Public safety in the United States has relied for a couple centuries on the ability of the government, with predication, to obtain permission from a court to access the "papers and effects" and communications of Americans. So, James Comey, if papers were written in a code so obscure even the Enigma Machine couldn't crack it, the FBI still had strong evidence to make its case? If papers were burnt whilst the ink on the signature of the warrant was still drying, that didn't fuck up your case at all? No wonder you guys all creamed yourselves over warrantless searches, and no wonder you're all shitting yourselves that the courts are beginning to agree with the people as a result of Ed Snowden's revelations.
Me: This battle's so good I almost peed my pants! Slightly deaf old lady: Excuse me, dear? Edward Lewis: He said he liked it better than The Pirates of Penzance. I know, I know. Completely different movie. But at least I got a pirate reference in there. P)
They forgot one. Principle 11 Behaviour as described in any of the above ten principles must be sustained for a significant period of time before it can be considered a crime.
Principle 1 A digital communication should not disclose sensitive personal facts about an individual. So if I say to someone, "You're so gay," and they actually are a homosexual male...
I'd most likely return to perfectly legal *free* services such as secondhand and libraries, where your cut would be $0. I have. I either purchase print books from charity shops or get ebooks from the site I mentioned above, which is a mirror of Project Gutenberg.
"As an artist myself, I feel that KickStarter may be hurting artists by focusing on 'donating money' rather than celebrating the artist for what they do. Their model does not build fan relationships, but just continually asks for hand outs." Which is just bullshit. KickStarter wouldn't even work as a crowdfunding platform if people didn't like what creators are offering enough to give them those 'handouts'. Simples!
MarI/O is software that has learned how to play Super Mario in about 24 hours -- without knowing very much about the game at all. Way to make algorithms sound intelligent. Doesn't change the fact that they don't know Ura Butfuqa isn't a name unless you tell them.
The fact is that Google facilitates theft by enabling its users to search for infringing material, and Mike Masnick sucks up to Google Inc. and encourages this law-breaking behaviour by constantly espousing such ineffective anti-piracy methods as making stuff people want to consume, making it widely available, and not charging stupid money for it based on geographical location. *MAFIAA shill mode off*
[Chanel doesn't] own the number five. In the future do we go to school and go 'one, two, three, four, trademark protected, six?' Well done, Alison Peck. You win the Internets!
"The government will never accept the law of the jungle," Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in a television declaration on Thursday evening, the day that the French government accepted the law of the jungle as laid down by rioting taxi drivers. Just sayin'.
We've written a few times about Theresa May , the UK's Home Secretary, who has scarily authoritarian, anti-democratic, and anti-free speech views. FTFY. YW.
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So, James Comey, if papers were written in a code so obscure even the Enigma Machine couldn't crack it, the FBI still had strong evidence to make its case? If papers were burnt whilst the ink on the signature of the warrant was still drying, that didn't fuck up your case at all? No wonder you guys all creamed yourselves over warrantless searches, and no wonder you're all shitting yourselves that the courts are beginning to agree with the people as a result of Ed Snowden's revelations.
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Re: Hypocrisy as usual here at Techdirt.
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I guess that puts some amputees and people with congenital defects out of the scheme then.
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Slightly deaf old lady: Excuse me, dear?
Edward Lewis: He said he liked it better than The Pirates of Penzance.
I know, I know. Completely different movie. But at least I got a pirate reference in there. P)
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Principle 11
Behaviour as described in any of the above ten principles must be sustained for a significant period of time before it can be considered a crime.
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A digital communication should not disclose sensitive personal facts about an individual.
So if I say to someone, "You're so gay," and they actually are a homosexual male...
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I have. I either purchase print books from charity shops or get ebooks from the site I mentioned above, which is a mirror of Project Gutenberg.
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Which is just bullshit. KickStarter wouldn't even work as a crowdfunding platform if people didn't like what creators are offering enough to give them those 'handouts'. Simples!
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Way to make algorithms sound intelligent. Doesn't change the fact that they don't know Ura Butfuqa isn't a name unless you tell them.
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*MAFIAA shill mode off*
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Re: Re: HA! Pirate Mike and Techdirt delivers its PRO-PIRACY message to pirates!
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Well done, Alison Peck. You win the Internets!
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FTFY. YW.
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Re: My bet.
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