As a person to generates forms I am betting somebody just didn't check a box somewhere. Based off the "because%20." I would take a good bet that is actually a form where it is supposed to read "because [reason]." where the reason is an open field box or auto-generated based off a group of check boxes. This in no way invalidates the point of this being ridiculous, just shines a little light on how it ended up saying simply "because ." yay government transparency!
Even IF, which it is a big if, the NSA didn't have "malicious" intent it would be an absolutely terrible idea to put a backdoor into the crypto. I mean it only takes one clever person(or a jaded ex-NSA contractor...) to bring that whole house of cards down. Then not only did you just shoot your company in the foot but you also compromised EVERYBODY else. At this point I don't know why anybody in their right mind would use any RSA products if they could go somewhere else, and RSA has nobody to blame for it than themselves.
Figuring out what content is legal against what content is infringing is too hard for us poor lawyers and judges! Lets just pass that task onto the ISP guys, they surely know more about content infringement since they are the ones who run the internet. What could go wrong?
Everybody wants MORE power. Power to control lives and mold them to "their" vision. You see it at almost every level. Schools, College(free speech zone!), work place(Sally worked 20 hours overtime but you didn't, she is better than you). Everybody wants to rule their world...
If a complaint results in disciplinary charges against an officer, records from that process may still be kept secret, the appellate court noted.
So basically this ruling has no teeth then. We will be able to read all the bullshit complaints("The officer wouldn't let me go with a warning!") but any REAL major abuse will just be hidden still. If anything this should be the exact opposite. Keep the stupid records of idiots who complain about them not fining their neighbor for noise and publicly shame the officers who shoot somebody's dog!
Who the hell runs Cyberlink PowerDVD? unless they start forcing VLC or something to incorporate that Cinavia, it really isn't a big deal. Even then if they did start that, I would bet people would just stop using it and find a new player. People would just rather break the law than be inconvenienced.
This is exactly why I am a "pirate". Built my own NAS and XBMC media box to stream to for less than half the cost of this machine. Then just DL ripped versions of all the physical media and throw them on the NAS. No disc switching, access to any device that can touch the NAS. Why the hell would I pay more(an obscene amount more) for less features just because opening it up might enable piracy? HELLO! PIRATES ALREADY CAN DO ALL THOSE THINGS AND MORE!
I am still waiting for the leak that shows the GCHQ has actually been actively using those same strats against US entities. Can you imagine the feign outrage they will have over it?
a few of my friends have taken to Calling the baby boomer generation the "bridge burners". Works part time job to pay for college? Why can't you do the same? Could afford a house right out of high school with unskilled labor positions? Why kids are just lazy today! Baby boomers never even fathom how much better they had it when they were young, where labor was valued and just having a job was considered good enough. If they got stuck working for peanuts with no obvious path to a better life except getting saddled with $50+k in debt maybe they would change their tune...
As for the data retention, they want it to essentially track drug dealers or potential child abductors. The former they can find a known car of a dealer, then go back and track where he tends to go in and out of. Once they establish a pattern they could start surveillance of more specific locations. For the later they could get a partial hit off a plate or even a whole hit and try to narrow down where the suspected criminal could be. OR alternatively know when a child was taken and pool a list of plates from the time it happened. For the former you could argue it would be helpful, but ultimately it is a shortcut to field work that needs to be done anyway. For the later there is NO reason to hold data that long(IE longer than say 30 days) other than sheer incompetence of taking the time out of your day to search through the system.
Why, exactly, are "Public Data" and "User Generated Content" completely separated from "consumers"? Hell some of the most popular sites on the internet are where the sites themselves are nothing but platforms for the consumers to post their own content and share it around(facebook, youtube, tumblr, ect, ect). Excluding any other mistakes that mistake alone is egregious enough to make this "chart" have no credibility because it shows no understanding of how the current internet world works.
I honestly believe it is not in the tax payer's best interest to automatically fine the Department for misuse of the database by cops. Think of the abuse one cop could do if they purposefully tried to get the department fined. No, the REAL answer is to automatically fine the OFFICERS directly who willfully pull somebody's records. Most of those cops who get said written reprimand won't care, but if you suddenly slap them with a $2.5-5k fine coming directly out of THEIR pockets...that is wake up call that they will remember and share back around to others.
if GoldieBlox had straight taken the original source music, added a word to the front, THEN sold it as a new song it would be a very different story than them completely remaking the song to sell a product not in the same market as the parody. I mean, please explain to me how GoldieBlox's commercial would possibly cause "brand confusion" for people looking to buy a beastie boys album.
