I mean years. Years of screw ups that is. Bethesda corporate traits: Ham fisted, got it. Wrong headed, fully cross threaded to boot. Punishing anyone that they hired to do work, in a heartbeat. Puking out drafts by trainee lawyers that never once understood how trademarks work, but the boss said "do it" and by god they did.
Only one place worse, Zenimax. IP destruction and soul sucking at its worst. Oh wait!
As in Comey's go to subject in any situation was/is encryption is bad/expensive for law enforcement anywhere, anytime and should always come with a warrantless back door so the cops can always look at your personal data.
Him being fired is interesting. Him not leading the FBI and loosing the pulpit to harangue against the tech world not nerding hard enough is good news for the entire tech industry and is worthy of Techdirt.com
Need to know whether a law will provide the intended result?
Well, one of my solutions is to put it into a game, D&D being one of the best. Gamers bend rules, dodge restrictions, plead with dungeon masters to allow their so very convincing arguments on this one very special but so insignificant change will not cause any problems at all. Oh the irony.
Well sad old Chronic is at it again. She lost, the idiot won. Suffer with the rest of us. Just use a little more silence you whiner.
Barrett Brown is not a serf. He slipped a stiletto into their carefully painted picture of how the DOJ works. Then he has the audacity to get noticed. So rearresting him is just another day at the job as DOJ has no intention of letting bad news get out through their greasy fat fingers.
Re: Hate to say it, that 'Monopoly' Title has some merit...
I am pleased to say you are clearly wrong.
What Monopoly? There isn't one. None of them have a monopoly and from a user perspective they started out in a crowded field and succeeded through innovation.
There are many alternatives today however and they are arguably better than the originals (not all) that have fallen by the wayside. FB doesn't have a direct competitor (to my way of looking at it) but there are many solutions that provide similar social connections without being tied to the Zuck himself.
As to Google purchasing of double-click apparently Clueless hisself must not remember the days when double-click was it's own company. It quite possibly was the biggest waste of energy in America if not the world. Entire legions of internet users waited on their miserable infrastructure to fetch up yet more flash ads.
Sen Al Franken (the stein is silent) has repeatedly stated that Google is just too big. Really? That is a crime in America? Well, let's talk to Ford, GM, Mobile Oil, and the entire rust belt of law ignoring, polluting, human rights shredding old school crowd.
The State of Oregon does provide Engineering licenses. They are based on civil engineering requirements.
As far back as the 70's they were pushing for software developers to require procuring a license from them. Of course, they are a very math centric solution (the board, not all SW devs) and one suspects that the demise of Fortran beyond its intended (and very successful) purpose of scientific programming let those efforts sputtering for air.
Fear not, as far as I have been able to determine this particular bureaucracy has little need for air. They have their heads located in a place where (clean) air is rarely provided.
I often describe Oregon to outsiders, and the occasional visitor, as being essentially psychotic. Portland and a significant swath of the Willamette Valley is liberal. Definitely very Blue in our current political sense. Nearly all of the rest of the state is conservative.
The red sections of the state are sparsely populated and provide a higher total number of electors. Thus many of the laws puking from Salem (our dubious capitol) have very strong punishment based solutions. If solutions they can even be called.
The good news is I live in Portland, not in 'what Constitution' rural Oregon. It's essential news item is that if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes. Possibly less in Spring and Fall.
Medical Marijuana is now balanced with recreational use. However our very large prison system employs large numbers of conservative voters and the chance of a pardon for existing law scofflaws is unlikely.
My opinions are definitely not shared by much of my state and are thus my own.
Sort of the usual suspects of news in my experience.
The Register of course, some of their coverage is good, but they do seem revel in their bad apples. Who knows, maybe they are only click focused?
As to the NYT they have a dingy reputation regarding tech, IMO/experience. They routinely have 'deep' articles on tech issue (the trouble with normally) and while they are biased as expected they also base some of their original viewpoint on a misreading of vital data. As in, nobody in tech thinks that it means what they do. Also they like to use old, and I mean up to a decade old, facts to base their tech industry bashing on.
Of course, the Register takes the prize in this particular misrepresentation of reporting.
This seems like some minor dweeb that wanted to get in the promotion chain.
Original thought process: Ooh, look at this. If I send this totally not connected form to Twitter they will respond because they are a big company and will do whatever the government wants.
Current thought process: Oh crap. Oh crap. Oh crap.
Provide an interface that let ANY user activate individual ad types/sites based on ads that are arriving in their own experience.
A list of attributes, with allow/not and completely avoiding the default on/off debate. Apply machine learning as necessary/available **but** make the actual decision based on user input.
Let the users vote with their eyeballs and Google's wallet. I would definitely try a browser (even Chrome) that let me have this much control.
