That Anonymous Coward (profile), 10 Jul 2019 @ 3:51pm
I was impressed with his sisters letter asking for leniency.
He gave her her first job at his computer school in FL...
Except that school was a scam, ripped the students off, & vanished with the cash... sorta confused why the Feds missed this. But why investigate when you can just pile charges on 1 guy with the help of the other.
Its also nice how they managed to ignore his entire work history before trolling and the clients he abused & courts he lied to.
But hey they got the 'mastermind' so the big headline is how awesome they are...
Steele is just going to bide his time until no ones looking...
Remember just before the shoe dropped he started copying the ADA trolling scam... but I'm sure that was just Hans mind controlling him & not his desire for shoeboxes of cash.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 10 Jul 2019 @ 1:20pm
And of course there are a bunch of astronomers who are worried it will murder looking into the sky.
Satellite is still around (The new advertising talks about their new 5th Gen system trying to cash in on the 5G hype).
We can't have 5G b/c it will blind us to extreme weather.
We can't have satellites b/c it will blind us to space.
Perhaps what we should have is actual competition & punishments for the companies that have taken billions to wire everyone but still can't manage to roll out a single DSL line in non-urban areas.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 10 Jul 2019 @ 1:14pm
What could go wrong with not allowing the public to know who is in charge??
I am sure Путин - Тех is a completely trustworthy company & allowing them to hide their source code, schematics, ownership from review would lead to no problems what so ever.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 10 Jul 2019 @ 1:10pm
Re: Re:
The sad thing is that there is a market where a good system would be a best seller.
A magically broken/disabled camera or phone should be seen as what it is, the cop was doing something they should not have been doing & wanted no evidence. With a lack of any recorded evidence on either side the simple fact the citizens recording was tampered with should be a huge red flag.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 10 Jul 2019 @ 1:05pm
Re: Re: Selling bodycams to citizens
If only the courts would finally set 1 standard that cops doing their job in public can be recorded.
But the courts and powers that be want to believe that once they put on the uniform they become perfect angels who can never do anything bad or treat citizens badly for no reason other than the cop had a bad day. (Looks up at the current story.)
We see body cam footage offered up to make cops look innocent immediately after a bad event hits the media, but when a citizen has a tape showing wrong doing they still have to 'investigate' and keep paying the officers while they see if something bad happened. (See also: Cop hits me while texting, cop slams into cyclist admits fault on tape, still a review needed to be done.)
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 10 Jul 2019 @ 1:00pm
Re: Re:
Ah but then there would be evidence that could be used to challenge the cops version of the story.
I mean its not like there are departments who are looking away as the 500 dash cams that suddenly stopped working, went in for repair, and then failed again the next day... er wait. Somehow everyone still wants to pretend that its bad tech rather than bad actors.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 8 Jul 2019 @ 7:33pm
If only there were some rules for bare basic requirements with nice fines attached, that didn't require a long court case that never gets anywhere but a settlement.
It is one thing to be vulnerable to say HeartBleed in the first month after its disclosed, but a year later new routers shipping with a well documented vulnerability should result in fines that keep going until the fix is pushed & publicized.
Consumers are fickle & often forget those companies they hate that burned them before because something shiny distracts them. Give us more data and we'll pump up your credit score - Equifax
Advertising this new program that gives you credit for paying utilities and the like (of course it might not actually raise the rate lenders see when examining you in tiny white print on a slightly different shade of white on the screen). People are signing up, and handing more information to a company that lied, lied, lied, screwed everyone, and dumped their stock before telling the world about it so they could cash out.
Every maker wants to offer the newest bestest cool things...
NOW WITH BLOCKCHAIN!!!!!!
99.9% of people have no idea how it helps them but they've heard the words so it must be important... they bolt on all of these features most users have no use or need for never making sure it functions on the most basic levels.
We need to stop accepting that 'hackers' are super powered demons & that no one can stop them so why even try.
Shipping a router with admin admin & default open to being accessed from the web should be costly to the maker.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 8 Jul 2019 @ 2:16pm
I am often amazed that they aren't selling more bodycams to citizens.
There was a sudden glut of ZOMG videos out of Russia, b/c people did such stupid things & then tried to sue the person they just hit that everyone now has dashcams in both directions at all times leading to some amazing videos for the rest of us.
With police bodycams and dash cams magically failing to operate, have we reached the point where we need to record ourselves 24/7 just to be safe?
Look at all of the stories where if not for a bystander with a cell phone no charges would have been brought or the real story would never have been known.
Who watches the Watchmen, not the courts unless a cop violated someones rights that way before.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 3 Jul 2019 @ 8:25am
What we're missing is the long term plan the telcoms are putting into play here.
They want to get 5G up and rolling, and screw up forecasting.
