*"Police and first responders deserve similar protections."
They have protections in place currently that are not being followed, what will these new protections do for them?*
It gives Prosecutors more leverage to force a plea agreement.
They heap on every charge that they can think of to create a possible sentence of a few gajillion years. This would be just one more - with the added threat of Federal time.
"Special" assault laws and "sentence enhancements" on cops, firefighters, EMT's and such were intended only in the case of during the performance on their duties.
Public Safety measures. You don't want the local rockheads throwing bricks or shooting at the people trying to keep the neighborhood from burning down.
They were never intended (yeah, yeah, I know - lobbyists) to give special protections to such people when they were OFF duty.
As to "journalists"... we DO need a legal definition of such if we are going to pass laws or give special considerations to journalists.
I had a Press Pass in the eighties (photographer) issued by the County police department. Had to show a couple of pay stubs from a news agency, get my picture taken, and wait two weeks for it to show up in the mail. Some pittance fees needed to be paid as well.
Frankly, it now seems that anyone with a cell phone can declare themselves a "journalist" and demand special protections - like not naming a source, being permitted to cross the tape, etc.
..."an integrated guide for accessing their favorite apps and connected home devices,"
So, actually, if you give them $5/month* (aka $15/month) you also give them access to all your router-connected devices, so they can scrape them for data to sell.
I'll admit I'm surprised by this one. Mainly in that it got so far.
Surely "abusive" hand gestures fall under the same strictures as "verbal assault", otherwise the law would be discriminatory against mutes. Sorry, the "vocally challenged".
Or not using a turn signal when pulling away from the curb after the first stop, and that favorite traffic cop catch-all from the sixties, "Unsafe Driving Practices" - driving barefoot, only one hand on the wheel (obviously...), etc.
While the courts (and likely the law, without need for "interpretation") agree with the defendant, I have a hard time feeling any sympathy for a person so bloody stupid they give a cop a hard time on a traffic stop.
I've avoided quite a few tickets over the years simply by being... polite to the officer(s) who pulled me over. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out that if you piss them off they're going to hit you with every ticket they can.
Not what I meant by "market", and yes, it's overbroad if you want to include things like Business Licenses, local Code requirements, etc.
When a local market attempts to extort from you, you cease doing business with them. You won't lose sales if you have an in-demand product, as the people living in the area you aren't selling in will travel to where you are selling.
Cut off Google and Facebook to any EU country for a month and see if there there's a raw-count usage drop. It'll be minimal, as the people who live on facebook figure out how to access it from other countries or install a VPN.
...Do this type of "training" and you teach them to fear, nothing else. OTOH, teach them to fight back and you've just created yet more corpses, because they won't do it correctly when faced with a real situation.
And they'd never teach what actually works - rat-packing. It lessens the "authority" of those in charge.
Last book I read on-screen was a Terry Pratchett novel. Because books have release windows too - it came out in the UK two years before it was slated for US release.
When it finally came out in the US, I bought a copy - mainly because it was such a PITA reading it on-screen that I couldn't enjoy it.
"Airport Books" is a genre in itself - based on how flashy the publisher can make the cover to catch the eye.
Most of the hard copy books I still own are old reference and text books. If you stumble across a Physics or Chem text from the fifties, give it a read. Even if you don't have much background in either field, you'll spot a LOT of things that have been proven WRONG since the book was published.
And you're not likely to find "pirate" editions of such.
There were thousands of "ebooks" available before household internet. Most BBS sites had a few, just about all of them had "1500_SF_books.zip" or the like.
It was a tremendous PITA to read them on even SVGA monitors.
It was much more genre-specific back then as well - almost entirely SF&F, no bored housewife wanted to sit in front of a computer all day reading the latest "romance" novel.
Then along came the Kindle. Which spurred many new formats for eBooks. So that now I read them on an old 7" tablet. Almost exclusively - why buy a hard copy to fill up shelves? My "old" library was about 2,000 hardcovers and three times that many paperbacks. Ate an entire room. My "library" is roughly fifty times that size now and fits on a drive smaller than a deck of cards.
Don't forget "orphaned" works, out of print forever, hard copy can't be found.
