Mail it back to them. "Hi, I think this is yours and thought you might like it back. It's got your name on it. See attached." Maybe we'd get to read a new Cyber-terrorists attack Sony, again! story.
Re: Re: Technology leads to Frankenstein tragedies.
No, I think you're the winner (whiner?). You managed to ignore pretty much everything he wrote to the exclusion of focusing on two hot button issues of your own. Bravo.
Certainly, you may. And that determination and a couple of bucks will buy you a bus ticket. It's worth as much as hearsay evidence.
I wonder if this has anything to do with nobody being able to trust your justice system these days. The cops and prosecutors are corrupt, don't know the law, mishandle evidence or make it up, juries are hand picked by lawyers based on their pliability, public defenders are lucky if they can even keep up, etc. OJ's civil trial did one hell of a lot better job than the criminal trial did. The cops in the Rodney King trial got off the first time.
Guilt vs. innocence? Perfect tabloid gossip mag fare, the court of public opinion rules. The cops do this too. They *know* that guy did it, so they find a way to hang it on him. Other potential suspects are just noise in the system. Eventually, it may all work out, but by then an innocent man's spent years of his life in prison, if he isn't executed or shivved first. Rinse, lather, repeat.
You should all be very angry about this. Yet people wonder why Assange and Dotcom and Swartz are afraid to face their accusers.
This is Britain we're talking about here. We used to shake our heads with sadness when we thought about India's caste system. Britain's has always been far worse. 99.9% of the population have always been considered untouchables. Their own "nobles" had to fight the king (Magna Carta) for consideration of their rights.
I'm pretty sure "pompous ass" is part of the judges' job descriptions.
I'd disagree. The underlying problem is your average computer user is an ignorant sluggard (and I mean that in the nicest way :-) who only barely knows how to use the tools they're given. There are technical people who use a spreadsheet program (ie. Excel) to create what is little more than a list of items, when simple text in an editor would do. I've watched accountants transcribe numbers from a spreadsheet program into desktop calculators to sum a column. There's Sun Certified "engineers" who can't list the contents of a directory.
I know, people just want to get stuff done. They don't want to learn how computers work. They just want to use them. Well, think of all those carpenters out there building houses. How far can they get without knowing how to use a hammer, or what materials to use in any given situation.
For all those mere users out there, I'm sorry we haven't yet invented the DWIM (Do What I Mean) key. Please bear with us.
Or, maybe don't use computer operating systems and software which were implemented so stupidly that things like this become a problem.
TD sells t-shirts, you know? A few pages down from the top, "Support TechDirt - get great stuff", Insider Shop, TechDirt Gear, Perks and More. I wonder if there's a "Streisand Effect Cabal" shirt.
You assume they don't get this, and I think that's your mistake. They don't want to stop this sharing culture. They rely on it. Rather, they want to monetize it.
The problem is, they really suck at that. Geo-blocking, lawfare, DMCA, DHS/ICE, bribing attorneys general and writing their lines for them to attack search engines, outlawing VPNs? Who comes up with insane ideas like that?
This amazes me too. Read the comments on torrentfreak related to one of these "MPAA is evil" stories, and they bitch and complain and swear they'll torrent GoT to hell and back, yet never even consider giving up on them. After all the abuse, they're still addicted to the crap.
re/code, Verge, Gizmodo all breathlessly swoon over every Hollywood trailer spat out. It never seems to occur to them that it's just yet another comic book like all the others before it, or another Star Wars do-over, sent to the screen. GoT is not even any good.
All violence will do is put some other tool in power while others die. I'd like to think there are better options.
It needn't be violent. In fact, you've already tried it once before. Seceed from the Union. Break the USA up into multiple separate countries. Agree to disagree and go your separate ways peacefully. Face it, the north hates the south and vice versa. What does Seattle have in common with Tampa? Damned near nothing. Texas would be better off on its own. Washington DC can revert back to swampland.
