Context matters. So, is the book too advanced for 8th graders because it includes pictures of an unclothed mouse as the board claims, or is it not advanced enough for 8th graders because includes pictures of anthropomorphic mice as the article you cite claims? Because if I take your article as evidence this was not a knee-jerk reaction to an ongoing culture war, I'd have to accept either that Maus is appropriate for no ages, or that the school board's reasoning was a knee jerk reaction to a culture war issue.
Ah! I see we are repurposing Big lie justifications. That some votes might have been compromised is not evidence that any votes were compromised. That was sufficient basis for investigations. Continuing to beat the suspicion and ignoring the lack of further evidence coming forward however is not justified. The same applies here. Huawei produced suspicion with its cooperation with the Chinese government. The issue is this claim has been battered around for a decade, and multiple investigations concluded there is no basis for concern.
Huwaei is under scrutiny because it has in the past provided info to the Chinese government that was gathered on Chinese networks. Their hardware has been put under the microscope. Huawei Equipment in America, upon security audit after audit after audit, does not appear to be 'phoning home'. If there was once a reasonable basis to question if Huawei is compromising equipment provided to American firms without further evidence, that time has passed.
The replacement for it is a handful of American firms whose equipment is built in China. Those firms are the ones beating the security drum. This represents a conflict of interest, as firms like Cisco stand to profit handsomely from Huwaei equipment replacement. One thing the article notes is the equipment from American firms enjoys a presumption of security not afforded to Huwaei equipment. And since all this equipment is built in china, if china did have a super secret communications channel we can't identify in Huwaei equipment, Cisco equipment would present just as much a threat. A potentially bigger one, as Cisco equipment hasn't had the microscope treatment for the last decade.
Professional Paranoia would immediately question the claims from Cisco that Huwaei equipment is phoning home to china. A 5.8 Billion dollar government handout can justify a lot of baseless FUD, and baseless FUD is what US intellegence concluded it was.
Who do you think is reading that? who is this targeted at? It’s not the author of the article, it’s not the fair use proponents who’ve never liked 1201. Who are you talking to that is “surprised” that dmca 1201 is being abused?
If your idea is in the majority, its will be approved quickly, as it is a majority viewpoint. If it is not approved quickly, the "majority" probably isn't as major as you think it is.
the UK hasn't managed to make bullying a crime any more than the US. Efforts to manage bullying via the criminal justice system hasn't reduced bullying. I don't know how you think this cyberbullying law will somehow do better.
OnStar has never been a non-subscription service. Its a third party subscription service. A new purchase comes with free time, but it was never a buy once feature.
By contrast, the features being discussed, like electric car range or combustion Engine efficiency, would be considered buy once features. You could choose to make an upgrade in post, but you don't have to keep paying for that upgrade the next month.
This is literally the "This guy has an iphone, why can't he afford food?" One time purchases are not comparable to ongoing reoccuring expenses.
Indeed, If the history of VG console and device jailbreaking tells us anything, it's that even if they had security, bypassing any lockouts they put in place would only be a matter of time.
We want to sell access to the telematic stream piecemeal, we don't care about security at all, and right to repair might also mean we can't stop owners from turning on those functions.
I fully believe the software is as shoddy as they claim. I fully believe they aren't willing to pay for top tier software engineers. I knew this when Toyota abandoned using carplay or android auto and teamed up with other car manufacturers who thought they could build a 'luxury' UI for pennies on the dollar.
The reason the software is the way it is right now is incompetence. incompetence in hardware design creating limitations on how secure the software can be, incompetence in software design either due to not having good staff or by managerial function mandates, or by inadequate development time. Or all 3. And incompetence in recognizing the serious threat all this poses years after a reporter had a car shut down on a bridge.
But their response to laws which would provide greater exposure to the issue reeks of malice. Its a recognition that their crow is now old and tough, and eating it now will mean a much worse time. The last thing a CEO wants is to have to eat that crow.
