I almost preferred it when "emojis" were monochrome. It came close to the ideal of "On the Internet, everybody is green on a black background.". Then came color and images and audio and video and all the stupid judgements made based on what someone looked or sounded like, not on the content of what they were saying, and all the workarounds to try and compensate for all the stupid judgements of people who don't want their stupid judgements compensated for... /sigh
Alien passport officer: "Race? Look, do you know how many species there are in the galaxy? And how many sub-groups of those there are who claim to be a different "race" from all the other sub-groups even when members of that sub-group can't tell the difference between sub-groups without already knowing who is what? If we tried to include "race" on the forms, the section would be 800 pages long and you still couldn't make sense of it. So your race is "human" and we really don't care what the melanin content of your skin is, live with it, have a nice day, NEXT!"
Clearview's web scraping has been declared illegal in other countries. It may also be illegal in a handful of US states. On top of that, it's a terms of service violation pretty much everywhere, which means its access to images may eventually be limited by platforms who identify and block Clearview's bots.)
Web scraping just means automated collection of information (most of which is publicly accessible without an account) on the web. It's unfortunate that most terms of service prohibit web scraping. Web scraping is useful for doing research, making new services interoperable with existing ones (e.g. a frontend or bridge for social media and communication services), and making creative works. The problem lies with what people do with the data from web scraping. In general, web scraping should be allowed, except when the data would be used to violate privacy, when the data collection would be clearly excessive (posing security and privacy risks), or when a government (or a company which helps the government bypass restrictions against warrantless searches) is the party doing the scraping.
> I am fairly sure you will never see Square Enix games on the Nintendo Switch Online service. They instead sell them to you for $20+ a piece in the eShop, Steam, and mobile markets.
Agreed. It's doubly irritating since there were multiple Square Enix titles on the NES Classic and SNES Classic, including two Final Fantasy games and Super Mario RPG.
I suppose it depends on how you define "unusable". Sure, they were able to be used as "dumb" bikes during the outage, but those bikes potentially cost 1/10 of what people are paying for the Pelaton. So, they weren't bricked, but people lost every advantage that made them choose to buy a more expensive bike.
Not disastrous, perhaps, but it's yet another reminder that if you're expected to pay a premium for something that can lose the value of the premium at a moment's notice for reasons beyond your control, you shouldn't be paying that premium.
The fact that the technical capability to have offline prerecorded sessions is absolutely there but they haven't bothered to implement it is the part that pushes this over the line from "oh well, everyone has problems now and again" to "what's the point in paying extra?".
Re: 'Greed is good' is technically a principle I guess...
Well said. If your principles are tied to how someone else uses your services, then you have no principles. People with actual principles would reserve the right to adjust or even refuse business with people who use their services for something that were against their principles.
"It turns out that when you don't make baseless claims and contribute to an organization, you get paid for it"
It also turns out that when you decide not to do that and instead go out on your own to create something of your own, and you forfeit that in return for greater autonomy and the possibility of greater returns later on down the road, then you also shoulder the risks. Such as, when you provide a product that doesn't sell, be that due to poor marketing or simply creating an inferior product, you lost the gamble you took and the correct course of action is to either cut your losses and work on something new or improve the product to a successful saleable state. Not to still be whining nearly decade later about how everyone else still owes you money because you put in time to make something that failed.
Therefore, the usual problem with our friend here. He failed, but he still wants to be paid as if he succeeded, even though the time from conception to millions of paying users for so many products took less time (and probably less writing) than he's spent here complaining that the market doesn't reward failure.
It’s telling that you think someone holding down a job and making a decent sum of money as a result must be a fraud instead of, you know, someone who actually works for a living.
Still haven’t told us who you worked for and what marvelous inventions you made while working for them, by the by. Cite the claim, bitch.
Unlike you, there are those of us who don't go around boasting that we harvest organs to pay for mansions, or claim to have human-to-robot conversion plans and machines that don't exist.
