If Facebook want's to ban a person or group, it is their right as it is their toy. Where it gets problematic is when they alter the news feeds to favor certain types of news and don't tell anyone or provide an easy way to revert back to all are equal. The result is Facebook is basically misrepresenting what is going on by gaming the news feeds.
Google is notorious for altering search results based on whatever their goals are this week. Yet the end user has little way to know that the reason they are getting so few results this week for X isn't that X is any less popular but due solely to Google changing the search algorithm. The only way the end user can discover this is by using several search engines and comparing the results. IMO, when Google does this, they are lying to the end user about what results are popular or pertain to the user's search request.
Sadly, for many Police Departments, SWAT stands for Standard Weapons and Tactics, training is minimal, tactics have devolved into bash in the front door and yell conflicting instructions, and the results show it.
Seems we might have identified the bureaucratic lag in NJ at about 10 years as that seems to be when those password standards were last fairly current.
And I have a deep hate for 'Security Questions'. Years ago, we had an employee leave, on good terms, from a remote office. A few months later, we had to call the ISP to change something with the account. They required the correct answer to the Security Question answered several years earlier by the recently departed employee. Ever had to guess the Favorite Restaurant of a former employee that worked in a town 50 miles away?
Sadly, if the school board lawyer had filed a DMCA violation notice on the 'breaking' of the 'protection' on the document that blacked out the redacted text, it might fly. It seems obvious that the document was delivered in digital form with a form of digital protection on the redacted bits. Doing the copy/paste to pull out the text could well count as 'breaking' the digital protection on the document allowing use not intended by the creating entity, thus a violation of the DMCA.
Just moved to rural OK. Got lucky and can get 12/1 DSL. The tech said the line tested to 25m but the fastest service they offer is 12. Oddly, this is twice the speed I got from AT&T in suburban OKC before they yanked out the POTS and replaced with fiber. The base speed after fiber was 50Mb down.
About 1.5 miles from the fiber ran up a state highway. Guessing that is where the magic DSL box is. There might be 10 houses between the highway and my place so unlikely to be cost effective to run the fiber down my road anytime soon.
One person's BS report is the next person's legitimate news.
When the US is busy trying to incite government and policy change in Iran and other countries and has been for decades, it is hard to claim indignant concern when an outside power returns the favor.
When the average website tries to run many 3rd party scripts just to load, it will be near impossible to fully figure out what all is being loaded or attempted to load. Made worse when many of those scripts attempt to load still more. And this is for so called legitimate sites.
After the Bush v Gore hanging chad election in 2000, the Feds DID hand out grants to all 50 states to upgrade election systems. That money was spent on the wonderful systems many of the folks are now complaining about. Repeating past mistakes in hopes the states will do better this time would most likely be as much a waste today as it was post Bush v Gore.
Better approach would be to make the states decide what system they want, test it to verify accuracy and security, then let that state apply for Federal funding to help pay for it.
My thought was similar, just call it a "High Speed Interceptor" and all should be good. After all, you need something to chase down other cars full of cash.
The DOJ should introduce as evidence the previous statements by AT&T officials and lawyers made under oath that rates would go down. Followed by charges of perjury against said lawyers and officials since rates went up.
This whole thing is made worse by the push by service companies to force customers into both paperless billing and auto-pay. Makes it easier to tack on a few extra charges and hope the customer won't bother to attempt to login, work past the 'time to change your password prompts so they can check the bill and auto-pay means turning off the payments requires several steps beyond the former no action needed to stop sending checks.
Mr Marrero should file charges against the FBI claiming they are attempting to violate his Right of Expression as protected by the 1st amendment. If the relationship was legal, then attempting to control artistic expression of that relationship seems to be a civil rights violation.
Since there is probably more then one agent involved, add on a conspiracy to commit a civil rights violation against all agents involved.
This is basically what happened years ago when a certain NY Attorney General pressured ISPs to quit including free access to USENET as part of their service. The claimed reason was the fight against child porn. It wasn't long before law enforcement was complaining that catching child pornographers had gotten much harder since the CP folks had moved to secure members only sites instead of the anyone can see USENET.
To prevent future versions of this, the DOJ should file perjury charges against the AT&T lawyers for lying under oath plus filing a report with that state's Bar association for possible disbarment proceedings.
The timing of these prosecutions means that most were started by folks hired during the Obama or Bush II administrations. Especially since we are talking about folks arrested for suspicion of committing crimes during the Inauguration. Pretty much by definition, very few Trump folks could have been in place when this circus started.
If I read TFA correctly, the DOJ never won a case in a contested court of law. Their only wins were in the pre-trial negotiating rooms where they managed to talk 21 suspects into pleading guilty. Either those were the folks that really did some of the damage or they got real poor legal advice.
Keep in mind that many judges are elected officials. Likely these are just doing what the fine folks of Texas elected them to do. See other's comments about the Texas pride in their 'justice' system.
The folks crossing US borders without permission are Illegal Invaders, not undocumented immigrants. Try taking your family with small children south into Mexico without proper documentation and bypassing the normal entry points and see what happens.
See something say something CAN work if there is proper triage on the calls and proper followup on those found useful. More then one potential school shooter has been picked up after reports were followed up on.
BTW - coyotes taking cats and small dogs is a somewhat frequent occurrence in my state.
Wonder if the dim bulb that ordered the search even considered how to prove any money found was the money in question? Did he know the serial numbers? Even if the search had found cash, it could well have belonged to the girl(s) that had it. Pre-teens can legally carry money. He's lucky no cash was found. Could have escalated from a stupid search to charges of theft from a minor.
