After ~15yrs of reading Karl Bode's columns nearly every day, I'm more convinced than ever that he's the most needed columnist in America - or at the least, a model thereof.
Does tracking & selling someone's medical appointment history (potentially revealing type & scope of ailments) require that entity to be HIPAA compliant?
A possibly similar scenario; If someone hacked a medical services provider and sold patient data, would the hacker have committed a HIPAA violation?
On balance I agree with this article, especially the following:
"Search engines and social media platforms have been too secretive about how their algorithms work, and too secretive about how content moderation works."
Sidebar: As we consider how secret algorithms are used to effect the public, it'd be super groovy if Tarleton Gillespie could lead another Techdirt conversation, one about Microsoft's Domain Awareness System.
I can't say what made me itch about this deal. Turns out, I wasn't the only one.
"NordVPN is paying sites to “spread the gospel of Nord” if you will. Check out how NordVPN got caught manipulating Trustpilot reviews." - Ripoff Reporter (Aug 28, 2018) http://vpnscam.com/is-nordvpn-a-honeypot/
Windows only prevents a few MS owned domains from hosts (& I believe Windows Firewall) blocking. Hosts can still be used to block a ton of Windows telemetry.
I think you're assertion is reasonable. But my question is this. Once we've got the basic sewage report, 20 additional reports about different things seen floating in the sewer, 100 commentaries about hue & color of the sludge trails - what exactly are the remaining 5000+ media people bringing to us - except nothing new at all?
Twenty years ago, my complaints about left-leaning media bias were pretty similar to today's vocal Right. However 20 years is a lot of think-time and my position has moderated.
There's lots of reasons why. Seeing compulsive Bush hatred adopted by conservatives and reworked into compulsive Obama hatred is one. RW media is another. From my perspective, that was just an arms-race response to LW bias. It expanded & amplified what was wrong with media in the first place. I struggle to find value in it.
I still think there's widespread bias and I still think it trends left. However, I see where media outlets are a lot more self aware about bias than they used to be. There's also been a lot of attempts to by MSM to counter bias in it's ranks. Sometimes been really good (NPR coverage of 2008 elections), sometimes it's poorly thought-out and just reorders existing crappiness.
In the end, I'm no longer clear that bias is a problem in and of itself. At a minimum, it's not a top priority. What I am clear about is that attacking bias ignores the media's overpowering problem - which is systemic incompetence and skewed priorities.
I fully believe bad behavior within the Trump administration should be fully investigated & reported. Revealing it is the whole point of why extra-constitutional protections are afforded to the press.
However, I also strongly believe the same vigor that is being used to seek out and expose wrong doing in this administration was largely abdicated during the last administration.
That doesn't mean Obama was as morally bankrupt as Trump. The point is it doesn't matter how morally bankrupt Obama was. The press had a clear duty to it's constitutional protections to be an adversary to government and aggressively seek out & report bad government behavior. Too often, damning stories are handed to news outlets and they still have to be bullied into being interested (ie: Snowden revelations).
Fast forward to today. Have I seen clear indicators that Google news is trending left-leaning stories & downplaying right? Sure. I think that aligns with the number and tone of stories that are published. For the record, I've seen right-leaning stories also trend on Google news, admittedly not as often.
But the problem there isn't a bias problem, it's a lazy journalism problem. It's a problem that the vast majority of US news outlets all lead with the same 7 stories, often just copying and pasting each other content. It's a problem when news orgs only bring a tiny fraction of new stories to the table that they could be. It's a problems that fluff stories about sports and celebrities is believed to be of equal valuable to the public as is exposing malfeasance by the powerful.
It's a problem that the press doesn't weigh each story against it's duty to honor it's extra constitutional protections.
You want less bias? I do and I believe when press is doing their actual damn job (w/o taking 8 year hiatuses) they'd be a lot less likely to let natural human biases continually tilt their content.
"Whether it be through social media, whether it be through text message, whether it be phone calls, we've received an influx of tremendous outrage at the selections by this reading list."
Hmm. All the outrage there seems directed AT the FOP & it's Pres. Certainly Pres Blackman isn't a bald faced liar. The community outrage must be elsewhere.
Can anyone locate the Community Outrage on Facebook or other social media?
Not the Principal's 1st struggle with student speech
It seems Principal David Stirrat has long struggled with what is & isn't harmful speech.
On February 1 2013, PHS students attending the home basketball game began chanting "USA! USA!." Another student held up a sign that read "Dirty Sanchez," aimed at Angel Sanchez, a Latino basketball player from Elsie Allen High School in Santa Rosa.
Petaluma High School Principal David Stirrat was at the game, but did not stop the chanting, something he now says he regrets.
"It's subjective what patriotism is…it takes a bit of time to make that mental leap," he wrote in an email to PHS parents, quoted in the paper. "Personally I regret not stopping the chanting. In my retrospection, I should have guided the students that evening."
"This is it — the last day of the campaign! If you haven't yet backed our project to revamp and produce the CIA's declassified training game, today's your last chance"
Was that a real last chance or a James Clapper® last chance?
Also, when was manufacturing originally scheduled to begin? Is it being delayed to collect more orders?
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Shill I continue?
After ~15yrs of reading Karl Bode's columns nearly every day, I'm more convinced than ever that he's the most needed columnist in America - or at the least, a model thereof.
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Digging
The only contact info found on the PAW site is for:
Carli Kientzie carli@npstrategygroup.com
https://npstrategygroup.com/team/carli-kientzle/
and
Regan Page regan@npstrategygroup.com https://npstrategygroup.com/team/regan-page/
Also npstrategygroup.com & protectamericaswireless.org share same GoDaddy IP.
