You'll just love it. I mean, it will be the best, classiest treaty you've ever seen. Everyone who's ever read a treaty that I re-negotiate has just loved it. And if the other parties to the treaty don't like it, we'll make the other treaty signatories pay for it! Believe me, I know what I'm talking about. My foreign policy will put America in a position with foreigners like we've never seen before! Trust me. It will be great.
Re: Re: There are good reasons lawmakers get easy treatment
There are many, many examples I could give of how lawmakers and insufficient intelligence go hand in hand.
I'll just point out one of the latest examples. "working together" to create magical unicorn encryption that only works for good people but is magically breakable when bad people use it. If nerds would just work harder, it could really happen.
When they begin a statement like "I may not be an expert at rocket surgery but . . ." and then proceed to make bold statements contradicting what actual experts say. Basically claiming (rightly) to be an idiot, and then demonstrating clearly for all to see. Just as your post does.
Smoking does not kill people, says our (potentially) next VP.
There are good reasons lawmakers get easy treatment
There is a very good reason lawmakers get treated with kid gloves when they break the law.
Because lawmakers CANNOT BE EXPECTED to know what the laws are. Therefore they SHOULD get some slack for not knowing the law. How could you expect a lawmaker to know the law?
Reasons, any combination of: [_] Lacks reading skills to have read the law [_] Lacks reading comprehension [x] Insufficient intelligence to understand the law [_] Lacks basic abstract ideas like 'property', 'ownership', 'propriety', etc. [x] Too busy doing what is important: raising money from any corporation that will give large amounts of money [_] Any of the above [_] All of the above
This is why lawmakers can violate copyright and get no serious penalty. Or treat classified information as though it is a newspaper. (And I'm NOT singling out any one politician here, there are plenty who are guilty of this!)
The structure, sequence and organization of both implementation code and public interface code might be highly creative.
Google used a complete re-implementation of Java from scratch. So none of Oracle's (actually Sun's) implementation code was copied. To the extent that API public function and other public member names were copied is strictly for compatibility purposes. The names could trivially be changed -- but must be kept the same for compatibility.
And because wars are extremely profitable to the government's masters.
We need an educational system that turns out dolts without sufficient future prospects so that they will believe what their local recruiter tells them.
Here's an idea. On some web site that congress critters all visit, place a link to an ISIS web site. Be sure to use phishing and social engineering techniques to ensure that a significant number of congress critters will click on it.
Overnight a large number of congress critters become felons. Hey, they all visited an ISIS web site. They should all go to jail.
US warrants against Megaupload are different. That is about copyright. Therefore silly notions of due process, evidence, laws, or the constitution do not apply.
Megaupload was simply Hollywood's temper tantrum the day after the internet went dark, exposing SOPA. As the bright light of news coverage shone on SOPA, its supporters distanced themselves, slinking back into the shadows.
Terrorists may use encryption, they may use it poorly, or not at all. Or they may then reveal an encrypted communication after the fact, not thinking.
But you are missing the real issue about Going Dark.
American Citizens are increasingly Going Dark by using encryption. For everyone's protection, decryption must be very easy, or even unnecessary for even the dumbest of cops. This makes it easier to access everything about your private life when looking for something to charge you with.
A system can scrape content from a web site without disrupting it. Facebook is happy to have Google send robots to visit their site. Facebook simply doesn't like this other company visiting their site.
This is very different than someone disrupting the operation of a walk in store.
Whether or not Power should visit Facebook's site, the CFAA is a law that has, is and will be abused. Unlike trespassing law.
Re: Swedes are in Denial about the occupational government
I almost quit watching CNN after the total lack of SOPA coverage, and then sudden begrudging coverage once they had no choice.
I did quit in 2013 after the totally uncritical one sided coverage of Snowden.
I have since become aware that there are foreign media outlets that sometimes cover things not even discussed in US media. Or that is drowned out by US media coverage of the rantings of presidential candidate Cheeto face.
They can only see their short term interests. What they need right now.
Oh! Just like corporations. We'll shoot ourselves in the head if it will increase this quarter's profits -- and let someone else deal with what happens three quarters from now.
It's refreshing to see someone as cynical and distrusting as I have become. It's so easy to be unwilling to see how bad things are and how much worse they are going to get.
Please do not call dinosaur monopolists "the tech industry".
If there were competition, then wireless providers would find it in their highest interests to invest in tech in order to either beat the competition to market, or to not fall too far behind the competition. The government would not have to do anything.
Threats to withhold 5G simply show how they are willing to misuse monopoly power to harm consumers. Yes harm. Being able to violate net neutrality hurts everyone. The fact that they want to do so says a lot. It's not only that they want to overcharge for service, its that they want to interfere, manipulate, and spy on your traffic. And advantage and disadvantage various internet sites who all pay their own bandwidth bills on their end of the connection.
If this is about Netflix, then here is a free clue. If Netflix is using too much bandwidth from my home, then CHARGE ME FOR THAT. It's not Netflix using that much bandwidth. It's ME. It's not my neighbor who doesn't use Netflix. And it's not Netflix either. Netflix doesn't just force a large bandwidth stream into my house unbidden. And Netflix pays handsomely for their own end of the connection, just as I should pay for my end of the connection. Somebody has to pay for my end of the connection. Being able to violate net neutrality is just a way to distort these costs so that some providers have to subsidize my end of the connection, while others don't, so that the mobile provider's service falsely appears to be cheaper than it would be.
It's easy to sit behind a computer screen and defend monopolists and suggest they should be able to get away what whatever outrageous behavior they want to.
