Sorry, I didn't check this comment for a response. :P
Anyway, I certainly couldn't count the total number of incidents (I live near Ft. Sill, not Ft. Hood), but I know of at least half a dozen with serious injury in the last eight years, not counting incidents involving vehicles. It's frequently enough that the soldiers stationed there don't think anything of it and won't sleep by the windows in the barracks.
Remember, though, that Ft. Hood has the main in/out processing center for overseas tours, though and we all know how great the military is about making sure that our soldiers are mentally sound. (That adjective was sarcastic, of course.)
I think it's the opposite. Streaming makes unauthorized viewing even easier.
I recently missed the beginning of the new House MD episode and, of course, Fox doesn't let new episodes of House run on Hulu or sell on Amazon until 8 days after the original broadcast, (which means that if you miss one week, you will never be able to catch-up) so I wasn't going to be able to watch it online either.
In the midst of finding this out (while trying to purchase it on Amazon), I found an obviously pirated stream online. The quality was good and commercials had been cut out, even. So I watched that instead of having to wait to see it with commercials.
So, in my experience, streaming video makes unauthorized viewing even EASIER because I don't have to download anything, I don't have to worry about seeding, or having software; I just have to click and watch.
Of course, the real lesson that execs should take from this is to offer what your consumers want so I don't have to look for unauthorized streams online. I would have been perfectly content to watch it on Hulu with commercials, but it wasn't offered. Sorry, Fox. You fail.
If no one refutes him, then someone else who comes along and reads it might think that his argument has logical merit. :)
This particular horse may prefer the funny Kool-Aid, but the rest of the herd may not. In light of that, I don't believe that I am wasting my time here.
The only examples I have seen are single officers or officials doing stupid things. I don't see any great wholesale invasion of anyones' rights by the police or other authorities.
One of these examples is in the blog post, which I guess you didn't thoroughly read.
They have the ability to see what can be seen with the naked eyeball..
Plus the ability to attach that information to a huge database with all sorts of private information about you, including your DNA.
That's the point. That's the problem. You want to stand there and write it down my number? Fine. But not a police officer, because that absolutely does violate my rights.
Your license plate number only become abusable when it's attached to a database with other private information, such as your name, birth date, and social security number. Police have this. You don't.
Further, my freedom is more important than anything else, and I lived through a real, live terrorist attack. I would do it again and again to preserve those freedoms. You can shrug that off if you like, but when you're being arrested and prosecuted for a crime that you didn't commit because you happened to drive by the wrong place at the wrong time, you'll wonder what happened to America and I'll already know.
An IP address is the license plate on a car, it's visible publically, it isn't an issue of privacy.
Also, I'll restate my point here. Your license plate number, like your IP address (if you're showing your actual address, which you're not legally required to do) only become abusable when it's attached to other private information, such as your name, birth date, and social security number. Your usual concerned citizen doesn't have open access to that type of information.
In this situation, your license plate number would become attached to such a database, which would be abusable by all kinds of people. If this doesn't matter, and isn't a problem, then you should give Techdirt permission to release your private information in conjunction with what you insist is your 'Internet license plate'.
After all, if you had my personal information, you would call me as I asked and we could talk. Apparently you don't have any information, my phone isn't ringing.
Yup, and those people haven't managed openness yet, as evidence by your quotation marks over the word 'leaked'.
Why can't Carrie Prejean just say, 'Sure, I made several dozen nude photos, and seven or eight sex tapes. What of it?' and Vanessa Hudgens to say, 'Yeah, I don't shave my bush. What of it?'.
They have to pretend like it's something shameful and wrong in public and that sucks.
What happens is concerned citizens write down every plate number that comes in through the gate, and enters it into a database and puts it online?
Your license plate number only become abusable when it's attached to a database with other private information, such as your name, birth date, and social security number. Your usual concerned citizen doesn't have open access to those types of databases.
Setting the bar higher for me, well, making you a fool.
