An American needs a passport or other special pass to enter Canada not because Canada requires it, but because America requires it for their citizen to return.
And the US has agreements with Canada and many other countries such that when an American flashes their passport to enter a third country, a record of this is sent to the US.
I will put one of these anti-camera license plate covers on, so the DHS cameras that scan every license number leaving the United States will not record my license plate,
You do know that's a fantasy, right?
If a human can read the plate, then so can a camera. They're not using different laws of physics. If a human can't read the plate, it's illegal and you'll be stopped so that it can be cleared and recorded.
Flights to and from Alaska are probably considered "international."
Here in Canada, flights to Toronto from western Canada or Halifax tend to pass briefly through American airspace. So they're considered international flights on at least one level; passenger manifests must be turned over to the Americans well ahead of time and flights have been turned back if someone with a name they randomly don't like is aboard.
You can be sure that the agreement goes both ways. That anyone flying between Alaska and the mainland US is having their information stored in two countries.
.. this is an unusual but simple contract-law issue that any competent civil judge could quickly resolve. The hotel has no valid claim of "Breach of Contract" because the guest did not understand or accept that specific, obscure clause at issue.
So would any competent civil judge invalidate a shrink-wrap license? The kind you're presented with AFTER the deal is made, AFTER you've opened the software or inkjet cartridge packaging and it's too late to return it?
Just curious. I never seem to find a definitive answer on that.
In a war with Russia, which surely will be nuclear after the first day, who cares much about the internet?
The RIAA and MPAA. If they want to remain funded and fed after a nuclear war and disconnected internet, they'll need to convince survivors that people in those BRICS nations with their alternative DNS servers are still pirating.
Re: Re: Re: Re: "Interfere with the course of justice or democracy?"
The government isn't using that to harm me, or you.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
Cardinal Richelieu
Richelieu's point is valid even without evil intent. Even without electronic surveillance there are endless cases of people put through hell because of confirmation bias: Officers seizing on details that support their suspicion while ignoring those that oppose it.
WITH electronic surveillance - emails, Facebook posts, Google search history, grocery purchase history etc. - instead of six lines they're getting six million. They'll always be able to find something with which to hang the most honest of people. And there's a growing number of examples of this happening.
A big reason they're imaging phones of returning Americans at the border - and in other investigations within the country - and through data mining of call metadata - is to build a database of who knows who. You can careful in who you know, but you don't know who those people know. Or who the folks two steps out know.
Consider Canadian telecommunications engineer Maher Arar. Kidnapped by the US government, sent to a third country, tortured, and finally cleared and released with an "er, never mind." Because data mining showed that he knew someone who knew someone who had ties to terrorists. (The same has happened to others merely because their name resembled someone else's.)
Or maybe it's some other innocent activity. Shopping online for a pressure cooker for example. Or just having your fingerprints on record, like in the case of American lawyer and veteran Brandon Mayfield. After the 2004 Madrid train bombings a partial fingerprint found on a bag somewhat matched his own from veteran's records. Despite Spanish officials telling the FBI that it wasn't a match, the FBI didn't just arrest him; they "disappeared" him. (Lied to the judge about the case against him, and later lied about where he was being held.) He was arrested as a "material witness", so he could be held as long as they wanted without charging him. And of course they raided his home and carted off his and his family's belongings.
Then there's the data mining now used by law enforcement for "civil forfeiture." A small business's nightly deposits are less than $10,000? (Deposits greater than that amount must be reported to the federal government) Seize the account. No other evidence needed, and a system set up so that there's little chance of getting it back.
C'mon. There plenty more... not just examples, but entire genres of examples.
Re: Re: Dispite the fact that repealing this was an election promise
It was a terrible, stupid knee-jerk reaction to terrorism that included the kidnapping of a foreign diplomat.
But be honest:
The War Measures Act wasn't martial law. Think of the US or Canada during WWII. The government and military get more powers, the military gets called up to support the police, but the police remain in charge and the military doesn't get a judicial role.
But like in WWII some people declared possible enemies (in this case suspected FLQ members and sympathizers) got locked up and could be held without due process for up to 21 days.