Please let this back door attempt to impose net neutrality die.
Introduce a clean net neutrality bill that only addresses NN. If you don't trust the FCC, make the FTC or some other group the controlling agency.
Gather bi-partisan support by asking Republicans if they would like liberal ISPs limiting access to sites like the NRA and GOP. Mention to Democrats that red state ISPs might be inclined to limit access to pro-abortion sites.
Make the case that we all win if we keep ISPs out of the business of picking Internet traffic winners and losers.
On the post: We Shouldn't Want Internet Giants Deciding Who To Silence; But They Should Let Users Decide Who To Hear
Google is notorious for altering search results based on whatever their goals are this week. Yet the end user has little way to know that the reason they are getting so few results this week for X isn't that X is any less popular but due solely to Google changing the search algorithm. The only way the end user can discover this is by using several search engines and comparing the results. IMO, when Google does this, they are lying to the end user about what results are popular or pertain to the user's search request.
On the post: Research Paper Shows Militarized SWAT Teams Don't Make Cops -- Or The Public -- Any Safer
On the post: Nickelodeon Is Opposing A 12 Year Old New Zealand Girl's 'Slime' Trademark For Some Reason
On the post: NJ Courts Impose Ridiculous Password Policy 'To Comply With NIST' That Does Exactly What NIST Says Not To Do
And I have a deep hate for 'Security Questions'. Years ago, we had an employee leave, on good terms, from a remote office. A few months later, we had to call the ISP to change something with the account. They required the correct answer to the Security Question answered several years earlier by the recently departed employee. Ever had to guess the Favorite Restaurant of a former employee that worked in a town 50 miles away?
On the post: School Board Demands Journalists Be Punished For Reporting On The School Board's Redaction Failure
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On the post: Report Highlights How U.S. Telcos Abandoned Rural American Broadband
About 1.5 miles from the fiber ran up a state highway. Guessing that is where the magic DSL box is. There might be 10 houses between the highway and my place so unlikely to be cost effective to run the fiber down my road anytime soon.
On the post: Facebook's Censorship Of Legit Activists Shows The Policing Of Propaganda Is Going To Be A Fucking Mess
When the US is busy trying to incite government and policy change in Iran and other countries and has been for decades, it is hard to claim indignant concern when an outside power returns the favor.
When the average website tries to run many 3rd party scripts just to load, it will be near impossible to fully figure out what all is being loaded or attempted to load. Made worse when many of those scripts attempt to load still more. And this is for so called legitimate sites.
On the post: Election Security Has Become A Partisan Issue As Senate Votes Down Funding
Better approach would be to make the states decide what system they want, test it to verify accuracy and security, then let that state apply for Federal funding to help pay for it.
On the post: DOJ Tells Sheriff To Give It Back The $70,000 In Forfeiture Funds He Spent To Buy Himself A New Sports Car
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On the post: After AT&T Jacks Up Prices Post Merger, DOJ Decides To Appeal Court Loss
On the post: The Cable TV & Broadband Sector Has A Nasty Billing Fraud Problem
This whole thing is made worse by the push by service companies to force customers into both paperless billing and auto-pay. Makes it easier to tack on a few extra charges and hope the customer won't bother to attempt to login, work past the 'time to change your password prompts so they can check the bill and auto-pay means turning off the payments requires several steps beyond the former no action needed to stop sending checks.
On the post: FBI Decides To Ruin A Man's Life Over Nude Photos Of His Legal Girlfriend He Took Seven Years Ago
Since there is probably more then one agent involved, add on a conspiracy to commit a civil rights violation against all agents involved.
On the post: More Police Admitting That FOSTA/SESTA Has Made It Much More Difficult To Catch Pimps And Traffickers
On the post: AT&T Is Very Excited To Try And Ruin HBO
The worrisome question is will it be affordable when it airs?
On the post: Streaming Video Sees Wave Of Price Hikes In Apparent Bid To Mimic Cable & Embolden Piracy
On the post: DOJ Racks Up 90% Failure Rate In Inauguration Protest Prosecutions, Dismisses Final Defendants
If I read TFA correctly, the DOJ never won a case in a contested court of law. Their only wins were in the pre-trial negotiating rooms where they managed to talk 21 suspects into pleading guilty. Either those were the folks that really did some of the damage or they got real poor legal advice.
On the post: In Harris County, Texas, The Death Penalty Is Applied With A Judicial Rubber Stamp
Re: If you're not working, why are we paying you?
On the post: 'See Something, Say Something' But For Immigrants Continues To Collect Little But Petty Complaints From Petty Americans
See something say something CAN work if there is proper triage on the calls and proper followup on those found useful. More then one potential school shooter has been picked up after reports were followed up on.
BTW - coyotes taking cats and small dogs is a somewhat frequent occurrence in my state.
On the post: Fifth Circuit Says No, You Fucking May Not Strip Search A Classful Of Female Students To Find $50
On the post: Effort To Save Net Neutrality Via Congressional Review Act Appears Stuck In Neutral
Introduce a clean net neutrality bill that only addresses NN. If you don't trust the FCC, make the FTC or some other group the controlling agency.
Gather bi-partisan support by asking Republicans if they would like liberal ISPs limiting access to sites like the NRA and GOP. Mention to Democrats that red state ISPs might be inclined to limit access to pro-abortion sites.
Make the case that we all win if we keep ISPs out of the business of picking Internet traffic winners and losers.
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