That Anonymous Coward (profile), 4 Apr 2019 @ 3:32am
Re: A IMmoral obligation to help solve....
Because they have a duty to shareholders to increase their value...
Its the same thinking that has no problem jacking up the prices of drugs people will die without, because they can & they have this duty to shareholders!!!
With all of the push to allow people to sue online platforms for the actions of others, where is the lawsuit targeting shareholders who directly benefit from policies that kill people??
There is a growing number of people dying or seriously injured b/c the price of insulin has skyrocketed across the board, the execs talk about profits being rolled into research... is that like the research that was ended into viagra showing promise in treating a womens issue but it gave old men boners so they stopped the study?
It costs nothing more to make insulin, it hasn't radically changed, but 300% mark-ups aren't illegal. Perhaps it is time to hold the shareholders responsible for demanding profits at the expense of others.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 3 Apr 2019 @ 10:03pm
Re: Re: Re: Re:
OMG the typos they are coming from inside my mind....
While my brain did skip the anti portion, the description included shoudl have made it clear to even the most dense... er nevermind.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 3 Apr 2019 @ 10:31am
Something something fails to take into account Lentz fails to govern themselves accordingly.
If only we had a Federal SLAAP law one could avail themselves of & the court could punish those who misuse the law to exact revenge for imagined slights that shouldn't be in a court & they will have to pay everyones costs & get a ding against the lawyer who signed this bullshit.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Apr 2019 @ 9:40pm
The partner moved to Mumbai and now calls telling you they are from Windows and your computer has alerted them you have virus and your system will be shut down unless you give them your CC number now!
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Apr 2019 @ 9:36pm
Oh look my impassive shocked face appears again.
We can make money looking at their DNA and telling them stuff... oh hey did you know there is all this other shit we can do with this to make a few bucks.
What would shock me is if someone looked at online tracking, phone tracking, smart tv spying, and the 4 billion other ways our data is collected collated and turned into cash... and had said perhaps giving DNA to a 3rd party might he the dumbest thing ever. Someone will offer them a stupid amount of money to use the data for 'reasons' and they will sell you out in pursuit of a buck.
I got mocked for never having a Facebook... how does your crow taste?
From the earliest times I was on the interwebs I was also focused on hiding myself & controlling who knew what. (Being a closeted gay kid, you have this innate fear of someone finding out your a homo and beating you into the ground.)
People willingly hand out tons of information and are shocked when someone uses it against them... have they not met other humans?
Sometimes being a sociopathic immortal has its benefits, sure makes it hard to market information about me when my birthday is the beginning of the universe.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Apr 2019 @ 11:00am
Please to let the class know how quickly the Adsense team sent you a letter demanding you remove this or have it demonetinized.
Congress has shown they have a VERY twitchy finger when it comes to pet issues & sending letters implying all sorts of horrible things will happen if they even think about talking to the pariah of the month.
Now we could hire 50,000 ESL reviewers in 3rd world nations who wouldn't know a meme from a death threat to check nothing violates the ever evolving list of 'YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON THE INTERNET!'... Or you look for a few keywords & just ban all them undesirable peoples. (And hey steal money from them because they are bad people so we no longer owe you).
See also: Every stupid move done to appease the walled garden of fruit phones to try and stop a female presenting nipple from showing up on their most advanced display ever! EX: Tumblr... market share crashed, value crashed, but hey they were able to keep their app in the app store even as they flag their own examples of whats allowed as violations of the policies.
Or we could hold individuals responsible for what they did, I know its not trendy these days, but we live in this delusion that nothing we do is our fault... I ate twinkies so I murdered him, leaps to mind, and people bought into it.
If you can't apply it in the real world, it will work even worse trying to do it online.
We don't (yet) allow people to sue car makers b/c someone got drunk and had a wreck. (But hey we let them sue the bar b/c they should know a randoms limit & track them to make sure they don't slip out and drive home).
A lot of this is the digital version of someone robbed a bank, well the guys who build the road have lots of money... make them pay for the crime.
They've been fucking things up for decades, what finally will snap them into reality or will we end up reduced to an internet with only licensed images of the 4 colors no one has a trademark on as the content we're allowed?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Apr 2019 @ 5:20am
Re: Re: Surveillance to track spending...
