Yes, but while they want you to report unattended items that may be potential bombs, they don't want you to report anything urgent that would require an immediate police response.
"This opens the organizations up to unnecessary risk. If the words "might", "possible", or "potential" are used in an argument supporting the collection of data, you're about to violate the principle of least data. You should only collect and store data for well understood use.
In the disappeared New York Times article you referred to in a previous post, the claim was that the attackers had communicated with ISIS. That implies that we were collecting information on their communications, but once again we couldn't filter the signal from the noise until we had the benefit of hindsight.
Also, it's ridiculous that they're claiming that we know who's talking to ISIS at the same time as they're saying that encryption makes it impossible to know who the bad guys are.
I don't like giving the police abusable powers, but I must admit to liking the idea of cops having to think of their job as helping people rather than just busting them.
Where's your evidence that the government isn't stupid?
"Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory." —Bernard Ingham
I'm calling Hanlon's razor on this: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
And if you think stupid people don't get to be in charge of things, I refer you to government. Or, to put it another way, "Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory." (Bernard Ingham)
Wait, did you just claim that the Librarian of Congress is a librarian? Because outside of his misleading job title, he's not. He does not have the degree or work history or even values. Because he's retiring in January, the ALA is currently trying to pressure Obama into appointing an actual librarian, but that's not what we have now.
M. Alan Thomas II (profile), 18 Aug 2015 @ 10:19pm
The Author's Guild has bragged about how prestigious (read: bestselling) their presidency and governing council are. I think that, for those authors, they're being well-represented in many respects: They're the ones who have benefitted the most through the current system and have the most to lose if consumer purchasing power starts distributing more to the self-published long tail than to them. The problem is not that groups like AG represent the publishers but that they represent the lucky few authors anointed by the publishers rather than the majority.
(They also represent agents of writers' estates, which is not inherently a bad thing—help actively managing an estate is at least likely to result in continued publication vs. abandonment—but obviously estates have no interest in incentivizing anything other than longer postmortem terms.)
To a lot of Britons, living in Tower Hamlets is evidence of criminal activity at the very least; the crime rate there is historically so high that the guards who live inside the Tower of London—your archetypical high-security zone if there ever was one—have had trouble getting insurance because they're in Tower Hamlets' postcode.
At the theater's debut in February, the ambassador's guests were treated to a dark tale of corruption, lobbying and double-dealing in Washington – the Netflix series "House of Cards."
Wait, the MPAA paid for State to refurbish a screening room and State turned around and used it to play a streaming "TV" show? That's . . . actually kinda hilarious.
I'm tempted to register a domain name about "the grooveshark decision" and put my objections to it there, add Cloudflare as the CDN, then notify UMG and see if they want to suppress unambiguously protected speech.
Committing any acts calculated to cause consumers to believe that the Counterfeit Service or any other use of the Grooveshark Marks is offered under the control and supervision of Plaintiff UMG or sponsored or approved by, or connected with, or guaranteed by, or produced under the control and supervision of Plaintiff
Infringing any of the Grooveshark Marks and damaging Plaintiff goodwill;
Otherwise competing unfairly with Plaintiff UMG in any manner; or
Directly or secondarily infringing Plaintiffs' copyrighted sound recordings via the Counterfeit Service or any variations thereof.
Each of those involve specific findings of fact—especially where questions such as intent or fair use might arise—but the court is rubberstamping UMG's future allegations before they've even been made. Part of the point of having an independent court system and jury trials is supposed to be that plaintiffs do not get to judge the merits of their own cases. This order throws that out the window.
It's also much easier to pretend that a problem no longer exists once you've legislated it into hiding. We shouldn't be helping privileged people pretend that what they can't see doesn't exist.
The value is not on what the order says on its face but in how it alters any subsequent proceedings by the FTC against him. The FTC essentially has a blank check to audit his entire life at will for nearly two decades, and any action they take against him can be railroaded so hard it will make civil asset forfeiture look like due process. To put it another way: This is 18 years of probation with a probation officer who has permission to rifle through the guy's bank account any time he feels like it and take any money he doesn't think the guy really needs.
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Also, it's ridiculous that they're claiming that we know who's talking to ISIS at the same time as they're saying that encryption makes it impossible to know who the bad guys are.
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"Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory." —Bernard Ingham
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And if you think stupid people don't get to be in charge of things, I refer you to government. Or, to put it another way, "Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory." (Bernard Ingham)
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http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2015/06/ala-urges-president-obama-select-librarian-h ead-library-congress
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(They also represent agents of writers' estates, which is not inherently a bad thing—help actively managing an estate is at least likely to result in continued publication vs. abandonment—but obviously estates have no interest in incentivizing anything other than longer postmortem terms.)
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