It turns out that when you don't make baseless claims and contribute to an organization, you get paid for it. Try not to faint from the surprise, Tero. Don't confuse the rest of us for yourself who gets angry at companies for "holding onto the copyright", also known as your end goal for the RIAA.
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The Amiga 500 demos he cribbed from late 80s discs to inspire what he shows on his front page didn't need curves, so maybe he thinks modern graphics don't need them either.
Either that, or he uses free math libraries to do the thinking for him and he actually believes that there's no significant data points that matter since the free software he takes from does that for him...
In fairness to morganwick, the phrasing in the article reads like February 22 is in the future, which does make it a little weird to see the article show up after the scheduled shutdown date. That could have been avoided by rephrasing it to either use past tense, or make it clear that the article was written days ahead and may not have been updated for any last minute reprieve.
All of this is at odds with Hertz's repeated claim it only issues stolen vehicle notices to law enforcement following "extensive investigations." If it did actually engage in thorough investigations of every generated theft report, it would not be currently facing a lawsuit from hundreds of drivers who've been arrested and jailed over bogus theft allegations.
So "extensive investigations" (whatever that means in Hertz's policy manual) leads to 3500 police reports a year. Going with a prior commenter's very generous assumption, let's assume only 10% of those are fraudulent. How many fraudulent police reports would Hertz be filing if they didn't "extensive[ly] investigate" before filing? How often does Hertz mishandle vehicle accounting, and only the extensive investigation catches the mistake before notifying the police?
I suspect "extensive investigation" in this context only means that they double-check that their very lax criteria are satisfied. =>
Have you checked that the computer system says the vehicle should be in Hertz custody? Yes.
Have you looked in all the places the vehicle is likely to be (note: NOT "could be", which is more thorough than just "likely") if it was still in Hertz custody? Yes.
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I won't watch or support those games because of the IOC. I will not support those greedy bastards.
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NBCSN
They had an entire sports channel that was dead air the entire Olympics. They somehow continue to devolve from the Triple-Cast disaster.
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I almost preferred it when "emojis" were monochrome. It came close to the ideal of "On the Internet, everybody is green on a black background.". Then came color and images and audio and video and all the stupid judgements made based on what someone looked or sounded like, not on the content of what they were saying, and all the workarounds to try and compensate for all the stupid judgements of people who don't want their stupid judgements compensated for... /sigh
Alien passport officer: "Race? Look, do you know how many species there are in the galaxy? And how many sub-groups of those there are who claim to be a different "race" from all the other sub-groups even when members of that sub-group can't tell the difference between sub-groups without already knowing who is what? If we tried to include "race" on the forms, the section would be 800 pages long and you still couldn't make sense of it. So your race is "human" and we really don't care what the melanin content of your skin is, live with it, have a nice day, NEXT!"
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Web scraping itself isn't bad.
Web scraping just means automated collection of information (most of which is publicly accessible without an account) on the web. It's unfortunate that most terms of service prohibit web scraping. Web scraping is useful for doing research, making new services interoperable with existing ones (e.g. a frontend or bridge for social media and communication services), and making creative works. The problem lies with what people do with the data from web scraping. In general, web scraping should be allowed, except when the data would be used to violate privacy, when the data collection would be clearly excessive (posing security and privacy risks), or when a government (or a company which helps the government bypass restrictions against warrantless searches) is the party doing the scraping.
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Not to mention Chrono Trigger.
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I suppose it depends on how you define "unusable". Sure, they were able to be used as "dumb" bikes during the outage, but those bikes potentially cost 1/10 of what people are paying for the Pelaton. So, they weren't bricked, but people lost every advantage that made them choose to buy a more expensive bike.
Not disastrous, perhaps, but it's yet another reminder that if you're expected to pay a premium for something that can lose the value of the premium at a moment's notice for reasons beyond your control, you shouldn't be paying that premium.
The fact that the technical capability to have offline prerecorded sessions is absolutely there but they haven't bothered to implement it is the part that pushes this over the line from "oh well, everyone has problems now and again" to "what's the point in paying extra?".
