That Anonymous Coward (profile), 15 Feb 2022 @ 5:31pm
"NSO denied this allegation in a letter threatening legal action, stating that it never provided customers with systems that offered plausible deniability as undocumented feature."
NSO has been caught lying about all sorts of things they denied they did and backtracked when someone showed the receipts.
Considering the stream of lies, how they think anyone would believe them shows a disconnect from reality that would make them great members of Congress.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 15 Feb 2022 @ 5:27pm
WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT SAYS BUT WE'RE GOING TO ASSUME THE WORST AND BEHAVE ACCORDINGLY BECAUSE WE ARE KNEE JERK ASSHOLES WHO ARE WILLING TO KEEP THE ENTIRE NATION HOSTAGE JUST IN CASE!
It is one thing to see a thing and misunderstand it.
It is insane that having no idea what is in the thing, you assume you know what is in it and threaten all sorts of things in response to what you imagine maybe kinda might be in the thing when the thing is actually written.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 15 Feb 2022 @ 5:23pm
Anyone have results of the testing for lead in Congress members?
I mean its either they've been poisoned & that caused the brain damage or they've just given up trying to hide their corruption and blind ambition for more power.
This shouldn't be a thing and the fact they have been told...
If you do this, they will stop looking for CSAM because you've given them a reason to never look for it you fucking morons.
Yet they still pretend this will fix it.
We really need leadership that doesn't live in a fantasy bubble detached from reality where their magic underpants gnome thinking doesn't solve anything & makes it much worse.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 14 Feb 2022 @ 9:44pm
Sex offender registries were a good idea.
A place where citizens could see where those who have been convicted of abusing children were in the community.
There are those who re-offend over & over so this was a middle of the road solution to the legal system hitting a wall with what they could do. While sex offenders can be dangerous forcing them to live in trailers on prison grounds after release isn't a solution either.
The registries then got the human treatment.
Despite the hype there are not 30 trillion sex offenders stalking children everyday.
So the definition got widened, and widened, and stretched to WTF levels.
I can not believe that the average citizen thinks that someone who was drunk & peed in an alley is a threat to their children.
How to claim that public urination is a sexual crime is... wha?
Everyone wants to believe everyone on the registry is a timebomb just waiting to claim more children, but its a lie.
We make them live under overpasses, off in the woods because we've added tons of restrictions about where they can live based on they are on the registry not the crime that got them there.
Of course now it has a life of its own and daring to suggest that something is wrong with it gets you branded as a pedophile lover so no politicans will address the horrific abuses of rights that so many are perfectly okay with because bad people don't deserve any rights ever even after their debt is paid.
Sheriff needed an easy target to win hearts and minds, targets those on the sex offender registry because well who is gonna give a shit about them?
Remember this got all the way up to 11th Circuit before a court said ummm no this is bullshit, they have rights and this asshole violated them.
Justice isn't perfect but are they even trying anymore?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 14 Feb 2022 @ 9:14pm
How about just a simple report about how many billions they've taken from USF and what we got in return.
The asking why we keep letting them have access to the USF when they refuse to use it for its intended purpose.
Then lets turn USF into a cable laying machine that has federal rights to use poles and easements without needing approval of the legacy corporations who actively undermine the goal of USF to connect all citizens while taking money claiming that this time they will connect people.
Sounds crazy but until we just cable the entire country we are held hostage to shareholder value, its america. We lay the cable then all of these legacy players can compete to get customers on the great american network... or I dunno help muni broadband become a thing and see how fast the cable can be paid for with a low addon price to bills (disclosed clearly above the fold) as people dump the shittiest providers the governments protected for to long.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 14 Feb 2022 @ 9:06pm
Political hack, claims hack.
Supporters have already decided that the Russians were behind the smear campagin & will triple their support of a man who shouldn't be trusted with a box of crayons let alone running a state.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 14 Feb 2022 @ 8:48pm
Well the industry told us that pirates had made music worthless even as they paid 4 billion for the dead carcass of EMI back catalog.
This obviously was their plan all along, to just have the zombie label claim everything in existence to claw back the 4 billion they wasted on worthless music.
Or they are a bunch of incompetent assholes because there is no punishment for being wrong but huge penalties for not jumping fast enough to act & huge legal bills for those wrongfully accused by zombie label to have a judge declare that the cat purring isn't one of zombie labels content & not make them pay the bills for the person they wrongly accused.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 14 Feb 2022 @ 3:04am
Re: Re: Re: Nothing unbelievable at all there...
Well Karen explained that ALL blind people had milky eyes so she had to be lying.
What shocked me was the 1st Rent a Cop on the scene defaulted to assuming Karen had to be right & now he was demanding the blind person prove to him she was blind.
