Then there's Bush II, Cheney, Rove and anyone else connected to the Bush White House email controversy, tens of millions of White House emails sent through private servers. Millions of them lost. With the same security issues.
And Jeb!, who as governor used his own server against the rules and as Florida governor to discuss security and military issues such as troop deployments to the Middle East and the protection of nuclear plants.
And while it's not exactly the same, 2016 candidates Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal each have their own email scandals. Mitt Romney too.
And of course there's all those Congressman who claim that they "don't use email", while having their aides use their private accounts to avoid FOIA requests, security be damned.
That the Trump administration is doing the same should surprise no-one.
Unfortunately such good constitutions are hard to find. The US constitution failed to stop the US from being turned into a torture state, and failed to punish those who did it. And failed to release those STILL being held without trial well over a decade later.
Re: Thermite isn't explosive you say? Stupid finds a way
It might depend on what the thermite was sitting on. The Mythbusters (with the local bomb squad) showed that you'd get a detonation if the thermite were sitting on ice.
I was already missing fingertips before high school. The encyclopaedias and other books in my grade 8 school taught me everything I needed to know about making black powder explosives.
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This site has been warning people about this all along. YOU are the one scoffing at the site and its visitors, and calling them idiots when it does so.
And we can count on you doing it again, merely adding this to a long list of articles that you've commented on and yet refuse to acknowledge exists.
Sky News understands that 80% of investigations into terrorism and serious crime are now impacted by encryption.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) already requires every person in the financial industry to make every e-mail, cellphone text and financial record available to the SEC in order to enforce insider trading and other financial rules.
Thousands of bankers involved in fraud set off the 2008/2009 financial crisis, costing the U.S. taxpayer trillions of dollars. All that surveillance produced zero convictions. Adding encryption would not have had any impact.
Sky News should explain that before "understanding" the impact of encryption.
Re: Yes, people would watch more movies if cheaper and better.
This study shows exactly what anyone reasonable expects: piracy reduces sales.
No, because many if not most those sales were never going to happen regardless.
People are paying to see a movie with friends at the same rate they did before piracy. Or to rent it or stream it. We KNOW this - because Hollywood is making record profits.
But teens and others can't afford to pay for ALL the movies they want to see. Take away piracy, and the sales still don't happen.
Even if the sentence did say that, it wouldn't be correct.
The source news story - along with quotes from customers in exactly that situation and quotes from industry insiders - shows that it is indeed correct.
Re-read the ENTIRE sentence. Heck, you even quoted it.
The customer - the home owner - is not allowed to disconnect the building. And at that point, your house being powerless, there's no need for your hypothetical fireman or EMT to come along and connect it.
All you can do is phone and make an appointment to be disconnected so you start generating your own power. Which in a hurricane will almost certainly be days later after the power is restored.
Astoundingly, state rules also mandate that solar customers include a switch that cleanly disconnects their panels from FPL's system while keeping the rest of a home's power lines connected. But during a disaster like the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, FPL customers aren't allowed to simply flip that switch and keep their panels going.
When the hurricane hits and the power goes out, you'll have to phone and make an appointment to be disconnected to start generating your own power. That's "down there in the states", not Canada.
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It was always a double standard.
Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice used private accounts including AOL for classified emails. In fact Colin Powell advised Hillary to do so.
Then there's Bush II, Cheney, Rove and anyone else connected to the Bush White House email controversy, tens of millions of White House emails sent through private servers. Millions of them lost. With the same security issues.
And Jeb!, who as governor used his own server against the rules and as Florida governor to discuss security and military issues such as troop deployments to the Middle East and the protection of nuclear plants.
And while it's not exactly the same, 2016 candidates Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal each have their own email scandals. Mitt Romney too.
And of course there's all those Congressman who claim that they "don't use email", while having their aides use their private accounts to avoid FOIA requests, security be damned.
That the Trump administration is doing the same should surprise no-one.
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On the post: British News Channel Touts Amazon Bomb Materials Moral Panic That Ends Up Being About Hobbyists And School Labs
Re: Thermite isn't explosive you say? Stupid finds a way
It might depend on what the thermite was sitting on. The Mythbusters (with the local bomb squad) showed that you'd get a detonation if the thermite were sitting on ice.
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(Except perhaps, why not to.)
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On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
Re: One day
Think of Monopoly's Community Chest card "You have won second prize in a beauty contest – Collect $10." Second place is funnier.
(Who doesn't laugh at Bing?)
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Re: Good News!
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On the post: Report Details The NSA's Decade-Long Abuse Of Its Surveillance Powers
Re: Re: No oversight?
This site has been warning people about this all along. YOU are the one scoffing at the site and its visitors, and calling them idiots when it does so.
And we can count on you doing it again, merely adding this to a long list of articles that you've commented on and yet refuse to acknowledge exists.
Get help.
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That incident was repeated yesterday at his speech in in New York.
On the post: WhatsApp Reportedly Rejected UK Government Demand For Encryption Backdoor
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) already requires every person in the financial industry to make every e-mail, cellphone text and financial record available to the SEC in order to enforce insider trading and other financial rules.
Thousands of bankers involved in fraud set off the 2008/2009 financial crisis, costing the U.S. taxpayer trillions of dollars. All that surveillance produced zero convictions. Adding encryption would not have had any impact.
Sky News should explain that before "understanding" the impact of encryption.
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Demanding the overthrow of the democratically elected US government is just one example of his extremist content.
If Theresa May had her way a couple years ago, Trump would have been gone from social media. In turn, he likely wouldn't be President today.
Hmm. Not the point I was going to make.
On the post: EU Buried Its Own $400,000 Study Showing Unauthorized Downloads Have Almost No Effect On Sales
Re: Yes, people would watch more movies if cheaper and better.
No, because many if not most those sales were never going to happen regardless.
People are paying to see a movie with friends at the same rate they did before piracy. Or to rent it or stream it. We KNOW this - because Hollywood is making record profits.
But teens and others can't afford to pay for ALL the movies they want to see. Take away piracy, and the sales still don't happen.
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Re: YAY! Justice triumphs again!
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Justice is like privacy; its evolution into a luxury commodity is almost complete.
On the post: Verizon Hangs Up On Tens Of Thousands Of 'Unlimited' Wireless Customers For Using Too Much Data
Using their definition of "unlimited."
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That's exactly what the sentence says.
The source news story - along with quotes from customers in exactly that situation and quotes from industry insiders - shows that it is indeed correct.
It's right. Read the story. Read the citations.
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The customer - the home owner - is not allowed to disconnect the building. And at that point, your house being powerless, there's no need for your hypothetical fireman or EMT to come along and connect it.
All you can do is phone and make an appointment to be disconnected so you start generating your own power. Which in a hurricane will almost certainly be days later after the power is restored.
On the post: Florida Utilities Lobbied To Make It Illegal For Solar Users To Use Panels In Wake Of Hurricanes, Outages
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Techdirt re-writer ignorant of bus-transfer switches.
From the source story:
When the hurricane hits and the power goes out, you'll have to phone and make an appointment to be disconnected to start generating your own power. That's "down there in the states", not Canada.
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