Buchwald wrote "Coming To America" and was entitled to a percentage of the net profits. Yet somehow this successful movie never made one cent in profit.
Sadly, the studio blinked and paid off Buchwald before their entire "Hollywood Accounting" scheme could be exposed.
So are their policies in place about what they may do with your data? And how long they are allowed to hold a copy?
I'm assuming no.
Once they copy your drive, they can share it with anyone, foreign or domestic? Government or private? Can they hold it forever? Think of the corporate espionage opportunities!
But we all missed the point. The GSP was planning on selling pizzas to drivers at the toll booths. Very clever. The plan is to order your pizza when leave work, and they will toss it in your car window as you roll through the toll both on the way home. Thus when you arrive home, dinner is served!
I worry about the connection between a property record and a car registration record. Two different systems. Cars and houses are bought and sold all the time. How are these systems synchronized?
God help you if you buy a used car from someone who money on property tax. You could find your car impounded. When you buy a used car, you file a form with the DMV letting them know that you bought a car and that you are not responsible for outstanding traffic tickets or parking tickets. I wonder if this same information protects you from property tax liens.
Sorry. It is not clear to me where the camera is going to be pointed. At the driver? Or forward like all those awesome Russian dashcams?
If forward, like the Russian dashcams, then that actually makes sense. They can use it after an accident to determine who is at fault. You are renting THEIR car. They should have the right to see how you drive it.
If it is recording the driver and passengers, then yea, that is problematic.
Recall the insane situation where NSA employees are not allowed to view the information that Edward Snowden leaked. If any NSA computer touches such information, it has to be destroyed. Yet Joe Public is free to read it all he wants.
This is because the security clearance permission of the NSA employees constrains what they are able to consume.
This is too easy. Now that he has a judgement, he can ask the court for a debtor hearing. In the hearing, the dentist has to list all of her assets to the plaintiff.
If she fails to appear to this hearing, he can ask the court to issue a bench warrant.
Then the next time she shows up in the US, the will be arrested with an outstanding warrant before she can leave the airport.
So what happens when AT&T forgets to honor their "no tracking" pledge? Or they start making exceptions that it becomes worthless?
In other words. They collect $30 a month, but we have no way to know that they haven't just tracked us anyhow. You can't sue them because they force no-suite clauses in their contract. And you can't prove that they failed unless some AT&T whistleblower gives them up.
It would help if the legislators had the balls to decrease the scope of whom they label "sex offender". They should have limited this to pedophiles, which is what I, and I think the public, assumed it was meant to address.
If you are convicted of taking a wizz on wall in an alley in the middle of the night, you are considered a sex offender.
If you make the mistake of being a teenager and sleeping with a girl under 18, you are a sex offender.
If you are a teenager, and a teen friend sends you a sext, or you send one, you are a sex offender.
And so on and so on. The law makes no distinction between the monsters who really need to locked up for life, and ordinary people on the other end of the "sex offender" spectrum.
What is funny is that he didn't trademark it because he didn't think he could trademark a city name.
Tabasco, the sauce, is named after the Tabasco peppers that came from the state of Tabasco in Mexico. So really, the sauce is named after a place. Yet, it is trademarked.
He is a smart guy. Letting the Tabasco Corp run all of those expensive ads for him.
In today's Wall Streek Journal editorial page, top letter from the WSJ was bitching about this move by the FCC and how terrible it was for the American way of business.
I stopped reading it about half way through. Yes, they have a good point, that government rules always add friction. And in an ideal world, we would not have them.
But the rest of the editorial was the same old BS. It works perfect now! Why are we breaking it then? No company would dare piss off if its customers by implementing discrimination (despite all evidence to the contrary).
Man that letter ticked me off. I guess when Verizon buys full page ads in your paper, they get to write the editorials.
I was thinking about this. These guys were busted because they had not learned the tricks of how to spy on love interest without being detected. They were newbies.