If it keeps on the way it's going, the USA is bound to start WWIII with somebody. That's what I worry about. Do the world a favor and dissolve into your component parts.
It may already be a fait accomplis. The dollar's going to implode soon. Russia's given up trying to align with Europe because of your NeoCon-Israeli masters' sabre rattling. They're now creating the Leninberg-Shanghai trade axis with China instead.
Bite the bullet. Save the world. It needn't mean civil war.
So, one side of the Always Ruling Party covered it up, and the other side continued the coverup and prosecuted the whistleblower for spilling the beans. Thanks for the correction.
... oh, and he wasn't exactly victorious either, was he?
Wasn't he? Besides, they made a tactical mistake. They should have just kept on going into Gaul, perhaps coming back with an army exclusively of warriors, instead of turning on Rome dragging women and children and other non-warriors with them.
They shook Imperial Rome to it knees and made it fear for its very existence. That's pretty damned good in my books. It's provided an example for the ages which is still admired to this day a couple of millennia on.
Note, Rome did eventually fall, so what would the point be in continuing to prop up a cancerous system? Just to live for another day as slaves?
Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Apr 20th, 2015 @ 8:27am
So... still no rioting on the streets? Noone is even just a little bit upset?
Please tell us the utopia from which you hail
What's that got to do with anything? It's a valid question. Their country doesn't brag about Exceptionalism and having the duty to export freedom to the rest of the lesser civilized world, threatening WWIII in the process.
Is the USA your country, or your rulers' and tyrants' country?
Eleven deaths and an environmental disaster could have been prevented if a known problem hadn't been covered up by the US State Dept. Thanks Hillary.
Sony's (repeated) abysmal security caused their problem, just as the military's abysmal security caused theirs, and it should be entirely on them to deal with the repercussions of it; all of it! Blaming reporters for reporting facts is vile and nonsensical behaviour, assuming we still live in a democracy controlled by the citizenry.
Sorry about your war with the huns, but we can't help because Europe is outside our geo-location as defined in international treaties. We could help with Burma, China, and Singapore among others, but North Africa, Italy, and France are right out. Good luck.
Then, guess what happens when Japan gets into it.
"This is how we get our money!"
This is not how we spend our money or make our purchases. See how that works? And, as everyone knows, the customer is always right, yes?
But I also see that you are convinced you've uncovered some "shocking truth" about MPAA deception.
No, we learned all about MPAA's deceptions when it was revealed that it was bribing multiple attorneys general, as well as writing their lines for them, in order to attack Google.
I don't give a rat's ass what your name is, by the way. I already know what you are, and that's more than I want to know. Your ilk has been infesting civilization from its earliest stages, spreading disease among simple hard working folk. You should be ashamed for doing what you do, but I know you haven't the capacity for it. Die screaming in a fire.
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I rest my case. You're obviously supremely ignorant of anything that went on in the case. "'Tis better to be thought a fool ..."
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Mail it back to them. "Hi, I think this is yours and thought you might like it back. It's got your name on it. See attached." Maybe we'd get to read a new Cyber-terrorists attack Sony, again! story.
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Re: Re: Technology leads to Frankenstein tragedies.
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I wonder if this has anything to do with nobody being able to trust your justice system these days. The cops and prosecutors are corrupt, don't know the law, mishandle evidence or make it up, juries are hand picked by lawyers based on their pliability, public defenders are lucky if they can even keep up, etc. OJ's civil trial did one hell of a lot better job than the criminal trial did. The cops in the Rodney King trial got off the first time.
Guilt vs. innocence? Perfect tabloid gossip mag fare, the court of public opinion rules. The cops do this too. They *know* that guy did it, so they find a way to hang it on him. Other potential suspects are just noise in the system. Eventually, it may all work out, but by then an innocent man's spent years of his life in prison, if he isn't executed or shivved first. Rinse, lather, repeat.
You should all be very angry about this. Yet people wonder why Assange and Dotcom and Swartz are afraid to face their accusers.
