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This is why it's always moral to pirate Nintendo

AFAIK, Fox News Channel is the only one to ever stand in court and argue that they're not really news, but "entertainment".

I support the idea of states' rights. However, I'm also salty as fuck that the slavedrivers of the Civil War ruined the entire concept. That enabled the federal government to stomp on the concept, in some cases fully warranted (like civil rights), in other cases not so much (like Wickard v. Filburn and the entire perversion of the Commerce Clause to turn it into full federal preemption).

You keep referring to the freedom fighters as "extremists".

The extremists are the ones infiltrating our government and turning it into the Fourth Reich.

I don't believe in any "God". I believe that only the universe is any "supreme being". Is that woo? Maybe. But it helps me be kinder than any religion seems to teach others.

Ah for the days when the OS didn't stop you from jerking off every hardware bit

If you checked any of the contemporaries, C64 offered more free BASIC RAM than others.

Militant atheists like you are almost as insufferable as militant theists

A single deep DMT experience "cured" my ADHD for several months before it faded, and I had zero guidance

Trademarks that well known can easily afford to file in every possible category. They don't need a special "this trademark is so known, it applies everywhere by default" status

Microsoft has been coddling big devs (read: the devs that code this absolute garbage) for decades. They have this mentality "if we change anything, and anything breaks for current users, they're going to blame us instead of the vendor" and that might have been useful in the 95 days, but it's outmoded. They need to have the balls to break every vendor in 2026 if they're doing things they shouldn't.

I don't trust Microsoft not to be a modern capitalist, but I trust the companies they enable even less.

Microsoft BASIC was a pretty decent interpreter, I wouldn't call it "shitware", so there you go?

Waiting for Apple to enter the food industry, with a highly specific McIntosh-based genetic lineage that they dub the "iApple".

I don't like the idea of trademarks that are so well-known that they apply in all fields. That doesn't serve the public. Companies that well-known can easily apply for a trademark across multiple fields. The trademark owners that would really need that kind of help are the smaller ones that aren't eligible for that, and must specifically register in various fields of industry.

IP law needs severe reform no matter which jurisdiction you're in (since the majority of the world signed the Berne Convention, the same reforms are needed everywhere)

His brain worm had a bad experience with Kratom once

Replacing a human tutor with an AI that will wildly hallucinate is wrong, and will directly contribute to the dumbing down of society that people here often bemoan.

This is the equivalent of "parenting" by putting a kid in front of YouTube Kids for half the day

Some 5 year olds could use a human tutor. Giving them AI instead is no different than plopping them in front of "Youtube Kids" instead of being a parent.

Dear God no. Keep kids away from AI, and keep AI away from kids. Kids need more human contact, not less.

The more I think about it, the more I want to ban your entire business model

I think that there should be a middle ground.

A huge number of disputes in the world are "he said-she said", in that there are no hard records and in those cases, might often makes right (the richest opponent will have the most ability to game the system).

I think there should be a legal distinction between a system that records only for locally-based analysis (or things as simple as personal GPS tracking for maps purposes), and throws the data away, and a system that is recording audio and video to storage. I think a 30-second rolling buffer should be allowed so that a user can press a button to document exactly what's happening without missing so much of the initial conflict reason (although that time value is arguable, maybe even a minute is fine as long as it's a rolling RAM-only buffer, and with proper legal protections to where police shouldn't be able to get that RAM data without the owner of the glasses having initiated recording, which would write the buffer to storage then continue recording from there).

If the user presses the "save the buffer and start saving video+audio from here" then I think automatically the law should require there be a visible indicator of recording. 1980s camcorders had a "recording" LED on the front (you could cover it, but that's not the manufacturer's fault).

If the copyright industry wants to draw a distinction between "streaming" and "downloading" (when both are very much technically the same action, just with software on the receiving end that refuses to do a single action that would differentiate the two) then there should also be a difference between "buffering video for processing and possible future recording" and "actively recording video to storage in real time".

I think these type of devices do have legitimate value outside of the problematic ones. I just wish there was a way to construct a legal framework where such devices could be legally used in a self-defensive way but could also be an aggravating factor for things that are already considered crimes)

Maybe they're using an accelerometer to detect the angle (and possibly even distance from the user, if they can, like if you turn the camera on close to you then move it away) to crop into a sensor that's otherwise exactly like a point and shoot. The image in the site appears to show a transparent classic reflective LCD panel as the viewfinder (like the type you'd see in a basic calculator, without the reflective background), and the camera is ever so slightly above the panel. The math probably isn't that hard for someone trained in how all this works.

Bull. That's passing the buck. The cops have a moral responsibility to do their job and not offload it to an AI that is known to hallucinate far more than a non-impaired, trained human.

"I was just following instructions" has been the excuse of every single low-level worker of authoritarian and abusive societies. It wasn't valid then, and it's not valid now.

Ruin the whole lot's life the way they tried to ruin this woman. At least ruin the relevant authority figures. Maybe the individual on-site officers should be spared, but the chief? Throw them out on their ass.

As far as Flock? At this point, they are fully an agent of the state and should be just as liable for Consitutional violations as the whole of the government.

Massive violation of rights. Flock should be shut down and their c-suite sent to prison. The cops that made this massive series of blunders should also be fired and blackballed nation-wide.

That is correct. The PPU does the memory fetches that would be done for that line, but no pixels are rendered.

For details: https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/PPU_rendering

Also, RGB PPUs (with the exception of the RC2C05-99 found in the Famicom Titler) do not do this, as they don't have to contend with a colorburst.

Don't the vast majority of RGB PPUs forego the missing dot? IIRC only the Famicom Titler RGB PPU has the missing dot.

I imagine the same way cheap point-and-shoot film cameras did.

"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law."

Words like "buy" "own" and "purchase" have a specific connotation. These licenses upend that.

I am part of the Rock Band video game community. That scene is covered in the use of "buy" "own" "purchase" terminology. Now, granted, Harmonix went above and beyond when it came to ensure they had solid licenses, so even though today they've been delisting DLC because their original license to distribute the songs to new customers has begun lapsing, they also went way above and beyond to ensure that people who bought content in the Rock Band 1 days would still be able to play them across the whole same-console library, so much so that anyone who bought RB1/2/3 content on either Xbox 360 or PS3 were able to also play those songs on Rock Band 4 on Xbone and PS4. I think there might have been a small fee in some instances, like when exporting disc content to newer games, but outside of that they went far beyond what most companies do when handling licensing (and this is music licensing, one of the most notoriously hairy forms of licensing that one can do).

These licenses are also re-downloadable by anyone who "bought" them, at least until the platforms entirely shut down the legacy console access for re-download of content that was paid for. Fortunately, we as a community also have all of it preserved without the DRM in preparation for the day when you can no longer even re-download content you paid for. There are also tools that let you copy the content files directly from your console (where possible with or without mods) and convert or decrypt them yourself.

Yes, I remember this coming up when the current admin took away or limited many people's SNAP benefits, and a few smaller retailers wanted to throw them a bone, only to understand that it was illegal to do so unless they charged the lower price for all customers, both SNAP and non-SNAP. They didn't want to do that, so the SNAP recipients suffered as a result.

The fact that the guy apologized was a failure on his part. He should have escalated the matter to corporate, since what they did was incredibly creepy and disgusting. The manager shouldn't have apologized either - the apology should have come from the corporate executive who authorized this plan of action in the beginning. The manager likely had zero involvement in the ad whatsoever.

Targeted advertisement (and, modern advertisement in general) should be illegal. I don't consent to having my attention stolen by these scumbags

People will quite literally sell their first-born for convenience.