The layout will damn the Spirit of the Sun. The layout is almost a perfect copy of the Fire Floor's logo: large graphic of fire cooking "something" on left, use of Caslon Antique as your font, use "Churrascaria Brazilian Steakhouse" as the tagline... I dunno, that pretty derivative, and if it's derivative with only a few changes, it could be confusing or misleading. They certainly compete in the exact same space.
So, it's not "fire" that's at issue here, but as usual on Techdirt, accurate reporting never gets in the way of outrage.
GPS is not accurate enough for a court of law. Civilian GPS is deliberately incorrect -- errors are injected into results to prevent it from being used to commit terrorist acts like setting up mortar fields of fire, I guess. In any case, you'd lose that fight.
Radar equipment is calibrated on each shift by the officer running the radar unit. If you want to call that into question, make sure you know your math really well and have a solid, unique attack because judges have seen and heard them all. You will most definitely need to appeal it a few times to get heard -- muni judges will routinely announce that they will not entertain indictments against the technology.
Getting off with a warning should not outrage you. If you were black, you'd have gotten a ticket at the very least. Enjoy your white privilege. BTW, all Anonymous Cowards are white people to me.
You'll never ever ever get a cop in trouble for investigating something that looks wrong to them. Never. It's called "probable" cause for a reason, and you don't get to indict it unless you attend an academy and get instructed on it. You're just operating from ignorance.
And that's fine. Techdirt is an interesting site for me, but it's comically anti-cop and shockingly ill-informed about law enforcement in general. So, I do what I can to tell you people you suck at this, just to balance it out.
They have service manuals for almost all of their appliances, and an abundant and competitive parts economy. I can price parts from three unrelated websites for refrigerators, ranges, dishwashers, whatever and get not only a good price, but a repair sheet. And Sears service manuals are good enough to help you rewire a dishwasher, if you happen to need to do that (pro tip: always lock the hamster cage with the hamster in it).
They have a lot of money, and will sue, and even if they lose, the entry cost to challenge them is too high, so they have effectively gotten what they wanted.
And the criticism means nothing to them, because they make stupid money, while still having the effective ban on using Super Bowl in place.
So you can't right this wrong without lots of money, true for many monopolies and de facto monopolies.
Police unions protect their membership from political vagaries, guarantee a minimum livable wage, and provide protection for workers that are in harm's way every single day. You're too young, and probably too lazy to read about how hard and miserable it was to be a police officer in the 60s, but there were no bulletproof vests, paid sick leave, pensions, or basic benefits that are typically taken for granted by many of us.
But from your perception, police unions just want to cover up the bad actors in the department. Well, that's mighty unfair from my perspective, but since you're too lazy to actually qualify any of your statements, go have another bag of Doritos instead.
Look, let's agree to separate supply and commodity, just like gas companies.
I want Verizon to connect me to the Internet. Period. Don't block ports, don't tell me what to do, don't tell me how to do it, don't force me to use specific devices. Everything they do to diminish the experience adds up to an undirected rage of helplessness, generated by them. This is the source of the anger.
If I want TV, give me TV. Bundle it, whatever, just give me access to the content and let me figure out how I want to see it. Don't block my ability to skip commercials, watch picture-in-picture, or save episodes for later. Don't put a "Subscribed Channel" filter on my set-top and then list non-subscribed content to tease me.
Play fair. I think they are incapable of fair play, and so that's why they must be punished.
A true historical oddity, the monopoly that won't die.
When AT&T had to break open its device stranglehold on its ratepayers, you kept the spirit alive. Not content to charge freight for carrying bits, you keep the Bad Old Days alive with mandatory device restrictions (complete with port 4567 backdoors, for your protection!), mandatory device requirements (adapter for every stream, anyone?), crippled services (any FiOS customers have picture-in-picture? no? of course you don't), and unethical price hikes (oh no, it's a fee separate from that pay-one-price deal we hooked you with two years ago).
Don't think we're just limited to FiOS folks. VZW customers also enjoy the same stupidity! Lock down those phones, don't want someone blocking ads or removing the bloatware. Shhhh, don't mention that supercookie you can't kill, or APN you can't modify. Tether? Only if it's around your neck so we can slowly strangle you with more fees. Hotspot access? No way, we control the transport *and* the endpoints. Why? Because that's the law we bought, and we have more money than you do.
Awesome company. Deserves to be broken up and put under a DoJ consent decree. Okay. I'm done now.
