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On the post: HP CEO Makes Up A Whole Lot Of Bullshit To Defend Crippling Printers That Use Cheaper Ink

DannyB ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2024 @ 08:30am

Subscription model

Eventually, being able to breathe clean air will be a subscription model.

On the post: California Cops Now Have To Lead With The Pretext When Making Pretextual Stops

DannyB ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2024 @ 06:51am

The reason I stopped you . . .

I stopped you because as you drove by, it smelled like you have been drinking marijuana.

On the post: Piracy Is Surging Again Because Streaming Execs Ignored The Lessons Of The Past

DannyB ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2024 @ 07:16am

Kicking and streaming

Those execs will be dragged kicking and streaming into the 21st century. You can only squeeze so hard. You can only gouge so much. You can't get what people don't have. Your content is not as valuable as you think it is.

On the post: Copyright Liability On LLMs Should Mostly Fall On The Prompter, Not The Service

DannyB ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2024 @ 06:54am

Ultimately a human is responsible

If a copyright infringing item is published on the web, it is ultimately a slow, inefficient, annoying, noisy, smelly human who is responsible for it. Not an AI. Existing copyright law should suffice. Whether the offending item was generated by AI or not is irrelevant. It is the human who is to blame.

On the post: Congressional Incompetence Could Doom Key Low-Income Broadband Program

DannyB ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2023 @ 06:59am

Congressional Incontinence

When it comes to congress, never attribute to incompetence that which can adequately be explained by malice and greed. Somebody must have a motive for keeping broadband prices high and service quality low.

On the post: Carmakers Push Forward With Plans To Make Basic Features Subscription Services, Despite Widespread Backlash

DannyB ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2023 @ 06:51am

Complaining

Just because you already paid for the hardware doesn't mean you should get to use it for free going forward. Remember those treadmills that won't work without a subscription?

On the post: Microsoft’s Use Of ‘AI’ In Journalism Has Been An Irresponsible Mess

DannyB ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2023 @ 06:31am

What could possibly go wrong?

Aren't we being a bit overly pessimistic? Or underly optimistic? AI should be capable of acting as a journalist about as well as it does at being a lawyer.

On the post: Preservation Fail: Hasbro Wants Old ‘Transformers’ Games Re-Released, Except Activision Might Have Lost Them

DannyB ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2023 @ 07:21am

See: A Letter from 2020

This is now out of date. This letter appeared on Slashdot more than a couple decades ago. I posted it here on BestNetTech some years back . . . https://www.bestnettech.com/articles/20121112/14563021022/copyright-maximalism-turning-satirical-works-into-ridiculous-reality.shtml First, it is interesting to see what things were predicted that hare partly come true. Second, one of those things was: But what interested her was that future generations will know nothing about us; all our records and art are stored digitally, most of it will simply disappear when no one rents it anymore — remember the sadness when the last digital copy of Sgt. Pepper was accidentally erased? And the data that does survive will all be encrypted and in proprietary formats anyway — even if there were historians they’d have no right to reverse engineer the formats. I can vaguely remember that people used to have physical copies of music and films, although I’m not sure how that was possible, or what the point was when we can rent whatever we like from the air interface.

On the post: A Ton Of Folks Don’t Know What ‘Right To Repair’ Is, But Strongly Support It Once They Do

DannyB ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2023 @ 06:54am

Right to repair

We have a right to peacefully assemble. But we do not have a right to repair.

On the post: The FBI Is Still Pretending Stingrays Are Super Secret Cop Spy Tech That Shouldn’t Be Discussed In Court

DannyB ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2023 @ 06:46am

Stingray should be disgust in court

The FBI needs to learn that Stingrays definitely are something that should be disgust in open court.

On the post: 5G Was An Over-Hyped Dud. Prepare For Nobody To Learn Absolutely Anything From The Experience

DannyB ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2023 @ 06:38am

6G will be the greatest thing evar!

6G will be the greatest thing evar! The new 6G has been in development for quite some time by the marketing department.

