It just goes to show how criminally corrupt our government is, when the Five Eyes system being used to acquire data they aren't allowed to acquire themselves is completely illegal under US laws, but no one is ever arrested, charged or convicted for it.
But people have been arrested, charged and convicted for reporting the criminality and law-breaking.
Yes, there is supposedly jail time for perjury. But most judges are so deferential to police, that they never order a perjury arrest. Those arrests are limited to peasants, not nobles.
Well, obviously they at least believe the outcome of the trial is predetermined. How else would they be able to know if any given piece of evidence will alter the outcome?
If the government cannot do it without a warrant, and the law makes it a felony for anyone to do it without a warrant, what prevents any random private citizen from making a citizen's arrest?
Federal law follows common law on citizen's arrests and defers to state law when it is available - and the only state that forbids a citizen's arrest for a felony is North Carolina.
Like many public officials, he's demonstrating the difference between being good at the job and just being able to string together the right buzz words to get the job in the first place.
Might be fun to see what happens if you got companies on the OFAC lists to start selling products named for unpopular US politicians. Would those politicians suddenly be unable to use PayPal?
I'm sure we've all met the guy who tags every email, text or phone message as urgent as whatever platform he's using allows for, because he considers even the most trivial thing urgent - after all, if it wasn't urgent he wouldn't be sending it. Even if it's a picture of his cat playing with a laser dot.
There's the people who deliberately misuse tags or channels to reach a wider audience rather than using the ones topical to their message. Spammers in general tend to attach EVERY possible tag to their content in hopes of that.
Going old school, Caller ID promised to let you screen your calls before picking up the handset. Blockers and spoofers put and end to that.
Even older school, shady senders routinely disguise envelopes to look like things you want or need to open. The fake subpoenas that some DAs have sent out are a recent example of that.
As long as any of that is possible, end-user controls won't be as effective as hoped.
I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal-food-trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries.
Many home invasion type robbers will yell "police, police" as they break into a house. They know it will make residents hesitate long enough that by the time they realize it's not the police it's too late to resist.
Exactly. The government gets important details wrong on official documents? No big deal. You or I make a small typo on a permit application or while paying a fine or filing an affidavit to a court? MAJOR CRIME! SEND MEN WITH GUNS!
Given how the court seems to think that being pepper sprayed without any justification doesn't violate any rights, nor does it constitute assault & battery (either the criminal or civil versions), it makes me wonder:
What would happen to you if you pepper sprayed a 9th Circuit Appeals judge in his courtroom? If it's not an assault and it's not a violation of rights, that means it would be legal, right?
I had an idea for a gadget that suspends your cash in an alcohol bath, then extrudes it (wringing it out in the process) when needed. No risk of infection from that, and the damp bill could even be considered a disinfecting wipe for the people who handle it!
I came here to make pretty much that exact comment.
Not everyone has a brand new smart phone. Not everyone even owns a phone.
There's also the aspect of the app being able to lock students out of campus buildings if it detects that their mobile device has left campus without permission. Um, what? College students are almost always over 18, who do they need permission from?
If COVID-19 mutates like the flu does, then a vaccine will be just as effective in letting us get ahead of it as a flu vaccine is in eradicating flu season.
The fact that we have flu vaccines AND a flu season tells you all you need to know about how well it will work out.
Re: Like people should be getting their 'news' through Facebook
Facebook doesn't peddle news. It allows people - including corporate persons - to share things they think others will be interested in.
A lot of the news articles on Facebook were put there by the news corporation's public relations departments. When someone clicks on one of those news links, they get taken to the news corporation's website and see the corporation's ads. None of the news articles you see on Facebook are actually hosted on or created by Facebook
What rock have you been living under that you don't know this?
Doesn't Australia have laws against slavery? Requiring someone to be in business in their country whether they want to be or not strikes me as toeing that line quite hard.
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Re:
If someone lives close enough to the Canadian border to get wifi from Canada, would they be able to download WeChat or TikTok?
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Re: Re:
And if you own a camera, it would insist that you take a picture of it with whatever cup of tea you brewed.
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Re: Review
It just goes to show how criminally corrupt our government is, when the Five Eyes system being used to acquire data they aren't allowed to acquire themselves is completely illegal under US laws, but no one is ever arrested, charged or convicted for it.
But people have been arrested, charged and convicted for reporting the criminality and law-breaking.
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Re: Hmmmm
Why not go right to the source and get Trump kicked off social media?
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Re: How will this help?
Yes, there is supposedly jail time for perjury. But most judges are so deferential to police, that they never order a perjury arrest. Those arrests are limited to peasants, not nobles.
