So... moral of the story... never use anti-virus if you work for the NSA? Meaning you'll potentially be at the mercy of a ton of malware...?
Like seriously, try to blame it on Russia as much as you want for which anti-virus it was, but at the end of the day can't any competent anti-virus have done the same thing?
Seems this basically puts NSA employees in a lose-lose situation. If you thought they had trouble finding people willing to work for them before, imagine how bad it is now.
In real cases where the cops are certain it's someone who's already behind bars they'll fight tooth and nail to have no DNA testing, even fighting it beyond the statute of limitations, so that they couldn't prosecute the real criminal if it comes back with a different result.
Prosecutors don't like DNA tests in 'sure win' cases because of the problem of DNA contamination. If two or more people's DNA are found it often opens up a pandora's box of things that Defense can raise to pin the blame on the mystery other person.
Re: "Sex traffickers will go on trafficking." -- Do nothing, eh?
> IF you'll just take your libertarian de facto pro-sex-trafficking notions one tiny step further, then you argue against all gov't. You are a deranged anarchist, then. Born into the safety of civilization fairly carefully balanced over at least 3000 years, your sole goal is to just throw it all away for "Mad Max" savagery.
So we should do the opposite, and go for the draconian policies possible in the name of fighting criminals, no matter how much we harm the innocent?
Alright then, I've got the **perfect** solution for you to end all crime. All we need to do is force everyone to be sterilized so that they can't produce children. It's a scientifically proven fact that 100% of all crime and 100% of child rapists are the direct result of sexual reproduction, so obviously that's the area we should focus on to end all crime.
It'll take 100 or so years to fully eliminate all crime under such a policy, but surely it's only a small price to pay to stop child rapists from even existing in the first place?
There are possible technological solutions that could help (again, as Jean suggests), such as using multi-factor authentication to access your own data (one-time passwords, Yubikey, etc), but it's telling that few companies (or regulators!) have really thought about that, because that vector of attack probably hasn't occurred to many people. But, it probably will now.
Wishful thinking. Most of them will have never heard of this story. It won't blow up all over the place, at least not until someone dies from it like outlined with the Uber example.
And so freedom continues to die, in the name of the 'children' and 'sex victims', all while shoving them under the rug where their victimization won't be seen.
I guess we're no different then China with how they threw all the homeless in jail during the Olympics when they were hosted in China years ago.
'Faux' News Suppressing Liberal 'agendas' = a ok, freedom of the press!
Unproven Google search Suppressing Conservative agendas = BREAK THEM UP!
Missed in all this is that breaking up Google won't really make Silicon Valley less liberal or less likely to 'suppress' conservatives if these accusations were true. The Silicon Valley tech worker base is simply overwhelmingly Liberal compared to the general population for a variety of reasons. Breaking up Google won't encourage them to become more conservative, or encourage conservatives to enter the field.
At first I thought it didn't seem too horrible, then I read this line:
On the job, teachers could not discuss enacted or pending legislation, regulations, executive orders or court cases involving any level or branch of government. They could not talk about activities “that hamper or impede” law enforcement actions or military recruiters on campus.
Like... WTF? That essentially outlaws US History courses.
It outlaws talking about even non-controversial things like talking about Brown vs Board of Education.
Oh and it tries to enshrine hero warship of cops and the military into law.
Not get what? The fact that people who are regularly demonized by Trump don't like him?
Silicon Valley (not just Google) has long hated Republicans for a number of reasons:
Asian Americans are heavily over-represented in Silicon Valley. And like Hispanics, many of them are immigrants or children of immigrants, who don't like Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric (which quite frankly is often just spewing racism about immigrants).
Trump and Republicans advocate for the Religious Right on political issues like LGBTQ rights, and Silicon Valley has long been very supportive of LGBTQ rights, even when it was much more controversial nationally.
Since many techies went to college, and Trump's rhetoric is built to appeal to less educated, yeah, that's another strike against him.
And then Silicon Valley and other tech hot spots tend to be in urban areas, which also attract much more liberal people.
So yeah, of course Google employees are likely to freaking hate Trump.
Re: Re: IF you ignore billionaires in pastel shirts weeping and wailing when Trump elected...
Yeah, definitely a horrible source.
I always assume anything reported by Breitbart is slanderously false until proven otherwise. The mainstream media fell for far too many complete lies and fabricated videos from them years ago that were quickly debunked. (lies that got their asses sued in some cases, like their story of a 'racist' Obama staffer who gleefully watched a white couple lose their farm)
Like most government regulation... it usually ends up backfiring in the long run...
Black and white statements like that are always wrong. There's literally tons and tons of government programs that worked great and didn't backfire in the long run. Here's just a short list of what things I can think of off the top of my head that you can thank the government for, that you can't say anything bad about how they backfired.