Hard to defend "parody" art when your own FAQ basically admits right off the bat you are ripping off another company wholesale for basically free marketing.
For everybody's sake I hope this is a joke. Otherwise it will just end up wasting money and time for everybody.
Lets even give him his $300 per phone. Who decides where that money goes? Music industry, movie industry, video game industry, book industry...ect ect I mean who and how do they decide whom gets said money? Do we randomly assign money to the big players and then the artists get basically nothing? Do you spread it out evenly based on general popularity so each artist gets a fraction of a penny per phone? Or do you want to go NSA style and root through people's phones to see what media they have on it? Did this bozo even think his plan all the way through to see what the real world implications were?
After some more thinking, exactly how did these "rouge" IT groups ever exist? If you go to any of our network ports you can't just plug in a computer and have it connect to the network. You MUST be on the domain with all the right proxy settings and other items.
They IT staff really must have been incompetent for the shadow IT groups to even have a capability to get off the ground.
I worked for the Air Force for a while, and I never once saw anything remotely this bad at the base I worked at. They actually did a good job of security. We had card keys that MUST be plugged into the machine to work, and when you unplugged them the computers auto-locked. Not to mention to open basically any door you also needed said key card, so very very few computers were ever left unlocked. I just wonder how the Armed Forces fared for said IT audit.
even IF they decided to go that route, it ultimately wouldn't do anything other than block non-infringing content. Legitimate people would get blocked and the pirates would just find a way to make their content just ever so slightly different so as not to get pinged by that "matching content". It is a never ending battle that the pirates always seem to win at the cost of normal people's enjoyment.
I think if Google wanted to make a statement they easily could. Just block all UK traffic to their site and claim their government is making it too hard to do business in their country even though somehow the rest of the world doesn't have a problem with it. Let the UK people use Bing for a week before calling for the MP's head to back off Google.
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The forgot to check a box
Based off the "because%20." I would take a good bet that is actually a form where it is supposed to read "because [reason]." where the reason is an open field box or auto-generated based off a group of check boxes.
This in no way invalidates the point of this being ridiculous, just shines a little light on how it ended up saying simply "because ."
yay government transparency!
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*To the public
On the post: Security Researchers Find RSA Even More Completely Compromised By The NSA Than Previously Thought
What were they thinking?
I mean it only takes one clever person(or a jaded ex-NSA contractor...) to bring that whole house of cards down. Then not only did you just shoot your company in the foot but you also compromised EVERYBODY else.
At this point I don't know why anybody in their right mind would use any RSA products if they could go somewhere else, and RSA has nobody to blame for it than themselves.
On the post: EU Court Of Justice Makes Life Difficult For ISPs: Demand 'Balance' In Blocking Websites, But Incomplete Blocking May Lead To Liability
Lets just pass that task onto the ISP guys, they surely know more about content infringement since they are the ones who run the internet. What could go wrong?
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Everybody wants to rule their world...
On the post: Chicago Court Rules Police Misconduct Records Must Be Made Publicly Available
So basically this ruling has no teeth then. We will be able to read all the bullshit complaints("The officer wouldn't let me go with a warning!") but any REAL major abuse will just be hidden still. If anything this should be the exact opposite. Keep the stupid records of idiots who complain about them not fining their neighbor for noise and publicly shame the officers who shoot somebody's dog!
On the post: Hollywood's Piracy Fears Turn Potentially Useful Product Into A $4,000 Brick
Re: Re: Re: Cinavia
unless they start forcing VLC or something to incorporate that Cinavia, it really isn't a big deal.
Even then if they did start that, I would bet people would just stop using it and find a new player.
People would just rather break the law than be inconvenienced.
On the post: Hollywood's Piracy Fears Turn Potentially Useful Product Into A $4,000 Brick
Built my own NAS and XBMC media box to stream to for less than half the cost of this machine. Then just DL ripped versions of all the physical media and throw them on the NAS.
No disc switching, access to any device that can touch the NAS.
Why the hell would I pay more(an obscene amount more) for less features just because opening it up might enable piracy?
HELLO! PIRATES ALREADY CAN DO ALL THOSE THINGS AND MORE!
*sigh*
On the post: NSA Aiming To Infect 'Millions' Of Computers Worldwide With Its Malware; Targets Telco/ISP Systems Administrators
Can you imagine the feign outrage they will have over it?
