Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Jan 2019 @ 11:53am
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I might be wrong, but the Government keeps the legal meter running by fighting the appeals. The 4 million was for costs to that point. The meter is still running.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Jan 2019 @ 9:18am
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Walmart seems to have a policy that requires their security people to want to search me every time I leave one of their stores. I don't and won't allow that, so I don't go to Walmart anymore. In addition, because of that policy, I don't and won't do business with them online.
So Walmart isn't the one who licensed the photo, they purchased and sold products from someone who did license the photo, and used it on their products. Which leaves Walmart innocent in this instance, but it does not absolve them of their other wonky policies. Which means Walmart is easy to hate and therefore easy to apply blame to, even when it is actually innocent.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Jan 2019 @ 9:10am
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Then there is the problem with the company reserving the right to change their terms of service upon any whim. Which leaves the customer, who agreed to the original term of service (whether they agreed or not but were willing to click 'agree' because they wanted in) having agreed to something they never had a chance to 'agree' to.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Jan 2019 @ 7:50am
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Yeah, that's the piece that always gets me with TOS's and other click through 'contracts'. I have always thought that a contract is something that is mutually negotiated with both parties participating in the negotiation. Even with standard form contracts offered by one party, the other party has the ability to strike through portions they disagree with, then if the issuing party does not agree with the strike through, they don't sign. Both parties need to agree with the final negotiated result.
Of course there is a difference when one is dealing with millions and millions of parties on the other side. Here is where some form of consumer protection should be applicable. The problem with that is those consumer protections tend to be laws, and every country sees their laws differently. So I am not sure what the answer is, in the end. Getting all countries to embrace a similar set of consumer protections does not seem likely.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 5 Jan 2019 @ 5:50pm
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With 8 separate municipal agencies, plus one federal agency, this is a good question. Why is the DOJ holding all the responsive documents, or better put, why did not the DA go after those 8 other agencies for their documents? There is a possibility that the DOJ swept in and confiscated all such documents, but if they did, under what authority did they do so?
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 4 Jan 2019 @ 6:32pm
Do they know what they are doing?
>"If there are any documents to be obtained from the DOJ, they're likely in the process of being massaged into exonerative shape before being released."
So...my question is, is the DOJ licensed to operate a massage parlor?
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 4 Jan 2019 @ 11:22am
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Another good reason to post is just to start a conversation, about the topic in the article, though sometimes we get off track.
I was once remonstrated by the article writer because our 'conversation', though fascinating to the article writer, had nothing to do with the topic in the article. I think we were discussing...baking.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 4 Jan 2019 @ 11:17am
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You may have noticed that few of us use real names, even when logged in. There is also an opportunity to post anonymously, even when logged in, you just need to check the box that says post this anonymously, of course those posts don't get counted in the stats, rules you know.
Sometimes it helps to know who one is talking to, even if you don't really know who they are. The login provides some continuity.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 4 Jan 2019 @ 8:15am
Too important to fail, and big has nothing to do with it
Arrogance to the extreme on both their parts.
In the mean time, while the dispute is ongoing, the cable company still gets paid, and in the end pony up whatever the broadcasters demand. So both get paid while the consumers get screwed. That is...if they get screwed and don't find alternatives for their TV jones, which could be streaming, or torrenting, or Netflix, or something else entirely which (as cord cutting goes) leaves both the broadcasters and the cable companies in the lurch.
Funny how these companies think the value of their products/services are a need, rather than a want. Given the state of broadcast news these days, not even that is important, let alone necessary. When the last cable customer cuts their line and doesn't buy an OTA antennae, will the lesson get learned? Somehow, I think not.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 3 Jan 2019 @ 4:38pm
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It's worse than that. They are thinking R's and D's, and are limited to what they think about anything by what 'their' party tells them to think. The real problem is that there are more than two sides to (probably almost) every issue. Getting recognition of more than two sides is a steep hill to climb when one has been conditioned to think in binary terms alone.
Then, getting the various sides positions accurately described is another headache and there may be factions that embrace portions of some sides but not others and some factions that embrace none of anyone else's positions.
Even getting to the point of explaining what group a representative might represent presents a problem as 'left of center' is different than 'progressive' and those that are 'moderately left of center' are in absolute disagreement with anyone who is 'marginally left of center'...so to speak (and the same goes for the 'right' and 'conservative' and any other adjective or name or indicator one might want to propose).
