Even with all of the above research, utilizing how Dragster internally works and being frame-perfect from start to finish gets nothing faster than a 5.57 time - and hence Todd's 5.51 claim was thrown out by Twin Galaxies (along with anything else he'd submitted over the years).
Given that the Kappa emote is typically used to convey sarcasm or irony, or to troll people online, Twitch making an announcement involving said emote just after doing mass video takedowns (and telling those affected to "go learn about copyright law" as if it's the creators' fault) feels like an even bigger insult than it already was.
Isn't what Hutchinson's suggesting almost exactly what Stadia itself does? Players pay for each individual game for the right to play them via the streaming service, and any game can be removed if publishers or Google decide to enforce their right of removal.
Requiring a license to livestream a game would be problematic. Right off the top of my head, some questions:
Would licenses be required from each development studio and publisher? What if either no longer exists?
For adaptations of TV shows/movies/etc., would a license be required from the property's rightsholders as well, or individuals whose likenesses and/or voices are used?
What about games in the public domain, or where the rightsholder is unknown, or those with rightsholders that are notoriously abrasive towards criticism?
Hutchinson's idea would force streamers to either have to track down all the needed info to know who to pay for licenses, or just not stream games at all. Licenses would be extremely costly for the more popular streamers, absolutely cripple less-popular ones and those who livestream games as a hobby, and deter anyone who'd want to get into the field...and I think he knows that.
To me, these "No on 1" adverts come across as a threat - "This is what will happen if Question 1 is passed, and we'll make sure it happens. You don't know who we sell your data to."
So...instead of "Yes, we supported Charter's desire to price gouge its customers.", it's "I failed to read the part of the Charter-made letter immediately above where my signature went and as a result accidentally supported Charter's desire to price gouge its customers."
That's already a terrible excuse, but looking at the letter again, part of the signature goes right through part of the text that supports Charter's desire to price gouge its customers. So yeah, I smell bullcrappery.
So by saying that Xi Jinping and his cronies should die in a fire, I've broken the laws of a country I was never going to go anywhere near to begin with due to said fire-deserving douchenozzles thinking George Orwell's "1984" is an instruction manual?
Well of course the masks are "dangerous" - they represent a viewpoint that anyone sympathetic or supportive of the officers who killed George Floyd or otherwise pine for the Confederacy absolutely HATES.
From what I've read, the Internet Archive could use the first-sale doctrine as a defense: it permits library lending to begin with (thereby extending to the ability to make and lend digital copies), plus the fact that IA's library of books are primarily those that are long since out-of-print and can be difficult to find physical copies of on the second-hand market. There's also the matter of preservation.
But man...if IA goes bankrupt from this, I expect some not-insignificant backlash.
I kept getting bombarded by adverts that used "Quibi" as a measurement of time, with almost no explanation of what that meant. Since the adverts were so frequent and almost never explained what Quibi actually was, I wrote the app off as being something I'd have no interest in.
"Our security team has investigated these incidents and we have no evidence of an unauthorized intrusion or compromise of Ring's systems or network," the spokesperson said.
So it was an authorized intrusion/compromise, then?
Were Comey and Wray so completely clueless that they didn't think these two situations had anything to do with one another? Or does it mean that they thought "hey, if we had our comms exposed, so should everyone else?" Or do they just not care?
On the post: Billy Mitchell's Defamation Case Against Twin Galaxies Over 'Donkey Kong' High Score Can Go Forward
Re:
OmniGamer's analysis is here: (http://tasvideos.org/5517S.html). His findings were later confirmed and even refined a bit by MrWint: (http://tasvideos.org/5876S.html).
Even with all of the above research, utilizing how Dragster internally works and being frame-perfect from start to finish gets nothing faster than a 5.57 time - and hence Todd's 5.51 claim was thrown out by Twin Galaxies (along with anything else he'd submitted over the years).
On the post: Twitch Marketing Promo Over Golden Emoji Goes Horribly Wrong After DMCA Nuclear Strike
Kappa? Really?
Given that the Kappa emote is typically used to convey sarcasm or irony, or to troll people online, Twitch making an announcement involving said emote just after doing mass video takedowns (and telling those affected to "go learn about copyright law" as if it's the creators' fault) feels like an even bigger insult than it already was.
