While I do or do not subscribe to all of the claims made in that article, I do think the scope is something to worry about. Have your constitutional rights violated?
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 29 Mar 2018 @ 7:06pm
Re: Re: Re:
Teaching them about politic in school would be good, except that it would likely end up with the teacher, or principal, or school district demanding that 'their' politics be taught. If there was a non-partisan (as apposed to bipartisan) curriculum, then it might be different. What are the chances?
On the other hand, consider dropping the voting age to say 12. The age of reason, right? There are some problems with that, many of which come from outside influence, and a 12 year old might comprehend the thought, and maybe some practice of reason, they are still heavily influence by their daily contacts, such as parents and teachers, who might try to (and succeed) at influencing such a vote. On the other hand, there is no AARP or other such organization advocating for the rights of children.
So we have a not so well spoken teenager who has taken on a cause that might benefit himself and those younger than himself, who has no right to vote, but does have the right to express himself and doesn't do it very well, and who gets blamed? The teenager. Not his teachers. Not his school. Not his school district. Not his parents. The teenager.
Who should have taught him to better express himself?
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 29 Mar 2018 @ 11:59am
Re: They may just lie.
And the secret about secrets is that if you want to keep something secret, tell no one. If you must, tell one other person, but then expect the secret to get out. The issue with leaks in general is that too many people know about the secrets and they eventually get to someone with some morals who believes that the secret should not be secret after all. Even if you use your secrets to justify a war.
1 : a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not : behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel His hypocrisy was finally revealed with the publication of his private letters.; especially : the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion
our conventional morality often serves as a cover for hypocrisy and selfishness —Lucius Garvin
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 Mar 2018 @ 8:44am
What DO they mean?
I am trying to get my head around the "...cord cutting is a fad that magically ends once Millennials procreate..." thing. Are they saying that Millennials' children will insist upon something they have never seen due to peer pressure from older children who have seen it?
Or, are they saying that once the children of Millennials grow up they will find their lives empty because they don't have access to something they have never seen, in...oh say 20 years or so? Will their shareholders let the wait 20 years? That would be 80 quarters of less profit. Hmm.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 Mar 2018 @ 8:03am
The next step is marketing
The way I see it is that this is a good start. There may be other things that need to be added to the standard, as we grow and learn and new vulnerabilities are discovered. But much more important is adoption. This comes in two parts, the first is getting consumers to know about and understand the issues created by the lack of security and privacy in IoT devices. This could become a reality by getting more mainstream press to cover the story, and that might be accomplished by exposing some of the more popular devices, and what that lack of security and privacy might mean to the average, or less than average, users.
The next step would be to show the importance of the evaluations by third party tech organizations. Consumer Reports is a good start, but since it is paywalled it should not be the only source of such information. Getting consumers to value ratings by such organizations, and getting those ratings to be freely available to consumers is very, very important. Once consumers begin to value those ratings, they will become important to the manufacturers.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 26 Mar 2018 @ 11:12am
I like it
This looks like another step in the many that it will take to kill the legacy industry. While they are at it, could the kill the whole concept of celebrity?
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 25 Mar 2018 @ 7:28am
Re: Re: that entity ... that caused the big bang
Yeah, there is that, among others. I started thinking about the big bang theory when I heard about some scientists who claimed that before the big bang there was nothing. I have a hard time with that. Creating something out of nothing sounds more like magic than science.
So, my imagination started to flow, just like the Sumerians who tried to explain lightening or day vs night or seasons. Could it be the end of the previous universe? Could it be a parallel universe? Could it be alternate dimensions, ones we haven discovered or defined yet? Was it some entity? Was it some group of entities? Could it be something else? Was this the first time? Could it be the last time? Or are we someplace in the middle of a streak, or as you put it an infinite streak of bangs. Then there is relativity, not necessarily the the sense the Einstein struggled with, but maybe. Does time run at the same speed for all universes and dimensions? Could a second of 'their' time be eons of ours?
So many questions, fortunately we have imaginations so that we can make up excuses. Now if we could only get those organized religions to stop trying to force their imaginations upon the rest of us.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 25 Mar 2018 @ 7:27am
Re: Re: that entity ... that caused the big bang
Yeah, there is that, among others. I started thinking about the big bang theory when I heard about some scientists who claimed that before the big bang there was nothing. I have a hard time with that. Creating something out of nothing sounds more like magic than science.
So, my imagination started to flow, just like the Sumerians who tried to explain lightening or day vs night or seasons. Could it be the end of the previous universe? Could it be a parallel universe? Could it be alternate dimensions, ones we haven discovered or defined yet? Was it some entity? Was it some group of entities? Could it be something else? Was this the first time? Could it be the last time? Or are we someplace in the middle of a streak, or as you put it an infinite streak of bangs. Then there is relativity, not necessarily the the sense the Einstein struggled with, but maybe. Does time run at the same speed for all universes and dimensions? Could a second of 'their' time be eons of ours?
