"claiming that recent declassifications by the federal government mean this is now acceptable"
Which pretty much refutes the concept that the information would have caused harm. It was simply that they didn't want to release it - which isn't a legal reason for it to be classified.
And, oh yeah, the Cable industry is right now fighting to get the CableCard requirements (they don't offer them out of the goodness of their hearts) removed.
if the CEO says it's a 'good thing' is that tacit approval? It isn't illegal anymore since the copyright owner is approving of the 'out of band' distribution of GoT?
Given their inability to accurately describe what is infringing in DMCA notices, why would you possibly think they could produce an accurate 'master list'?
Worse the 'master list' would need to somehow handle 15 people having permission to post something and nobody else having permission. What if I change my domain name? How does it now become 'approved' when it no longer matches the 'master list'?
When they bald face call Boston a crime of Weapons of Mass Destruction and just say 'because its different', it's going to be a long long time before things get fixed.
So how do I have completely anonymous phone and email meta-data. Because I CAN send an envelope without any return address on it. Drop it in a random P.O Box and you simply don't have any way to tie it to me without opening it.
Doesn't work for electronic communications unless you're saying we're allowed to encrypt everything...which apparently allows the NSA to store your data indefinitely.
Oh and caller-id spoofing is technically illegal isn't it? According to the blank envelope concept though, it should be completely legal, no?
Even without Hoover and the NSA, our current political environment pretty much guarantees that 'sane' and 'normal' people will choose not to run for public office.
We're left with people either so obsessed with being 'clean' they aren't 'normal' or so into controlling everything to keep their secrets they might as well be psychopaths.
Neither is a good fit for public office unfortunately and we're showing it.
No kidding, if there was a 'looks like a pedophile' category, Ken Cuccinelli would have that nailed. Just creepy.
How he didn't line up a week in advance for this I have no idea - except of course, he's running for Governor and perhaps is playing, gasp, politics with when he speaks his true values :)
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Re: Prediction: Entirely redacted
Which pretty much refutes the concept that the information would have caused harm. It was simply that they didn't want to release it - which isn't a legal reason for it to be classified.
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Patriots?
You mean the ones in prison because of following the legal routes about reporting such things?
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Re: Fox
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And, oh yeah, the Cable industry is right now fighting to get the CableCard requirements (they don't offer them out of the goodness of their hearts) removed.
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Re: Of course we have domestic spying! Called Google and Facebook.
On the post: Time Warner CEO Says Having Game Of Thrones As 'Most Pirated' Is 'Better Than An Emmy'
Re: Re: Re: NOT IN CONTROVERSY WHILE MONEY IS ROLLING IN!
So yes they had no clue about what customers wanted, because since they were the only game in town, they literally didn't care.
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so...
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won't work
Worse the 'master list' would need to somehow handle 15 people having permission to post something and nobody else having permission. What if I change my domain name? How does it now become 'approved' when it no longer matches the 'master list'?
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Re: It's all national security.
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That his way was easier and more efficient (and unfortunately illegal) highlights the backward thinking of the 'others' in question.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Heh, heh. I admit this is innovative!
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If said copyright ownership gets transferred you don't get to redefine the, already posted content, as being 'illegally' posted.
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Re: Re: Re: AGAIN without The Google.
On the post: Latest Leak Shows NSA Can Collect Nearly Any Internet Activity Worldwide Without Prior Authorization
Lying with facts
The truth is that the wiretaps have *already* happened at that point. Snowden is inarticulately saying he could search the results of those wiretaps.
It's telling that even Snowden appears to have fallen unknowingly for the line that it's not a 'tap' until its searched.
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Ok, envelopes it is
Doesn't work for electronic communications unless you're saying we're allowed to encrypt everything...which apparently allows the NSA to store your data indefinitely.
Oh and caller-id spoofing is technically illegal isn't it? According to the blank envelope concept though, it should be completely legal, no?
On the post: The Bizarre Flip-Floppers: 13 Reps Who Voted To Stop Patriot Act Spying 2 Years Ago, But Voted To Continue It Yesterday
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We're left with people either so obsessed with being 'clean' they aren't 'normal' or so into controlling everything to keep their secrets they might as well be psychopaths.
Neither is a good fit for public office unfortunately and we're showing it.
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Well, the state from which they were elected anyway ;-)
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or
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
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Re: Virginia (of all places) also didn't sign on
How he didn't line up a week in advance for this I have no idea - except of course, he's running for Governor and perhaps is playing, gasp, politics with when he speaks his true values :)
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