It is not a sign of weakness to act in a reserved manner not to trigger a violent reaction from someone who is armed, is presumed to be more trustworthy than video evidence that you see with your own eyes.
It is not a sign of strength to make rude gestures and try to assert yourself or your rights, when no such display or assertion is necessary.
If this software can detect who will commit crimes before they do, then why can't they also build an application which will detect intent to commit copyright infringement?
While they are at it, I understand there is also a need to have encryption systems that are secure but simultaneously insecure via a back door.
When Net Neutrality was repealed, the internet did not implode . . . on that day.
When Flint's water supply suddenly had lead contamination, there weren't any health problems . . . on that day.
So it's just fine to repeal net neutrality without regard to the bad consequences, just as it is to change the water supply without regard to any bad consequences.
The mere vulnerability is all that is needed. In practice, it won't be necessary to tamper with evidence. All you need is to create doubt about whether the police beating then killing a handcuffed suspect can be believed. As covered previously on TD, some courts already believe police testimony above what video evidence clearly shows.
Isn't it obvious why he lied to congress? Is congress too stupid not to already know why? (Nevermind. Don't answer that.)
The reason is clear: Ajit lied because his goal in life was to remove the dreaded and despised Network Neutrality that prevents big ISPs from screwing their customers even worse than they already have. Network Neutrality prevents new innovations such as how to create slow lanes while saying you're creating fast lanes. With Network Neutrality big ISPs are prevented from introducing innovations such as charging higher prices for lower bandwidth to put the US into the most poorly served internet countries on the planet. Or innovations such as injecting ads into your browsing. Or innovations such as throttling your content based on where it goes to or comes from. ISPs are crying their eyes out that big bad net neutrality prevents them from deploying these innovations.
Ajit and bit ISPs were popping champaign corks when net neutrality was removed. So it must be good for us.
There should be a statutory penalty for a defective DMCA notice equal to the statutory penalty for copyright infringement.
It should not matter if the DMCA notice is generated by a bot or a human. If it is defective it should have the same penalty. What was it? $150,000 per instance I believe?
These notices are supposed to be under penalty of perjury because of their super powers.
Examples of defects would be that the notice is not sent by the copyright owner or registered agent. Or it does not state an actual copyright claim including what was infringed, who owns, it, where the infringement actually exists, etc. Or the notice is sent to the wrong party, for example, to a DNS provider rather than the server hosting the infringing material. Or the notice is way overly broad, such as wanting to take down facebook.com (although that could be argued to be a good thing).
Put the shoe on the other foot.
I understand that the goose and the gander have compatible ports, or something like that, without the need of an adapter cable or dongle.
Parallel Construction is a euphemism for a conspiracy between law enforcement and prosecution to lie to the court and perjure themselves, while withholding from the defense the actual evidence discovered and the way that the investigation actually progressed.
How about this. Search a house for drugs because a car parked in the driveway, and at some earlier time a suspected drug dealer had once been in that car.
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Re: Re:
It is not a sign of strength to make rude gestures and try to assert yourself or your rights, when no such display or assertion is necessary.
On the post: Court Says Cop Gets No Immunity For Pulling A Man Over For Flipping Him Off
Felony disrespecting of a police officer
Interfering with a police officer upholding their unconstitutional duty.
On the post: Flordia AG Somehow Pivots To The Danger Of Video Games After The Latest Florida Shooting
Video Games can scar people for life
On the post: Indian Police Adding Pre-Crime Software To Their Long List Of Snooping Tools
This is a huge technologial advance
While they are at it, I understand there is also a need to have encryption systems that are secure but simultaneously insecure via a back door.
What genius software will they create next?
On the post: American Muslim Challenges Warrantless Border Device Search From An Unexpected Legal Angle
Why search phones?
Possibly some (stupid) drug dealers.
Anybody smart with nefarious plans wouldn't have anything incriminating in their phone, or any online account associated with themself or their phone.
This is only going to harass innocent people. Catch a few stupid people for unimportant crimes. They would probably would have gotten caught anyway.
On the post: Recognizing It Had No Chance, Cox Settles BMG Copyright Trolling Case
So what does this mean?
The PDF of the actual settlement doesn't say anything other than that no money is awarded to either party.
So how are Cox internet customers affected? (I am not one of them.)
Is it unknown?
On the post: Just Because The Internet Didn't Implode The Day After Repeal Doesn't Mean Killing Net Neutrality Was A Good Idea
Repealing of Net Neutrality is good as . . .
