That Anonymous Coward (profile), 20 Mar 2020 @ 2:56pm
The fun human nature where if something was bad before, in the future we have to overreact to fix it.
Some people used the lists to annoy people, lets scan all the lists & go overboard months later.
Of course it is also possible that some asshole placed on the list of assholes and was so upset they demanded it be fixed. Of course one never checks the complaining persons TL to see that asshole is actually the nicest thing they post.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 18 Mar 2020 @ 10:19am
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IIRC they had multiple different systems tracking them that don't talk to each other so it was hard to understand how many they actually have.
One of those things where perhaps it would be a best practice to unify record keeping & reporting systems so they could spend more time doing the job instead of checking 45 different sub systems to gather information.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 18 Mar 2020 @ 7:41am
One does wonder how many prosecutions were stopped b/c the almighty phone held the only evidence.
Then there is the question of : Did they just need to unlock the phone b/c its the only way to explain how they already had the data from another source?
They talk about terrorists going dark... exactly how many terrorists are inside the US that you are aware of but can only track by cell phone?
The white terrorists aren't going dark, hell they create FaceBook Events inviting everyone to come on down for the lynching giving a month warning its coming and the law only shows up after the 3rd 911 call.
The guy who ride his bicycle past a home that was robbed who was their main focus b/c of the google warrant dragnet also highlights a "reverse" CSI moment we are seeing in law enforcement. The tech will hand them the answer, with no effort on their part.
Street person arrested for killing a man in his home b/c of touch DNA, they tried railroading him hard only to discover that touch DNA from an ambulance ride was what "placed" him on the scene. But the law didn't care to look at that, just the result & then support that result by not looking at anything else.
Bombing suspect in Madrid (IIRC) the never fail fingerprints recovered made a US citizen who was no where near the bombing the prime suspect b/c they were his fingerprints... oh wait they aren't the perfect single identifier of people we claimed for years, after turning that guys life upside down & destroying his good name.
We only reward wins, this is why they rarely push cases against those able to fight back on a level playing field. Why investigate, we can just unlock the phone & get everything. Yeah we could send people out and gather the same information from other sources, but thats hard... just let us decide who is a good guy and who is a bad guy & then access all of their stuff so we can go to an early lunch.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 16 Mar 2020 @ 11:21pm
sits back with the popcorn
IP our most valuable asset, matters more than testing in a pandemic.
In a functioning society people might point to this as being a great time to consider perhaps we've gone to far in "protecting" IP.
But then a cartoon mouse being under copyright until the end of the world is much easier to do when the world might be ending.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 11 Mar 2020 @ 3:02am
Re: Re:
Actually it is their personal bubble that drives it.
It never happened to me or someone I love, its not a big deal.
If you are a "Good Person" (tm) they will never do this to you.
If by chance a "Good Person" (tm) gets caught up in this, obviously it was a mistake & they will fix it for them.
They don't bother to track the story & see how the justice system drags its feet to get to court, make it nearly impossible to get your items back, and even if you manage to win they will only offer a small portion of the total just to make you go away.
This also explains why they can not understand why someone would falsely confess to a crime, ignoring that they kept the person for 36 hours in an interrogation room.
They can't understand that some cops are not allowed to testify in court cases b/c the DA knows for a fact they will lie on the stand, they assume the system punishes liars.
They see a man taken to the ground by 12 cops who beat the crap out of him, well he shouldn't have resisted by daring to ask what crime he had committed & them stomping on his head was an accident for sure... all 4 times it happened.
People fail to grasp that what happens to other people can and will happen to them eventually. That someday they can be the victim in the story where the commenters go on and on about they shouldn't have done anything wrong or disobeyed the 15 different conflicting directions screamed at them at once.
We all know innocent people have been executed, yet somehow there is no will to demand reviews of cases (despite us knowing about brady violations, racism, flat out lies supporting cases), no will to help those innocents who were jailed for decades for a crime they did not commit, rooting for the loopholes they use... well you weren't found "actually innocent" so no money for you despite the charges being dismissed.
Until it happens to us... we honestly don't give a shit.
Then we are upset & complain... and those who haven't been screwed over yet just assume you did something bad & thats why it happened to you.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 10 Mar 2020 @ 6:14pm
I saw this on Twitter and made a comment about it being legal & while people wanted to drag the cops they need to understand they elected the people who made it legal for them to pad their budget by robbing people.
A few people tried to say how it wasn't legal under the constitution & some other deflections.
The cops are doing this because they are allowed to.
