We cannot release information on stingray to protect law enforcement from prosecution.
What is it they way? If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide.
I seem to recall a saying about the goose and gander having compatible ports with need of an adapter, or something like that. A device that is good for the goose is compatible with the gander.
Parallel Construction is a euphemism for perjury. Criminal conspiracy to lie to the court and deprive the defense of real evidence, what actually happened.
Releasing the details of Stingray use would reveal the supercriminals at work and how they operate. (eg, police / prosecutors) And it would be an apocalypse from their POV.
If you want your logo to be unique, then come up with a unique logo. Don't make your logo based around a common symbol such as a letter, or moon or sun, for example.
Surely you can afford a designer to come up with something nobody would think of. Do something creative like high tech companies do. Like for example, a large red letter G.
Cable industry, want to drive internet innovation forward?
Then stop interfering with connections and simply be the best dumb pipes and the best prices. That's it! Simple. Do it better than your competitor. (What, no competitor?)
Even with no competitor, be the best dumb pipe and innovation will happen. And you will be enabling it instead of interfering with it.
Hoping you won't notice. Even as they sink into the tarpit.
"Just as our industry is witnessing an exciting transformation driven by technology and connectivity . . ."
The cable industry's 'mission' is to stop innovation. Strangle it. Or at least control it in such a way that they can be the exclusive gatekeepers to access it.
Dumb Pipes. Can you say that? Dumb Pipes. That is the way to connectivity, transformation and innovation.
Lenovo, if you're going to modify your hardware in a way that all major Linux distributions won't install, then either develop the Linux fix, or take the blame that your hardware doesn't allow Linux to be installed.
None of this "does not intentionally block" stuff. Your hardware change that blocks major non-Microsoft OSes is something that you should consider, or take the blame for not considering it.
Before anyone says that is unfair, it is no less fair than pointing out that any vendor X of a product (not even a computer) can't do Y. (HP and ink cartridges?) This kind of thing should be made widely known. Especially when large numbers of developers run Linux, and use laptops.
If terrorists were to use private email servers, then she would still expect silicon valley to magically do something about it. Yet she would expect that her own private email servers are magically secure against such intrusions. And she would see neither the conflict nor the irony.
Isn't it really the NSA's and other TLAs fault that terrorist acts are occurring?
Isn't it the various TLAs (NSA, FBI, CIA) etc, and NOT silicon valley that should somehow magically make terrorists stop terrorizing?
Isn't it the TLAs that vacuum up all of everyone's communications so that they can hunt for a needle in a needle stack?
How about lets put the blame where it belongs.
Maybe this means that the TLAs vacuuming up all communications really doesn't make us any safer. And if so, then why could silicon valley do any better?
I don't mind the anti piracy ecosystem pissing endless DMCAs into the wind of anti piracy, as long as they follow the best practice of facing INTO the wind when they do it. Issuing DMCAs to take down your own sites is an excellent example.
Innovation tends to create the other two evils of 'competition' and 'disruption' which are even worse than 'piracy'. Gatekeepers can live with piracy. As long as competition and disruption are prevented.
Piracy makes for a wonderful secondary revenue stream by suing and getting settlements from people who may be completely innocent. Such as taking kids entire college education money away for downloading a few songs. Collection societies can spring up like weeds to collect licenses for things they don't even represent, and for playing the radio or humming a tune in a public place.
But once Innovation is allowed, that opens the door to competition and disruption which can undermine the nice stable order of things where endless revenues comes in for doing nothing.
Also, that "legal alternative" to not having access, except when we want, where we want, and for how much much much we want, it would would prevent us from 'creating demand' and charging outrageous prices to enjoy the work for a limited window of time before we turn off the supply to create more demand.
Can't HP protect customers from the dangers of competition?
If customers had a choice, they would incur the effort to make a choice of which vendor's ink to purchase. HP is trying saving customers from a competitive market to keep things simple.
You will buy only our ink, and you will pay whatever outrageous price we tell you.
We have come full circle and are become the very thing we were fighting in the last century.
In the last century, kangaroo courts with "show trials" where defendants were denied access to counsel or evidence was the thing we made fun of and gasped in horror at. Now it is us.
When the magical 'terrorist' incantation is invoked, we also have the whole list of Secret Courts, Secret Warrants, Secret Arrests, Evidence, Trials, Convictions, and Secret Prisons with Secret Torture.
Our police that were once highly respected part of our communities now act as an occupying invasion force complete with actual military equipment to use against the insurgents who once were called 'citizens', but now are called 'civilians'.
You've got it backwards. The corporations are the hosts, or masters of the countries that serve them and their purposes. Their purposes are to maximize executive bonuses, by any means possible. A purely financial consideration with no consideration of moral or ethical issues.
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What is has proven (typo)
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What is it they way? If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide.
I seem to recall a saying about the goose and gander having compatible ports with need of an adapter, or something like that. A device that is good for the goose is compatible with the gander.
On the post: NYPD Says Releasing Basic Stingray Contract Info Will Result In A Supercriminal Apocalypse
Re:
Stingray cases lead to Parallel Construction.
Parallel Construction is a euphemism for perjury. Criminal conspiracy to lie to the court and deprive the defense of real evidence, what actually happened.
Releasing the details of Stingray use would reveal the supercriminals at work and how they operate. (eg, police / prosecutors) And it would be an apocalypse from their POV.