I've got several in my library, EE Doc Smith, Fritz Leiber, Ray Gallun, etc. that have on the title page "Scanned from a ratty old paperback I found at the bottom of a box from a garage sale" that I'd never even heard of - some of the Leiber is Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser novels from the forties and fifties that have never been reprinted.
Of course, when something drags those stories back into the light, Smith and Leiber don't get a cent, what with being dead and all...
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Is...
...France geoblocked by google and facebook yet?
On the post: Stupid Law Making Assaulting Journalists A Federal Crime Revived By Congress
Re: Re: So..
Good point.
AFAIK, the current practice regarding paparazzi is the particular state's Stalking laws.
On the post: Stupid Law Making Assaulting Journalists A Federal Crime Revived By Congress
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sub Rosa Reasons
*"Police and first responders deserve similar protections."
They have protections in place currently that are not being followed, what will these new protections do for them?*
It gives Prosecutors more leverage to force a plea agreement.
They heap on every charge that they can think of to create a possible sentence of a few gajillion years. This would be just one more - with the added threat of Federal time.
On the post: Stupid Law Making Assaulting Journalists A Federal Crime Revived By Congress
Re: Easy way to fix this
You've gotten the intent of the law(s) backwards.
"Special" assault laws and "sentence enhancements" on cops, firefighters, EMT's and such were intended only in the case of during the performance on their duties.
Public Safety measures. You don't want the local rockheads throwing bricks or shooting at the people trying to keep the neighborhood from burning down.
They were never intended (yeah, yeah, I know - lobbyists) to give special protections to such people when they were OFF duty.
As to "journalists"... we DO need a legal definition of such if we are going to pass laws or give special considerations to journalists.
I had a Press Pass in the eighties (photographer) issued by the County police department. Had to show a couple of pay stubs from a news agency, get my picture taken, and wait two weeks for it to show up in the mail. Some pittance fees needed to be paid as well.
Frankly, it now seems that anyone with a cell phone can declare themselves a "journalist" and demand special protections - like not naming a source, being permitted to cross the tape, etc.
On the post: Utah Senate Passes Bill That Would Lock The Government Out Of Warrantless Access To Third Party Records
Re: Good news, but...
Pointless with the Patriot Act and it's like still active.
The intel agencies don't "do" warrants. If you don't give them everything the ask for, they just hit you with an NSL.
On the post: Comcast's New Rented Streaming Box Is A Flimsy Attempt To Remain Relevant
Hmm...
..."an integrated guide for accessing their favorite apps and connected home devices,"
So, actually, if you give them $5/month* (aka $15/month) you also give them access to all your router-connected devices, so they can scrape them for data to sell.
Sucha deal!
On the post: Asus Goes Mute As Hackers Covertly Install Backdoors Using Company Software Update
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And then two months to get used to the "new look" because something is missing, but you can't figure out what.
On the post: Sixth Circuit Affirms First Amendment Protections For Flipping Off Cops
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Exactly.
But if you DO hit it, do you sue the company that made the hammer or the one that made the nail?
On the post: Asus Goes Mute As Hackers Covertly Install Backdoors Using Company Software Update
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This is odd...
Good point on the MAC addresses.
My guess would be that they're from a single production run, and were targeted because of who or where they were shipped to.
Which thickens the plot - I doubt ASUS makes that kind of information public.
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Re:
I'll admit I'm surprised by this one. Mainly in that it got so far.
Surely "abusive" hand gestures fall under the same strictures as "verbal assault", otherwise the law would be discriminatory against mutes. Sorry, the "vocally challenged".
Or not using a turn signal when pulling away from the curb after the first stop, and that favorite traffic cop catch-all from the sixties, "Unsafe Driving Practices" - driving barefoot, only one hand on the wheel (obviously...), etc.
While the courts (and likely the law, without need for "interpretation") agree with the defendant, I have a hard time feeling any sympathy for a person so bloody stupid they give a cop a hard time on a traffic stop.
I've avoided quite a few tickets over the years simply by being... polite to the officer(s) who pulled me over. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out that if you piss them off they're going to hit you with every ticket they can.
On the post: EU Puts An End To The Open Internet: Link Taxes And Filters Approved By Just 5 Votes
Re: Re: It appears...
Not what I meant by "market", and yes, it's overbroad if you want to include things like Business Licenses, local Code requirements, etc.
