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- Comment on ‘Stop Killing Games’ Finds More Allies From MPs In The UK 1 week ago:
Mr Sewards, who is a member of a parliamentary group focused on consumer protection, also voiced fears that such a precedent could eventually extend to physical goods, as digital technology becomes increasingly integrated into household items.
If anything, the recent AWS outages and all the IOT physical device failures prove beyond all reasonable doubt that this is happening, and not just accidentally.
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 1 week ago:
That’s not the point I was making. She argued that opening the box was tantamount to agreeing to the terms, but the full terms aren’t on the box. You can’t access the full terms until after you’ve opened it, thus you haven’t agreed to them yet as you haven’t had the opportunity to read them. And, even then, the agreement is far from iron clad.
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 1 week ago:
On the subject of ownership, Peacock claimed that video games being licensed to consumers, rather than sold, was not a new phenomenon, and that “in the 1980s, tearing the wrapping on a box to a games cartridge was the way that gamers agreed to licensing terms.”
This is absolute bullshit and not at all how it works. For someone who is supposed to write laws, she should be removed from office for showing such incompetence.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 2 weeks ago:
Okay, I’m starting to think this article doesn’t really know what it’s talking about…
For most of modern computing history, however, analog technology has been written off as an impractical alternative to digital processors. This is because analog systems rely on continuous physical signals to process information — for example, a voltage or electric current. These are much more difficult to control precisely than the two stable states (1 and 0) that digital computers have to work with.
1 and 0 are in fact representative of voltages in digital computers. Typically, on a standard IBM PC, you have 3.3V, 5V and 12V, also negative voltages of these levels, and a 0 will be a representation of zero volts while a 1 will be one of those specified voltages. When you look at the actual voltage waveforms, it isn’t really digital but analogue, with a transient wave as the voltage changes from 0 to 1 and vice versa. It’s not really a solid square step, but a slope that passes a pickup or dropoff before reaching the nominal voltage level. So a digital computer is basically the same as how they’re describing an analogue computer.
I’m sure there is something different and novel about this study, but the article doesn’t seem to have a clue what that is.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 2 weeks ago:
More like a wet three bean salad.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 3 weeks ago:
Some cars even have a separate zone for the rear. However I’ve only seen that on touch screen models, so they can suck a dick.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 3 weeks ago:
Hard disagree. Physical buttons with a digital temperature and split controls for left and right (and maybe rear as well). Automatic climate control that also does the fans. I had all of this on a car in 2010, and it was perfect - I could just leave the temperature set at what I wanted all the time, and the fans would blow hard if it needed to heat or cool significantly to get there.
Some manufacturer’s, eg Volvo, don’t automatically adjust the fans, which is wank. But nothing is as wank as touch screen controls - I fucking hate it when you’re trying to aim at a button, then as you go in to press the car bumps and you completely miss.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 1 month ago:
Lol, I’m sure it’s a good book and Cory Doctorow is well renowned, but I can’t help but think: “Defeat Chokepoint Capitalism by buying our book right now!”
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 1 month ago:
Did you read the article - or even the title? This story is about people turning to piracy, not turning to another official source.
- Comment on UK officially rolls out digital ID scheme, to combat illegal migrants working. 1 month ago:
Yes, but you have those as physical objects. This is an app you must run on your phone.
- Comment on UK officially rolls out digital ID scheme, to combat illegal migrants working. 1 month ago:
It’s worse than that.
You have to run a government app on your phone. The tracking device in your pocket that goes with you everywhere, that must run government code.
- Comment on Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement 1 month ago:
I’m just glad they didn’t go into a protracted and expensive legal battle with this one, which isn’t exactly a good use of donated funds.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 2 months ago:
(Software) Piracy is not theft, by definition. Theft requries an intent to deprive, and copyright infringement does not deprive. Theft is a crime, copyright infringement is a civil offense (aside from the criminal version that now exists thanks to extensive lobbying by predatory rights holder organisations, but that has a slightly higher bar and is meant only for commercial pirates who profit).
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 2 months ago:
It’s a good job car mechanics use filthy language anyway, or they’d be in trouble.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 2 months ago:
What’s next?
“Moist”.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 2 months ago:
You’re right, this is more of an issue with your purchase not being complete. I think your legal remedies would either be through your card provider (probably too late) or civil action directly to Rockstar.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 2 months ago:
Yes but the financial ombudsman regulates financial services.
- Comment on Scott Bakula Eyeing Star Trek Return In President Archer Series Pitch From ‘Enterprise’ Producer 3 months ago:
It’s been a loooong time…
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 3 months ago:
All of this is precluded by you using a browser that is authorised and approved by the government.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 3 months ago:
It doesn’t have to be, but the businesses making it claim it needs to be.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 3 months ago:
Fuck off with your device based verification system. That’s just the same service, but as a more invasive app installed on your phone.
- Comment on Age verification and the enshitification of streaming will help reduce the decline in computer literacy in under 18s 3 months ago:
It isn’t about protecting children. It’s about exploiting adults.
A majority of people, both children and adults, will successfully be exploited by this. Even if it is eventually repealed (which is unlikely, there are businesses set up dependent on this - we can’t deny investors their profits!), it’s already happening now.
- Comment on US | Internet Archive Designated as a Federal Depository Library 3 months ago:
There was a link at the bottom of the OP article: kqed.org/…/sf-based-internet-archive-is-now-a-fed…
- Comment on Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions 4 months ago:
The researchers are hoping that the tiny cyborg could allow the military to infiltrate hard-to-access space or be used in search and rescue missions to find survivors in natural disasters, according to a research paper.
In other words the researchers are clawing at reasons to justify their research. The Chinese military aren’t looking into this, following commands 9 out of 10 times isn’t reliable enough to even start development.
This is about as strategically useful as a bluetooh controlled robo-roach.