The DA’s office representing Washington and Nowata counties acquired assets by civil forfeiture. Those assets were then misused in crimes by the DA's office.
So it seems to me the appropriate response would be for the state to seize the assets in question, so the local DA can't misuse them anymore.
After all, what's sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander.
"Yes, that's right, Verizon has yet to even admit it failed in any way,"
That's because Verizon did not fail in any way.
New York City's umbrage rings a bit hollow, when they where the party that contracted to allow Verizon to wave a chicken foot over the noodle soup and call it "chicken noodle soup". The city-Verizon contract was nothing but a sweetheart deal that Verizon wrote and the city signed-without-reading; just like the governor in Blazing Saddles signed things, la de da de doo ain't them nice bosoms.
Forget blaming Verizon: where's the accountability for the city officials who let their citizens down? The city officials who failed?
"... an acknowledgement that a dildo could be controlled remotely and an attempt to lay claim to that function exclusively."
Oh, I think this patent covers much more than dildos. As I read it, it covers movies with girls in bikinis, television shows with jiggle, 98.73% of the internet, every porno mag in existence, telephone "amusements", and whichever hand you favor (with its system of remote control nerve wiring).
Otherwise Illegal Activity (OIA)....is this why DEA and those guys are so down on Freedom of Information Act, because they think FOIA stands for Finding Otherwise Illegal Activity?
This shall not pass -- big companies will see to it
Large companies will lobby against any improvements to the patent system.
For them, the trolls are a minor cost of doing business, and they perform a valuable service: destroying or stalling new competitors. Every dollar a troll sucks out of Newegg's pocket is a dollar not spent on competing with Microsoft--you think Microsoft considers that a bad thing? (Even worse, trolls avoid large companies because they might actually fight back.)
Further, patent trolling is directly useful for those major companies. Apple trolled Samsung out of US markets; Samsung thinks that's bad. But what about Apple? They won't want to be giving up that tool anytime soon.
Here's predicting that, just like before, it'll just sort of die in committee.
The European Parliament proposal, in a nutshell, is the negation of every broad goal of the TTIP ISDS agreement; which was designed to exclude democratic principles, exclude public scrutiny, encourage ISDS bias and inconsistency in favor of US corporations, to ensure those biased decisions were absolutely final, and override inconvenient public policy objectives.
It's like the EU has proposed cutting a out TTIP's brain and replacing it with a lump of coal. It's no wonder the think tank is in a panic. EU Parliament saw through them.
All viewpoints are equally valid, even if one viewpoint is held by dozens of security researchers with doctorates and decades of experience and the opposite viewpoint is held by Mr. Magoo.
General Wesley Clark: "They do have an ideology. In World War II if someone supported Nazi Germany at the expense of the United States, we didn't say that was freedom of speech, we put him in a camp, they were prisoners of war."
Actually, no, there were quite a few you didn't. Cases in point: William Randolph Hearst, Andrew Mellon, Standard Oil of New Jersy, Ford Motor and Henry Ford, International Telephone and Telegraph, Allen Dulles, Prescott Bush, and IBM.
Today, we have HSBC, caught laundering money for drug lords and terrorists; you didn't put any of them in camps, either.
Given those examples, I have to say, General Clark, that your ideas are pretty radical. Maybe we should lock you up in one of those camps.
Isn't it odd that "Consumatori Nazionali Unione", which describes itself as, "The first association about consumers in Italy" ("La prima associazione about consumatori in Italia") would bring a case like this?
Whose rights are they protecting again?
I suspect this is more about Trip Advisor competition than it is about bad reviews.
It occurrs to me to question why TQP didn't inquire as to the status of the case. After all, so long as Neweggs' motion was outstanding, TQP wasn't getting their money. If they were so sure of their position, surely they would want the court to rule so they could collect their award.
Their apparent lack of interest in doing so rather suggests that TQP figured they had a loser and wanted the case to remain in limbo forever, so they could continue to collect royalties from other companies in the meantime.
The cynic in me wonders: could it possibly be that the delay was arranged?
