As I noted, if he did commit bankruptcy fraud, it'll be investigated by the US attorney's office and the FBI. His lawyer should know that, one of her previous clients is currently doing 10 years for it (a fact she raised in court)
The way they always go on about 'revealing' things, you get the impression they think these cameras are beaming the video feeds live, either to their control center to be hacked, or to some website they can then access.
They don't get that any 'names' or 'addresses' are going to be recorded anyway, on reports and forms.
It's as if they're looking for any excuse and leaning heavily on their reputation for being absolutely clueless on technology, so protect themselves from rouge actions
That's mainly because most "Second Amendment folks" are not all that well informed. The 2ndA was not brought about because of internal strife, or worry, but because the founding fathers did NOT 'support our troops', which is why they got rid of them; they got rid of the navy entirely, and almost all the army, except a battery of artillary to guard West Point armory, and a regiment of infantry to 'protect' the northwest frontier against "Indian attack". Instead of the army, they decided to go with a citizens militia self-defence force. That's what the first part of the Amendment refers to.
Of course, after 1100 members of the regiment with some militia backing lost 900+ men to an Indian force of 1000 (who lost ~35) in St Cloud's defeat, which led to the re-creation of the Army (just as the Barbary Pirates led to the Navy being started up again).
However, they couldn't exactly get rid of the 2nd Amendment (there's no means to remove one, as the 21st shows, and they'd spent most of their political capital on getting those 10 passed, with one of the other 2 presented with them not being passed until 1991 as the 27th), but they did add a lot of requirements as to what counted and what didn't.
Basically, it's not about self defence, or tyranny of your own government, it was about trying to save a buck and avoid a strong military, exactly the opposite of what you're suggesting they do.
we released a statement on that yesterday (http://uspirates.org/us-pirate-party-lessig-and-the-state-of-us-democracy/), the problem is the ballot access laws across most of the US are some of the strictest and most difficult to follow regulations, PLUS there's 51 of them - one per state (and DC) as well as federal funding (FEC) regulations.
Me and my kids just shout out 'product placement' every time we see something in a show/movie that looks like it. not only does it give them the awareness of what it is, but since it works by being innocuous, by loudly announcing it, it mostly takes away any marketable impact it has. They've gotten pretty good at it too!
There was the same issue with ComputerCop as Violynne pointed out, even down to the claims put out by law enforcement (as you can see in this video where the EFF first revealed the issue while showing some of the footage - https://youtu.be/RRDhuHBk3gY?t=2m12s)
Back in 08, when I was heading the US Pirate Party, and when the warrentles wiretaps came up, I created this image for some shirts, which we never ended up using.
I've a strong feeling this is going to be a focal point in a panel called Journalism in the Post Snowdon Era I'm doing on Friday with the EFF's Dave Maass, and AccessNow's Amie Stepanovich. There will (should!) be video.
It's utterly unacceptable to constantly demonise encryption, just because it makes it harder to prop up police states.
I had similar problems with AdRev claiming Dvorak's New World Symphony Number 9, which is public domain, on my son's band concert video.
And yes, I strongly pushed for inaccurate/false accusations to be subject to the same sort of 'strike' system as copyright infringement allegations are in my consultation response to the IPO the other week on extending the punishment term to 10 years in prison. In fact, it was my major trust, that false claims are common, and increasing penalties for claims, with no penalty for false claims, is just going to generate more false or inaccurate claims, because the threats will have greater intimidation power with no repercussions.
Instead, why not come to Dragon Con, which has a whole track dedicated to the sort of stuff Techdirt covers.
In 2012 we had Bruce Schneier, in 2013 the ACLU's Chris Soghoian, last year we had Kurt Opsahl of the EFF, and this year it's a mixture of EFF, Accessnow, and public knowledge, as well as our regular hackers, cryptographers, and lawyers.