Mind you the dog is in an actual harness, not one of those silly fake vests Karens buy from Amazon so they can claim they can take their dog everywhere.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 13 Feb 2022 @ 10:54pm
Re: Nothing unbelievable at all there...
The story is surreal and worth a read.
(Its a series of screenshot from Reddit posted by the blind victim of Karen).
Well the blind girl had a phone and Karen knew she looked at at...cause screen readers and adaptive tech for the disabled only exists on Star Trek.
And the amazing thread through Karen getting 2 security guards and trying to steal the dog is that her daughter gets to pet the dog because shes been good today.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 13 Feb 2022 @ 5:56pm
Nananananananana That Gang, That Gang, That Gang... giggles
Oh noes... Bostons gonna put us in a database.
I am once again impressed that people have adapted to knowing what I meant to type instead of whats actually on the screen.
I miss letters, I repeat words, I miss words despite my best efforts sometimes.
Oh and if someone wants to tell me I was to harsh
IDGAF
Google "Karen Doesn't Believe Woman Is Blind, Tries Taking Guide Dog"
This shit happens more than people know & its always some ablebodied asshole who "knows" all about disabled people & if we can't perform to meet their standards we must be faking.
Imagine being blind, someone is trying to rip your guide dog away from you & some rent-a-cop demands you somehow prove your blind because Karen knows your faking because shes the expert on blind people & you don't look like the 1 blind person she knows... oh and is still demanding that her kid be allowed to pet the guide dog.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 12 Feb 2022 @ 1:15pm
Come to Denmark, take vacation photos, be sued for millions!
A piece of art, built upon anothers art, and a bunch of grifters getting paid... ahhh copyright.
"The statue was commissioned in 1909 by Carl Jacobsen,"
Something something work for hire?
"Aside from the statue on display, which is a replica of the original,"
Wait so they are getting paid over a knock off of the original art?!
"In 2016, a similar statue was installed at the harbor in Asaa, Denmark, where it is also mounted on the top of a rock. The heirs of the sculptor are suing, claiming that the Asaa statue bears too close a resemblance to the famous one, and they are demanding damages and the destruction of the Asaa statue."
Resembles. Not a copy but kinda sorts looks like so we have the rights to it?! They lines are blurred.
"The statue is under copyright until 2029, seventy years after the 1959 death of the creator."
Of course if copyright started at creation it would have been free in 1979.
So a family is ranking in bank on a knockoff of the original artwork.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 11 Feb 2022 @ 5:30pm
Wait until we finally figure out why they never try to reign in the CIA, is because the first intel they gather is on members of Congress.
There are tons of ways for the secrets to come out & the CIA keeping its hands clean by staying in the background.
If you knew an agency had all of the dirt on you & a willingness to let it out... is it any shock that there isn't any oversight & the budget is always nice and comfy?
Washington DC was built on a swamp, and this really should explain why it is the way it is.
It would be nice if someone would just fall on their sword and topple the house of secrets. We all know the system is completely corrupt, we have none of the rights we think, and we need to stop pretending we're the good guys.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 11 Feb 2022 @ 1:26pm
We have no evidence that anything might be hinkey, beyond a gut feel.. so find ways to violate citizens rights quietly.
Imagine if they stopped doing stupid shit like this that ends up draining the budget to pay the settlements.
There might finally be enough money to run all the rape kits they've been ignoring. I mean its likely they might catch a brother officer that way so I can understand the resistance.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 10 Feb 2022 @ 10:49pm
Re:
But but but... I have a black friend!
I had this thought stream about context and who the quote was attributed to that might have made a difference.
But nothing good was coming out of it mainly because I'm to white for my own damn good.
So instead I played the but I have a black friend card.
It is one of the words that creates a flashpoint in people, and once that bell is rung everything before it vanishes as people stare at the bell wondering what the fsck were you thinking.
Trust me, I get wanting to make a strong point but that word obliterates any point you try to make.
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"NSO denied this allegation in a letter threatening legal action, stating that it never provided customers with systems that offered plausible deniability as undocumented feature."
NSO has been caught lying about all sorts of things they denied they did and backtracked when someone showed the receipts.
Considering the stream of lies, how they think anyone would believe them shows a disconnect from reality that would make them great members of Congress.
On the post: Some Senators Are Freaking Out Because The White House Is Pitching Some Extremely Minor Police Reforms
WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT SAYS BUT WE'RE GOING TO ASSUME THE WORST AND BEHAVE ACCORDINGLY BECAUSE WE ARE KNEE JERK ASSHOLES WHO ARE WILLING TO KEEP THE ENTIRE NATION HOSTAGE JUST IN CASE!
It is one thing to see a thing and misunderstand it.