Flash in ads is the very reason I started using ad blockers and NoScript. We have constant issues with Flash, the security is a disaster and is quite possibly an intractable problem. The Flash toolkit (or whatever they create Flash SW with) is capable of producing HTML output instead of Flash. Yet, time and again I get the notice that X could not be run because I need to enable/update Flash. Again.
Once they completely stop using Flash. I will consider white listing some of the providers. But, cautiously.
An interesting publisher. Checking out the games on Steam they have published there aren't any really worth purchasing. 2Dark is frankly quite horrible; Big head tiny body art style, 2D sort of retro-crap that is associated most often with games by devs that aren't quite up to the task. At least in my mind. Ooh, art. Click not-interested, next.
They also publish WRC but that title is bogged down in the dreaded mixed reviews. The IP was sold/bought/changed hands and has not been improved over the failure of its predecessors.
There are only a few titles that are above mixed. One is 2Dark oddly enough. with two entries along with a Sherlock Holmes based game. They have more negative titles than positive.
Basically devs that use BigBen for publishing shouldn't expect good reviews. That is how I read their Steam page anyway.
This is a little confusing. It was in Oregon, that much is clear. But suing the City of Portland over the actions of s Gresham, Oregon police officer is not clear. Gresham is not Portland. Suing IN Portland would make sense as it sites several higher level courts.
Even with the historical overreaching often associated with various Portland functions we have yet to actually claim jurisdiction over Gresham.
See Portland Water Dept for clarification regarding ham-fisted management of various ties with outlying cities/town/counties. It sure as Hell is weird.
Moral rights in the US of A. We have them by the tonne. Of course, most of them are neither moral nor right and many aren't correct either. Not that has stopped them in the past, which bodes not at all well for the present.
As to the odds of removing the Bull - it seems unlikely in this current environment as Bull is actually being slung about left and *cough* right.
On the post: Bethesda Trademark Bullying Results In Indie Game Adding A Whole Letter To Its Name, But Not Its Logo
Still Bethesda after all these screw ups.
Bethesda corporate traits:
Ham fisted, got it.
Wrong headed, fully cross threaded to boot.
Punishing anyone that they hired to do work, in a heartbeat.
Puking out drafts by trainee lawyers that never once understood how trademarks work, but the boss said "do it" and by god they did.
Only one place worse, Zenimax. IP destruction and soul sucking at its worst.
Oh wait!
On the post: Trump Fires FBI Director Comey
Re: Encryption for all
Him being fired is interesting. Him not leading the FBI and loosing the pulpit to harangue against the tech world not nerding hard enough is good news for the entire tech industry and is worthy of Techdirt.com
On the post: How Moral Panics Can Turn Into Therapeutic Tools: The Dungeons And Dragons Edition
A good baseline for any law
Well, one of my solutions is to put it into a game, D&D being one of the best. Gamers bend rules, dodge restrictions, plead with dungeon masters to allow their so very convincing arguments on this one very special but so insignificant change will not cause any problems at all. Oh the irony.
On the post: Barrett Brown Re-Arrested For Giving Media Interviews Without Permission
Re: Chronic whining about Hilary - again.
Barrett Brown is not a serf. He slipped a stiletto into their carefully painted picture of how the DOJ works. Then he has the audacity to get noticed. So rearresting him is just another day at the job as DOJ has no intention of letting bad news get out through their greasy fat fingers.
Damn, there it goes again.
On the post: Surprise: NSA Stops Collecting Americans' Emails 'About' Foreign Targets
Maybe they don't have the room.
Also, is Bluffdale, Utah running at full capacity yet?
On the post: Here Comes The Attempt To Reframe Silicon Valley As Modern Robber Barons
Re: Hate to say it, that 'Monopoly' Title has some merit...
What Monopoly? There isn't one. None of them have a monopoly and from a user perspective they started out in a crowded field and succeeded through innovation.
There are many alternatives today however and they are arguably better than the originals (not all) that have fallen by the wayside. FB doesn't have a direct competitor (to my way of looking at it) but there are many solutions that provide similar social connections without being tied to the Zuck himself.
As to Google purchasing of double-click apparently Clueless hisself must not remember the days when double-click was it's own company. It quite possibly was the biggest waste of energy in America if not the world. Entire legions of internet users waited on their miserable infrastructure to fetch up yet more flash ads.
Sen Al Franken (the stein is silent) has repeatedly stated that Google is just too big. Really? That is a crime in America? Well, let's talk to Ford, GM, Mobile Oil, and the entire rust belt of law ignoring, polluting, human rights shredding old school crowd.
On the post: Guy Fined $500 For Criticizing Government Without A Permit Sues Oregon Licensing Board
Re: Engineering license
As far back as the 70's they were pushing for software developers to require procuring a license from them. Of course, they are a very math centric solution (the board, not all SW devs) and one suspects that the demise of Fortran beyond its intended (and very successful) purpose of scientific programming let those efforts sputtering for air.