... then there's this nitpicky overwrought discussion into minutae that makes me just give up caring. This is an academic exercise. Applying it in the real world is a waste of resources, and it's jerkoffs like you that actually perpetuate it by discussing it seriously.
"Most robocallers make heavy use of number spoofing technology, meaning that fighting robocalling will always be a massive game of Whac-a-Mole no matter what."
It's like that because Verizon, among others, makes money by supplying the arms in this arms race, Once CallerID was out in 1985, the next step was charging fees to block it, then fees to reveal it, then additional fees to SUPERBLOCK it. Also, telcos created CID, and they can certainly provide ANI instead and allow you to block that... but why stop the gravy train?
These are the same people that charge you a fee to pack data into signaling packets that they are shipping whether you use them or not. I hope the FCC goes after that next.
India and China and Brasil won't care, they'll just use your tools and dare you to do something about it. They realize that you can't actually get everyone to agree to your asinine patent schemes and copyright limits.
If you own a locked-down VZW phone -- and by locked down I mean no root access possible via encrypted bootloader -- there's nothing you can do to avoid it. The APN configuration that's made possible by Android is removed by VZW... so you can't route your mobile traffic to an on-system proxy to protect yourself.
And, of course, you can't unload all of the modules and such to eliminate the root cause(s) either. All the more reason to stick with Developer Models where possible.
Been sayin' this for years, 'bout time it got built.
GSM, or any radio, should be part of the modularity. You get a phone that by virtue of the module, works on any carrier. You need a new screen, swap it out. Memory? Go for it. My gosh, someone can bring back keyboards!
"If they switch to a modern PC, they will have to connect through the LAN, since virtually every computer made now cannot use a dial-up modem."
Why not? Virtually every computer I've seen over the past 20 years either has a modem card, modem built in, or USB capabilities which then allows for a modem. So, please, elaborate specifically.
On the post: Nothing To Hide (And Nowhere To Hide It) But Everything To Fear: The Police Vs. The Unarmed And Naked
Re: Not surprising
On the post: Two Brazilian Restaurants Battle Over Trademark For Logos Because Both Include Fire
Won't get decalaratory judgement
So, it's not "fire" that's at issue here, but as usual on Techdirt, accurate reporting never gets in the way of outrage.
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On the post: What Should We Do About Linking To Sites That Block People Using Ad Blockers?
Paywall policy?
On the post: Court Monitor Finds NYPD Still Performing Unconstitutional Stops
Re: What constitutes an unconstitutional stop?
Radar equipment is calibrated on each shift by the officer running the radar unit. If you want to call that into question, make sure you know your math really well and have a solid, unique attack because judges have seen and heard them all. You will most definitely need to appeal it a few times to get heard -- muni judges will routinely announce that they will not entertain indictments against the technology.
Getting off with a warning should not outrage you. If you were black, you'd have gotten a ticket at the very least. Enjoy your white privilege. BTW, all Anonymous Cowards are white people to me.
You'll never ever ever get a cop in trouble for investigating something that looks wrong to them. Never. It's called "probable" cause for a reason, and you don't get to indict it unless you attend an academy and get instructed on it. You're just operating from ignorance.
And that's fine. Techdirt is an interesting site for me, but it's comically anti-cop and shockingly ill-informed about law enforcement in general. So, I do what I can to tell you people you suck at this, just to balance it out.
-C
On the post: Dismantling The Repair Monopoly Created By The DMCA's Anti-Circumvention Rules
Buy Kenmores
They have service manuals for almost all of their appliances, and an abundant and competitive parts economy. I can price parts from three unrelated websites for refrigerators, ranges, dishwashers, whatever and get not only a good price, but a repair sheet. And Sears service manuals are good enough to help you rewire a dishwasher, if you happen to need to do that (pro tip: always lock the hamster cage with the hamster in it).
-C
On the post: Key And Peele To Livestream 'Sports Commentary' During An 'Upcoming Sports Game' That They Can't Name
Umm, they still accomplished their mission.
And the criticism means nothing to them, because they make stupid money, while still having the effective ban on using Super Bowl in place.
So you can't right this wrong without lots of money, true for many monopolies and de facto monopolies.
-C
On the post: Body Cam Footage Leads To Federal Indictment Of Abusive Las Vegas Cop
Good job Tim.
