However he held that the tweet's author, John Langley, was 'quite clearly acting as the agent of Mr Wood'.
This is the key point. If the finding of agency status is correct -- and it appears to be at least plausible given the facts given in the article -- then the boss is indeed responsible for the doings of the underlings when said underlings are acting as agents of his organization.
"John Smith" must be a pseudonym for Shiva Ayyadurai, who counts each download of e-mail software that fails to acknowledge him as the original inventor as an "infringement".
If any significant (i.e. involving a real threat to public safety rather than an arbitrary technical violation) criminal case had been blocked by encryption, the news would have been blasted all over the place like the latest antics of Paris Hilton or the Kardashians in their heyday.
Reading isn't encouraged among the rank and file officers. They don't like to hire people with IQ's too high as they can easily see through the bullshit and double standards.
A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city....
inspirational videos that tell stories about people who have overcome adversity
I'd rather have normal commercials that syrupy glurge. It's bad enough when commercials try to be "inspirational", like the "story of Green Mountain coffee" commercial that seemingly ran every five minutes for a while, telling about how fair-trade coffee leads to better lives in the Third World. If I'd seen that stupid thing one more time I was ready to start searching out coffee grown by child slaves under the whips of brutal overseers.
This. I'll take people who claim to be legitimately concerned about illegal immigration seriously when they start demanding that ICE throw illegal employers in cages.
The only explanation I can think of for Taplin (other than actual brain damage) is that he's hired to provide "Ooo! Look! SQUIRREL!!" distractions from actual tech monopolies (ISPs like Verizon, Comcast, etc).
Silicon Valley billionaires produced some of the great breakthroughs of the century. Ben Wallace has never produced anything but noise, greenhouse gas emissions, and 310K blackbody radiation.
Ben Wallace, tough on law-abiding citizens, mild and gentle on murderous traitors:
Mr Wallace also slapped down Gavin Williamson, the defence secretary, for saying British Isis fighters should be "hunted down and killed" to ensure that they never return to the UK.
There are all sorts of ways to get into private files if you're willing to expend time and effort -- hacks like GreyKey, spyware to caputre inputs and outputs outside the encryption envelope, hidden shoulder-surf cameras, etc.
There is thus no real "going dark" problem for the sort of *limited* access based on *individual suspicion* that the police are *supposed* to be doing. The problem is that the police want to be able to spy on everybody, and these techniques simply don't scale up sufficiently to enable that.
This is the sort of thing that calls for a system where judicial review distinguishes between two levels of "unconstitutional": 1. The garden-variety "eh, it was a judgment call anybody could legitimately get wrong", with the same effect as the current system (the law is struck down with no other effects). 2. The guy/gal who drafted this law, who was obviously staring at a classmate's boobs/abs during Civics 101 class, needs to have a point put on his politican license, with some threshold (three strikes and your're out?) for permanent ineligibility for political office.
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This is the key point. If the finding of agency status is correct -- and it appears to be at least plausible given the facts given in the article -- then the boss is indeed responsible for the doings of the underlings when said underlings are acting as agents of his organization.
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Huh? He has to provide more proof before you'll identify him as a troll?
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If any significant (i.e. involving a real threat to public safety rather than an arbitrary technical violation) criminal case had been blocked by encryption, the news would have been blasted all over the place like the latest antics of Paris Hilton or the Kardashians in their heyday.
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Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops
A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city....
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I'd rather have normal commercials that syrupy glurge. It's bad enough when commercials try to be "inspirational", like the "story of Green Mountain coffee" commercial that seemingly ran every five minutes for a while, telling about how fair-trade coffee leads to better lives in the Third World. If I'd seen that stupid thing one more time I was ready to start searching out coffee grown by child slaves under the whips of brutal overseers.
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This. I'll take people who claim to be legitimately concerned about illegal immigration seriously when they start demanding that ICE throw illegal employers in cages.
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The only explanation I can think of for Taplin (other than actual brain damage) is that he's hired to provide "Ooo! Look! SQUIRREL!!" distractions from actual tech monopolies (ISPs like Verizon, Comcast, etc).
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Ben Wallace, tough on law-abiding citizens, mild and gentle on murderous traitors:
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States are allowed to experiment on internal matters, not matters inherently tied to (for example) interstate commerce.
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i.e. he doesn't see any problem with the government's misconduct, only with the fact that they got caught.
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Targeted Investigation vs Mass Surveillance
There is thus no real "going dark" problem for the sort of *limited* access based on *individual suspicion* that the police are *supposed* to be doing. The problem is that the police want to be able to spy on everybody, and these techniques simply don't scale up sufficiently to enable that.
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How exactly does a phone with no microphone work?
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"O Lord Satan, please destroy America...."
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Re: You quibbling doesn't matter so long as Trump drives the agenda!
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1. The garden-variety "eh, it was a judgment call anybody could legitimately get wrong", with the same effect as the current system (the law is struck down with no other effects).
2. The guy/gal who drafted this law, who was obviously staring at a classmate's boobs/abs during Civics 101 class, needs to have a point put on his politican license, with some threshold (three strikes and your're out?) for permanent ineligibility for political office.
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