... I think the first biggest hurdle to fixing it so this stops happening (this isn't the first time this has happened in internet history), is perhaps taking away the ability of payment processors to deny any legal service, even if that means shielding them from liability from a 'in good faith' legal service being not so. (As in, hold the end user(s) liable for their own acts, not the middle man, so long as the middle man is just being the middle man)
The alternative, is that MasterCard/Visa, Discover, and American Express basically can dictate what you can and can't spend money on.
I can tell you I'm not fond of that second option.
we have two games from the Taimanin series, Breeders of the Nephelym, pact with a witch, spiral clicker, yes master, Crush Crush, Hunnie Pop. Hunnie Pop 2, HunnieCam Studio... but the one that is most telling? SinVR exists. Which is basically a VR bordello.
This isn't just uneven enforcement, this is litterally either such under-enforcement as to be useless, or, such singled out enforcement that they would be more honest to say 'we don't want you in particular on our platform.'
You mean like the USPS's 'app' which is basically a glorified web broswer wrapper for most of its functions?
That said, and I'm going to be very very blunt here, if using android 4.x or a rooted phone is in violation of terms with your payment provider, how the -bleep- do you manage to take payments over the web from a general computer that I, the end user, may or may not have root access to, and may have or have not granted any given program that level of access, at my whim?
Put another way, I'm verrrry sad to see this mess being what it is.
the random slot asignment is needed anyway: It's already been proven that the higher your name is on the list, all things being equal, the more likely you are to get the vote. Though this leads to other issues, I suppose.
Actually it's a perfect comparison if you know the original full saying, which tells you to throw out the bad apples, to save the rest from going bad. And since we didn't throw them out when they first showed signs of going bad...
So in other words you want it so those who work from home, those who schedule their machines to download content (legal or otherwise) while they are out, and everyone who plays WoW (or a half dozen other modern games) that uses BitTorrent for its updater to be marked as a potential pirate? Oh, add in that Windows 10 now -also- by default can do bit-torrent like traffic for its updates... and telling me you can spot it just by the up down bandwidth usage ratio makes me just want to head-desk, and I do networking for a living. (While there are other ways to detect torrenting, this is not one of them... and anyone -using- that deep of packet inspection would be a terrific reason to start using a VPN because ye gods and little fishes a little privacy is nice!)
So how much of this could we halt by simple new rule of this: Only someone (corporation or otherwise) who helped fund the research that lead to the patent in the first place may buy a public institutions patents. Otherwise they either remain with the institution, or are placed into the public domain.
Also, in the case of this -specific- patent I counter with prior art: Winamp has been doing this for ripped CD files since the late 90s or so.
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... I think the first biggest hurdle to fixing it so this stops happening (this isn't the first time this has happened in internet history), is perhaps taking away the ability of payment processors to deny any legal service, even if that means shielding them from liability from a 'in good faith' legal service being not so. (As in, hold the end user(s) liable for their own acts, not the middle man, so long as the middle man is just being the middle man)
The alternative, is that MasterCard/Visa, Discover, and American Express basically can dictate what you can and can't spend money on.
I can tell you I'm not fond of that second option.
Wait...
They don't allow pornography?
pulls up his own steam library
we have two games from the Taimanin series, Breeders of the Nephelym, pact with a witch, spiral clicker, yes master, Crush Crush, Hunnie Pop. Hunnie Pop 2, HunnieCam Studio... but the one that is most telling? SinVR exists. Which is basically a VR bordello.
This isn't just uneven enforcement, this is litterally either such under-enforcement as to be useless, or, such singled out enforcement that they would be more honest to say 'we don't want you in particular on our platform.'
Parler moments of lulzs.
Look, if we're gonna discuss these idiots today, let's not forget the fact that we've gotten to look behind the curtain. Because, dear gods, idiotic setups are idiotic. https://web.archive.org/web/20200717202137/https://home.parler.com/1
Well, at least ONE thing in this adminstration is transparent
This order is so transparently political in nature it hurts.
Signed,
A Minnesotan who was expecting Minneapolis to make the list.
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Glad to k now I wasn't the only one who read it that way first.
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That said, and I'm going to be very very blunt here, if using android 4.x or a rooted phone is in violation of terms with your payment provider, how the -bleep- do you manage to take payments over the web from a general computer that I, the end user, may or may not have root access to, and may have or have not granted any given program that level of access, at my whim?
Put another way, I'm verrrry sad to see this mess being what it is.
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Hah!
Sure they can, as long as the other person running against them is equally willing to do so!
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Re: Only two points needed to differentiate: 1) with piracy, Rights are IN CONFLICT, Copyright "Exclusive Right" versus First Amendment.
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Hmm.
Also, in the case of this -specific- patent I counter with prior art: Winamp has been doing this for ripped CD files since the late 90s or so.
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