I lack the will to look for it atm, but there is a recent story (within a year) about a parent being denied entry to a school event for his kids b/c facial rec claimed he was a pedophile on the list & they called the cops... even after being cleared they still, out of an abundance of caution, denied him entry. IIRC (95% certainty on the points)
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Apr 2019 @ 5:18am
Re: Surveillance to track spending...
I never have rolled into a store only to be ignored by staff (I'm sorry I'm shopping, I ain't wearing a suit or dressing up).
The first staffer to treat me like a human gets shocked that yes, despite the jeans I know what I want and can afford it.
I've never given a flight attendant the stink eye after she looks me over and thinks I must be lost looking for my seat in 1st class & asks to see my ticket... then immediately wants to be super nice to me.
I've never walked onto a used car lot & told the salesman I have no interest in this model b/c I know it has serious issues. 3rd or 4th time they show me the same model steering me away from things I want to look at, that they assume are out of my price range, I find a new drone to deal with... once they pissed me off enough I walked into to the new sales division & asked a salesman who'd waited on relatives does he sell off the used lot & want to make a commission - simple rules don't show me this model. Gee he showed me the cars I wanted to look at, didn't push that model, and the look on the face of the used salesmen when I paid cash in full.
Its fun screwing with peoples expectations, they size you up and think they know the whole story... see also: every troll here who comes for me b/c of my trendy avatar.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Apr 2019 @ 5:07am
Re:
Oh things like this would never happen...
we'd never see legislatures put forward bills to allow schools to blacklist kids if they get suspended for an offense...
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Apr 2019 @ 8:15pm
And every defense lawyer danced a jig...
We can not be sure if this evidence was correctly gathered by upstanding people... the PD decided to destroy all the records of complaints against the officers rather than allow us an opportunity to see if this officer testifying has ever been reprimanded for violating chain of evidence, beating on citizens, or any other reporting.
What were they trying to hide?
They want you to trust and believe them, but then destroy all the records trying to hide reports & outcomes. Does that sound like the actions of innocent public servants charged with protecting and serving or like a gang member trying to hide his history of arrests & misconduct??
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Apr 2019 @ 8:10pm
But we have this really cool toy!!!
We totes should use it!!
'But you are investigating a missing dog'
We can scoop up 2000 phone numbers in the area and then work down the list to see if any of them have the dog, its totally not a problem!
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Apr 2019 @ 8:07pm
TIL malls are still a thing.
We'll keep the 'bad people' out!!!
They totally won't just shop online or the last few other store not using questionable tech in a fantasy of solving all the problems facing dinosaurs who are standing in the tar & are SURE the tar won't suck them down if they pay this little bird who claims he can lift them out for the right price.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Mar 2019 @ 3:19am
Re: '... the light/money's better out here.'
I feel bad for him because the ex played up the whole I'll play hard to get thing (see also every case where an ex sent random men to a womans house to fulfill her rape fantasies) in setting up the dates, but I read the complaint and missing was any talk of a police report or protective order.
They best he could muster was he & some friends sent random messages somewhere somehow to the platform that he couldn't find anywhere to file a complaint to reporting the profile as impersonation.
(This mirrored the sort of thinking that dear Tiffany (of vTwitter Infamy) that because they said something something had to happen right as they wanted ignoring policy/laws)
My sympathy wears thin when we understand it does not appear he ever sued the evil ex or reported him. Breathlessly talking about how terrified he is from all of these men buzzing his door at all hours of the night... but it never occurred to him if you put the ex in jail, they stop posting on Grindr. He left himself in danger to make a better emotional appeal to the courts that the company with the deep pockets needs to pay him.
Of course Grindr is back int he media churn b/c the governments trying to get the Chinese to sell off their interest b/c they can TOTES use peoples hook up info & tasteful not nude pictures to figure out who has clearances and then blackmail them....
The gays can get married now, but will totally sell out the country's secrets if you threaten to tell their boss they suck the dick... o_O
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 Mar 2019 @ 6:23pm
Yeah @hacks4pankcakes on teh twitters had something similar to this happen.
It seems some startup got a large corporate landlord to switch all the buildings over to their super duper system.
You have to plug their special router into your internet...
You have to be okay with your landlord & the startup knowing when you are home, what temp your HACV is at, when people come and go...
