I bet that even if I were to white list the sites in question that ads still won't show due to my script blocker preventing the running of scrips from other domains. Until these sites are held liable in court or via legislation for harm from 3rd party scripts launched from their sites, no way.
Wonder if anyone has bothered to contact the NYPD IT dept? I bet they have full backups going back years. If they don't, they either need to produce signed dated orders stating that IT is NOT to make backups or they need to be fired for gross incompetence.
At least I can check off the "Learn something today" box. I learned what 'vexatious' means. And to think I was reading this because my computer game was being very vexatious. Irony.
I wonder if the UK Home Secretary realizes the irony of her position on metadata?
Federal hypocrisy at its worst. My state, OK, is one of the ones that refuses to fully comply with the RealID act. So even though I am a natural born US citizen, I may lose the ability to travel via any means where the govt has placed TSA troops. Meanwhile, in states that both comply with RealID and allow illegal invaders to obtain driver's licenses, said illegal invaders will be allowed to travel.
One positive. I won't have to worry about serving on Federal juries. If they won't let me in the Federal Courthouse because my OK driver's license doesn't meet their magic standards, I can't serve.
Started using Yahoo mail last century. Been using Adblock, Noscript and other privacy extensions for years. My Yahoo screen is clean. Keep using it because of the large number of accounts that have it as a contact email. Be a real PITA to switch them all to something else.
As of this morning, my Yahoo mail still working fine. Of course, if their check for Adblockers involves a script, the script blocker will eat it before it can do its damage.
The DA is likely showing restraint because of the high probability that children of judges, law enforcement and local and state officials are involved. Trying to justify charging middle class kid #2 and not the mayor's kid would be kinda hard, given the large number of accused.
The irony here is the 1st amendment was designed to protect anti-government and anti-establishment speech.
And it shouldn't matter why someone gets beat up. The punishment should be the same. The victim is just as beat up regardless of if the criminal didn't like the color of a victim's hat or victim's skin.
Nothing wrong with having an AOL or yahoo type email account for your Personal, non-secure crap. His mistake was using it IN ANY FASHION for work related info. The whole point of most web-mail based systems is to allow the provider to data mine all of the user's emails for information.
Sending that spreadsheet full of PII should result in the CIA having to send out data breach notifications and the resulting liability for possible identity theft. Plus a review of that person's suitability for his job. Didn't he hear about that small ruckus over Hillary's email server? What kind of intelligence gathering ability does the CIA have anyway? This failure to connect the dots doesn't fill me with great confidence.
I disagree with part of the EFF position. Expecting sites like Facebook and Twitter to have effective privacy controls is silly. Anyone uploading anything to any of these 'public view' sites should expect all aspects of the thing in question to become fully public, regardless of any so called privacy settings on the file or its meta data. Its a rare week where we don't read about some kind of privacy breach on some site.
The DOJ had best be careful about setting precedents like this. If they lose the Kim Dotcom case and he uses a similar formula for calculating what the government has cost him, could be a sovereign bankruptcy generating event.
Even if all of the 26 mass murderers(mentioned here http://www.nationalreview.com/article/335739/facts-about-mass-shootings-john-fund) in the last decade were driven to commit their crimes by the horrors of violent video games, TV shows and movies, that means that approximately 300,000,000 people living in the US were NOT driven to commit mass murder because of watching or participating in violent media.
The real horror is how quickly people on all sides of these debates start spewing out the same old tired well chewed crap each time one of these things happens.
In Oklahoma, the Republican Party mantra is Local control. Don't see why that shouldn't apply to letting cities compete with established ISPs, as long at it is approved via the ballot box. Blocking cities from doing this would violate one of the basic tenants of the party platform. Don't know if Oklahoma allows local entities to setup ISPs but if they have blocked it, wouldn't be the first time party mantra lost to corporate bucks.
Hope this starts a constructive dialog. As a test, I told Noscript to allow techdirt.com scripts and Adblock to allow Techdirt.com ads. Result, Zero displayed ads, 10 scripts from other domains blocked by Noscript, 14 trackers blocked by Ghostery, 3 trackers blocked by Privacy Badger.