No, actually, you're the foolish-looking one because, although you seem to be taking the position that it's okay for people to have abusable information about you, whenever they want, for no reason at all, you refuse to give any abusable information. :)
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Anyway, I certainly couldn't count the total number of incidents (I live near Ft. Sill, not Ft. Hood), but I know of at least half a dozen with serious injury in the last eight years, not counting incidents involving vehicles. It's frequently enough that the soldiers stationed there don't think anything of it and won't sleep by the windows in the barracks.
Remember, though, that Ft. Hood has the main in/out processing center for overseas tours, though and we all know how great the military is about making sure that our soldiers are mentally sound. (That adjective was sarcastic, of course.)
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I recently missed the beginning of the new House MD episode and, of course, Fox doesn't let new episodes of House run on Hulu or sell on Amazon until 8 days after the original broadcast, (which means that if you miss one week, you will never be able to catch-up) so I wasn't going to be able to watch it online either.
In the midst of finding this out (while trying to purchase it on Amazon), I found an obviously pirated stream online. The quality was good and commercials had been cut out, even. So I watched that instead of having to wait to see it with commercials.
So, in my experience, streaming video makes unauthorized viewing even EASIER because I don't have to download anything, I don't have to worry about seeding, or having software; I just have to click and watch.
Of course, the real lesson that execs should take from this is to offer what your consumers want so I don't have to look for unauthorized streams online. I would have been perfectly content to watch it on Hulu with commercials, but it wasn't offered. Sorry, Fox. You fail.
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This particular horse may prefer the funny Kool-Aid, but the rest of the herd may not. In light of that, I don't believe that I am wasting my time here.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1230680/What-kind-country-arrests-innocent -people-boost-DNA-database.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/21/traffic-cameras-used.html
http://boingboing.net/2008/04/21/person-info-from-uk.html
One of these examples is in the blog post, which I guess you didn't thoroughly read.
They have the ability to see what can be seen with the naked eyeball..
Plus the ability to attach that information to a huge database with all sorts of private information about you, including your DNA.
That's the point. That's the problem. You want to stand there and write it down my number? Fine. But not a police officer, because that absolutely does violate my rights.
Your license plate number only become abusable when it's attached to a database with other private information, such as your name, birth date, and social security number. Police have this. You don't.
Further, my freedom is more important than anything else, and I lived through a real, live terrorist attack. I would do it again and again to preserve those freedoms. You can shrug that off if you like, but when you're being arrested and prosecuted for a crime that you didn't commit because you happened to drive by the wrong place at the wrong time, you'll wonder what happened to America and I'll already know.
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Also, I'll restate my point here. Your license plate number, like your IP address (if you're showing your actual address, which you're not legally required to do) only become abusable when it's attached to other private information, such as your name, birth date, and social security number. Your usual concerned citizen doesn't have open access to that type of information.
In this situation, your license plate number would become attached to such a database, which would be abusable by all kinds of people. If this doesn't matter, and isn't a problem, then you should give Techdirt permission to release your private information in conjunction with what you insist is your 'Internet license plate'.
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That's not even logical. Who fails again, lol?
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No, it isn't. Unless it's legal to hide your license plate number with a spoofed license plate nowadays?
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Right now though, they're mostly lying and covering it up, like Prejean did after the first nude photo and the first sex tape.
I'm not really knocking them for this, because society can be pretty damned compelling, whether you're Prejean or Clinton.
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Why can't Carrie Prejean just say, 'Sure, I made several dozen nude photos, and seven or eight sex tapes. What of it?' and Vanessa Hudgens to say, 'Yeah, I don't shave my bush. What of it?'.
They have to pretend like it's something shameful and wrong in public and that sucks.
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Having Something To Hide?
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Your license plate number only become abusable when it's attached to a database with other private information, such as your name, birth date, and social security number. Your usual concerned citizen doesn't have open access to those types of databases.
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No, actually, you're the foolish-looking one because, although you seem to be taking the position that it's okay for people to have abusable information about you, whenever they want, for no reason at all, you refuse to give any abusable information. :)
Do I smell an asshat?
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