Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 6 Nov 2018 @ 6:53am
Technologist Trump
“There has never been a breach in the Secretary of State’s office. We have never been hacked, and according to President Trump and the Department Of Homeland Security, we have never been targeted."
Now there's the most technologically adept reference I've ever heard! /s
How many phones does Trump have? How much security do they carry? Does Trump's staff feel good about the security of Trump's phones? Do foreign powers appreciate the security of Trump's phones?
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Nov 2018 @ 12:57pm
Re:
Feds gave him classified information as part of discovery.
What, they didn't notice it was classified? They didn't notice that the person they gave the classified iformation to was accused of disseminating classified information? They were unsure about or ignorant of the ability of anyone being able to secure classified information in a jailhouse? Did they think there was a 'cone of silence' in there?
Then there is the question as to whether the classified information given during discovery was the same as the classified information he was accused of disseminating? Were they verifying that it was classified? Were they claiming ownership for the purposes of prosecution? Or did they in fact give him different classified information?
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Nov 2018 @ 6:46am
Use the law to get around the law.
Is there language in the law that stipulates how much and/or how often such charges need to be made? If not, why not get a group of these smaller organizations together to write an indexing agreement (open source, of course) that allows that indexing for say 1 Euro per year. Such an agreement could satisfy the law, and if the publishers are just a tiny bit pro-active by contacting and offering this agreement to those aggregators they feel are appropriate, who looses?
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Nov 2018 @ 5:23pm
Re:
The way to go is to have two networks. One Internet connected for whatever uses that might have in either government or company related work, and another non Internet connected network that does the companies or goverments business. Then, if something needs to be trasfered from one to the other an isolated machine that iterogates whateveris to be transfered and once deemed OK allows that transfer, possibly by moving it to a fourth machine that looks for the OK code before allowing it to be moved on. 100% reliable, probably not, but certainly a higher percentage that they currently have. The cost would not be a lot different than they currently have, but it would be more.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Oct 2018 @ 5:38pm
Re: Illegal interference with a business model
There have been multiple inferences to such activity, here on Techdirt. Many of them surely seem to be reasonable inferences.
That such a law exists is not only a big negatory, but what does that matter? When the business wins because the only infraction was some kind of interference with their business model, what other conclusion is available? No laws broken, no infraction, but the business wins anyway?
To some degree, we need to think about how the FEC has allowed soft money and the Supreme Court has stated that money is speech to be big problems here. Now the question becomes how do we get the electorate to comprehend these things and make changes. Changes will take time, 40 or 50 years for the Supreme Court, but in the interim both the Executive and Legislative branches can be impacted. To do so, the electorate needs to ignore the money in politics and vote with integrity, rather than party.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Oct 2018 @ 5:01pm
Re: Re:
Frankly, I think the signs might have added to the distracted driving thingy. Motorists might think speed trap and slow down, they might think sobriety check and turn on a side street (if available) or, well there are many possibilities. Thinking about talking on my phone while driving might not even come to mind (I don't have a cellphone so it definately would not come to my mind).
I can picture many motorists glancing around the cabin of their cars looking for anything that might concern a police officer, and therefore be distracted, but not in any arrestable way.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Oct 2018 @ 4:45pm
Re: But how will censorship be properly implemented?
There is a difference between what a private corporation, Wikipedia, publishes, and what are public documents, no matter how hard to find. Wikipedia could be sued many, many times, and whether there is a case or not they would have to defend themselves, even if the infomation was considered public.
Public documents on the other hand, whomever posted them, are not actually actionable, though there are some in the EU that might differ with that.
Maybe if Wikipedia opened a set of public documents pages and then linked to that it might preserve some of the legal angst that would come their way if they didn't. Then again, maybe not.
I will be looking forward to hearing here on Techdirt about the lawsuits from folks in the EU against Harvard for the publication of these documents, even though those lawsuites should go nowhere.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Oct 2018 @ 4:35pm
Re: Sounds like this local case a while back
Yes, but then they should know the laws they enforce as well, depite the Supreme Court's inferences. It might be an end result of how qualified imunity, inevitable discovery, and a lack of perjury charges when cops lie on the stand in court impacts their decisions.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Oct 2018 @ 3:52pm
Re: Huh?
