Mr. Somm is ''a slave of the parent company,'' said the court's chief judge, Laszlo Ember. Taking note that Mr. Somm had briefly tried to block access to a number of Internet sites, later giving up because the blockade proved unmanageable, Judge Ember said Mr. Somm had done all he could.
Granted, that case was about merely letting the material travel across their networks, not about hosting it.
Purposely ignored, or just no longer had investigative reporters?
Another symptom of the decline of newspapers is that many are just republishing Reuters news feeds and police, city hall and corporate press releases. Old-time investigative reporters are no longer in the budget.
This is why reporters working for the NY Times and Washington Post routinely get away with publishing leaked classified information,
The 'large newspaper' press has been an important check against abuse of power, but it's day is disappearing. Consider the movie Spotlight, about the Boston Globe's investigation of systemic child sex abuse in the Boston area by numerous Roman Catholic priests. It's been said that if the story happened today, it wouldn't have been reported. The newspaper, with a much smaller subscription base and ability to absorb legal expenses, would have backed down in the face of Church opposition.
Professional journalists backed by a powerful newspaper may be preferable to citizen journalists working on audacity alone. But we may not have that choice.
...Or even a list of popular works now in the public domain in "life plus 50" copyright countries? I'd like to start collecting them on a network drive.
I'd also like a definitive answer on whether I could get in legal trouble for hosting that collection on a public web server here in Canada. (With nothing to stop Americans from accessing it.)
We really need versions of the EFF and Center for the Study of the Public Domain in one of the "life plus 50" countries. The lack of definitive answers is probably the only thing keeping "life plus 50" folks from openly sharing, and making "life plus 70" and America's "everything after 1923, forever" terms irrelevant.
You might want to explain "Insane Clown Posse" to non-Americans. I don't think it has anything to do with the Trump administration or its followers, but I'm not absolutely certain.
User name and password. They can't force you to turn that over.
(Ok, America can and does kidnap the occasional visitor and send them to a third country for torture if the visitor doesn't give them the answers they want. But that's pretty rare.)
(And Americans can be held indefinitely for not unlocking their phone, but that depends on other indications that they've committed a crime.)
"Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low." - Wallace Stanley Sayre (1905–1972), U.S. political scientist and professor at Columbia University.
Communism was once China's highest ideal, where in the US it was democracy, capitalism and citizens' rights. They've apparently agreed to meet half-way at authoritarian capitalism.
I'm talking about private servers - company or personal - not the major cloud services. I have my own home email and file servers for example.
That's not 100% secure, but then nothing is. It is however effectively secure against border searches, by simply not having sensitive data on your device when you cross the border.
We don't have to show papers or submit to searches when traveling within the US...
...other than within 100 miles of any border, with the coasts are considered borders. This covers about two thirds of the US population.
In any case this doesn't stop secrets from leaving the US. It's a concern for data coming into the US. (One easily remedied by keeping your data on a server instead of your phone or laptop, and accessing it only once you've crossed the border.)
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Not very different in principle from a "copy protected" audio CD that can be read (and played) by a standalone CD player yet is invisible to a computer's CD-ROM drive.
That relied on different behavior of audio CD and CD-ROM drives. Only the CD-ROM drives looked for a data track on the outer rim. (And this was defeated with a magic marker. You could also just un-check the auto-run feature in Windows, which should have been done anyway.)
An eye and a camera on the other hand will be seeing the same light.
it's likely that anything that thwarts license plate readers will soon be defeated by newer and better plate readers.
As Mythbusters testing showed, the reflective sprays and whatnot were fully defeated over a decade ago. And that's with the probably false assumption that they EVER worked.
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Or a unicorn could block it.
In Ontario alone there are 2900 convictions a year for obstructing plates. It doesn't sound like they have any problem at all connecting obstructed plates to owners.
The obstructed plate you describe doesn't stop you from being pulled over and asked for a viewing of your license and registration. Should you successfully make a run for the border, it's simply a different police force stopping you.
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So the CHP officer records your plate# and you're arrested if you ever return from Mexico.
That's aside from forwarding it to Mexican authorities. If needed. You know, because if you arrive at the border with a police pursuit, they're going to stop you themselves and probably hand you back.
This happens occasionally here on the Canadian border. There's even a protocol for border-crossing hot pursuits.
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If your eyes can see the plate from an angle, then so can a camera. It's the same light. Nothing about a camera stops it from seeing at an angle. If your eyes can't read the plate from an angle, then the cover is illegal. Good luck avoiding a ticket, let alone crossing the border.
Sure, you can rig a demo to con customers of your magic camera shield. Say, using polarized lenses. But chances are the border camera won't have a polarized lens let alone have it aligned just the right way for the trick to work in real life.