On the post: Music Label Demands Google Delist A Wikipedia Page With Info It Doesn’t Like

DannyB ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2023 @ 06:43am

Google gets over 18.3 million takedown requests per day

So dividing 6.7 billion by 365, Google gets over 18.3 million takedown requests per day.

On the post: Possible Reasons Why YouTube Has Given Up Trying To Police 2020 Election Misinfo

DannyB ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2023 @ 06:53am

A good decision

It is important to hear and give all due consideration to both sides of the story. Some people believe the sun rises in the East while others believe the sun rises in the West. Both points of view deserve equal coverage. Some people believe the earth is round while others believe the earth is a flat. The universe is a large sphere with the stars affixed to its inside. The earth is a large flat disk in the center of the universe. The sun and moon move in a circular pattern around the top of the disk. The earth is on an infinite stack of turtles. (it's turtles all the way down) The final turtle of that infinite stack is propelled by a rocket. The rocket moves at 9.8 m/s^2 giving us the illusion of gravity. The rocket is powered by a perpetual motion machine so it never stops. Silly skeptics would ask: if the Earth is flat, how do you explain that the sun moves South in the winter? Stupid Round Earther: the sun moves South in the winter for the same reason that birds move South for winter -- because it's warmer in the South during winter! Look at Australia where Christmas is hottest day of the year. Join the flat Earth society. We have recruitment centers all around the globe for your convenience. Hey YouTube, be sure to give equal consideration to the following: Astrology governs our lives. Crystal healing is real. Dianetics is science. Myers-Briggs 16 personality types test is a thing. Fortune-telling is accurate. People can levitate. Feng-shui is spacial well-being. Acupuncture heals. Colon cleansing is detoxifiation. Ear candles remove wax. Ayurveda is a thing. Vaccines cause autism. Perpetuum mobile is the future of energy. Psychokinesis influences matter. Reiki is a thing. The Holocaust never existed. Climate Change is a hoax. The Law of Attraction is a thing. The Moon Landing is a conspiracy. Homeopathy is medicine. Palm-reading predicts the future. Earth is flat. Ghosts are real. Numerology is a thing.

On the post: TV Industry’s Idea Of Innovation: A Free TV With A Second Small TV That Constantly Shows You Ads

DannyB ( profile ), 19 May, 2023 @ 06:17am

Orwell did not predict that people would PAY for their own telescreens.

On the post: Once Again, ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Caves To Authoritarian Censorial Bullies

DannyB ( profile ), 16 May, 2023 @ 06:44am

Give me freedom, or give me something of equal or lesser value, or a coupon for it.

On the post: Iron Maiden Opposes Women’s Lingerie Company For Using The Word ‘Maiden’

DannyB ( profile ), 15 May, 2023 @ 06:42am

Was any of this lingerie maiden China?

On the post: Court Dumps Lawsuit Alleging The Government Forced Amazon To Stop Promoting An Anti-vaxxer’s Book

DannyB ( profile ), 09 May, 2023 @ 06:52am

The internet didn't make us stupid

The internet didn't make us stupid. The internet simply made it possible for stupid people to spread their stupid ideas to a large audience.

On the post: Microsoft Wisely Gets On The Right Side Of History And ‘Right To Repair’

DannyB ( profile ), 08 May, 2023 @ 06:39am

Wrong side of history

Maybe after being on the wrong side of history when it came to open source, Microsoft is now more careful to be on the right side of history.

On the post: Senator Brian Schatz Joins The Moral Panic With Unconstitutional Age Verification Bill

DannyB ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2023 @ 06:48am

A way to do age verification

Must be 18 to use this site. If you are under age 18, click here so you can give us all your private info allowing us to verify that you are not allowed to use this site. If you are over age 18, click here to skip the mandatory age verification process for minors.

On the post: Florida Legislators Push Bills Aimed At Making It More Difficult To Film Cops

DannyB ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2023 @ 07:02am

Legislators' oath?

Don't Florida legislators have to swear an oath to uphold and defund the constitution?

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