"It's also the kind of thing that might attract the attention of the FTC, which is occasionally on the lookout for companies behaving badly towards consumers."
Except the U.S. has not fallen to this point. The U.S. has never been "for the people." This country was founded on the idea of the ruling elite subjagating everyone else. The inception of the middle class was nothing more than the ruling class giving up just enough to create a buffer between them and the poor.
Howard Zinn has seriously taught me so mcuh and by showing how dark this country's history is, has given me hope for its future. We have actually made significant progress as a country. Things used to be so much worse. God bless the Internet.
Certainly it must be painfully clear to anyone marginally aware of this whole debacle, that no meaningful reform will come from Congress. It is up to us to rebuild our beloved internet from the ground up, in such a way that makes it prohibitively expensive for NSA or anyone else to surveil us. But that is the beauty of the age of the Internet. We can do that. We can take the power right out of the hands of our malevolent overlords.
I imagine that many in the legal realm pretend that arbitration is truly conducted by impartial third parties, regardless of the realities. The reality is an incovenient truth.
I think this is a tad narrow. I mean certainly some form of data must be considered as being owned. If I take possession of your Bitcoin wallet without your permission and burn through all of your crypto currency, certainly I have stolen from you. But what can be stolen that isn't property? Maybe my definition of theft is too narrow, but to me it implies property. Maybe only non-reproducible digital goods are property (like your Bitcoins I stole)?
This concept certainly warrants more thought than I just gave it, but my initial reaction was that this is a slippery slope considering that an increasing amount of our valuables are Bytes of data on our HDDs.
This malevolent asshole seriously makes me embarrassed to be from Michigan... Unfortunately, I no longer reside there so voting against this douche is not an option.
If there was a discrete reason why the word fucktard was created, it is because of this guy.
Honestly, can you imagine a future that still has manual labor jobs? I just hope the government does not step in to try and keep these inefficiencies in place... But they will.
If there is one general concept I have taken from my two years of reading Tech Dirt, it is that semantics rule the political domain. The absence of or addition of a few extra words can change a statement entirely.
Going with this concept, I really dislike the usage of "responsible anonymity." Anonymous is anonymous or it is not. If there is a way to weed out and uncover irresponsible anons, then there really is no anonymity to begin with.
The way I see it, selling these items on eBay is a completely different situation than what this app is doing, a point I don't think you make strongly enough in the article. Do people not have the right to (re)sell goods which they have legally purchased? If the answer is yes, then I would also imagine that they are entitled to displaying an image of the item they are selling, for purposes of selling that item...
It deeply saddens me that crony capitalism has managed to seemingly remove this concept from common sense... No point made in this article is anything more than what should be able to be quickly deduced by the average thinker.
I wonder how much change we would truly see if money was taken out of the public election equation. You know, making our elected officials primary job what it always should have been: representing the people who elected them. Instead of their primary function being to campaign for re-election...
I would seriously hope that the NSA would not need a third party vendor for netsec... Then again, I guess NEED and WANT to pay their buddies companies some money are not the same thing...
Why wouldn't the FBI want a piece of that pie? Solving crimes and capturing criminals is not nearly as fun as thwarting contrived plots and bagging terrorists.
Coming soon... Copyright infringement added to list of terroristic activities (to make sure the FBI keeps its largest customer).
I had mentioned this before on the recent Dell article. How beautiful it would be for ISDS to come back and kick the U.S. in the nuts... I realize that the groin pain would be payed for with our tax dollars, but some things are just worth spending money on.
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FTFY
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Howard Zinn has seriously taught me so mcuh and by showing how dark this country's history is, has given me hope for its future. We have actually made significant progress as a country. Things used to be so much worse. God bless the Internet.
On the post: Looks Like 'Compromise' Has Been Reached On NSA Reform Bills
But that is the beauty of the age of the Internet. We can do that. We can take the power right out of the hands of our malevolent overlords.
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On the post: General Mills Says If You 'Like' Cheerios On Facebook, You Can No Longer Sue
Re: S'okay - I'll point to my CELA that they approved as well
On the post: UK Court Says Information Stored Electronically Is Not 'Property'
This concept certainly warrants more thought than I just gave it, but my initial reaction was that this is a slippery slope considering that an increasing amount of our valuables are Bytes of data on our HDDs.
On the post: Mike Rogers Lies About Bulk Data Collection, Insists It's Necessary, Even As He Introduces Bill He Says Will Kill It
If there was a discrete reason why the word fucktard was created, it is because of this guy.
On the post: Bogus Comparison Between Detroit In 1990 And Silicon Valley In 2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-bots-are-taking-away-jobs-2014-3
Honestly, can you imagine a future that still has manual labor jobs? I just hope the government does not step in to try and keep these inefficiencies in place... But they will.
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On the post: On The Web's 25th Anniversary, Berners-Lee Calls For A Bill of Rights For Online Users
Going with this concept, I really dislike the usage of "responsible anonymity." Anonymous is anonymous or it is not. If there is a way to weed out and uncover irresponsible anons, then there really is no anonymity to begin with.
On the post: Keurig Will Use DRM In New Coffee Maker To Lock Out Refill Market
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https://encrypted.google.com/#q=lexmark+class+action+lawsuit
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No point made in this article is anything more than what should be able to be quickly deduced by the average thinker.
I wonder how much change we would truly see if money was taken out of the public election equation. You know, making our elected officials primary job what it always should have been: representing the people who elected them. Instead of their primary function being to campaign for re-election...
On the post: NSA Collecting Hundreds Of Millions Of Text Messages Daily, Looking At 'Untargeted' Messages & Data
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On the post: FBI Admits It's Not Really About Law Enforcement Any More; Ignores Lots Of Crimes To Focus On Creating Fake Terror Plots
Coming soon...
Copyright infringement added to list of terroristic activities (to make sure the FBI keeps its largest customer).
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