Fear not, as far as I have been able to determine this particular bureaucracy has little need for air. They have their heads located in a place where (clean) air is rarely provided.
On the post: Guy Fined $500 For Criticizing Government Without A Permit Sues Oregon Licensing Board
Welcome to Oregon, sigh.
The red sections of the state are sparsely populated and provide a higher total number of electors. Thus many of the laws puking from Salem (our dubious capitol) have very strong punishment based solutions. If solutions they can even be called.
The good news is I live in Portland, not in 'what Constitution' rural Oregon. It's essential news item is that if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes. Possibly less in Spring and Fall.
Medical Marijuana is now balanced with recreational use. However our very large prison system employs large numbers of conservative voters and the chance of a pardon for existing law scofflaws is unlikely.
My opinions are definitely not shared by much of my state and are thus my own.
On the post: Paul Hansmeier Argues Convicting Him Of Fraud Would Seriously Damage The Judicial System
Re: Pejorative Terms
On the post: That Story About Uber Tracking People After They Deleted The App? Yeah, That's Not Really Accurate
Two news sources that are suspect.
The Register of course, some of their coverage is good, but they do seem revel in their bad apples. Who knows, maybe they are only click focused?
As to the NYT they have a dingy reputation regarding tech, IMO/experience. They routinely have 'deep' articles on tech issue (the trouble with normally) and while they are biased as expected they also base some of their original viewpoint on a misreading of vital data. As in, nobody in tech thinks that it means what they do. Also they like to use old, and I mean up to a decade old, facts to base their tech industry bashing on.
Of course, the Register takes the prize in this particular misrepresentation of reporting.
On the post: Homeland Security's Inspector General Investigating Attempt To Unmask 'Rogue' Tweeter
Lighten up guys and gals.
Original thought process: Ooh, look at this. If I send this totally not connected form to Twitter they will respond because they are a big company and will do whatever the government wants.
Current thought process: Oh crap. Oh crap. Oh crap.
On the post: Texas Lawmaker Wants To Decide Who's A Real Journalist, Make It Easier To Sue Them
Attack from TEXAS!
Also, every time I hear *in Texas* this runs through my head:
Billy Sol Estes we're proud of you, boy.
On the post: After Bill Gates Backs Open Access, Steve Ballmer Discovers The Joys Of Open Data
Ballmer is the cancer.
The truth is known, data is, or data is not.
The cancer always was the Ballmer as Ballmer is the cancer it is most basic form.
On the post: The Weird Antitrust Questions Of A Google Chrome Ad Blocker
Anti-trust, let the user implement it.
A list of attributes, with allow/not and completely avoiding the default on/off debate. Apply machine learning as necessary/available **but** make the actual decision based on user input.
Let the users vote with their eyeballs and Google's wallet. I would definitely try a browser (even Chrome) that let me have this much control.
On the post: How Garry Kasparov Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The Machines That Beat Him At His Job
Someplace other than the WSJ?
btw, are they still only using hedcut these days? I must admit that would be wonderfully ironic for the journal of irrelevance.
On the post: No, The Wall St. Bull Sculptor Doesn't 'Have A Point'
I replied to the 'point' tweet.
Yes, an actual tweet to a non-techdirt reader. It felt good. It was so good I think I am going to call it art.
Say goodnight Art.
Goodnight Art.
On the post: New 'Perceptual' Ad Blocking Tech Doesn't Win The Ad Blocking War, But It May Put Advertisers On Their Heels... Permanently
Flash, just don't
Once they completely stop using Flash. I will consider white listing some of the providers. But, cautiously.
On the post: That Was Fast: Denuvo's Version 3 Update Has Been Cracked
BigBen publisher of meh.
They also publish WRC but that title is bogged down in the dreaded mixed reviews. The IP was sold/bought/changed hands and has not been improved over the failure of its predecessors.
There are only a few titles that are above mixed. One is 2Dark oddly enough. with two entries along with a Sherlock Holmes based game. They have more negative titles than positive.
Basically devs that use BigBen for publishing shouldn't expect good reviews. That is how I read their Steam page anyway.
On the post: Oregon Cop's Inability To Keep His Hands Off A Resident's Phone Costs Taxpayers $85,000 In Legal Fees
From Portland
Even with the historical overreaching often associated with various Portland functions we have yet to actually claim jurisdiction over Gresham.
See Portland Water Dept for clarification regarding ham-fisted management of various ties with outlying cities/town/counties. It sure as Hell is weird.
On the post: The Bull Statue Copyright Claim Is Ridiculous... But Here's Why It Just Might Work
Hmm, moral rights.
Moral rights in the US of A. We have them by the tonne. Of course, most of them are neither moral nor right and many aren't correct either. Not that has stopped them in the past, which bodes not at all well for the present.
As to the odds of removing the Bull - it seems unlikely in this current environment as Bull is actually being slung about left and *cough* right.
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