The instinctual reaction to bring law enforcement into the equation is understandable ...
Since when? Who was harmed? Law enforcement should be protecting us from violent criminals, not kids trading playing cards. It's just pixels, usually with everything above the throat chopped off, so anonymous. BFD!
Meanwhile slashers and gore play on prime time and during the newshour, with full coverage of various "wars of liberation" with explosions and firefights, and weeping peasants in handcuffs with bags over their heads. If they're not enough, borrow a superhero movie from the library.
what right can any company etc have to be above the law? how can any government be stupid enough to agree to spend millions each time a company wants something but doesn't get, in 'court' battles?
Wow, are you ever naive (or uninformed). Corporations buy the laws they want by donating a few grand to politicians' campaign funding (they sell out pretty cheaply). The "government" of which you speak is the playground of politicians. The citizens of which you speak are are ignored when possible, herded when necessary, and humored and ignored otherwise.
The present Liberal gov't is the other face of Canada's always ruling party, Liberals and Conservatives (sort of like the US' Democrats and Republicans respectively). They both want pretty much the same thing from their corporate masters (money), and now that the Conservatives have pretty much tarnished themselves for the moment, it's the Liberals' turn. "Plus ca change, ..." Don't expect the Liberals to do anything the Conservatives wouldn't. They won't. They just have different best friends, and many of the same friends.
After using Windows 10 for a month now, I have to say I enjoy it.
Obviously, you've managed to ignore all the many articles lambasting it for its abusive qualities. Go read some of them and learn about what it's doing in the background with your data and Personally Identifying Information, selling you out to all its business partners, and spying on your every action as if you're just another criminal who's yet to be caught, or a mark to be fleeced.
I'm grateful every day that I made the jump to FLOSS twenty-two years ago! I don't need to worry about *my* machine and *my* software spying on me. It works for me, not some shady unknowable perverts down the wire from me!
Nobody's perfect, but there's nothing immoral about being selfish, especially when it's your stuff you're being selfish about. If you disagree, then how can you stand to own anything? Give it all away and beg for your supper like Hari Krishnas. Have fun. I won't be joining you.
More than two years after Mr. Snowden's leaks, not one NSA employee, affiliate or senior leader has been indicted, tried or convicted with a crime related to violating the FISA.
True, and we are wondering wtf they've been doing about that, because a whole lot of whistleblowers have been screaming about rampant abuse for quite some time now. What's taking so long?
If you've got root on suspected bad guy's box, are you going to be looking into what he's done and what he's doing? With a warrant signed by a judge who understands the situation, great!
Are you going to be planting evidence or manufacturing terrorist plots just to get suspected bad guy in jail (which is what the prosecutor is going to be screaming for)? Not so good, and in Chicago (among many other places) I'd expect the latter. Are judges knowledgable enough to demand full transcripts of the cops' actions and believable before and after listings of devices' contents and actions? Ha ha. Very funny.
Who watches the watchers? We still care about chain of evidence and all that boring technical stuff, right?
Re: Re: DMCA abuse that results in some kind of punishment?
I think that was just a rhetorical way of saying that virtually nothing is abuse resulting in punishment.
Yes, there was rhetoric in there, but I think there's more literal truth than rhetoric:
Yes, those are the words of the law. But you cannot interpret them like that in court. Not against Disney sued by some peon.
The MafiAA have been beating the crap out of everyone (see Wordpress's Rogue's Gallery for instance, or what Google has to put up with) in their witch hunting attempts to protect their Imaginary Property. Courts so far have cared very little about their excesses. They appear so far to just wave them away with "boys will be boys" and "good faith exception", because copyright. Bad DMCA takedowns are perjury, but you wouldn't know that by watching court decisions.
What it could do is take a look at its pricing. Sometimes trimming the profit margin has more impact on copyright infringement than a fistful of federal lawsuits.
Perhaps, but killing outfits like Elsevier would be a far better solution for everyone who actually matters, which Elsevier doesn't.
Yes, she did, and so do I. She even wrote a book titled "The Virtue of Selfishness". Have you read the article you linked to? It explains why. Rand despised "the moochers" who used gov't power to enrich themselves. She didn't consider them capitalists. A lot of so-called capitalists (including Trump and the Tesla electric car guy) don't deserve to call themselves capitalists. They're about as capitalistic as the PRC or Soviet Union were Marxist communists, meaning in name only.
As a Christian I can't accept that. I won't accept that.
Christianity, like most other spirituality, is very altruistic. It's made religion (the business of capitalizing on spirituality) very profitable.
I, on the other hand, am a "teach a man to fish" kind of guy, so he'll be able to feed himself. Altruism teaches you to "give a man a fish" instead, so they'll be locked into dependence on others than themselves. I can't accept that. I think religion is evil, and spirituality is plain silly.
Rand saw nothing moral nor immoral about charity. You want to be charitable, everybody should have a hobby, have fun. When instead we *expect* people to be charitable, up to and including forcing them to by gov't decree (via redistribution via taxation & etc.), sure the hell is immoral. That's no better than Steppenwolf's "The Pusher" because dependence is dependence no matter what form it takes.
