That Anonymous Coward (profile), 8 Feb 2022 @ 6:52am
Question...
Why on gods green earth does remote start require a link to a computer system outside of the car?
Recalls the story about the rental car that killed itself & refused to restart until they had it towed partially down the mountain so they could get signal again to allow it to start
TAC wonders if part of the reason they pulled this stunt is because if they have to divulge exactly how much data they are gathering & profiting from car buyers might demand punishment.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Feb 2022 @ 4:01pm
So every moron who signed onto the GOP claim that it wasn't an insurrection will take their hyper-partisan asses off of committees?
We've heard them clutching pearls about tweets that might not be polite, while they are still supporting the insurrectionist in chief who took political discourse back to the school yard level of name calling and whining.
Start wearing patches to show us who bought you & stop pretending anything you do is to actually benefit citizens.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Feb 2022 @ 3:54pm
Mission creep...
pretty sure we warned them about it, pretty sure we told them they needed to make the rules really clear...
Imagine that humans managing to repeat the exact same screwups thinking this time it will be different when they refuse to address any of the issues exposed by previous failures.
Worried about what data brokers might do?
Perhaps maybe pass laws targeting them rather than the middlemen, make it less profitable to gather & exploit the information and suddenly they are less interest in the data.
The current system does nothing but require a couple popups where people still sign their privacy away without reading, its not working.
Stop beating up the little guys who just want to link a set of webfonts & other cool toys out there. Pass laws controlling what the company gathering the data can & can't get & do.
You have a shark off the coast eating swimmers on July 4 weekend... the answer isn't to dynamite all the little fish it might eat you kill the fscking shark.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Feb 2022 @ 1:15pm
I await the updated post where they talk about how the local PD recast the asshole who shot their dog as the victim of a crime.
How the PD thinks its perfectly okay to demand citizens remove posts from social media because some 3rd party allegedly threatened a dog killer rather than investigating the alleged threats.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 5 Feb 2022 @ 1:16am
looks at all of the rights violations they were willing to do openly
Its cute you think they only took in $600,000.
Because they TOTES filled our every form correctly & to the letter of the law as they were inventing fake tickets & stealing property from passing drivers.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 5 Feb 2022 @ 1:08am
Re: light sensitive?
They are called sunglasses, perhaps one you get your head out of your ass you might learn about them.
Oooh and you get to decide if her disability is or is not real.
Are you one of those assholes who demand people parked in handicapped spots prove their disability to you?
You know they faked it to get the permit hanging from the rearview & now they have to answer to you...
On the upside your entire rant really highlights why many people with disabilities often just suck it up because they really don't feel like explaining to petty able bodied tyrants the exact nature of their disability and having to perform like a circus animal to meet your mental requirements for being disabled enough.
Did you read a different letter?
No where was there a request or demand to give bad reviews, merely honest reviews.
I offer you a big hearty fuck off from someone who sometimes is light sensitive, sometimes doesn't need his cane, sometimes needs to park closer to the entrance who is fed up with assholes like you who think unless your missing limbs you aren't disabled & are required to prove it on demand by every fucking Karen who is just pissed that there are a couple spaces they can't use.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 4 Feb 2022 @ 2:39am
Re: Re:
Faux News taking heads tweet all the time.
I admit I can be an asshole, but thats hardly because I am a nym... I'm an asshole and I do not suffer stupid people.
I gave up giving 2 shits about social norms and politeness around the 3rd time I heard all gays are pedophiles and oh my FSM the slippery slope between gay marriage and bestiality.
Admittedly I'm not nearly famous enough to end up with a stalker out to get me, but why the fsck would I take that chance?
People have driven cross country in plots to kill politicians they disagree with & have been told by other assholes that those politicians are evil demons who eat children.
There is a lot of toxic out there in the world, but humans spend more time trying to break out the messenger with antitrust lawsuits than to admit some people are fscking toxic no matter what and that toxicity has been tolerated far to long... hell look at Trump supporters.
Member of Congress claiming Jan 6 wasn't an insurrection & if you looked at the video it was just like any other day with citizens on a tour. Except the footage of him helping barricade a door & looking terrified as he doesn't see an exit and there is only 1 armed person between him and the door.
We've had more hearings on "Big Tech" than the fact that sitting members of Congress are repeatedly lying to the American people & its causing a bodycount. No one will make them show their "evidence" or do anything to combat it because we've now waited to long and given in to often that there is nothing that can make them accept actual facts. They believe its more likely that JFK Jr. faked his death & is coming back to restore Trump to the presidency & than the pandemic is just the media still making things up.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 4 Feb 2022 @ 2:21am
Re: No, not even then
Because they think cops are their friends.