Having safe food that's not laced with poison or other things that will make you sick.
Knowing that up to $250,000 worth of assets will the safe in the event of your bank going under thanks to FDIC insurance required by law.
Not having rivers and oceans that literally catch on fire because of how polluted they are with harmful chemicals/etc. that businesses dumped in them (yes, this really happened in the US).
Having much cleaner air because of the same environmental regulations, and not having air so polluted that people have to wear smog masks just to go outside, and some wealthy literally go on 'clean air vacations' where it's less polluted (this is the reality today in China in a number of cities thanks to lack of regulation).
Knowing that any car you purchase has passed rigorous government safety inspections when it was designed, and any used car you purchased was inspected as well to make sure that it's still safe to drive. Such regulations are responsible for a consistent decline in automobile accidents (which has long been the #1 killer in America).
Re: So, obviously, your hysterical screeching was wrong.
There you go. You surround that with usual attack on copyright, your only purpose again:
So then you'd be fine if say clothing makers did the same thing, and tried to confiscate all your clothing if you moved to another country?
"Sorry but that clothing was legally purchased in the USA and you're in Europe, you aren't allowed to use it in other countries. You'll have to purchase clothes from a local European clothing store".
I assume you're referring to the conspiracy over how Google search's auto-complete refused to suggest negative things about Hillary Clinton like the email scandal?
Google already answered that, by default their search engine auto-complete doesn't suggest negative results about people, unless you've previously searched for that term. Hence you'll only be suggested auto-complete's like 'Donald Trump is a racist' if you've previously searched for that on your account.
And yes, reputable news organizations tried that out with all sorts of other politicians of both parties, and Google auto-complete never suggested negative things on them.
Except, in Jefferson's time the people and government had access to the same technology for warfare, guns and rifles which only fired 1 bullet before needing reloaded.
Today by contrast, no individual has a reason to own a tank or a nuclear missile. And only the very wealthy can afford their own private plane, let alone a military war jet.
If the courts will invent QI out of thin air, what makes you think they won't strike down a law repealing it, citing some made up BS reason like they did last time when inventing it.
Given how the EU has shown they think they can censor the Internet globally, how long will it take for some of Donald Trump's tweets to be censored like this?
Twitter will have to have all reported content taken down automatically to comply with this. And as a big celebrity who says controversial things all the time, no doubt some troll in the EU (or even the US) will report some of his tweets as 'terrorist content'.
Imagine the shit-storm that could cause if Trump gets angry at Europe for censoring his tweets.
Crap like this are why I keep dreaming of the day where a new generation puts their foot down and says "enough is enough already" and massively scales back copyright and it's reach.
All it ever does is take stuff away from us and turn us into criminals for stupid things that shouldn't be illegal like this.
What you describe sounds a lot like the Facebook problem where if you like baseless conspiracy theories and fake news stories that's been debunked already you keep getting suggested more lies like that.
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Like seriously, try to blame it on Russia as much as you want for which anti-virus it was, but at the end of the day can't any competent anti-virus have done the same thing?
Seems this basically puts NSA employees in a lose-lose situation. If you thought they had trouble finding people willing to work for them before, imagine how bad it is now.
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Re: Hax!
If CFAA is the law then it seems it should be applied consistently or not at all. That way people will realize how bad it is and repeal it.
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Re: Not even a pretense of a fair test
Prosecutors don't like DNA tests in 'sure win' cases because of the problem of DNA contamination. If two or more people's DNA are found it often opens up a pandora's box of things that Defense can raise to pin the blame on the mystery other person.
On the post: Legislators Pushing A Patriot Act, But For Human Trafficking In The Wake Of FOSTA
Re: "Sex traffickers will go on trafficking." -- Do nothing, eh?
So we should do the opposite, and go for the draconian policies possible in the name of fighting criminals, no matter how much we harm the innocent?
Alright then, I've got the **perfect** solution for you to end all crime. All we need to do is force everyone to be sterilized so that they can't produce children. It's a scientifically proven fact that 100% of all crime and 100% of child rapists are the direct result of sexual reproduction, so obviously that's the area we should focus on to end all crime.
It'll take 100 or so years to fully eliminate all crime under such a policy, but surely it's only a small price to pay to stop child rapists from even existing in the first place?
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Re:
Never forget, the terrorists hate us for our freedoms!
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Wishful thinking. Most of them will have never heard of this story. It won't blow up all over the place, at least not until someone dies from it like outlined with the Uber example.
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I guess we're no different then China with how they threw all the homeless in jail during the Olympics when they were hosted in China years ago.
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Re:
'Faux' News Suppressing Liberal 'agendas' = a ok, freedom of the press!
Unproven Google search Suppressing Conservative agendas = BREAK THEM UP!