While on paper it was "all of Canada", in reality it was Quebec, mostly Montreal, because that's where the FLQ was active. Plus a bit of theatre in Ottawa. In the rest of Canada it had no noticeable effect.
It was in force for three months. No, not "until the '90's."
In 1988 the War Measures Act - the law itself, not any declaration - was replaced with the Emergencies Act. (Notable changes: A declaration of an emergency by the Cabinet must be reviewed by Parliament. Any temporary laws made under the Act are subject to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.)
While you're at it, find a citation that the Bush II White House's off-site private server was any more secure. Or that Colin Powell's or Condoleezza Rice's private accounts were more secure. AOL, Yahoo and the others don't have a great track record - and that's not counting the unknown number of people around the world who get admin access intentionally.
In fact, I believe it was hacked into.
In fact, there's no evidence of this. It's simply what you want to believe.
Republican doctrine ever since has been that history started in January 2009. Bush, Cheney, and the rest of their administration simply didn't exist in the 2012 primaries and convention.
If some commie Marxist socialist mentioned Bush II, the response was that "he wasn't really a Republican anyway."
This'll happen with Trump. Republicans will get all the things they wanted, but couldn't get without alienating the voters. More tax holidays for the rich, gutting health care, big expensive unneeded projects (border wall) that they can use to loot the treasury, erasing environmental and consumer protection laws, and of course Ajit Pai's carnival of corruption.
It's Republicans in Congress doing it, but Trump will get the blame and you can't blame Republicans because Trump was never really a Republican anyway. How dare you link him to Republicans.
Alabama Republicans desperately quoted the Bible to justify supporting a pedophile for Congress. In the end many Republicans stayed home rather than vote for the party's nominee.
Meanwhile the Republican Party as a whole is tearing itself apart over being dominated by Trump and Moore supporters, plus the traditional conservatism rejecting alt-right. It can only end at best with a civil war within the party. Again leading to many Republicans just not voting, giving Democratic Party the advantage.
Or possibly a split into two parties, one for traditional conservatives and one for the Trump/Alt-right/Tea Party crowd. But that would split the vote, again giving Democratic Party the advantage.
You've given the obvious and predictable response from the right: "Parties are bad and wrong and anyone who says otherwise is un-American and the right has ALWAYS believed this."
Blackburn has been closely associated with the telecommunications industry over the course of her career, as of 2017, Blackburn had accepted at least $693,000 in campaign contributions from telecom companies over her 14-year career in Congress.
Blackburn is an opponent of net neutrality in the United States, referring to it as "socialistic".
Blackburn opposes municipal broadband initiatives that aim to compete with Internet service providers.
She supported bills that restrict municipalities from creating their own broadband networks, and wrote a bill to prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from pre-empting state laws that blocked municipal broadband.
In early 2017, Blackburn introduced to the House a measure to dismantle an Obama-administration online privacy rule that had been adopted by the FCC in October 2016. Blackburn's measure, which was supported by broadband providers but criticized by privacy advocates, repealed the rule which required broadband providers to obtain consumers' permission before sharing their online data, including browsing histories.
The measure passed the House in a party-line vote in March 2017, after a similar measure had been passed by the Senate the same week. She subsequently proposed legislation which expanded the requirement to include internet companies as well as broadband providers.
Also a climate change denier, anti-civil rights, a reliable source of anti-Obamacare wingnuttery, and a border wall and Muslim ban supporter.
In her defence, there's no word on her being banned from any shopping malls.
Re: "General Mike Flynn's calls with Russians" were legal! Was lying to FBI that got him.
and there was NOTHING illegal or wrong with Flynn's communications to Russia.
Other than lying to the FBI about it?
He also lied about his ties to Russia in February 2016 when he was applying for a renewal of his security clearance. He claimed no income from foreign companies and had only “insubstantial contact” with foreign nationals - just a couple months after receiving a 3-day, all-expenses-paid trip and $45,000 from Russia Today. Where he sat at the same table as Putin. (The Defense Department Inspector General is also investigating Flynn.)
There's also his $530,000 deal with the Turkish government, which again he failed to disclose during the campaign.