I suspect there are a lot of very smart guys at the NSA who know how people who do this are caught, and how to do this without being caught.
I thought of a way on the way in this morning. What about indirect look ups? We know the NSA is allowed to have 3 to 4 hops of relationships. So don't look her up directly. Instead, look up someone who knows someone she knows. Then *voila*, your girlfriend's profile comes along for the ride.
The NSA analyst can honestly claim he had no knowledge of the person he asked to look at.
I consider myself libertarian. But I agree with Utah on this one. You shouldn't be allowed to operate an uninsured vehicle.
Here is California the uninsured vehicles are out of control. People can buy 1-day insurance policies, just long enough to get the registration past the DMV. It is total BS.
A friend of mine was hit and seriously injured by a woman who bought insurance from the back of a van in the downtown LA Mexican market. Guess what? It turned out to be nothing but a worthless piece of paper. She was uninsured, yet the police let her walk. As far as we know, she is still driving around LA hitting people with her car.
I really wish my state would implement a system like they have in other countries. You have to pre-pay 6 to 12 months of insurance in order to get your registration. You pay through the DMV. That way every car is insured.
I don't think that he is requiring a conviction. I think now all the police have to do is claim there was a crime (that is file charges). I suspect that nothing will change. Instead they will just start filing the paperwork with the DA now. The DA will of course dismiss the charges, and the police get to keep the money/car/whatever.
I wish Holder had simply said that a conviction was required.
I also wish he had said that people don't have to sue to get their property back. Nor do people have to settle for less than 100%. If they fail to prove a crime, then they have to return ALL the property immediately. Right now they make you sue them and fight it for years.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchwald_v._Paramount
Buchwald wrote "Coming To America" and was entitled to a percentage of the net profits. Yet somehow this successful movie never made one cent in profit.
Sadly, the studio blinked and paid off Buchwald before their entire "Hollywood Accounting" scheme could be exposed.
On the post: TSA Agents Outwitted By Cory Doctorow's Unlocked, 'TSA-Safe' Suitcase
Perhaps it wasn't the TSA
What if some scumbag within the airline luggage system stole himself a roll of TSA tape?
Then all he has to do is target promising bags, break it open, and close it with TSA tape. TSA gets the blame. He gets whatever goodies he finds.
On the post: 2009 DHS Document Says Border Patrol Can Search/Copy The Contents Of Your Device Just Because It Wants To
Then what?
I'm assuming no.
Once they copy your drive, they can share it with anyone, foreign or domestic? Government or private? Can they hold it forever? Think of the corporate espionage opportunities!
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What could possibly go wrong?
On the post: Virginia Towns Using Federally-Funded License Plate Readers To Collect Local Taxes
God help you if you buy a used car from someone who money on property tax. You could find your car impounded. When you buy a used car, you file a form with the DMV letting them know that you bought a car and that you are not responsible for outstanding traffic tickets or parking tickets. I wonder if this same information protects you from property tax liens.
On the post: Hertz Puts Video Cameras Inside Its Rental Cars, Has 'No Current Plans' To Use Them
If forward, like the Russian dashcams, then that actually makes sense. They can use it after an accident to determine who is at fault. You are renting THEIR car. They should have the right to see how you drive it.
If it is recording the driver and passengers, then yea, that is problematic.
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On the post: Officials Upset Tech Companies Reluctant To Play Along With Administration's 'Information Sharing' Charade
Re: A way to shut someone up
Recall the insane situation where NSA employees are not allowed to view the information that Edward Snowden leaked. If any NSA computer touches such information, it has to be destroyed. Yet Joe Public is free to read it all he wants.
This is because the security clearance permission of the NSA employees constrains what they are able to consume.
On the post: Plaintiff Awarded Damages In Default Judgment Against Censorious Dentist Who Billed Him $110,000 For His Negative Review
Now that he has a judgement, he can ask the court for a debtor hearing. In the hearing, the dentist has to list all of her assets to the plaintiff.