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It's Texas Rangers' own fault
Surely you can afford a designer to come up with something nobody would think of. Do something creative like high tech companies do. Like for example, a large red letter G.
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Re: Re: What???
On the post: Cable Lobbyists Stop Using The Word Cable In Hopes You'll Think Industry Has Evolved
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Then stop interfering with connections and simply be the best dumb pipes and the best prices. That's it! Simple. Do it better than your competitor. (What, no competitor?)
Even with no competitor, be the best dumb pipe and innovation will happen. And you will be enabling it instead of interfering with it.
On the post: Cable Lobbyists Stop Using The Word Cable In Hopes You'll Think Industry Has Evolved
Dinosaurs stop using the word Dinosaur
"Just as our industry is witnessing an exciting transformation driven by technology and connectivity . . ."
The cable industry's 'mission' is to stop innovation. Strangle it. Or at least control it in such a way that they can be the exclusive gatekeepers to access it.
Dumb Pipes. Can you say that? Dumb Pipes. That is the way to connectivity, transformation and innovation.
On the post: Hillary Clinton To Silicon Valley: To Silence Terrorists, Nerd Harder, Nerds!
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On the post: Hillary Clinton To Silicon Valley: To Silence Terrorists, Nerd Harder, Nerds!
Re: Nerd Harder?
Nerd Harder to Silence Terrorists! (So that the NSA won't be able to monitor their messages that get moved to new means of communication.)
On the post: Lenovo Accused Of Locking Linux Out Of Certain Laptops At Microsoft's Request
Re: update
None of this "does not intentionally block" stuff. Your hardware change that blocks major non-Microsoft OSes is something that you should consider, or take the blame for not considering it.
Before anyone says that is unfair, it is no less fair than pointing out that any vendor X of a product (not even a computer) can't do Y. (HP and ink cartridges?) This kind of thing should be made widely known. Especially when large numbers of developers run Linux, and use laptops.
On the post: Hillary Clinton To Silicon Valley: To Silence Terrorists, Nerd Harder, Nerds!
Re: Re: Hillary "It's all the nerds fault"
On the post: Hillary Clinton To Silicon Valley: To Silence Terrorists, Nerd Harder, Nerds!
NSA: Spy Harder
Isn't it the various TLAs (NSA, FBI, CIA) etc, and NOT silicon valley that should somehow magically make terrorists stop terrorizing?
Isn't it the TLAs that vacuum up all of everyone's communications so that they can hunt for a needle in a needle stack?
How about lets put the blame where it belongs.
Maybe this means that the TLAs vacuuming up all communications really doesn't make us any safer. And if so, then why could silicon valley do any better?
On the post: Those Terrible Takedowns Aren't Mistakes, They're Intentional Fakes
Re: Re: Pissing into the wind of anti piracy
You notice that I said I don't mind them pissing INTO the wind. That is, issuing DMCAs against their own sites.
However, it is true, that even DMCAing their own sites still means that we are stuck with the DMCA. I would far rather that the DMCA not exist.
On the post: Those Terrible Takedowns Aren't Mistakes, They're Intentional Fakes
Pissing into the wind of anti piracy
On the post: Yet Another Report Says More Innovation, Rather Than More Enforcement, Reduces Piracy
The problem with Innovation
Piracy makes for a wonderful secondary revenue stream by suing and getting settlements from people who may be completely innocent. Such as taking kids entire college education money away for downloading a few songs. Collection societies can spring up like weeds to collect licenses for things they don't even represent, and for playing the radio or humming a tune in a public place.
But once Innovation is allowed, that opens the door to competition and disruption which can undermine the nice stable order of things where endless revenues comes in for doing nothing.
Also, that "legal alternative" to not having access, except when we want, where we want, and for how much much much we want, it would would prevent us from 'creating demand' and charging outrageous prices to enjoy the work for a limited window of time before we turn off the supply to create more demand.
/sarcasm
On the post: HP Launched Delayed DRM Time Bomb To Disable Competing Printer Cartridges
Doesn't HP have a right to protect its customers?
If customers had a choice, they would incur the effort to make a choice of which vendor's ink to purchase. HP is trying saving customers from a competitive market to keep things simple.
You will buy only our ink, and you will pay whatever outrageous price we tell you.
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Re: Corruption
In the last century, kangaroo courts with "show trials" where defendants were denied access to counsel or evidence was the thing we made fun of and gasped in horror at. Now it is us.
When the magical 'terrorist' incantation is invoked, we also have the whole list of Secret Courts, Secret Warrants, Secret Arrests, Evidence, Trials, Convictions, and Secret Prisons with Secret Torture.
Our police that were once highly respected part of our communities now act as an occupying invasion force complete with actual military equipment to use against the insurgents who once were called 'citizens', but now are called 'civilians'.
On the post: Guy Arrested Over KickassTorrents Blocked From Talking To His US Attorney
Re: Re: Re: Re:
On the post: Congressman In Charge Of OPM Hacking Report Announces Plan To Investigate Stingray Use Next
Re: Re: Next: investigate Parallel Construction
On the post: Indian Court Says 'Copyright Is Not An Inevitable, Divine, Or Natural Right' And Photocopying Textbooks Is Fair Use
Re: Re: Re:
The fact remains that once the textbooks have all been downloaded, the supply is exhausted. They are all now stolen and no copies remain.
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