That's all I got.
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Re: Re: Fines that work, make it personal
Works for me.
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HIPAA compliance
A possibly similar scenario;
If someone hacked a medical services provider and sold patient data, would the hacker have committed a HIPAA violation?
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Re: Microsoft would never collaborate with government
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https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://twitter.com/s___elliott
Today it is not. https://twitter.com/S___Elliott
Neither is his Instagram https://www.instagram.com/s___elliott/
Perhaps re-victimizing women is not working out the way he had hoped.
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Wishes
On the post: There's A Reason That Misleading Claims Of Bias In Search And Social Media Enjoy Such Traction
"Search engines and social media platforms have been too secretive about how their algorithms work, and too secretive about how content moderation works."
Sidebar: As we consider how secret algorithms are used to effect the public, it'd be super groovy if Tarleton Gillespie could lead another Techdirt conversation, one about Microsoft's Domain Awareness System.
Thanks!
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Re:
- Stellamaxwell (Aug 19 2018)
Bot-curated content seems to agree with Stellamaxwell.
Really, really agree.
"NordVPN is a standout amongst the most all around regarded VPNs"
- blogwordpress (May 30, 2018)
http://internetobey.com/15-best-android-vpn-apps-in-2018/
"NordVPN is a standout amongst the most mainstream VPNs"
-Fozia (July 5, 2017)
https://www.recommendedvpn.com/best-vpn-for-iphone
"NordVPN is outstanding amongst other virtual private system (VPN) suppliers"
-Fozia (April 12, 2018)
https://www.recommendedvpn.com/What+type+of+security+does+NordVPN+use%3F
I can't say what made me itch about this deal.
Turns out, I wasn't the only one.
"NordVPN is paying sites to “spread the gospel of Nord” if you will. Check out how NordVPN got caught manipulating Trustpilot reviews."
- Ripoff Reporter (Aug 28, 2018)
http://vpnscam.com/is-nordvpn-a-honeypot/
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
Hosts can still be used to block a ton of Windows telemetry.
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Re: Re: My conservative perspective
Once we've got the basic sewage report, 20 additional reports about different things seen floating in the sewer, 100 commentaries about hue & color of the sludge trails - what exactly are the remaining 5000+ media people bringing to us - except nothing new at all?
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My conservative perspective
There's lots of reasons why. Seeing compulsive Bush hatred adopted by conservatives and reworked into compulsive Obama hatred is one. RW media is another. From my perspective, that was just an arms-race response to LW bias. It expanded & amplified what was wrong with media in the first place. I struggle to find value in it.
I still think there's widespread bias and I still think it trends left. However, I see where media outlets are a lot more self aware about bias than they used to be. There's also been a lot of attempts to by MSM to counter bias in it's ranks. Sometimes been really good (NPR coverage of 2008 elections), sometimes it's poorly thought-out and just reorders existing crappiness.
In the end, I'm no longer clear that bias is a problem in and of itself. At a minimum, it's not a top priority. What I am clear about is that attacking bias ignores the media's overpowering problem - which is systemic incompetence and skewed priorities.
I fully believe bad behavior within the Trump administration should be fully investigated & reported. Revealing it is the whole point of why extra-constitutional protections are afforded to the press.
However, I also strongly believe the same vigor that is being used to seek out and expose wrong doing in this administration was largely abdicated during the last administration.
That doesn't mean Obama was as morally bankrupt as Trump. The point is it doesn't matter how morally bankrupt Obama was. The press had a clear duty to it's constitutional protections to be an adversary to government and aggressively seek out & report bad government behavior. Too often, damning stories are handed to news outlets and they still have to be bullied into being interested (ie: Snowden revelations).
Fast forward to today. Have I seen clear indicators that Google news is trending left-leaning stories & downplaying right? Sure. I think that aligns with the number and tone of stories that are published. For the record, I've seen right-leaning stories also trend on Google news, admittedly not as often.
But the problem there isn't a bias problem, it's a lazy journalism problem. It's a problem that the vast majority of US news outlets all lead with the same 7 stories, often just copying and pasting each other content. It's a problem when news orgs only bring a tiny fraction of new stories to the table that they could be. It's a problems that fluff stories about sports and celebrities is believed to be of equal valuable to the public as is exposing malfeasance by the powerful.
It's a problem that the press doesn't weigh each story against it's duty to honor it's extra constitutional protections.
You want less bias? I do and I believe when press is doing their actual damn job (w/o taking 8 year hiatuses) they'd be a lot less likely to let natural human biases continually tilt their content.
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A conservative's perspective
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Spot the influx of outrage
Lets play Spot the Outrage
Here's tweets to/from the FOP Pres
https://twitter.com/search?q=%40fopjohnb&src=typd
Here's tweets to/from the Tri-County FOP
https://twitter.com/search?q=%40scfop3&src=typd
Hmm. All the outrage there seems directed AT the FOP & it's Pres. Certainly Pres Blackman isn't a bald faced liar. The community outrage must be elsewhere.
Can anyone locate the Community Outrage on Facebook or other social media?
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Not the Principal's 1st struggle with student speech
It seems Principal David Stirrat has long struggled with what is & isn't harmful speech.
ref: https://patch.com/california/petaluma/is-petaluma-an-accepting-and-open-minded-community
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Re: Re: Wait
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Wait
Was that a real last chance or a James Clapper® last chance?
Also, when was manufacturing originally scheduled to begin?
Is it being delayed to collect more orders?
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When will the results of the survey be posted?
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