.com and .net are controlled by American corporations which means that they have to abide by American law and American court orders. Since there are heavy sanctions on Iran, American companies are forbidden from doing business with Iranian companies unless they get specific exemptions. The .com and .net registrars were technically in violation of the sanctions by providing domain services to these companies so, the American government took advantage and got orders to make them stop.
All-in-all, it's still a bad look for the country known for its free speech laws to take down speech but, no country with American sanctions against it should use any TLD with a registrar based in the United States.
I don't know how much of her situation you've read about but, she'd been told in her freshman year that, if she spent a year on the freshman squad she'd be able to get on the varsity squad. Then, in her sophomore year, she was told that she'd have to spend a year in the junior varsity squad even though there were incoming freshmen being allowed on the varsity squad. She was annoyed at this and made her statements on Snapchat. Please note that she was only seeking damages of $1, this wasn't an attempt to get paid. She (and her parents) decided to fight this because they believed that it was a misdeed on the part of the school.
John Gruber's original Markdown syntax doesn't actually support strikethrough (even though many forks do). TechDirt seems to use CommonMark and there's a long-running argument in their feature requests (the first post in that thread was in October 2014 with the most recent being this February) about whether or not to add strikethrough.
Put simply, it's unfortunately not as simple as you may think to just "add strikethrough support".
You seem to have hit the nail on the head. Unless you have a security clearance and learned those weapons designs as a government employee/contractor, there isn't any law stopping you from exporting weapons designs. There was a magazine that was going to publish nuclear weapon designs and was sued by the federal government. Unfortunately, the case was made moot by someone else leaking similar designs before it could be ruled on.
Prior restraints on speech are very hard to make stick in American law unless you've agreed to such restraints for security clearances and the like.
Not many, if any, just yet. I can only speak for the devices in use by me and my family right now but, my mothers Galaxy S21, my brothers Galaxy S10+, my Galaxy Note 20 5G, and my Galaxy Tab S7+ 5G all still support the 2G network as a fallback and there's no setting to keep it from doing so (the available network options are 2G/3G/LTE/5G, 2G/3G/LTE, and 2G/3G there's no option to remove the earlier generation networks only the higher ones).
In the UK last year there was a leak issue and the government solved it in an interesting manner. They sent a memo telling people to stop leaking things but, each version of the memo was slightly different. When that memo was invariably leaked to the press, they knew exactly who'd done it and that individual was forced to resign. This is how you deal with a leak investigation without attacking the free press.
Exactly this. My high school calculus teacher is the first teacher I had who seemed to understand this and his tests (even the finals) were open book for this reason. He noted that, if we had a job where calculus was necessary, we'd never need to pull formulas out of our heads and this was before the smartphone era where even people who never took a calculus class can simply get Wolfram Alpha to compute derivatives or integrals for them.
Instead of asking 100 multiple choice questions, just ask a half-dozen moderately complex "story" problems and you can find out if the student in question actually understands what they've been taught.
The "Right to Life" is also the right to control when my life ends if possible. Also, if a doctor isn't comfortable (or has some religious or moral issue) with performing a procedure, I understand. However, that discomfort shouldn't allow the doctor to withhold knowledge of another doctor who is willing to perform the procedure.
Try sending something letter-sized via either UPS or FedEx. It'll cost at least $10 compared to the $0.50 that the USPS charges. That's a pretty big difference.
Do you have any evidence of irregularities in India's elections? If so, I'm pretty sure that the opposition parties would love to have it since Modi isn't particularly beloved amongst them.
Yes, they had the "choice" to have their local employees arrested for the decision of the executives in the United States. If this were any other case of executives throwing their employees under the bus we'd all be rightfully outraged. What makes this situation any different?
It could have been worse, in Michigan, you can renew online or by mail once every 8 years. Until I renewed my license last year, my picture was from 2012. After eight years I looked very different.
Near the end of the article, Tim points out that there is one other approved shake machine but, it's made in Italy and costs thousands of dollars more even refurbished.
Re: Re: Re: mandate all homes to have the gov's cameras in all t
I remember reading 1984 in high school (about 20 years ago) and no one, from the teacher to us students, seriously thought that anything in there was possible in reality. I guess we were wrong.
There are already a few fixed coins with values that are 1-to-1 with the US Dollar. If a cam site decides to go all-in on one of them, it'll probably work.
There's nothing preventing the manufacturers from charging enough for parts to make up for any potential losses from having to make them available. Also, this is simply in the cases where the manufacturer makes all the parts themselves.