It is insane that having no idea what is in the thing, you assume you know what is in it and threaten all sorts of things in response to what you imagine maybe kinda might be in the thing when the thing is actually written.
On the post: EARN ITs Big Knowledge 1st Amendment Problem
Anyone have results of the testing for lead in Congress members?
I mean its either they've been poisoned & that caused the brain damage or they've just given up trying to hide their corruption and blind ambition for more power.
This shouldn't be a thing and the fact they have been told...
If you do this, they will stop looking for CSAM because you've given them a reason to never look for it you fucking morons.
Yet they still pretend this will fix it.
We really need leadership that doesn't live in a fantasy bubble detached from reality where their magic underpants gnome thinking doesn't solve anything & makes it much worse.
On the post: Eleventh Circuit Smacks Georgia Sheriff Around For Posting 'Don't Trick Or Treat Here' Signs In Sex Offenders' Yards
Sex offender registries were a good idea.
A place where citizens could see where those who have been convicted of abusing children were in the community.
There are those who re-offend over & over so this was a middle of the road solution to the legal system hitting a wall with what they could do. While sex offenders can be dangerous forcing them to live in trailers on prison grounds after release isn't a solution either.
The registries then got the human treatment.
Despite the hype there are not 30 trillion sex offenders stalking children everyday.
So the definition got widened, and widened, and stretched to WTF levels.
I can not believe that the average citizen thinks that someone who was drunk & peed in an alley is a threat to their children.
How to claim that public urination is a sexual crime is... wha?
Everyone wants to believe everyone on the registry is a timebomb just waiting to claim more children, but its a lie.
We make them live under overpasses, off in the woods because we've added tons of restrictions about where they can live based on they are on the registry not the crime that got them there.
Of course now it has a life of its own and daring to suggest that something is wrong with it gets you branded as a pedophile lover so no politicans will address the horrific abuses of rights that so many are perfectly okay with because bad people don't deserve any rights ever even after their debt is paid.
Sheriff needed an easy target to win hearts and minds, targets those on the sex offender registry because well who is gonna give a shit about them?
Remember this got all the way up to 11th Circuit before a court said ummm no this is bullshit, they have rights and this asshole violated them.
Justice isn't perfect but are they even trying anymore?
On the post: The Intersection Of Section 230, SLAPP Threats, The Streisand Effect And Sex Discrimination In Corporate Structures
That phrase... oh yes...
Christ what an asshole.
He went and pouted UNDER her bed.
On the post: FCC To Take A Closer Look At Racial Discrimination In Broadband Deployment
How about just a simple report about how many billions they've taken from USF and what we got in return.
The asking why we keep letting them have access to the USF when they refuse to use it for its intended purpose.
Then lets turn USF into a cable laying machine that has federal rights to use poles and easements without needing approval of the legacy corporations who actively undermine the goal of USF to connect all citizens while taking money claiming that this time they will connect people.
Sounds crazy but until we just cable the entire country we are held hostage to shareholder value, its america. We lay the cable then all of these legacy players can compete to get customers on the great american network... or I dunno help muni broadband become a thing and see how fast the cable can be paid for with a low addon price to bills (disclosed clearly above the fold) as people dump the shittiest providers the governments protected for to long.
On the post: Missouri's Governor Still Insists Reporter Is A Hacker, Even As Prosecutors Decline To Press Charges
Political hack, claims hack.
Supporters have already decided that the Russians were behind the smear campagin & will triple their support of a man who shouldn't be trusted with a box of crayons let alone running a state.
On the post: How EARN IT Could Give Abusers A Get Out Of Jail Free Card: By Making Evidence Inadmissible
Its been so long since Congress has done anything useful, they've forgotten how.
On the post: Law Firm Sues US Citizen And Immigration Service After It Tries To Claw Back Docs Obtained Legally Thru A FOIA Request
"The law firm should prevail. FOIA law simply does not work this way."
Have you met our courts?
On the post: YouTube's Content ID System Flags, Demonetizes Video Of Cat Purring
Well the industry told us that pirates had made music worthless even as they paid 4 billion for the dead carcass of EMI back catalog.
This obviously was their plan all along, to just have the zombie label claim everything in existence to claw back the 4 billion they wasted on worthless music.
Or they are a bunch of incompetent assholes because there is no punishment for being wrong but huge penalties for not jumping fast enough to act & huge legal bills for those wrongfully accused by zombie label to have a judge declare that the cat purring isn't one of zombie labels content & not make them pay the bills for the person they wrongly accused.
On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
Re: Re: Re: Nothing unbelievable at all there...
Well Karen explained that ALL blind people had milky eyes so she had to be lying.
What shocked me was the 1st Rent a Cop on the scene defaulted to assuming Karen had to be right & now he was demanding the blind person prove to him she was blind.