People have tried to camouflage their license plates with hairspray, plastic wrap, specialized spray formulas and license plate covers, and none have held up to MythBusters testing. For instance, don't buy the hype about specialized blockers that obscure license plates when viewed from the camera's elevated vantage point. Regardless of height, speed cameras can still read that auto ID clear as day.
Same goes for commercial spray that supposedly reflects the camera's flash back onto its lens, transforming the license plate area into a blank white rectangle. The speed camera still captures a clear image of the plate number.
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To be clear, they only have to look back 20 years.
NYT (1997): Germany Charges Compuserve Manager
(...for pornography and Nazi swastikas on foreign web sites after CompuServe connected to the internet.)
NYT (1999): German Court Overturns Pornography Ruling Against CompuServe
Granted, that case was about merely letting the material travel across their networks, not about hosting it.
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Another symptom of the decline of newspapers is that many are just republishing Reuters news feeds and police, city hall and corporate press releases. Old-time investigative reporters are no longer in the budget.
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The 'large newspaper' press has been an important check against abuse of power, but it's day is disappearing. Consider the movie Spotlight, about the Boston Globe's investigation of systemic child sex abuse in the Boston area by numerous Roman Catholic priests. It's been said that if the story happened today, it wouldn't have been reported. The newspaper, with a much smaller subscription base and ability to absorb legal expenses, would have backed down in the face of Church opposition.
Professional journalists backed by a powerful newspaper may be preferable to citizen journalists working on audacity alone. But we may not have that choice.
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I'd also like a definitive answer on whether I could get in legal trouble for hosting that collection on a public web server here in Canada. (With nothing to stop Americans from accessing it.)
We really need versions of the EFF and Center for the Study of the Public Domain in one of the "life plus 50" countries. The lack of definitive answers is probably the only thing keeping "life plus 50" folks from openly sharing, and making "life plus 70" and America's "everything after 1923, forever" terms irrelevant.
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You might want to explain "Insane Clown Posse" to non-Americans. I don't think it has anything to do with the Trump administration or its followers, but I'm not absolutely certain.
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(Ok, America can and does kidnap the occasional visitor and send them to a third country for torture if the visitor doesn't give them the answers they want. But that's pretty rare.)
(And Americans can be held indefinitely for not unlocking their phone, but that depends on other indications that they've committed a crime.)
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- Wallace Stanley Sayre (1905–1972), U.S. political scientist and professor at Columbia University.
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I'm talking about private servers - company or personal - not the major cloud services. I have my own home email and file servers for example.
That's not 100% secure, but then nothing is. It is however effectively secure against border searches, by simply not having sensitive data on your device when you cross the border.
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...other than within 100 miles of any border, with the coasts are considered borders. This covers about two thirds of the US population.
In any case this doesn't stop secrets from leaving the US. It's a concern for data coming into the US. (One easily remedied by keeping your data on a server instead of your phone or laptop, and accessing it only once you've crossed the border.)
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GlobalResearch.ca is essentially InfoWars with more anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.
A decade ago they were publishing North American Union, Amero and 9/11 conspiracies. (Yes, of course they blame Israel for that too.)
These days they're little more than a news feed for Russia Today and the Kremlin-run Sputnik news agency.
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That's not trolling; THIS is trolling:
Location data: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
Message: "Enjoy your ride on the unhinged ferris wheel rolling toward the sea!"
Location data: Harvey Weinstein's office
Message: "Oh, don’t act so surprised. You knew this would come out eventually."
Message: "It was inevitable that he'd greenlight The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature."
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That relied on different behavior of audio CD and CD-ROM drives. Only the CD-ROM drives looked for a data track on the outer rim. (And this was defeated with a magic marker. You could also just un-check the auto-run feature in Windows, which should have been done anyway.)
An eye and a camera on the other hand will be seeing the same light.
As Mythbusters testing showed, the reflective sprays and whatnot were fully defeated over a decade ago. And that's with the probably false assumption that they EVER worked.
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Or a unicorn could block it.
In Ontario alone there are 2900 convictions a year for obstructing plates. It doesn't sound like they have any problem at all connecting obstructed plates to owners.
The obstructed plate you describe doesn't stop you from being pulled over and asked for a viewing of your license and registration. Should you successfully make a run for the border, it's simply a different police force stopping you.
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That's aside from forwarding it to Mexican authorities. If needed. You know, because if you arrive at the border with a police pursuit, they're going to stop you themselves and probably hand you back.
This happens occasionally here on the Canadian border. There's even a protocol for border-crossing hot pursuits.
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If your eyes can see the plate from an angle, then so can a camera. It's the same light. Nothing about a camera stops it from seeing at an angle. If your eyes can't read the plate from an angle, then the cover is illegal. Good luck avoiding a ticket, let alone crossing the border.
Sure, you can rig a demo to con customers of your magic camera shield. Say, using polarized lenses. But chances are the border camera won't have a polarized lens let alone have it aligned just the right way for the trick to work in real life.
Mythbusters put some of the claims to the test.
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