The only way net neutrality will actually be won is when the major players(Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook) step in to flood more money at politicians than Comcast/Verizon/AT&T. That is the truth of our current political world.
Re: Don't depend on Cops' dashcams, Make your own recordings
There is no legal expectation of privacy for an LEO interaction in a public space(like a traffic stop), so your worries about admissible evidence shouldn't be there. Doesn't mean corrupt cops won't try to fight against you on that, just means that they will lose.
Yeah call me a traitor to my nation. The nation where when we have terrible mass shooting after mass shooting "their" solution is MORE GUNS. Where major influential court decisions are almost all 5-4. Where the previous admin outright deceived the whole country to get us to invade Iraq to finish his daddies job. Where the current Admin KNEW that tons of Wall Street Execs cheated and caused terrible damage to our economy, then refused to even start an investigation against them or even push legislation to stop it from happening again!
So if saying "I wish there was a court above the US court" makes me a traitor, well....
I wouldn't mind "distracted" use adding to a jaywalking fine(like speeding in a construction zone). But outright fining people for looking at their phones seems ridiculous. What if I just happen to take out my phone to glance at the time and the officer looks at me only in that instant? Things like that happen all the time.
They push back against these people because they are not afraid of repercussions. Both personally or professionally. Professionally they don't care if they loose access to those people directly. They don't NEED sources to make their program work and work well. Personally they are VERY public figures compared to most real journalists. If they were to be attempted to be thrown in jail or continuously hassled for hours on end by the government "we" would throw a shit fit. Not so for your average no-name or even semi-well known journalists. That is why they have no issue with fighting back, and every "real" journalist is.
The intelligent criminals already didn't steal plates. They would/will go to junk yards or other places and pay/steal old plates not in use anymore. As one detective once told me. They typically only have the time/resources to catch the stupid criminals, but fortunately 95% of them are stupid.
Sorry but I don't consider auto-theft the same level as "non-violent" as drug use or noise complaint. Maybe it is just me and my experience, but the officers approaching the car with their gun unholsterd(not aimed at them) seems perfectly legit given their assumption the car was stolen. Many officers pull their guns in situations that really really don't need to, but this one seems fine. Especially considering they never aimed at him.
I don't know how your system does it, but that is exactly how our system works. Though AFAIK it will only save the picture if it gets a "hit" or a "close match"(because of errors like this) to hotlist cars.
This ultimately comes down to training issues. The officer didn't do his due diligence before approaching the car. Though give him a smidgen of credit for not approaching with his gun aimed at his head yelling about him needing to eat pavement. We have seen many officers take approaches like that. And while this officer did make a mistake, he handled his mistake well.
What they need to do in 20/20 is set yearly "markers" that the company must hit or their contract is void and they must return all the money. Unfortunately most politicians don't have the balls or intelligence to set some things up like that.
The initial contracts are exactly the type of thing central governments are SUPPOSED to do. AKA efficiently pay to improve infrastructure for their community. You can't blame the system for inherently doing what it is actually supposed to do. What you can blame them for is bending over and saying "please sir may I have some more" when said contracts are never held up long term and the population doesn't get what they paid for.
Exactly what legal reasoning are they using to Subpoena the e-mails? If they have nothing to do with the case I fail to see how a judge wouldn't throw this out on its face value...
Not exactly all the way back in '62 but recently there was that story about the original coder for Madden wanting paid for his work for basically every Madden game to come after. Don't know the details of how that case worked out but it is the closest thing that I am aware of some coder at least attempting a similar payment for work long past done.
This is actually something that I could see a reasonable response to come down hard on. Getting people's tax information could be WAYYYYYYYY more damaging than jstor articles or AT&T e-mails.
Why do several people claim this somehow will lead to school shootings? Everybody works differently(hell the Columbine shooters were described AS bullies, not the bullied party). If any of this shows tendency towards school shootings it comes from the negligence of the teachers/principals. You always hear about these kids and "we had no idea of any problems". Well obviously they DON'T have any idea about their students if this level of bullying happens and they apparently know nothing about it. Ultimately the buck is on those people for royally screwing this up, but let "us" accept some responsibility for instituting the zero tolerance/out for blood process into schools across the country in the first place. This is yet another in a countless sea of "zero tolerance = zero intelligence"
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This is how Net Neutrality will actually be won
That is the truth of our current political world.
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Re: Don't depend on Cops' dashcams, Make your own recordings
Doesn't mean corrupt cops won't try to fight against you on that, just means that they will lose.
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The nation where when we have terrible mass shooting after mass shooting "their" solution is MORE GUNS.
Where major influential court decisions are almost all 5-4.
Where the previous admin outright deceived the whole country to get us to invade Iraq to finish his daddies job.
Where the current Admin KNEW that tons of Wall Street Execs cheated and caused terrible damage to our economy, then refused to even start an investigation against them or even push legislation to stop it from happening again!
So if saying "I wish there was a court above the US court" makes me a traitor, well....
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But outright fining people for looking at their phones seems ridiculous. What if I just happen to take out my phone to glance at the time and the officer looks at me only in that instant?
Things like that happen all the time.
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I mean I guess that is a step to real transparency.
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What could possibly go wrong!
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They don't fear repercussions
Professionally they don't care if they loose access to those people directly. They don't NEED sources to make their program work and work well.
Personally they are VERY public figures compared to most real journalists. If they were to be attempted to be thrown in jail or continuously hassled for hours on end by the government "we" would throw a shit fit. Not so for your average no-name or even semi-well known journalists.
That is why they have no issue with fighting back, and every "real" journalist is.
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Re: It Happened Before-- In The Railroads
As one detective once told me.
They typically only have the time/resources to catch the stupid criminals, but fortunately 95% of them are stupid.
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Re: non-violent "crime" met with lethal force?
Maybe it is just me and my experience, but the officers approaching the car with their gun unholsterd(not aimed at them) seems perfectly legit given their assumption the car was stolen.
Many officers pull their guns in situations that really really don't need to, but this one seems fine. Especially considering they never aimed at him.
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Re: Re: technical solution
This ultimately comes down to training issues. The officer didn't do his due diligence before approaching the car. Though give him a smidgen of credit for not approaching with his gun aimed at his head yelling about him needing to eat pavement. We have seen many officers take approaches like that. And while this officer did make a mistake, he handled his mistake well.
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Re: Short Memory
Unfortunately most politicians don't have the balls or intelligence to set some things up like that.
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You can't blame the system for inherently doing what it is actually supposed to do.
What you can blame them for is bending over and saying "please sir may I have some more" when said contracts are never held up long term and the population doesn't get what they paid for.
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If they have nothing to do with the case I fail to see how a judge wouldn't throw this out on its face value...
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Don't know the details of how that case worked out but it is the closest thing that I am aware of some coder at least attempting a similar payment for work long past done.
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What could go wrong!
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Everybody works differently(hell the Columbine shooters were described AS bullies, not the bullied party).
If any of this shows tendency towards school shootings it comes from the negligence of the teachers/principals.
You always hear about these kids and "we had no idea of any problems". Well obviously they DON'T have any idea about their students if this level of bullying happens and they apparently know nothing about it.
Ultimately the buck is on those people for royally screwing this up, but let "us" accept some responsibility for instituting the zero tolerance/out for blood process into schools across the country in the first place.
This is yet another in a countless sea of "zero tolerance = zero intelligence"
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