When a local market attempts to extort from you, you cease doing business with them. You won't lose sales if you have an in-demand product, as the people living in the area you aren't selling in will travel to where you are selling.
Cut off Google and Facebook to any EU country for a month and see if there there's a raw-count usage drop. It'll be minimal, as the people who live on facebook figure out how to access it from other countries or install a VPN.
On the post: Asus Goes Mute As Hackers Covertly Install Backdoors Using Company Software Update
Re: Re: This is odd...
Which is why I asked which 600 sites were targeted.
If they're government, major corporations, etc. it would go a long way to discovering who may be behind it.
Don't forget that the cracking of that "uncrackable" DRM protection for game software was one guy with a grudge.
On the post: EU Puts An End To The Open Internet: Link Taxes And Filters Approved By Just 5 Votes
Question...
...lots of information about this, and lots of hyperbole.
Would links included in comments sections fall under 11/13? If so, it makes citing a source next to impossible.
On the post: Asus Goes Mute As Hackers Covertly Install Backdoors Using Company Software Update
This is odd...
...What were the 600 systems targeted? That's an awful lot of work to gain access to only 600 machines.
On the post: EU Puts An End To The Open Internet: Link Taxes And Filters Approved By Just 5 Votes
It appears...
...the EU is about to discover the actual definition of "Going Dark".
Basic marketing - if you have to pay to be in a market, don't sell in that market.
On the post: Sheriff Decides The Best Way To Prep Teachers For School Shootings Is To Frighten And Injure Them
There isn't an answer....
...Do this type of "training" and you teach them to fear, nothing else. OTOH, teach them to fight back and you've just created yet more corpses, because they won't do it correctly when faced with a real situation.
And they'd never teach what actually works - rat-packing. It lessens the "authority" of those in charge.
On the post: Supporters Of Article 13, After Denying It's About Filters, Now Say It's About Regulating Filters Which They Admit Don't Work
Re:
Gah. Flag him and move on.
He's hijacking every article with nonsensical missives just to get the replies.
Flag him and move on.
On the post: Supporters Of Article 13, After Denying It's About Filters, Now Say It's About Regulating Filters Which They Admit Don't Work
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Last book I read on-screen was a Terry Pratchett novel. Because books have release windows too - it came out in the UK two years before it was slated for US release.
When it finally came out in the US, I bought a copy - mainly because it was such a PITA reading it on-screen that I couldn't enjoy it.
"Airport Books" is a genre in itself - based on how flashy the publisher can make the cover to catch the eye.
Most of the hard copy books I still own are old reference and text books. If you stumble across a Physics or Chem text from the fifties, give it a read. Even if you don't have much background in either field, you'll spot a LOT of things that have been proven WRONG since the book was published.
And you're not likely to find "pirate" editions of such.
On the post: Supporters Of Article 13, After Denying It's About Filters, Now Say It's About Regulating Filters Which They Admit Don't Work
Re: Re: Re: Re:
Exactly.
There were thousands of "ebooks" available before household internet. Most BBS sites had a few, just about all of them had "1500_SF_books.zip" or the like.
It was a tremendous PITA to read them on even SVGA monitors.
It was much more genre-specific back then as well - almost entirely SF&F, no bored housewife wanted to sit in front of a computer all day reading the latest "romance" novel.
Then along came the Kindle. Which spurred many new formats for eBooks. So that now I read them on an old 7" tablet. Almost exclusively - why buy a hard copy to fill up shelves? My "old" library was about 2,000 hardcovers and three times that many paperbacks. Ate an entire room. My "library" is roughly fifty times that size now and fits on a drive smaller than a deck of cards.
On the post: Supporters Of Article 13, After Denying It's About Filters, Now Say It's About Regulating Filters Which They Admit Don't Work
Re: Re: Re: Re:
Don't forget "orphaned" works, out of print forever, hard copy can't be found.
I've got several in my library, EE Doc Smith, Fritz Leiber, Ray Gallun, etc. that have on the title page "Scanned from a ratty old paperback I found at the bottom of a box from a garage sale" that I'd never even heard of - some of the Leiber is Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser novels from the forties and fifties that have never been reprinted.
Of course, when something drags those stories back into the light, Smith and Leiber don't get a cent, what with being dead and all...
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