Police unions protect their membership from political vagaries, guarantee a minimum livable wage, and provide protection for workers that are in harm's way every single day. You're too young, and probably too lazy to read about how hard and miserable it was to be a police officer in the 60s, but there were no bulletproof vests, paid sick leave, pensions, or basic benefits that are typically taken for granted by many of us.
But from your perception, police unions just want to cover up the bad actors in the department. Well, that's mighty unfair from my perspective, but since you're too lazy to actually qualify any of your statements, go have another bag of Doritos instead.
-C
On the post: Verizon Exec In Charge Of TV Services Admits She Cut The Cord
It's the endpoints.
I want Verizon to connect me to the Internet. Period. Don't block ports, don't tell me what to do, don't tell me how to do it, don't force me to use specific devices. Everything they do to diminish the experience adds up to an undirected rage of helplessness, generated by them. This is the source of the anger.
If I want TV, give me TV. Bundle it, whatever, just give me access to the content and let me figure out how I want to see it. Don't block my ability to skip commercials, watch picture-in-picture, or save episodes for later. Don't put a "Subscribed Channel" filter on my set-top and then list non-subscribed content to tease me.
Play fair. I think they are incapable of fair play, and so that's why they must be punished.
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On the post: Verizon Exec In Charge Of TV Services Admits She Cut The Cord
Ah, Verizon.
When AT&T had to break open its device stranglehold on its ratepayers, you kept the spirit alive. Not content to charge freight for carrying bits, you keep the Bad Old Days alive with mandatory device restrictions (complete with port 4567 backdoors, for your protection!), mandatory device requirements (adapter for every stream, anyone?), crippled services (any FiOS customers have picture-in-picture? no? of course you don't), and unethical price hikes (oh no, it's a fee separate from that pay-one-price deal we hooked you with two years ago).
Don't think we're just limited to FiOS folks. VZW customers also enjoy the same stupidity! Lock down those phones, don't want someone blocking ads or removing the bloatware. Shhhh, don't mention that supercookie you can't kill, or APN you can't modify. Tether? Only if it's around your neck so we can slowly strangle you with more fees. Hotspot access? No way, we control the transport *and* the endpoints. Why? Because that's the law we bought, and we have more money than you do.
Awesome company. Deserves to be broken up and put under a DoJ consent decree. Okay. I'm done now.
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On the post: Charity Pops Up Claiming That It Holds The Copyright On Happy Birthday
There's the law...
-C
On the post: The FCC Has Started Publicly Shaming Robocallers Weekly
Telcos are your real enemy.
It's like that because Verizon, among others, makes money by supplying the arms in this arms race, Once CallerID was out in 1985, the next step was charging fees to block it, then fees to reveal it, then additional fees to SUPERBLOCK it. Also, telcos created CID, and they can certainly provide ANI instead and allow you to block that... but why stop the gravy train?
These are the same people that charge you a fee to pack data into signaling packets that they are shipping whether you use them or not. I hope the FCC goes after that next.
-C
On the post: Will Molecular Biology's Most Important Discovery In Years Be Ruined By Patents?
Go ahead and patent it all.
On the post: Fox News Anchor's Suit Over Toy Hamster Likeness Results In Hilarious Point-By-Point Hasbro Rebuttal
Rules of cartoon sexual dimorphism?
On the post: Add Pittsburgh To The List Of Cities That Say Verizon Ripped Them Off
Enough.
On the post: Verizon's Sneaky Zombie Cookies Now Being Used Across The Entire AOL Ad Empire
Explains the locked-down phones.
And, of course, you can't unload all of the modules and such to eliminate the root cause(s) either. All the more reason to stick with Developer Models where possible.
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On the post: Awesome Stuff: A Modular Phone For Makers
Been sayin' this for years, 'bout time it got built.
On the post: Verizon Quietly Backs Off Throttling 'Unlimited' Wireless Customers, But Only After It No Longer Matters
VZW unlimited right here
On the post: Washington Post Observes Encryption War 2.0 For Several Months, Learns Absolutely Nothing
Rule of law.
Except if you're an investment bank. Or a company avoiding taxes with legal offshore entities. Then it's okay.
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What?
Why not? Virtually every computer I've seen over the past 20 years either has a modem card, modem built in, or USB capabilities which then allows for a modem. So, please, elaborate specifically.
-C
On the post: Canadian Court: Yes, We Can Order Google To Block Websites Globally
You can issue injunctions all you want.
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