The image of Mayberry lives on in their minds.
This is just a misunderstanding and we can sort this out without needing lawyers getting involved.
Making a Murderer showed us video evidence of cops coaching a mentally challenged man to give them the story they wanted.
Been tons of tv shows showing the good cop bad cop routine & cops lying, threatening, browbeating people.
Looks at the large pile of overturned convictions where cops/prosecutors lied in court, hid evidence, railroaded innocent men & then fought tooth and nail against anyone examining the cases to protect their records (because none of these fucks ever ends up in jail for this)
But somehow people manage to think that cops questioning you is like Andy & Barney sitting down spinning some country wisdom and maybe a sing along.
I've mentioned before that I'd love to have a VR driving while black simulator for white folk to experience how it REALLY is for black drivers/passengers, that it isn't always just black folk being uppity with the officers.
I'm starting to think we need a VR simulator of one of these interrogations that goes on far to long so people can finally grasp that you can torture people in a fairly short amount of time into telling you what you want to hear.
But then they just tell me I hate all cops & just want to tear it all down... if truth can tear it all down, then we should have already taken it down and tried again.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 3 Feb 2022 @ 8:40pm
"this isn't Nintendo protecting its monetary interests."
Unless it is.
Somewhere in a forgotten corner was an idea about selling soundtracks of the games... the problem being that much of the music predates the internet being a thing so the rights might be a bit of an issue for them.
Rather than let fans enjoy the music, they take it all down because someday, when they get around to it, they MIGHT make the music available.... maybe... if they can get the rights... for the right price... and the right DRM...
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 3 Feb 2022 @ 5:09pm
“though legal, was not in the spirit of what the community expects.”
The signers of the Constitution roll in their graves.
So rather than actually investigate & get actual evidence, they just make fake evidence.
I wonder how many people didn't exercise their rights believing that no lawyer would defend them when there was DNA tying them to it even if there was evidence they were in another state at the time.
DNA can't be challenged, its perfect.
Recall the case of the indignant man taken to trial for murder based on a DNA hit. No one really gave a shit that no one saw him near the house of the victim and he'd been in the hospital at the time of the alleged killing.
He was guilty, DNA said so.
Unless someone took the time to ask what kind of DNA match, then discover it was touch DNA, then note the suspect had been transported in the same ambulance earlier in the day that the victim was taken in.
Then have to explain to a court who really didn't want to hear how touch DNA works & that merely coming into contact with objects, hours later, that someone touched could show DNA transfer and represented unreliable evidence.
The simple fact the nation has had to create offices of conviction integrity (not to mention the Innocence Project) should be a glaring flashing red light with sirens that something has gone horribly wrong.
But somehow... “though legal, was not in the spirit of what the community expects.”
Presenting irrefutable fake evidence documents should never be okay... but then we give them a pass when they shoot people for moving to quick, to slow, being to black.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 3 Feb 2022 @ 3:26pm
Human nature.
How often have you seen a review of okay service?
Not that often, but if something goes sideways the 12 page dissertation of how this is the worst thing ever & they will never return & tell everyone not to go there.
Social media makes it easier, but isn't the cause of it.
No one is born a KKK member, they are exposed to the ideas & speech of other members and this shapes the new recruit into a KKK member. It used to be a bit harder because you needed a local chapter & then find a way to recruit new folks while trying to avoid drawing to much attention from those who think your racist piles of crap.
Now social media makes it easier to troll for new recruits & have a virtual meeting not being picketed... but its not social media creating it, its humans adapting the things they have always done to the new.
Humans LOVE to blame the new thing as the cause of all misfortune...
Priest decries teddy bears because young girls won't learn mothering if they have teddy bears. (no really)
Idiot decries paper being introduced to schools because children wouldn't be able to write clearly on slates or take care of slates correctly if we allow them to use paper.
Humans are these poor innocent creatures who are incapable of being bad, it is the fault of all of the outside sources & pressures that make them do that so if we remove the sources & pressures everything would be fine.
Or y'all are a bunch of assholes who enjoy dodging the blame of your own decisions by pretending if not for X you NEVER EVER would have done this.
The iPhone didn't force you to text and drive, yet everytime there is a tragic case someone tries to blame Apple.
Oh that drunk isn't responsible, they are addicted. They still decided to drive to the bar, drink, & drive home, pretty sure that is all on them. We pass laws making the bars, bartenders, waitresses responsible if they 'over serve' the drunk pretending everyone who hits .08 stumbles around like a teen girl at prom.
