For the Skittles analogy to work (from Vox): adhering to Trump’s analogy, a bowl with three deadly Skittles (refugees) in it would need to contain 10.93 billion Skittles. Bump calculated this to be the equivalent of 1.5 Olympic-size swimming pools full of the candy. This would equate to a bowl of Skittles roughly 246 feet long, 123 feet high, and 9 feet deep.
If DTJR wants to replace the image that was taken down, I'm sure Vox would be happy to give him permission to use theirs. Of course that would defeat the fear-mongering purpose of his original post.
Well you might need to set up your own store. I'm not sure how much control Amazon give you over these things. But you could:
1. Ban buyers who are clearly arbitragers 2. Require the shipping address to match the billing address (or other verified address) on the credit card 3. Require all shipments to addresses that are not the billing address to include a gift message that states clearly that the recipient should not have been charged any money for it.
There are probably others. This is just off the top of my head.
To put this another way, the experiment will absolutely be repeated, it just may not be with that same person.
But this signal that in our society we reward those who treat people fairly will be in the back of their mind the next time a situation like this arises.
Any lawsuit that attempts to force anyone from taking down protected speech can be anti-SLAPPed and now they are on the hook for legal fees. I don't think the people behind this cluster-debacle really thought this through. Here's what I tweeted last night to a few that voiced support for this bill (here is the bill's sponsor as the exemplar):
@IanCalderon born October 19, 1985 (age 30) #firstamendment #sosumi #antislapp #legalfees #badpublicity #streisandeffect @sagaftra @techdirt
Sure it's plagiarism, but from my brief Google search, that isn't against the law. Maybe there is a bar complaint that could have achieved the same effect, but barring that [pun intended[ using copyright as an interim solution seems ok. Let Congress fix it if they don't like it.
Look, it's great that Snowden turned out to be a nearly impeccable character that his opponents have to resort to lies and serious distortions to discredit him. But even if the guy were a drug addict with a penchant for young boys, THAT DOES NOT IN ANY WAY CHANGE THE *FACTS* OF THE MATTER AT HAND.
This whole report is just a pathetic attempt at redirection, focusing on the messenger rather than the message. And more to the point (which Greenwald astutely pointed out in his piece), Snowden was not the one who made this information public. If anyone should be scrutinized by the government it is the JOURNALISTS and their institutions who analyzed the information he provided and independently determined it to be newsworthy.
Fuck the oxymorons on the House Intelligence Committee. I hope the next leak FUBARs each and every one of their personal and professional lives commensurate with the bullshit our government has put all of the previous intelligence whistleblowers combined.
I admit I'm ignorant of the particulars of the Canadian "notice and notice" system, but if I worked for University of Manitoba and if it weren't explicitly forbidden, I would pass on the letter per legal obligation along with a cover letter explaining that I have to send the enclosed letter along, but it is complete BS and you should feel free to ignore it, and call our office if you have questions. Because education is the way to solve this problem.
...that any publishing platform will have biases that not everyone agrees with. The solution is more speech from a diverse set of people on a diverse set of platforms.
Sure, keep calling them out if you feel it's newsworthy, but to me it's sort of like reporting on the sun rising again today.
t's easy for some people to just say "Well, don't use Facebook," but for many people that's not really an option these days...
So use Facebook for "music videos, family dinners and other experiences" and "to stay in touch with family". But is it realistic for Facebook to be a platform that is best for all things to all people? You can still share a link to the article; just not with the "obscene" image associated. And there are probably better platforms for sharing more meaningful news and information that attract the the attention of clumsy, and overly-broad censors.
Actually the people directly exploiting these children to create the images are the worst of the worst. It's no different than the drug dealers vs. the addicts, IMHO. Not to absolve the viewers, but to inject a bit of perspective here.
So now countries and organizations will resort to posting the content via anonymous 3rd party sites, and then linking to it on their official channels. Or is the IOCC going to start punishing anyone who merely *LINKS* to "unauthorized" olympic content?
Anyone who argues for backdoors should have all of their investment and banking accounts put in a system with a backdoor. That would only be used by the "good guys" for "good reasons". And while we're at it, their email & texts goes into a similarly backdoored system. Let's see how loud they argue for it then.
Elsevier gives authors the right to upload their papers to SciHub
With all the talk about the horrible deal authors get in having to hand over their copyright in order to get published, I thought I'd see what that deal really is.
IANAL, but from my read of the agreement, authors have the right to share their own work with others in the scientific community:
Authors... have the right to:
Share their article for Personal Use, Internal Institutional Use and Scholarly Sharing purposes...
