The problem here is that you are forgetting that phones are computers.
An Android phone is a Linux computer, therefore you can install the same types of software (SSH, nmap, hacking tools etc) on a phone. Therefore a phone is just as effective a hacking tool for that type of intrusion as a laptop.
With US-cuba commercial flights available, someone could fly to Havana
Huh? That defeats the point.
The problem is at the US end. You do not want to be on-board a flight that takes off from or lands in the US. Therefore you wouldn't want to take a US-Cuba flight.
You want to be driving/walking/boating across the US border, not flying.
They probably didn't do a real-world user throughput type test.
They probably tested that every individual task/case type can be entered, and probably did automated throughput testing (the system can process x-number of transactions/hour).
But they probably never got an actual average user to sit there with their daily load and see how long it would take them to process, from a human/user perspective of entering data etc, a normal full days load.
If the victim was reacting that badly to drugs, why did the police transport him to the lockup and then wait for 2 hours before calling for medical assistance?
Surely they would have called for medical assistance immediately they felt the need to tase the victim to protect them from themselves, before they'd begun transportation?
Parts of point 1 are only valid for someone who already has a subscription and does not have the appropriate software already installed.
If you use the appropriate products there is no 'searching' for the torrent (or NZB). There are products out there where you just enter the TV series you want, and your preference(s) on quality, and they will automatically download each new episode, or an entire season, as it appears online, you don't have to go searching for them. You can even get it to send out notifications - email, IM, to Kodi - each time it has completed a download. So once set up, if you leave it on 24x7, it'll just go fetch the episodes for you, download them while you are in bed, at work, or watching other shows, and then tell you when it's done.
Also, unless something has changed in Netflix recently, it is a streaming service. Which is another way of saying watching it while it downloads, then deleting itself immediately afterwards. A streamer may not know that's what's happening, but technically that is what happens in the background. Which means you have to do download it every time you watch it. If, for example, it's a 4k 1-hour (well, 43-minute) TV episode, say 3GB in size, if you watch it 4 times (say u watch it, then the partner, kids, housemates, again when friends are over, etc) you have to download it each time, using up in this example 12GB of data for what should have been a one-time 3GB download. Sure, it might not matter if you are on a truly unlimited plan, but those seem to be disappearing quickly in favor of metered plans, and have truly high-speed broadband (above 50Mbps) so you don't interfere with others using the connection, but those are available in pretty limited areas nationally.
I know people who HAVE Netflix subscriptions, but still use software such as above described for automatically downloading 'pirate' versions of what is available to them on their Netflix subscriptions, because they find it easier
and more convenient to have a copy of the episode locally, saving quota and bandwidth.
There is usually a legal difference between an opinion and advice.
Depending on the country/state's laws that is, but where I'm from:
An opinion is a non-expert giving, well, their opinion. Have a few drunks down the pub and someone says, "you know what...", or at a family dinner someone saying "I think that patio design looks good...", or "yeah, those stocks like good, you should totally buy them" is giving a non-actionable opinion.
However, if I go to an expert in a field, especially a licensed field, for example if I go to a licensed Engineer and asked them to provide a building report on the same patio design a family member reckoned was fine, what they are providing is expert advice. If the design is structurally unsound, and falls apart and hurts some people, then they could be accounted some measure of liability.
If the information does't matter, such as if your premises aren't up for sale or rent, then why do you care about the accuracy of their real estate info? Sure, if it said that there had been a cult mass-suicide in the premises you might care because of general perception, but otherwise, why?
If you do care about the info, because your premises are up for sale or rent, then why isn't the onus on you to correct incorrect information? I mean, they aren't all-seeing such that they magically know the information they've obtained (presumably from official sources like local government building plans or taxation records) is wrong. Unless you tell them it's wrong, how are they supposed to know?
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All gag orders should be required to specify a reasonable end-date. If the "raison d’etre" still exists as that end-date approaches, the onus should be on the government to formally extend that end-date, by filling out the appropriate paperwork, as they are the only ones who know whether they still need it or not.
Considering the nearly 500 federal government positions that have no nominees yet, who actually thinks that Trump will quickly get around to nominating a new Copyright Register, let alone having that person confirmed by the Senate?
I'm pretty sure the priority and speed of specific nominations is directly proportional to the size of the campaign contributions.
if courts were to first require registered copyrights.
IANAL.
I'm pretty sure that decision is not within the purview of the courts.
To sue for copyright infringement, under legislation (i.e. not something within the courts common law or rules of procedure jurisdictions) all you need is a valid copyright, and that does not require registration. I suspect it would be a breach of the Berne convention to require registration to have a valid copyright.
As far as I understand it, all registration does over and above having a non-registered copyright, under legislation, is allow you to sue for statutory damages, the "up to $150k per infringement" often quoted, from the date of registration.
Without registration, you can still sue to stop the infringing behavior and for actual damages only. The downside of actual damages is that the plaintiff has to give a $ number that they can back up in court with evidence of the actual damages, actual lost revenue, documentation, accounts, expert witnesses and so on. As opposed to statutory damages which don't require any evidence of actual damages, they can pull a number out of their ass up to the $150k per infringement limit and let the judge decide the final number without any evidence beyond the fact that infringement took place.
Jeeez -- this was a casual Tweet from Trump, not a formal National Security Position Paper.
When you are standing as a candidate for any high office in government (president, VP, congressman), but especially for president, there is no such thing as a casual anything in public.
Everything you say or do in public is significant, has consequences, and is analysed for meaning.
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Re: Internet of Unsecured Things
The problem here is that you are forgetting that phones are computers.
An Android phone is a Linux computer, therefore you can install the same types of software (SSH, nmap, hacking tools etc) on a phone. Therefore a phone is just as effective a hacking tool for that type of intrusion as a laptop.