On the post: Hertz Ordered To Tell Court How Many Thousands Of Renters It Falsely Accuses Of Theft Every Year
Wait? A car rental company is doing something shady?
No, go on. Seriously? I mean, after all there are such controls in place that make it accountable so why SHOULD it act like a good citizen?
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Here's an idea, GO FUCKING OUTSIDE
Ditch the bullshit bikes.
cmon people, how about we do what we did when we were 11 and JUST FUCKING GO OUTSIDE and ride an ACTUAL FUCKING BIKE?
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Re: 'Greed is good' is technically a principle I guess...
Well said. If your principles are tied to how someone else uses your services, then you have no principles. People with actual principles would reserve the right to adjust or even refuse business with people who use their services for something that were against their principles.
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Cops and detectives and prosecutors like wins not the actual truth. The system is predatory and stupid shite like this feeds it.
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"It turns out that when you don't make baseless claims and contribute to an organization, you get paid for it"
It also turns out that when you decide not to do that and instead go out on your own to create something of your own, and you forfeit that in return for greater autonomy and the possibility of greater returns later on down the road, then you also shoulder the risks. Such as, when you provide a product that doesn't sell, be that due to poor marketing or simply creating an inferior product, you lost the gamble you took and the correct course of action is to either cut your losses and work on something new or improve the product to a successful saleable state. Not to still be whining nearly decade later about how everyone else still owes you money because you put in time to make something that failed.
Therefore, the usual problem with our friend here. He failed, but he still wants to be paid as if he succeeded, even though the time from conception to millions of paying users for so many products took less time (and probably less writing) than he's spent here complaining that the market doesn't reward failure.
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Re:
It probably helps that Sega is no longer in the hardware business. But you're right.
On the post: Danish Court Confirms Insane 'Little Mermaid' Copyright Ruling Against Newspaper Over Cartoon
It’s telling that you think someone holding down a job and making a decent sum of money as a result must be a fraud instead of, you know, someone who actually works for a living.
Still haven’t told us who you worked for and what marvelous inventions you made while working for them, by the by. Cite the claim, bitch.
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Unlike you, there are those of us who don't go around boasting that we harvest organs to pay for mansions, or claim to have human-to-robot conversion plans and machines that don't exist.
It turns out that when you don't make baseless claims and contribute to an organization, you get paid for it. Try not to faint from the surprise, Tero. Don't confuse the rest of us for yourself who gets angry at companies for "holding onto the copyright", also known as your end goal for the RIAA.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: get the license
The Amiga 500 demos he cribbed from late 80s discs to inspire what he shows on his front page didn't need curves, so maybe he thinks modern graphics don't need them either.
Either that, or he uses free math libraries to do the thinking for him and he actually believes that there's no significant data points that matter since the free software he takes from does that for him...
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Re: Blast from the past?
Perhaps in addition to using gold bullion for your mattress, you need to add a comforter on top?
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In fairness to morganwick, the phrasing in the article reads like February 22 is in the future, which does make it a little weird to see the article show up after the scheduled shutdown date. That could have been avoided by rephrasing it to either use past tense, or make it clear that the article was written days ahead and may not have been updated for any last minute reprieve.
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Spook (Outsourcing) Inc
Why would any self-respecting scraper confirm any of this?
Unless of course it's just a feint to distract from their most likely being an outsourced spook op.
Given the billions and trillions unaudited anywhere near your friendly local Pentagon and/or military industrial complex, $50 mil is pocket lint.
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So "extensive investigations" (whatever that means in Hertz's policy manual) leads to 3500 police reports a year. Going with a prior commenter's very generous assumption, let's assume only 10% of those are fraudulent. How many fraudulent police reports would Hertz be filing if they didn't "extensive[ly] investigate" before filing? How often does Hertz mishandle vehicle accounting, and only the extensive investigation catches the mistake before notifying the police?
I suspect "extensive investigation" in this context only means that they double-check that their very lax criteria are satisfied. =>
=> Good enough. File a police report.
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