On the post: Top Court In Massachusetts Says Prosecutors Must Provide Info On Bad Cops To Criminal Defendants
Re:
Well, obviously they at least believe the outcome of the trial is predetermined. How else would they be able to know if any given piece of evidence will alter the outcome?
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Re: Whoops
I wonder whether he'll use this as fodder to claim intellectual property law is rigged, rather than taking the lesson at face value?
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Re:
If the government cannot do it without a warrant, and the law makes it a felony for anyone to do it without a warrant, what prevents any random private citizen from making a citizen's arrest?
Federal law follows common law on citizen's arrests and defers to state law when it is available - and the only state that forbids a citizen's arrest for a felony is North Carolina.
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Re: 'Look over there, a distraction!'
Like many public officials, he's demonstrating the difference between being good at the job and just being able to string together the right buzz words to get the job in the first place.
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Re:
Might be fun to see what happens if you got companies on the OFAC lists to start selling products named for unpopular US politicians. Would those politicians suddenly be unable to use PayPal?
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End-user control problems
I'm sure we've all met the guy who tags every email, text or phone message as urgent as whatever platform he's using allows for, because he considers even the most trivial thing urgent - after all, if it wasn't urgent he wouldn't be sending it. Even if it's a picture of his cat playing with a laser dot.
There's the people who deliberately misuse tags or channels to reach a wider audience rather than using the ones topical to their message. Spammers in general tend to attach EVERY possible tag to their content in hopes of that.
Going old school, Caller ID promised to let you screen your calls before picking up the handset. Blockers and spoofers put and end to that.
Even older school, shady senders routinely disguise envelopes to look like things you want or need to open. The fake subpoenas that some DAs have sent out are a recent example of that.
As long as any of that is possible, end-user controls won't be as effective as hoped.
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To Madame Anne Hidalgo:
I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal-food-trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries.
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Re: Re: Re:hmmm
Many home invasion type robbers will yell "police, police" as they break into a house. They know it will make residents hesitate long enough that by the time they realize it's not the police it's too late to resist.
On the post: Appeals Court Says Address Mistakes On Warrants Are Mostly Harmless, Not Worth Getting Excited About
Re: 'Not a big problem to us that is.'
Exactly. The government gets important details wrong on official documents? No big deal. You or I make a small typo on a permit application or while paying a fine or filing an affidavit to a court? MAJOR CRIME! SEND MEN WITH GUNS!
On the post: Appeals Court Says Not Allowing Federal Officers To Pepper Spray Journalists Makes Law Enforcement Too Difficult
Given how the court seems to think that being pepper sprayed without any justification doesn't violate any rights, nor does it constitute assault & battery (either the criminal or civil versions), it makes me wonder:
What would happen to you if you pepper sprayed a 9th Circuit Appeals judge in his courtroom? If it's not an assault and it's not a violation of rights, that means it would be legal, right?
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Re: Re: Re: Assumptions and Trust
I had an idea for a gadget that suspends your cash in an alcohol bath, then extrudes it (wringing it out in the process) when needed. No risk of infection from that, and the damp bill could even be considered a disinfecting wipe for the people who handle it!
On the post: If A College Is Going To Make COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps Mandatory, They Should At Least Be Secure
Re: Assumptions and Trust
I came here to make pretty much that exact comment.
Not everyone has a brand new smart phone. Not everyone even owns a phone.
There's also the aspect of the app being able to lock students out of campus buildings if it detects that their mobile device has left campus without permission. Um, what? College students are almost always over 18, who do they need permission from?
On the post: If A College Is Going To Make COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps Mandatory, They Should At Least Be Secure
Re: Re:
If COVID-19 mutates like the flu does, then a vaccine will be just as effective in letting us get ahead of it as a flu vaccine is in eradicating flu season.
The fact that we have flu vaccines AND a flu season tells you all you need to know about how well it will work out.
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Re: Like people should be getting their 'news' through Facebook
Facebook doesn't peddle news. It allows people - including corporate persons - to share things they think others will be interested in.
A lot of the news articles on Facebook were put there by the news corporation's public relations departments. When someone clicks on one of those news links, they get taken to the news corporation's website and see the corporation's ads. None of the news articles you see on Facebook are actually hosted on or created by Facebook
What rock have you been living under that you don't know this?
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Re: Time for the 'You can't do that!' amendment
Doesn't Australia have laws against slavery? Requiring someone to be in business in their country whether they want to be or not strikes me as toeing that line quite hard.
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