Scott Yates’s Comments

• Nov 22nd, 2021 @ 2:25pm

  Wrong embedded link?

  on More Than 100 Hertz Customers Are Suing The Company For Falsely Reporting Rented Vehicles As Stolen

  the link in this text:

  https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211113/10541047933/more-than-100-hertz-customers-are-suing -company-falsely-reporting-rented-vehicles-as-stolen.shtml#:~:text=He%20and%20his%20fianc%C3%A9e%2C% 20Krystal%20Carter%2C%20who%20is%20also%20a%20claimant%2C%20say%20they%20had%20rented%20from%20Hertz %20about%20a%20dozen%20times%20last%20year%20%E2%80%94%20but%20that%20didn%27t%20prevent%20him%20fro m%20being%20stopped%20by%20police%20for%20driving%20a%20car%20reported%20stolen%20by%20the%20company .%20Around%2010%20p.m.%20that%20night

  Appears to be to the wrong article?

• Sep 14th, 2021 @ 12:47pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Commentator Insists That Fact Checking Is An Attack On Free Speech

  Some might consider this a typo, but i prefer to think of it in a more literal sense. As in "uninhabited by sense"

  But, the most bizarrely stupid version of this argument was published recently in the Hill, by columnist Armstrong Williams, in a piece entitled: Uninhibited Speech is the Ultimate Weapon in the Fight Against Misinformation. You might think from this title that he would support fact checking -- which is part of that "uninhabited speech." Instead, he seems to think it's an infringement on rights.

• Aug 24th, 2021 @ 2:55pm

  Ouch

  on Techdirt Podcast Episode 295: What Oracle/Google Means For Copyright And Interoperability

  Am I the only one that finds it hard to listen to the frequent "and, um, uh" from Pamela?

  I apologize if that sounds mean, I really don't mean it that way.

  I just found it jarring in content that I was really interested in otherwise.

• Aug 16th, 2021 @ 8:47am

  Re: Re: 127.0.0.1

  on It Happened Again: Antipiracy Outfit Asks Google To Delist 127.0.0.1 On Behalf Of Ukrainian TV Station

  Well.. Bobviously... 8)

• Aug 4th, 2021 @ 12:06pm

  Tim has really upped his writing!

  on Man Sues Multiple Social Media Services, Claims Banning His Accounts Violates The Civil Rights Act

  I literally laughed out loud several times reading this! Very well written and humorous! Nice job Tim!

• Jun 16th, 2021 @ 8:29am

  Re:

  on FBI Director Ignores More Than 500 Ongoing Capitol Raid Prosecutions To Complain That Encryption Is Keeping Criminals From Being Caught

  [If all crimes were that easy to solve, the FBI would be asking for less data to sift through, not more.]

  Ahh, you must be new here, and have missed all the FBI stories.

• Oct 22nd, 2020 @ 12:07pm

  Re:

  on Trumpist Republicans Latest Freakout A Total Self-Own, As They Reveal They Don't Read What They Tweet

  Ron Whyden immediately jumps to mind.
  Elizabeth Warren as well, but she still has some odd ideas about platform/publisher.

  There are a few at least, but still WAY too few.

• Oct 7th, 2020 @ 4:25pm

  Great idea!

  on Our New Monetization Experiment: Coil & The Web Monetization Protocol

  I really like the idea and potential for this!

  Signed up with Coil, and found out there are a few other sites i frequent that use them too!

• Jul 13th, 2020 @ 7:38am

  Re: Conduit, not Fibre

  on This Iowa Town Is Building An Open Access Fiber Broadband Network. Google Fiber Is Its First Customer

  Yes, this is an important point that most news of this appears to be consistently missing. This is not an Open Access Network.

• Mar 3rd, 2020 @ 1:46pm

  Reporting should be about explaining the nuance

  on NY Times Political Reporter Believes Telling Right From Wrong Is Beyond His Job Description; He's Wrong

  If all they do is write "he said this, and she said that" they are doing the job of a stenographer, not a reporter.

• Oct 15th, 2019 @ 7:53pm

  What backup system did you use?

  on The City Of Baltimore Blew Off A $76,000 Ransomware Demand Only To Find Out A Bunch Of Its Data Had Never Been Backed Up

  That sounds like a nice solution! I am not aware of one with those features. Would you please share some info on it?

• Sep 18th, 2019 @ 12:12pm

  Re: Re: Re: 'moron', 'ditz', 'braindead buffoon'... so many othe

  on Senator Hawley Responds To Techdirt With A Bunch Of Nonsense And Lies About His Own Bill That He Doesn't Seem To Understand

  I actually think the term "Retarded" is used properly if he means that his thought process has been "retarded" by lack of actual thought.

• Jun 12th, 2019 @ 10:39am

  Netscape search portal

  on NY Times Publishes Laughable Propaganda To Argue Google Owes Newspapers Like Itself Free Money

  Way back when, Netscape actually had a "portal" page of it's own:
  https://www.zdnet.com/article/netscapes-revamped-web-portal-debuts/

  As well as search software of its own:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape#Netscape_Search

• Mar 20th, 2019 @ 8:58am

  Here is the full view of the artwork they are so afraid of

  on Florida College Asked Local Sheriff To Declare Faculty Member's Artwork Obscene

  https://d28htnjz2elwuj.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20101658/2017_Death-of-Innocence_8x 4.jpg

• Aug 9th, 2018 @ 11:25am

  Does this tie in with the "Filter Bubble" problem?

  on Platforms, Speech And Truth: Policy, Policing And Impossible Choices
  I wonder a lot about whether part of the issue lies with categorizing things.
  
  If I decide what I see, and I say I want to see 'progressive' articles, who decides when to apply the 'progressive' tag to a piece of content?
• Aug 2nd, 2018 @ 8:17am

  Do feed the trolls

  on Charter CEO Apparently Unaware He Runs One Of The Most Despised Companies In America
  The only way to effectively deal with trolls is not to ignore/flag them. Engage, and counteract with reason.
• Apr 17th, 2018 @ 12:53pm

  Check the fine print closely

  on Daily Deal: Virtual Training Company Subscription
  The "Lifetime Subscription" is not as unlimited as it might lead you to believe:
  
  Access to all 1,026 courses available at the time of purchase. All courses added in the future must be purchased.
  
  Not saying it is a bad deal, just to be aware.
• Oct 11th, 2017 @ 1:45pm

  Re: Re:

  on Deputy AG Pitches New Form Of Backdoor: 'Responsible Encryption'
  You are not "handing over login credentials" with OAuth. That is the POINT of using it. The credentials stay with the login provider ie: Facebook or Twitter. Someone you already have an account with.
• Aug 16th, 2017 @ 2:41pm

  Re: Re: Also worth noting - compression and resumption

  on Stories Claiming DNC Hack Was 'Inside Job' Rely Heavily On A Stupid Conversion Error No 'Forensic Expert' Would Make
  How exactly is the transfer rate known? Does someone have the logs that show how fast the files were transferred? I have not seen that in the reporting anywhere. They all just spit out the file transfer rate.
• Jun 7th, 2017 @ 2:40pm

  Re: Re: Re: New record?

  on Snowden Explains How The Espionage Act Unfairly Stacks The Deck Against Reality Winner
  By "We threw them out" do you maybe mean "They served their full terms"?
  
  There were ZERO scandals in the Obama admin, and while I don't agree with everything he did, he was CERTAINLY more competent than his predecessor.
  
  It seems like we as a country have lost site of the need to compromise and find a realistic middle ground that allows the government to do its job.

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