Not that Google users or Windows users are much safer. In fact, Microsoft has reserved the right to search Win10 systems and keylog Win10 sessions for all sorts of allegedly benign purposes, with the assertion that they keep all rights to use what they find however they like whether to sell to rival companies or report crime to law enforcement. I really wonder how any business uses Win10 without (regularly) stripping all the spyware out. I only know businesses that do and who shrug about it.
But so far we haven't seen any company go without controversy when it comes to either a) spying on more than what they promised or b) spreading that data around more than they promised, usually selling it to third parties. And we haven't really seen any company that has suffered dire consequences for having done so, such as getting liquidated and all the executive officers getting shunned from society.
The US and EU don't care much about broken corporate promises.
And projects like this always creep without notice.
The only way to do something like this is with full, 100% transparency, so that Apple reports to the end user everything they scanned and what they found of interest, including if it's sus. And the user gets these reports before the police does.
If they're not willing to do that, it's high time to jailbreak your phone and encrypt the shit out of it, or use all your extra data space for hello.jpg type images that would squick any human brain behind any human eyes. That or chose a new phone OS.
Another option would be to fill any unused iCloud space with sexy sand dunes, extreme baby close-ups or whatever else might serve to provide AI false positives. There are Def Con hackers more creative than I regarding antagonistic input data to foul up image detection engines.
Police in the United States are more interested in securing a white ethnostate than actually enforcing law, and alleged crimes are just a tool to them to that end. All this is going to do is provide more reasons for the DEA / FBI / ATF / local police to bust into nonwhite households and murder people where they live.
In China or whatever country is rolling this out, I can only assume the motivations of their law enforcement are even worse.
Meanwhile the transnational white power movement has a total lock on the police unions. Police unions with access to military gear.
If there's going to be a successful coup d'etat, it might be in response to the state trying to take guns and responsibilities away from law enforcement after a few too many pogroms.
"the NYPD assertion is that this is all acceptable."
Unless there are consequences for the NYPD digging up post-hoc murder justifications, then their assertion is correct.
As with the January 6th coup attempt, right or wrong is meaningless except what is actually enforced, and those that don't face justice for their actions will be driven to continue the same behavior.
When you use wind to propel the boat, the crew don't get to feel its cooling effects so much. When fandom requires continued payment, fewer people stay fans even when they want to.
Prince seems to be the go-to example. Prince made tons of work that most people don't remember. I think a lot of it is mostly unheard.
I remember they made a ruling that if a crime is terrible enough (specifically citing drug possession) that evidence is admissible even if it was illegally obtained.
Because we wouldn't want any b̶l̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶f̶o̶l̶k̶ child-eating cannibals to get away on a technicality.
We had to be depressed without causes like phones and video games.
Like maybe puberty and life being a teen in the US being just awful.
The meager (Apple II and TRS-80) video games we had actually helped providing distracting relief. And while phones are a vector for cyberbullying, they're also a place were kids can message friends, parents and professionals, when they have access.
But this smacks of plenty of other moral panics, that when we don't want to look into real reasons for mental health failures and parenting failures, we look for scapegoats.
Routinely included grandmothers and children. Fun-sized Terrorists in the parlance of US drone operators.
Curiously, the drone crews were treated so poorly, the burnout exceeded recruitment. I don't know if they fixed that.
At least the ninja missile hellfire variant reduces casualties, when they choose to use it. It still doesn't affect what is now decades of extrajudicial killing.
Christianity, and the Church (that is the Roman Catholic Church, before it had competitors) who integrated chastity and celibacy into their array of values and customs to differentiate itself from the alternatives.
But their own clergy couldn't even manage their own standards, and it was never really enacted in good faith.
So yes, we've had 1500+ centuries of established-church backed sexual dysfunction, which actually informs quite a bit of why western culture is so messed in the head.
I can't speak for Islam, which is more messed up thanks to polygyny and an even more severe chattelization of women than Christendom. In the 20th century both cultures have been struggling with how to integrate modern feminist values into harshly misogynist cultures.
Didn't we have a similar thing happen after the great NSA reckoning when all the hackers having to choose between a cushy government job for a terrible surveillance agency or getting to keep their rights, voice and integrity all chose the latter?
My impression of late-stage capitalism (of which AT&T is a skilled, veteran participant) companies invest as much as possible into lobbying the government to give them subsidies for no reason, and anything the company actually does commercially is incidental, or at best a justification for those subsidies.
At this point, I bet there is good argument to simply nationalizing the ISP industry, especially those that own or license access to poles and cables.
Not that we'll do that until we decide government serves the public and not corporate interests.
My source is watching it bloody unfold. I was there when it happened, when Trump or his spokesgoons were talking about blue-sky ideas like they were policy.
I think the article I read that corrected the polls, revealing that mostly racists voted for Trump was in FiveThirtyEight but that was in 2018 or 2019. A while ago. I bet it's still up if you want to utilize a search engine.
