I'm not a fan of TikTok but, a ban would convince me to install it just to say screw the government. I know how to sideload an app onto an Android tablet I don't use often and I also know how to use a VPN if the government were to try DNS or ISP level blocking of TikTok's servers.
So far, it looks like SpaceX is still trying to start the Starlink private beta this summer and the public beta "later" this year. I live at a "high-latitude" and I've signed up to be informed when the beta opens for my zip-code.
Even with the "small country" excuse, this country has areas that are just as dense as South Korea or Japan that still don't have proper broadband coverage. Also, our government has easily paid the various ISP's more than enough to have covered the entire nation in fiber by now. They simply haven't.
Unfortunately, that's not how copyright works. If I bought a physical copy of a Drake album today, I wouldn't be able to legally stream it on the internet for free. I'd have to pay royalties in order to do that until the copyright runs out in 93 years or so.
I think that album's copyright is held by a corporation which would mean 95 years of copyright but, I could be wrong and that would make it Drake's remaining lifespan plus 70 years.
In countries that use that method to maintain an adversarial system, I'd guess that the secret proceedings would be revealed to the defendant once he or she is actually charged with a crime. That way, if something dirty happened in the process of getting the secret warrant in the first place, it could be appealed by their attorney at that point.
I like to respond to your second example with the fact that I, on multiple occasions, almost walked into traffic while reading novels walking home from school. My current smartphone, being much smaller than those novels, would have provided a much better reading experience had the technology been available at the time.
Technically there is a penalty for a false notice:
17 U.S. Code § 512
(f)Misrepresentations.—Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section—
(1)that material or activity is infringing, or
(2)that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification,
shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owner’s authorized licensee, or by a service provider, who is injured by such misrepresentation, as the result of the service provider relying upon such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing, or in replacing the removed material or ceasing to disable access to it.
However, this has been effectively neutered by caselaw. The courts have ruled that you effectively need to violate 17 U.S. Code § 512(f) on purpose to fall afoul of it.
The API that Google and Apple have created for contact tracing doesn't use location services at all. Since you're a software engineer you should be able to understand its features the documentation is located here. In fact, the French government decided to roll their own because it doesn't track location and they wanted that information.
The best thing for those of us who truly understand how the technology works to do is to make sure that we fully examine apps like this one and make decisions and recommendations based on that. If we simply refuse without knowing how a specific application works then we risk misrepresenting it. That's especially bad in this environment with contract tracing.
Qualified Immunity only protects the officers themselves from liability. It doesn't protect the municipalities or states that employ them from liability. While that means that lawsuits will only hurt the taxpayers, it's better than doing nothing.
Both are true. Civilian law enforcement organizations can and do use tear gas, mace, and pepper spray none of which is legal for use by military forces in war.
I Have Issues With How This Cookie Thing Is Implemented
Now that the EU has stepped this anti-cookie behavior up another step by saying that sites can't block users from content if they refuse cookies I have even more issues with it.
Here's my analogy, let's say that a store has a sign posted saying that they use a mix of technologies (Wi-Fi beacons, using Wi-Fi as radar, etc.) to track the movement of customers through their store. If you don't want to be tracked in that way, you can choose to not shop there. How is that different from a website saying, we pay for the content you're here to see by serving targeted ads. To target those ads we place cookies on your computer. If you don't want ads targeted at you then you can look for the content elsewhere.
By the way, my first case isn't just a random hypothetical, I was at a free to the public badged event last year where anyone could come in and view the event as long as they stopped at the front desk to get a badge. Those badges contained small Bluetooth Low Energy beacons. While they were anonymous, the venue was certainly using them for traffic analysis and those of us who were working the event got our badges scanned for entry into various off-limits areas.
There's literally a filter for uBlock Origin that blocks cookie acceptance scripts. I don't know if it accepts them or rejects them by default but, I generally don't see them at all.
Android devices have had device encryption on by default since Android Nougat (7.0). It's one of Google's requirements for OEM devices and it's the reason that so many cheap Android tablets used Android Marshmallow (6.0) to avoid the performance hit that full disk encryption causes.
Starting with devices that shipped with Android 10, device encryption is only activated when you add a screen lock to your device but, as soon as you add any sort of screen lock, your device is encrypted with File-Based Encryption so that your device is able to boot to the lock screen and dial emergency numbers without being unlocked (these last two features were unavailable with the 7.0-9.0 Full Disk Encryption).
Hungary is about half of the empire which brought us Hitler. I'm pretty sure that ignoring fascists from that region of Europe has caused the world some major problems before.
You don't have to give a phone number for Epic's 2FA. You can use an email address or, like me, a 2FA app like Authy or Bitwarden (or Google Authenticator).
In 2013 the PS4 and Xbox One didn't exist yet. Once those consoles came out, they released there. The wait for PC was bs although they said that they were basing the PC code on the PS4 and XB1 code (and the fact that the assets for the PC version support 4K@60Hz seem to support that assertion).
I know that you're joking here but, because of people who truly do think this way, I'll be very happy when there no longer is a majority race in the United States. The way things are going demographically that should happen in the mid-2040s (and it should already be true for the under-18 set I look forward to confirmation with the Census data).
The original article is about someone who lives in a rural area just outside of Toronto. It's on Lake Ontario. I think that qualifies as the "southern border" of Canada.
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I'm not a fan of TikTok but, a ban would convince me to install it just to say screw the government. I know how to sideload an app onto an Android tablet I don't use often and I also know how to use a VPN if the government were to try DNS or ISP level blocking of TikTok's servers.
