others. It does not include tabloids, or anything FOX related.
MSM is dramatically better than the tabloids. You reading bad press about your favorite politicians isn't on them. It's on your bad politicians.
On the post: Gaming Industry And Game Consumers On A Collision Course Over Loot Boxes
EA is the leader of horrible consumer interaction.
Then mobile started up and the gaming industry had to take notice. It is important to note that EA, and many publishers, are run by suits. The suits are cash focused and are risk adverse. The dearth of originality in AAA games is directly tied to people that don't understand gaming. To produce a successful game they believe that their game must check off the exact same checklists as the recent popular game. Popular standing in for the real phrase, huge sales.
Mobile gaming is largely free 2 play. And they do microtransactions to the max. That is what is noticed by EA suits. If they can transition away from their fan base to the mobile-like market heavy with micro-transactions and loot boxes they will.
Mobile gaming is the new cash cow. The games are much cheaper to produce. The graphics are lower quality and rudimentary at best. Compared to PC/Consoles that is. The entire customer base understands and supports many games with micro-transactions which includes loot boxes.
Loot boxes are here to stay until regulators get clued in on the fact that they are gambling. In every sense of the word. Regardless of their fancy footwork & bald faced lies.
On the post: New Report Shines Much-Needed Light On Shadow Libraries Around The World
Re:
On the post: Police Use Genealogy Site To Locate Murder Suspect They'd Been Hunting For More Than 30 Years
Re: Re: Re: Re: It wouldn't help against law enforcement...
Just being right isn't enough when it comes to copyrights. Even the law doesn't matter as Kim didn't commit a criminal act. Civil, quite possibly. But FBI doesn't care. Grab the cash, that's the new FBI.
On the post: USPTO Suggests That AI Algorithms Are Patentable, Leading To A Whole Host Of IP And Ethics Questions
So, let's use Monte Carlo Trees.
However, I like the image of their brain exploding when it's pointed out that MCT essential functionality is based on RNG. Given a different RNG (or adding one to the original) one might well wind up with a different solution.
And what *exactly* is the solution? The particular combination of input tables, output tables, cross linked values and the actual *order* of test items used to generate the ML algo.
There is a rathole here, and its patent lawyers all the way down.
On the post: Software Legend Ray Ozzie Thinks He Can Safely Backdoor Encryption; He's Very Wrong
How much will this cost?
Second, the physical vault at Apple, or Samsung. With special thoughts to Chinese phone devs.
Third, since the lock doesn't exist, the will to force crap down everyone throat is high, who is going to replace all the phones that *will* get bricked when the non-existing lock leaks the key.
Pretty much as much money as you can throw at it. Because this is serious rathole territory.
On the post: L.A. Lawmakers Looking To Take Legal Action Against Google For Not Solving Long-Running City Traffic Problems
Re: It's software, do it over the weekend.
Sorry, you just ruined the concept and the implementation of the app.
The city can (yet has not) signed the street 'For Local Use' and therein lies the problem. Their reaction to their problem is to have Google/Waze fix it, like a gfixit.
Sign the street. Waze will adjust automatically, with no special cases.
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