Mind you the dog is in an actual harness, not one of those silly fake vests Karens buy from Amazon so they can claim they can take their dog everywhere.
On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
Re: Nothing unbelievable at all there...
The story is surreal and worth a read.
(Its a series of screenshot from Reddit posted by the blind victim of Karen).
Well the blind girl had a phone and Karen knew she looked at at...cause screen readers and adaptive tech for the disabled only exists on Star Trek.
And the amazing thread through Karen getting 2 security guards and trying to steal the dog is that her daughter gets to pet the dog because shes been good today.
On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
Nananananananana That Gang, That Gang, That Gang...
giggles
Oh noes... Bostons gonna put us in a database.
I am once again impressed that people have adapted to knowing what I meant to type instead of whats actually on the screen.
I miss letters, I repeat words, I miss words despite my best efforts sometimes.
Oh and if someone wants to tell me I was to harsh
This shit happens more than people know & its always some ablebodied asshole who "knows" all about disabled people & if we can't perform to meet their standards we must be faking.
Imagine being blind, someone is trying to rip your guide dog away from you & some rent-a-cop demands you somehow prove your blind because Karen knows your faking because shes the expert on blind people & you don't look like the 1 blind person she knows... oh and is still demanding that her kid be allowed to pet the guide dog.
On the post: Danish Court Confirms Insane 'Little Mermaid' Copyright Ruling Against Newspaper Over Cartoon
Come to Denmark, take vacation photos, be sued for millions!
A piece of art, built upon anothers art, and a bunch of grifters getting paid... ahhh copyright.
"The statue was commissioned in 1909 by Carl Jacobsen,"
Something something work for hire?
"Aside from the statue on display, which is a replica of the original,"
Wait so they are getting paid over a knock off of the original art?!
"In 2016, a similar statue was installed at the harbor in Asaa, Denmark, where it is also mounted on the top of a rock. The heirs of the sculptor are suing, claiming that the Asaa statue bears too close a resemblance to the famous one, and they are demanding damages and the destruction of the Asaa statue."
Resembles. Not a copy but kinda sorts looks like so we have the rights to it?! They lines are blurred.
"The statue is under copyright until 2029, seventy years after the 1959 death of the creator."
Of course if copyright started at creation it would have been free in 1979.
So a family is ranking in bank on a knockoff of the original artwork.
On the post: Danish Court Confirms Insane 'Little Mermaid' Copyright Ruling Against Newspaper Over Cartoon
Re: Damages payment
Lurch groan
On the post: Declassified Documents Shows The CIA Is Using A 1981 Executive Order To Engage In Domestic Surveillance
Wait until we finally figure out why they never try to reign in the CIA, is because the first intel they gather is on members of Congress.
There are tons of ways for the secrets to come out & the CIA keeping its hands clean by staying in the background.
If you knew an agency had all of the dirt on you & a willingness to let it out... is it any shock that there isn't any oversight & the budget is always nice and comfy?
Washington DC was built on a swamp, and this really should explain why it is the way it is.
It would be nice if someone would just fall on their sword and topple the house of secrets. We all know the system is completely corrupt, we have none of the rights we think, and we need to stop pretending we're the good guys.
On the post: Cop Trainer Encouraging Cops To Run Facial Recognition Searches On People During Traffic Stops
We have no evidence that anything might be hinkey, beyond a gut feel.. so find ways to violate citizens rights quietly.
Imagine if they stopped doing stupid shit like this that ends up draining the budget to pay the settlements.
There might finally be enough money to run all the rape kits they've been ignoring. I mean its likely they might catch a brother officer that way so I can understand the resistance.
On the post: Unknown American VC Firm Apparently Looking To Acquire NSO Group, Limit It To Selling To Five Eyes Countries
Humans, still believing the fairy tale that they would never ever, double pinky promise, use it in unapproved ways.
It is not when will be be abused, it will be will we ever find out because 'National Security'.
On the post: Unknown American VC Firm Apparently Looking To Acquire NSO Group, Limit It To Selling To Five Eyes Countries
Re: 'Now that we own the company about your contacts/records/tec
When I saw unknown VC I thought no one knew and my first thought was Palaintar.
On the post: First Circuit Tears Into Boston PD's Bullshit Gang Database While Overturning A Deportation Decision
Re:
But but but... I have a black friend!
I had this thought stream about context and who the quote was attributed to that might have made a difference.
But nothing good was coming out of it mainly because I'm to white for my own damn good.
So instead I played the but I have a black friend card.
It is one of the words that creates a flashpoint in people, and once that bell is rung everything before it vanishes as people stare at the bell wondering what the fsck were you thinking.
Trust me, I get wanting to make a strong point but that word obliterates any point you try to make.
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