I think the most charitable read of their public statements is also the most damning. To summarize the Kia/Subaru position on why they need to shut down telematics:
Our systems are wildly insecure. The telematic stream carries private information only useful for advertising in the same data stream as critical diagnostic data useful for determining faults. The telematic stream is two way and also capable of presenting a security for the car itself. Providing access to the telematic stream and a means to read that stream presents a severe risk to both private information of individuals (but its totally okay that we also use it for advertising), and the security of their vehicles (a risk which is already exists). Rather than change what data is collected, how it is transmitted, or how that data is secured, we will simply turn off the telematic stream entirely, something we have and will tell privacy-minded consumers is impossible.
To paraphrase our email list troll, whom I think went by jhon before we labeled him Sanford Wallace,
"But GilvaSunner was stealing all the value out of the email list Nintendo can generate from fans visting this data mining honeypot masquerading as fan engagement!"
Assuming the intent was to express that what we should be doing is facing and addressing our societal issues rather than burying them via regulation, its a great premise. A few passes for grammer and structure would definitely help, but I think the intent comes across.
Congress cannot tell a private corporation how to run its business especially if it hurts ordinary shareholders.
I assume you haven't heard of the following things:
Laws
I mean, what are laws but dictates about how individuals and businesses comport themselves, with the threat of civil or criminal legal action if they fail to comply?
Like I was going to go over how you must have missed Minimum Wage, OHSA, Laws requiring food be stored and served safely and the regulations which serve to define safe, FLSA, FMLA, income taxes, employment taxes, business licensing, banking regulations, all dictates about how a business can be run that impacts shareholders. All of these laws impact profits, and therefore shareholders, in one way or another. The entire point of the law is to force individuals and businesses to act in a way they may not have chosen if the law was not in place.
But rather than post the doctoral thesis on why that one sentence is soooo bad, ill just point out that CSAM being illegal at all is telling a private corporation how to run its business. There are vintage magazines that were legally sold at the time containing what today is defined as CSAM. That these magazines could not be bought or sold is telling a business how to run itself. CSAM is abhorrent. But your standard is very loose, leaving every reader confused about when the government can intervene and tell a business how to operate. Seemingly, the standard is "ill know it when I see it", a standard that always falls apart once the guys with ideas you don't like start using it against you.
There are certainly surface similarities, if you phrase it properly. The issue, is once you start dealing with specifics you begin to understand why this happens.
To phrase everything so a comparison can be made, we are comparing:
a law providing farmers the right to repair farm equipment that is a basic neccesity for doing their job.
A law giving fast food franchisees the right to repair equipment that represent a minority of revenue and a side to the food which is unaffected.
A politician isn’t losing their job over a dysfunctional ice cream machine. They absolutely could if they fail to support the farming community that votes for them. I thought you of all people would understand this cynical motivation. Considering basic, cynical motivations might serve you better than blind nihilism.
“I’m a 65-year-old man who doesn’t understand tech, my phone is basically magic to me like 90% of the populace and i can’t assess how much smoke they are blowing up my ass, but i’m from montana and my position relies on me listening to the farmers in my state, and in 14 years in the senate as a democrat in a deeply red state after years holding state office, I’ve picked up enough of a passing knowledge of farm equipment that i can absolutely understand that the tractor stuff is stupid.”
To
“I absolutely understand the nuances of this discussion, i just got paid off by apple and not john deere”
Like John Deere would stoop to having office workers drive forklifts but not bribe congress.
I don’t have any sympathy. They are flexing their muscle on the international stage and have been for decades. Youtube pushes back on them in part because they keep butting heads with youtube creators. Worse this isn’t the first time they went after a creator whom they previously partnered with.
If they thought it was infringement, why did these partnerships happen? because Toei marketing recognizes the value in fan engagement. I have no sympathy for lawyers so up their own ass they sue sanctioned content creators.