If she fails to appear to this hearing, he can ask the court to issue a bench warrant.
Then the next time she shows up in the US, the will be arrested with an outstanding warrant before she can leave the airport.
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Perhaps the idiot "expert" who worked for the late Sen. Ted Stevens got a job working for Rajeev Suri.
If you don't know who Stevens is, then Google "Series of Tubes".
On the post: AT&T Says It Will Match Google Fiber's Speed & Pricing, But Only If You Allow AT&T To Spy On You
In other words. They collect $30 a month, but we have no way to know that they haven't just tracked us anyhow. You can't sue them because they force no-suite clauses in their contract. And you can't prove that they failed unless some AT&T whistleblower gives them up.
On the post: State Attorney General Won't Fight Court's Block Of Law Curtailing Sex Offenders' First Amendment Rights
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On the post: State Attorney General Won't Fight Court's Block Of Law Curtailing Sex Offenders' First Amendment Rights
If you are convicted of taking a wizz on wall in an alley in the middle of the night, you are considered a sex offender.
If you make the mistake of being a teenager and sleeping with a girl under 18, you are a sex offender.
If you are a teenager, and a teen friend sends you a sext, or you send one, you are a sex offender.
And so on and so on. The law makes no distinction between the monsters who really need to locked up for life, and ordinary people on the other end of the "sex offender" spectrum.
On the post: Sriracha Boss On Trademark: Mmmmm, No Thanks
City name
Tabasco, the sauce, is named after the Tabasco peppers that came from the state of Tabasco in Mexico. So really, the sauce is named after a place. Yet, it is trademarked.
He is a smart guy. Letting the Tabasco Corp run all of those expensive ads for him.
On the post: Verizon's Last Tiny Shred Of Credibility On Net Neutrality Just Died
WDJ Editorial
I stopped reading it about half way through. Yes, they have a good point, that government rules always add friction. And in an ideal world, we would not have them.
But the rest of the editorial was the same old BS. It works perfect now! Why are we breaking it then? No company would dare piss off if its customers by implementing discrimination (despite all evidence to the contrary).
Man that letter ticked me off. I guess when Verizon buys full page ads in your paper, they get to write the editorials.
On the post: DOJ Still Won't Admit If It Took Any Action Against NSA Analysts Spying On 'Love Interests'
Not smart
I suspect there are a lot of very smart guys at the NSA who know how people who do this are caught, and how to do this without being caught.
I thought of a way on the way in this morning. What about indirect look ups? We know the NSA is allowed to have 3 to 4 hops of relationships. So don't look her up directly. Instead, look up someone who knows someone she knows. Then *voila*, your girlfriend's profile comes along for the ride.
The NSA analyst can honestly claim he had no knowledge of the person he asked to look at.
I'm sure they have perfected methods.
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On the post: New Utah Law Instructs Cops To Seize Uninsured Vehicles
Sorry... this isn't the same
Here is California the uninsured vehicles are out of control. People can buy 1-day insurance policies, just long enough to get the registration past the DMV. It is total BS.
A friend of mine was hit and seriously injured by a woman who bought insurance from the back of a van in the downtown LA Mexican market. Guess what? It turned out to be nothing but a worthless piece of paper. She was uninsured, yet the police let her walk. As far as we know, she is still driving around LA hitting people with her car.
I really wish my state would implement a system like they have in other countries. You have to pre-pay 6 to 12 months of insurance in order to get your registration. You pay through the DMV. That way every car is insured.
On the post: Eric Holder Cuts Off Program That Helped Spur Police Asset Seizure 'Shopping Sprees'
Are you sure?
I wish Holder had simply said that a conviction was required.
I also wish he had said that people don't have to sue to get their property back. Nor do people have to settle for less than 100%. If they fail to prove a crime, then they have to return ALL the property immediately. Right now they make you sue them and fight it for years.
On the post: Trademark-Trolling County Government Ordered To Pay $40,000 In Legal Fees
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