Oh and the lock they are using has really bad reviews online...
Oh did we mention that there isn't a mechanical part on the inside so you can end up locked in your apartment?
Oh and if the battery didn't alert you, you can run out and buy a 9volt battery to connect to the external power connectors so you can get inside your home... & lets hope you have the right batteries inside to replace the dead ones otherwise... you're not getting out.
Internet Infosec well known person took a meeting with ownership, laid out the issues... they are still rolling it out.
I wonder what their insurance costs are going to be once someone managed to hack this series of Internet of Shit devices mashed together gets breeched & entire buildings end up unlocked randomly.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 Mar 2019 @ 6:14pm
BYE FELECIA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sure hope you didn't leave your wife any more shoeboxes of cash, she totally isn't the kind of person who would divorce you after grabbing all of your illegally obtained assets & stashing them... I mean its not like she was married to someone who ran one of the larges extro... oh right...
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 Mar 2019 @ 6:09pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Amicus Curiae for Copyright Cases.
Nope can;t prove that... they accidentally deleted the code for their super secret tech (violating a courts instructions) so there is STILL no outside testing of the magical black box...
So it is still you only need to send 200 notices to an ip address then sue the ISP for not disconnecting them from the internet, because a court has decided that a company who makes money from sending these notices out would NEVER EVER worry about their bottom line more than sending notices.
On the post: Welcome To The Prude Internet: No More Sex Talk Allowed
Re: Re:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190329/16142541903/welcome-to-prude-internet-no-more-sex-talk-al lowed.shtml#c899
On the post: FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement
Re: A IMmoral obligation to help solve....
Because they have a duty to shareholders to increase their value...
Its the same thinking that has no problem jacking up the prices of drugs people will die without, because they can & they have this duty to shareholders!!!
With all of the push to allow people to sue online platforms for the actions of others, where is the lawsuit targeting shareholders who directly benefit from policies that kill people??
There is a growing number of people dying or seriously injured b/c the price of insulin has skyrocketed across the board, the execs talk about profits being rolled into research... is that like the research that was ended into viagra showing promise in treating a womens issue but it gave old men boners so they stopped the study?
It costs nothing more to make insulin, it hasn't radically changed, but 300% mark-ups aren't illegal. Perhaps it is time to hold the shareholders responsible for demanding profits at the expense of others.
On the post: FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement
Re: Re:
I have a brother?!
This is very disturbing news to me.
On the post: Federal Court Says Teen's 'Fuck Cheer' Is Protected Speech
Re: Re: Re:
As long as they aren't getting public money, they are free to be as crazy as they want.
On the post: EFF Fights For Redditor Targeted By Religious Organization For Forum Posts About Its Data Collection Policies
Re: Re: Re: Re:
OMG the typos they are coming from inside my mind....
While my brain did skip the anti portion, the description included shoudl have made it clear to even the most dense... er nevermind.
On the post: EFF Fights For Redditor Targeted By Religious Organization For Forum Posts About Its Data Collection Policies
Something something fails to take into account Lentz fails to govern themselves accordingly.
If only we had a Federal SLAAP law one could avail themselves of & the court could punish those who misuse the law to exact revenge for imagined slights that shouldn't be in a court & they will have to pay everyones costs & get a ding against the lawyer who signed this bullshit.
On the post: Office Depot And Partner Ordered To Pay $35 Million For Tricking Consumers Into Thinking They Had Malware
The partner moved to Mumbai and now calls telling you they are from Windows and your computer has alerted them you have virus and your system will be shut down unless you give them your CC number now!
On the post: FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement
Oh look my impassive shocked face appears again.
We can make money looking at their DNA and telling them stuff... oh hey did you know there is all this other shit we can do with this to make a few bucks.
What would shock me is if someone looked at online tracking, phone tracking, smart tv spying, and the 4 billion other ways our data is collected collated and turned into cash... and had said perhaps giving DNA to a 3rd party might he the dumbest thing ever. Someone will offer them a stupid amount of money to use the data for 'reasons' and they will sell you out in pursuit of a buck.
I got mocked for never having a Facebook... how does your crow taste?
From the earliest times I was on the interwebs I was also focused on hiding myself & controlling who knew what. (Being a closeted gay kid, you have this innate fear of someone finding out your a homo and beating you into the ground.)