Our panels are meant to be more for the 'interested' rather than the expert, of course, and aim to cover as many topics as we can, so while Mike or Glyn might not learn much, many should. (and yes, I've asked Mike if he's interested in being a Guest before, but he couldn't make last year).
Hotels are going to be hard to find (all 5 host hotels each sold out within 15 minutes - not easy for 5 thousand-bed hotels at $240/night but there are overflow ones around, and MARTA.
So come if you can, and if you do, say 'hi', I'm the British guy making the track work!
I mentioned this to my wife the other day (when it leaked) because she works for Directv. She thought it'd already gone through, because they've been doing training etc. already.
I've had no TV service since 2004, except for a 3 month period in 2006 (issues with Charter). That might not sound that notable except for one thing - my wife's worked for DirecTV since November, and as part of her compensation, we're eligable for a Genie system and programming, free. We don't have it.
In fact, until christmas, all our TV sets were in the 14-19" range and from the late 90s, mainly used to play the Wii with, or my DVD player (haven't had that hooked up in over a year, haven't bought a DVD in 6-7 years), but we were given a 50" smart TV at christmas, which we use to watch netflix on, and occasionally youtube (and sometimes pandora, and every now and then, play the wii)
I could get programing, free, I just don't want it.
The one it's parodying (you wouldn't download a car etc.) was also a UK creation, for the 'Industry trust for IP awareness'. They also had fun things like faked up "actual footage from cams" (with authentic vcr tracking lines, and actual copied MST3K-esque viewers). It is what actually got me started in the field with piracyisnotacrime.com (we did manage to get one MEP to admit to basically spouting whatever was put in front of her when we pointed out her speech required time-travel, and also got the head of the British Video Assosciation [UK MPAA] to basically discredit the MPAA's famed LEK study when their own figures were significantly different.)
At least they didn't keep the other half of that campaign going though - "knock-off Nigel" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TbqBPmInjQ) - yikes.
I was in San Fransisco for the November 2001 "alerts". I was staying in Sausalito, but going to Treasure Island (yes, the one from Cory's "Little Brother") to film season 4 of BattleBots for comedy central. Because of traffic, we'd go via the Richmond bridge and Oakland at 6am, and Sf/GG bridge at 11pm to bed.
For those that don't know, Treasure Island (and Yerba Buena) is in the middle of the Bay Bridge, so either way, you have to take it. One day, we saw an abandoned big box van (think like a large rental truck) just abandoned on the side of the bridge. Now my co-worker (and driver) is ex Marines, so when we get to the exit (on the far side of the tunnel iirc) we stop and inform the National Guard squad (oh yes, military units were EVERYWHERE) there about the abandoned van.
Well, from the loading area (and our welding/grinding/safety test area where I was mainly working that day) you could see the bridge, and the truck.
Despite there being this 'Big Terror Alert', not a single person went near that truck for about 2 hours. Then a tow-truck came and pulled it away. No investigations, no checking the truck out, making sure it was 'safe', NOTHING.
I grew up in the UK, in Liverpool, during the IRA conflict. I was at the 93 Warrington bombing (the boston bombing was a near carbon copy of it, and almost exactly 20 years later), walked past one of the bombs minutes before it went off, and known many other 'suspect package' alerts.
They did none of it. That's when I understood how much of it was just for manipulation, and emotional response encouragement.
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Re: Clawback
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They don't get that any 'names' or 'addresses' are going to be recorded anyway, on reports and forms.
It's as if they're looking for any excuse and leaning heavily on their reputation for being absolutely clueless on technology, so protect themselves from rouge actions
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Re: Re: DNC, like republicans, is scared shitless of Sanders.
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Re: Encryption as a 2nd amendment right
Of course, after 1100 members of the regiment with some militia backing lost 900+ men to an Indian force of 1000 (who lost ~35) in St Cloud's defeat, which led to the re-creation of the Army (just as the Barbary Pirates led to the Navy being started up again).