My question is: Do ANY of the ads you want us to view actually originate from Techdirt.com? This IS the big security and liability issue with today's Internet Ad market.
The editor of a print paper knows before the paper is printed what the content of the paper is, include all of the adds. Even the inserts are reviewed before the paper is delivered. The paper also has legal responsibility and liability for the content of the paper.
Unfortunately, this is not how most websites handle ads. Ads are mostly served by 2nd, 3rd, 4th level removed parties and the prime website often has TOS that try to remove any liability if one of these often unknown parties serves up an inappropriate ad or worse, malware.
When the main website, in this case, Techdirt.com has to accept full responsibility, including financial, for the actions of its advertisers and any harm they may cause to website visitors, then the ad situation will likely resolve itself.
This blunder by the Terminal Stupidity Agency is good news for bad guys. If something forbidden is found in a bad guy's piece of luggage, they can now raise reasonable doubt that the item in question was really theirs, since anybody can now have copies of the TSA master keys and could have opened the luggage and left the item and not leave a trace.
If some aspect of government can take control of a self driving car, that government must also take the responsibility for the outcome, good or bad.
If the scenario where the traffic directing cop halts the speeding car, the cop must also assume the responsibility for the outcome. What if the car was carrying a panicked parent and his small child who managed to mostly cut off his leg with a circular saw and is now rapidly bleeding to death? The parent was letting the car drive to the nearby hospital rather then waiting for EMTs to show up. The smartphone usage was the parent calling the hospital so they could be prepping for the incoming emergency. If the delay caused by the cop causes the small child to die, the cop should own the death and any criminal or civil penalties.
It is worse. A large number of burglaries are simply kick the door and loot the house. So anyone who has a functional set of legs, feet and hands is in possession of burglary tools.
Have the parents banned all wireless gizmos from their own house? If not, why not? If so, does the kid's condition improve when he is at home?
Have they ruled out mom's new perfume? Or that new laundry detergent? Or those new snacks? Or the school's new pest control contractor's bug spray? The kid is 13. Puberty changes a lot of sensitivities. Cafeteria fumes that didn't bother the kid last year could be a big issue this year. Is it possible that EMF bothers the kid? Sure. But it is more likely the real cause is far more common.
If the parents are really worried about the kid, they should have already transferred the kid to a new school. Forcing the kid to continue to attend a place the parents believe to be dangerous should be child endangerment and charges brought against the parents.
The REALLY interesting legal gymnastics will come if they catch the person(s) responsible for the breach. Sony lawyers then will be arguing about the horrible and costly harm the breach caused, after previously arguing that no harm was done, after previously stating how much harm was done.
Wonder if Sony filed a damage figure in their yearly SEC stock filings?
Two cops telling the reporters to destroy evidence is Obstruction of Justice and Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice. Threatening the reporters with loss of property if they don't agree to destroy the evidence is Blackmail while in the act of other felonies(the OoJ and CtOJ).
If Virginia has a three strikes law, these two cops may have just struck out. Of course, there has to be an umpire willing to make the call.
On the post: GQ And Forbes Go After Ad Blocker Users Rather Than Their Own Shitty Advertising Inventory
I bet that even if I were to white list the sites in question that ads still won't show due to my script blocker preventing the running of scrips from other domains. Until these sites are held liable in court or via legislation for harm from 3rd party scripts launched from their sites, no way.
On the post: Former NYPD Boss Ray Kelly's Emails 'Inadvertently' Wiped Despite Court Order To Preserve Them
On the post: UK Home Secretary Wants Everyone's Metadata; But If You Ask For Hers, Gov't Says You're Being Vexatious
I wonder if the UK Home Secretary realizes the irony of her position on metadata?
On the post: Who Needs A No-Fly List When You Can Just Ground 91 Million Citizens?
One positive. I won't have to worry about serving on Federal juries. If they won't let me in the Federal Courthouse because my OK driver's license doesn't meet their magic standards, I can't serve.
On the post: Clinging To Relevance, Yahoo Prevents Ad Block Users From Checking Yahoo Mail
As of this morning, my Yahoo mail still working fine. Of course, if their check for Adblockers involves a script, the script blocker will eat it before it can do its damage.