For example, Apple uses outsourced parts in many of their MacBooks, and in certain cases, they use contracts to block those companies from selling those same components to repair shops. This causes those shops to have to harvest these components from other dead machines in order to repair these MacBooks. If there was a right-to-repair law, Apple wouldn't have to pay a cent more for these components given the size of their orders but, independent repair shops would be able to actually order them too.
The powers also appear to apply to the use of “warrant canaries”.
How exactly would an order apply to a warrant canary? The ones that I've seen say something along the lines of, "Through March 31st, 2021 I haven't received any warrants." Then, if you do get a warrant you just stop updating the canary (or pull a TrueCrypt and kill the project altogether). Does the UK not have laws against compelled speech (which is why canaries work in the US)?
Re: Dumb idea but sadly technically an improvement.
Oddly enough, your last request seems to already be happening. When I paid off my Galaxy S10+ early, Sprint automatically SIM-unlocked it. I didn't even notice that they'd done so until I was uninstalling apps that I didn't need anymore and I noticed that I could uninstall the Sprint apps that were pre-installed.
On the post: DOJ Seizes Iranian News Org Websites; Raising Many Questions
Re: Re: Re:
.com and .net are controlled by American corporations which means that they have to abide by American law and American court orders. Since there are heavy sanctions on Iran, American companies are forbidden from doing business with Iranian companies unless they get specific exemptions. The .com and .net registrars were technically in violation of the sanctions by providing domain services to these companies so, the American government took advantage and got orders to make them stop.
All-in-all, it's still a bad look for the country known for its free speech laws to take down speech but, no country with American sanctions against it should use any TLD with a registrar based in the United States.
On the post: Fuck This Cheer In Particular Says The Supreme Court In Decision Upholding Students' Free Speech Rights
Re:
I don't know how much of her situation you've read about but, she'd been told in her freshman year that, if she spent a year on the freshman squad she'd be able to get on the varsity squad. Then, in her sophomore year, she was told that she'd have to spend a year in the junior varsity squad even though there were incoming freshmen being allowed on the varsity squad. She was annoyed at this and made her statements on Snapchat. Please note that she was only seeking damages of $1, this wasn't an attempt to get paid. She (and her parents) decided to fight this because they believed that it was a misdeed on the part of the school.
On the post: Ohio Republicans Are Using State Budget Battle To Kill Community Broadband
Re:
John Gruber's original Markdown syntax doesn't actually support strikethrough (even though many forks do). TechDirt seems to use CommonMark and there's a long-running argument in their feature requests (the first post in that thread was in October 2014 with the most recent being this February) about whether or not to add strikethrough.
Put simply, it's unfortunately not as simple as you may think to just "add strikethrough support".
On the post: Researchers: 2G Connection Encryption Deliberately Weakened To Comply With Cryptowar Export Restrictions
Re: Re: In other words
You seem to have hit the nail on the head. Unless you have a security clearance and learned those weapons designs as a government employee/contractor, there isn't any law stopping you from exporting weapons designs. There was a magazine that was going to publish nuclear weapon designs and was sued by the federal government. Unfortunately, the case was made moot by someone else leaking similar designs before it could be ruled on.
Prior restraints on speech are very hard to make stick in American law unless you've agreed to such restraints for security clearances and the like.
On the post: Researchers: 2G Connection Encryption Deliberately Weakened To Comply With Cryptowar Export Restrictions
Re:
Not many, if any, just yet. I can only speak for the devices in use by me and my family right now but, my mothers Galaxy S21, my brothers Galaxy S10+, my Galaxy Note 20 5G, and my Galaxy Tab S7+ 5G all still support the 2G network as a fallback and there's no setting to keep it from doing so (the available network options are 2G/3G/LTE/5G, 2G/3G/LTE, and 2G/3G there's no option to remove the earlier generation networks only the higher ones).
On the post: Cop Who Led Strike Team Into Wrong House During Drug Raid Granted Immunity By Eleventh Circuit
Re:
Since the lawsuit was filed by him and not his estate, I have to assume that he survived.
On the post: Senator Wyden Tells The DOJ It Needs To Stop Going After Journalists During Leak Investigations
It's Not Hard To Stop Leaks
In the UK last year there was a leak issue and the government solved it in an interesting manner. They sent a memo telling people to stop leaking things but, each version of the memo was slightly different. When that memo was invariably leaked to the press, they knew exactly who'd done it and that individual was forced to resign. This is how you deal with a leak investigation without attacking the free press.