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Re: Never going to happen
So far, it looks like SpaceX is still trying to start the Starlink private beta this summer and the public beta "later" this year. I live at a "high-latitude" and I've signed up to be informed when the beta opens for my zip-code.
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Even with the "small country" excuse, this country has areas that are just as dense as South Korea or Japan that still don't have proper broadband coverage. Also, our government has easily paid the various ISP's more than enough to have covered the entire nation in fiber by now. They simply haven't.
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Unfortunately, that's not how copyright works. If I bought a physical copy of a Drake album today, I wouldn't be able to legally stream it on the internet for free. I'd have to pay royalties in order to do that until the copyright runs out in 93 years or so.
I think that album's copyright is held by a corporation which would mean 95 years of copyright but, I could be wrong and that would make it Drake's remaining lifespan plus 70 years.
On the post: Tradeoffs: Facebook Helping The FBI Hack Tails To Track Down A Truly Awful Child Predator Raises Many Questions
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In countries that use that method to maintain an adversarial system, I'd guess that the secret proceedings would be revealed to the defendant once he or she is actually charged with a crime. That way, if something dirty happened in the process of getting the secret warrant in the first place, it could be appealed by their attorney at that point.
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Re: Re: This phenomenon needs a name
I like to respond to your second example with the fact that I, on multiple occasions, almost walked into traffic while reading novels walking home from school. My current smartphone, being much smaller than those novels, would have provided a much better reading experience had the technology been available at the time.
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Technically there is a penalty for a false notice:
However, this has been effectively neutered by caselaw. The courts have ruled that you effectively need to violate 17 U.S. Code § 512(f) on purpose to fall afoul of it.
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Re: Don't buy into it
The API that Google and Apple have created for contact tracing doesn't use location services at all. Since you're a software engineer you should be able to understand its features the documentation is located here. In fact, the French government decided to roll their own because it doesn't track location and they wanted that information.
The best thing for those of us who truly understand how the technology works to do is to make sure that we fully examine apps like this one and make decisions and recommendations based on that. If we simply refuse without knowing how a specific application works then we risk misrepresenting it. That's especially bad in this environment with contract tracing.
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Re: Re: Human rights violations
Qualified Immunity only protects the officers themselves from liability. It doesn't protect the municipalities or states that employ them from liability. While that means that lawsuits will only hurt the taxpayers, it's better than doing nothing.
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Both are true. Civilian law enforcement organizations can and do use tear gas, mace, and pepper spray none of which is legal for use by military forces in war.
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I Have Issues With How This Cookie Thing Is Implemented
Now that the EU has stepped this anti-cookie behavior up another step by saying that sites can't block users from content if they refuse cookies I have even more issues with it.
Here's my analogy, let's say that a store has a sign posted saying that they use a mix of technologies (Wi-Fi beacons, using Wi-Fi as radar, etc.) to track the movement of customers through their store. If you don't want to be tracked in that way, you can choose to not shop there. How is that different from a website saying, we pay for the content you're here to see by serving targeted ads. To target those ads we place cookies on your computer. If you don't want ads targeted at you then you can look for the content elsewhere.
By the way, my first case isn't just a random hypothetical, I was at a free to the public badged event last year where anyone could come in and view the event as long as they stopped at the front desk to get a badge. Those badges contained small Bluetooth Low Energy beacons. While they were anonymous, the venue was certainly using them for traffic analysis and those of us who were working the event got our badges scanned for entry into various off-limits areas.
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There's literally a filter for uBlock Origin that blocks cookie acceptance scripts. I don't know if it accepts them or rejects them by default but, I generally don't see them at all.
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Android devices have had device encryption on by default since Android Nougat (7.0). It's one of Google's requirements for OEM devices and it's the reason that so many cheap Android tablets used Android Marshmallow (6.0) to avoid the performance hit that full disk encryption causes.
Starting with devices that shipped with Android 10, device encryption is only activated when you add a screen lock to your device but, as soon as you add any sort of screen lock, your device is encrypted with File-Based Encryption so that your device is able to boot to the lock screen and dial emergency numbers without being unlocked (these last two features were unavailable with the 7.0-9.0 Full Disk Encryption).
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You'd find them on MySpace. The site still exists. I just checked my login information and it works too.
On the post: Hungary's Government Using Pandemic Emergency Powers To Silence Critics
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Hungary is about half of the empire which brought us Hitler. I'm pretty sure that ignoring fascists from that region of Europe has caused the world some major problems before.
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Re: There's free and then there's free.
You don't have to give a phone number for Epic's 2FA. You can use an email address or, like me, a 2FA app like Authy or Bitwarden (or Google Authenticator).
On the post: Hey, Epic, If you're Going To Boldly Give Away A Historically Popular Game For Free, Make Sure You Can Handle The Demand
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In 2013 the PS4 and Xbox One didn't exist yet. Once those consoles came out, they released there. The wait for PC was bs although they said that they were basing the PC code on the PS4 and XB1 code (and the fact that the assets for the PC version support 4K@60Hz seem to support that assertion).
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Crysis is getting a remake, maybe that meme will become unironically meaningful again.
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I know that you're joking here but, because of people who truly do think this way, I'll be very happy when there no longer is a majority race in the United States. The way things are going demographically that should happen in the mid-2040s (and it should already be true for the under-18 set I look forward to confirmation with the Census data).
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The original article is about someone who lives in a rural area just outside of Toronto. It's on Lake Ontario. I think that qualifies as the "southern border" of Canada.
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