Yep, the lynch pin of the future. Well, Sony's revenue future that is. It was designed to prevent copying their precious IP. They are the original overreach kings, no queens in Sony's leadership.
Jobs rejected HDMI for iMacs. Why? Too limited, too small, not enough speed, not enough DPI. And they shipped with a display that was larger, and better than Sony could support. A lot of apple's customers were content creators, who had to scale their work back to fit into Sony's limited visions.
Then their future tanked. They bet big on everybody in the world needed a cash cow HDMI license. And, surprise - the gaming division because their best revenue source. It's only taken another decade plus before Sony started to realize that licensing and thus limiting the future to their half-blind vision doesn't actually produce the revenues projected.
Inflated revenues based on inflated IP values that have little if any connection to reality. Sony nearly died. Gaming saved them. Simple as that.
Darkness Of Course (profile), 19 Aug 2020 @ 4:57pm
Kind of clueless
"Isn't there a way to do this" does not bode well to them understanding:
A - encryption
B - complexity thereof
C - having a back door is a security risk
D - The Constitution, 4th Amend
E - Any backdoor solution will be weak, by definition!
Darkness Of Course (profile), 18 Aug 2020 @ 3:46pm
Sweeney, yeah that guy
The funny bit about Sweeney and money is he hand-waves re his own sources of income.
He is a middle-ware, as well as, a game engine provider. He gets a cut of every game that uses his tools. He finally backed off the fees for indie devs, and for games that don't make a bundle of money. But, he didn't do it out of the goodness of his heart. He was pushing others, and got called out - then he was all Mr. Nice Guy.
I fail to understand how the R&D to develop a cheap PC product to mostly do video games is somehow protected and sacred compared to, in apple's case, designing their own CPUs, creating their own SoCs, developing new business markets. I would guess that apple coughs up more to develop a new phone than either Sony or MSFT did for their cute little system based on a tablet SoC, aka a low power Applications Processor with integrated graphics originally intended for the tablet market.
Remember this: every game that makes a dent in any store puts money in Epic's pocket. Two ways currently, first is their game software, and now the Epic Store. Sweeney is driven to put more money in his pocket. I seriously doubt there is any other reason behind his actions.
Darkness Of Course (profile), 17 Aug 2020 @ 10:42pm
Clearly you don't understand ...
The web. Content. Ad placement. Much less adtech, the dubious automated solutions that place ads on different websites while blocking some sites, blacklist. Add in the impossibly stupid block list of words that has fired grapeshot across the news industry. Ooo, COVID, scary.
Nope. You do not understand. But, you want to fix it so it feels right to you.
Just like moderation at scale doesn't compute, personal inspection of ads are impossible at low to medium levels. Because nobody is making enough money off of internet ads to fund a full time person to vet every single ad.
Darkness Of Course (profile), 26 Jun 2020 @ 4:53pm
Re: Imagine That
How did the rest of knew you would come here and whine; Because we are geniuses. Once you saw Mike's byline you went immediately to comments so you could show off your own inability to read.
Good for you! Low comprehension skills are a must for any GOP position, be that senator, or boot licker.
Darkness Of Course (profile), 26 Jun 2020 @ 4:30pm
Been there. Stopped doing it.
My son's teacher called, wanting to get my support for him to join the summer book club (or some such).
My son: No. They don't count books over 100p.
Me to Teacher: Not going to happen. He's read several hundred pages this month, yet would only get two counts for your system. He was in third grade, reading was his passion. Still is.
A decade ago my wife saw him going to the gym they both frequented. Adult, head down, reading a book, walking down the sidewalk to the gym. He never noticed her.
Darkness Of Course (profile), 10 May 2020 @ 12:57pm
Copyrights v Patents
With all the patent troll lawsuits with triple rewards for delayed litigation one wonders if the clown in question, and his lawyer, thought the law was similar to patent law.
When grabbing for someone else's cash, any law in the book seems to be a fan favorite.
Darkness Of Course (profile), 24 Apr 2020 @ 11:55am
Part of the issue is adtech itself.
Not Google, but ad placement firms. They deal with thousands of ads, and use simple scripts and keyword lists to sanitize the placement of ads.
Check out what they've been pushing lately, avoiding sites that have COVID news. Yep, that's going to impact every news service. And google is helpless here, the adtech/placement crews are between Google and the companies placing ads themselves.
Sure, getting Google to hammer the entire country's news websites será fabulosa (will be fabulous). Let us know how that turns out for you, because we won't be seeing it via Google.
Darkness Of Course (profile), 7 Apr 2020 @ 12:55pm
Why don’t we have nice things
On the long term, COVID-19 will be managed in three years. So, if there is a patent, there will not be important anymore. What exactly do they expect to benefit from the 17y of no longer important solution?
GOP cannot do simple math. Well, beyond give me more money.
