"(your physical device) always has, and continues to this day to refer your unencrypted keystrokes to federal agencies long before you hit the "encrypt" button."
Compromised hardware can indeed do this, but you seem to be saying everyone's hardware is compromised and doing this. That's demonstrably untrue, unless the hardware is using some communications channel nobody knows about.
Lots of people, myself included, keep a very close eye on the traffic stream using standalone sniffers. The only remotely questionable traffic I've ever seen has come from operating systems and applications. I hear the same from many others who keep a paranoid eye on their traffic.
True, anecdotal evidence is not proof, but I don't think that matters in this sort of discussion. If there are people who find relief through pot that they don't through other treatments, that's plenty good enough for those people. They should be able to have their pot.
Although I drive, I spend more time as a pedestrian, so I hear you. What I think you want, though, is for drivers to be better at adhering to the traffic laws rather than red light cameras as such. There's a difference: red light cameras don't seem to have that much effect. Not surprising, since that's not their goal. Their goal is revenue generation.
The cameras appear to make the roads more dangerous, not less.
Except Mickey wasn't the first. The first fully animated fleshed out character is considered to be Gertie the Dinosaur in 1914. Mickey was, I believe, the first character with sound.
"Depriving criminals of the proceeds of their criminal actions makes sense to me."
Me too,that's not the problem. The problem is when the cops steal the money before anyone has been found guilty, and then keep it or some part of it even when a conviction fails to materialize.
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"Should the rest of Christians "change their branding" because of televangelists ripping off the elderly? Or because of IRA and Ulster loyalist violence?"
From a purely marketing point of view, probably, especially if you include distancing from the more extreme fundamentalists. If they had, they would certainly be viewed in a more positive light by more people than they are.
Why the distinction between websites and ISPs? Because ISPs occupy a much more privileged position on the network.
That's not, or shouldn't be, the argument. It's not wrong, but it leaves out a critical distinction that the major telecoms are trying their hardest to get everyone to ignore. ISPs and content providers are radically different businesses. The rules governing each have to be radically different as well.
I haven't encountered a restaurant with this policy yet (excepting for the one that automatically charge gratuities for large groups), but if I did, that would be a restaurant that I would not go to a second time.
Automatically charging for tips turns it into something that isn't a tip at all -- it's just a garden variety price increase. A tip is an interaction directly between me and the people who provided the service to me. The business itself needs to stay out of it.
Yet another comment that complains that it's wrong to pubicly complain about things that annoy you. Is my complaining about that complaining about complaining triply wrong?
"Innocent until proven guilty applies to the person, not to the asset."
Yes, I'm aware of the legal theory. But the legal theory is insane. Assets cannot be innocent or guilty. Assets do not commit crimes.
The legal fiction that you can assign guilt or innocence to things distorts the very notion of justice and makes no logical sense. That's the fundamental problem here.
Yep. Just like how all of this used to be called Total Information Awareness until public outcry made them stop doing it. Of course, "stop doing that" means it was broken into pieces and renamed, not that it stopped.
This sort of thing is a big part of why eternal vigilance is necessary.
A derivative work is one where an existing work was used as a starting point. Software that uses the api presented by another piece of software is not a derivative work, it is a unique work. To be derivative, it would have to copy a substantial part of the other software, either the code or the look and feel.
If you write something original that plugs into something else, that is an original work, not a derivative one.
And who would you recommend listening to instead? With very rare exceptions, comedians seem to be the only ones speaking truth in traditional media these days.
No, because Karl is quite clear that he doesn't mean the legal definition of lobbyist, but rather the common sense definition. He's not saying the dude is violating lobbying laws, he's saying that most of what the guy does has the effect of lobbying in the colloquial sense.
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Compromised hardware can indeed do this, but you seem to be saying everyone's hardware is compromised and doing this. That's demonstrably untrue, unless the hardware is using some communications channel nobody knows about.
Lots of people, myself included, keep a very close eye on the traffic stream using standalone sniffers. The only remotely questionable traffic I've ever seen has come from operating systems and applications. I hear the same from many others who keep a paranoid eye on their traffic.
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The cameras appear to make the roads more dangerous, not less.
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Re: Evil assets
Me too,that's not the problem. The problem is when the cops steal the money before anyone has been found guilty, and then keep it or some part of it even when a conviction fails to materialize.
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From a purely marketing point of view, probably, especially if you include distancing from the more extreme fundamentalists. If they had, they would certainly be viewed in a more positive light by more people than they are.
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Wrong argument
That's not, or shouldn't be, the argument. It's not wrong, but it leaves out a critical distinction that the major telecoms are trying their hardest to get everyone to ignore. ISPs and content providers are radically different businesses. The rules governing each have to be radically different as well.
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This makes me wonder if you understand what trolling is. Not everything you say is trolling, but you do engage in it quite often.
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"Hospitality included"
Automatically charging for tips turns it into something that isn't a tip at all -- it's just a garden variety price increase. A tip is an interaction directly between me and the people who provided the service to me. The business itself needs to stay out of it.
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Re: Wrong audience.
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Yes, I'm aware of the legal theory. But the legal theory is insane. Assets cannot be innocent or guilty. Assets do not commit crimes.
The legal fiction that you can assign guilt or innocence to things distorts the very notion of justice and makes no logical sense. That's the fundamental problem here.
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This sort of thing is a big part of why eternal vigilance is necessary.
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If you write something original that plugs into something else, that is an original work, not a derivative one.
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That's not libel. That's an opinion.
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