New York Times does not drudge through data in order to figure out what should happen or what did happen. Instead, NYT reports what some buisness enthusiast said.
This would be the same type of enthusiastic individual who sold Wisconsin on a factory tax incentive a while back. Their goal is to push business deals through, not to achieve accuracy in reporting.
Where NYT broke down, is they're supposed to get balanced opinions. Funny how often that doesn't happen.
Benchslap, not hardly. More like a benchpat...on the back.
Her order basically translates to: "Write a hundred word essay then you can read to me with a straight face and then we'll all pretend the problem is solved."
Said order given to an organization the lies under oath with a straight face every minute of every day.
Toothless. As usual.
Even the last bit...brace for 99.9% blacked out to be described as "minimal redaction."
Gives whole new meaning to the "World in your Living Room" concept. Oh, wait, no it doesn't...that ship sailed with Alexa.
We're a ways past the day when you could bring the toaster home in a box, open it, toss the directions, plug it in and use it. Successfullly. A tissue page of directions in Flyspeck 4pt font was just fine for a toaster, who bothered to read them anyway?
Where security is necessary, the tissue with the instructions isn't cutting it. Security needs to be inherent, or else the user needs to be hand-held through it.
I have to say that with the information economy the way it is, we need a whole new set of similes. Even the simile of spitting in In an ocean really doesn't describe the pathetic futility of this action.
So how about this: They have now protected the key hole in the barn door that used to be on the barn that burned down.
A SLAPP suit just gives me such a warm fuzzy feeling about how Huawei is a good corporate citizen. I'm just all of a sudden so much more sure their equipment isn't backdoored, I can't hardly stand it.
I was going to write a snide comment about how ICANN was soooooo much better now in 2019 than it was in 2016 when DOC was in control. When TechDirt was pushing privatization as a panacea for replacing government control.
But, hey, first of all it would get me banned, and second of all no one learns from their mistakes. C'est la vie.
Closed doors auction, winner will be AT&T or Verizon, winner will pay closer to $6 than $6 billion, as well as promising to compete fairly (a promise that will be broken 6 days later with no repercussions).
Then Ajit Pai will make a grand statement about how the free market works great.
Actually, I am fine with them not being regulated by the FCC. I think we should give them what they want.
For example, the FTC should regulate their billing practices, and net neutrality. SEC should regulate their monopolist behavior. Department of Agriculture should regulate them in rural areas, and HUD in urban areas. NRC could regulate their radio waves. DOE could regulate their content. BIA could regulate their activities on reservations. BLM could regulate their use of poles.
Heck I bet if we worked at it, we could get 20 different Federal departments regulating these companies, with lots of contradictory regulations, just like they wanted.
Re: So much wrong, and apparently for all the wrong reasons
Was a law broken?
Yes, a law was broken. Something about public defecation. However the school seems to have forgotten that it is a misdemeanor, and not a capital felony.
We only found out about this warrant because it was temporarily exposed by the court system. How do you know there weren't other warrants for other apps, or all of those apps?
But must it be that way? Everything owned, so that to write this, I must pay for the use of the font; letters "B", "u", "t", "m", "u", "s", "t", and etc; the individual words; the space between "But" and "must"; and all the myriad phrases such as "But must"? As well as each stroke that makes up each letter, the dot in the "i" and (separately of course) the period?
Where do we draw the line and say, "No one can own [these things] and everyone is free to use them -- profit from using them -- without charge?"
People might get more of that $125 settlement, if Equifax wasn't spending $124.98 of it on a lawyer to see whether or not the claimant is really eligible.
But that's often the way that these awards go. Companies would rather give the money to the lawyers than to capitulate and give any of the money to people they wronged..
On the post: Judge Who Originally Approved Sketchy UNC 'Silent Sam' Settlement Now Voids Deal, Realizing 'Confederate' Group Had No Standing
Call it what it really is: a $2.5 million grant to Sons of Confederate Veterans for a museum.
There's no need to check the Board of Governors position on the issue, it is quite clear how they feel about the statue.
On the post: Law Enforcement's New Facial Recognition Toy Scrapes Photos From Websites, Serves Up 'Matches' In Seconds
Re:
Don't worry: Law enforcement will never rain on the facial recognition parade by reporting such negative outcomes.
On the post: NYTimes Predicted San Francisco Would 'Drown In Millionaires' Post IPO Boom; Now Whines That It Never Happened
Not what they do
New York Times does not drudge through data in order to figure out what should happen or what did happen. Instead, NYT reports what some buisness enthusiast said.
This would be the same type of enthusiastic individual who sold Wisconsin on a factory tax incentive a while back. Their goal is to push business deals through, not to achieve accuracy in reporting.
Where NYT broke down, is they're supposed to get balanced opinions. Funny how often that doesn't happen.
On the post: Indian Government Sets New Record For 'Internet Shutdown By A Democracy'
Justification for oppression
Oppression is always justified by National Security. So far as I can see, National Security serves no other purpose.
On the post: FISA Court Benchslaps FBI For Its Abuse Of The FISA Warrant Process During The Trump Campaign Investigation
Benchpat
Benchslap, not hardly. More like a benchpat...on the back.
Her order basically translates to: "Write a hundred word essay then you can read to me with a straight face and then we'll all pretend the problem is solved."
Said order given to an organization the lies under oath with a straight face every minute of every day.
Toothless. As usual.
Even the last bit...brace for 99.9% blacked out to be described as "minimal redaction."