Darkness Of Course (profile), 16 Mar 2020 @ 10:42pm
Patent fluff
Read them, quite a bit of copy paste as they're both based on the failed first principle beliefs of Theranos. While our poor abused baritone CEO of nothing laments her life choices, she had some interesting ideas.
First recall she was excited about microfluidics, specifically that it would be possible to break up one drop of blood to run a multiple set of tests on it. Sad fact not found until later: A blood sample of several test tubes contains many drops, but a single drop does not capture the essence of all the test tube contents.
So, using a membrane in a mobile testing device is one claim. Current IP BS Theory says making shit up is just as good as having an actual prototype. I believe these patents could make a solid case for denying patents until the fucking prototype actually works.
Which, might have saved a lot of people a lot of money re that baritone CEO awaiting the hammer blow to her ego as her device has never worked, as far as I can determine.
Darkness Of Course (profile), 4 Mar 2020 @ 12:37pm
So who does own the copyright
In particular if the pool camera is automated?
Because copyright cannot be held by a thing, it must be the creative expression of a human. One could argue that CBS has neither creative expression or humanity.
On the post: Sony May Just Be Loosening The Reins As Gaming Brings In A Plurality Of Its Revenue
One subject only HDMI
Yep, the lynch pin of the future. Well, Sony's revenue future that is. It was designed to prevent copying their precious IP. They are the original overreach kings, no queens in Sony's leadership.
Jobs rejected HDMI for iMacs. Why? Too limited, too small, not enough speed, not enough DPI. And they shipped with a display that was larger, and better than Sony could support. A lot of apple's customers were content creators, who had to scale their work back to fit into Sony's limited visions.
Then their future tanked. They bet big on everybody in the world needed a cash cow HDMI license. And, surprise - the gaming division because their best revenue source. It's only taken another decade plus before Sony started to realize that licensing and thus limiting the future to their half-blind vision doesn't actually produce the revenues projected.
Inflated revenues based on inflated IP values that have little if any connection to reality. Sony nearly died. Gaming saved them. Simple as that.
On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 252: The Key To Encryption
Kind of clueless
"Isn't there a way to do this" does not bode well to them understanding:
A - encryption
B - complexity thereof
C - having a back door is a security risk
D - The Constitution, 4th Amend
E - Any backdoor solution will be weak, by definition!
On the post: The Fortnite App Store Battle: A Real Antitrust Conundrum, Or Just A Carefully Planned Out Contract Negotiation?
Sweeney, yeah that guy
The funny bit about Sweeney and money is he hand-waves re his own sources of income.
He is a middle-ware, as well as, a game engine provider. He gets a cut of every game that uses his tools. He finally backed off the fees for indie devs, and for games that don't make a bundle of money. But, he didn't do it out of the goodness of his heart. He was pushing others, and got called out - then he was all Mr. Nice Guy.
I fail to understand how the R&D to develop a cheap PC product to mostly do video games is somehow protected and sacred compared to, in apple's case, designing their own CPUs, creating their own SoCs, developing new business markets. I would guess that apple coughs up more to develop a new phone than either Sony or MSFT did for their cute little system based on a tablet SoC, aka a low power Applications Processor with integrated graphics originally intended for the tablet market.
Remember this: every game that makes a dent in any store puts money in Epic's pocket. Two ways currently, first is their game software, and now the Epic Store. Sweeney is driven to put more money in his pocket. I seriously doubt there is any other reason behind his actions.
On the post: It Doesn't Make Sense To Treat Ads The Same As User Generated Content
Clearly you don't understand ...
The web. Content. Ad placement. Much less adtech, the dubious automated solutions that place ads on different websites while blocking some sites, blacklist. Add in the impossibly stupid block list of words that has fired grapeshot across the news industry. Ooo, COVID, scary.
Nope. You do not understand. But, you want to fix it so it feels right to you.
Just like moderation at scale doesn't compute, personal inspection of ads are impossible at low to medium levels. Because nobody is making enough money off of internet ads to fund a full time person to vet every single ad.
Checkout https://branded.substack.com/
That might help. Discover how hate sites are finding funding through cheating the ads.txt files.
On the post: Josh Hawley Introduces His Latest Attack On Section 230
Re: Toaster, not a toaster oven.
That means he can't be the Ellen show to accept it.
On the post: Under Investigation For Antitrust Abuse, Trump DOJ Rubber Stamps Major Ad Industry Consolidation
Block bait
I block both of them at the firewall.
Previously I noticed them using press releases as news, and using stock photos to augment their 'news'. Suck they do.
On the post: Just Like Every Other Platform, Parler Will Take Down Content And Face Impossible Content Moderation Choices
Re: Imagine That
How did the rest of knew you would come here and whine; Because we are geniuses. Once you saw Mike's byline you went immediately to comments so you could show off your own inability to read.
Good for you! Low comprehension skills are a must for any GOP position, be that senator, or boot licker.
On the post: Privacy Questions Raised By Distance Learning
Been there. Stopped doing it.