Obviously you have never had it mixed a la minute (which means there is less than a minute between adding the dressing to the cabbage and whatever other veggies you like in your cole slaw, mixing it and serving it). Crisp vs marinated and soggy.
Thing is, eventually all of whatever Harvard harvests will be re-harvested and then become freely available and unencumbered. Though the fancy apps might not be included. Seems to me some folks were doing this with Pacer, or some other unreasonably encumbered system.
500 downloads per day would only need the cooperation of 13,000 people for one day to capture the entire database. There certainly could be permutations of people and days. To think that anyone might be able to control this pubilic infomation beyond the download (incorporating in the apps is different) would be incredulous.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Oct 2018 @ 9:07am
Re: but isn't "free speech" increasingly viewed as a bad thing?
Is the Tech industry supposed to mirror societal changes, or not? Is the Tech industry supposed to react to every micro expression from every micro group, or not? Is the Tech industry supposed to propose and practise some orthodoxy, or not? Are individual members of the Tech industry supposed to concieve their own perspective on how they will interact with the rest of the world, or not?
"Both FCC bureaucrats and Techdirt writers need step out of the past and update their thinking and arguments, as "free speech" is now almost a dirty word in the tech industry, a defect to be fixed rather than an ideal to be cherished ... or so it seems."
Update their thinking and arguments to whose norm, or not?
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Oct 2018 @ 7:40am
Re: Telling standards
One would think that at some point when a 'corporate person' is claiming their free speech rights are being denied by a 'real person' that a lawsuit would be generated. The point would be for the two 'people' to appear in court. Not representatives, the 'real people'. Then the sham of corporate personhood would be revealed.
The first problem I see with the above is that only the government is prohibited from interfering with speech. There could be other charges, disturbing the peace for example, against the 'real person'.
The idea is to set up an in court confrontation, person vs person when one person is an actual human being and the other the fiction of a corporate person with free speech rights, who would necessarily be a no show.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 29 Oct 2018 @ 6:49am
Credit where credit is due, even if you didn't incur it
Charter CEO: "Well, we got our rate increase, things look rosy".
Charter CFO: "It's not enough, the debt load will cost you twice this increase".
Charter CEO: "Not to worry, we've got two more rate hikes in the works, the first will take care of the debt load and the second will help our investors to see their beloved increase in profits".
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 26 Oct 2018 @ 4:27pm
Re: Well, here is the problem:
Isn't the point of law enforcement to catch and prosecute people who actually commit crimes? Not someone thinking about commiting crimes, but those who actually commit crimes. Now there could be some exceptions where the police stumble upon and actualy crime in the planning stages, but I would think they would set up and catch the criminals in the act in those instances.
When the entire enterprise is made up, what crime was actually commited?
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 26 Oct 2018 @ 12:34pm
Re: Re: Quite simple
The problem I see with that idea is that I was raised a Catholic, but no Christian would actually want to hear what I have to say about their religions today (though conversations with priests and other clergy tend to be both lively and comprehensive, and neither side wins anything). Technically that would make me a Catholic, or a Christian, but they would probably be insulted.
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Re: The A Team
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Technologist Trump
Now there's the most technologically adept reference I've ever heard! /s
How many phones does Trump have? How much security do they carry? Does Trump's staff feel good about the security of Trump's phones? Do foreign powers appreciate the security of Trump's phones?
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Re: Re: 'Try one FREE!', hardly a new concept
It is worse than that. They think they deserve more money. I think that might be worse than OCD.
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Re:
Feds gave him classified information as part of discovery.
What, they didn't notice it was classified? They didn't notice that the person they gave the classified iformation to was accused of disseminating classified information? They were unsure about or ignorant of the ability of anyone being able to secure classified information in a jailhouse? Did they think there was a 'cone of silence' in there?
