Way to go Comcast, train your customers that weird pop up messages are ok and can be safely ignored. Ignore the established methods of email, text messages and phone calls.
The average person will have no way to tell the difference between malware popups from Comcast and malware popups from others. How long until the bad guys start formatting popups that resemble the Comcast popups?
Hillary is a lawyer and seems to lack the basic understanding of standing. How can her campaign have any valid basis to complain about Trump's use of video of Michelle Obama? Now Michelle might have standing to file a complaint about Trump's use of videos of her but not Hillary. And even then, videos of campaign commentary would seem to be fair game for fair use in other campaign commentary.
Scary betting opportunity, how soon after Nov 8 someone makes a public announcement that they are forming a 2020 campaign committee?
Years ago, politicians strong armed ISPs to shutdown their USENET newsgroup servers since several of the newsgroups catered to the child porn crowd. Once most of the ISPs complied, law enforcement then announced they were having a much harder time tracking child porn distributors since they moved to a more point to point login account required system.
As a resident of one of the states participating in the legal action, my main disappointment is them waiting until the last minute to start worrying about it. This handover has been well published, has been in the planning for years, has been well studied, and the period for rational objection well past. The reason most legal processes have a 'must file objections by date X' clause is so things can get done, for better or worse.
The judge should toss the lawsuit on the basis of them having waited too long to file for the injunction.
2nd the refer to Bar for action. The lawyer in question was prepared to represent to his client and the court that the copied work was his own, 1 count plagiarism, and further, probably billing the client for the time it would have taken to create the brief from scratch, 1 count fraud.
In addition, there is the likely damage to Newegg and their law firm when their original brief was filed second and appeared to be the copy.
Econ 101, higher prices = lower demand. For years the cable companies made the argument, often true, that the higher prices also brought more channels. And for a while, folks bought in. But with most folks watching around 20 channels, the more = better = justifies higher prices isn't working anymore. Plus they keep fracturing existing channels into two or more and make sure one of the parts winds up only in the top premium tier.
If the business in question has the original paperwork for the install and it shows their proper business address and an approved work order for a residential install, don't see how DirectTV is going to make their case. DirectTV probably hopes that that most businesses will pay up and not fight. Which kinda supports the RICO claim. (Pay us our protection money or the TV service gets it)
I think they should also argue that the right to own stuff, modify it, and fix it is a long time traditional common law right and is further protected by the ninth amendment.
At the very least, the fake active shooter call on the U of Arizona should qualify as domestic terrorism since there were probably a lot of folks on and around that campus that were terrorized.
Seems like the judge implemented a variation of the 'Hillary Defense', in that he apparently thinks that Islam didn't really mean to hurt anyone, regardless of how reckless his actions.
Hopefully, Arizona will bring charges for violations of state laws or at least a civil tort for recovery of the costs for the various Swat calls.
Remember, for many "News" websites, the real customers are not the site visitors, they are the advertising companies that buy the data harvested by the websites spying on the visitors. Once site editors start viewing visitors as nothing more then sources of profitable data, it becomes easy to justify treating them like crap.
My $40 programmable thermostat doesn't spy on me, doesn't report back to some insecure cloud storage, and isn't subject to remote bricking by some 3rd party company after acquiring the mfg. Nest products have none of these desirable features and cost much more.
Why is Criminal A killing/raping/vandalizing Victim B somehow worse if Criminal A has different skin color, religious beliefs or sexual preferences then Victim B? Victim B is just as dead or traumatized. If the sentence for the basic crime isn't harsh enough, change that rather then creating a special class of crime based on Criminal A being different somehow then Victim B. Hate crime charges by definition are discriminatory.
The real hissy fit will start when ALL websites and web service providers have to have simple to understand privacy policies and easy opt out options. The rabid screeching will commence once they are held financially liable for breaches and scripts gone wild.
Given the number of Police blotter entries that include the phrase "Alcohol use suspected", maybe the next bill should require a background check for past DWI charges and a waiting period before all alcohol purchases.
When someone's smart entertainment system gets hacked and used to determine when the parents are gone and the kids are home alone, and said kids are taken and never seen again, folks may wake up to some of the risks.
A real newspaper is responsible, in part, for the entirety of the content that lands on subscriber's porches, including advertising in the paper proper and inserts, at least as far as meeting community standards.
Time for websites to be held to similar standards. Deliver malware, stand by for lawsuits. No exemptions for disclaimers in TOS or EULA.
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The average person will have no way to tell the difference between malware popups from Comcast and malware popups from others. How long until the bad guys start formatting popups that resemble the Comcast popups?
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Scary betting opportunity, how soon after Nov 8 someone makes a public announcement that they are forming a 2020 campaign committee?
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The judge should toss the lawsuit on the basis of them having waited too long to file for the injunction.
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In addition, there is the likely damage to Newegg and their law firm when their original brief was filed second and appeared to be the copy.
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Seems like the judge implemented a variation of the 'Hillary Defense', in that he apparently thinks that Islam didn't really mean to hurt anyone, regardless of how reckless his actions.
Hopefully, Arizona will bring charges for violations of state laws or at least a civil tort for recovery of the costs for the various Swat calls.
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Time for websites to be held to similar standards. Deliver malware, stand by for lawsuits. No exemptions for disclaimers in TOS or EULA.
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