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• On the post: Wikipedia Tells UK Government It Won’t Comply With Proposed Age Verification Mandates

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 09 May, 2023 @ 07:30pm

  ctually manages to differentiate between those smutty sites you don’t want little Johnny seeing, and the ones that’ll teach him how to understand what a period is.

  Pornhub is educational, it taught me about:

  • anal sex
  • Bukkake
  • Gang bangs
  • That my stepsister really wants to bang me (unfortunately I don't have a stepsister)
  • how to masturbate properly (myself and others)
  • what women really like*

  I found all those videos highly educational. (*) not really, no

• On the post: Stupid Patent Of The Month: Trying To Get U.S. Patents On An AI Program

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 01 May, 2023 @ 09:06pm

  To be pedantic:

  Only people can get patents.

  As alluded to later on in this post, this statement is not accurate. For example, a corporation can "get" a patent. As stated later:

  But the Patent Act requires inventors to be “individuals,” which means “a human being, a person” in Supreme Court precedent.

  "Individuals" have to be the inventors of the invention to which a patent is being sought, but that is not the same thing as the one 'getting' or holding the patent. Therefore a corporation can file for and receive ("get") a patent on inventions made by its human employees, despite the fact the corporation is not an individual.

• On the post: Congress Urges DOJ To Review The Time Warner Discovery Merger Mess Amidst Chaos And Ongoing Layoffs

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2023 @ 07:49am

  It’s been a wonderful example of the blistering stupidity of the “growth for growth’s sake” mindset, the perils of mindless consolidation, and our obsession with completely pointless megadeals that genuinely only benefit investors and higher level executives. Everybody else, from artists and employees to consumers, gets screwed in the form of layoffs, higher rates, or lower quality product.

  So, in other words, a typical for-profit corporation?

• On the post: Greek Government Used Predator Spyware To Spend A Year Surveilling A US Citizen

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2023 @ 12:01am

  Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts

  ^ see title ^

• On the post: Online Facial Recognition Service Caught Cruising Through Graveyards To Fill Its Database

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2023 @ 09:49pm

  Do they know something we don't about an upcoming undead rising?

• On the post: Engineers Gave Elon’s Tweets Special Treatment Because Elon Freaked Out That A Joe Biden Tweet Got More Engagement

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 04:36pm

  And when the world’s richest man does something pathetic it’s going to get covered by the media regardless of how certain people feel about him.

  When did this become about Bernard Arnault? I thought we were dissing Elon Musk?

• On the post: The LDS Church Opposes ‘Bad Mormon’ Trademark Application Over ‘Tarnishment’ Concerns

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2023 @ 09:21pm

  Wow, I first misread that title as "The LSD Church ..." Silly me confusing a body full of scatter-brained hallucinating people with the LSD Church.

• On the post: BestNetTech 2022: The Stats

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2023 @ 07:08pm

  last year, we finally switched from our old, home-built platform to WordPress.

  And the site still works? Amazing! :D

• On the post: BestNetTech 2022: The Stats

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2023 @ 07:05pm

  If you stopped clicking on those "boner pills" links, maybe BestNetTech wouldn't get so much spam about them due to lack of traffic.

• On the post: Twitter’s ‘Cost Cutting By Not Paying Bills’ Now Going To Increase Legal Fees

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2023 @ 03:49pm

  What would be amusing is if Twitter is evicted by REIT, which by extension would mean the sub-letter Dentsu would also get evicted, which would likley put Twitter in breach of contract to the sub-letters, Dentsu, and then getting sued by both REIT for unpaid past rent and Dentsu for breach of their lease agreement with Twitter...

• On the post: Does Twitter Have Any Employees Left Who Remember That The Company Is Under A Strict Consent Decree With The FTC?

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2022 @ 03:59pm

  I don't need no damn due diligence!

  Surely this poison pill would have come out in a pre-sale due diligence process that would make any (sane) potential buyer run for the hills and forget they ever considred making an offer?

• On the post: Yet Another Renter Sues Hertz After He And His Teen Daughter Were Held At Gunpoint By Cops Following A Bogus Theft Report

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2022 @ 05:28pm

  When something is stolen, it’s not the responsibility of the owner to do something about it, except to call the police.

  The vehicle was on Hertz's own lot, such that they were able to issue a new lease contract, hand over the keys, and have that third party drive it off the lot. By definition the vehicle was not stolen.