Then there is the question as to whether the classified information given during discovery was the same as the classified information he was accused of disseminating? Were they verifying that it was classified? Were they claiming ownership for the purposes of prosecution? Or did they in fact give him different classified information?
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Use the law to get around the law.
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Re:
On the post: Cop Sued For Bogus Arrest Of Man Who Broke Up The PD's Distracted Driving Sting
Re: Illegal interference with a business model
That such a law exists is not only a big negatory, but what does that matter? When the business wins because the only infraction was some kind of interference with their business model, what other conclusion is available? No laws broken, no infraction, but the business wins anyway?
To some degree, we need to think about how the FEC has allowed soft money and the Supreme Court has stated that money is speech to be big problems here. Now the question becomes how do we get the electorate to comprehend these things and make changes. Changes will take time, 40 or 50 years for the Supreme Court, but in the interim both the Executive and Legislative branches can be impacted. To do so, the electorate needs to ignore the money in politics and vote with integrity, rather than party.
On the post: Cop Sued For Bogus Arrest Of Man Who Broke Up The PD's Distracted Driving Sting
Re: Re: Re: Sounds like this local case a while back
On the post: Cop Sued For Bogus Arrest Of Man Who Broke Up The PD's Distracted Driving Sting
Re: Re:
I can picture many motorists glancing around the cabin of their cars looking for anything that might concern a police officer, and therefore be distracted, but not in any arrestable way.
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Re: "Lowering The Bar"...
Lowering the Bar's subtle humor deserves a link.
On the post: Harvard Opens Up Its Massive Caselaw Access Project
Re: But how will censorship be properly implemented?
Public documents on the other hand, whomever posted them, are not actually actionable, though there are some in the EU that might differ with that.
Maybe if Wikipedia opened a set of public documents pages and then linked to that it might preserve some of the legal angst that would come their way if they didn't. Then again, maybe not.
I will be looking forward to hearing here on Techdirt about the lawsuits from folks in the EU against Harvard for the publication of these documents, even though those lawsuites should go nowhere.
On the post: Cop Sued For Bogus Arrest Of Man Who Broke Up The PD's Distracted Driving Sting
Re: Sounds like this local case a while back
On the post: Harvard Opens Up Its Massive Caselaw Access Project
Re: Re-publishing and archiving
On the post: Harvard Opens Up Its Massive Caselaw Access Project
Re: Huh?
Thing is, eventually all of whatever Harvard harvests will be re-harvested and then become freely available and unencumbered. Though the fancy apps might not be included. Seems to me some folks were doing this with Pacer, or some other unreasonably encumbered system.
500 downloads per day would only need the cooperation of 13,000 people for one day to capture the entire database. There certainly could be permutations of people and days. To think that anyone might be able to control this pubilic infomation beyond the download (incorporating in the apps is different) would be incredulous.
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Re: but isn't "free speech" increasingly viewed as a bad thing?
Is the Tech industry supposed to mirror societal changes, or not? Is the Tech industry supposed to react to every micro expression from every micro group, or not? Is the Tech industry supposed to propose and practise some orthodoxy, or not? Are individual members of the Tech industry supposed to concieve their own perspective on how they will interact with the rest of the world, or not?
Update their thinking and arguments to whose norm, or not?
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Re: Telling standards
The first problem I see with the above is that only the government is prohibited from interfering with speech. There could be other charges, disturbing the peace for example, against the 'real person'.
The idea is to set up an in court confrontation, person vs person when one person is an actual human being and the other the fiction of a corporate person with free speech rights, who would necessarily be a no show.
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Credit where credit is due, even if you didn't incur it
Charter CFO: "It's not enough, the debt load will cost you twice this increase".
Charter CEO: "Not to worry, we've got two more rate hikes in the works, the first will take care of the debt load and the second will help our investors to see their beloved increase in profits".
Charter CFO: "Well...OK"!
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Re: Well, here is the problem:
When the entire enterprise is made up, what crime was actually commited?
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Re: Re: Quite simple
What then?
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