Actually such takedowns are a laughing matter. They are a test of the intellectual capacity of those who engage the firms who do the scanning. At this point one has to think that they have negligible ability to observe the consequences of their acts, and project the wreckage it will produce in the future.
I could live with take down and stay down IF the penalties for an invalid claim of infringement, with no defense in law, were the same as those for true infringement.
There is no privacy anymore. What the government doesn't know about you, it can find out. NSLs have been so grossly abused that less that one percent are used for terrorism. And I would assume that many of that one percent, 100% of the participants are undercover LEOs or their CIs.
Your medical, tax, spending and all other records are a letter away from being perused, stored, used against you, and grossly abused. Not just by our faithful government, but by some or all corporations depending on the classification. And of course, what can not be explicitly obtained can usually be inferred.
"Smart TVs" and most CTV boxes can record conversations, including the last time someone had sex on the living room couch. Who knows what comes out of the mouths of toddlers -- they like to repeat what they hear.
Pay by cash? Sometimes its private, sometimes its facial recognition.
Re: Anti-theater not actually an example of "moral panic" at the new
Christianity made significant use of the theater during medieval times, in what are called morality plays. The devil was typically symbolized by the wearing of red hair, and is the ancestor of today's clown.
I assume that there is good reason that the Department of Injustice wants gag orders in place. To silence the illicit and immoral behavior of said Department. After all, if they were doing nothing wrong, then they wouldn't have anything to hide.
Free and open court rooms are one of the best places to look at determining the level of democratic process in a nation. But with secret proceedings, secret evidence, secret analysis, secret law, secret judgement and secret punishments, it has become more than obvious that the US is antithetical to democracy.
No, a machine can not be hijacked by airgapping from 6K miles away. But even the US "justice" system is starting to understand that an IP number is just that, and not the DNA of the individual performing the task, nor an identifier of where the machine doing the cracking is located. VPNs can make a computer in Australia look and act like it is coming from a lab in Moscow.
A one percent chance is a violation of the Geneva Conventions. And what could Iraq do to the US. If it had declared war on the US, Iraq would have been naught but green glass.
One must also remember that Hussein was a front man for the US until it became convenient to turn him into a monster. He may have gassed some of his people, but many of those attributed to him were from Iranian gas. Photos show clear evidence of asphyxiating gases (Iran's specialty) as opposed to nerve agents which were Iraq's favorite.
Where was the evidence of the massive burials of 250K people at a site? There were none. Note that there was no attempt to kill Bush41, not even the Pentagon included that in its justifications.
Even air-gapping no longer works if the computers are within a room of each other. Google "cracking air gapped computers" for a large number of references as to how this is done.
The only reason that Bush invaded Iraq was so that history would view him as a "war" president. He knowingly lied to start that war. Did so without the approval of the UN. Slaughtered 100,000 to 1,000,000 displaced 2-4 million. Disrupted the little balance that existed in the region. Is the progenitor of all the wars and slaughters going on there now.
There may only be two candidates at the top of the tickets, but there are likely thousands of candidates who will have a great impact on the way our nation will run. From president to dog catcher.
And what happens to the judge now? We don't expect LEOs to be lawyers, though everyone should have known that this was a clear 1st Amendment violation.
But the judge is supposed to be a lawyer, and should have immediately known that this was an improper warrant. He should have thrown the warrant application out immediately. His failure to do so should result in impeachment and disbarment.
Thought problems in ethics have little to nothing to do with real life. They certainly have no application to a vehicle run by either a human or a computer. If there is sufficient time for either to make a decision about what to hit, then there are multiple other decisions available to avoid an accident.
But of course accidents occur because people or CPUs put themselves in conditions that allow no time to make a decision of value. Most people would simply freeze, while a CPU would more likely be able to keep searching for an answer.
Any number of "what if" strawmen can be invented. Their utility other than discussion in ethics seminars has no meaning in the real world.
I am not sure what journalistic standards you are referring to here. The NSA/Bush spying story, kept quiet for a year over the 2004 election season, which would have undoubtedly changed the outcome of the election?
The support of an illegal and criminal war which killed well over a hundred thousand, displaced millions, destabilized the middle east, causing more wars and deaths.
That "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes," is credited to Mark Twain.
The same type of thinking that lead to the horrific disaster of the Maginot line, can certainly be credited with this current idiocy on the part of the French government.
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I could live with take down and stay down IF the penalties for an invalid claim of infringement, with no defense in law, were the same as those for true infringement.
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Your medical, tax, spending and all other records are a letter away from being perused, stored, used against you, and grossly abused. Not just by our faithful government, but by some or all corporations depending on the classification. And of course, what can not be explicitly obtained can usually be inferred.
"Smart TVs" and most CTV boxes can record conversations, including the last time someone had sex on the living room couch. Who knows what comes out of the mouths of toddlers -- they like to repeat what they hear.
Pay by cash? Sometimes its private, sometimes its facial recognition.
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E0CE7DA163FE036A05756C2A9659C946990D7CF&url=ht tp:%2F%2Ftimesmachine.nytimes.com%2Ftimesmachine%2F1878%2F03%2F25%2F356605092.html%3FpageNumber=4&am p;legacy=true
or if you have access to the NYT the whole article behind their paywall.
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Free and open court rooms are one of the best places to look at determining the level of democratic process in a nation. But with secret proceedings, secret evidence, secret analysis, secret law, secret judgement and secret punishments, it has become more than obvious that the US is antithetical to democracy.
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One must also remember that Hussein was a front man for the US until it became convenient to turn him into a monster. He may have gassed some of his people, but many of those attributed to him were from Iranian gas. Photos show clear evidence of asphyxiating gases (Iran's specialty) as opposed to nerve agents which were Iraq's favorite.
Where was the evidence of the massive burials of 250K people at a site? There were none. Note that there was no attempt to kill Bush41, not even the Pentagon included that in its justifications.
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But the judge is supposed to be a lawyer, and should have immediately known that this was an improper warrant. He should have thrown the warrant application out immediately. His failure to do so should result in impeachment and disbarment.
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ignorant narcissists being led by ignorant sychophants
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But of course accidents occur because people or CPUs put themselves in conditions that allow no time to make a decision of value. Most people would simply freeze, while a CPU would more likely be able to keep searching for an answer.
Any number of "what if" strawmen can be invented. Their utility other than discussion in ethics seminars has no meaning in the real world.
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Journalistic standards?
The support of an illegal and criminal war which killed well over a hundred thousand, displaced millions, destabilized the middle east, causing more wars and deaths.
And too much more to include here?
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Maginot line
The same type of thinking that lead to the horrific disaster of the Maginot line, can certainly be credited with this current idiocy on the part of the French government.
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