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Perfidious Albion.
I'm pretty sure "pompous ass" is part of the judges' job descriptions.
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Re: Ease of Phishing
I know, people just want to get stuff done. They don't want to learn how computers work. They just want to use them. Well, think of all those carpenters out there building houses. How far can they get without knowing how to use a hammer, or what materials to use in any given situation.
For all those mere users out there, I'm sorry we haven't yet invented the DWIM (Do What I Mean) key. Please bear with us.
Or, maybe don't use computer operating systems and software which were implemented so stupidly that things like this become a problem.
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Re: Re: Wow
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Re: Let's bring it up a little....
The problem is, they really suck at that. Geo-blocking, lawfare, DMCA, DHS/ICE, bribing attorneys general and writing their lines for them to attack search engines, outlawing VPNs? Who comes up with insane ideas like that?
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Re: Does reputation matter?
re/code, Verge, Gizmodo all breathlessly swoon over every Hollywood trailer spat out. It never seems to occur to them that it's just yet another comic book like all the others before it, or another Star Wars do-over, sent to the screen. GoT is not even any good.
What's wrong with these people? It's sad.
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It needn't be violent. In fact, you've already tried it once before. Seceed from the Union. Break the USA up into multiple separate countries. Agree to disagree and go your separate ways peacefully. Face it, the north hates the south and vice versa. What does Seattle have in common with Tampa? Damned near nothing. Texas would be better off on its own. Washington DC can revert back to swampland.
If it keeps on the way it's going, the USA is bound to start WWIII with somebody. That's what I worry about. Do the world a favor and dissolve into your component parts.
It may already be a fait accomplis. The dollar's going to implode soon. Russia's given up trying to align with Europe because of your NeoCon-Israeli masters' sabre rattling. They're now creating the Leninberg-Shanghai trade axis with China instead.
Bite the bullet. Save the world. It needn't mean civil war.
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Wasn't he? Besides, they made a tactical mistake. They should have just kept on going into Gaul, perhaps coming back with an army exclusively of warriors, instead of turning on Rome dragging women and children and other non-warriors with them.
They shook Imperial Rome to it knees and made it fear for its very existence. That's pretty damned good in my books. It's provided an example for the ages which is still admired to this day a couple of millennia on.
Note, Rome did eventually fall, so what would the point be in continuing to prop up a cancerous system? Just to live for another day as slaves?
Sic semper tyranis.
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Do the math. 320(?) million US citizens vs. 1 million cops + far flung military, minus cops and military who won't fight citizens.
Your country has become like a rabid dog.
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Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Apr 20th, 2015 @ 8:27am
What's that got to do with anything? It's a valid question. Their country doesn't brag about Exceptionalism and having the duty to export freedom to the rest of the lesser civilized world, threatening WWIII in the process.
Is the USA your country, or your rulers' and tyrants' country?
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In a related note, ...
Eleven deaths and an environmental disaster could have been prevented if a known problem hadn't been covered up by the US State Dept. Thanks Hillary.
Sony's (repeated) abysmal security caused their problem, just as the military's abysmal security caused theirs, and it should be entirely on them to deal with the repercussions of it; all of it! Blaming reporters for reporting facts is vile and nonsensical behaviour, assuming we still live in a democracy controlled by the citizenry.
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Australia's answer to Churchill
Then, guess what happens when Japan gets into it.
"This is how we get our money!"
This is not how we spend our money or make our purchases. See how that works? And, as everyone knows, the customer is always right, yes?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Dodd is correct
No, we learned all about MPAA's deceptions when it was revealed that it was bribing multiple attorneys general, as well as writing their lines for them, in order to attack Google.
I don't give a rat's ass what your name is, by the way. I already know what you are, and that's more than I want to know. Your ilk has been infesting civilization from its earliest stages, spreading disease among simple hard working folk. You should be ashamed for doing what you do, but I know you haven't the capacity for it. Die screaming in a fire.
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