People willingly hand out tons of information and are shocked when someone uses it against them... have they not met other humans?
Sometimes being a sociopathic immortal has its benefits, sure makes it hard to market information about me when my birthday is the beginning of the universe.
On the post: Welcome To The Prude Internet: No More Sex Talk Allowed
Re:
TITTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On the post: Welcome To The Prude Internet: No More Sex Talk Allowed
Please to let the class know how quickly the Adsense team sent you a letter demanding you remove this or have it demonetinized.
Congress has shown they have a VERY twitchy finger when it comes to pet issues & sending letters implying all sorts of horrible things will happen if they even think about talking to the pariah of the month.
Now we could hire 50,000 ESL reviewers in 3rd world nations who wouldn't know a meme from a death threat to check nothing violates the ever evolving list of 'YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON THE INTERNET!'... Or you look for a few keywords & just ban all them undesirable peoples. (And hey steal money from them because they are bad people so we no longer owe you).
See also: Every stupid move done to appease the walled garden of fruit phones to try and stop a female presenting nipple from showing up on their most advanced display ever! EX: Tumblr... market share crashed, value crashed, but hey they were able to keep their app in the app store even as they flag their own examples of whats allowed as violations of the policies.
Or we could hold individuals responsible for what they did, I know its not trendy these days, but we live in this delusion that nothing we do is our fault... I ate twinkies so I murdered him, leaps to mind, and people bought into it.
If you can't apply it in the real world, it will work even worse trying to do it online.
We don't (yet) allow people to sue car makers b/c someone got drunk and had a wreck. (But hey we let them sue the bar b/c they should know a randoms limit & track them to make sure they don't slip out and drive home).
A lot of this is the digital version of someone robbed a bank, well the guys who build the road have lots of money... make them pay for the crime.
They've been fucking things up for decades, what finally will snap them into reality or will we end up reduced to an internet with only licensed images of the 4 colors no one has a trademark on as the content we're allowed?
On the post: Facial Recognition Tech Now Capable Of Getting You Kicked Out Of The Mall
Re: Re: Surveillance to track spending...
I lack the will to look for it atm, but there is a recent story (within a year) about a parent being denied entry to a school event for his kids b/c facial rec claimed he was a pedophile on the list & they called the cops... even after being cleared they still, out of an abundance of caution, denied him entry. IIRC (95% certainty on the points)
On the post: Facial Recognition Tech Now Capable Of Getting You Kicked Out Of The Mall
Re: Surveillance to track spending...
I never have rolled into a store only to be ignored by staff (I'm sorry I'm shopping, I ain't wearing a suit or dressing up).
The first staffer to treat me like a human gets shocked that yes, despite the jeans I know what I want and can afford it.
I've never given a flight attendant the stink eye after she looks me over and thinks I must be lost looking for my seat in 1st class & asks to see my ticket... then immediately wants to be super nice to me.
I've never walked onto a used car lot & told the salesman I have no interest in this model b/c I know it has serious issues. 3rd or 4th time they show me the same model steering me away from things I want to look at, that they assume are out of my price range, I find a new drone to deal with... once they pissed me off enough I walked into to the new sales division & asked a salesman who'd waited on relatives does he sell off the used lot & want to make a commission - simple rules don't show me this model. Gee he showed me the cars I wanted to look at, didn't push that model, and the look on the face of the used salesmen when I paid cash in full.
Its fun screwing with peoples expectations, they size you up and think they know the whole story... see also: every troll here who comes for me b/c of my trendy avatar.
On the post: Facial Recognition Tech Now Capable Of Getting You Kicked Out Of The Mall
Re:
Oh things like this would never happen...
we'd never see legislatures put forward bills to allow schools to blacklist kids if they get suspended for an offense...
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2019/04/01/arizona-legislati on-would-blacklist-suspended-students-other-schools/3312436002/
Oh wait...
You got caught vaping, no more school for you!!!!!
On the post: Another California City Allowed Police To Destroy Misconduct Records Ahead Of New Transparency Law
And every defense lawyer danced a jig...
We can not be sure if this evidence was correctly gathered by upstanding people... the PD decided to destroy all the records of complaints against the officers rather than allow us an opportunity to see if this officer testifying has ever been reprimanded for violating chain of evidence, beating on citizens, or any other reporting.
