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• On the post: Insanity Wins As Appeals Court Overturns Google's Fair Use Victory For Java APIs

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2018 @ 12:42pm

  Re:

  I've heard that same doom several times over several years and it still has had no detrimental impact on the market. Java is "dying" as programming is "dying", i.e. it's not.
  
  What happens in the android world has next to zero impact on what happens in all other places java is used. And this ruling won't have much, if any, impact on java usage elsewhere with the narrow possibility it will shut down OpenJDK.

• On the post: Senators Say The FCC's Broadband Maps are a Bad Joke

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2018 @ 11:21am

  Re: Re: Re: Pro-tips for BestNetTech Zombie Killers (TM):

  Do you have anything useful to contribute to the conversation? Or are you so focussed on others' posting behaviors that you can't see your hypocrisy in refusing to create and use an account and bent on wasting everyone else's time?
  
  You don't have to be a "fanboy" to see how pointless your posts are.

• On the post: SESTA's First Victim: Craigslist Shuts Down Personals Section

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2018 @ 10:47am

  Re: Pro-censorship groups cheering

  So when will TD shut down its comments section for fear of litigation?

• On the post: SESTA's First Victim: Craigslist Shuts Down Personals Section

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2018 @ 10:00am

  Re: SHOULD BE risk to host "personals": long been solicitations,

  You're one of those morons who claim Y2K was a bunch of hype for nothing, aren't you?

• On the post: SESTA's First Victim: Craigslist Shuts Down Personals Section

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2018 @ 09:59am

  Re: "That's already been proven wrong"

  This will end something like the Y2K episode where non-techies laugh at how all the hype was for nothing when, in reality, absent the hype and all the fixes that were deployed the year 2000 would have been a catastrophe. Now, all the sites that proactively prepare for SESTA to avoid litigation will be laughed at when 5 years from now they still haven't been sued.
  
  The general public is chock full o' morons.

• On the post: Wherein Facebook Loses Recess For Everyone

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2018 @ 12:55pm

  Re: By the way: if anyone considers multiple comments NOT planned,

  Your drivel is hidden by a vote of the other readers here. Let that teach you something.

• On the post: Mark Zuckerberg Finally Speaks About Cambridge Analytica; It Won't Be Enough

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2018 @ 10:44am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Things being worse elsewhere doesn't exonerate those involved in this case. Whataboutism is a poor way to deal with issues.

• On the post: As Expected Senate Overwhelmingly Passes Unconstitutional SESTA Bill, Putting Lives In Danger

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2018 @ 08:48am

  Re: That slide right into hell...

  Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, straight to the bottom.

• On the post: As Expected Senate Overwhelmingly Passes Unconstitutional SESTA Bill, Putting Lives In Danger

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2018 @ 08:47am

  Re: Re: Re: 4chan is in Canada

  We've already witnessed legal enforcement cross international boundaries. Being in another country is no guarantee of safety any more.

• On the post: Mark Zuckerberg Finally Speaks About Cambridge Analytica; It Won't Be Enough

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2018 @ 08:36am

  Re: Zuckerberg is lying, of course

  Occam's Razor dictates that Zuck is far more likely to be a profiteering asshole than a sociopath. He knows exactly what he's doing. But he is no doubt lying every step along the way.

• On the post: Mark Zuckerberg Finally Speaks About Cambridge Analytica; It Won't Be Enough

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2018 @ 08:35am

  Re:

  They could back their own bond without external help. And it's unlikely the value of the bond would come anywhere close to the profit made from "violating the restrictions". Still no proper motive to behave well.
  
  Cambridge Analytica should never have had access to the data in the first place. There would be nothing to bond if privacy was respected.

• On the post: Mark Zuckerberg Finally Speaks About Cambridge Analytica; It Won't Be Enough

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2018 @ 08:32am

  Re: Re: "It's not going to be enough."

  In the EU they're mostly interested in trying to extract money from the Facebook juggernaut rather than block it or shut it down. Russia may well block it for reasons entirely unrelated to privacy. Turkey and others have toyed with blocking them.
  
  Blocking Facebook means blocking a potential (or actual) revenue stream. That's not a typical activity of most governments. They're more interested in fines that generate short-term revenue and deals that generate longer-term revenue.
  
  As always, it's all about the money.

• On the post: Sheriff Caught Buying Property With Jail Food Funds, Has Tipster Who Turned Him In Arrested

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2018 @ 10:42am

  I don't understand why the public no longer trusts our police. It doesn't make any sense.
  
  /s
  
  #yetAnotherNotch

• On the post: Photographer Tutorial Company Reacts To Pirates By Screwing With Them Hilariously

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2018 @ 08:32am

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  Doubly so if the video was uploaded by the makers themselves in order for it to be downloaded - even if misnamed to fool potential pirates, that makes it an authorised, legal download!

  This. The torrent they uploaded was not the one they charged money for. They offered this version freely at no charge. There was no theft, no piracy involved. Funny, but misguided.

• On the post: Photographer Tutorial Company Reacts To Pirates By Screwing With Them Hilariously

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2018 @ 08:30am

  Re: Re:

  They didn't post this to a "pirate site", they posted up torrents. Very different things. Torrents are not piracy by definition. Piracy is committed when you post commercial content without a license to do so. Those who download that material are not automatically pirates as they can't know immediately whether that material was inappropriately posted (in most cases). Many torrents of commercial software, for example, still require paid activation keys.

• On the post: If You're Pissed About Facebook's Privacy Abuses, You Should Be Four Times As Angry At The Broadband Industry

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2018 @ 08:23am

  Re:

  It seems you don't understand what "whataboutism" is.

• On the post: As Video Games Are In Presidential Crosshairs, New Study Again Shows They Don't Affect Behavior

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2018 @ 08:52am

  Re: Re: Re: US Boy Kills Sister Over Video Game

  You're talking about movies, not games. I've been playing shooters (online and off) for decades and I've never seen (or at least do not recall seeing) any character in a video game "walk away blowing the smoke off the end".
  
  Yes, many games are violent in nature but upbringing taught me right and wrong. Games are entertainment, not life lessons.

• On the post: Both Facebook And Cambridge Analytica Threatened To Sue Journalists Over Stories On CA's Use Of Facebook Data

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2018 @ 11:41am

  Re: Re: Re:

  What makes you say that?

• On the post: Both Facebook And Cambridge Analytica Threatened To Sue Journalists Over Stories On CA's Use Of Facebook Data

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2018 @ 11:17am

  Re: Re:

  Your portfolio holds a significant position in Facebook, doesn't it?

• On the post: 'Serious Sam' Developer Teams Up With Denuvo Cracker To Pump Up Sales For Failed Game

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2018 @ 02:04pm

  Re:

  To add to that, "crackers" break DRM partly for the challenge and partly for the notoriety, mostly the latter. Give them an opportunity to gain that or an even larger degree of notoriety and don't be surprised if they go for it even if the process and result are entirely above board.

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