There is no reason to just banned all modified consoles. They should look to see if someone's console is sending data that is 'strange' back to the servers (like they are being hit and it is not coming up as damage) in order to ban people.
Not when they could be using custom firmware to do anything from backup up their legally bought games to enabling running from the hard drive without a disc in the drive to running homebrew software to various other things.
Agreed, Anonymous. The fact is that this is a rootkit by definition, whether or not the EULA (which almost no one reads AND has been declared unenforceable in several courts) says that Sony has the right to put this on your PS3.
Not so. Many of those EULA's have been looked upon by courts and thrown out because you have to open the box to read them, as the other poster pointed out.
You are forgetting that if EULA's come into conflict with other law, they are null and void.
It shouldn't matter whether you can buy content directly from the app or not, that should be left up to the customer whether they want to do that or not, it should NOT be via an edict from Apple.
Yes, it is true. My cousins work for the FBI and Maryland State Police (the one in the police just retired)..... they are the ones who say that if they wish to follow someone for ANY period, they need to justify it and get a special order from a judge in order to do so.
Many cops have been dismissed for NOT getting that judges consent beforehand.
There is also the issue that a lot of the 'criminals' are only 'criminals' in the mind of the various copyright organizations.
Regular people see pirating and see, not a criminal, but a copyright violator.... who is best punished using the CIVIL LEGAL SYSTEM, not the criminal one.
Actually, no, you don't. The government cannot tell you to decrypt something on your computer or on another person's computer, it is totally against the Fifth Amendment right to stay silent and not be called as a witness against yourself without your consent.
In a pig's eye. Many people are getting more and more leery of the stereotyping of pedosexuals, drug users, etc. that the government has been doing for years now. It's getting to the point where if they pile anything else on, it's going to break the cord that is barely holding the slingshot in check, and the government is going to have the load of 500 ton rocks in the slingshot come shooting in their face at 200 MPH!
Quite hard, because this is NOT asking them to 'retain all the information for legal searches with a warrant'. It is asking them to keep ALL THE INFORMATION OUT OF THE HOPES OF LEA's that they will find someone 'doing something wrong' or illegal (and by the way, they cannot definitively prove that one person or another is trading CP unless they find CP on the person's computer, coming from someone who was accused of trading CP at one time) in the future and can go back YEARS looking for other evidence of wrongdoings.
That is totally against our system of justice as well as the statute of limitations on crimes.
Actually, the war on drugs hasn't eroded the 4th Amendment at all from what I have seen. The 'war on terror'? Yeah, that has eroded it big time, to the point where the government just has to say "TERRORISM!" and judges are more than willing to throw out their brains and allow anything in most cases.
It's both. It's a public and private place, where the same rules that are in public (you cannot follow someone for days without being accused of stalking, even if you are the police, without a warrant) for the protection of private citizens still apply.
No, he isn't. She was asking him the questions when he had his Sherriff's clothing on (and whether you are out of uniform or not, you are still a Law Enforcement Officer by the definition in the law books) so she had all the right to ask him those questions about the allegations against him.
I wouldn't be too surprised if they went that far and said that this place violated the law, to be blunt. Legal filings are supposed to be about FACTS AND EVIDENCE.... not things that go well with lies.
Well, after they had GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS saying that the things that they had been saying and pointing out for years were right on the part of 'conspiracy nuts'..... they couldn't really keep saying that without getting a backhand to the face from the SMART Americans who hadn't been brainwashed with American exceptionalism.
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Hit the nail on the profiling things. The law enforcement agencies have to create criminals in order to justify themselves and their existence.
That is why we just haven't legalized the drug trade, pedosexuality, etc..... society needs it's 'boogie men' to allow the LEO's to justify their existence.
Wrong. Assange cannot be put on the TSA no-fly list, because he has no connections to terrorism. If it was found that he was on that list.... OOOH, the shitstorm that would fly!
Just because someone is involved in something that gives the government a (deserved in this case) black eye doesn't mean that they can automatically put the person on the no-fly list.
One of them is literally a feminist blogger in Sweden, you are correct on that, and the OTHER or the same one has ties to the CIA.... which makes me even more skeptical of these charges.
Not to mention that they were dismissed, resumed, dismissed again, and resumed again... this is the FRIGGING FOURTH TIME they have reignited this investigation.
I am sorry, but when that happens (unless it is YEARS after the fact and in something like a murder investigation where someone could have vacated their home and more evidence was found).... there is no real case.
These women have also changed their stories SO GODDAMNED MUCH that they have no credibility left! I'm lumping them in the same category as the Duke accuser... LIAR CENTRAL!
Agreed, with everything but the 'lock government official' stuff. The fact is that Manning should have been brought to trial by now. If they have NOT brought him to trial (which the USMC has in it the same 'file charges after arrest' and try period as civilian law), then it's time to say that they are on a fishing expedition and to bring him to trial or release him.... one or the frigging other!
With all due respect, this is not a false dichotomy. In order for there to be true freedom of people to do whatever they want, as long as they are not physically harming others or forcing others to do or not do things that they do not or do wish to do?
There has to be a chance that bad things will happen. Meaning that people cannot be free when you hide things from their eyes.
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Not when they could be using custom firmware to do anything from backup up their legally bought games to enabling running from the hard drive without a disc in the drive to running homebrew software to various other things.
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You are forgetting that if EULA's come into conflict with other law, they are null and void.
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Many cops have been dismissed for NOT getting that judges consent beforehand.
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Regular people see pirating and see, not a criminal, but a copyright violator.... who is best punished using the CIVIL LEGAL SYSTEM, not the criminal one.
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That is totally against our system of justice as well as the statute of limitations on crimes.
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That is why we just haven't legalized the drug trade, pedosexuality, etc..... society needs it's 'boogie men' to allow the LEO's to justify their existence.
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Just because someone is involved in something that gives the government a (deserved in this case) black eye doesn't mean that they can automatically put the person on the no-fly list.
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Not to mention that they were dismissed, resumed, dismissed again, and resumed again... this is the FRIGGING FOURTH TIME they have reignited this investigation.
I am sorry, but when that happens (unless it is YEARS after the fact and in something like a murder investigation where someone could have vacated their home and more evidence was found).... there is no real case.
These women have also changed their stories SO GODDAMNED MUCH that they have no credibility left! I'm lumping them in the same category as the Duke accuser... LIAR CENTRAL!
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There has to be a chance that bad things will happen. Meaning that people cannot be free when you hide things from their eyes.
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