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• On the post: Hacker Tricked Robinhood Support Into Revealing Data Of 5 Million Users

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2021 @ 10:50am

  Future contact

  Come on! You can trust us - Robinhood gave us your info, and you trust them, right?

• On the post: Missouri Admits It Fucked Up In Exposing Teacher Data, Offers Apology To Teachers — But Not To Journalists It Falsely Accused Of Hacking

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2021 @ 03:42pm

  Re: 'Here's an ounce, now we're off to demand a pound...'

  It's like the state stabbing them with a knife, and when reporters point this out, the state then slaps a bandaid on the wound and charge the reporters with the stabbing.

• On the post: Locast Shuts Down, As Yet Again A Bad Interpretation Of Copyright Law Makes The World Worse

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2021 @ 05:31pm

  Re:

  I live in a hilly region, so if I wanted to receive local TV, I'd need an aerial nearly 100 feet tall! The entire area around where I live is entirely served by Spectrum cable, or DirecTV, even though there's several stations in the city not even 20 miles away. You only get local TV if you happen to live on the top of the ridges.

• On the post: Misquoting Einstein Is Fast And Stupid, But Not Accurate

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2021 @ 02:02pm

  Re:

  In my experience (30 years programming), that's the number one source of bugs, and they're very difficult to find because we don't read back the code we actually wrote, we read back what we thought we wrote. Some programmers will go back through the code backwards to find those bugs. Others will pass the code on to someone who doesn't know what you meant to write, only what you actually wrote.

• On the post: Misquoting Einstein Is Fast And Stupid, But Not Accurate

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2021 @ 03:00am

  Pfft!

  Everyone knows this quote was originally from Mark Twain.

• On the post: House Committee Investigating January 6th Capitol Invasion Goes On Social Media Fishing Expedition; Companies Should Resist

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2021 @ 02:57am

  Re: Re: Re: Did you miss that "The FBI has found scant evid

  They mean "scant" like the piddling amount of evidence of torture during our wars in the middle-east. How many pages was that report again? Yeah, scant like that. ;)

• On the post: House Committee Investigating January 6th Capitol Invasion Goes On Social Media Fishing Expedition; Companies Should Resist

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2021 @ 02:44am

  Re: Re: Freedom is inconsistant

  My social security card, the actual card (it's around here somewhere) says "Not to be used for identification purposes" or words that that effect. But they never enforced it and millions of businesses did use your SSN as an ID in their system.

  When I attended the University of Houston (TX) many years back, they used your SSN as your student number "to keep things simple". You didn't sign your homework or tests, you wrote your SSN on it. Ah! Those were the days... how naive we were. Identity theft? What are you talking about, international spies? Chicago politicians? :D

• On the post: Fake 'U.S. Copyright Office' Imposter Gets Google To Delist URLs On Section 1201 Grounds

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2021 @ 07:29am

  Re: Re: Wait...

  How double negatives are treated will vary by culture and language. You'll notice that double negatives in the US tend to be treated the same way they're treated in Hispanic cultures: they don't cancel out, they make the point more emphatic. "I ain't gotta not do nothing no-how" just means the same as "I don't have to do it" with a butt-load of emphasis attached to the statement. The headline makes perfect sense to the average American, who won't trip over the double negative.

• On the post: Appeals Court Shuts Down Kansas' 30-Year-Old Ag Gag Law

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2021 @ 07:31am

  Re: Re:

  I think living on a farm for at least part of your life should be mandatory, if only to show you how good you have it not being a farmer. There's a reason people moved away from farming the very instant the option arose. It would also give people more empathy for the more ethical farmers who are trying to keep everyone fed. There's a vast gulf between the normal farmer and the a-holes like those pushing the ag-gag laws. Without the experience of actually living on a farm, some might not see the difference. And yes, I've personally chopped the heads off chickens and killed cute little bunnies to put food on the table. Living on a farm made me quite happy with being an engineer instead of a farmer.

• On the post: Understanding The California Ruling That Said Prop 22, The Gig Worker Ballot Initiative, Was Unconstitutional

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2021 @ 07:31am

  Re: Am I the only one with a migraine?

  Does California have the highest per capita of lawyers? This certainly makes it sound that way. Just lawyers creating work for themselves where none exists in a normal society.

• On the post: Apple's New Scanning Tools Raising More Concerns, Even Inside Apple

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2021 @ 05:41pm

  Re: A dangerous backdoor

  What happens when China compels Apple to report pro-democratic content? When Mideast monarchs compel Apple to report homosexual content? When Germany compels Apple to report pro-Nazi content that traps research about fascism?

  Everyone switches the Android, that's what. :)

• On the post: Oklahoma Deputies Steal $141,500 From Men Trying To Buy Land, Manage To Make $10,000 Of It Disappear

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2021 @ 03:29am

  Re: Re:

  Where did they go? Depends on what kind of criminal they were (and still are): conmen -> politicians
  grifters -> bankers/financial advisers
  thugs/muggers -> police

• On the post: ShotSpotter (Again) Spotted Altering Shots (And Spots) To Better Serve Police Narratives

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2021 @ 03:56pm

  More fitting name

  Given cases like this, maybe it should be called ShitSpotter.

• On the post: As Expected: Judge Grants Injunction Blocking Florida's Unconstitutional Social Media Law

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2021 @ 03:06am

  Re:

  Does this mean they really are the Chosen Few? My brain is about to explode! Wait!

  God protects children, drunks, and fools.

  Oh, thank God. My brain almost decided to leave for Mars. So which of the above are the Florida politicians... definitely not children, so what does that leave... ;)

• On the post: Oatly Sues PureOaty For Trademark And Trade Dress Infringement

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2021 @ 07:25am

  Re: Perhaps One Too Many Barristers

  We're about due for the Franchise Wars predicted in Demolition Man. Some company is going to decide that hiring mercenaries is cheaper than hiring lawyers, and we're off!

• On the post: The Decades-Long Trademark Dispute Over 'Pretzel Crisps' Comes To Its Obvious End

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2021 @ 02:48am

  Cut-n-Paste

  but unfortunately that website seems to think that disallowing any copy/paste of its text is somehow the same as enforcing copyright. When attempting to do so, you get a copyright warning.

  Get the add-on "Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy" - it gets rid of that kind of nonsense. I tried the site you mention (may it forever not get traffic), and it works like a charm.

• On the post: Supreme Court Finally Limits Widely Abused Computer Hacking Law… But Just A Bit

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2021 @ 02:59pm

  Two laws

  He was a cop? Sorry, but this doesn't help the average person. This is an exception for our masters.

• On the post: How Predictive Policing Got A Chicago Man Shot Twice

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2021 @ 03:11pm

  Re: You are being watched...

  My dad loved that show... and a host of others similar to it... and just about anything crime related.

• On the post: Milwaukee Sewerage District Threatens Menards Over Fertilizer Sales

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 25 May, 2021 @ 03:32am

  Yet again, with more feeling

  Almost certainly just contracted lawyers trying to generate billable hours to justify their salary. It normally is in cases like this.

• On the post: DOJ Sent A Grand Jury Subpoena To Twitter Demanding The Unmasking Of A Twitter User Being Sued By Devin Nunes

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 17 May, 2021 @ 05:25pm

  DId they just?

  but it appears to still be an active lawsuit against the Twitter users @DevinCow and @DevinNunesMom. Shortly thereafter, Twitter received the Subpoena. Public Tweets posted by the Account indicate that it may be operated by the same user as @DevinNunesMom.

  Did they just call Devin Nunes' mom a COW? Hmm... yes, I believe they did. Maybe Devin should be suing THEM for defamation. ;)

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