So many questions, fortunately we have imaginations so that we can make up excuses. Now if we could only get those organized religions to stop trying to force their imaginations upon the rest of us.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 24 Mar 2018 @ 8:04pm
Re: My Favourite Clarke Quote
I hear ya!. Though raised a Catholic, my concept of god is that entity (he, she, or it) that caused the big bang. It is also my precept that if that entity actually thought that they were being worshiped, they would be doing the multi-universal equivalent of rolling on the floor laughing madly out loud.
I also believe that 'God' is an entity that is the same being as described above, but is described by various religions to meet their particular bent. The Sumerians, and probably the Mayans though of 'god' as an explanation for causing events, such as storms, lightening, sun, dark, moon, etc..
I also believe that religion, as we know it today, and probably for the last hundred or so centuries, is a method and system for enabling control over others. As in exerting control over others. To that extent it has worked pretty good. That it is right, or that they are right, or that there is only one right is another matter.
But that is just me. You are free to think whatever you want. Just don't try and foist it upon me. Or us. The idea that proselytization is a good and necessary end is just wrong. Believe what you want, but don't expect that everyone should believe as you do. Killing people because they don't believe in the fictional god you believe in is just an excuse for murder.
All gods are fictional. Don't buy that? Give some solid proof that some 'God' exists.
Wait, we are going to need something other than your beliefs. I stated my beliefs above, but I cannot prove them. The folks in the adjoining universe won't allow it. Then there are the folks in the parallel universe whom have a different point of view. And if you are not warm and fuzzy with those concepts, think about how you might be living in a conceptualized paradigm made up by some stoner hackers trying to invent another world using code we don't know exists yet. Then there are the other dimensions. Whoa...wait till ya see what they have in store for us.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 23 Mar 2018 @ 6:01pm
Comprehensive...eh?
If the software does not predict crimes that will be committed by the police and prosecutors (failing to produce Brady material for example) then it is not doing the job it purports to be doing and all those 1's and 0's should be recycled.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 23 Mar 2018 @ 4:04pm
Re: Standards
Are you suggesting that all software be open sourced and the source code readable by anyone? Some software companies would have serial conniptions should they be forced to open their proprietary business secrets to review or copying. They don't seem to find it credible that companies could compete on things other than secrets, like quality or features. Oh, and those secrets would say things to customers that they don't want to tell customers, like the pipeline of collected information back into their servers, for example.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 23 Mar 2018 @ 1:14pm
Re:
We all know how politicians are. Anything 'too big to fail' is worth saving (gotta keep those contributions rolling in). And we all know for certain that politicians are never wrong.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 23 Mar 2018 @ 10:21am
Dark Web, here we come
The demand for such sites still exists, therefore someone will supply. If it means that they just move to a place that is more difficult to find and/or regulate, so be it. The users, those that want these services as well as those that supply these services, might take a while to figure out how to set them up or get to them, but they will figure it out. Then, other than creating damage that the Internet will route around, what have they achieved?
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Re: November 19 2014
>who we believe paid Techdirt to publish this false legal analysis
Believe what you like.
Also, read up on what the legal definition of defamation is, you might be surprised, or your lawyers will be.
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Re: 10 amendment
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/opinion/increasingly-unenforceable-constitution.html
While I do or do not subscribe to all of the claims made in that article, I do think the scope is something to worry about. Have your constitutional rights violated?
Well, OK, so what?
That is not an answer I want to hear.
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Re: Re: Re: Is tough case to make because the Rights Of Persons are diffuse.
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Re: Re: Re:
On the other hand, consider dropping the voting age to say 12. The age of reason, right? There are some problems with that, many of which come from outside influence, and a 12 year old might comprehend the thought, and maybe some practice of reason, they are still heavily influence by their daily contacts, such as parents and teachers, who might try to (and succeed) at influencing such a vote. On the other hand, there is no AARP or other such organization advocating for the rights of children.
So we have a not so well spoken teenager who has taken on a cause that might benefit himself and those younger than himself, who has no right to vote, but does have the right to express himself and doesn't do it very well, and who gets blamed? The teenager. Not his teachers. Not his school. Not his school district. Not his parents. The teenager.
Who should have taught him to better express himself?
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Re: They may just lie.