• On the post: Don’t Expect The US Government To Actually Stop Elon From Buying Twitter

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2022 @ 06:30pm

  Twitter doesn't care where the money comes from. Twitter doesn't have a sales contract with these questionable Saudi Arabian and Qatari investors, it has a contract with Musk and the acquisition company. If the US government bans certain Saudi Arabian and Qatari investors from investing in the aquisition company, that's a financing hole Musk has to fill, not a reason to back out of the acquisition..

• On the post: Chicago Sun-Times Kills Its Paywall; Makes Its Content Free For Everyone

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2022 @ 09:18pm

  They haven't dropped the paywall, they've changed it from a cash payment to a payment-in-kind, i.e., providing personal information to proceed through the paywall.

• On the post: ‘Matter’ Standard Hopes To Clean Up The Messy Smart Home Space

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2022 @ 09:19am

  Maybe this is the one you are looking for? https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png

• On the post: ‘Central Park Karen’ Loses Defamation Suit Against Employer That Fired Her Following Viral Video Of Her Calling Cops On A Black Birdwatcher

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2022 @ 06:56pm

  Employment at will means they could have fired her for any reason even if they didn’t like her shoes.

  No, no it doesn't. They cannot fire her for a discriminatory reason or for a reason that breaks a law or for a reason that breaks any contractual obligations they are under (I don't mean employment contract - otherwise they wouldn't be 'at will', I mean, for example, a consent decree where they have entered into a contract to not undertake certain activities).

• On the post: Did The 5th Circuit Just Make It So That Wikipedia Can No Longer Be Edited In Texas?

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2022 @ 01:20pm

  The act makes it illegal for BigTech to geolock users. So you could get a scenario where a large social media geolocks Texas. Texans sue in Texas state court.

  If the compamny has no presence in Texas, and it prevents Texas-based users from accessing the site, then a Texas court would lack standing to hear such a case. The best that Texas could do would be to take it up with a federal court, but then, they'd lose diversity and no federal law would be being broken to pursue the case in Federal Court. This would be the exact same situation as Texas (I think it was) trying to sue another state over how that state operates its federal election process and the federal court tossing it because there was no diversity or federal law at issue.

• On the post: EA Announces New Anti-Cheat Tech That Operates At The Kernel Level

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2022 @ 09:24pm

  That allows anti-cheat developers to detect a wider variety of cheating threats, as Murphy explained in an extensive FAQ.

  Would that make them Murphy's Laws?

• On the post: EU Commission Sued For Violating Its Own Data Protection Rules

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2022 @ 06:37pm

  Should we find better ways for people to keep their data safe and away from misuse? Absolutely. Is that answer to create a cumbersome, impossible to comply with, system of confusing laws that requires expensive lawyers to constantly give you non-committal answers on how to minimize your risk? It doesn’t seem like it. Is the answer to make sure that no one in the EU can actually make use of useful online services? Also doesn’t seem like it.

  While the nitty-gritty details of the law may be complex (like any law), the high-level requirement to comply with the law are pretty fucking simple: 1) only collect data you absolutely need to provide the service; 2) don't include libraries in your website that collect user data in breach of point 1, e.g., Google Analytics, directly sourced Facebook 'like' buttons, using Facebook as a login mechanism; 3) if you don't know what a random library you are including in your website does, don't fucking include it; 4) for data under point 1, ensure the method to collect it and the storage of it remains within the EU; 5) if you are willing to do more work, then expand 4 to include a country/foreign company that has the appropriate data sharing agreements in place (but easier to just stick under point 4); 6) if you do decide to collect extra data, then it is your choice to have to go through the extra rigmarole of appropriately obtaining informed consent; 7) if you undertake point 6, you are choosing to engage in ensuring whatever process you use to collect the data (e.g. Google Analytics) complies with 4, 5, and 6; 8) just don't do 5 and 6 if you aren't prepared to go through the extra liability and due diligence processes; 9) know how your website works; 10) if the purpose of your website is to monetize user data, fuck off; 11) if any of the above is 'too hard' you are in the wrong fucking business.

• On the post: Judge Sanctions MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell For Wasting The Court’s Time

  

  Eldakka ( profile ), 23 May, 2022 @ 11:55pm

  You mean like is in the article:

  As a result, the Court orders Lindell and his previous counsel to pay some of the fees and costs Smartmatic has incurred defending itself and moving for sanctions,

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