Effectively, the USA is ruled over by terrorists, because the government will promptly oppress its own citizens and make new totalitarian laws every time terrorists launch an attack, or even just utter a threat.
In contrast, what does it take for citizens to change the law?
As it happens, there's a reason law enforcement cannot use any tool as they see fit, at least within nations that uphold the rule of law.
And apparently, what the FBI used there violates the rule of law, which is why the judge threw out the idiots for trying.
But it's easy to guess what the FBI did: They infected the accused's computer with malware which also allowed the planting of (fabricated) evidence; like Hacking Team's "Galileo".
As a hint for future cases: If it's technology meant for espionage or warfare, it's probably not usable for law enforcement. If the evidence it creates is not tamper-resistant but actually opens more options for tampering, it's not usable for law enforcement. If you don't want to talk about, it's NEVER useable for law enforcement. If it comes with an NDA, it's NEVER usable by law enforcement.
It's not a double edged sword because of encryption, but because everything you do to foster surveillance will cut you, and everyone else, by jeopardizing security. Encryption is actually the scabbard.
Whereas, studies have shown that pornography is a public health hazard, leading to a broad spectrum of well documented individual impacts and societal harms
Right. Studies like "The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs" by William Acton, 1857
Wherein he also describes the health hazards of masturbation:
"His intellect has become sluggish and enfeebled, and if his evil habits are persisted in, he may end in becoming a drivelling idiot or a peevish valetudinarian".
Do you really want to be responsible for terrorists taking down the electrical grid, using a backdoor you inserted, or a vulnerability you kept secret, because you wanted your surveillance capabilities?
Company A has a trademark in class 10, company B in class 28. Or in the other example, Jägermeister has one in class 33, and the Bucks have trademarks in 28 and 41. And they don't ever clash.
It just seems something like "category" is too complicated a concept for (trademark)-attorneys.
Yes, convicted for: - theft and pickpocketing - trying to form a union - tolerating homosexuality - rebellion (particularly if you were Irish) - being catholic in Ireland and owning a gun - circulating the works of Thomas Paine - mutiny with intent to increase workplace conditions - demanding voting rights for everybody - being an orphan - illegal duelling - being a woman baring herself for "an immoral purpose" - being a servant accused of theft - bigamy - clandestine marriage - poaching (including plants and fish).
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In contrast, what does it take for citizens to change the law?
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Useless tech for law enforcement
And apparently, what the FBI used there violates the rule of law, which is why the judge threw out the idiots for trying.
But it's easy to guess what the FBI did: They infected the accused's computer with malware which also allowed the planting of (fabricated) evidence; like Hacking Team's "Galileo".
As a hint for future cases: If it's technology meant for espionage or warfare, it's probably not usable for law enforcement. If the evidence it creates is not tamper-resistant but actually opens more options for tampering, it's not usable for law enforcement. If you don't want to talk about, it's NEVER useable for law enforcement. If it comes with an NDA, it's NEVER usable by law enforcement.
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Net Neutrality
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Re:
Use this as a starting point:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_rules
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Re: Re: Can we call this what it is?
I actually call it propaganda.
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Re:
Actually, you should assume the dumbest. Because that's probably what it is, they're afraid of being embarrassed.
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Re: Nine Kings
I can type that without worrying about copyright, right?
It was written in 1957, copyright duration was 28 years then, so yes. [1]
[1] reality and criminal lawmakers might contradict the constitution and the rule of law.
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Re: Re: Re: This is a good thing folks...
I would rather face down a Capitalist Monopoly than a Government Regulated Monopoly ANYDAY!
Welcome to a world where capitalists have made the government give them monopolies.
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Like this one here, where Apple managed to get a patent on (at least) 4000 year old technology.
https://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/patents-on-bronze-age-technology/
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https://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/the-biggest-threat-to-cyber-security-is-surveillance/
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Re: Re: Create new open source games
As for point 4 that would be copyright infringement.
No. Otherwise "Avatar" would infringe upon "Pocahontas".
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Does some key component become 'the computer' like we pretend a receiver == gun?)?
Interesting question. What happens if your gun does not have a receiver, because it's a Flintlock?
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Whereas, studies have shown that pornography is a public health hazard, leading to a broad spectrum of well documented individual impacts and societal harms
Right. Studies like "The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs" by William Acton, 1857
Wherein he also describes the health hazards of masturbation:
"His intellect has become sluggish and enfeebled, and if his evil habits are persisted in, he may end in becoming a drivelling idiot or a peevish valetudinarian".
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Surveillance is the biggest threat to security
Do you really want to be responsible for terrorists taking down the electrical grid, using a backdoor you inserted, or a vulnerability you kept secret, because you wanted your surveillance capabilities?
https://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/the-biggest-threat-to-cyber-security-is-surveillance/
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Re: Same question
As it happens, trademarks are per category:
http://www.oppedahl.com/trademarks/tmclasses.htm
Company A has a trademark in class 10, company B in class 28. Or in the other example, Jägermeister has one in class 33, and the Bucks have trademarks in 28 and 41. And they don't ever clash.
It just seems something like "category" is too complicated a concept for (trademark)-attorneys.
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Australian Convicts
- theft and pickpocketing
- trying to form a union
- tolerating homosexuality
- rebellion (particularly if you were Irish)
- being catholic in Ireland and owning a gun
- circulating the works of Thomas Paine
- mutiny with intent to increase workplace conditions
- demanding voting rights for everybody
- being an orphan
- illegal duelling
- being a woman baring herself for "an immoral purpose"
- being a servant accused of theft
- bigamy
- clandestine marriage
- poaching (including plants and fish).
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Re: Re: The oath we took
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Re: Re: "Act now, for a limited time only you can get one Safety for the low price of one Freedom!"
Good news: You can't. Because privacy is paramount to security.
Bad news: Every time your freedom gets curtailed, you also get less secure, in spite of what your government tells you.
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Re: Unlimited copyright. ... for a price
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