Now they are demanding interlocks on new cars for everyone to stop the problem... that a few assholes drink & drive.
The problems are in humanity, and humanities ability to be strong independent creatures until they might have to take the blame for their own actions & suddenly they are the victims of X.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 3 Feb 2022 @ 1:58pm
Something something functional democracy... o_O
Pretty sure this isn't how things are are supposed to work & in a real nation with the rule of law this would be raising all sorts of questions about quid pro quo.
I mean its one thing to offer an Elsa impersonator to a rep to get his support, but what they did seems worse.
Also one really has to wonder how Disney feels right now.
The bill was never meant to go anywhere yet they still have to give things to get their carve out in a bill that would never pass muster.
I mean its not like Death Santis would lie to the voter AND his backers... (falls out of his chair laughing)
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 3 Feb 2022 @ 12:31pm
"Yet which one is Congress gearing up to support? "
The one that lets them continue to lie to the american public that X is the worst thing facing the world & funnel power/money to corporate donors for "solutions" that solve nothing.
Maybe someone should tell the Q faithful to look at the EARN IT act and start asking why it does nothing to actually save the poor trafficked children.
What? I'm still a sociopath & the entertainment value of unleashing the Q faithful on the Trump faithful over the ever important child trafficking and eating cabal that obviously they are supporting with this bill might entertain me for minutes.
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"having a large number of people who don’t possess Nintendo DNA in our group would not be a plus"
I read this as we don't want anyone who might tell us to stop shitting on the customers in house.
On the post: Kia, Subaru Disable Useful Car Features, Blames Mass. Right To Repair Law
Question...
Why on gods green earth does remote start require a link to a computer system outside of the car?
Recalls the story about the rental car that killed itself & refused to restart until they had it towed partially down the mountain so they could get signal again to allow it to start
TAC wonders if part of the reason they pulled this stunt is because if they have to divulge exactly how much data they are gathering & profiting from car buyers might demand punishment.
On the post: More Fallout For NSO And Israel: Gov't Police Illegally Deployed Malware Against Person Involved In Netanyahu Bribery Trial
That thing that I thought it would take for Israel to turn on NSO, and here we are.
"a person close" to a senior politician..
Bennys son & his inner circle has been reported on some outlets.
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Stapling more rights on copyright... what could go wrong...
oh.
On the post: Hypocrisy Rules As Companies Try To Smear New FTC Nomination Alvaro Bedoya
So every moron who signed onto the GOP claim that it wasn't an insurrection will take their hyper-partisan asses off of committees?
We've heard them clutching pearls about tweets that might not be polite, while they are still supporting the insurrectionist in chief who took political discourse back to the school yard level of name calling and whining.
Start wearing patches to show us who bought you & stop pretending anything you do is to actually benefit citizens.
On the post: German Court Fines Site Owner For Sharing User Data With Google To Access Web Fonts
Mission creep...
pretty sure we warned them about it, pretty sure we told them they needed to make the rules really clear...
Imagine that humans managing to repeat the exact same screwups thinking this time it will be different when they refuse to address any of the issues exposed by previous failures.
Worried about what data brokers might do?
Perhaps maybe pass laws targeting them rather than the middlemen, make it less profitable to gather & exploit the information and suddenly they are less interest in the data.
The current system does nothing but require a couple popups where people still sign their privacy away without reading, its not working.
Stop beating up the little guys who just want to link a set of webfonts & other cool toys out there. Pass laws controlling what the company gathering the data can & can't get & do.
You have a shark off the coast eating swimmers on July 4 weekend... the answer isn't to dynamite all the little fish it might eat you kill the fscking shark.
On the post: Kia, Subaru Disable Useful Car Features, Blames Mass. Right To Repair Law
You sold me a car with the promise of feature X, you now have removed that feature.
Bait and switch?
On the post: Court Grants Qualified Immunity To Officer Who Told Couple To Take Down Facebook Post About Off-Duty Cop Who Shot Their Dog
I await the updated post where they talk about how the local PD recast the asshole who shot their dog as the victim of a crime.
How the PD thinks its perfectly okay to demand citizens remove posts from social media because some 3rd party allegedly threatened a dog killer rather than investigating the alleged threats.
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Re: Re: Re: light sensitive?
screams
On the post: Small Alabama Town's Overzealous Traffic Cops Also Monitored Internet Traffic To Threaten Critics Of The Corrupt PD
looks at all of the rights violations they were willing to do openly
Its cute you think they only took in $600,000.
Because they TOTES filled our every form correctly & to the letter of the law as they were inventing fake tickets & stealing property from passing drivers.
Humans... aren't very bright.