He's being investigated for possible efforts to obtain Hillary Clinton’s emails from Russian hackers.
While his intercepted call to Sergey Kislyak (the one he lied about to the FBI this time) wasn't until December 2016, months earlier during the election Russian officials were bragging that they had a strong relationship with Flynn and believed they could use him to influence Donald Trump and his team.
While contradicting the US government and telling the Russians that the incoming Trump administration would revisit US sanctions on Russia once in office may not have been illegal (actually, illegal under the Logan act but rarely prosecuted) it certainly was wrong.
So he agreed to plead guilty to a single count in his deal with the FBI. It's only one count because he made a deal to cooperate as they go after bigger fish.
Backdoors in computers were already a well-documented security issue by the end of the 1960s. They were a common theme all through the '70s, '80s and '90s. They still show up regularly, from backdoors found in routers and smartphones and bundled software on PCs, to the NSA putting a backdoor in a common encryption standard.
Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems almost by definition have backdoors, because you have to supply the end user - the attacker - with the keys. And so even DRM systems created by the best experts in the industry - like that built into Blu-Ray devices - are quickly cracked. And then EVERYONE has the keys to be backdoor. Including all the bad guys. The same happens if you put a backdoor in a phone's operating system.
But suppose we lived in a fantasy world where a backdoor wouldn't be cracked open: Consider the "Stingray" cellular phone surveillance devices. Originally for anti-terrorism and anti-espionage. Now they're run by countless state and local police forces, and even jails. In many countries.
Multiple federal agencies will demand the backdoor key. The NYPD and many other state and local police forces. Knowing that the backdoor exists, other countries will demand the keys too. From RCMP, CSIS, CSE and other agencies in Canada to Russia and middle-eastern dictatorships, er, "valued customers of American security companies." Do you trust ALL of them to not leak the keys?
So:
There is no such thing as a backdoor for just the good guys. We've learned over and over since that dawn of the computer era that any backdoor will be discovered by the crooks and scammers.
By mandating a back door, you're announcing the existence of a back door. It's like mandating that doors to all homes MUST have a key under the doormat, and saying "but we won't tell the bad guys."
The "good guys" who have the backdoor key will consist of numerous agencies in America alone, plus more agencies in many other countries. Including some you don't trust.
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Re:
The US has the virtual three-part form.
An American needs a passport or other special pass to enter Canada not because Canada requires it, but because America requires it for their citizen to return.
And the US has agreements with Canada and many other countries such that when an American flashes their passport to enter a third country, a record of this is sent to the US.
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Re: Re: What a wonderful boon for terrorists
You do know that's a fantasy, right?
If a human can read the plate, then so can a camera. They're not using different laws of physics. If a human can't read the plate, it's illegal and you'll be stopped so that it can be cleared and recorded.
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Here in Canada, flights to Toronto from western Canada or Halifax tend to pass briefly through American airspace. So they're considered international flights on at least one level; passenger manifests must be turned over to the Americans well ahead of time and flights have been turned back if someone with a name they randomly don't like is aboard.
You can be sure that the agreement goes both ways. That anyone flying between Alaska and the mainland US is having their information stored in two countries.
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When a dog licks its balls, it's just being a dog. When Comcast defrauds customers on a grand scale, it's just being Comcast.
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Re: Basic Contract Law
So would any competent civil judge invalidate a shrink-wrap license? The kind you're presented with AFTER the deal is made, AFTER you've opened the software or inkjet cartridge packaging and it's too late to return it?
Just curious. I never seem to find a definitive answer on that.
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Re:
The RIAA and MPAA. If they want to remain funded and fed after a nuclear war and disconnected internet, they'll need to convince survivors that people in those BRICS nations with their alternative DNS servers are still pirating.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: "Interfere with the course of justice or democracy?"
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
Richelieu's point is valid even without evil intent. Even without electronic surveillance there are endless cases of people put through hell because of confirmation bias: Officers seizing on details that support their suspicion while ignoring those that oppose it.
WITH electronic surveillance - emails, Facebook posts, Google search history, grocery purchase history etc. - instead of six lines they're getting six million. They'll always be able to find something with which to hang the most honest of people. And there's a growing number of examples of this happening.