They are allowed to b/c we voted for people who said they would stop the drug dealers.
We turned a blind eye to them not stopping drug dealers & robbing people... until there was a photogenic "victim" we could feel for.
The media pries the records of of all the cash taken & shocking... its not huge drug cartels being hurt, its poor people being fscked over once again to cover the fact we don't want to pay what we should for the protecting we demand.
Kid sells a single joint & his parents lose their home... and hardly a blip b/c drugs are bad mmmkay.
BF borrows his GF's car, does something sketchy... she loses her car.
Then there was the cop who seized a very expensive car, didn't wait for the cars court date to defend itself before he had it repainted for his use on the job.
This is bullshit, this does not work, this is being abused... but there is little will by politicians to change it b/c the unions will run stories about how they are soft on crime & the idiot public eats it up... somehow missing we've watched videos of unarmed people being murdered by cops & this same union says we shoudl wait to pass judgement on when our lying eyes saw the officer pull the gun, put it to the victims head, fire, then wait 15 min before calling for help.
We need to have faith in the system... perhaps it is time to stop having blind faith that they are always the good guys. They are humans & allowing them special outs from actions that if we had done would result in us being in jail just encourages the bad behavior. They have a tough job, but when they protect those who break the law b/c they have a badge it makes us much less safe. Calling a cop for help can end up with you or a loved one dead... isn't this reason enough to question why that is?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 9 Mar 2020 @ 2:51pm
And a base he is appealing to think this is exactly what he should do, mainly because they haven't figured out paying off the multiple legal fees & settlements is coming out of their pocket.
I've noticed a lot of peoples attitudes on things change when they are on the hook for the outcome.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 6 Mar 2020 @ 1:10pm
"“If I knew, I would run ten-thousand-million miles away from that guy.”"
But instead a took a fully written bill, did no research on it, the person behind it, the fact it clearly violates the 1st amendment & tried to sucker someone else into running it because someone in a uniform (of some variety) handed it to me and told me a sob story.
Perhaps it is time to demand better from elected officials, force them to care about the details rather than getting a feather in their cap for helping a poor soul in a uniform, of some variety, getting them a good soundbite to parade around.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 6 Mar 2020 @ 1:05pm
This decision makes perfect sense in our world.
Sony can install a rootkit & destroy your property to "protect" their IP.
They can control how, where, when you can access the content you paid for.
They can remove content you paid for on a whim to boost sales elsewhere.
On a millisecond of data they can get the right to go trawling though your life, your families life, & people who visited your home. Courts accepted absence of evidence as evidence.
We developed this new amazing technology!! IT WILL BE A SERIAL KILLER AND MURDER US IN OUR SLEEP!
We looked at the law, we build a system that obeyed the law, the court ruled paying attention to the law meant we broke the law.
Corporations air your viral clip & then claim they own it stopping you from being paid or being shown as the creator.
Art can sooth the savage beast, but it shouldn't be given rights beyond actual live people. Just because a building got tagged is no reason to force the building owner to pay off the tagger before they can do anything with their property.
On the post: Teleconferencing Company Zoom Pitching End-To-End Encryption That Really Isn't End-To-End
Funny... now Zoom has stopped adding features & turned the tech team to securiing the product.
On the post: Appeals Court Tells Baltimore PD To Start Coughing Up Information About Its Cell Site Simulators
Just me or is anyone else expecting the we can't tell you the contract says no.
On the post: Twitter Suspended Cory Doctorow For Putting Trolls On A List Called 'Colossal Assholes'
The fun human nature where if something was bad before, in the future we have to overreact to fix it.
Some people used the lists to annoy people, lets scan all the lists & go overboard months later.
Of course it is also possible that some asshole placed on the list of assholes and was so upset they demanded it be fixed. Of course one never checks the complaining persons TL to see that asshole is actually the nicest thing they post.
On the post: Why Softbank Patent Troll's Promise Of 'Royalty Free' License On Theranos Patents For COVID-19 Is Bullshit
Shitty Lawyers, always finding a way to split hairs to not look like the giant fscking assholes they are.
We aren't blocking the test!!!
Just any way to get the results.
On the post: Since The FBI Can't Be Bothered To Do It, Motherboard Has Compiled A Database Of Attempts To Access Encrypted IPhones
Re:
IIRC they had multiple different systems tracking them that don't talk to each other so it was hard to understand how many they actually have.
One of those things where perhaps it would be a best practice to unify record keeping & reporting systems so they could spend more time doing the job instead of checking 45 different sub systems to gather information.
