Over a decade ago the US put passport requirements on the Canadian border for Canadians and Americans alike. Now they have their devices searched - by American border officials - at Canadian airports before flying home.
But the US was also worried about Americans visiting a third country from Canada. So it has agreements with Canada and other countries such that any time an American flashes their passport crossing between other countries, the US government is notified.
I'll be that that digital strip searches of Americans - when crossing between other countries - required by the American government - isn't too far in the future.
When they vacuum up your contacts and emails from your device, they have little ability to judge their credibility. They can't tell whether a contact actually knows you, let alone has read your email to them. A record will go into the TSA's database regardless with possible repercussions years later.
Which brings me to my new patent application, "Method for character assassination using border crossing security theatre."
If it got to that, your small arms would stand no chance against helicopters and armoured vehicles. The US government has spent the last 15 years learning how to fight a well armed insurgency in the middle east.
Re: Re: Huh? It's untenable for Zazzle, as the court case came down. Zazzle better do some checks up front, and get users to indemnify.
If you know how Zazzle can police for copyright infringement on every user upload without the foreknowledge of licensing agreements, copyrights, and context (e.g., parody), I bet they would love to have that knowledge.
Yeah; the FunnyJunk strategy didn't work out. (When the copyright owner points out the infringement, send a psychotic legal thug to extort tens of thousands of dollars from them.)
To start. lefties is in quotes, not too literal, so I'm not a partisan.
"Epic smackdown" is also in quotes, so what's your complaint?
"Republicans" at least made a show of LEGALIZING. I don't agree with that, but those were made "legal".
Obama's deferrals policy matched Bush I's "Family Fairness" deferrals policy. His DREAM act matches efforts by Gingrich and others. It was about legalizing. And yet Republicans declared jihad.
All those Republicans supporting amnesty were attempting one thing: Make the illegals legal. Give them a path to citizenship. Obama tried the same thing - on a smaller scale - and the same Republicans declared jihad. Can you imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth if Obama tried to duplicate even Ted Cruz's amnesty?
But none of that matches what's happening now. Even when Republican AgJob amnesty efforts were shot down by their own party, those in AgJobs were relatively safe from deportation. From citizen children being separated from non-citizen parents. From being deported for reporting a crime.
Now even DREAMers - who played by the rules, registered and were made legal - are now made retroactively illegal and are being rounded up and deported.
And so now you have "Sanctuary cities." Republican and "leftie" alike, they are not supporting illegal activity. Just the opposite, they're forced to choose the lesser of two evils:
Decreeing that an entire class of people can't report a rape or other crime - can't be a witness to a crime - can't take their citizen children to school - without being detained and deported - inevitably leads to a lot more illegality.
They're going to have to run commercials to convince travellers not to download their data AFTER going through customs. Perhaps based on the "You wouldn't download a car" PSAs.
Traveller 1: I'm a lawyer. My laptop's files are protected by attorney client privilege.
Customs officials: Not here they're not. Hand it over.
Traveller 2: I'm here to negotiate a trade deal with the New Zealand government. I cannot hand over the details of our negotiating positions.
Customs officials: You can and you will. Hand it over.
Traveller 3: My device contains corporate secrets. I'm not authorized to hand them over to ANYONE.
Customs officials: We're not just anyone. Hand it over.
The US and other countries are demanding the right to search the cloud-based servers of multinationals anywhere in the world. It seems like standard practice will soon be to travel with an empty device, and your data on your own private cloud server.
Re: Re: CRAP! I've made three or four comments, but some new sorcery is blocking my prepared comment!
You DOUBLY can't explain that.
Why not? I've returned to a forum after more than six years, when something relevant showed up in a Google search. And you're saying that their returns came five months apart. That hardly sounds like a conspiracy.
This describes ways that a drug company can effectively extend their patents long after they would have run out.
Under the NAFTA-induced Canadian regulations, Health Canada was prevented from issuing an authorization for market entry until all of the relevant patents on a brand name product had been proven to have expired. Including follow-on patents for the same drug, patents over uses, delivery systems and even packaging.
The new patented compounds don't exist to have therapeutic efficacy. They exist as playing cards to extend the patents of those that do.
Canada's Governor General represents the Queen as Canada's head of state, and holds the title of Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces.
Today the Queen appointed a new Governor General of Canada. One who has been to the International Space Station. Twice.
So now the Queen is appointing military leaders, viceregal representatives to her colonies and territories, who have astronaut experience. I sense a new round of expansionist imperialism.
1) There are parts of the country where farms depend on millions of undocumented workers in the country illegally. Which is why Reagan and Bush I passed amnesties, and Bush II, Palin, Cruz and others have supported amnesties.
2) Those in undocumented workers have families. Children. Which means you there are large numbers of now-adults in the country illegally, who didn't break the law, because they were brought in as children, and have only ever known life in America. And large numbers of children, born in America, whose parents could be deported. "Fair...?"
3) Trump's policies are making those undocumented workers easy prey for criminals. A rape victim won't go to police knowing that she'll be deported. Undocumented workers are afraid to enroll their children in school - even those born in America - which only leads to more problems for America down the road.
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The Long Arm Of The Law
But the US was also worried about Americans visiting a third country from Canada. So it has agreements with Canada and other countries such that any time an American flashes their passport crossing between other countries, the US government is notified.
I'll be that that digital strip searches of Americans - when crossing between other countries - required by the American government - isn't too far in the future.
On the post: DHS Confirms There Will Be More And Greater Intrusiveness During Border Searches
Which brings me to my new patent application, "Method for character assassination using border crossing security theatre."
