Any sane "intelligence agency" would do everything they could to KEEP a search engine of the dark web online and running. Hell, they'd be helping write code for it.
And busting the worst of the worst the engine could find.
The only sane reason I can see for this is that the various intel agencies WERE so far into the engine that it became "public knowledge" that if you were linked to the engine, you were being set up.
It's not an "alt-right" phenomenon. The left used it all through the sixties, and religions have used it for... well, as long as there have been religions.
"In fact, most states allow counties and towns to set their own standards, and Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Texas, Minnesota, Wyoming, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, North and South Dakota, Washington, Michigan, Kentucky, Nebraska, Ohio, Vermont, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Tennessee and Colorado (HB15-1054) have laws allowing the street-legalization of OHVs."
Exactly. Any decently-educated defense lawyer could have swung the jury on a 2nd degree murder charge - and I suspect correctly so. He was trying to "stop" the kid and his actions (tasing) resulted in a death. He didn't intend to kill the kid, so Murder 2 is out.
The Involuntary Manslaughter charge was pretty much indefensible so far as presenting to a jury is concerned.
The only "care" the system has for students is that they score high enough on the tests to keep the money rolling in.
All these screeching AC's have obviously never owned a business or worked in the Legal/Accounting areas. There's a truly tremendous number of alligators hiding out there just waiting to bite you in the ass, and you do what you can to protect yourself against them.
I pay a retainer to a local attorney, even though I do 90% of my own legal work. Because if something unforseen comes up where I need a lawyer, I've already got one. Insurance policy, nothing more. Same goes for the FB monitoring software.
If a landlord in NY gets sued over something that software would have caught if they'd been using it on their tenants, I'll have to go buy a copy of it as well.
If I don't I'm "legally negligent", and wide open to a lawsuit.
NY DMV says the mailing is to insure that the "right person" gets the photo ID.
I'm more pessimistic. Given the ineptitude of the NY DMV, I suspect they're mailed to prevent the employees from selling photo ID's wholesale.
When I changed my license classification they took my old class D and gave me the paper "ID". Only took three days for the new license to show up in the mail.
You've hit on one of the two big problems - the sheer size of the community. Etiquette is a result of a culture defining the social norms it will tolerate, and those items which it will not.
When dealing with global communications, you're going to have clashes, sometimes severe, of what the different groups find acceptable.
The other problem is the willingness to let a tiny fraction of a population dictate special rules for their particular case.
Which means the one-armed, left-handed, gravitationally challenged, brain damaged individual who "identifies" as a diseased goat's penis (aka: Jhon) gets to sue everyone else for not conforming to "it's" desire to define "normal".
BTW, "normal", just like "sane" is whatever 51% of the polled population says it is.
Gods, nothing to do with mindset, authoritarian or otherwise.
It's a matter of LIABILITY when bad events occur. Then can show they "did XYZ, which is as much as the law allows us to do to prevent ABC from happening in... cue spin doctors..."
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Re: Re: I object to "Encourage"
Non sequitur.
The discussions have zero bearing on what was actually written into law.
"Spirit of the Law" won't get you far when faced with Letter of the Law in a courtroom.
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Re: Re: The only way to stop exploits from being turned on you..
I'd be surprised if even 10% of NSA malware was written in-house. They usually purchase the stuff, then tweak to fit the target in mind.
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Re: Re:
Interesting point.
"Identity Theft" - is it theft?
Is it "different" if you "steal" my identity to get credit cards instead of using that "stolen" information to cast votes on the FCC's page?
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Breaking related news...
...Huawei systems are immune...
/s
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But... but....
...these are liberal CELEBRITIES! They MUST be right!
Don't those of you who identify left of center ever get royally pissed off when such blatant methods are assumed to be sufficient to sway you?
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Re: Re: Technically he's correct.
C'mon, Bernie the Pinko is on the campaign trail screeching that prisoners should be allowed to vote.
I suspect he's looking for a "new visitation" of "cruel and unusual punishment".
On the post: FBI And Half The World Bust Operators Of A Site That Made The Dark Web Searchable
Massive...
...ineptitude.
Any sane "intelligence agency" would do everything they could to KEEP a search engine of the dark web online and running. Hell, they'd be helping write code for it.
And busting the worst of the worst the engine could find.
