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Comment Worst Streaming Service (Score 1) 99

I hate Apple TV because almost everything requires a secondary subscription. None of those items are marked as "not included" when browsing, so you have to click on them to be told you can't watch them. At a minimum, they should have a browse page that only contains things you can actually watch, and they can promote all their other stuff anywhere else.

Comment Re:Pathetic attempt to distraction heats up (Score 1) 343

Legal systems existed before the United States. Early judges based their decisions on existing precedent and legal standards from England and the colonial period. Existing precedent is continually building and growing and has been for centuries.

Comment Not going to last long - API also being updated (Score 1) 72

YouTube sent out a notice to YouTube API users that the dislike count would be removed from the API in an upcoming release.

To make the dislike count private across the platform, we also will be removing public access to the dislike count data via our API.

Here are details on how this will and will not affect the API:

  • The dislike_count field within the statistics part of the video resource will be omitted on calls to the video.list endpoint except in cases in which the request is being authenticated as a user (such as the creator or the agent user) who owns the video that is being requested.
  • The videos.rate endpoint will be unaffected.
  • Developers who do not display dislike counts publicly and still need the dislike count for their API client can apply to be put on an allow list for an exemption.

Comment Re:It's not a problem (Score 1) 408

So you work at night sometimes. When you try to schedule something with someone, there is no confusion because the day transitions at midnight local time. On UTC, no assumptions can be made anymore. Days of the week and general times of day such as morning, afternoon, and evening would have little meaning the further from UTC you get.

X: Let's schedule a meeting. Are you available Tuesday morning?

Y: Tuesday morning after dinner or Tuesday morning before work?

Comment Re:It's not a problem (Score 1) 408

That still messes up the days of the week.

If we are all on UTC, then in the US Eastern Time Zone I arrive at work at 4am. After my 8 hour day, I commute home from work on Monday. I eat dinner and it switches to Tuesday at 7pm.

If I lived in China, I arrive work at 5pm on Monday. An hour before I get off, it's Tuesday and I leave work at 1am Tuesday.

No, that's not complicated at all. /s

Comment Re:There is no defense for S230 anymore here (Score 1) 603

I'll agree that Trump was just using a catchy phrase. It would be nice if we had a president who wasn't a moron and would think of, or better yet, understand the implications of what he's saying before he says it. It's not like he doesn't have a staff that could prevent this kind of thing.

Comment Re:There is no defense for S230 anymore here (Score 1) 603

Since this is a state issue, Trump is not in charge. As the president, I don't know what he should be doing, but he should not be promoting police brutality because 1) that's bad, and 2) that's what started this in the first place.

I wonder what the difference is between "nation-destroying idiot marxist" racism, and regular old racism.

Comment Re:There is no defense for S230 anymore here (Score 1) 603

If you think that Executive Order somehow amends Section 230 of the law, I can only assume that you are either:

  • trolling,
  • not a US citizen and don't understand how our government works,
  • blindly believing what someone else who told you, or
  • English is not your primary language and you don't understand what you read

The president cannot change a law and that EO does not alter the law in any way.

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