On the post: Online Forum Members Exploited Weak Credentials To Turn Ring Cameras Against Their Owners
World in your Living Room
Gives whole new meaning to the "World in your Living Room" concept. Oh, wait, no it doesn't...that ship sailed with Alexa.
We're a ways past the day when you could bring the toaster home in a box, open it, toss the directions, plug it in and use it. Successfullly. A tissue page of directions in Flyspeck 4pt font was just fine for a toaster, who bothered to read them anyway?
Where security is necessary, the tissue with the instructions isn't cutting it. Security needs to be inherent, or else the user needs to be hand-held through it.
But, hey, buyer beware.
On the post: FTC Slaps Cambridge Analytica With An Order Barring The Already Defunct Company From Illegally Collecting Data Ever Again
Re:
I have to say that with the information economy the way it is, we need a whole new set of similes. Even the simile of spitting in In an ocean really doesn't describe the pathetic futility of this action.
So how about this: They have now protected the key hole in the barn door that used to be on the barn that burned down.
On the post: The FBI Says Your TV Is Probably Spying On You
The better to protect you, Little Red Riding Hood
Somehow I am not hearing FBI protecting citizens, I am hearing the FBI say, "Let the buyer beware."
On the post: Empty T-Mobile Promises Convince Texas To Back Off Merger Lawsuit
Hey, it's politics
Look who is listening to the empty promises: politicians. And what do politicians always give? Right, empty promises.
They've got to figure they're going to get as good as they give.
On the post: Huawei Files SLAPP Suits In France Against Critics Who Highlighted The Company's Ties To The Chinese Government
Warm and fuzzy
A SLAPP suit just gives me such a warm fuzzy feeling about how Huawei is a good corporate citizen. I'm just all of a sudden so much more sure their equipment isn't backdoored, I can't hardly stand it.
On the post: The Sketchy, Sketchy Case Of ICANN Execs And Self-Dealing Regarding The .Org Domain
The first mistake
I was going to write a snide comment about how ICANN was soooooo much better now in 2019 than it was in 2016 when DOC was in control. When TechDirt was pushing privatization as a panacea for replacing government control.
But, hey, first of all it would get me banned, and second of all no one learns from their mistakes. C'est la vie.
On the post: Ajit Pai Does a Good Thing As He Pushes For Public C Band Auction
Here's a prediction
Closed doors auction, winner will be AT&T or Verizon, winner will pay closer to $6 than $6 billion, as well as promising to compete fairly (a promise that will be broken 6 days later with no repercussions).
Then Ajit Pai will make a grand statement about how the free market works great.
On the post: Congress Says The FCC Is Trying To Run Out The Clock On Wireless Location Data Scandals
Re: Re: Re: lax ethical standards
Actually, I am fine with them not being regulated by the FCC. I think we should give them what they want.
For example, the FTC should regulate their billing practices, and net neutrality. SEC should regulate their monopolist behavior. Department of Agriculture should regulate them in rural areas, and HUD in urban areas. NRC could regulate their radio waves. DOE could regulate their content. BIA could regulate their activities on reservations. BLM could regulate their use of poles.
Heck I bet if we worked at it, we could get 20 different Federal departments regulating these companies, with lots of contradictory regulations, just like they wanted.
On the post: Blizzcon: Blizzard Apologizes For Banning Blitzchung, Keeps Him Banned, More Fallout Ensues
Re:
It's a standard nopology. "We're sorry you're all in a fuss, snowflakes."
On the post: Lawsuit: School Strip-Searched An 8-Year-Old Because Someone Found Feces On A Bathroom Floor
Re: So much wrong, and apparently for all the wrong reasons
Yes, a law was broken. Something about public defecation. However the school seems to have forgotten that it is a misdemeanor, and not a capital felony.
On the post: Court Says Compelled Production Violates Fifth Amendment... Unless The Gov't Takes Certain Steps First
Fingerprints drift over time
I'm going to laugh when the government finds out his fingerprint does not open the phone.
On the post: AT&T's Terrible New TV Branding Confuses Even AT&T
We can hope can't we?
Maybe AT&T will wind up in a price war with itself. Drive its own prices down. We can hope can't we?
On the post: DOJ Wants Apple, Google To Hand Over Names And Phone Numbers Of 10,000 App Users
Re: Re: And the haystack gets bigger
To be blunt, how do you know this?
We only found out about this warrant because it was temporarily exposed by the court system. How do you know there weren't other warrants for other apps, or all of those apps?
On the post: USPTO Gets One Right: Refuses To Allow Farmers Market To Trademark City's Nickname
Re: It's all Property!
But must it be that way? Everything owned, so that to write this, I must pay for the use of the font; letters "B", "u", "t", "m", "u", "s", "t", and etc; the individual words; the space between "But" and "must"; and all the myriad phrases such as "But must"? As well as each stroke that makes up each letter, the dot in the "i" and (separately of course) the period?
Where do we draw the line and say, "No one can own [these things] and everyone is free to use them -- profit from using them -- without charge?"
On the post: Equifax Victims Jump Through Hoops To Nab Settlement Money They Won't Get Anyway
Equifax would rather spend it on the lawyers
People might get more of that $125 settlement, if Equifax wasn't spending $124.98 of it on a lawyer to see whether or not the claimant is really eligible.
But that's often the way that these awards go. Companies would rather give the money to the lawyers than to capitulate and give any of the money to people they wronged..
Odd that the lawyers don't complain.
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