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Jan 2019 @ 4:14pm
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More than that, it is evidence polishing...on the fly. It remains to be seen if the tap dancing is impressive (to a court or anyone else). Some tap dances are pre-programmed, or choreographed. Other tap dances are intuitive and not done according to a plan, but are improvisational. Thing is, the FBI are not often a very good tap dancers, even if they get their made up conspiracies past court inspection. At that point, we have to look at the courts and the rules they have to follow, or should follow, and the legislators who make things easier for for profit prisons.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Jan 2019 @ 3:20pm
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Isn't the question 'can you actually do those dance moves?' yourself, not with code and an avatar? Keep practicing, we are looking forward to you posting your videos of YOU doing these dance moves...correctly. All three, or it doesn't count. Oh, and don't worry about violating any copyright, as it appears that it does not actually exist...yet, so hurry.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Jan 2019 @ 3:16pm
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Wouldn't that depend upon the Copyright Office actually looking for prior art? If they are controlled by the same rules as the Patent Office that might not be possible. If they can only review already copyrighted works, they might never see the YouTube videos.
Contrary to that point, didn't they make a rule that things are copyrighted when they are first expressed? As in both your post, and now mine are copyrighted automagically, without registration. Is that different for non-written media?
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Jan 2019 @ 9:01am
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Others have mentioned that there doesn't appear to be an actual standard for 5G written yet. If that is true, then what would the FTC compare current claims to in order to determine if the marketing is actually hype, for legal reasons. Now the rest of us might have an understanding that it is in fact hype, but could we take that into a court of law and prove it?
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Well, does it matter that the guy who gave that pardon seems to think he knows more about everything than anyone else?
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So Walmart isn't the one who licensed the photo, they purchased and sold products from someone who did license the photo, and used it on their products. Which leaves Walmart innocent in this instance, but it does not absolve them of their other wonky policies. Which means Walmart is easy to hate and therefore easy to apply blame to, even when it is actually innocent.
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Of course there is a difference when one is dealing with millions and millions of parties on the other side. Here is where some form of consumer protection should be applicable. The problem with that is those consumer protections tend to be laws, and every country sees their laws differently. So I am not sure what the answer is, in the end. Getting all countries to embrace a similar set of consumer protections does not seem likely.
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On the post: Atlanta Prosecutor Sues DOJ For Blocking Investigation Of Incident Where Cops Shot A Man 59 Times
Do they know what they are doing?
So...my question is, is the DOJ licensed to operate a massage parlor?
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I was once remonstrated by the article writer because our 'conversation', though fascinating to the article writer, had nothing to do with the topic in the article. I think we were discussing...baking.
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Sometimes it helps to know who one is talking to, even if you don't really know who they are. The login provides some continuity.
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Too important to fail, and big has nothing to do with it
In the mean time, while the dispute is ongoing, the cable company still gets paid, and in the end pony up whatever the broadcasters demand. So both get paid while the consumers get screwed. That is...if they get screwed and don't find alternatives for their TV jones, which could be streaming, or torrenting, or Netflix, or something else entirely which (as cord cutting goes) leaves both the broadcasters and the cable companies in the lurch.
Funny how these companies think the value of their products/services are a need, rather than a want. Given the state of broadcast news these days, not even that is important, let alone necessary. When the last cable customer cuts their line and doesn't buy an OTA antennae, will the lesson get learned? Somehow, I think not.
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Then, getting the various sides positions accurately described is another headache and there may be factions that embrace portions of some sides but not others and some factions that embrace none of anyone else's positions.
Even getting to the point of explaining what group a representative might represent presents a problem as 'left of center' is different than 'progressive' and those that are 'moderately left of center' are in absolute disagreement with anyone who is 'marginally left of center'...so to speak (and the same goes for the 'right' and 'conservative' and any other adjective or name or indicator one might want to propose).
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Contrary to that point, didn't they make a rule that things are copyrighted when they are first expressed? As in both your post, and now mine are copyrighted automagically, without registration. Is that different for non-written media?
On the post: Creators Of Dance Moves Suing Creators Of Fortnite Over Copyright Infringement That Can't Possibly Have Happened
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