On the post: Volunteers 3D-Print Unobtainable $11,000 Valve For $1 To Keep Covid-19 Patients Alive; Original Manufacturer Threatens To Sue
Re: Re: Only one real Profit left
Nah my sarcasm is eternal.
On the post: Since The FBI Can't Be Bothered To Do It, Motherboard Has Compiled A Database Of Attempts To Access Encrypted IPhones
One does wonder how many prosecutions were stopped b/c the almighty phone held the only evidence.
Then there is the question of : Did they just need to unlock the phone b/c its the only way to explain how they already had the data from another source?
They talk about terrorists going dark... exactly how many terrorists are inside the US that you are aware of but can only track by cell phone?
The white terrorists aren't going dark, hell they create FaceBook Events inviting everyone to come on down for the lynching giving a month warning its coming and the law only shows up after the 3rd 911 call.
The guy who ride his bicycle past a home that was robbed who was their main focus b/c of the google warrant dragnet also highlights a "reverse" CSI moment we are seeing in law enforcement. The tech will hand them the answer, with no effort on their part.
Street person arrested for killing a man in his home b/c of touch DNA, they tried railroading him hard only to discover that touch DNA from an ambulance ride was what "placed" him on the scene. But the law didn't care to look at that, just the result & then support that result by not looking at anything else.
Bombing suspect in Madrid (IIRC) the never fail fingerprints recovered made a US citizen who was no where near the bombing the prime suspect b/c they were his fingerprints... oh wait they aren't the perfect single identifier of people we claimed for years, after turning that guys life upside down & destroying his good name.
We only reward wins, this is why they rarely push cases against those able to fight back on a level playing field. Why investigate, we can just unlock the phone & get everything. Yeah we could send people out and gather the same information from other sources, but thats hard... just let us decide who is a good guy and who is a bad guy & then access all of their stuff so we can go to an early lunch.
On the post: Data From Italy, China Suggests The US Internet Isn't Likely To Choke On COVID-19 Broadband Usage Spike
Re:
Well she seems nice.
On the post: Volunteers 3D-Print Unobtainable $11,000 Valve For $1 To Keep Covid-19 Patients Alive; Original Manufacturer Threatens To Sue
BUT MUH VALUABLE IP!!!!!!!!!!!!
It matters more than human lives!!!
On the post: SoftBank Owned Patent Troll, Using Monkey Selfie Law Firm, Sues To Block Covid-19 Testing, Using Theranos Patents
sits back with the popcorn
IP our most valuable asset, matters more than testing in a pandemic.
In a functioning society people might point to this as being a great time to consider perhaps we've gone to far in "protecting" IP.
But then a cartoon mouse being under copyright until the end of the world is much easier to do when the world might be ending.
On the post: Japan Approves New Law To Make Manga Piracy A Criminal Offense
Re:
Eichenwald??
On the post: Bad Ideas: Newark Stupidly Threatens 'Criminal Prosecution' Against Anyone Who Reports 'False' Info About Covid-19
Charge Trump & Co. or GTFO.
On the post: Michigan State Police Spend The Weekend Getting Ratioed For Bragging About Stealing $40,000 From A Driver
Re: Re:
Actually it is their personal bubble that drives it.
It never happened to me or someone I love, its not a big deal.
If you are a "Good Person" (tm) they will never do this to you.
If by chance a "Good Person" (tm) gets caught up in this, obviously it was a mistake & they will fix it for them.
They don't bother to track the story & see how the justice system drags its feet to get to court, make it nearly impossible to get your items back, and even if you manage to win they will only offer a small portion of the total just to make you go away.
This also explains why they can not understand why someone would falsely confess to a crime, ignoring that they kept the person for 36 hours in an interrogation room.
They can't understand that some cops are not allowed to testify in court cases b/c the DA knows for a fact they will lie on the stand, they assume the system punishes liars.
They see a man taken to the ground by 12 cops who beat the crap out of him, well he shouldn't have resisted by daring to ask what crime he had committed & them stomping on his head was an accident for sure... all 4 times it happened.
People fail to grasp that what happens to other people can and will happen to them eventually. That someday they can be the victim in the story where the commenters go on and on about they shouldn't have done anything wrong or disobeyed the 15 different conflicting directions screamed at them at once.
We all know innocent people have been executed, yet somehow there is no will to demand reviews of cases (despite us knowing about brady violations, racism, flat out lies supporting cases), no will to help those innocents who were jailed for decades for a crime they did not commit, rooting for the loopholes they use... well you weren't found "actually innocent" so no money for you despite the charges being dismissed.