And antisemitism was a global phenomenon at the turn of the century and afterwards ...
There were plenty of racists, yes, but there were plenty of exceptions too. When the Allies stumbled into the death camps, Eisenhower and his staff were horrified, to the point of forcing the German people to go to the camps to see what their leaders had done in their name.
Meanwhile, here we are in the 21st Century and the racists still run rampant. One of them's the GOP front runner. "Plus ca change, ..."
I wonder if this will be what pushes people over the edge to take back control of this almost completely corrupt government.
I have this vision of the winner at the swearing in ceremony, where thousands stand up chanting, "Liar, liar, pants on fire!" Should make for great reality tv, watching the SS drag them all away to waiting paddy-wagons.
The citizenry should always be held responsible for its government.
It is delusional to believe 21st century elections can be fair elections. The politicians have had their fingers in the pudding for so long, it's long since ceased to be in the voters' hands. The head of the FEC agrees, and admits she/they can do nothing about it. It's a rigged game from start to finish, gerrymandered to death, and only serves incumbents except in extraordinary circumstances.
The gov't and politicians the Constitution was supposed to keep in check are running the place. The inmates have taken over the asylum; the fire in the fireplace is out of control and burning down the house. Revolution is the only option, sadly. Nothing else can stop it now.
Wheras you, on the other hand, are a self-acknowledged expert on obesity and the lack of pleasurable surface features among humans, even apparently of those you've never even seen nor met. You should now (I'm assuming you're under seven years old) go ask your mother to explain what you did wrong and why it is a silly and mean thing to do (mostly because it makes you look like a fool, and most people try to avoid having anything to do with fools). If you're really good, she might even explain why it was also stupid, without just cutting her losses and strangling you to get it over with.
I do hope you get a chance to live to adulthood, but the prognosis is not good. Watch your back and get another hobby. I suggest either spending a lot of time in libraries or playing in traffic on the freeway, but not both. You likely also need a nap.
I think I've seen at least ten people (including me) so far pointing out the *obvious* recursive repercussions of this boneheaded idea, yet this never occurred to anyone connected to the app or the governor's office? The voters are sure getting taken for a ride when this level of incompetence is what they get for their money.
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.
Such as a backpack with a pressure cooker inside at the finish line of the Boston Marathon? Yeah, we'll send someone around when we have time.
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What?!?
Since when? Who was harmed? Law enforcement should be protecting us from violent criminals, not kids trading playing cards. It's just pixels, usually with everything above the throat chopped off, so anonymous. BFD!
Meanwhile slashers and gore play on prime time and during the newshour, with full coverage of various "wars of liberation" with explosions and firefights, and weeping peasants in handcuffs with bags over their heads. If they're not enough, borrow a superhero movie from the library.
Get your priorities sorted already.
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Wow, are you ever naive (or uninformed). Corporations buy the laws they want by donating a few grand to politicians' campaign funding (they sell out pretty cheaply). The "government" of which you speak is the playground of politicians. The citizens of which you speak are are ignored when possible, herded when necessary, and humored and ignored otherwise.
The present Liberal gov't is the other face of Canada's always ruling party, Liberals and Conservatives (sort of like the US' Democrats and Republicans respectively). They both want pretty much the same thing from their corporate masters (money), and now that the Conservatives have pretty much tarnished themselves for the moment, it's the Liberals' turn. "Plus ca change, ..." Don't expect the Liberals to do anything the Conservatives wouldn't. They won't. They just have different best friends, and many of the same friends.
On the post: Microsoft Retrofitting Windows 7, 8.1 With Windows 10's Privacy-Invading 'Features'
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Obviously, you've managed to ignore all the many articles lambasting it for its abusive qualities. Go read some of them and learn about what it's doing in the background with your data and Personally Identifying Information, selling you out to all its business partners, and spying on your every action as if you're just another criminal who's yet to be caught, or a mark to be fleeced.
I'm grateful every day that I made the jump to FLOSS twenty-two years ago! I don't need to worry about *my* machine and *my* software spying on me. It works for me, not some shady unknowable perverts down the wire from me!
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Nobody's perfect, but there's nothing immoral about being selfish, especially when it's your stuff you're being selfish about. If you disagree, then how can you stand to own anything? Give it all away and beg for your supper like Hari Krishnas. Have fun. I won't be joining you.
On the post: 'Intelligence Professional' Says NSA Deserves Trust, Power And Its Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Back
Ah ha! He admits it!
True, and we are wondering wtf they've been doing about that, because a whole lot of whistleblowers have been screaming about rampant abuse for quite some time now. What's taking so long?
On the post: FBI Admits To Using Zero Day Exploits To Hack Into Computers
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If you've got root on suspected bad guy's box, are you going to be looking into what he's done and what he's doing? With a warrant signed by a judge who understands the situation, great!
Are you going to be planting evidence or manufacturing terrorist plots just to get suspected bad guy in jail (which is what the prosecutor is going to be screaming for)? Not so good, and in Chicago (among many other places) I'd expect the latter. Are judges knowledgable enough to demand full transcripts of the cops' actions and believable before and after listings of devices' contents and actions? Ha ha. Very funny.