On the post: Creative Director At Google Stadia Advocates Streamers Paying Game Devs And Publishers
Isn't what Hutchinson's suggesting almost exactly what Stadia itself does? Players pay for each individual game for the right to play them via the streaming service, and any game can be removed if publishers or Google decide to enforce their right of removal.
Requiring a license to livestream a game would be problematic. Right off the top of my head, some questions:
Hutchinson's idea would force streamers to either have to track down all the needed info to know who to pay for licenses, or just not stream games at all. Licenses would be extremely costly for the more popular streamers, absolutely cripple less-popular ones and those who livestream games as a hobby, and deter anyone who'd want to get into the field...and I think he knows that.
On the post: Auto Industry Pushes Bullshit Claim That 'Right To Repair' Laws Aid Sexual Predators
To me, these "No on 1" adverts come across as a threat - "This is what will happen if Question 1 is passed, and we'll make sure it happens. You don't know who we sell your data to."
On the post: Boys And Girls Club Backtracks After Folks Ask Why It's Helping A Cable Monopoly Lobby The FCC
So...instead of "Yes, we supported Charter's desire to price gouge its customers.", it's "I failed to read the part of the Charter-made letter immediately above where my signature went and as a result accidentally supported Charter's desire to price gouge its customers."
That's already a terrible excuse, but looking at the letter again, part of the signature goes right through part of the text that supports Charter's desire to price gouge its customers. So yeah, I smell bullcrappery.
On the post: New 'National Security' Law Threatens Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Protesters With Life In Prison
So by saying that Xi Jinping and his cronies should die in a fire, I've broken the laws of a country I was never going to go anywhere near to begin with due to said fire-deserving douchenozzles thinking George Orwell's "1984" is an instruction manual?
On the post: #NoRightsMatter: US Postal Service, Law Enforcement Team Up To Seize 'Black Lives Matter' Facemasks
Well of course the masks are "dangerous" - they represent a viewpoint that anyone sympathetic or supportive of the officers who killed George Floyd or otherwise pine for the Confederacy absolutely HATES.
On the post: Major Publishers Sue The Internet Archive's Digital Library Program In The Midst Of A Pandemic
From what I've read, the Internet Archive could use the first-sale doctrine as a defense: it permits library lending to begin with (thereby extending to the ability to make and lend digital copies), plus the fact that IA's library of books are primarily those that are long since out-of-print and can be difficult to find physical copies of on the second-hand market. There's also the matter of preservation.
But man...if IA goes bankrupt from this, I expect some not-insignificant backlash.
On the post: Quibi Is What Happens When Hollywood Overvalues Content And Undervalues Community
I kept getting bombarded by adverts that used "Quibi" as a measurement of time, with almost no explanation of what that meant. Since the adverts were so frequent and almost never explained what Quibi actually was, I wrote the app off as being something I'd have no interest in.
On the post: Nearly 4,000 Ring Credentials Leaked, Including Users' Time Zones And Device Names
Hmm...
So it was an authorized intrusion/compromise, then?
On the post: University Of Alabama Is Using A Location-Tracking App To Punish Students For Leaving Football Games Early
At this rate, why not make attending these games mandatory for all students with expulsion for those who don't attend or leave early?
On the post: You'd Think The FBI Would Be More Sensitive To Protecting Encrypted Communications Now That We Know The Russians Cracked The FBI's Comms
Yes.
On the post: High-Level DOJ Official Latest Gov't Employee To Be Caught Watching Porn While On The Clock
I guess this employee was...
puts on sunglasses
Caught with his pants down.
On the post: FCC Forgets About, Then Dismisses, Complaint Detailing Verizon's Long History Of Net Neutrality Violations
Mr. Nguyen,
After reviewing your formal complaint, our ruling is as follows:
Go fuck yourself.
Signed,
The FCC
On the post: Ring Is Teaching Cops How To Obtain Doorbell Camera Footage Without A Warrant
Is it just me...
...or is there nothing in the scripts to address criticism?
On the post: Senator Hawley Proposes Law To Force Internet Companies To Beg The FTC For Permission To Host Content
At least it's a good litmus test...
Namely, to see who shouldn't be re-elected in 2020.
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