Since they didn't bother to investigate, I bet they didn't bother to get a search warrant either. Since the victim was legally in an apartment provided by his landlord, 4th Amendment protections should apply. The failure to investigate by the police doesn't cause the 4th amendment to vanish. If the police didn't have a search warrant, a nice civil rights violation lawsuit should be in the works soon.
When I use software and controls on a PC that creates a data set that can be a visual picture, that data set/picture is in most cases automatically copyrighted by me. If I were to use the software and controls on a 'smart/spy' TV that results in a unique data set, is that data set copyrightable? If so, should I not be the copyright holder? Visio and other spy ware TV makers might be committing millions of copyright violations by stealing and profiting by using these copyrighted data sets without the express written permission of the TV owner.
The DMCA thing sounds like Lawyer 1 asking Lawyer 2 how the company can appear to be in compliance with the Due Process/Due Diligence requirements of basic computer security before they both had to appear in a meeting with board members to discuss the company's action plan.
When lawsuits get filed against the company over lack of basic data security, I wonder how many Officers of the Court will be ethically required to recuse themselves due to their having accounts?
Besides being charged for the shooting itself the officers should face charges for Obstruction of Justice and Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice for lying about the incident. They probably lied during the initial verbal "shooting incident" investigation and again when they turned in their signed reports. Since they probably got together to get their stories straight, that would be the Conspiracy.
And it shouldn't end with just the officers at the scene. Their superiors had to know the officer's testimony didn't match what the video showed and yet chose to back the officer's accounts. These superiors should also face Obstruction and Conspiracy charges for helping with the cover-up.
This will get sorted out during the next political campaign when the existing members of parliament are running for re-election. How many campaigns can make very many website, blog, facebook, or other postings about their opponents without violating principles 1,4,5,6,7?
This company is far more honest and open with their marketing then most. They freely admit they are marketing their product to folks that are worried about a problem with little scientific or medical research supporting it. The company admits THEY don't have any evidence that supports the benefits of their product or the dangers it is supposed to reduce.
If only ISPs, health supplement companies or Monster Cable were as honest with their marketing claims, the world would be a better place.
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I think we are a long time away from a fully automated transport system. Airbus has been making fly by wire aircraft for decades yet a new model of military transport crashed because some vital software was left out of the engine control system. If we can't get fly by wire 100% correct for one vehicle, what are the chances we will get a fully automated transport system correct for millions of vehicles, each with different handling characteristics?
If the smell of gasoline was one of the justifications for labeling the vehicle suspicious, then detonating anything near said vehicle was itself an endangerment of public safety since gasoline vapors tend to be somewhat explosive.
Also not sure how the officials justified a 'driving after revocation' charge since the car in question was unoccupied at the time. Maybe his brother/sister/random stranger drove it there in exchange for a free food item.
The other Republican candidates should be happy that Christie is running. All they have to do to improve their chances is watch what Christie does or says, then do something different.
Law Enforcement likes to stack charges so to return the favor: Charges of Assault, Robbery, Destruction of Private Property, Destruction of Evidence, Obstruction of Justice and Improper Disposal of Hazardous Waste would be in order.
New version of old story. The first version I remember is a 60 minutes piece on how someone involved in the movie Coming to America hadn't received any money because the studio claimed it had lost money. The studio probably still lists that movie as a money loser.
Lesson learned: Any contract with a media studio should only involve numbers like percent of (world wide gross proceeds + books sales + toy sales + video + cable + what ever else might make the studio money).
In Oklahoma, if you are an IT person, this is a simple case. You are required under state law to contact law enforcement. Failure to do so can result in you being charged.
I have found the best way to destroy a hard drive is to disassemble, and if the platters are aluminum, melt them, if they are glass, shatter them, repeatedly. If anyone asks, just tell them the drive failed and you were applying your normal identity theft prevention measures. Since most governments now mandate similar procedures on no longer needed drives, shouldn't be an issue.
I guess the lawyers for this complex have not fully thought this out. Say as part of my comments on the apartment, I state how awful a site it is for producing child porn, complete with many vivid examples. By this contract, the apartment complex is now the legal owner of these images and subject to the laws for possession of same.
This was probably brought about by that certain percent of customers who happily overclocked their laptops to the max so they could claim they got 3 more FPS in game Y then their clan mates. And when the magic smoke came out 30 minutes later, they with great amount of public yelling, exclaimed what a POS said laptop was and sent it back to the seller, all the time disavowing any knowledge about overclocking.
Perhaps the drivers should be modified to allow overclocking only after the user agrees to having the laptop's and GPU's serial numbers sent the manufacturers of both with a screen notice that overclocking voids the warranty. Now there would be a record that the end user knew the dangers and did it anyway and accepted the loss of warranty.