"Nevada becomes first state to shut down Uber" "Uber shuts down in Kansas" "Can the Taxi Union Get the Courts to Shut down Uber..." (DC) "Boston Taxi Drivers to Hold Rally to Shut Down Uber" "Braintree license board may shut down Uber" "Toronto attempting to shut down Uber service within city limits" "Judges asked to shut down Uber, Lyft in Pittsburgh" "Parking authority threatens to shut down Uber service..." (Philadelphia) "French government to shut down Uber after violent protests..." "Petition · Colorado PUC: Don't Shut Down Uber!! Withdraw..." "Plaia: Portsmouth should shut down UBER X service" "ALJ Recommends Rules to Shut Down Uber Denver… AGAIN!" "City of Portland sues Uber in bid to shut taxi service down" . . . [more excuses to come] to Shut Down Uber
I hereby designate a new award, "Weasel Word Wizard of the month," and nominate James Comey for this month's champion, for his phrase, "...by what legal means we might ask."
It's obvious he couldn't say what he really means, which is, "...by what draconian fines and terms of imprisonment we might impose to force our totalitarian vision upon these companies." But that's sort of unpalatable in this country, so instead we get this shyster BS.
Congratulations, Mr. Comey, you could describe the nuking of a city as a "pop-bottle rocket glitch."
But FOIA as a scoop-generation device is important to journalism. No corporate editor wants to be running the same story as everyone else; they want scoops, so they can drive customers to their news.
If the scoop is no longer possible, the editor will be saying, "Well then, why bother to file an FOIA request? Particularly when we must spend $x00,000 or $x million to force the government to comply with the FOIA request?"
I can't agree this is good: This is actually nothing but an evil little invention of government intended to discourage journalists from filing "nuisance" FOIA requests.
On the post: Cop To Vet On Receiving End Of Bogus Raid: Investigating Things Beforehand Just Slows Us Down
Well, in this case, I guess they didn't actually shoot, but they sure did ask questions later.
On the post: Audits Of Asset Forfeiture Program Uncover Funds Used To Pay Student Loans, Property Used As Rent-Free Housing
Forfeiture for the gander
So it seems to me the appropriate response would be for the state to seize the assets in question, so the local DA can't misuse them anymore.
After all, what's sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander.
On the post: New York City Decides To Actually Pay Attention To Its Verizon Contracts After Getting Ripped Off On FiOS Deal
Aiming at Verizon and missing the point
That's because Verizon did not fail in any way.
New York City's umbrage rings a bit hollow, when they where the party that contracted to allow Verizon to wave a chicken foot over the noodle soup and call it "chicken noodle soup". The city-Verizon contract was nothing but a sweetheart deal that Verizon wrote and the city signed-without-reading; just like the governor in Blazing Saddles signed things, la de da de doo ain't them nice bosoms.
Forget blaming Verizon: where's the accountability for the city officials who let their citizens down? The city officials who failed?
On the post: Obviously, No One Ever Would Have Thought Of Remote Controlled Sex Toys Without This Patent
"Over-broad" hardly covers it
Oh, I think this patent covers much more than dildos. As I read it, it covers movies with girls in bikinis, television shows with jiggle, 98.73% of the internet, every porno mag in existence, telephone "amusements", and whichever hand you favor (with its system of remote control nerve wiring).
On the post: Yeah, Russia Probably Forged A Weapons Cache Supposedly From The US Using A Video Game To Model The Weapons
Cardboard tube
On the post: DEA's Confidential Informant Program Basically Being Run With No Oversight Whatsoever
F-Otherwise Illegal Activity
On the post: Your Tax Dollars At Work: 1,000-Page Funding Bill Dropped On Senate Floor One Hour Before Vote
Closed legislative process
On the post: NYPD Officials Apparently Deleting Incriminating Communications Related To Alleged Illegal Summons Quotas
Re: If the NYPD wants to eliminate crime...
On the post: Comcast Really Wants Me To Stop Calling Their Top Lobbyist A 'Top Lobbyist'
Re: L. O. B. B. Y. I. S. T.
On the post: Comcast Really Wants Me To Stop Calling Their Top Lobbyist A 'Top Lobbyist'
L. O. B. B. Y. I. S. T.
Legal Orchestrator of Bought and Borrowed Yays and Influence Sales Technician
On the post: Foursquare COO Says Small Businesses 'Take It On the Chin' When It Comes to Patent Trolling
This shall not pass -- big companies will see to it
For them, the trolls are a minor cost of doing business, and they perform a valuable service: destroying or stalling new competitors. Every dollar a troll sucks out of Newegg's pocket is a dollar not spent on competing with Microsoft--you think Microsoft considers that a bad thing? (Even worse, trolls avoid large companies because they might actually fight back.)