My son's teacher called, wanting to get my support for him to join the summer book club (or some such).
My son: No. They don't count books over 100p.
Me to Teacher: Not going to happen. He's read several hundred pages this month, yet would only get two counts for your system. He was in third grade, reading was his passion. Still is.
A decade ago my wife saw him going to the gym they both frequented. Adult, head down, reading a book, walking down the sidewalk to the gym. He never noticed her.
On the post: WWE Lawyers DMCA Tweet With Video Of Independent Wrestling Event, Probably Over A Hashtag That Promotes WWE
The idea boggles the mind.
Not my mind, the clown at WWE.
As WWE has no intellect it is incapable of having Intellectual Property.
On the post: Disney: If We Can't Run Club Penguin, No One Can Run Club Penguin [Updated]
Disney full time shit streamer
Their stream should be named Disney-, for truth in advertising.
On the post: Court Of Appeals Affirms Lower Court Tossing BS 'Comedians In Cars' Copyright Lawsuit
Copyrights v Patents
With all the patent troll lawsuits with triple rewards for delayed litigation one wonders if the clown in question, and his lawyer, thought the law was similar to patent law.
When grabbing for someone else's cash, any law in the book seems to be a fan favorite.
On the post: Canadian Publishing Group Says France Has The Right Idea, Presses For Its Own Google Tax
Part of the issue is adtech itself.
Not Google, but ad placement firms. They deal with thousands of ads, and use simple scripts and keyword lists to sanitize the placement of ads.
Check out what they've been pushing lately, avoiding sites that have COVID news. Yep, that's going to impact every news service. And google is helpless here, the adtech/placement crews are between Google and the companies placing ads themselves.
Sure, getting Google to hammer the entire country's news websites será fabulosa (will be fabulous). Let us know how that turns out for you, because we won't be seeing it via Google.
On the post: Bad Idea Is Bad: Senator Sasse Wants To Give Whoever Patents COVID-19 Treatments 10 Extra Years Of Patent Protection
Why don’t we have nice things
On the long term, COVID-19 will be managed in three years. So, if there is a patent, there will not be important anymore. What exactly do they expect to benefit from the 17y of no longer important solution?
GOP cannot do simple math. Well, beyond give me more money.
On the post: Double Blow To The EU's Long-Delayed Unified Patent Court, But Supporters Unlikely To Give Up
We remember Florian
From Groklaw times.
He showed an amazing amount of knowledge. Sadly very little of it was actually pertinent in America.
Also, sad to see he is still pissing in the soup.
On the post: Ring Continues To Insist Its Cameras Reduce Crime, But Crime Data Doesn't Back Those Claims Up
Surely the PD of America are safer
With so many customers Ring-ing in their neighbors it must be reducing crime. Otherwise their promotional material is wrong, and that can't be right.
/pukes in bucket
On the post: SoftBank Owned Patent Troll, Using Monkey Selfie Law Firm, Sues To Block Covid-19 Testing, Using Theranos Patents
Patent fluff
Read them, quite a bit of copy paste as they're both based on the failed first principle beliefs of Theranos. While our poor abused baritone CEO of nothing laments her life choices, she had some interesting ideas.
First recall she was excited about microfluidics, specifically that it would be possible to break up one drop of blood to run a multiple set of tests on it. Sad fact not found until later: A blood sample of several test tubes contains many drops, but a single drop does not capture the essence of all the test tube contents.
So, using a membrane in a mobile testing device is one claim. Current IP BS Theory says making shit up is just as good as having an actual prototype. I believe these patents could make a solid case for denying patents until the fucking prototype actually works.
Which, might have saved a lot of people a lot of money re that baritone CEO awaiting the hammer blow to her ego as her device has never worked, as far as I can determine.
On the post: Police Department Shells Out $50,000 To Man After His Camera Catches Cops Fabricating Criminal Charges Against Him
Dumb crooks
Can be dumb even if they are cops.
The Constitution, it's not a toy you can simply toss aside.
On the post: Why Tech Might Actually Be The Solution To Capitalism's Addiction Problem
But FB would be fine if we had to pay for it
FB isn't worth anything to 90%+ of the world. Paying for it just reinforces the only global metric that matters:
coffee cash > FB subscription
Oh wait, maybe it's because they will force FB to give all the subscription fees to dead tree news. Yeah, that doesn't work either.
On the post: FISA Court Bans FBI Agent Who Lied To The Court About Carter Page
Since they are known liars
Make the signature line include their badge number (id).
I'm thinking that might reduce the number of Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse signatures.
On the post: Bogus Automated Copyright Claims By CBS Blocked Super Tuesday Speeches By Bernie Sanders, Mike Bloomberg, And Joe Biden
So who does own the copyright
In particular if the pool camera is automated?
Because copyright cannot be held by a thing, it must be the creative expression of a human. One could argue that CBS has neither creative expression or humanity.
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