Until it happens to us... we honestly don't give a shit.
Then we are upset & complain... and those who haven't been screwed over yet just assume you did something bad & thats why it happened to you.
On the post: Michigan State Police Spend The Weekend Getting Ratioed For Bragging About Stealing $40,000 From A Driver
I saw this on Twitter and made a comment about it being legal & while people wanted to drag the cops they need to understand they elected the people who made it legal for them to pad their budget by robbing people.
A few people tried to say how it wasn't legal under the constitution & some other deflections.
The cops are doing this because they are allowed to.
They are allowed to b/c we voted for people who said they would stop the drug dealers.
We turned a blind eye to them not stopping drug dealers & robbing people... until there was a photogenic "victim" we could feel for.
The media pries the records of of all the cash taken & shocking... its not huge drug cartels being hurt, its poor people being fscked over once again to cover the fact we don't want to pay what we should for the protecting we demand.
Kid sells a single joint & his parents lose their home... and hardly a blip b/c drugs are bad mmmkay.
BF borrows his GF's car, does something sketchy... she loses her car.
Then there was the cop who seized a very expensive car, didn't wait for the cars court date to defend itself before he had it repainted for his use on the job.
This is bullshit, this does not work, this is being abused... but there is little will by politicians to change it b/c the unions will run stories about how they are soft on crime & the idiot public eats it up... somehow missing we've watched videos of unarmed people being murdered by cops & this same union says we shoudl wait to pass judgement on when our lying eyes saw the officer pull the gun, put it to the victims head, fire, then wait 15 min before calling for help.
We need to have faith in the system... perhaps it is time to stop having blind faith that they are always the good guys. They are humans & allowing them special outs from actions that if we had done would result in us being in jail just encourages the bad behavior. They have a tough job, but when they protect those who break the law b/c they have a badge it makes us much less safe. Calling a cop for help can end up with you or a loved one dead... isn't this reason enough to question why that is?
On the post: Lt. Governor Of Texas Gets Offended By An Anti-Police Shirt, Decides He Needs To Start Violating The First Amendment
And a base he is appealing to think this is exactly what he should do, mainly because they haven't figured out paying off the multiple legal fees & settlements is coming out of their pocket.
I've noticed a lot of peoples attitudes on things change when they are on the hook for the outcome.
On the post: Why Is Fox News Acting As State Media, Announcing Trump's Lawsuits Before They're Filed And Failing To Point Out How Frivolous They Are?
We're gonna open up these libel laws by trying them on Faux News & convince people we did it & won.
If only he cared about human life as much as he did about his 'reputation'.
On the post: Why Does The NY Times Seem Literally Incapable Of Reporting Accurately On Section 230?
Antibiotic resistant syphilis is a thing.
On the post: NYU Law School's Video Teaching Copyright Completely Flummoxed YouTube's Copyright Filters
Well there is no penalties for screwing the little guy in the law, why are we shocked they don't give a shit about the little guy getting answers.
On the post: Rhode Island Legislators Decide To Introduce Some Random Dude's First Amendment-Threatening Legislation
"“If I knew, I would run ten-thousand-million miles away from that guy.”"
But instead a took a fully written bill, did no research on it, the person behind it, the fact it clearly violates the 1st amendment & tried to sucker someone else into running it because someone in a uniform (of some variety) handed it to me and told me a sob story.
Perhaps it is time to demand better from elected officials, force them to care about the details rather than getting a feather in their cap for helping a poor soul in a uniform, of some variety, getting them a good soundbite to parade around.
On the post: In New 5Pointz Decision, Second Circuit Concludes That VARA Trumps The Constitution
This decision makes perfect sense in our world.
Sony can install a rootkit & destroy your property to "protect" their IP.
They can control how, where, when you can access the content you paid for.
They can remove content you paid for on a whim to boost sales elsewhere.
On a millisecond of data they can get the right to go trawling though your life, your families life, & people who visited your home. Courts accepted absence of evidence as evidence.
We developed this new amazing technology!! IT WILL BE A SERIAL KILLER AND MURDER US IN OUR SLEEP!
We looked at the law, we build a system that obeyed the law, the court ruled paying attention to the law meant we broke the law.
Corporations air your viral clip & then claim they own it stopping you from being paid or being shown as the creator.
Art can sooth the savage beast, but it shouldn't be given rights beyond actual live people. Just because a building got tagged is no reason to force the building owner to pay off the tagger before they can do anything with their property.
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