Missed in all this is that breaking up Google won't really make Silicon Valley less liberal or less likely to 'suppress' conservatives if these accusations were true. The Silicon Valley tech worker base is simply overwhelmingly Liberal compared to the general population for a variety of reasons. Breaking up Google won't encourage them to become more conservative, or encourage conservatives to enter the field.
On the post: Pennsylvania Legislator Thinks He Can Ban Teachers From Talking About Politics In The Classroom
At first I thought it didn't seem too horrible, then I read this line:
Like... WTF? That essentially outlaws US History courses.
It outlaws talking about even non-controversial things like talking about Brown vs Board of Education.
Oh and it tries to enshrine hero warship of cops and the military into law.
On the post: White House Admits Exec Order To Regulate Social Media Is 'Real,' But No Idea Who Wrote It, And Won't Use It
Re: Congratulations!
Not get what? The fact that people who are regularly demonized by Trump don't like him?
Silicon Valley (not just Google) has long hated Republicans for a number of reasons:
Asian Americans are heavily over-represented in Silicon Valley. And like Hispanics, many of them are immigrants or children of immigrants, who don't like Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric (which quite frankly is often just spewing racism about immigrants).
Trump and Republicans advocate for the Religious Right on political issues like LGBTQ rights, and Silicon Valley has long been very supportive of LGBTQ rights, even when it was much more controversial nationally.
Since many techies went to college, and Trump's rhetoric is built to appeal to less educated, yeah, that's another strike against him.
So yeah, of course Google employees are likely to freaking hate Trump.
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Re: Re: IF you ignore billionaires in pastel shirts weeping and wailing when Trump elected...
Yeah, definitely a horrible source.
I always assume anything reported by Breitbart is slanderously false until proven otherwise. The mainstream media fell for far too many complete lies and fabricated videos from them years ago that were quickly debunked. (lies that got their asses sued in some cases, like their story of a 'racist' Obama staffer who gleefully watched a white couple lose their farm)
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Re: We'll see
Black and white statements like that are always wrong. There's literally tons and tons of government programs that worked great and didn't backfire in the long run. Here's just a short list of what things I can think of off the top of my head that you can thank the government for, that you can't say anything bad about how they backfired.
Having safe food that's not laced with poison or other things that will make you sick.
Knowing that up to $250,000 worth of assets will the safe in the event of your bank going under thanks to FDIC insurance required by law.
Not having rivers and oceans that literally catch on fire because of how polluted they are with harmful chemicals/etc. that businesses dumped in them (yes, this really happened in the US).
Having much cleaner air because of the same environmental regulations, and not having air so polluted that people have to wear smog masks just to go outside, and some wealthy literally go on 'clean air vacations' where it's less polluted (this is the reality today in China in a number of cities thanks to lack of regulation).
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Re: I bet there is a way around this geo blocking thing
Congratulations copywrong law for turning another innocent civilian into a criminal!
On the post: Apple Didn't Delete That Guys iTunes Movies, But What Happened Still Shows The Insanity Of Copyright
Re: So, obviously, your hysterical screeching was wrong.
So then you'd be fine if say clothing makers did the same thing, and tried to confiscate all your clothing if you moved to another country?
"Sorry but that clothing was legally purchased in the USA and you're in Europe, you aren't allowed to use it in other countries. You'll have to purchase clothes from a local European clothing store".
On the post: Google's Chinese Search Engine Will Censor Results, Provide Gov't-Approved Pollution Data
Re: Re: Re:
I assume you're referring to the conspiracy over how Google search's auto-complete refused to suggest negative things about Hillary Clinton like the email scandal?
Google already answered that, by default their search engine auto-complete doesn't suggest negative results about people, unless you've previously searched for that term. Hence you'll only be suggested auto-complete's like 'Donald Trump is a racist' if you've previously searched for that on your account.
And yes, reputable news organizations tried that out with all sorts of other politicians of both parties, and Google auto-complete never suggested negative things on them.
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Re: Re:
Today by contrast, no individual has a reason to own a tank or a nuclear missile. And only the very wealthy can afford their own private plane, let alone a military war jet.
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How long till Donald Trump is censored by this?
Twitter will have to have all reported content taken down automatically to comply with this. And as a big celebrity who says controversial things all the time, no doubt some troll in the EU (or even the US) will report some of his tweets as 'terrorist content'.
Imagine the shit-storm that could cause if Trump gets angry at Europe for censoring his tweets.
On the post: Guy In Charge Of EU Copyright Directive Claims He Didn't Know What He Voted On, Needs To Fix Things
All it ever does is take stuff away from us and turn us into criminals for stupid things that shouldn't be illegal like this.
On the post: Actual Research On Political Bias In Search Results Would Be Useful, But So Far It Doesn't Show Anything
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