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• Oct 20th, 2021 @ 11:13am

  (untitled comment) (as Guy)

  on British Telecom Wants Netflix To Pay A Tax Simply Because Squid Game Is Popular

  They aren’t making a contribution to the services they are being carried on

  They are why the service exists. No one would buy broadband without internet content, and they'd pay a lot less without the big streaming providers.

• Oct 11th, 2021 @ 9:35pm

  Re: Re: Re: (as Guy)

  on Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  Oxygen molocules are about 0.0005 microns.

• Aug 25th, 2021 @ 7:59am

  Re: Why complain (as Guy)

  on US Army Now Using Clearview's Unproven Tech To Investigate Crimes

  Because it will likely produce many false positives and false negatives.

• May 25th, 2020 @ 9:29am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: OMG Clever! (as Guy)

  on The Great Pizza Arbitrage Scheme Of 2020 Is Spotlighting The Strangeness Of Food Delivery Services

  There is reputational harm to the pizza place, since customers mad about poor delivery may decide not to visit the resturant and leave bad reviews that discourage others from visiting.

• May 23rd, 2020 @ 8:57am

  (untitled comment) (as Guy)

  on The Great Pizza Arbitrage Scheme Of 2020 Is Spotlighting The Strangeness Of Food Delivery Services

  Sell their stock at an IPO and leave the people who bought it holding the bag.

• May 23rd, 2020 @ 8:53am

  Re: Re: One Posibility (as Guy)

  on The Great Pizza Arbitrage Scheme Of 2020 Is Spotlighting The Strangeness Of Food Delivery Services

  Or, for that matter, customers deciding they don't like the higher prices and reverting to going out to resturants.

• May 22nd, 2020 @ 7:56am

  Re: No Javascript browsing (as Guy)

  on Yes, This Site Uses Cookies, Because Nearly All Sites Use Cookies, And We're Notifying You Because We're Told We Have To

  Cookies are set and sent in HTTP, not Javascript.

• Mar 23rd, 2020 @ 10:44am

  Already long enough (as Guy)

  on Everyone's Got A Pet Project: Patent Maximalist Says We Need Longer Patents To Incentivize Coronavirus Vaccines

  The vaccines are expected to clear clinical trials 12-18 months after work began, so under current rules they'll be well inside patent during the mass vaccination campaigns.

• Jan 16th, 2020 @ 7:37pm

  Re: (as Guy)

  on Bad Ideas: Raising The Arbitrary Age Of Internet Service 'Consent' To 16

  It's not like there isn't a lengthy public process during which people can warn them about any consequences the legislators didn't forsee.

• Dec 25th, 2019 @ 5:52pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: The lawmakers should look in a mirror (as Guy)

  on When We Fail To Understand Privacy As A Set Of Trade-Offs, Everyone's 'Solutions' Are Unhelpful

  Federal law invariably trumps State law under the Supremacy Clause, but the Federal government is constrained in what sorts of laws it can pass, with most of them relying on some extension of the power to regulate interstate commerce. This includes regulating emissions standards under the Clean Air Act, but California has been granted a waiver allowing them to set stricter standards.

• Jan 23rd, 2019 @ 10:53am

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  on Herrick V. Grindr – The Section 230 Case That's Not What You've Heard
  Also all the lawyer review sites he is threatening other commentors with.
• Dec 22nd, 2018 @ 9:28am

  Re: Frankly...

  on Filters Suck Out Loud: Tumblr's Porn Filters Flag Tumblr's Examples Of Allowed Content
  Apparently the App Store required the game Six Ages to avoid direct references to the use of drugs in shaman rituals.
  
  It did not require censorship of the Raven rituals in which you kidnap a charioteer and torture them to death over several hours.
• Nov 4th, 2018 @ 7:55am

  Re: "The Next Level Of Tech Activism:"

  on The Next Level Of Tech Activism: Google Employees Walk Out, Demand Changes From Management
  Yes, but tech unions are uncommon.
• Nov 4th, 2018 @ 7:54am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Chief Morale Officer???

  on The Next Level Of Tech Activism: Google Employees Walk Out, Demand Changes From Management
  If no one took risks in the aerospace industry there wouldn't be one.
• Nov 4th, 2018 @ 7:51am

  Re: Re: Re: And tomorrow's headline...

  on The Next Level Of Tech Activism: Google Employees Walk Out, Demand Changes From Management
  Odds are very good it would only happen once because those positions would go unfilled.
• Nov 4th, 2018 @ 7:50am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: And tomorrow's headline...

  on The Next Level Of Tech Activism: Google Employees Walk Out, Demand Changes From Management
  Yeah it turns out that when you make an example of employees that just tells everyone they need to find new jobs.
• Oct 10th, 2018 @ 1:34pm

  (untitled comment)

  on As Everyone Knows, In The Age Of The Internet, Privacy Is Dead -- Which Is Awkward If You Are A Russian Spy
  Does... does the GRU not know how to put fake addresses into a database?