It's quite obvious that these are not legitimate reviews.
Is it really? Seems legitimate to me. A review doesn't have to only be about the content of the game; this is information relevant to the game, information that prospective buyers will be better off if they're aware of it. How is that not "legitimate review" material?
Our government argues lengthy sentences for drug cases are needed to deter others from drug dealing. Seeing how quickly the new Silk Road replaced Ulbricht's version makes it clear lengthy sentences aren't deterring anything.
There's nothing "clear" at all about that, given that DPR2 was not operating withing US jurisdiction...
This is big news in a huge variety of ways -- in large part because it could end up criminalizing lots of people and businesses who unwittingly do business with the IRGC including (checks notes) a firm called The Trump Organization.
Those are the requests from Europol, who unfortunately likely qualify as a "competent" authority under the law.
I dunno. Given the request they submitted, they appear to quite clearly be incompetent. And given that all the Internet Archive staff appear to be on Pacific Time, and thus in North America, no authority appears to actually exist as they are outside of Europe's jurisdiction.
The only appropriate response to a request this insanely bad is an email detailing the above two points as firmly and insultingly as possible.
OK, I'm going to have to drop a big [citation needed] on that. I've run across crypto miners a few times, and they were very noticeable very quickly by the way they redlined the CPU and made the fan scream. And I'm not aware of any way that it's possible for ad malware to hide in the background and wait for CPU load to drop; this is JavaScript (or possibly WASM these days) code executing inside the browser's sandbox, which deliberately does not provide access to any APIs for CPU monitoring.
Not really. Crypto miners aren't making a copy; they're literally stealing the work capacity of your processor by using significant amounts of scarce CPU processing power for purposes other than what you (the owner of the computer) want to be using it for, frequently to the detriment of your capability to utilize the CPU processing power for your own purposes.
That's legit theft under even the strictest standards.
You've got more tolerance than me. If it moves or changes in any way, I kill it dead on the spot. Any ad designer who can't communicate their message adequately in a single, static image needs to be fired and replaced by someone more competent who can, because going beyond that annoys users.
I wonder how much successful adblocking you could do simply by creating a rule that says "never allow an iframe nested inside another iframe to load". Because it seems like all the ad networks do that these days, and I don't think I've ever seen legitimate content do it, so the false-positive rate would be pretty low...
It tells you that at this moment we have many politicians on the right that are finally showing their true selves. That they are idiots and hypocrites.
What it mostly tells me is that at the moment, Republicans are in power (mostly; certainly more than Democrats are) and so are currently more likely to do things that abuse that power.
Partway through, you said that anyone unfamiliar with these articles ought to check out the previous podcast with Julia Reda. But you have over 200 podcasts now, and you didn't say which number that was. Nor is it linked in the article above, or on SoundCloud.
As I said the last time someone brought up this same nonsense argument, that's because, for whatever reason, it seems like every time we see this sort of thing discussed on Techdirt, it centers around a right-wing figure. If I saw articles on here about the same thing happening to people on the left, my arguments would be exactly the same, because it's not about the politics to me at all; it's about the principle.
To be honest, I can kind of see where he's coming from on this. Sure, the article made sure to carefully say that there's no evidence that he was involved in any of the illegal dealings, but if he's not relevant to the story, why mention him at all?
Mentioning a person in connection with heinous dealings, even if you clearly say there's no reason to believe that the person was personally connected to the heinous dealings, still creates that association between them in the reader's mind. A month later, someone might not remember the exact details of the article, but they'll remember "Deven Nunes was involved with that winery with the cocaine and the underage prostitutes."
It's a very well-understood bit of human psychology that people have used for political dirty tricks for ages, especially since it puts the victim in a bit of a catch-22: if you do nothing, that association is out there in people's minds, and if you deny it, they have an excuse to say "look, don't you see where we clearly said you weren't involved? What are you getting so worked up about? Are you maybe hiding something? Maybe you weren't so not-involved afterall, if you're making such a fuss about it!"
The phrase used here, "defamatory by implication," is a pretty apt term to describe it. Honestly, knowing nothing about the situation at all except for what I read in this article just now, I don't think this is as meritless as Mike does.
Two data points do not "clearly show" that a trend is happening "over time".
Way to miss the point! The article uses these two data points, and nothing else, in support of its argument that the domestic terrorist problem is supposedly getting worse over time. I pointed out that the data given does not in any way show that, and in fact, taken at face value, supports the exact opposite conclusion.
Internal FBI figures reviewed by the paper show more domestic terror suspects were arrested in 2018 than “those allegedly inspired by international terror groups.”
According to FBI data, 150 Americans were arrested for planning to engage in acts of domestic terrorism in 2017, compared to 110 international suspects; in 2018, the ratio was 120 to 100.
Hang on a second.
150/110 = 1.363636...
120/100 = 1.2.
How then do we say it's "a growing problem" when the figures quoted clearly show that it's getting smaller over time?
Re: Correlates directly with # pirates shut down or JAILED.
3) Teh internets is only a distribution channel, has ZERO draw for itself. Masnick as ever attributes water coming out the taps as due to the pipe, nothing else.
4) Only content is a draw.
