Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 21 Aug 2013 @ 4:39am
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Yeah, I had similar thoughts reading that line.... though I was going to go for the rather more succinct "How the f*ck are they supposed to do that??"
You've got to wonder if German judges could pick a computer out of a lineup don't you?
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 19 Aug 2013 @ 3:46pm
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So they used a 'terrorism' law to detain someone, deny them rights to legal assistance, the right to remain silent,
Sad but true fact; In the UK one no longer has the right to remain silent. Some time ago the standard caution was amended to include the language "you do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something you later rely on in court" or something like that, meaning it is acceptable to legally interpret not speaking as an admission of guilt. I think we're trying to beat the US to the "Who can have less freedom than China without anyone revolting" trophy...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 14 Aug 2013 @ 10:50am
Re: Just the women?
Wondered the same thing and assumed that the focus on women was "moral outrage for the purpose of hyperbole". That being said it is sadly true that any male officer complaining about the same thing would likely be laughed at.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 14 Aug 2013 @ 5:01am
Re: Re: We are going through an anti-intellectualist trend.
US culture is based on European culture because most US people are originally European.
That may well be true, but US culture is vastly different to European cultures now. Also, "Europe" is a political and geographical invention and isn't anywhere close to a single culture so at best the US is a mish-mash of several European cultures - Hell, the bits of the US I've seen suggest even its culture isn't as homogenous as all that whatever the origin.
Sadly, most of Europe seems to be (re?)importing the worse parts of US culture if anything.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 14 Aug 2013 @ 4:37am
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According to this diagram attribution would be most intact at the proprietary end of the scale.
That's not how I read it - the "scale" (if any) seems to be more around legality than anything so I'd take that as the proprietary end of the scale being "more properly legal" for attribution than, say pirate radio.
Which makes sense since the laws are written for the proprietary end of the scale - I don't think he was trying to say anything there about the "intactness" or value of attribution by various methods.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 25 Jul 2013 @ 4:05pm
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No, it really depends on how the Constitution defines those things.
Then presumably an enemy of the constitution would be an enemy as defined by the constitution?
That's the point I was trying to make... Having watched many films I know the military oath swears to defend "the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic", does not the congressional oath have a similar line?
As for the constitution defining those things, the US government seems to have a "secret interpretation" of that too - just ask Mr Snowden...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 25 Jul 2013 @ 10:41am
Re: Re: "1.2 billion songs were copied without permission" just in Norway!
So, that money is better lost to torrenting? I'm not following.
Because he lives in a parallel universe where the seller gets to demand whatever they like for their product no matter how unreasonable rather than the price being established by market forces like in the universe everyone else lives in...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 25 Jul 2013 @ 10:28am
Re: Re: "1.2 billion songs were copied without permission" just in Norway!
I don't remember tech dirt ever saying it was a small problem.
Either way a "Big Scary Number"(tm) like "1.2 billion songs downloaded" does in itself not make it a large problem... the number of items "pirated" should never be anywhere near the issue - the real issues are questions like "are the companies profitable?" or "How do people actually want to consume the content and how can we match our offerings to that?"
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 25 Jul 2013 @ 2:54am
Reality is if they want a safe internet for children they need to build a separate school interconnected internet, where everyone who logs on is either a registered student or a registered guardian/parent or teacher.
Nope, that's nowhere close to reality. Apart from the very very obvious problem of keeping out unwanted people from such a necessarily huge network, some proportion of the people that are supposed to be there will be the very ones you intended to keep out.
Reality is that the best way to protect children is to stop pretending you can shelter children from the ills of the world and teach them to make themselves as safe as is practical in the real world...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 25 Jul 2013 @ 2:37am
Re: Re: Treason?
And the action of voting No does not rise to that level
I guess that depends how one defines "giving aid and comfort to enemies"... Doesn't the oath include something about "enemies foreign and domestic"?
It could be argued that such a vast affront to the constitution makes the NSA a domestic enemy and as such the representatives are "giving aid and comfort to the enemy"...
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You've got to wonder if German judges could pick a computer out of a lineup don't you?
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Sadly, most of Europe seems to be (re?)importing the worse parts of US culture if anything.
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Which makes sense since the laws are written for the proprietary end of the scale - I don't think he was trying to say anything there about the "intactness" or value of attribution by various methods.
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That's the point I was trying to make... Having watched many films I know the military oath swears to defend "the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic", does not the congressional oath have a similar line?
As for the constitution defining those things, the US government seems to have a "secret interpretation" of that too - just ask Mr Snowden...
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Reality is that the best way to protect children is to stop pretending you can shelter children from the ills of the world and teach them to make themselves as safe as is practical in the real world...
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There FTFY...
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It could be argued that such a vast affront to the constitution makes the NSA a domestic enemy and as such the representatives are "giving aid and comfort to the enemy"...
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