Since you appear unaware, the youtube chanel was a review page, reviewing individual episodes. The mere presence of toei animation content is to be expected
However, the prof of the unreasonableness of the demands comes from the fact that several videos hit do not contain tori animation content (per the creator, as these were videos discussing dbz, but not reviewing content. Meaning, assuming he is representing his content accurately, he wasn’t using content when it wasn’t fair use. Youtube’s actions clearly state they believe all toei content use was in line with fair use - they assume a lawsuit in ireland can not succeed and risk liability if they are wrong, so you know Youtube’s expensive IP lawyers have weighed in on this.
We’ve all heard Leonard French lecturing Good Mythical Morning and his audiance about the meaning of criticism in copyright law. but you haven’t looked at any of the details which suggest that rant is out of place in this context.
But sure, i’m sure the person who hasn’t seen the content knows more about its fair use status than Youtube’s Copyright lawyers.
The farm lobby can be pretty massive in many states. Many representatives will rely of farmers and fatm workers for a large portion of their base. It’s also a lobby that is by its nature, not active. Politicians are the people who dropped farming once we could get beyond a subsistence level. Farmers are the ones who choose to keep farming. By their nature, farming is what they want to do, leave the politics to the others. As we see in british, where the farm and fishing lobbies could murder the tory government right now, but can’t be asked to actually lobby the government over brexit.
John Deere kicked a hornets nest. They got the farm lobby to actually take a stand. And with the internet to help messaging, they now have a bipartisan collection of senators and a president who considers this an issue to tackle. not sure why you are shutting down the farm lobby here. they are making ground against john deere in popular and governmental support.
As someone who didnt use a suicide line when i really needed to because of paranoia, i understand how damaging this information is. But even beginning to try to express it sends me into incoherent rage.
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Re: Re: Re: Maus
Context matters. So, is the book too advanced for 8th graders because it includes pictures of an unclothed mouse as the board claims, or is it not advanced enough for 8th graders because includes pictures of anthropomorphic mice as the article you cite claims? Because if I take your article as evidence this was not a knee-jerk reaction to an ongoing culture war, I'd have to accept either that Maus is appropriate for no ages, or that the school board's reasoning was a knee jerk reaction to a culture war issue.
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Re: I'm with the dum-dums on this one
Ah! I see we are repurposing Big lie justifications. That some votes might have been compromised is not evidence that any votes were compromised. That was sufficient basis for investigations. Continuing to beat the suspicion and ignoring the lack of further evidence coming forward however is not justified. The same applies here. Huawei produced suspicion with its cooperation with the Chinese government. The issue is this claim has been battered around for a decade, and multiple investigations concluded there is no basis for concern.
Huwaei is under scrutiny because it has in the past provided info to the Chinese government that was gathered on Chinese networks. Their hardware has been put under the microscope. Huawei Equipment in America, upon security audit after audit after audit, does not appear to be 'phoning home'. If there was once a reasonable basis to question if Huawei is compromising equipment provided to American firms without further evidence, that time has passed.
The replacement for it is a handful of American firms whose equipment is built in China. Those firms are the ones beating the security drum. This represents a conflict of interest, as firms like Cisco stand to profit handsomely from Huwaei equipment replacement. One thing the article notes is the equipment from American firms enjoys a presumption of security not afforded to Huwaei equipment. And since all this equipment is built in china, if china did have a super secret communications channel we can't identify in Huwaei equipment, Cisco equipment would present just as much a threat. A potentially bigger one, as Cisco equipment hasn't had the microscope treatment for the last decade.
Professional Paranoia would immediately question the claims from Cisco that Huwaei equipment is phoning home to china. A 5.8 Billion dollar government handout can justify a lot of baseless FUD, and baseless FUD is what US intellegence concluded it was.
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I don't use it when I'm quoting Lee Atwater, and whomever you are trying to quote, you didn't need to write it out either.
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Re:
Who do you think is reading that? who is this targeted at? It’s not the author of the article, it’s not the fair use proponents who’ve never liked 1201. Who are you talking to that is “surprised” that dmca 1201 is being abused?