Further, patent trolling is directly useful for those major companies. Apple trolled Samsung out of US markets; Samsung thinks that's bad. But what about Apple? They won't want to be giving up that tool anytime soon.
Here's predicting that, just like before, it'll just sort of die in committee.
On the post: TPP Likely To Force Canada To Repeal Local Data Protection Laws
On the post: EU Proposes To Reform Corporate Sovereignty Slightly; US Think Tank Goes Into Panic Mode
They're removing TTIP's Brain!
It's like the EU has proposed cutting a out TTIP's brain and replacing it with a lump of coal. It's no wonder the think tank is in a panic. EU Parliament saw through them.
On the post: Washington Post Observes Encryption War 2.0 For Several Months, Learns Absolutely Nothing
All viewpoints are equally valid
On the post: General Wesley Clark: Some WWII-Style Internment Camps Are Just The Thing We Need To Fight Domestic Radicalization
You're mixing up radicals and non-radicals
Actually, no, there were quite a few you didn't. Cases in point: William Randolph Hearst, Andrew Mellon, Standard Oil of New Jersy, Ford Motor and Henry Ford, International Telephone and Telegraph, Allen Dulles, Prescott Bush, and IBM.
Today, we have HSBC, caught laundering money for drug lords and terrorists; you didn't put any of them in camps, either.
Given those examples, I have to say, General Clark, that your ideas are pretty radical. Maybe we should lock you up in one of those camps.
On the post: Italian Court Realizes Ridiculousness Of Fining TripAdvisor Over User Reviews
Consumatori Nazionali Unione
Whose rights are they protecting again?
I suspect this is more about Trip Advisor competition than it is about bad reviews.
On the post: East Texas Court Finally Issues Newegg Order Two Years Late; Judge Upset About How Newegg Handled Things
Why was TQP so quiet?
Their apparent lack of interest in doing so rather suggests that TQP figured they had a loser and wanted the case to remain in limbo forever, so they could continue to collect royalties from other companies in the meantime.
The cynic in me wonders: could it possibly be that the delay was arranged?
On the post: Judge Says Uber Should Be Shut Down In California
Shut down Uber campaign
"Uber shuts down in Kansas"
"Can the Taxi Union Get the Courts to Shut down Uber..." (DC)
"Boston Taxi Drivers to Hold Rally to Shut Down Uber"
"Braintree license board may shut down Uber"
"Toronto attempting to shut down Uber service within city limits"
"Judges asked to shut down Uber, Lyft in Pittsburgh"
"Parking authority threatens to shut down Uber service..." (Philadelphia)
"French government to shut down Uber after violent protests..."
"Petition · Colorado PUC: Don't Shut Down Uber!! Withdraw..."
"Plaia: Portsmouth should shut down UBER X service"
"ALJ Recommends Rules to Shut Down Uber Denver… AGAIN!"
"City of Portland sues Uber in bid to shut taxi service down"
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[more excuses to come] to Shut Down Uber
On the post: NSA Apologist Offers Solutions To 'Encryption' Problem, All Of Which Are Basically 'Have The Govt Make Them Do It'
Weasel Word Wizard of the month
It's obvious he couldn't say what he really means, which is, "...by what draconian fines and terms of imprisonment we might impose to force our totalitarian vision upon these companies." But that's sort of unpalatable in this country, so instead we get this shyster BS.
Congratulations, Mr. Comey, you could describe the nuking of a city as a "pop-bottle rocket glitch."
On the post: Government Displeases Journalists Who Rely On FOIA Requests With Plan To Release Documents 'To All' Simultaneously
Scoop-generation device important to editors
If the scoop is no longer possible, the editor will be saying, "Well then, why bother to file an FOIA request? Particularly when we must spend $x00,000 or $x million to force the government to comply with the FOIA request?"
I can't agree this is good: This is actually nothing but an evil little invention of government intended to discourage journalists from filing "nuisance" FOIA requests.
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