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• On the post: If You're Going To Defend A Satirical Song From A Copyright Lawsuit, Don't Try A Bunch Of Stupid Alternative Arguments First

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 05 May, 2021 @ 03:45pm

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  I've known quite a few people like that. One gentleman I knew years back owned six computer stores, so (in his opinion) that made him a computer expert (he barely knew how to turn on a computer).

• On the post: From Jurassic Park To Telepathic Monkeys, Elon Musk Press Hype Is Getting A Bit Thick

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2021 @ 04:27pm

  Re: Re: Elon Musk vs Physics

  Oh? So you're claiming Musk wins over physics? Please provide details...

• On the post: Detroit PD Detective Sued For His (Second) Bogus Arrest Predicated On Questionable Facial Recognition Searches

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2021 @ 03:21pm

  Re: Anyone?

  The primary problem with using IR as a surveillance camera is that it also sees through many types of clothes, making them a privacy nightmare for surveillance companies. And you thought there was a fit thrown over millimeter radar in airports...

• On the post: From Jurassic Park To Telepathic Monkeys, Elon Musk Press Hype Is Getting A Bit Thick

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2021 @ 04:22pm

  Elon Musk vs Physics

  People really need to check out Thunderf00t's channel on youtube where he applies simple physics to many of Musk's claims... let's say that physics wins 10 times out of 10. :)

• On the post: Crime Rates Drop After The City Of Baltimore Decides It's Not Going To Waste Resources Prosecuting Minor Offenses

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2021 @ 04:38pm

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  If you're poor and someone robs your apartment, they could very well wipe out everything you own.

  If you're poor and someone robs your apartment, odds are highly likely that even if the cops respond, they'll never catch whomever did it. That's always been the case. The best you could ever hope was that a fence got busted and happened to have some of your stuff, assuming you had the serial numbers and they hadn't removed the serial numbers from the items. Cops only respond quick enough to possibly catch burglars if the place in question belongs to someone rich or connected.

• On the post: Senator Elizabeth Warren Goes Over The Line; Threatens To Punish Amazon For 'Snotty Tweets'

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2021 @ 08:33am

  Re: Not a threat

  The conversation is silly, but I just don't see the supposed "threat" by Warren.

  Oh? So you missed this line completely?

  And fight to break up Big Tech so you’re not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets.

  She clearly threatened to break up companies that back-talk to politicians. If you don't see the threat, you're part of the problem.

• On the post: Senator Elizabeth Warren Goes Over The Line; Threatens To Punish Amazon For 'Snotty Tweets'

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2021 @ 08:30am

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  There is also some truth to the part where Amazon isn't at fault - it IS hard to find a public bathroom these days. As a Walmart employee, I see (and direct) many delivery people to the bathrooms because we're one of the few places where bathrooms are open to the general public. Amazon can't put bathrooms in delivery trucks... I don't think there's anything beyond long-haul buses/trains/planes that have bathrooms. If a delivery driver suddenly NEEDS to go and is not close to something like a Walmart, there's not much Amazon can do about it. Saying Amazon should be punished because of that is stupid.

• On the post: Apple Sued Over 'Diverse' Emojis Which Is All Idea and No Specific Expression

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2021 @ 05:49am

  Not just copyright

  We see this in patents as well. Patents are supposed to cover inventions, not ideas, but you'll see law firms that specialize in patents advertising that they can get your "idea" patented... and they're usually right. The USPTO rubber-stamps just about anything these days, including "inventions" that don't include any kind of real device solving a real problem.

• On the post: Deepfake Of Tom Cruise Has Everyone Freaking Out Prematurely

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2021 @ 03:37pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  In that film, our hero was framed for massacring innocent people from his helicopter, who were rioting for food. The method used? Well, essentially a deep fake although the way it's presented could just be tricky editing.

  It was just splicing. They cut sections of his dialogue, and spliced in a fake voice on the other end of the radio. The deep fake was later when they faked his death so they could hunt him down off-screen.