Who watches the watchers? We still care about chain of evidence and all that boring technical stuff, right?
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Re: Re: DMCA abuse that results in some kind of punishment?
Yes, there was rhetoric in there, but I think there's more literal truth than rhetoric:
The MafiAA have been beating the crap out of everyone (see Wordpress's Rogue's Gallery for instance, or what Google has to put up with) in their witch hunting attempts to protect their Imaginary Property. Courts so far have cared very little about their excesses. They appear so far to just wave them away with "boys will be boys" and "good faith exception", because copyright. Bad DMCA takedowns are perjury, but you wouldn't know that by watching court decisions.
On the post: Elsevier Granted Injunction Against Research Paper 'Pirate Site;' Which Immediately Moves To New Domain To Dodge It
Elsevier pricing is the problem? Not really.
Perhaps, but killing outfits like Elsevier would be a far better solution for everyone who actually matters, which Elsevier doesn't.
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Even she'd be safer on the road if everyone like her were removed from driving it.
On the post: Hillary Clinton Doubles Down Her Attack On Silicon Valley: Wants A 'Solution' For Encryption & Clampdown On Free Speech
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Yes, she did, and so do I. She even wrote a book titled "The Virtue of Selfishness". Have you read the article you linked to? It explains why. Rand despised "the moochers" who used gov't power to enrich themselves. She didn't consider them capitalists. A lot of so-called capitalists (including Trump and the Tesla electric car guy) don't deserve to call themselves capitalists. They're about as capitalistic as the PRC or Soviet Union were Marxist communists, meaning in name only.
Christianity, like most other spirituality, is very altruistic. It's made religion (the business of capitalizing on spirituality) very profitable.
I, on the other hand, am a "teach a man to fish" kind of guy, so he'll be able to feed himself. Altruism teaches you to "give a man a fish" instead, so they'll be locked into dependence on others than themselves. I can't accept that. I think religion is evil, and spirituality is plain silly.
Rand saw nothing moral nor immoral about charity. You want to be charitable, everybody should have a hobby, have fun. When instead we *expect* people to be charitable, up to and including forcing them to by gov't decree (via redistribution via taxation & etc.), sure the hell is immoral. That's no better than Steppenwolf's "The Pusher" because dependence is dependence no matter what form it takes.
On the post: The Two Leading Presidential Candidates -- Clinton And Trump -- Are Both Mocking Free Speech On The Internet
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There were plenty of racists, yes, but there were plenty of exceptions too. When the Allies stumbled into the death camps, Eisenhower and his staff were horrified, to the point of forcing the German people to go to the camps to see what their leaders had done in their name.
Meanwhile, here we are in the 21st Century and the racists still run rampant. One of them's the GOP front runner. "Plus ca change, ..."
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I have this vision of the winner at the swearing in ceremony, where thousands stand up chanting, "Liar, liar, pants on fire!" Should make for great reality tv, watching the SS drag them all away to waiting paddy-wagons.
On the post: The Two Leading Presidential Candidates -- Clinton And Trump -- Are Both Mocking Free Speech On The Internet
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It is delusional to believe 21st century elections can be fair elections. The politicians have had their fingers in the pudding for so long, it's long since ceased to be in the voters' hands. The head of the FEC agrees, and admits she/they can do nothing about it. It's a rigged game from start to finish, gerrymandered to death, and only serves incumbents except in extraordinary circumstances.
The gov't and politicians the Constitution was supposed to keep in check are running the place. The inmates have taken over the asylum; the fire in the fireplace is out of control and burning down the house. Revolution is the only option, sadly. Nothing else can stop it now.
On the post: Hillary Clinton Doubles Down Her Attack On Silicon Valley: Wants A 'Solution' For Encryption & Clampdown On Free Speech
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What they're asking for is strychnine flavored ice cream, and they're refusing to acknowledge that's poisonous ice cream.
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Even the DoJ is afraid of librarians. Not only do they read books, but surrounded by all those stacks of paper books, they'll survive nuclear war.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Denial
Then perhaps you can explain The Troubles in Ireland?
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Wa, wah, waaaaaaaahh! :-(
Wheras you, on the other hand, are a self-acknowledged expert on obesity and the lack of pleasurable surface features among humans, even apparently of those you've never even seen nor met. You should now (I'm assuming you're under seven years old) go ask your mother to explain what you did wrong and why it is a silly and mean thing to do (mostly because it makes you look like a fool, and most people try to avoid having anything to do with fools). If you're really good, she might even explain why it was also stupid, without just cutting her losses and strangling you to get it over with.
I do hope you get a chance to live to adulthood, but the prognosis is not good. Watch your back and get another hobby. I suggest either spending a lot of time in libraries or playing in traffic on the freeway, but not both. You likely also need a nap.
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On the post: NY Governor Announces App Version Of State's 'See Something, Say Something' Program
Re: Re: Things to do today ...
Such as a backpack with a pressure cooker inside at the finish line of the Boston Marathon? Yeah, we'll send someone around when we have time.
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The mayor tried that, but it was just his duty to campaign contributors (as everybody immediately recognized) and soon was laughed out of town.
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