The only sane reason I can see for this is that the various intel agencies WERE so far into the engine that it became "public knowledge" that if you were linked to the engine, you were being set up.
On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 211: Politicians (Usually) Don't Understand Technology
Re:
Most won't admit it, but the reason they want facebook dead is that it's embarrassing to them to admit that 99% of people are idiots...
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Re:
"Soon"?
I guess if you use retro-temporal math to go back to at least FDR, likely even longer.
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Re: Instant army
It's not an "alt-right" phenomenon. The left used it all through the sixties, and religions have used it for... well, as long as there have been religions.
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
Google is your friend:
"In fact, most states allow counties and towns to set their own standards, and Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Texas, Minnesota, Wyoming, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, North and South Dakota, Washington, Michigan, Kentucky, Nebraska, Ohio, Vermont, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Tennessee and Colorado (HB15-1054) have laws allowing the street-legalization of OHVs."
I know NY does as well.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Reading comprehension difficulties?
Exactly. Any decently-educated defense lawyer could have swung the jury on a 2nd degree murder charge - and I suspect correctly so. He was trying to "stop" the kid and his actions (tasing) resulted in a death. He didn't intend to kill the kid, so Murder 2 is out.
The Involuntary Manslaughter charge was pretty much indefensible so far as presenting to a jury is concerned.
On the post: Schools Are Safer Than Ever, But That's Not Stopping Schools From Buying Social Media Monitoring Software
Re: Re: The logic isn't...
The only "care" the system has for students is that they score high enough on the tests to keep the money rolling in.
All these screeching AC's have obviously never owned a business or worked in the Legal/Accounting areas. There's a truly tremendous number of alligators hiding out there just waiting to bite you in the ass, and you do what you can to protect yourself against them.
I pay a retainer to a local attorney, even though I do 90% of my own legal work. Because if something unforseen comes up where I need a lawyer, I've already got one. Insurance policy, nothing more. Same goes for the FB monitoring software.
If a landlord in NY gets sued over something that software would have caught if they'd been using it on their tenants, I'll have to go buy a copy of it as well.
If I don't I'm "legally negligent", and wide open to a lawsuit.
Same for the schools.
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Re: Reading comprehension difficulties?
"First up, I think this cop should have been done for 2nd degree murder, what he did is inexcusable"
Prosecutors go for a slam-dunk whenever possible. Second degree murder may have been to narrow a charge to guarantee a conviction.
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Re: Re:
I don't know of any State where a 15 year old can legally drive a "regular car" on a public road.
ATV's can be registered, insured, and plated as Limited Use Vehicles for operation on public roads.
On the post: Student Files $1 Billion Lawsuit Against Apple Over Supposedly Faulty Facial Recognition Tech That Falsely Accused Him Of Theft
Re:
NY DMV says the mailing is to insure that the "right person" gets the photo ID.
I'm more pessimistic. Given the ineptitude of the NY DMV, I suspect they're mailed to prevent the employees from selling photo ID's wholesale.
When I changed my license classification they took my old class D and gave me the paper "ID". Only took three days for the new license to show up in the mail.
On the post: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Facebook Still Can't Figure Out How To Deal With Naked Breasts
Re:
You've hit on one of the two big problems - the sheer size of the community. Etiquette is a result of a culture defining the social norms it will tolerate, and those items which it will not.
When dealing with global communications, you're going to have clashes, sometimes severe, of what the different groups find acceptable.
The other problem is the willingness to let a tiny fraction of a population dictate special rules for their particular case.
Which means the one-armed, left-handed, gravitationally challenged, brain damaged individual who "identifies" as a diseased goat's penis (aka: Jhon) gets to sue everyone else for not conforming to "it's" desire to define "normal".
BTW, "normal", just like "sane" is whatever 51% of the polled population says it is.
On the post: Schools Are Safer Than Ever, But That's Not Stopping Schools From Buying Social Media Monitoring Software
Re: Re: The logic isn't...
Gods, nothing to do with mindset, authoritarian or otherwise.
It's a matter of LIABILITY when bad events occur. Then can show they "did XYZ, which is as much as the law allows us to do to prevent ABC from happening in... cue spin doctors..."
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Re:
NYC pays $400-600 per week for Confidential Informants. No idea what the Feds pay.
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Re: Get off my virtual lawn!
Eh, they only do that because there aren't any malls left to hang out in.
/s
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