When Flint's water supply suddenly had lead contamination, there weren't any health problems . . . on that day.
So it's just fine to repeal net neutrality without regard to the bad consequences, just as it is to change the water supply without regard to any bad consequences.
On the post: Researcher Says Police Body Cameras Are An Insecure Mess
It is not necessary to tamper with evidence
On the post: No Immunity For ICE Attorney Who Submitted A Forged Document In A Deportation Hearing
Policies and directives
That might be true. It is ICE we're talking about.
Even if an act of forgery truly follows policies and directives, it should not shield one from consequences. "I was only following orders."
On the post: Head Of Department Of Justice Bashes Justice System Because It Blocks Too Many Of Trump's Orders
It should be a GOOD thing
On the post: Court Tells Government It Can't Search A House Just Because A Suspected Drug Dealer Once Parked In Its Driveway
Re: Re: Re: More laundering
The prosecution and law enforcement conspiring. Or you could use a capitalistic euphemism and call it a joint venture.
On the post: On Thursday, Ajit Pai Has To Explain Why His FCC Made Up A DDOS Attack And Lied To Congress
He has to explain why?
The reason is clear: Ajit lied because his goal in life was to remove the dreaded and despised Network Neutrality that prevents big ISPs from screwing their customers even worse than they already have. Network Neutrality prevents new innovations such as how to create slow lanes while saying you're creating fast lanes. With Network Neutrality big ISPs are prevented from introducing innovations such as charging higher prices for lower bandwidth to put the US into the most poorly served internet countries on the planet. Or innovations such as injecting ads into your browsing. Or innovations such as throttling your content based on where it goes to or comes from. ISPs are crying their eyes out that big bad net neutrality prevents them from deploying these innovations.
Ajit and bit ISPs were popping champaign corks when net neutrality was removed. So it must be good for us.
On the post: Automated 'Content Protection' System Sends Wave Of Bogus DMCA Notice Targeting Legitimate URLs
Some are more equal than others
It should not matter if the DMCA notice is generated by a bot or a human. If it is defective it should have the same penalty. What was it? $150,000 per instance I believe?
These notices are supposed to be under penalty of perjury because of their super powers.
Examples of defects would be that the notice is not sent by the copyright owner or registered agent. Or it does not state an actual copyright claim including what was infringed, who owns, it, where the infringement actually exists, etc. Or the notice is sent to the wrong party, for example, to a DNS provider rather than the server hosting the infringing material. Or the notice is way overly broad, such as wanting to take down facebook.com (although that could be argued to be a good thing).
Put the shoe on the other foot.
I understand that the goose and the gander have compatible ports, or something like that, without the need of an adapter cable or dongle.
On the post: Court Tells Government It Can't Search A House Just Because A Suspected Drug Dealer Once Parked In Its Driveway
Re: More laundering
On the post: Court Tells Government It Can't Search A House Just Because A Suspected Drug Dealer Once Parked In Its Driveway
An even better one
On the post: Broward County School Board Gets Hit With Anti-SLAPP Suit After Trying To Punish Paper For Exposing Its Redaction Failure
There is a lesson to be learned here
If anything can be learned from this redaction failure it is that software makers need to be more careful in the design of their user interface.
A software feature that allows you to draw black bars over text while leaving the text intact should be clearly labeled as Redaction Tool.
That will enable the world to more fully benefit from redacted documents.
On the post: Third Comcast Website Flaw Exposes User Data In As Many Months
It's not a bug
On the post: Sensing Blood In The Water, All Major Labels Sue Cox For 'Ignoring' Their DMCA Notices
A Letter from 2020
I found this about two decades ago, 9/18,2000 on Slashdot. I did not write it. It seems to have disappeared from the intarweb tubes.
Here it is as a previous TechDirt post:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140917/06061528548/only-surviving-recording-very-first-supe rbowl-is-because-fan-recorded-it-you-cant-see-it-because-copyright.shtml#c545
On the post: Court Awards $12,500 For 'Emotional Harm' From Bogus Copyright Lawsuit
Here's hoping
On the post: Congress Members Want Answers After Amazon's Facial Recognition Software Says 28 Of Them Are Criminals
It's the training data
If you're training the system on mugshots, then what is it learning to recognize? Criminal types.
So then everyone acts all surprised when it recognizes congress critters.
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