They want more super storms to wipe out their copper lines & the FCC to give them a pass on having to rebuild.
They they will have everyone on cellular data & be able to rake in more profits than every before.
Whats a few more dead people when corporate profits are at stake?
I mean its not like there are rules that make sure landlines can still function during power outages for a period of time & that locating a landline when someone calls for help is much easier than hoping the cellphone can ping the GPS satellite through the 5G haze...
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 3 Jul 2019 @ 5:55am
Isn't ShotSpotter the same company that admitted their tech didn;t detect gunshots & still created an 'incident' report based on what the cop what to have proof of?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 3 Jul 2019 @ 5:52am
"they also warned backers that if they picked one of the tiers including in-game content that’s already been implemented into the game, a full refund won’t be available."
They backed a game that was supposed to have implemented Steam Keys at release and y'all don't seem to have a problem taking that away.
Well you funded content we added & we totally lied about your rewards b/c we got a better deal so fsck you.
I foresee a game studio going down in flames.
Its bad enough that backing something on kickstarter sometimes screws you, but to change something promised well after it closed is bullshit.
They want it both ways...
We won't give you what we promised, but because you promised we could use your money to add things you can't have it back.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Jul 2019 @ 4:11am
Its scary in my head, I latch on to the damnest things...
'the Title IX director claimed'
Considering the number of Title IX directors who have been publicly shamed by courts, reporters, & anyone else who supports a fair process... perhaps you could have found someone slightly more competent to make claims... like a janitor.
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"ISPs are smart [and] they understand that they’re in the business of keeping customers happy and keeping customers with them for a long time."
Said by someone who hasn't looked at his e-billing statement in a while.
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Re: Funny world: copyright infringers AND frauds all get prosecu
Did mom never hug you?
Yep never cover people targeted by extortionists on here nope nope nope...
Care then to explain why almost the entire Scooby Gang posts here?
You don't seem well, none of us ever wanted to see the Prenda gang dead, just meeting justice.
As I am often want to do....
BYE FELECIA!
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Re:
RutRoh Reven
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Re: Re:
I dunno the shoebox didn't seem to fix Hans's bankruptcy problems, in fact they kinda made them a lot worse.
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Re:
You underestimate the forgiveness of the Bar in IL.
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Re: No good look possible
Because you like making money... okay so its not a good reason but its the reason they use.
On the post: Prenda's John Steele Gets 5 Years In Prison; Insists He's Really, Really, Really Sorry
I was impressed with his sisters letter asking for leniency.
He gave her her first job at his computer school in FL...
Except that school was a scam, ripped the students off, & vanished with the cash... sorta confused why the Feds missed this. But why investigate when you can just pile charges on 1 guy with the help of the other.
Its also nice how they managed to ignore his entire work history before trolling and the clients he abused & courts he lied to.
But hey they got the 'mastermind' so the big headline is how awesome they are...
Steele is just going to bide his time until no ones looking...
Remember just before the shoe dropped he started copying the ADA trolling scam... but I'm sure that was just Hans mind controlling him & not his desire for shoeboxes of cash.
On the post: Court: It's Cool If The (Federal) Government Searches A Phone The (Local) Government Seized Illegally
Perhaps we need to stop giving the courts good faith exceptions when they make rulings that destroy our rights to protect shitty police work.
On the post: Amazon Jumps Into The Satellite Broadband Game
And of course there are a bunch of astronomers who are worried it will murder looking into the sky.
Satellite is still around (The new advertising talks about their new 5th Gen system trying to cash in on the 5G hype).
We can't have 5G b/c it will blind us to extreme weather.
We can't have satellites b/c it will blind us to space.
Perhaps what we should have is actual competition & punishments for the companies that have taken billions to wire everyone but still can't manage to roll out a single DSL line in non-urban areas.
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What could go wrong with not allowing the public to know who is in charge??
I am sure Путин - Тех is a completely trustworthy company & allowing them to hide their source code, schematics, ownership from review would lead to no problems what so ever.
Что меня беспокоит?
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Re: Re:
The sad thing is that there is a market where a good system would be a best seller.
A magically broken/disabled camera or phone should be seen as what it is, the cop was doing something they should not have been doing & wanted no evidence. With a lack of any recorded evidence on either side the simple fact the citizens recording was tampered with should be a huge red flag.
On the post: Court Upholds Conviction Of Cop Who Threatened, Beat, Tased, And Arrested A Man For Complaining About Being Beaten By Him Earlier
Re: Re: Selling bodycams to citizens
If only the courts would finally set 1 standard that cops doing their job in public can be recorded.
But the courts and powers that be want to believe that once they put on the uniform they become perfect angels who can never do anything bad or treat citizens badly for no reason other than the cop had a bad day. (Looks up at the current story.)