What were they trying to hide?
They want you to trust and believe them, but then destroy all the records trying to hide reports & outcomes. Does that sound like the actions of innocent public servants charged with protecting and serving or like a gang member trying to hide his history of arrests & misconduct??
On the post: Court Documents Show Canadian Law Enforcement Operated Stingrays Indiscriminately, Sweeping Up Thousands Of Innocent Phone Owners
But we have this really cool toy!!!
We totes should use it!!
'But you are investigating a missing dog'
We can scoop up 2000 phone numbers in the area and then work down the list to see if any of them have the dog, its totally not a problem!
On the post: Facial Recognition Tech Now Capable Of Getting You Kicked Out Of The Mall
TIL malls are still a thing.
We'll keep the 'bad people' out!!!
They totally won't just shop online or the last few other store not using questionable tech in a fantasy of solving all the problems facing dinosaurs who are standing in the tar & are SURE the tar won't suck them down if they pay this little bird who claims he can lift them out for the right price.
On the post: Section 230 Holds On As Grindr Gets To Use It As A Defense
Re: '... the light/money's better out here.'
I feel bad for him because the ex played up the whole I'll play hard to get thing (see also every case where an ex sent random men to a womans house to fulfill her rape fantasies) in setting up the dates, but I read the complaint and missing was any talk of a police report or protective order.
They best he could muster was he & some friends sent random messages somewhere somehow to the platform that he couldn't find anywhere to file a complaint to reporting the profile as impersonation.
(This mirrored the sort of thinking that dear Tiffany (of vTwitter Infamy) that because they said something something had to happen right as they wanted ignoring policy/laws)
My sympathy wears thin when we understand it does not appear he ever sued the evil ex or reported him. Breathlessly talking about how terrified he is from all of these men buzzing his door at all hours of the night... but it never occurred to him if you put the ex in jail, they stop posting on Grindr. He left himself in danger to make a better emotional appeal to the courts that the company with the deep pockets needs to pay him.
Of course Grindr is back int he media churn b/c the governments trying to get the Chinese to sell off their interest b/c they can TOTES use peoples hook up info & tasteful not nude pictures to figure out who has clearances and then blackmail them....
The gays can get married now, but will totally sell out the country's secrets if you threaten to tell their boss they suck the dick... o_O
On the post: New York City Apartment Residents Sue Landlord Over New Smart Locks [Updated]
Yeah @hacks4pankcakes on teh twitters had something similar to this happen.
It seems some startup got a large corporate landlord to switch all the buildings over to their super duper system.
You have to plug their special router into your internet...
You have to be okay with your landlord & the startup knowing when you are home, what temp your HACV is at, when people come and go...
Oh and the lock they are using has really bad reviews online...
Oh did we mention that there isn't a mechanical part on the inside so you can end up locked in your apartment?
Oh and if the battery didn't alert you, you can run out and buy a 9volt battery to connect to the external power connectors so you can get inside your home... & lets hope you have the right batteries inside to replace the dead ones otherwise... you're not getting out.
Internet Infosec well known person took a meeting with ownership, laid out the issues... they are still rolling it out.
I wonder what their insurance costs are going to be once someone managed to hack this series of Internet of Shit devices mashed together gets breeched & entire buildings end up unlocked randomly.
On the post: Federal Prosecutors Recommend Paul Hansmeier Spend The Next 12 Years In Prison
BYE FELECIA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sure hope you didn't leave your wife any more shoeboxes of cash, she totally isn't the kind of person who would divorce you after grabbing all of your illegally obtained assets & stashing them... I mean its not like she was married to someone who ran one of the larges extro... oh right...
BYE FELECIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On the post: RIAA Continues Its Legal War To Turn ISPs Into The Copyright Police: Sues Charter Communications
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Amicus Curiae for Copyright Cases.
Nope can;t prove that... they accidentally deleted the code for their super secret tech (violating a courts instructions) so there is STILL no outside testing of the magical black box...
So it is still you only need to send 200 notices to an ip address then sue the ISP for not disconnecting them from the internet, because a court has decided that a company who makes money from sending these notices out would NEVER EVER worry about their bottom line more than sending notices.
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