I doubt it, though. Your predilection for arguing in bad faith, Lostinlodos precedes you.
In the podcast series You're Wrong About (Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall do deep dives on semi-recent historic events that are commonly misunderstood) there's a running theme of compound incompetence that it doesn't take competent agents to cause an event to unfold, rather it only takes a half-assed agent with incompetent counteragents.
One of the examples is the Beltway Sniper Attacks which killed seventeen people (more still were wounded or shot at) in a crime spree that crossed six states (and Washington DC). One of the factors that through off law enforcement was an early witness suggesting a white van on which investigators fixated, ignoring the blue Chevy Caprice that was also appearing near incidents.
Also the OJ Simpson case (which is one of Sarah's favorite topics) the police are super-resistant to seeing due process implicate, indict or convict their buddy and football hero The Juice, much to the chagrin of prosecutor Marcia Clark who struggled to get anyone in the DoJ to take the case seriously.
This is why I suspect the coup against the US that succeeds will be no more competent than the one on January 6th. It will just be a matter of repetition, luck and incompetence on the other side that will ultimately give rise to (equally incompetent) dictatorship in the US.
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large portions of the DOD, DHS and Justice system are immoral
Um. Yes. This is terribly easy to confirm.
On the post: New Hampshire PD's Recruitment Pitch Lists Qualified Immunity As A Job Perk
"You get to kill or beat people without consequence!"
Qualified immunity as a job perk implies premeditation to commit litigation-worthy offenses while being immune to law suit.
He's offering the ability to commit crime without consequence as a perk for being an officer.
If this isn't an indictment of the police department as an institution of corrupt intent, I don't know what would be.
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Wow. It sucks to be an Apple user.
Not that Google users or Windows users are much safer. In fact, Microsoft has reserved the right to search Win10 systems and keylog Win10 sessions for all sorts of allegedly benign purposes, with the assertion that they keep all rights to use what they find however they like whether to sell to rival companies or report crime to law enforcement. I really wonder how any business uses Win10 without (regularly) stripping all the spyware out. I only know businesses that do and who shrug about it.
But so far we haven't seen any company go without controversy when it comes to either a) spying on more than what they promised or b) spreading that data around more than they promised, usually selling it to third parties. And we haven't really seen any company that has suffered dire consequences for having done so, such as getting liquidated and all the executive officers getting shunned from society.
The US and EU don't care much about broken corporate promises.
And projects like this always creep without notice.
The only way to do something like this is with full, 100% transparency, so that Apple reports to the end user everything they scanned and what they found of interest, including if it's sus. And the user gets these reports before the police does.
If they're not willing to do that, it's high time to jailbreak your phone and encrypt the shit out of it, or use all your extra data space for hello.jpg type images that would squick any human brain behind any human eyes. That or chose a new phone OS.
Another option would be to fill any unused iCloud space with sexy sand dunes, extreme baby close-ups or whatever else might serve to provide AI false positives. There are Def Con hackers more creative than I regarding antagonistic input data to foul up image detection engines.
Police in the United States are more interested in securing a white ethnostate than actually enforcing law, and alleged crimes are just a tool to them to that end. All this is going to do is provide more reasons for the DEA / FBI / ATF / local police to bust into nonwhite households and murder people where they live.
In China or whatever country is rolling this out, I can only assume the motivations of their law enforcement are even worse.
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Formatting
Yes, but markdown doesn't work in the title dialogue. I had assumed the title text doesn't respond to any markups, but it appears it does.
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Today I learned
Comments title text in <pointy brackets> disappear as if they're bad HTML codes. I wonder if any codes work in comment titles.
On the post: Documents Show No One In The Defense Department Is Doing Much Vetting Of Law Enforcement Requests For Military Gear
It's all coming together according to plan
Meanwhile the transnational white power movement has a total lock on the police unions. Police unions with access to military gear.
If there's going to be a successful coup d'etat, it might be in response to the state trying to take guns and responsibilities away from law enforcement after a few too many pogroms.
We are so, so, so, so fucked.
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"the NYPD assertion is that this is all acceptable."
Unless there are consequences for the NYPD digging up post-hoc murder justifications, then their assertion is correct.
As with the January 6th coup attempt, right or wrong is meaningless except what is actually enforced, and those that don't face justice for their actions will be driven to continue the same behavior.
On the post: The End Of Ownership: How Big Companies Are Trying To Turn Everyone Into Renters
The sailboat metaphor
When you use wind to propel the boat, the crew don't get to feel its cooling effects so much. When fandom requires continued payment, fewer people stay fans even when they want to.
Prince seems to be the go-to example. Prince made tons of work that most people don't remember. I think a lot of it is mostly unheard.
On the post: Tenth Circuit Says Pretextual Inventory Searches Need To Be A Whole Lot Less Pretextual
Didn't SCOTUS fix this for the police?
