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• On the post: Cops Battered A Man Suffering A Seizure, Cooked Up Criminal Charges To Cover Up Their Actions

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2024 @ 03:25pm

  "Cop does job" shouldn't be newsworthy. The fact that it is says a lot of things about our police force, none of it good.

• On the post: NYC Officials Are Mad Because Journalists Pointed Out The City’s New ‘AI’ Chatbot Tells People To Break The Law

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2024 @ 10:07am

  I can only assume that Lewis-Martin got advice from NYC's AI bot how to handle this. Eating your own dogfood is supposed to be a good thing, but you're supposed to pay attention to the taste.

• On the post: NYC Officials Are Mad Because Journalists Pointed Out The City’s New ‘AI’ Chatbot Tells People To Break The Law

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2024 @ 10:02am

  Also see: IRS

• On the post: Luxury Brand Hermes Sues Tiny Used Book Shop In Turkey Called ‘Hermes Sahaf’

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2024 @ 10:29am

  Hermes is the name I gave my latest gaming computer. Because, you know, he's the Greek god of speed. Lawsuit incoming in 3... 2... 1...

• On the post: California Cops Now Have To Lead With The Pretext When Making Pretextual Stops

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2024 @ 10:02am

  “'Because you think I did something that broke the rules of the road, I guess,' is the only answer you should ever give to that question." I usually answer "No, sir" to that and to "do you know how fast you were going?" But I suppose smartassing a cop is a better response.

• On the post: Every Year Like Clockwork The Telecom Industry Lies And Claims Broadband Prices Are Dropping

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2023 @ 10:46am

  It's a negative drop, obviously. Try to keep up. Sheesh.

• On the post: The Great Paywall Of Musk Will Consist Of $1/Year To Tweet

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2023 @ 10:32am

  I think the idea is to stop mass 'bot auto-signups by requiring the user to produce credentials, in this case those associated with a banking account. It won't stop a) 'bots already signed up or b) anybody signing up manually. And it presupposes that the real problem is automated signups. Also, unless he prohibits the use of the same banking account for multiple accounts, it won't really stop mass signups, either. This is Captcha Lite: twice the calories but none of the taste. But of course Elon has already thought of this because he's a super-genius engineer who always has the answers so I must be missing something.

• On the post: Officer’s Body Cam Recording Helps Get Him Stripped Of Immunity By Appeals Court

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2023 @ 09:50am

  Show me on the tape where the man hurt your feelings.

• On the post: Elon Musk Decides ‘Who Needs Headlines, When We Can Just Have Pretty Pictures?’; Suspends Account That Made Fun Of Him

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2023 @ 12:15pm

  I'd argue that Matt Gaetz has a more punchable face, but that's just my personal opinion. But Musk's is pretty punchable.

• On the post: Netflix’s Password Sharing Cash Grab Finally Arrives In The States

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2023 @ 04:34pm

  Oh good

  I have an account I pay for that my disabled daughter M__ uses. She lives in a different state. She needs somebody to administrate the account for her. I do that. My other daughter D__, who lives with me, has an account as well. I use that one for watching content. Netflix assumes that any log-in to an account is an intent to view, and they start freaking out when I log into M__'s account do perform administration, and scream at me about stealing. All I want to do is check to make sure things are running smoothly, but they have been threatening to crack down on me. For stealing. Which I'm not doing. I've stopped watching anything on M__'s account since they've been being bitches about this, I've painfully manually transferred all my viewing to my profile on D__'s account (mostly by taking screenshots and scribbling notes, since they provided no other way to do this). So I'm in the position of trying to administrate the account of a disabled person but unable to do so without violating their terms of service and their moral outrage because they can't be bothered to provide separate administrative access for the account owner, even though doing so makes a ton of sense. So my conclusion is that Netflix don't care about the developmentally disabled. Sorry it took me a lot of work to get the conclusion, but I'm not sure what to do about this except complain, and... probably cancel the account. M__ is going to be disappointed and I won't be able to explain it to her in a way that she will understand.

• On the post: Netflix’s Password Sharing Cash Grab Finally Arrives In The States

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2023 @ 04:17pm

  In what way am I not paying for what I use? Please be specific.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2023 @ 10:08am

  I've been trying for years to get my boss to adopt detailed design documentation, slower development, and proper testing. Does that mean I'm not a software developer?

• On the post: Wireless Carriers Find That Nobody Cares About 5G Despite Years Of Hype

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2022 @ 08:13am

  I think that more people have been harmed by the loss of 3G than helped by the gain of 5G.

• On the post: Signal Says It Will Exit India Rather Than Compromise Its Encryption

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2022 @ 04:10pm

  "Some things are a bit Boolean, as Whittaker states above, but some things are simply binary." Uh... first, he said it's NOT Boolean. Second, Boolean is true/false logic. This statement makes no sense.

• On the post: Devin Nunes Drops SLAPP Case He Lost Against Guy He Claims Is The Husband Of The Satirical Tweeting Cow Who Mocks Him

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2022 @ 09:58am

  ...The same old bull all over again.

• On the post: Federal Agent Stupidly Threatens Twitter User With Arrest Over Protected First Amendment Expression

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2022 @ 02:53pm

  "Hopefully, Agent Henry’s superiors will be along shortly to smack the stupid out of him." Well, that's one way to get rid of him. There won't be anything left.

• On the post: Elon Musk Has Got Content Moderation All Figured Out: Delete The “Wrong” And “Bad” Content, But Leave The Rest (And Reinstate Trump)

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 11 May, 2022 @ 06:01pm

  "Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself." Musk is the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

• On the post: The ‘Stick To Sports’ Crowd Is Now Coming After Gaming Companies

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 06 May, 2022 @ 05:04pm

  I think that politicians should stick to politicking and stop making medical decisions for other people.

• On the post: How Disney Got That 'Theme Park Exemption' In Ron DeSantis' Unconstitutional Social Media Bill

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2022 @ 08:31am

  "Florida is appealing..."

  Not to me. I have no interest in going there ever.

• On the post: Oversight Board Overturning Instagram Takedown Of Ayahuasca Post Demonstrates The Impossibility Of Content Moderation

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2021 @ 11:23am

  Nothing is impossible to the person who doesn't have to do it.

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