A big reason they're imaging phones of returning Americans at the border - and in other investigations within the country - and through data mining of call metadata - is to build a database of who knows who. You can careful in who you know, but you don't know who those people know. Or who the folks two steps out know.
Consider Canadian telecommunications engineer Maher Arar. Kidnapped by the US government, sent to a third country, tortured, and finally cleared and released with an "er, never mind." Because data mining showed that he knew someone who knew someone who had ties to terrorists. (The same has happened to others merely because their name resembled someone else's.)
Or maybe it's some other innocent activity. Shopping online for a pressure cooker for example. Or just having your fingerprints on record, like in the case of American lawyer and veteran Brandon Mayfield. After the 2004 Madrid train bombings a partial fingerprint found on a bag somewhat matched his own from veteran's records. Despite Spanish officials telling the FBI that it wasn't a match, the FBI didn't just arrest him; they "disappeared" him. (Lied to the judge about the case against him, and later lied about where he was being held.) He was arrested as a "material witness", so he could be held as long as they wanted without charging him. And of course they raided his home and carted off his and his family's belongings.
Then there's the data mining now used by law enforcement for "civil forfeiture." A small business's nightly deposits are less than $10,000? (Deposits greater than that amount must be reported to the federal government) Seize the account. No other evidence needed, and a system set up so that there's little chance of getting it back.
C'mon. There plenty more... not just examples, but entire genres of examples.
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Re: Re: Dispite the fact that repealing this was an election promise
It was a terrible, stupid knee-jerk reaction to terrorism that included the kidnapping of a foreign diplomat.
But be honest:
The War Measures Act wasn't martial law. Think of the US or Canada during WWII. The government and military get more powers, the military gets called up to support the police, but the police remain in charge and the military doesn't get a judicial role.
But like in WWII some people declared possible enemies (in this case suspected FLQ members and sympathizers) got locked up and could be held without due process for up to 21 days.
While on paper it was "all of Canada", in reality it was Quebec, mostly Montreal, because that's where the FLQ was active. Plus a bit of theatre in Ottawa. In the rest of Canada it had no noticeable effect.
It was in force for three months. No, not "until the '90's."
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Re:
You're thinking of the European Economic Community created in the 1950s.
The treaty that created the EU in 1993 does indeed go beyond that. One of its goals:
Uber would fall under that.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hillary Clinton
Citation....?
While you're at it, find a citation that the Bush II White House's off-site private server was any more secure. Or that Colin Powell's or Condoleezza Rice's private accounts were more secure. AOL, Yahoo and the others don't have a great track record - and that's not counting the unknown number of people around the world who get admin access intentionally.
In fact, there's no evidence of this. It's simply what you want to believe.
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Re: Re: Re: This will have consequences
If some commie Marxist socialist mentioned Bush II, the response was that "he wasn't really a Republican anyway."
This'll happen with Trump. Republicans will get all the things they wanted, but couldn't get without alienating the voters. More tax holidays for the rich, gutting health care, big expensive unneeded projects (border wall) that they can use to loot the treasury, erasing environmental and consumer protection laws, and of course Ajit Pai's carnival of corruption.
It's Republicans in Congress doing it, but Trump will get the blame and you can't blame Republicans because Trump was never really a Republican anyway. How dare you link him to Republicans.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Alabama Republicans desperately quoted the Bible to justify supporting a pedophile for Congress. In the end many Republicans stayed home rather than vote for the party's nominee.
Meanwhile the Republican Party as a whole is tearing itself apart over being dominated by Trump and Moore supporters, plus the traditional conservatism rejecting alt-right. It can only end at best with a civil war within the party. Again leading to many Republicans just not voting, giving Democratic Party the advantage.
Or possibly a split into two parties, one for traditional conservatives and one for the Trump/Alt-right/Tea Party crowd. But that would split the vote, again giving Democratic Party the advantage.
You've given the obvious and predictable response from the right: "Parties are bad and wrong and anyone who says otherwise is un-American and the right has ALWAYS believed this."
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Wikipedia: Marsha Blackburn: Telecommunications
Also a climate change denier, anti-civil rights, a reliable source of anti-Obamacare wingnuttery, and a border wall and Muslim ban supporter.