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Re: Re:
If your idea is in the majority, its will be approved quickly, as it is a majority viewpoint. If it is not approved quickly, the "majority" probably isn't as major as you think it is.
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the UK hasn't managed to make bullying a crime any more than the US. Efforts to manage bullying via the criminal justice system hasn't reduced bullying. I don't know how you think this cyberbullying law will somehow do better.
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Re: This is already in effect
OnStar has never been a non-subscription service. Its a third party subscription service. A new purchase comes with free time, but it was never a buy once feature.
By contrast, the features being discussed, like electric car range or combustion Engine efficiency, would be considered buy once features. You could choose to make an upgrade in post, but you don't have to keep paying for that upgrade the next month.
This is literally the "This guy has an iphone, why can't he afford food?" One time purchases are not comparable to ongoing reoccuring expenses.
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Re: Re: The less charitable read....
Indeed, If the history of VG console and device jailbreaking tells us anything, it's that even if they had security, bypassing any lockouts they put in place would only be a matter of time.
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The less charitable read....
Yesterday, I provided the charitable read of kia & subaru's choice to disable telematics in the face of right to repair.
Today the less charitable read.
We want to sell access to the telematic stream piecemeal, we don't care about security at all, and right to repair might also mean we can't stop owners from turning on those functions.
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Re: Never attribute to malice...
I fully believe the software is as shoddy as they claim. I fully believe they aren't willing to pay for top tier software engineers. I knew this when Toyota abandoned using carplay or android auto and teamed up with other car manufacturers who thought they could build a 'luxury' UI for pennies on the dollar.
The reason the software is the way it is right now is incompetence. incompetence in hardware design creating limitations on how secure the software can be, incompetence in software design either due to not having good staff or by managerial function mandates, or by inadequate development time. Or all 3. And incompetence in recognizing the serious threat all this poses years after a reporter had a car shut down on a bridge.
But their response to laws which would provide greater exposure to the issue reeks of malice. Its a recognition that their crow is now old and tough, and eating it now will mean a much worse time. The last thing a CEO wants is to have to eat that crow.
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I think the most charitable read of their public statements is also the most damning. To summarize the Kia/Subaru position on why they need to shut down telematics:
Our systems are wildly insecure. The telematic stream carries private information only useful for advertising in the same data stream as critical diagnostic data useful for determining faults. The telematic stream is two way and also capable of presenting a security for the car itself. Providing access to the telematic stream and a means to read that stream presents a severe risk to both private information of individuals (but its totally okay that we also use it for advertising), and the security of their vehicles (a risk which is already exists). Rather than change what data is collected, how it is transmitted, or how that data is secured, we will simply turn off the telematic stream entirely, something we have and will tell privacy-minded consumers is impossible.
That is the charitable read of their claims.
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To paraphrase our email list troll, whom I think went by jhon before we labeled him Sanford Wallace,
"But GilvaSunner was stealing all the value out of the email list Nintendo can generate from fans visting this data mining honeypot masquerading as fan engagement!"
...I think I said the quiet part out loud.
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Re: Ugh.
Assuming the intent was to express that what we should be doing is facing and addressing our societal issues rather than burying them via regulation, its a great premise. A few passes for grammer and structure would definitely help, but I think the intent comes across.
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Re: Even if it went through it will be sued
I assume you haven't heard of the following things:
Laws
I mean, what are laws but dictates about how individuals and businesses comport themselves, with the threat of civil or criminal legal action if they fail to comply?
Like I was going to go over how you must have missed Minimum Wage, OHSA, Laws requiring food be stored and served safely and the regulations which serve to define safe, FLSA, FMLA, income taxes, employment taxes, business licensing, banking regulations, all dictates about how a business can be run that impacts shareholders. All of these laws impact profits, and therefore shareholders, in one way or another. The entire point of the law is to force individuals and businesses to act in a way they may not have chosen if the law was not in place.