On the post: New Zealand Airports Customs Officials Performing 'Digital Strip Searches' Of Travelers' Electronics
Re: Re: Re: This Could Never Happen In Teh USA
I'm still hoping that Donald Trump will be revealed to be a still-alive Andy Kaufman.
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Re: This Could Never Happen In Teh USA
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Re: Re: Huh? It's untenable for Zazzle, as the court case came down. Zazzle better do some checks up front, and get users to indemnify.
Yeah; the FunnyJunk strategy didn't work out. (When the copyright owner points out the infringement, send a psychotic legal thug to extort tens of thousands of dollars from them.)
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Re:
On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
"Epic smackdown" is also in quotes, so what's your complaint?
Obama's deferrals policy matched Bush I's "Family Fairness" deferrals policy. His DREAM act matches efforts by Gingrich and others. It was about legalizing. And yet Republicans declared jihad.
All those Republicans supporting amnesty were attempting one thing: Make the illegals legal. Give them a path to citizenship. Obama tried the same thing - on a smaller scale - and the same Republicans declared jihad. Can you imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth if Obama tried to duplicate even Ted Cruz's amnesty?
But none of that matches what's happening now. Even when Republican AgJob amnesty efforts were shot down by their own party, those in AgJobs were relatively safe from deportation. From citizen children being separated from non-citizen parents. From being deported for reporting a crime.
Now even DREAMers - who played by the rules, registered and were made legal - are now made retroactively illegal and are being rounded up and deported.
And so now you have "Sanctuary cities." Republican and "leftie" alike, they are not supporting illegal activity. Just the opposite, they're forced to choose the lesser of two evils:
Decreeing that an entire class of people can't report a rape or other crime - can't be a witness to a crime - can't take their citizen children to school - without being detained and deported - inevitably leads to a lot more illegality.
On the post: New Zealand Airports Customs Officials Performing 'Digital Strip Searches' Of Travelers' Electronics
They're going to have to run commercials to convince travellers not to download their data AFTER going through customs. Perhaps based on the "You wouldn't download a car" PSAs.
You wouldn’t download your own data
PRIVACY. IT’S A CRIME
On the post: New Zealand Airports Customs Officials Performing 'Digital Strip Searches' Of Travelers' Electronics
Re: "the program is designed to look for smugglers"
They more confident that are about that, the more they'll worry about the hand-carried device "hole" at the border.
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I expect the searches will be "random", not random.
On the post: New Zealand Airports Customs Officials Performing 'Digital Strip Searches' Of Travelers' Electronics
Customs officials: Not here they're not. Hand it over.
Traveller 2: I'm here to negotiate a trade deal with the New Zealand government. I cannot hand over the details of our negotiating positions.
Customs officials: You can and you will. Hand it over.
Traveller 3: My device contains corporate secrets. I'm not authorized to hand them over to ANYONE.
Customs officials: We're not just anyone. Hand it over.
The US and other countries are demanding the right to search the cloud-based servers of multinationals anywhere in the world. It seems like standard practice will soon be to travel with an empty device, and your data on your own private cloud server.
On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
Re: Re: CRAP! I've made three or four comments, but some new sorcery is blocking my prepared comment!
Why not? I've returned to a forum after more than six years, when something relevant showed up in a Google search. And you're saying that their returns came five months apart. That hardly sounds like a conspiracy.
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Re:
Wikipedia: Evergreening
This describes ways that a drug company can effectively extend their patents long after they would have run out.
Under the NAFTA-induced Canadian regulations, Health Canada was prevented from issuing an authorization for market entry until all of the relevant patents on a brand name product had been proven to have expired. Including follow-on patents for the same drug, patents over uses, delivery systems and even packaging.
The new patented compounds don't exist to have therapeutic efficacy. They exist as playing cards to extend the patents of those that do.
On the post: Canadian Rapper Sends Rap Video Cease & Desist Letter To Coca Cola For 'Jacking' His Catchphrase
Re: Canadian
I too am Canadian and have never heard of this song.
And I'm as much an authority on today's pop culture as anyone who has been writing accounting software for 35 years. It doesn't make sense!
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Other countries are responding accordingly.
Canada's Governor General represents the Queen as Canada's head of state, and holds the title of Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces.
Today the Queen appointed a new Governor General of Canada. One who has been to the International Space Station. Twice.
So now the Queen is appointing military leaders, viceregal representatives to her colonies and territories, who have astronaut experience. I sense a new round of expansionist imperialism.
On the post: House Budget Proposal Includes The Creation Of The United States Space Corps.
Re: Blame Nixon
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Re: Re: Re: call a spade a spade
You wouldn't understand.
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Re: Re: Huge numbers of illegal immigrants harm the economy
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Re:
The problem is, well, reality.
1) There are parts of the country where farms depend on millions of undocumented workers in the country illegally. Which is why Reagan and Bush I passed amnesties, and Bush II, Palin, Cruz and others have supported amnesties.
2) Those in undocumented workers have families. Children. Which means you there are large numbers of now-adults in the country illegally, who didn't break the law, because they were brought in as children, and have only ever known life in America. And large numbers of children, born in America, whose parents could be deported. "Fair...?"
3) Trump's policies are making those undocumented workers easy prey for criminals. A rape victim won't go to police knowing that she'll be deported. Undocumented workers are afraid to enroll their children in school - even those born in America - which only leads to more problems for America down the road.
On the post: ICE Says The Hell With The President, DHS; Orders Officers To Remove ALL Undocumented Immigrants
Re:
'The land of the Free, Home of the Brave' has moved north a bit. Must be one of those climate change things.
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