On the post: Tenth Circuit Tells College Administrator That Ordering A Student To Stop Talking About An Instructor Clearly Violates The First Amendment
Re: light sensitive?
They are called sunglasses, perhaps one you get your head out of your ass you might learn about them.
Oooh and you get to decide if her disability is or is not real.
Are you one of those assholes who demand people parked in handicapped spots prove their disability to you?
You know they faked it to get the permit hanging from the rearview & now they have to answer to you...
On the upside your entire rant really highlights why many people with disabilities often just suck it up because they really don't feel like explaining to petty able bodied tyrants the exact nature of their disability and having to perform like a circus animal to meet your mental requirements for being disabled enough.
Did you read a different letter?
No where was there a request or demand to give bad reviews, merely honest reviews.
I offer you a big hearty fuck off from someone who sometimes is light sensitive, sometimes doesn't need his cane, sometimes needs to park closer to the entrance who is fed up with assholes like you who think unless your missing limbs you aren't disabled & are required to prove it on demand by every fucking Karen who is just pissed that there are a couple spaces they can't use.
On the post: Can You Solve The Miserable Being Miserable Online By Regulating Tech?
Re: Re:
Faux News taking heads tweet all the time.
I admit I can be an asshole, but thats hardly because I am a nym... I'm an asshole and I do not suffer stupid people.
I gave up giving 2 shits about social norms and politeness around the 3rd time I heard all gays are pedophiles and oh my FSM the slippery slope between gay marriage and bestiality.
Admittedly I'm not nearly famous enough to end up with a stalker out to get me, but why the fsck would I take that chance?
People have driven cross country in plots to kill politicians they disagree with & have been told by other assholes that those politicians are evil demons who eat children.
There is a lot of toxic out there in the world, but humans spend more time trying to break out the messenger with antitrust lawsuits than to admit some people are fscking toxic no matter what and that toxicity has been tolerated far to long... hell look at Trump supporters.
Member of Congress claiming Jan 6 wasn't an insurrection & if you looked at the video it was just like any other day with citizens on a tour. Except the footage of him helping barricade a door & looking terrified as he doesn't see an exit and there is only 1 armed person between him and the door.
We've had more hearings on "Big Tech" than the fact that sitting members of Congress are repeatedly lying to the American people & its causing a bodycount. No one will make them show their "evidence" or do anything to combat it because we've now waited to long and given in to often that there is nothing that can make them accept actual facts. They believe its more likely that JFK Jr. faked his death & is coming back to restore Trump to the presidency & than the pandemic is just the media still making things up.
On the post: Virginia Police Used Fake Forensic Documents To Secure Confessions From Criminal Suspects
Re: No, not even then
Because they think cops are their friends.
The image of Mayberry lives on in their minds.
This is just a misunderstanding and we can sort this out without needing lawyers getting involved.
Making a Murderer showed us video evidence of cops coaching a mentally challenged man to give them the story they wanted.
Been tons of tv shows showing the good cop bad cop routine & cops lying, threatening, browbeating people.
Looks at the large pile of overturned convictions where cops/prosecutors lied in court, hid evidence, railroaded innocent men & then fought tooth and nail against anyone examining the cases to protect their records (because none of these fucks ever ends up in jail for this)
But somehow people manage to think that cops questioning you is like Andy & Barney sitting down spinning some country wisdom and maybe a sing along.
I've mentioned before that I'd love to have a VR driving while black simulator for white folk to experience how it REALLY is for black drivers/passengers, that it isn't always just black folk being uppity with the officers.
I'm starting to think we need a VR simulator of one of these interrogations that goes on far to long so people can finally grasp that you can torture people in a fairly short amount of time into telling you what you want to hear.
But then they just tell me I hate all cops & just want to tear it all down... if truth can tear it all down, then we should have already taken it down and tried again.
On the post: Virginia Police Used Fake Forensic Documents To Secure Confessions From Criminal Suspects
Re: Re:
I'm not sure if I am proud or terrified you managed to say that without throwing up in your mouth.
On the post: Nintendo Hates You: More DMCA Takedowns Of YouTube Videos Of Game Music Despite No Legit Alternative
"this isn't Nintendo protecting its monetary interests."
Unless it is.
Somewhere in a forgotten corner was an idea about selling soundtracks of the games... the problem being that much of the music predates the internet being a thing so the rights might be a bit of an issue for them.
Rather than let fans enjoy the music, they take it all down because someday, when they get around to it, they MIGHT make the music available.... maybe... if they can get the rights... for the right price... and the right DRM...