• On the post: What Stevie Ray Vaughan Can Teach Us About Security Design

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2021 @ 04:43am

  Re: No SRV and no maps

  Actually, they only have a few hundred unique keys, so it's worse than that. That was one of the weird cases that occurred in Houston while I was going to college there. Someone dropped dead at the park from heart problems or some such, and only had his keys on him. They went back to his vehicle to get his ID and called his family to tell them the bad news, only it was the wrong vehicle. Someone else had the same make/model and just happened to use the same key. The person they thought was dead had come back, gotten in the wrong vehicle and driven off, leaving his own vehicle to be identified as the dead man's. It can be even worse than that in some cases. Back in the 90s, a Mazda blank could open the doors and trunk of ANY model/year Mazda, and could start half of them. We had a Mazda 323, and a locksmith showed us - he took a blank and opened the doors and trunk, but couldn't start the car. We were "lucky". We got rid of that car quickly.

• On the post: Deepfake Of Tom Cruise Has Everyone Freaking Out Prematurely

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2021 @ 03:03am

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  Except the response isn't to close the barn door, it's to burn down the barn and salt the earth for miles around it. That's always the issue with minor problems - the hand-wringers always go to the nuclear option first.

• On the post: Fifth Circuit Says Tasing A Person Soaked In Gasoline And Setting Them On Fire Isn't An Unreasonable Use Of Force

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2021 @ 01:44pm

  Re: This is how you get not just protests but riots

  On July 10, 2017, Gabriel Anthony Olivas called 911 and reported that his father was threatening to kill himself and burn down their house. Corporal Ray, Sergeant Jefferson, and Officers Scott, Elliott, and Guadarrama of the Arlington Police Department responded.

  He called 911, maybe thinking they'd link him to a suicide prevention hot-line or something similar. Instead, they sent the police. This is bad as it means that people will be discouraged from calling 911 for any emergency lest the police show up and make things worse.

• On the post: Fifth Circuit Says Tasing A Person Soaked In Gasoline And Setting Them On Fire Isn't An Unreasonable Use Of Force

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2021 @ 01:36pm

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  Shit like this is just the best they can do.

  That's bullshit as well. I come from a period where cops rarely drew their weapon, much less fired it at someone. Where they talked down threats like this instead of going in guns blazing. The problem today is in WHO gets hired and HOW they are trained. It's no longer the best getting the best training, it's bullies and psychos who get taught how to get away with literal murder.

• On the post: Random Jackass Attempts To Trademark 'Mayor Of Mar-A-Lago' In The Most Hilarious Way

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2021 @ 01:58am

  That bad

  The USPTO is not going to take some scribbles of a proposed... I don't know, logo?

  Knowing how BAD the USPTO is, I'd bet this is granted.

• On the post: Chastity Penis Lock Company That Was Hacked Says It's Now Totally Safe To Put Your Penis Back In That Chastity Lock

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2021 @ 04:35pm

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  If you require a chastity belt, there isn't any trust. Period. It's like the opposite of trust.

• On the post: Latest Anti-Accountability Move By Cops Involves Playing Music While Being Recorded In Hopes Of Triggering Copyright Takedowns

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2021 @ 04:21pm

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  Of course not! Laws are for the peons.

• On the post: With Loon Dead And Google Fiber Frozen, Google's Broadband Disruption Plays Aren't Looking So Hot

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2021 @ 01:50pm

  Telling

  It's extremely telling that even GOOGLE can't break the ISP monopolies. The major ISPs need to be broken up, badly.

• On the post: Microsoft Patent: Chatbots Made From The Online Habits Of Dead People

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2021 @ 01:36am

  How clever

  Seems the muggles finally figured out how to make something like our magical portraits. Such clever little beasts!

• On the post: California Appeals Court Says Section 230 Immunizes Twitter From Banned User's Lawsuit

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2021 @ 02:22pm

  Re: Re:

  Nope. They're the double-down and dig-deeper kind.

• On the post: Google Threatens To Pull Out Of Australia Entirely; Australians Demand That It Both Stay And Pay News Orgs For Giving Them Traffic

  

  JoeCool2 ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2021 @ 02:57pm

  Solution

  The solution is easy - whatever the news companies say google owes them in link tax, google doubles it and sends it as a bill to those same companies for services rendered (directing web traffic). Google was doing it for free, now they can charge for those services.

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