On the post: 'Hundreds' Of Teens Found Sexting At A Single School And Everyone Seems Unsure Of How To Proceed
On the post: 'Hate Speech' Laws Are Just Another Way For Governments To Punish People They Don't Like
And it shouldn't matter why someone gets beat up. The punishment should be the same. The victim is just as beat up regardless of if the criminal didn't like the color of a victim's hat or victim's skin.
On the post: CIA Director's Personal Email Account Breached By Hackers... Who Find Official Documents Stored In It
Re: He failed question #1...
Sending that spreadsheet full of PII should result in the CIA having to send out data breach notifications and the resulting liability for possible identity theft. Plus a review of that person's suitability for his job. Didn't he hear about that small ruckus over Hillary's email server? What kind of intelligence gathering ability does the CIA have anyway? This failure to connect the dots doesn't fill me with great confidence.
On the post: Making The Case Against Adding DRM To JPEG Images
On the post: How The Tribune Company And The DOJ Turned A 40 Minute Web Defacement Into $1 Million In 'Damages'
On the post: Bobby Jindal Announces Violent Games/Movies To Blame For All Those Mass Shootings
The real horror is how quickly people on all sides of these debates start spewing out the same old tired well chewed crap each time one of these things happens.
On the post: Tennessee Voraciously Defends Its Right To Let AT&T Write Awful State Broadband Laws
On the post: You Can Now Turn Off Ads On Techdirt
My question is: Do ANY of the ads you want us to view actually originate from Techdirt.com? This IS the big security and liability issue with today's Internet Ad market.
The editor of a print paper knows before the paper is printed what the content of the paper is, include all of the adds. Even the inserts are reviewed before the paper is delivered. The paper also has legal responsibility and liability for the content of the paper.
Unfortunately, this is not how most websites handle ads. Ads are mostly served by 2nd, 3rd, 4th level removed parties and the prime website often has TOS that try to remove any liability if one of these often unknown parties serves up an inappropriate ad or worse, malware.
When the main website, in this case, Techdirt.com has to accept full responsibility, including financial, for the actions of its advertisers and any harm they may cause to website visitors, then the ad situation will likely resolve itself.
On the post: Why Backdoors Always Suck: The TSA Travel Locks Were Hacked And The TSA Doesn't Care
On the post: Should Police Have The Right To Take Control Of Self-Driving Cars?
If the scenario where the traffic directing cop halts the speeding car, the cop must also assume the responsibility for the outcome. What if the car was carrying a panicked parent and his small child who managed to mostly cut off his leg with a circular saw and is now rapidly bleeding to death? The parent was letting the car drive to the nearby hospital rather then waiting for EMTs to show up. The smartphone usage was the parent calling the hospital so they could be prepping for the incoming emergency. If the delay caused by the cop causes the small child to die, the cop should own the death and any criminal or civil penalties.
On the post: Nestle Sues Fit Crunch Over Identical Trade Dress That Isn't Remotely Identical
On the post: Movie Studio & Copyright Troll Claim 'Mere Possession' Of Popcorn Time Is Illegal And Could Result In A Year In Jail
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On the post: Parents Sue School, Claim Wi-Fi Made Son Sick
Have they ruled out mom's new perfume? Or that new laundry detergent? Or those new snacks? Or the school's new pest control contractor's bug spray? The kid is 13. Puberty changes a lot of sensitivities. Cafeteria fumes that didn't bother the kid last year could be a big issue this year. Is it possible that EMF bothers the kid? Sure. But it is more likely the real cause is far more common.
If the parents are really worried about the kid, they should have already transferred the kid to a new school. Forcing the kid to continue to attend a place the parents believe to be dangerous should be child endangerment and charges brought against the parents.
On the post: Sony Pictures, Which Hyped Up 'Harm' Of Hack, Now Tells Court No Harm Done To Employees
Wonder if Sony filed a damage figure in their yearly SEC stock filings?
On the post: Virginia Police Force BBC Reporters To Delete Camera Footage Of Police Pursuit Of Shooter
If Virginia has a three strikes law, these two cops may have just struck out. Of course, there has to be an umpire willing to make the call.
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