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Comment Always Double Down on Stupid (Score 1) 88

Apple,

The EU has spoken. Your attempts to misinterpret the rulings just make you look bad.
You will come out of this a loser, much as you came into it.

Your authoritarian walled-garden "we're better than everyone else" Steve "Liver Thief" Jobs era is over.

Stop doubling down on stupid.

This is why nobody loves you except your fanbois.

Comment March 2024 - Red is dead (Score 2, Insightful) 36

Red has been a leader in so many technology and use cases. Nikon is Yet Another Japanese Camera Company (YAJCC) and contributes nothing to the ecosystem. This statement isthe DEATH OF RED and nothing more.

Nikon isn't "a bad actor" any more than any corporation is who purchases their rival and then fades the superior product into oblivion. However, they are the latest.

Red products are good. Nikon makes cheap crap. Figure out how this ends up on your own, or just watch the market (and I mean the sales market, not the investor market).

Comment Bye Microsoft. Nobody will miss you. (Score 1, Informative) 45

Microsoft is the leading cause of malware. By refusing to fix anything from longstanding issues to zero-day issues, they've ensured that their latest software is still backward compatible with Windows 3.1 (aka WFW and also a precursor to W95) and fully compatible with malware that uses these features.

Oh, so now they're not going to be on Android? Well the five users who've tried it are surely going to be disappointed.

Here is my outlook with a 360 degree view: Failure.

Comment Mission milestones (Score 3, Interesting) 19

Developing Blue Origin on time - 0
Providing BE-4 engines to ULA within 4 years of promised date - 0
Launching people into real space (past the Karman line) -0
Having Jeff Bezos put on a stupid cowboy hat and getting in his big blue penis rocket - 1
Moon landing - um, how about negative a million.

If there's a website or insurance company (Lloyd's?) taking bets on this "moon landing in 2025"
I'll take a short position please.

Bezos means "kisses" in Spanish and "stupid joke" in English.

Comment Roku Chat (Score 1) 147

To get the Chat option use this link:
https://support.roku.com/conta...

You'll find they are "offshore" and are not fluent EN-US speakers/writers.
I did ask for an escalation to someone who could understand the concern and got this:

DARWIN
3:46 pm
I apologize, as this chat is random and we don't have access to connect a chat to anyone.

I've also sent an email query from that same link. It opened a case, and I'm not hopeful
for much of a response.

Fundamentally any of us who own Roku devices paid for them to have the functionality
as was represented by Roku at the time of purchase. Disabling that functionality after
purchase to create a "need" to accept new T&Cs is likely unlawful and at the very least
worthy of civil penalties to START AT the full retail value of the Roku devices at time of
purchase plus replacement costs with equivalent hardware.

I am not a lawyer. I will not be agreeing to their new T&Cs on principle alone.

Comment What if you passed a law and nobody cared (Score 1, Interesting) 19

It's a nonbinding "request".
From a third-world country
that is in no way leading anything in AI.

Not news.
Not useful.
But hey, I get 20 emails a day from them offering to redo my website so it can also be a "taxi app" or other such nonsense.

Slasdot on weekends. /smdh

Comment Canada Sucks! (Score 0) 36

...we have way better privacy laws than down in the USA.

If your claim to fame is that Canada has better privacy laws than the US, you might
want to just go for a trifecta and list a few more things.

Canada has a prime minister that gets things done, and a senate and house of commons
that aren't dominated by backwards hicks trying to establish a theocracy.

Canada has a cleaner environment, more world-aware people who actually read, listen to,
and view news as opposed to something something The Voice or something something
Got Talent.

On the other hand, Canada has required registration of firearms, draconian border rules about
vehicle homologation prior to import, and stuck up Quebecois. Unlike the US, though, Canada
could allow them to secede, but they can't seem to get a majority. In the US even if they got a
majority someone would say it's unconstitutional, some orange guy would try to subvert the vote,
and the rest of us would be stuck with the "confederacy of hicks, inbreds, and religious zealots."

I love being a US citizen. I enjoy visiting Canada. Despite being close enough to touch and
sharing a common language (except the aforementioned Quebecois) both are very different
countries. But hey, we may soon have an Orange King, and you guys already have a king, and
you might get a disfunctional unable-to-do-union-jack-shit government like we already have.

Finally, I'll share a secret with our northern buddies. USA. Number One. USA Number One.

When you get a slogan come talk to us. /s for the humorifically challenged

Comment The Winklevii SNL skit (Score 1) 17

There's just nothing as funny as the WInklevii that any parody could do justice.

"Gemini agreed to return the funds lost by customers of its Earn program"
How noble of them to return what the fruits of their incompetence lost.

To which "we dress alike" prison should I send the warm thank-you card?
I mean, come on, when your only claim to fame is you look like that other turd next to you...
SNL couldn't write this stuff. I vote Mikey Day plays both roles.

Comment Plastic manufacturers are POISONING BABIES? (Score -1, Troll) 105

In Alabama, pre-born babies are children.

So plastic manufacturers are poisoning babies. Hear me out. It's a placenta, and [Alabama God Judge Warble Warble] is a child, not yet born, but still a child. Plastic is toxic in small quantities and poisonous in larger quantities. Plastic manufacturers are therefore KILLING and MURDERING our unborn Alabamer chilll'ren.

Subscribe today at maga.alabama.gov.

Comment Sounds great -- say McDonalds and Burger King (Score 1) 198

Wendy's the undispute #4 competitor in cheap fast food now says they'll stop the cheap part, and they're not too great on the fast part, and nutritionally speaking their food IS healthier than non-corrigated cardboard. So now it will be less cheap but just as bad on the fast part and just as good for you.

McDonalds says "Hey, thanks, Wendy's!"
Burger King says "Hey, thanks, Wendy's!"
In N' Out says: "What's a Wendy's?"
White Castle says: "Sorry, no time to chat about Wendy's. Line's out the door and we know fast and we know cheap and our sliders rock. Extra onions?"

Wendy's says: "We need a new PR director. Our revenue forecasts seem to be a bit higher than sales."

Comment Amazon license is a turd wrapped in spinach (Score 2) 64

DISC: I do not own any Fire sticks or other such Amazon devices.

PLEASE SHARE this license you say previous poster accepted, and if you don't mind, highlight the part that says anything like what you posted it says.

What is SCARY: Apparently (googling for "fire stick license") there are times the stick is 100% unusable do to a potentially "expired" license. This makes the hardware one purchased useless until Amazon fixes their mothership back end etc. No bueno. https://help.screencloud.com/s...

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