We see body cam footage offered up to make cops look innocent immediately after a bad event hits the media, but when a citizen has a tape showing wrong doing they still have to 'investigate' and keep paying the officers while they see if something bad happened. (See also: Cop hits me while texting, cop slams into cyclist admits fault on tape, still a review needed to be done.)
On the post: Court Upholds Conviction Of Cop Who Threatened, Beat, Tased, And Arrested A Man For Complaining About Being Beaten By Him Earlier
Re: Re:
Ah but then there would be evidence that could be used to challenge the cops version of the story.
I mean its not like there are departments who are looking away as the 500 dash cams that suddenly stopped working, went in for repair, and then failed again the next day... er wait. Somehow everyone still wants to pretend that its bad tech rather than bad actors.
On the post: D-Link Settles With FTC, Agrees To Fix Its Shoddy Router Security
If only there were some rules for bare basic requirements with nice fines attached, that didn't require a long court case that never gets anywhere but a settlement.
It is one thing to be vulnerable to say HeartBleed in the first month after its disclosed, but a year later new routers shipping with a well documented vulnerability should result in fines that keep going until the fix is pushed & publicized.
Consumers are fickle & often forget those companies they hate that burned them before because something shiny distracts them. Give us more data and we'll pump up your credit score - Equifax
Advertising this new program that gives you credit for paying utilities and the like (of course it might not actually raise the rate lenders see when examining you in tiny white print on a slightly different shade of white on the screen). People are signing up, and handing more information to a company that lied, lied, lied, screwed everyone, and dumped their stock before telling the world about it so they could cash out.
Every maker wants to offer the newest bestest cool things...
NOW WITH BLOCKCHAIN!!!!!!
99.9% of people have no idea how it helps them but they've heard the words so it must be important... they bolt on all of these features most users have no use or need for never making sure it functions on the most basic levels.
We need to stop accepting that 'hackers' are super powered demons & that no one can stop them so why even try.
Shipping a router with admin admin & default open to being accessed from the web should be costly to the maker.
On the post: Court Upholds Conviction Of Cop Who Threatened, Beat, Tased, And Arrested A Man For Complaining About Being Beaten By Him Earlier
I am often amazed that they aren't selling more bodycams to citizens.
There was a sudden glut of ZOMG videos out of Russia, b/c people did such stupid things & then tried to sue the person they just hit that everyone now has dashcams in both directions at all times leading to some amazing videos for the rest of us.
With police bodycams and dash cams magically failing to operate, have we reached the point where we need to record ourselves 24/7 just to be safe?
Look at all of the stories where if not for a bystander with a cell phone no charges would have been brought or the real story would never have been known.
Who watches the Watchmen, not the courts unless a cop violated someones rights that way before.
On the post: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: The Case Of YouTube And 'Hacking' Videos
"bypassing secure computer systems"
Doesn't DeCSS do this?
Does this mean any video mentioning it should go?
Does this mean any videos from his other companies should go?
On the post: NASA, NOAA, and the Navy Tell The FCC Its 5G Plan Will Harm Weather Forecasting
What we're missing is the long term plan the telcoms are putting into play here.
They want to get 5G up and rolling, and screw up forecasting.
They want more super storms to wipe out their copper lines & the FCC to give them a pass on having to rebuild.
They they will have everyone on cellular data & be able to rake in more profits than every before.
Whats a few more dead people when corporate profits are at stake?
I mean its not like there are rules that make sure landlines can still function during power outages for a period of time & that locating a landline when someone calls for help is much easier than hoping the cellphone can ping the GPS satellite through the 5G haze...
On the post: Schools Are Using 'Aggression Detecting' Mics That Are Set Off By Coughing, Slamming Locker Doors To Head Off The Next School Shooting
Isn't ShotSpotter the same company that admitted their tech didn;t detect gunshots & still created an 'incident' report based on what the cop what to have proof of?
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"they also warned backers that if they picked one of the tiers including in-game content that’s already been implemented into the game, a full refund won’t be available."
They backed a game that was supposed to have implemented Steam Keys at release and y'all don't seem to have a problem taking that away.
Well you funded content we added & we totally lied about your rewards b/c we got a better deal so fsck you.
I foresee a game studio going down in flames.
Its bad enough that backing something on kickstarter sometimes screws you, but to change something promised well after it closed is bullshit.
They want it both ways...
We won't give you what we promised, but because you promised we could use your money to add things you can't have it back.
DJ KALID Played Yourself . gif
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Its scary in my head, I latch on to the damnest things...
'the Title IX director claimed'
Considering the number of Title IX directors who have been publicly shamed by courts, reporters, & anyone else who supports a fair process... perhaps you could have found someone slightly more competent to make claims... like a janitor.
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