On the post: Cable Companies Warn In Court That AT&T Time Warner Merger Will Be Absolutely Terrible For Competition And Consumers
Re:
On the post: Cable Companies Warn In Court That AT&T Time Warner Merger Will Be Absolutely Terrible For Competition And Consumers
[Definition of two-faced
1 : double-dealing, false
2 : having two faces](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/two-faced)
vs
[Definition of hypocrisy
plural hypocrisies
1 : a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not : behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel His hypocrisy was finally revealed with the publication of his private letters.; especially : the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion our conventional morality often serves as a cover for hypocrisy and selfishness —Lucius Garvin
2 : an act or instance of hypocrisy a keen awareness of one's parents' hypocrisies](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypocrisy)
And the difference is?
(and markdown isn't working in preview?)
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Monopolies are...
Two faced anti-competition snobbery from addicted monopolists.
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Re:
Oracle!
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What DO they mean?
Or, are they saying that once the children of Millennials grow up they will find their lives empty because they don't have access to something they have never seen, in...oh say 20 years or so? Will their shareholders let the wait 20 years? That would be 80 quarters of less profit. Hmm.
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Re:
Intelligent Lawmaker: If you don't know what is on the devices, how can you know that some law was broken?
FBI: Why else would they use them?
Intelligent Lawmaker: Well, you use them.
FBI: Well, that's why we call our employees 'special' agents.
On the post: New Open Source Standard Hopes To Cure The Internet Of Broken Things Of Some Awful Security Practices
The next step is marketing
The next step would be to show the importance of the evaluations by third party tech organizations. Consumer Reports is a good start, but since it is paywalled it should not be the only source of such information. Getting consumers to value ratings by such organizations, and getting those ratings to be freely available to consumers is very, very important. Once consumers begin to value those ratings, they will become important to the manufacturers.
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I like it
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Re: Re: that entity ... that caused the big bang
So, my imagination started to flow, just like the Sumerians who tried to explain lightening or day vs night or seasons. Could it be the end of the previous universe? Could it be a parallel universe? Could it be alternate dimensions, ones we haven discovered or defined yet? Was it some entity? Was it some group of entities? Could it be something else? Was this the first time? Could it be the last time? Or are we someplace in the middle of a streak, or as you put it an infinite streak of bangs. Then there is relativity, not necessarily the the sense the Einstein struggled with, but maybe. Does time run at the same speed for all universes and dimensions? Could a second of 'their' time be eons of ours?
So many questions, fortunately we have imaginations so that we can make up excuses. Now if we could only get those organized religions to stop trying to force their imaginations upon the rest of us.
On the post: This Week In Techdirt History: March 18th - 24th
Re: Re: that entity ... that caused the big bang
So, my imagination started to flow, just like the Sumerians who tried to explain lightening or day vs night or seasons. Could it be the end of the previous universe? Could it be a parallel universe? Could it be alternate dimensions, ones we haven discovered or defined yet? Was it some entity? Was it some group of entities? Could it be something else? Was this the first time? Could it be the last time? Or are we someplace in the middle of a streak, or as you put it an infinite streak of bangs. Then there is relativity, not necessarily the the sense the Einstein struggled with, but maybe. Does time run at the same speed for all universes and dimensions? Could a second of 'their' time be eons of ours?
So many questions, fortunately we have imaginations so that we can make up excuses. Now if we could only get those organized religions to stop trying to force their imaginations upon the rest of us.
On the post: This Week In Techdirt History: March 18th - 24th
Re: My Favourite Clarke Quote
I also believe that 'God' is an entity that is the same being as described above, but is described by various religions to meet their particular bent. The Sumerians, and probably the Mayans though of 'god' as an explanation for causing events, such as storms, lightening, sun, dark, moon, etc..
I also believe that religion, as we know it today, and probably for the last hundred or so centuries, is a method and system for enabling control over others. As in exerting control over others. To that extent it has worked pretty good. That it is right, or that they are right, or that there is only one right is another matter.
But that is just me. You are free to think whatever you want. Just don't try and foist it upon me. Or us. The idea that proselytization is a good and necessary end is just wrong. Believe what you want, but don't expect that everyone should believe as you do. Killing people because they don't believe in the fictional god you believe in is just an excuse for murder.
All gods are fictional. Don't buy that? Give some solid proof that some 'God' exists.
Wait, we are going to need something other than your beliefs. I stated my beliefs above, but I cannot prove them. The folks in the adjoining universe won't allow it. Then there are the folks in the parallel universe whom have a different point of view. And if you are not warm and fuzzy with those concepts, think about how you might be living in a conceptualized paradigm made up by some stoner hackers trying to invent another world using code we don't know exists yet. Then there are the other dimensions. Whoa...wait till ya see what they have in store for us.
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Comprehensive...eh?
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Re: Standards
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Re:
only partially /s
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Dark Web, here we come
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