But rather than post the doctoral thesis on why that one sentence is soooo bad, ill just point out that CSAM being illegal at all is telling a private corporation how to run its business. There are vintage magazines that were legally sold at the time containing what today is defined as CSAM. That these magazines could not be bought or sold is telling a business how to run itself. CSAM is abhorrent. But your standard is very loose, leaving every reader confused about when the government can intervene and tell a business how to operate. Seemingly, the standard is "ill know it when I see it", a standard that always falls apart once the guys with ideas you don't like start using it against you.
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Re:
There are certainly surface similarities, if you phrase it properly. The issue, is once you start dealing with specifics you begin to understand why this happens.
To phrase everything so a comparison can be made, we are comparing:
a law providing farmers the right to repair farm equipment that is a basic neccesity for doing their job.
A law giving fast food franchisees the right to repair equipment that represent a minority of revenue and a side to the food which is unaffected.
A politician isn’t losing their job over a dysfunctional ice cream machine. They absolutely could if they fail to support the farming community that votes for them. I thought you of all people would understand this cynical motivation. Considering basic, cynical motivations might serve you better than blind nihilism.
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Re: Diversion
Bold take, going from
“I’m a 65-year-old man who doesn’t understand tech, my phone is basically magic to me like 90% of the populace and i can’t assess how much smoke they are blowing up my ass, but i’m from montana and my position relies on me listening to the farmers in my state, and in 14 years in the senate as a democrat in a deeply red state after years holding state office, I’ve picked up enough of a passing knowledge of farm equipment that i can absolutely understand that the tractor stuff is stupid.”
To
“I absolutely understand the nuances of this discussion, i just got paid off by apple and not john deere”
Like John Deere would stoop to having office workers drive forklifts but not bribe congress.
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I don’t have any sympathy. They are flexing their muscle on the international stage and have been for decades. Youtube pushes back on them in part because they keep butting heads with youtube creators. Worse this isn’t the first time they went after a creator whom they previously partnered with.
If they thought it was infringement, why did these partnerships happen? because Toei marketing recognizes the value in fan engagement. I have no sympathy for lawyers so up their own ass they sue sanctioned content creators.
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Re: Re:
Since you appear unaware, the youtube chanel was a review page, reviewing individual episodes. The mere presence of toei animation content is to be expected
However, the prof of the unreasonableness of the demands comes from the fact that several videos hit do not contain tori animation content (per the creator, as these were videos discussing dbz, but not reviewing content. Meaning, assuming he is representing his content accurately, he wasn’t using content when it wasn’t fair use. Youtube’s actions clearly state they believe all toei content use was in line with fair use - they assume a lawsuit in ireland can not succeed and risk liability if they are wrong, so you know Youtube’s expensive IP lawyers have weighed in on this.
We’ve all heard Leonard French lecturing Good Mythical Morning and his audiance about the meaning of criticism in copyright law. but you haven’t looked at any of the details which suggest that rant is out of place in this context.
But sure, i’m sure the person who hasn’t seen the content knows more about its fair use status than Youtube’s Copyright lawyers.
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Re:
The farm lobby can be pretty massive in many states. Many representatives will rely of farmers and fatm workers for a large portion of their base. It’s also a lobby that is by its nature, not active. Politicians are the people who dropped farming once we could get beyond a subsistence level. Farmers are the ones who choose to keep farming. By their nature, farming is what they want to do, leave the politics to the others. As we see in british, where the farm and fishing lobbies could murder the tory government right now, but can’t be asked to actually lobby the government over brexit.
John Deere kicked a hornets nest. They got the farm lobby to actually take a stand. And with the internet to help messaging, they now have a bipartisan collection of senators and a president who considers this an issue to tackle. not sure why you are shutting down the farm lobby here. they are making ground against john deere in popular and governmental support.
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Re: Re: Re:
As someone who didnt use a suicide line when i really needed to because of paranoia, i understand how damaging this information is. But even beginning to try to express it sends me into incoherent rage.
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