Ah yes, the old "content is king" nonsense. This is not true, and never has been true. The true value in any communications medium is not content, but rather connectivity: the ability for people to use the medium to communicate directly with one another. This is why the Network Effect is a thing, and why the Internet has grown bigger than broadcast in a far shorter span of time.
Connectivity is king, and always has been. Content is just riding its coattails, and people trying to proclaim the superiority of content are usurpers and ought to be treated as such.
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Is it really? Seems legitimate to me. A review doesn't have to only be about the content of the game; this is information relevant to the game, information that prospective buyers will be better off if they're aware of it. How is that not "legitimate review" material?
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There's nothing "clear" at all about that, given that DPR2 was not operating withing US jurisdiction...
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You say that as if it's a bad thing...
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I dunno. Given the request they submitted, they appear to quite clearly be incompetent. And given that all the Internet Archive staff appear to be on Pacific Time, and thus in North America, no authority appears to actually exist as they are outside of Europe's jurisdiction.
The only appropriate response to a request this insanely bad is an email detailing the above two points as firmly and insultingly as possible.
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OK, I'm going to have to drop a big [citation needed] on that. I've run across crypto miners a few times, and they were very noticeable very quickly by the way they redlined the CPU and made the fan scream. And I'm not aware of any way that it's possible for ad malware to hide in the background and wait for CPU load to drop; this is JavaScript (or possibly WASM these days) code executing inside the browser's sandbox, which deliberately does not provide access to any APIs for CPU monitoring.
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Not really. Crypto miners aren't making a copy; they're literally stealing the work capacity of your processor by using significant amounts of scarce CPU processing power for purposes other than what you (the owner of the computer) want to be using it for, frequently to the detriment of your capability to utilize the CPU processing power for your own purposes.
That's legit theft under even the strictest standards.
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Wait wait wait... this group actually named themselves the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and go by the acronym NATAS?
Have they never stopped to look carefully at that? Possibly even spell it backwards?
At this point, nobody should be surprised at their evil behavior!
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Flashing?
You've got more tolerance than me. If it moves or changes in any way, I kill it dead on the spot. Any ad designer who can't communicate their message adequately in a single, static image needs to be fired and replaced by someone more competent who can, because going beyond that annoys users.
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I wonder how much successful adblocking you could do simply by creating a rule that says "never allow an iframe nested inside another iframe to load". Because it seems like all the ad networks do that these days, and I don't think I've ever seen legitimate content do it, so the false-positive rate would be pretty low...
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That "en anticipation" would probably be better translated as "in advance" or "ahead of time."
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What it mostly tells me is that at the moment, Republicans are in power (mostly; certainly more than Democrats are) and so are currently more likely to do things that abuse that power.
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Partway through, you said that anyone unfamiliar with these articles ought to check out the previous podcast with Julia Reda. But you have over 200 podcasts now, and you didn't say which number that was. Nor is it linked in the article above, or on SoundCloud.
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Yes? What about it?
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Umm... what?
Considering that the one has nothing to do with the other, it tells me nothing useful in the context of this conversation.
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As I said the last time someone brought up this same nonsense argument, that's because, for whatever reason, it seems like every time we see this sort of thing discussed on Techdirt, it centers around a right-wing figure. If I saw articles on here about the same thing happening to people on the left, my arguments would be exactly the same, because it's not about the politics to me at all; it's about the principle.
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Congratulations! Now you understand exactly why the lawsuit got filed!
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To be honest, I can kind of see where he's coming from on this. Sure, the article made sure to carefully say that there's no evidence that he was involved in any of the illegal dealings, but if he's not relevant to the story, why mention him at all?
Mentioning a person in connection with heinous dealings, even if you clearly say there's no reason to believe that the person was personally connected to the heinous dealings, still creates that association between them in the reader's mind. A month later, someone might not remember the exact details of the article, but they'll remember "Deven Nunes was involved with that winery with the cocaine and the underage prostitutes."
It's a very well-understood bit of human psychology that people have used for political dirty tricks for ages, especially since it puts the victim in a bit of a catch-22: if you do nothing, that association is out there in people's minds, and if you deny it, they have an excuse to say "look, don't you see where we clearly said you weren't involved? What are you getting so worked up about? Are you maybe hiding something? Maybe you weren't so not-involved afterall, if you're making such a fuss about it!"
The phrase used here, "defamatory by implication," is a pretty apt term to describe it. Honestly, knowing nothing about the situation at all except for what I read in this article just now, I don't think this is as meritless as Mike does.
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Way to miss the point! The article uses these two data points, and nothing else, in support of its argument that the domestic terrorist problem is supposedly getting worse over time. I pointed out that the data given does not in any way show that, and in fact, taken at face value, supports the exact opposite conclusion.
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Hang on a second.
150/110 = 1.363636...
120/100 = 1.2.
How then do we say it's "a growing problem" when the figures quoted clearly show that it's getting smaller over time?
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Re: Correlates directly with # pirates shut down or JAILED.
Ah yes, the old "content is king" nonsense. This is not true, and never has been true. The true value in any communications medium is not content, but rather connectivity: the ability for people to use the medium to communicate directly with one another. This is why the Network Effect is a thing, and why the Internet has grown bigger than broadcast in a far shorter span of time.
Connectivity is king, and always has been. Content is just riding its coattails, and people trying to proclaim the superiority of content are usurpers and ought to be treated as such.
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