Comment um paint from windows 7? (Score 1) 26
When the transparency @#_?!$# in windows 10 paint just screwed up image editing, I downloaded paint for windows 7. And it not only works great on both 10 and 11, but it's fast and I've even replaced the buggy win10 POS as my default image editor. Criminy. Another win for the tried and true
Comment paper doesn't quit working... (Score 1) 229
anybody who's shopped at a kohls has seen electronic labels for years. the best part? when the $%^&* thing is broken and you have no idea *what* the price is. let alone that most of them are "best viewed at a specific angle" so you bob your head around trying to figure trying to read them...
mabye they'll have better tech...
Comment Re:Progress (Score 1) 100
rdos bitches.
Comment goodbye jerry (Score 1) 130
anybody remember after Jerry Garcia's death when some jackass added 100s of usenet groups so that when you added them all in tin it spelled "goodbye jerry" vertically in ascii art as it scrolled by?
that was the first time for me its lack of cental admin meant it was going to devolve into unusability...
Comment Re:When was Turbo Pascal 7 released as freeware? (Score 1) 113
Hmmm... yeah, i don't think v7 released as freeware is true either. My recollection about 5.5 is the same. I've still got a copy and the genuine Delphi "community" edition that was free, but no I would've picked up 7 if it had been released.
Comment cross a timezone boundary once in a while (Score 1) 241
how is daylight savings any different then taking a vacation *1* time zone away? seriously. *that's* going to cause irreparable harm to my sleep patterns?
pathetic.
Comment 1% of gdp to delta amex? nah... (Score 1) 151
Nobody seems to be questioning the quote "Consumers now charge nearly 1 percent of U.S. GDP to Delta's American Express credit cards alone." US GDP is about 25 *TRILLION* dollars 1% would be 250 billion. to Delta's AMEX? come on. Is the military telling northrup to "just put another F35 on my AMEX"? that seems highly unlikely...
Comment what kind of setup is he using? (Score 1) 32
a simple calculator told he thats more than 3 boots a second for 21 straight hours. yikes!
Comment the demand will come back... (Score 1) 100
sheesh. once the glut of new pcs and laptops from the covid buyup gets old and sluggish, the demand will be back with a vengence. I'd give it a another year maybe two...
two things will never change... things wear out and software just keeps getting fatter.
Comment Re:Old internet is dying (Score 1) 149
not news.. but craigslist? still mighty...
Comment 43" 4k is already tiring enough (Score 1) 37
1080 on a 100" screen? ick. i work with a 43" 4k every day, and its nice to have the real estate for big views of side by side code, but theres a lot of swiveling if you open a lot of stuff around the edges... if this is much bigger than your field of view they might as well make it smaller.
Comment just send me the ad machine... (Score 1) 190
and 10 bucks a month for leaving it on... even a combo at taco bell once a month has gotta be better than that landfill-ready waste of space.
Submission + - Man Battling Google Wins $500K For Search Result Links Calling Him a Pedophile (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A Montreal man spent years trying to hold Google accountable for search results linking to a defamatory post falsely accusing him of pedophilia that he said ruined his career. Now Google must pay $500,000 after a Quebec Supreme Court judge ruled that Google relied on an “erroneous” interpretation of Canadian law in denying the man’s requests to remove the links. “Google variously ignored the Plaintiff, told him it could do nothing, told him it could remove the hyperlink on the Canadian version of its search engine but not the US one, but then allowed it to re-appear on the Canadian version after a 2011 judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada in an unrelated matter involving the publication of hyperlinks,” judge Azimuddin Hussain wrote in his decision (PDF) issued on March 28.
The plaintiff was granted anonymity throughout the proceedings. Google has been ordered not to disclose any identifiable information about him in connection to the case for 45 days. The tech company must also remove all links to the defamatory post in search results viewable in Quebec. [...] Instead of compensatory and punitive damages originally sought—amounting to $6 million—the man was awarded $500,000 for moral injuries caused after successfully arguing that he lost business deals and suffered strains on his personal relationships due to being wrongly stigmatized as a pedophile. Hussain described the plaintiff’s experience battling Google to preserve his reputation as a “waking nightmare.” Due to Google’s refusals to remove the defamatory posts, the man “found himself helpless in a surreal and excruciating contemporary online ecosystem as he lived through a dark odyssey to have the Defamatory Post removed from public circulation,” Hussain wrote. The plaintiff, now in his early 70s, has the option to appeal the judge’s order that Google may not release any of his identifiable information for 45 days.
The plaintiff was granted anonymity throughout the proceedings. Google has been ordered not to disclose any identifiable information about him in connection to the case for 45 days. The tech company must also remove all links to the defamatory post in search results viewable in Quebec. [...] Instead of compensatory and punitive damages originally sought—amounting to $6 million—the man was awarded $500,000 for moral injuries caused after successfully arguing that he lost business deals and suffered strains on his personal relationships due to being wrongly stigmatized as a pedophile. Hussain described the plaintiff’s experience battling Google to preserve his reputation as a “waking nightmare.” Due to Google’s refusals to remove the defamatory posts, the man “found himself helpless in a surreal and excruciating contemporary online ecosystem as he lived through a dark odyssey to have the Defamatory Post removed from public circulation,” Hussain wrote. The plaintiff, now in his early 70s, has the option to appeal the judge’s order that Google may not release any of his identifiable information for 45 days.
Comment tilting at windmills (Score 1) 60
while the avengers might never have to face Chat-GPT, there are some interesting things to come out of that farce. Once AI mimicry becomes sufficiently matched with a complex enough "will" to find an answer, AI directed code will slither through the cracks in some inappropriately connected system (biotech? financial? utilities infrastructure? automated weaponry?) to cause pain for whoever the meat puppet that posed the question has decided is an enemy.
And stopping research? LOL. Wow. That's really working well for nuclear proliferation..
