Well, sure. But then it's equally "a hilarious bit of hypocrisy" that the US has decided that companies don't have to obey other countries' extra-national rulings, even after forcing Honda to obey its own extra-national ruling.
Of course it's not so much hypocrisy as the legal systems not having caught up with - and reigned in - the realities of multinational corporations.
The Canadian ruling may be null and void in the US, but then the US ruling will be equally null and void in Canada. Google does business in Canada, so it'll still be bound by the Canadian decision.
That works in the other direction too. American has anti-Cuba laws that over-reach their borders to stop Canadian companies - including Canadian subsidiaries and branches of U.S. companies - from trading with Cuba. And so Canada forbids companies from complying with those laws and orders them to notify the Canadian government if pressured to do so.
The US punishes those companies regardless. Like earlier this year when the American Honda Finance Corporation paid an $87,255 fine because their Canadian subsidiary leased cars to the Cuban embassy in Ottawa.
This is probably how the Google case will go down in Canada, regardless of the US decision.
Information that can be used against them in a court of law.
In 2015 an Ontario federal prison got it's own more powerful IMSI catcher, hoping to find inmates' contraband phones. This upset the guards, whose communications were also captured.
The prison warden apologized, but now there's a criminal investigation. They broke federal laws that prohibit the warrantless wiretapping of private communications.
Meanwhile, the Calgary Police got their own device a year earlier and have been using it. "Acquisition can be done at the municipal level. We didn't need federal approval to acquire one."
Funny story; turns out they were wrong too.
Once acquired, such devices would be subject to the federal Radiocommunications Act, which is enforced by Industry Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), a federal department.
The act states that anyone who uses a device that interferes with public airwaves will face fines or jail time if they do not get the blessing of regulatory officials in advance.
However, a spokeswoman for ISED told The Globe and Mail in 2016 that "no such authorizations have been provided to date."
So the secrecy may be less about turning over information to defendants, than turning it over as defendants.
The cloud has had other "deaths." Like when Sun, IBM and others gave up on their set-top JavaOS boxes back in the late '90s. These were supposed to replace PCs using built-in browsers to run server-based Java apps. Including for home users, much like WebTV.
As one reviewer put it, they came in two flavors: Anti-Intel and anti-Microsoft. They weren't good, weren't compatible with each other, and weren't seen after product launch.
Chromebooks would be the successor. As is often the case, a bad implementation isn't the death of an idea.
We could also make voting a service layer. Use the same protocol for likes, upvotes/downvotes, "rate as funny/insightful", product reviews, referendums and elections.
Add options and flags for authenticated vs. anonymous. Or unpaid vs. sponsored, lobbyist vs. David Cohen. Voting directly or letting Alexa / Siri / Cortana vote based on my previous history.
Authentication would be a separate service layer, with the voting layer sending it parameters for who may vote. This would allow anonymous yet authenticated votes, in elections and for SLAPP avoidance in product reviews.
These layers would be open sourced to let anyone inspect them. Consumers, corporations and political parties would have plenty of incentive to do so.
Just the opposite. Back in the early '90s I picked up the Aircraft & Scenery Designer add-on. This let you compile a text file full of commands into Flight Simulator scenery. Mountains, buildings, signs, etc.
And so our inventory system, written in-house, which would output data to Excel for graphing, suddenly got Flight Simulator 4 as an alternate graphing package. You could fly through the mountains and valleys of your product class history report.
I pirated Flight Simulator II for the Apple II. I could never have afforded it at the time, and would never have had the opportunity to even try it otherwise.
But I was hooked, and I paid for the Amiga version and then every version for the PC - plus many add-ons - for over 20 years until Microsoft stopped making it.
That depends on how you obtain your cracked version.
If you use BitTorrent - where your computer is sharing the files with other user users as you download them - then you're not prosecuted for how or why you downloaded. You're prosecuted for sending it to others.
It's worse than that. They're refusing liability far beyond their game. Think Sony Root Kit, which caused crashes, "disappearing" CD-ROM drives and security problems outside of the game.
I've mentioned before that I think we're missing an opportunity.
We should be calling encryption "Digital Rights Management." Which it is, of course; it's only a matter of who manages the rights to the encrypted data.
That way, powerful people who have declared jihad against encryption would be declaring jihad against DRM.
When I suggested renaming the DRM "Data Speedbump", I wasn't just referring to the effect on hackers. It's far more effective against the users.
Whoever stopped snorting coke and sexually harassing co-workers long enough to declare "Let's put a speedbump on the speedbump!", needs to be used AS a speedbump.
Re: "the average pirate video site makes around $156,000 per year"
Reporting on the existence of piracy or the misguided attempts to fight it, is not the same as supporting or cheering it.
Likewise, allowing you to post your opinions here is not support or cheering for, well, accurate descriptions of them that would nonetheless get this post flagged as abusive.