On the post: ACLU Battles Connecticut Law Enforcement Agencies Over Retention Of Licence Plate Reader Data
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Works part time job to pay for college? Why can't you do the same?
Could afford a house right out of high school with unskilled labor positions? Why kids are just lazy today!
Baby boomers never even fathom how much better they had it when they were young, where labor was valued and just having a job was considered good enough.
If they got stuck working for peanuts with no obvious path to a better life except getting saddled with $50+k in debt maybe they would change their tune...
As for the data retention, they want it to essentially track drug dealers or potential child abductors.
The former they can find a known car of a dealer, then go back and track where he tends to go in and out of. Once they establish a pattern they could start surveillance of more specific locations.
For the later they could get a partial hit off a plate or even a whole hit and try to narrow down where the suspected criminal could be. OR alternatively know when a child was taken and pool a list of plates from the time it happened.
For the former you could argue it would be helpful, but ultimately it is a shortcut to field work that needs to be done anyway. For the later there is NO reason to hold data that long(IE longer than say 30 days) other than sheer incompetence of taking the time out of your day to search through the system.
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On the post: Does The European Commission Really Think The Internet Is A 'Value Tree' That Requires A 'Transmission Belt Of Euros'?
That doesn't look right...
Hell some of the most popular sites on the internet are where the sites themselves are nothing but platforms for the consumers to post their own content and share it around(facebook, youtube, tumblr, ect, ect). Excluding any other mistakes that mistake alone is egregious enough to make this "chart" have no credibility because it shows no understanding of how the current internet world works.
On the post: Highway Trooper Suing Miami Police Dept. For Repeatedly Accessing Her Personal Data After She Pulled Over One Of Its Officers For Speeding
I automatic Fine should be removed
No, the REAL answer is to automatically fine the OFFICERS directly who willfully pull somebody's records.
Most of those cops who get said written reprimand won't care, but if you suddenly slap them with a $2.5-5k fine coming directly out of THEIR pockets...that is wake up call that they will remember and share back around to others.
On the post: Whether Dumb Starbucks Is A PR Stunt, A Joke Or Real... Its 'Parody' Claims Are Pretty Questionable
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I mean, please explain to me how GoldieBlox's commercial would possibly cause "brand confusion" for people looking to buy a beastie boys album.
On the post: Whether Dumb Starbucks Is A PR Stunt, A Joke Or Real... Its 'Parody' Claims Are Pretty Questionable
For everybody's sake I hope this is a joke. Otherwise it will just end up wasting money and time for everybody.
On the post: Pioneering French Electronic Artist Thinks Creative Industry Should Get '$300-400' Of Each Smartphone Sale
Who gets what money?
Who decides where that money goes?
Music industry, movie industry, video game industry, book industry...ect ect
I mean who and how do they decide whom gets said money?
Do we randomly assign money to the big players and then the artists get basically nothing?
Do you spread it out evenly based on general popularity so each artist gets a fraction of a penny per phone?
Or do you want to go NSA style and root through people's phones to see what media they have on it?
Did this bozo even think his plan all the way through to see what the real world implications were?
On the post: Feds Own Cybersecurity Efforts Are A Joke: Employees Have 'Gone Rogue' To Avoid 'Ineptitude' Of IT Staff
If you go to any of our network ports you can't just plug in a computer and have it connect to the network. You MUST be on the domain with all the right proxy settings and other items.
They IT staff really must have been incompetent for the shadow IT groups to even have a capability to get off the ground.
On the post: Feds Own Cybersecurity Efforts Are A Joke: Employees Have 'Gone Rogue' To Avoid 'Ineptitude' Of IT Staff
How Secure are the Armed Forces?
We had card keys that MUST be plugged into the machine to work, and when you unplugged them the computers auto-locked. Not to mention to open basically any door you also needed said key card, so very very few computers were ever left unlocked.
I just wonder how the Armed Forces fared for said IT audit.
On the post: UK Politicians Think They Can Write Google's Search Algorithm Better Than Google
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Legitimate people would get blocked and the pirates would just find a way to make their content just ever so slightly different so as not to get pinged by that "matching content".
It is a never ending battle that the pirates always seem to win at the cost of normal people's enjoyment.
On the post: UK Politicians Think They Can Write Google's Search Algorithm Better Than Google
Just block all UK traffic to their site and claim their government is making it too hard to do business in their country even though somehow the rest of the world doesn't have a problem with it.
Let the UK people use Bing for a week before calling for the MP's head to back off Google.
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