mctoasterson

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

The House isn't stuck with that though. They can amend the rules for the next session, and I'd imagine any speaker worth his salt would demand that rule be stricken because it is unworkable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I saw this as a kid and completely forgot it had both Tim Curry and Laura Linney in it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

He's Teflon Don. He will literally never do a day of jailtime.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Eventually people come to the surprising realization that their best product was actually the Zune.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is how all military branches have always pressured Congress for more budget. They give a public disquisition with doomsday scenarios about our rivals/adversaries so the public will see the press coverage and call their Congressional reps to demand the military gets built up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This could be a blessing in disguise... My main purpose would be to avoid Apple-style "client side scanning" which, in the hands of vertically-integrated Google hardware and software, amounts to exposing yourself to constant and on-demand warrantless searches.

Since there is no transparency into the hardware backdoors, the internal workings of the close sourced Google ROM, or the business agreement to cooperate with LE / intelligence agencies, bare minimum is to run an alternative OS that complicates their efforts to undermine user privacy. Hobbled AI features on the chip itself might actually be another safeguard, depending on how it is implemented.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You're implying that one candidate has a super secret big lead not reflected in polling.

Who? And why do you think that?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No shame in it. Teri Garr was both hilarious and hot in that movie.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Not a lawyer but I believe in the US this would be legal as you are granting the use of the original license and not duplicating any content for simultaneous use by others.

What I would like to see is a gentlemans agreement of sorts where companies agree not to come after people for playing pirate, emulated or archival copies of games that are decades old and not for sale in any format anymore. I guess this is somewhat encompassed in the framework of "Abandonware".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Don't forget it also created a 5-10 year period of otherwise-tech-illiterate ditsy chicks with comm or marketing degrees rebranding themselves as "Social Media Marketing Expert", because they knew what buttons to click in Facebook UI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

While you should do this to block your TVs telemetry and other undesirable behavior, realize that YouTube native TV app ads can't be blocked at DNS level alone without also blocking the core functionality of YouTube, due to the way it serves the ads.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I read "totally organic grassroots movement" and hear "PAC funded astroturf campaign"

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