Short term way to safe guard yourself from "smart" gizmos:
1. Purchase a real firewall/router and install between your home network and the Internet. Skip the cheap consumer grade ones. 2. Add a default rule that blocks all traffic to everywhere. Both for inbound and outbound traffic. 3. Add specific rules for whatever gizmos you have that you want to allow to talk to the outside world. Limit the traffic to just the specific IP/Domain name needed to enable the functionality desired.
With this setup, even if the smart TV is allowed to report back to 'Smart TV Central Command' via a specific firewall rule, it would not be allowed to access ads from websites other then 'Central Command', so the streaming Yahoo ad would fail.
To paraphrase the Star Wars comment, "The more commercials you stuff down our throats, the more we will cut the cord."
The reality is that most shows now feature 100% commercial time, if you count the station ID bug that often features an ad for a different show, not to mention the always popular pop up ads for yet another show. And it often isn't just one bug. Some networks have three, the station id bug, a second one for the next show ad and a 3rd for the twitter channel. For me, those networks are now on my don't watch list.
It really is getting to the point where it would be cheaper to drop cable altogether and go old school. Just buy DVD/BR bundles of series I want as they come up during sales. No buffering or bandwidth issues. Just watch the shows I want with no bugs, pop ups or other ads.
Another central OKC resident. AT&T keeps sending "Please upgrade to U-Verse" stuff. When I checked a couple of months ago, the best U-Verse they could offer was the same 3Mb service I currently get via standard DSL. Not even enough to run their much advertised VOIP phone offering.
I stayed at the Fairfield Inn by Marriott in Atlanta for Dragoncon 2013 and 2014 and they include wifi with the room. A friend's hot spot worked fine via wifi as well.
It may be Marriott corporate wanting to squeeze a little extra profit out of hotels actually owned by Marriott.
Of course, with the room and parking rates the hotels charge during Dragoncon, they don't need to charge for wifi...
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When lawsuits get filed against the company over lack of basic data security, I wonder how many Officers of the Court will be ethically required to recuse themselves due to their having accounts?
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And it shouldn't end with just the officers at the scene. Their superiors had to know the officer's testimony didn't match what the video showed and yet chose to back the officer's accounts. These superiors should also face Obstruction and Conspiracy charges for helping with the cover-up.
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Don't know if any followup was done.
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If only ISPs, health supplement companies or Monster Cable were as honest with their marketing claims, the world would be a better place.
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Also not sure how the officials justified a 'driving after revocation' charge since the car in question was unoccupied at the time. Maybe his brother/sister/random stranger drove it there in exchange for a free food item.
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Lesson learned: Any contract with a media studio should only involve numbers like percent of (world wide gross proceeds + books sales + toy sales + video + cable + what ever else might make the studio money).
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I have found the best way to destroy a hard drive is to disassemble, and if the platters are aluminum, melt them, if they are glass, shatter them, repeatedly. If anyone asks, just tell them the drive failed and you were applying your normal identity theft prevention measures. Since most governments now mandate similar procedures on no longer needed drives, shouldn't be an issue.
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On the post: NVIDIA Calls A Feature A 'Bug,' Strips Away Overclocking Option On Its Mobile Device Cards
Perhaps the drivers should be modified to allow overclocking only after the user agrees to having the laptop's and GPU's serial numbers sent the manufacturers of both with a screen notice that overclocking voids the warranty. Now there would be a record that the end user knew the dangers and did it anyway and accepted the loss of warranty.
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1. Purchase a real firewall/router and install between your home network and the Internet. Skip the cheap consumer grade ones.
2. Add a default rule that blocks all traffic to everywhere. Both for inbound and outbound traffic.
3. Add specific rules for whatever gizmos you have that you want to allow to talk to the outside world. Limit the traffic to just the specific IP/Domain name needed to enable the functionality desired.
With this setup, even if the smart TV is allowed to report back to 'Smart TV Central Command' via a specific firewall rule, it would not be allowed to access ads from websites other then 'Central Command', so the streaming Yahoo ad would fail.
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The reality is that most shows now feature 100% commercial time, if you count the station ID bug that often features an ad for a different show, not to mention the always popular pop up ads for yet another show. And it often isn't just one bug. Some networks have three, the station id bug, a second one for the next show ad and a 3rd for the twitter channel. For me, those networks are now on my don't watch list.
It really is getting to the point where it would be cheaper to drop cable altogether and go old school. Just buy DVD/BR bundles of series I want as they come up during sales. No buffering or bandwidth issues. Just watch the shows I want with no bugs, pop ups or other ads.
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It may be Marriott corporate wanting to squeeze a little extra profit out of hotels actually owned by Marriott.
Of course, with the room and parking rates the hotels charge during Dragoncon, they don't need to charge for wifi...
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