If you look at it from their point of view, they were indeed hit by a DDoS. They just neglect to mention the fact that instead of it being bot controlled, it was done by all the people watching John Oliver's show. So it was a DDoS attack at in its most basic form, caused by to many people trying to go there at the same time. Reminds of the old Slashdot effect. Sometimes when an interesting article would appear on this site for a time afterward the site would be overloaded with page requests and not respond.
If she, as part of the contract, wrote the music for the game, then the copyright is owned by the game company as it was a work for hire. If she had composed all the music on her own time then licensed the music to the game company for the game then she could have a valid claim on the copyright.
Once they nail Wikileaks to the wall they have opened the door to hitting the local (stateside) papers. Remember, Trump's administration was seriously up in arms about all the leaks by local papers.
Isps can reign this in by charging a large fee pet request over 50. They can justify it by claiming anything beyond 50 a month costs them too much money to be economically viable. Yes it doesn't close the door but they can charge enough to make sure the m/riaa don't just throw stuff at them shotgun style.
Blow out a tire on a fleeing vehicle? What the hell kind of drones are they planning on using that can carry the weight of a weapon powerful enough to put down a suspect (shoot out a tire) and keep up with a car doing 50+mph? Are they going to have a Predator or Reaper circling around the incident zone with a stabilized gyro rifle mount, oh wait.. military surplus sold off cheap to law enforcement agencies says yes they will be.
"The Congressional Review Act was designed as a common-sense check on anti-consumer regulations like this, and we are pleased that Senator Flake, Congressman Blackburn, and their colleagues are using it to such positive effect. We strongly urge Congress to support and quickly act on these Joint Resolutions."
I guess their definition of "Consumer" can be found in the list of signatures at the bottom of the letter, as opposed to, you know, the public at large.
It is worse then what the article mentions. When have you ever heard of them scaling back a security measure? No laptops and tablets will be the norm from those countries till the heat death of the Universe.
They arrested Charles Wood, so I'm willing to bet they also impounded the car as an 'accessory' to the alleged drug trafficking. Which means he is going to have to jump through all kinds of hoops to get his car back.
Sadly they are going to be denied on the grounds that 'they do not have an interest in the business records' thanks to the Third Party Doctrine. We have seen it before and will likely see it again.
Having worked 10 years at a psych hospital what most likely happened was an Order of Protective Custody was written up. If someone feels that a person is a danger to themselves or others you can go to the police and swear out an OPC and the police will go pick up said person and bring them to a hospital for a psych eval. At that point the doctors have to do an eval, and if they feel that yes this person needs to be in the hospital then the doctors write out a Physicians Emergency Custody order. This is where it stopped for this guy, and they apparently let him go. If the psych doctors think that further custody or treatment is needed the PEC is written up along with their evaluation and then another qualified expert (in Louisiana it was the Parish (County) Corner.. no I have no idea why the Corner of all people had that final sign off..) reviews the OPC, PEC, and Eval and then gives a yeah or nay on you staying with the white coaters for a while.
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"The Congressional Review Act was designed as a common-sense check on anti-consumer regulations like this, and we are pleased that Senator Flake, Congressman Blackburn, and their colleagues are using it to such positive effect. We strongly urge Congress to support and quickly act on these Joint Resolutions."
I guess their definition of "Consumer" can be found in the list of signatures at the bottom of the letter, as opposed to, you know, the public at large.
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