On the post: Dartmouth's Insane Paranoia Over 'Cheating' Leads To Ridiculous Surveillance Scandal
Re:
Exactly this. My high school calculus teacher is the first teacher I had who seemed to understand this and his tests (even the finals) were open book for this reason. He noted that, if we had a job where calculus was necessary, we'd never need to pull formulas out of our heads and this was before the smartphone era where even people who never took a calculus class can simply get Wolfram Alpha to compute derivatives or integrals for them.
Instead of asking 100 multiple choice questions, just ask a half-dozen moderately complex "story" problems and you can find out if the student in question actually understands what they've been taught.
On the post: Canadian Government Wants To Regulate Social Media Like Broadcast
Re: Re:
The "Right to Life" is also the right to control when my life ends if possible. Also, if a doctor isn't comfortable (or has some religious or moral issue) with performing a procedure, I understand. However, that discomfort shouldn't allow the doctor to withhold knowledge of another doctor who is willing to perform the procedure.
On the post: US Postal Service Is Surveilling Social Media Services Because It Apparently Has Plenty Of Time And Money To Waste
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Try sending something letter-sized via either UPS or FedEx. It'll cost at least $10 compared to the $0.50 that the USPS charges. That's a pretty big difference.
On the post: Months After Indian Gov't Threatens To Jail Twitter Employees, Twitter Now Blocking Tweets That Criticize The Indian Government
Re:
Do you have any evidence of irregularities in India's elections? If so, I'm pretty sure that the opposition parties would love to have it since Modi isn't particularly beloved amongst them.
On the post: Months After Indian Gov't Threatens To Jail Twitter Employees, Twitter Now Blocking Tweets That Criticize The Indian Government
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Yes, they had the "choice" to have their local employees arrested for the decision of the executives in the United States. If this were any other case of executives throwing their employees under the bus we'd all be rightfully outraged. What makes this situation any different?
On the post: Detroit PD Detective Sued For His (Second) Bogus Arrest Predicated On Questionable Facial Recognition Searches
Re: The least he could do...
It could have been worse, in Michigan, you can renew online or by mail once every 8 years. Until I renewed my license last year, my picture was from 2012. After eight years I looked very different.
On the post: Captive Markets Are Just Hostages; Or Why Your McDonalds Never Seems To Have A Functioning Shake Machine
Re:
Near the end of the article, Tim points out that there is one other approved shake machine but, it's made in Italy and costs thousands of dollars more even refurbished.
On the post: China Pushing Explicitly-Biased Facial Recognition Standards And Local Tech Companies Are Pitching In To Help
Re: Re: Re: mandate all homes to have the gov's cameras in all t
I remember reading 1984 in high school (about 20 years ago) and no one, from the teacher to us students, seriously thought that anything in there was possible in reality. I guess we were wrong.
On the post: Mastercard Lays Down New Rules For Streaming Sites That Require Them To Review Content Before Publication
Re: crypto tokens
There are already a few fixed coins with values that are 1-to-1 with the US Dollar. If a cam site decides to go all-in on one of them, it'll probably work.
On the post: Uninformed Legislators Shoot Down Right To Repair Legislation In Colorado
Re:
There's nothing preventing the manufacturers from charging enough for parts to make up for any potential losses from having to make them available. Also, this is simply in the cases where the manufacturer makes all the parts themselves.
For example, Apple uses outsourced parts in many of their MacBooks, and in certain cases, they use contracts to block those companies from selling those same components to repair shops. This causes those shops to have to harvest these components from other dead machines in order to repair these MacBooks. If there was a right-to-repair law, Apple wouldn't have to pay a cent more for these components given the size of their orders but, independent repair shops would be able to actually order them too.
On the post: UK Politicians Getting Serious About Ending End-To-End Encryption
How?
How exactly would an order apply to a warrant canary? The ones that I've seen say something along the lines of, "Through March 31st, 2021 I haven't received any warrants." Then, if you do get a warrant you just stop updating the canary (or pull a TrueCrypt and kill the project altogether). Does the UK not have laws against compelled speech (which is why canaries work in the US)?
On the post: Undeletable Coercive Loan Apps First Hobble Then Shut Down Your Smartphone If You Fall Behind On Repayments
Re: Dumb idea but sadly technically an improvement.
Oddly enough, your last request seems to already be happening. When I paid off my Galaxy S10+ early, Sprint automatically SIM-unlocked it. I didn't even notice that they'd done so until I was uninstalling apps that I didn't need anymore and I noticed that I could uninstall the Sprint apps that were pre-installed.
On the post: California Legislators Now Get Into The Pointless & Likely Counterproductive Content Moderation Legislating Business
Re: Re: Re: 'Look at us Doing Something!'
To be fair, that warning label thing was a voter initiative. The legislature didn't have much to do with it.
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