Every time I hear a variation of the claim "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it!", I think of Bruce Sterling's counterpoint: "The NSA interpreted privacy as damage and routed around it."
And then I make a mental note to firewall my IoT devices one of these days.
I checked Snopes. They've judged the claim that "your fingernails and hair continue to grow after death" to be false, but they offer no evidence or reasoning to rebut the claim that your telecom industry lobbying continues.
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Of course it's not so much hypocrisy as the legal systems not having caught up with - and reigned in - the realities of multinational corporations.
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The Canadian ruling may be null and void in the US, but then the US ruling will be equally null and void in Canada. Google does business in Canada, so it'll still be bound by the Canadian decision.
That works in the other direction too. American has anti-Cuba laws that over-reach their borders to stop Canadian companies - including Canadian subsidiaries and branches of U.S. companies - from trading with Cuba. And so Canada forbids companies from complying with those laws and orders them to notify the Canadian government if pressured to do so.
The US punishes those companies regardless. Like earlier this year when the American Honda Finance Corporation paid an $87,255 fine because their Canadian subsidiary leased cars to the Cuban embassy in Ottawa.
This is probably how the Google case will go down in Canada, regardless of the US decision.
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Re: What are they hiding?
Information that can be used against them in a court of law.
In 2015 an Ontario federal prison got it's own more powerful IMSI catcher, hoping to find inmates' contraband phones. This upset the guards, whose communications were also captured.
The prison warden apologized, but now there's a criminal investigation. They broke federal laws that prohibit the warrantless wiretapping of private communications.
Meanwhile, the Calgary Police got their own device a year earlier and have been using it. "Acquisition can be done at the municipal level. We didn't need federal approval to acquire one."
Funny story; turns out they were wrong too.
So the secrecy may be less about turning over information to defendants, than turning it over as defendants.
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Re: The day the cloud died...
As one reviewer put it, they came in two flavors: Anti-Intel and anti-Microsoft. They weren't good, weren't compatible with each other, and weren't seen after product launch.
Chromebooks would be the successor. As is often the case, a bad implementation isn't the death of an idea.
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We could also make voting a service layer. Use the same protocol for likes, upvotes/downvotes, "rate as funny/insightful", product reviews, referendums and elections.
Add options and flags for authenticated vs. anonymous. Or unpaid vs. sponsored, lobbyist vs. David Cohen. Voting directly or letting Alexa / Siri / Cortana vote based on my previous history.
Authentication would be a separate service layer, with the voting layer sending it parameters for who may vote. This would allow anonymous yet authenticated votes, in elections and for SLAPP avoidance in product reviews.
These layers would be open sourced to let anyone inspect them. Consumers, corporations and political parties would have plenty of incentive to do so.
Um... I started typing this as a joke....
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a) I'm also Canadian.
b) The quotes are there for a reason.
c) Yes, I have seen Canadian flags being burned on TV. Turns out Canadian mining companies aren't our best overseas ambassadors. And incidentally...
d) CBC: Why burning old Canadian flags is a proper way to 'retire' them
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Just the opposite. Back in the early '90s I picked up the Aircraft & Scenery Designer add-on. This let you compile a text file full of commands into Flight Simulator scenery. Mountains, buildings, signs, etc.
And so our inventory system, written in-house, which would output data to Excel for graphing, suddenly got Flight Simulator 4 as an alternate graphing package. You could fly through the mountains and valleys of your product class history report.
Granted, it was more demoed than actually used.
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Re: I bought Amos Proffessional
But I was hooked, and I paid for the Amiga version and then every version for the PC - plus many add-ons - for over 20 years until Microsoft stopped making it.
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If you use BitTorrent - where your computer is sharing the files with other user users as you download them - then you're not prosecuted for how or why you downloaded. You're prosecuted for sending it to others.
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Re: Hmm, the EULA...
It's worse than that. They're refusing liability far beyond their game. Think Sony Root Kit, which caused crashes, "disappearing" CD-ROM drives and security problems outside of the game.
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We should be calling encryption "Digital Rights Management." Which it is, of course; it's only a matter of who manages the rights to the encrypted data.
That way, powerful people who have declared jihad against encryption would be declaring jihad against DRM.
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Whoever stopped snorting coke and sexually harassing co-workers long enough to declare "Let's put a speedbump on the speedbump!", needs to be used AS a speedbump.
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Re: "the average pirate video site makes around $156,000 per year"
Likewise, allowing you to post your opinions here is not support or cheering for, well, accurate descriptions of them that would nonetheless get this post flagged as abusive.
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Every time I hear a variation of the claim "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it!", I think of Bruce Sterling's counterpoint: "The NSA interpreted privacy as damage and routed around it."
And then I make a mental note to firewall my IoT devices one of these days.
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Re: goods or services?
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Hold On There...
I checked Snopes. They've judged the claim that "your fingernails and hair continue to grow after death" to be false, but they offer no evidence or reasoning to rebut the claim that your telecom industry lobbying continues.
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