On the post: Virginia Police Used Fake Forensic Documents To Secure Confessions From Criminal Suspects
“though legal, was not in the spirit of what the community expects.”
The signers of the Constitution roll in their graves.
So rather than actually investigate & get actual evidence, they just make fake evidence.
I wonder how many people didn't exercise their rights believing that no lawyer would defend them when there was DNA tying them to it even if there was evidence they were in another state at the time.
DNA can't be challenged, its perfect.
Recall the case of the indignant man taken to trial for murder based on a DNA hit. No one really gave a shit that no one saw him near the house of the victim and he'd been in the hospital at the time of the alleged killing.
He was guilty, DNA said so.
Unless someone took the time to ask what kind of DNA match, then discover it was touch DNA, then note the suspect had been transported in the same ambulance earlier in the day that the victim was taken in.
Then have to explain to a court who really didn't want to hear how touch DNA works & that merely coming into contact with objects, hours later, that someone touched could show DNA transfer and represented unreliable evidence.
The simple fact the nation has had to create offices of conviction integrity (not to mention the Innocence Project) should be a glaring flashing red light with sirens that something has gone horribly wrong.
But somehow... “though legal, was not in the spirit of what the community expects.”
Presenting irrefutable fake evidence documents should never be okay... but then we give them a pass when they shoot people for moving to quick, to slow, being to black.
On the post: Can You Solve The Miserable Being Miserable Online By Regulating Tech?
Human nature.
How often have you seen a review of okay service?
Not that often, but if something goes sideways the 12 page dissertation of how this is the worst thing ever & they will never return & tell everyone not to go there.
Social media makes it easier, but isn't the cause of it.
No one is born a KKK member, they are exposed to the ideas & speech of other members and this shapes the new recruit into a KKK member. It used to be a bit harder because you needed a local chapter & then find a way to recruit new folks while trying to avoid drawing to much attention from those who think your racist piles of crap.
Now social media makes it easier to troll for new recruits & have a virtual meeting not being picketed... but its not social media creating it, its humans adapting the things they have always done to the new.
Humans LOVE to blame the new thing as the cause of all misfortune...
Priest decries teddy bears because young girls won't learn mothering if they have teddy bears. (no really)
Idiot decries paper being introduced to schools because children wouldn't be able to write clearly on slates or take care of slates correctly if we allow them to use paper.
Humans are these poor innocent creatures who are incapable of being bad, it is the fault of all of the outside sources & pressures that make them do that so if we remove the sources & pressures everything would be fine.
Or y'all are a bunch of assholes who enjoy dodging the blame of your own decisions by pretending if not for X you NEVER EVER would have done this.
The iPhone didn't force you to text and drive, yet everytime there is a tragic case someone tries to blame Apple.
Oh that drunk isn't responsible, they are addicted. They still decided to drive to the bar, drink, & drive home, pretty sure that is all on them. We pass laws making the bars, bartenders, waitresses responsible if they 'over serve' the drunk pretending everyone who hits .08 stumbles around like a teen girl at prom.
Now they are demanding interlocks on new cars for everyone to stop the problem... that a few assholes drink & drive.
The problems are in humanity, and humanities ability to be strong independent creatures until they might have to take the blame for their own actions & suddenly they are the victims of X.
On the post: How Disney Got That 'Theme Park Exemption' In Ron DeSantis' Unconstitutional Social Media Bill
Something something functional democracy... o_O
Pretty sure this isn't how things are are supposed to work & in a real nation with the rule of law this would be raising all sorts of questions about quid pro quo.
I mean its one thing to offer an Elsa impersonator to a rep to get his support, but what they did seems worse.
Also one really has to wonder how Disney feels right now.
The bill was never meant to go anywhere yet they still have to give things to get their carve out in a bill that would never pass muster.
I mean its not like Death Santis would lie to the voter AND his backers... (falls out of his chair laughing)
On the post: Senator Wyden: EARN IT Will Make Children Less Safe
"Yet which one is Congress gearing up to support? "
The one that lets them continue to lie to the american public that X is the worst thing facing the world & funnel power/money to corporate donors for "solutions" that solve nothing.
Maybe someone should tell the Q faithful to look at the EARN IT act and start asking why it does nothing to actually save the poor trafficked children.
What? I'm still a sociopath & the entertainment value of unleashing the Q faithful on the Trump faithful over the ever important child trafficking and eating cabal that obviously they are supporting with this bill might entertain me for minutes.
On the post: Hollywood, Media, And Telecom Giants Are Clearly Terrified Gigi Sohn Will Do Her Job At The FCC
I miss when they would horsewhip liars...
Hell we could have a massive boost to GDP if we brought it back.
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