However, they couldn't exactly get rid of the 2nd Amendment (there's no means to remove one, as the 21st shows, and they'd spent most of their political capital on getting those 10 passed, with one of the other 2 presented with them not being passed until 1991 as the 27th), but they did add a lot of requirements as to what counted and what didn't.
Basically, it's not about self defence, or tyranny of your own government, it was about trying to save a buck and avoid a strong military, exactly the opposite of what you're suggesting they do.
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Re: He is in the wrong party
That's why there's so few parties in the US.
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They've gotten pretty good at it too!
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typo
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We revisted it again somewhat in this year's followup panel 2 weeks ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfrHPmEhR1Q
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Had that on a t-shirt
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d32/ktetch/ppus/immunity3.png
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It's utterly unacceptable to constantly demonise encryption, just because it makes it harder to prop up police states.
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And yes, I strongly pushed for inaccurate/false accusations to be subject to the same sort of 'strike' system as copyright infringement allegations are in my consultation response to the IPO the other week on extending the punishment term to 10 years in prison.
In fact, it was my major trust, that false claims are common, and increasing penalties for claims, with no penalty for false claims, is just going to generate more false or inaccurate claims, because the threats will have greater intimidation power with no repercussions.
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Not worth going to them
In 2012 we had Bruce Schneier, in 2013 the ACLU's Chris Soghoian, last year we had Kurt Opsahl of the EFF, and this year it's a mixture of EFF, Accessnow, and public knowledge, as well as our regular hackers, cryptographers, and lawyers.
Our panels are meant to be more for the 'interested' rather than the expert, of course, and aim to cover as many topics as we can, so while Mike or Glyn might not learn much, many should. (and yes, I've asked Mike if he's interested in being a Guest before, but he couldn't make last year).
Hotels are going to be hard to find (all 5 host hotels each sold out within 15 minutes - not easy for 5 thousand-bed hotels at $240/night but there are overflow ones around, and MARTA.
So come if you can, and if you do, say 'hi', I'm the British guy making the track work!
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So even if they could, should they?
NO, can't copyright the law.
Simple
Yours,
Vice Chair,
Pirate Party of Georgia
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In fact, until christmas, all our TV sets were in the 14-19" range and from the late 90s, mainly used to play the Wii with, or my DVD player (haven't had that hooked up in over a year, haven't bought a DVD in 6-7 years), but we were given a 50" smart TV at christmas, which we use to watch netflix on, and occasionally youtube (and sometimes pandora, and every now and then, play the wii)
I could get programing, free, I just don't want it.
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Re:
At least they didn't keep the other half of that campaign going though - "knock-off Nigel" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TbqBPmInjQ) - yikes.
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
As a former crewbot on the show (and a good friend is competing, along with a lot of regular friends on the crew and competitors list)
(that's actually what I did before I started with the US&UK Pirate Party, safety/tech on that show)
Thanks for watching! :-)
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For those that don't know, Treasure Island (and Yerba Buena) is in the middle of the Bay Bridge, so either way, you have to take it. One day, we saw an abandoned big box van (think like a large rental truck) just abandoned on the side of the bridge. Now my co-worker (and driver) is ex Marines, so when we get to the exit (on the far side of the tunnel iirc) we stop and inform the National Guard squad (oh yes, military units were EVERYWHERE) there about the abandoned van.
Well, from the loading area (and our welding/grinding/safety test area where I was mainly working that day) you could see the bridge, and the truck.
Despite there being this 'Big Terror Alert', not a single person went near that truck for about 2 hours. Then a tow-truck came and pulled it away. No investigations, no checking the truck out, making sure it was 'safe', NOTHING.
I grew up in the UK, in Liverpool, during the IRA conflict. I was at the 93 Warrington bombing (the boston bombing was a near carbon copy of it, and almost exactly 20 years later), walked past one of the bombs minutes before it went off, and known many other 'suspect package' alerts.
They did none of it. That's when I understood how much of it was just for manipulation, and emotional response encouragement.
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