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Re: When At First You Don't Succeed
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You can only police people as much as they want to be policed
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On the post: Cable Industry's False Copyright Claims Are Killing Cable Box Reform Efforts
Cable set top boxes are IRRELEVANT
Even if their set top box was designed in THIS millennium, it no longer matters.
It's like asking me if I would like to have telegraph service installed in my home.
Uh, . . . thinking . . . thinking . . . No thanks.
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Memo to all Janitorial staff
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Re: Re: There are good reasons lawmakers get easy treatment
I'll just point out one of the latest examples. "working together" to create magical unicorn encryption that only works for good people but is magically breakable when bad people use it. If nerds would just work harder, it could really happen.
When they begin a statement like "I may not be an expert at rocket surgery but . . ." and then proceed to make bold statements contradicting what actual experts say. Basically claiming (rightly) to be an idiot, and then demonstrating clearly for all to see. Just as your post does.
Smoking does not kill people, says our (potentially) next VP.
On the post: Ted Cruz Campaign Infringed On Copyright, But Will Probably Be Treated With Kid Gloves Just Because
There are good reasons lawmakers get easy treatment
Because lawmakers CANNOT BE EXPECTED to know what the laws are. Therefore they SHOULD get some slack for not knowing the law. How could you expect a lawmaker to know the law?
Reasons, any combination of:
[_] Lacks reading skills to have read the law
[_] Lacks reading comprehension
[x] Insufficient intelligence to understand the law
[_] Lacks basic abstract ideas like 'property', 'ownership', 'propriety', etc.
[x] Too busy doing what is important: raising money from any corporation that will give large amounts of money
[_] Any of the above
[_] All of the above
This is why lawmakers can violate copyright and get no serious penalty. Or treat classified information as though it is a newspaper. (And I'm NOT singling out any one politician here, there are plenty who are guilty of this!)
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Google used a complete re-implementation of Java from scratch. So none of Oracle's (actually Sun's) implementation code was copied. To the extent that API public function and other public member names were copied is strictly for compatibility purposes. The names could trivially be changed -- but must be kept the same for compatibility.
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Re: Re: Whatever happened to...
We need an educational system that turns out dolts without sufficient future prospects so that they will believe what their local recruiter tells them.
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Re: Re: Incompatible?
Oh, wait. Americans need learn geography.
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Help, I've felon and I can't get up!
Overnight a large number of congress critters become felons. Hey, they all visited an ISIS web site. They should all go to jail.
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Re: Next time, parallel construction.
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Re: International Warrants
Megaupload was simply Hollywood's temper tantrum the day after the internet went dark, exposing SOPA. As the bright light of news coverage shone on SOPA, its supporters distanced themselves, slinking back into the shadows.
On the post: Yes, ISIS Is Using Encryption -- But Not Very Well
Not seeing the Forrest for the Terrorists
But you are missing the real issue about Going Dark.
American Citizens are increasingly Going Dark by using encryption. For everyone's protection, decryption must be very easy, or even unnecessary for even the dumbest of cops. This makes it easier to access everything about your private life when looking for something to charge you with.
On the post: Appeals Court: It Violates CFAA For Service To Access Facebook On Behalf Of Users, Because Facebook Sent Cease & Desist
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A system can scrape content from a web site without disrupting it. Facebook is happy to have Google send robots to visit their site. Facebook simply doesn't like this other company visiting their site.
This is very different than someone disrupting the operation of a walk in store.
Whether or not Power should visit Facebook's site, the CFAA is a law that has, is and will be abused. Unlike trespassing law.
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Public Unination
So here's a new approach:
1. Detain someone for hours, without access to restroom
2. When they urinate, arrest them
3. Search and Seize everything
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Re: Swedes are in Denial about the occupational government
I did quit in 2013 after the totally uncritical one sided coverage of Snowden.
I have since become aware that there are foreign media outlets that sometimes cover things not even discussed in US media. Or that is drowned out by US media coverage of the rantings of presidential candidate Cheeto face.
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Re: And this is why you should never cooperate
Oh! Just like corporations. We'll shoot ourselves in the head if it will increase this quarter's profits -- and let someone else deal with what happens three quarters from now.
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Re: Re: Re: Promises
On the post: European Telcos Threaten To Withhold Next Gen Wireless Upgrades If Net Neutrality Rules Passed
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If there were competition, then wireless providers would find it in their highest interests to invest in tech in order to either beat the competition to market, or to not fall too far behind the competition. The government would not have to do anything.
Threats to withhold 5G simply show how they are willing to misuse monopoly power to harm consumers. Yes harm. Being able to violate net neutrality hurts everyone. The fact that they want to do so says a lot. It's not only that they want to overcharge for service, its that they want to interfere, manipulate, and spy on your traffic. And advantage and disadvantage various internet sites who all pay their own bandwidth bills on their end of the connection.
If this is about Netflix, then here is a free clue. If Netflix is using too much bandwidth from my home, then CHARGE ME FOR THAT. It's not Netflix using that much bandwidth. It's ME. It's not my neighbor who doesn't use Netflix. And it's not Netflix either. Netflix doesn't just force a large bandwidth stream into my house unbidden. And Netflix pays handsomely for their own end of the connection, just as I should pay for my end of the connection. Somebody has to pay for my end of the connection. Being able to violate net neutrality is just a way to distort these costs so that some providers have to subsidize my end of the connection, while others don't, so that the mobile provider's service falsely appears to be cheaper than it would be.
It's easy to sit behind a computer screen and defend monopolists and suggest they should be able to get away what whatever outrageous behavior they want to.
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