I have Sonic broadband, which is simply reselling AT&T Uverse. They provide a VPN service so that AT&T can't capture my traffic. I'm sure it would be cheaper for people to pay for a 3rd party VPN service rather than pay their own ISP for "privacy". I wouldn't even trust them to respect my privacy if I did pay for it. I'm sure we will hear of them turning over data to a govt agency despite the customer "paying for privacy".
Yes, officer. The car was stolen. Thank you for recovering my stolen property.
Or is the government going to start saying that property that is stolen and then used in what they claim is criminal activity now also eligible for civil forfeiture?
Anyone working on mobile phone locking software, please consider adding a duress passcode separate from the real passcode that would open the device with only some generic data included and simultaneously erase/invalidate all other data on the phone.
I'm sure for any popular and recognizable song out there, there are re-recorded versions, re-mastered versions, live versions, or even covers that could be used instead. Perhaps they didn't think to use one of those, but if this whole pre-1972 becomes a legal quagmire, you can bet this strategy will gain traction. Or just use a different song.
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The image in question was WAY out of scale...
adhering to Trump’s analogy, a bowl with three deadly Skittles (refugees) in it would need to contain 10.93 billion Skittles. Bump calculated this to be the equivalent of 1.5 Olympic-size swimming pools full of the candy. This would equate to a bowl of Skittles roughly 246 feet long, 123 feet high, and 9 feet deep.
If DTJR wants to replace the image that was taken down, I'm sure Vox would be happy to give him permission to use theirs. Of course that would defeat the fear-mongering purpose of his original post.
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If you really wanted to stop the aribitrage...
1. Ban buyers who are clearly arbitragers
2. Require the shipping address to match the billing address (or other verified address) on the credit card
3. Require all shipments to addresses that are not the billing address to include a gift message that states clearly that the recipient should not have been charged any money for it.
There are probably others. This is just off the top of my head.
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Re: Re:
But this signal that in our society we reward those who treat people fairly will be in the back of their mind the next time a situation like this arises.
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Getting my anti-SLAPP counter-slapper ready
@IanCalderon born October 19, 1985 (age 30) #firstamendment #sosumi #antislapp #legalfees #badpublicity #streisandeffect @sagaftra @techdirt
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Use the tools you are given
On the post: House Intelligence Committee's List Of 'Snowden's Lies' Almost Entirely False
Ad Hominem, AD HOMINEM, AD FUCKING HOMINEM!
This whole report is just a pathetic attempt at redirection, focusing on the messenger rather than the message. And more to the point (which Greenwald astutely pointed out in his piece), Snowden was not the one who made this information public. If anyone should be scrutinized by the government it is the JOURNALISTS and their institutions who analyzed the information he provided and independently determined it to be newsworthy.
Fuck the oxymorons on the House Intelligence Committee. I hope the next leak FUBARs each and every one of their personal and professional lives commensurate with the bullshit our government has put all of the previous intelligence whistleblowers combined.
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Notice and notice PLUS editoral notes
On the post: Another Day, Another Problem With Facebook's Random Decisions To Block Content
It's to b e expected...
Sure, keep calling them out if you feel it's newsworthy, but to me it's sort of like reporting on the sun rising again today.
On the post: If You're A Journalist Who Thinks That Pointing Out Lies Shows Bias, You're Not A Journalist
the word "complicit" comes to mind
On the post: Facebook's Arbitrary Censors Strike Again; Ban Norwegian Newspaper From Posting Iconic Vietnam War Photo
Mike, a little more nuance please
So use Facebook for "music videos, family dinners and other experiences" and "to stay in touch with family". But is it realistic for Facebook to be a platform that is best for all things to all people? You can still share a link to the article; just not with the "obscene" image associated. And there are probably better platforms for sharing more meaningful news and information that attract the the attention of clumsy, and overly-broad censors.
On the post: FBI Apparently Made Darkweb Child Porn Site Faster During Its Hosting Of Seized Server
"the worst of the worst"
On the post: Mexican Government Officials Have Press Creds Withdrawn From Olympics Over Uploaded Cell Phone Footage
Lesson learned: go underground
On the post: French Government Wants A 'Global Initiative' To Undermine Encryption And Put Everyone At Risk
and... it's gone!
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The banking system uses encryption
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Re: Re: Elsevier gives authors the right to upload their papers to SciHub
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Elsevier gives authors the right to upload their papers to SciHub
IANAL, but from my read of the agreement, authors have the right to share their own work with others in the scientific community:
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VPN FTW
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Repeat after me...
Or is the government going to start saying that property that is stolen and then used in what they claim is criminal activity now also eligible for civil forfeiture?
This is getting ludicrous.
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Feature request please
On the post: But Wait: Copyright Law Is So Screwed Up, Perhaps The Rolling Stones Are Right That Donald Trump Needed Their Permission
So use a recording of the song from after 1972
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