I remember they made a ruling that if a crime is terrible enough (specifically citing drug possession) that evidence is admissible even if it was illegally obtained.
Because we wouldn't want any b̶l̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶f̶o̶l̶k̶ child-eating cannibals to get away on a technicality.
On the post: Cell Phones Still Somehow Get The Entirety Of The Blame For Teen Depression
Back in my day
We had to be depressed without causes like phones and video games.
Like maybe puberty and life being a teen in the US being just awful.
The meager (Apple II and TRS-80) video games we had actually helped providing distracting relief. And while phones are a vector for cyberbullying, they're also a place were kids can message friends, parents and professionals, when they have access.
But this smacks of plenty of other moral panics, that when we don't want to look into real reasons for mental health failures and parenting failures, we look for scapegoats.
In that case, Great Satan always works.
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"Combatants"
Routinely included grandmothers and children. Fun-sized Terrorists in the parlance of US drone operators.
Curiously, the drone crews were treated so poorly, the burnout exceeded recruitment. I don't know if they fixed that.
At least the ninja missile hellfire variant reduces casualties, when they choose to use it. It still doesn't affect what is now decades of extrajudicial killing.
On the post: Whistleblower Daniel Hale Sentenced To 45 Months In Prison For Exposing The Horrors Of US Drone Strike Programs
The goddamned espionage act
Because the courts aren't interested in what just, they're interested in what best serves the established regime.
Hence why SCOTUS is packed with judges that don't flinch when large corporations cause the deaths of thousands.
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Inanimate Carbon Rod
Very much so.
On the post: Enough About FOSTA's 'Unintended Consequences'; They Were Always Intended
Blaming Religion
Christianity, and the Church (that is the Roman Catholic Church, before it had competitors) who integrated chastity and celibacy into their array of values and customs to differentiate itself from the alternatives.
But their own clergy couldn't even manage their own standards, and it was never really enacted in good faith.
So yes, we've had 1500+ centuries of established-church backed sexual dysfunction, which actually informs quite a bit of why western culture is so messed in the head.
I can't speak for Islam, which is more messed up thanks to polygyny and an even more severe chattelization of women than Christendom. In the 20th century both cultures have been struggling with how to integrate modern feminist values into harshly misogynist cultures.
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Because lawyers.
This is why we can't have nice things.
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History rhymes
Didn't we have a similar thing happen after the great NSA reckoning when all the hackers having to choose between a cushy government job for a terrible surveillance agency or getting to keep their rights, voice and integrity all chose the latter?
On the post: AT&T Gets Loyal Lawmakers To Push A Broadband Tax For 'Big Tech'
Late-stage capitalism
My impression of late-stage capitalism (of which AT&T is a skilled, veteran participant) companies invest as much as possible into lobbying the government to give them subsidies for no reason, and anything the company actually does commercially is incidental, or at best a justification for those subsidies.
At this point, I bet there is good argument to simply nationalizing the ISP industry, especially those that own or license access to poles and cables.
Not that we'll do that until we decide government serves the public and not corporate interests.
On the post: Police Union Gives 'Officer Of The Year' Award To A Cop Who Spent Last Year Suspended
I guess not in this world.
Giving OoTY to an inanimate carbon rod was not an option, I guess.
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"[You're] a bit out there."
Yeah, I get that a lot.
My source is watching it bloody unfold. I was there when it happened, when Trump or his spokesgoons were talking about blue-sky ideas like they were policy.
I think the article I read that corrected the polls, revealing that mostly racists voted for Trump was in FiveThirtyEight but that was in 2018 or 2019. A while ago. I bet it's still up if you want to utilize a search engine.
I doubt it, though. Your predilection for arguing in bad faith, Lostinlodos precedes you.
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A hopeful dearth of competent actors
In the podcast series You're Wrong About (Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall do deep dives on semi-recent historic events that are commonly misunderstood) there's a running theme of compound incompetence that it doesn't take competent agents to cause an event to unfold, rather it only takes a half-assed agent with incompetent counteragents.
One of the examples is the Beltway Sniper Attacks which killed seventeen people (more still were wounded or shot at) in a crime spree that crossed six states (and Washington DC). One of the factors that through off law enforcement was an early witness suggesting a white van on which investigators fixated, ignoring the blue Chevy Caprice that was also appearing near incidents.
Also the OJ Simpson case (which is one of Sarah's favorite topics) the police are super-resistant to seeing due process implicate, indict or convict their buddy and football hero The Juice, much to the chagrin of prosecutor Marcia Clark who struggled to get anyone in the DoJ to take the case seriously.
This is why I suspect the coup against the US that succeeds will be no more competent than the one on January 6th. It will just be a matter of repetition, luck and incompetence on the other side that will ultimately give rise to (equally incompetent) dictatorship in the US.
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