And they are still allowing phones on.
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Or, even more extreme, actually install additional devices inside the laptop.
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Re: Re:
Huh? That defeats the point.
The problem is at the US end. You do not want to be on-board a flight that takes off from or lands in the US. Therefore you wouldn't want to take a US-Cuba flight.
You want to be driving/walking/boating across the US border, not flying.
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Re: Re: Re: It makes sense...
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Re: Since the Trump controlled FCC
That made me LOL.
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Re: Re: Re: How does software even do this?
They probably didn't do a real-world user throughput type test.
They probably tested that every individual task/case type can be entered, and probably did automated throughput testing (the system can process x-number of transactions/hour).
But they probably never got an actual average user to sit there with their daily load and see how long it would take them to process, from a human/user perspective of entering data etc, a normal full days load.
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Surely they would have called for medical assistance immediately they felt the need to tase the victim to protect them from themselves, before they'd begun transportation?
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Parts of point 1 are only valid for someone who already has a subscription and does not have the appropriate software already installed.
If you use the appropriate products there is no 'searching' for the torrent (or NZB). There are products out there where you just enter the TV series you want, and your preference(s) on quality, and they will automatically download each new episode, or an entire season, as it appears online, you don't have to go searching for them. You can even get it to send out notifications - email, IM, to Kodi - each time it has completed a download. So once set up, if you leave it on 24x7, it'll just go fetch the episodes for you, download them while you are in bed, at work, or watching other shows, and then tell you when it's done.
Also, unless something has changed in Netflix recently, it is a streaming service. Which is another way of saying watching it while it downloads, then deleting itself immediately afterwards. A streamer may not know that's what's happening, but technically that is what happens in the background. Which means you have to do download it every time you watch it. If, for example, it's a 4k 1-hour (well, 43-minute) TV episode, say 3GB in size, if you watch it 4 times (say u watch it, then the partner, kids, housemates, again when friends are over, etc) you have to download it each time, using up in this example 12GB of data for what should have been a one-time 3GB download. Sure, it might not matter if you are on a truly unlimited plan, but those seem to be disappearing quickly in favor of metered plans, and have truly high-speed broadband (above 50Mbps) so you don't interfere with others using the connection, but those are available in pretty limited areas nationally.
I know people who HAVE Netflix subscriptions, but still use software such as above described for automatically downloading 'pirate' versions of what is available to them on their Netflix subscriptions, because they find it easier and more convenient to have a copy of the episode locally, saving quota and bandwidth.
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Re: Horror of horrors
From my experience, cemeteries are little frequented, quiet places, and usually well-maintained and quite pretty (flowers, trees, lawns etc).
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Re: First amendment?
There is usually a legal difference between an opinion and advice.
Depending on the country/state's laws that is, but where I'm from:
An opinion is a non-expert giving, well, their opinion. Have a few drunks down the pub and someone says, "you know what...", or at a family dinner someone saying "I think that patio design looks good...", or "yeah, those stocks like good, you should totally buy them" is giving a non-actionable opinion.
However, if I go to an expert in a field, especially a licensed field, for example if I go to a licensed Engineer and asked them to provide a building report on the same patio design a family member reckoned was fine, what they are providing is expert advice. If the design is structurally unsound, and falls apart and hurts some people, then they could be accounted some measure of liability.
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Re: Of course...
Hmm, I guess with all the asset forfeiture, maybe it does.
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If the information does't matter, such as if your premises aren't up for sale or rent, then why do you care about the accuracy of their real estate info? Sure, if it said that there had been a cult mass-suicide in the premises you might care because of general perception, but otherwise, why?
If you do care about the info, because your premises are up for sale or rent, then why isn't the onus on you to correct incorrect information? I mean, they aren't all-seeing such that they magically know the information they've obtained (presumably from official sources like local government building plans or taxation records) is wrong. Unless you tell them it's wrong, how are they supposed to know?
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Re: Thanks
All gag orders should be required to specify a reasonable end-date. If the "raison d’etre" still exists as that end-date approaches, the onus should be on the government to formally extend that end-date, by filling out the appropriate paperwork, as they are the only ones who know whether they still need it or not.
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The prosecutors will personally be immune from lawsuits.
But the state will probably not be immune from civil suits seeking monetary compensation for false convictions.
There are many cases of compensation for people who have been wrongly convicted.
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I'm pretty sure the priority and speed of specific nominations is directly proportional to the size of the campaign contributions.
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Re: Re: Re: Cartoon mouse....and copyright trolls/RIAA!
IANAL.
I'm pretty sure that decision is not within the purview of the courts.
To sue for copyright infringement, under legislation (i.e. not something within the courts common law or rules of procedure jurisdictions) all you need is a valid copyright, and that does not require registration. I suspect it would be a breach of the Berne convention to require registration to have a valid copyright.
As far as I understand it, all registration does over and above having a non-registered copyright, under legislation, is allow you to sue for statutory damages, the "up to $150k per infringement" often quoted, from the date of registration.
Without registration, you can still sue to stop the infringing behavior and for actual damages only. The downside of actual damages is that the plaintiff has to give a $ number that they can back up in court with evidence of the actual damages, actual lost revenue, documentation, accounts, expert witnesses and so on. As opposed to statutory damages which don't require any evidence of actual damages, they can pull a number out of their ass up to the $150k per infringement limit and let the judge decide the final number without any evidence beyond the fact that infringement took place.
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The Liars are buying congress.
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Re: Re: Trump explicitly stated that
When you are standing as a candidate for any high office in government (president, VP, congressman), but especially for president, there is no such thing as a casual anything in public.
Everything you say or do in public is significant, has consequences, and is analysed for meaning.
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