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Comment Re: Conservatives (Score 2) 398

Letâ(TM)s assume your logic is correct for a minute. Why hasnâ(TM)t Twitter banned all the other people who spew violence on their platform every single day (of which there are many)? Why havenâ(TM)t they banned the Aayatola for calling for violence against the US? Why havenâ(TM)t they banned the Chinese government that continues to oppose Taiwan?

Comment Re: Conservatives (Score 2) 398

Here, you seem to mix up Section 230. Because 230 protects Bug Tech from lawsuits of content in their site, Big Tech canâ(TM)t be sued for that content currently as you suggest because they claim they are not publishers. Yet you are ok with them taking these decisions and effectively acting like publishers. This is why 230 needs to be reformed and reworked. Even given this, as the previous poster stated, thereâ(TM)s no reason you canâ(TM)t just skip the content you donâ(TM)t want to see instead of insisting Big Tech censor it. Itâ(TM)s the same as browsing through your favorite streaming platform, you pick what you want to watch. It doesnâ(TM)t require some social class system, in fact that would be a big step backwards.

Comment TLJ is the worst but thereâ(TM)s a reason (Score 2) 192

IMHO, The Last Jedi is the worst of the Star Wars âoeSkywalkerâ films but I have a reason. While AotC is absolutely horrid to watch, TLJ breaks the rules of the universe that has been setup in the previous 7 films. That is why so many people dislike it. If the âoeHolden maneuverâ exists, then there is no reason for either of the Death Stars, Star Destroyers, or anything. Just rig a ship with a droid and ran it into whatever you want to destroy. End of story. It is this rule-breaking without thought, consequence, or explanation that completely wrecked what the audience expected to get out of a Star Wars film.

Comment Re:Way To Go, Apple!!!!! (Score 0) 821

Yes imagine the outcry because Dell IS ALREADY doing this and has been. Look here. This is primarily for Blu-ray but also applies to regular DVDs. Look at the row title Display. Specifically at the warning. Hmm. That looks mighty similar to what the MacBook is doing which is restricting the passage of protected content across insecure video links. Again, with DVI and HDCP-enabled equipment, there is no problem. VGA, there is a problem.

Comment FUD (Score 0) 821

To EVERYONE, This is nothing to do with Apple implementing DRM!!!!!!! Please understand that. HDCP is NOT DRM. This is Apple implementing a technology FORCED by the motion picture industry THAT HAS BEEN IN PCs FOR 2 YEARS ALREADY! Anyone who has a GeForce 7950 or better or an ATI X1900 or better has been subject to this technology (search for HDCP or hdcp in these pages). Apple is actually LATE in implementing this. ALL PC laptops currently have this so thinking "Well I'll just get a PC instead will not solve anything." This article is pure FUD and has very little truth in it. Please do a little research before you make knee-jerk reactions because everything on the internet isn't always true.

Comment Did anyone RFA (Score 0) 821

Anyone??? This "built-in copy protection" is just HDCP that has been in video cards and monitors for YEARS now on the Windows side. It has been around since at least 2006 with the GeForce 7 series! 7-Series.[Wikipedia] It was optional for DVI displays but the DVDs started being encoded with the signals so the display makers started making compatible displays. Heck you're probably using one right now and don't even know it. The thing is, since the adoption was pretty good with the displays, this "issue" only crops up when watching an encoded movie output to a non-HDCP display such as through a VGA connection. Again this is nothing new, it doesn't affect the playback on the laptop's screen, just the output to the projector, which also wouldn't have been affected with a DVI cable (and DisplayPort to DVI converter).

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