In her defence, there's no word on her being banned from any shopping malls.
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Re: "General Mike Flynn's calls with Russians" were legal! Was lying to FBI that got him.
Other than lying to the FBI about it?
He also lied about his ties to Russia in February 2016 when he was applying for a renewal of his security clearance. He claimed no income from foreign companies and had only “insubstantial contact” with foreign nationals - just a couple months after receiving a 3-day, all-expenses-paid trip and $45,000 from Russia Today. Where he sat at the same table as Putin. (The Defense Department Inspector General is also investigating Flynn.)
There's also his $530,000 deal with the Turkish government, which again he failed to disclose during the campaign.
He's being investigated for possible efforts to obtain Hillary Clinton’s emails from Russian hackers.
While his intercepted call to Sergey Kislyak (the one he lied about to the FBI this time) wasn't until December 2016, months earlier during the election Russian officials were bragging that they had a strong relationship with Flynn and believed they could use him to influence Donald Trump and his team.
While contradicting the US government and telling the Russians that the incoming Trump administration would revisit US sanctions on Russia once in office may not have been illegal (actually, illegal under the Logan act but rarely prosecuted) it certainly was wrong.
So he agreed to plead guilty to a single count in his deal with the FBI. It's only one count because he made a deal to cooperate as they go after bigger fish.
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This administration does for bullshit what Stonehenge does for rocks.
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Re: I have no evidence for much of Google's behind-the-scenes influence, either...
Wikipedia: Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
Where to start....
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Re: Re:
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Look Out Below
Evidently the remote has a "launch trademark lawsuit" button. Hence the level of knowledge and ethics of thier legal representation.
I had the IMDB page open, so I did a quick search for "below." And looked only at entries with [number] below.
Companies:
9 Levels Below FX
Fifteen Below Zero
30 Below Entertainment
40 Below Films
40 Below Productions Inc.
42 Below
54 Below
110 Below Productions
Less relevant: show titles
Below Zero (1925) (Short)
Below Zero (2008) (TV Episode)
Below Zero (2009) (TV Episode)
Below 0° (2017) (Short)
Three Below Zero (1998)
3 Below (2005) (Video)
3 Below (2018) (TV Series)
6 Below (2016)
6 Below (2017)
7 Below (2012)
Eight Below (2006)
20 Ft Below
21 Below (2009)
Below 22 Degrees (2014) (Short)
30 Below (in development)
Forty Below (2010) (Short)
48 Below (2010)
That's just one industry. No, you do not get exclusive use of an entire naming convention across all industries.
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Yo, Vance
Backdoors in computers were already a well-documented security issue by the end of the 1960s. They were a common theme all through the '70s, '80s and '90s. They still show up regularly, from backdoors found in routers and smartphones and bundled software on PCs, to the NSA putting a backdoor in a common encryption standard.
Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems almost by definition have backdoors, because you have to supply the end user - the attacker - with the keys. And so even DRM systems created by the best experts in the industry - like that built into Blu-Ray devices - are quickly cracked. And then EVERYONE has the keys to be backdoor. Including all the bad guys. The same happens if you put a backdoor in a phone's operating system.
But suppose we lived in a fantasy world where a backdoor wouldn't be cracked open: Consider the "Stingray" cellular phone surveillance devices. Originally for anti-terrorism and anti-espionage. Now they're run by countless state and local police forces, and even jails. In many countries.
Multiple federal agencies will demand the backdoor key. The NYPD and many other state and local police forces. Knowing that the backdoor exists, other countries will demand the keys too. From RCMP, CSIS, CSE and other agencies in Canada to Russia and middle-eastern dictatorships, er, "valued customers of American security companies." Do you trust ALL of them to not leak the keys?
So:
There is no such thing as a backdoor for just the good guys. We've learned over and over since that dawn of the computer era that any backdoor will be discovered by the crooks and scammers.
By mandating a back door, you're announcing the existence of a back door. It's like mandating that doors to all homes MUST have a key under the doormat, and saying "but we won't tell the bad guys."
It ain't going to work.
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