No one wants to look like they're opposed to protecting federal judges
Oh goodie, now we know that the follow-on to "Think of the children" is "... and the judges". Nice to see them lumped into the same class of society
... if it were challenged, would a federal judge -- effectively the only direct beneficiaries of the bill itself -- come out and admit to the constitutional problems with the bill?
I think it's much worse than that. A moral judge would have to recuse him/herself, because of the obvious self-interest. Which then says that any judge who does declare a verdict of "It's a good law" is automatically suspect as to moral turpitude.
Besides which, even if J. Salas' info was published on a website, that would not be the first place an attorney would look for it - they would just use the ABA's own Directory.
If the plaintiff had won the case, can you imagine how long it would take before Parler, Gab, et al were to be sued for "being the direct and proximate cause of the insurrection"? I'd make it minutes, not even an hour...
Oh, so you're paraphrasing the permanent notice on the company bulletin board that reads:
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
if it were not for Techdirt and guitarnuts2.proboards.com, I would've cut the internet cord completely, years ago. Comcast, et al don't need my money as much as I do.
If the universe were truly fair, Justice Roberts would've seen him for the ass he is, and shit-canned him from the legal career before any of this crap could take hold.
I meant that as in, all of their products are essentially spyware, no exceptions. But I'll freely admit that spyware is a sub-category of malware, so I probably should've used the latter term, to be more inclusive.
The updated November list consists of 37 countries, down from 102, according to the Calcalist business news daily.
All it's going to take is just one person from just one of those 37 countries, and the "gray market" will thrive like there's no tomorrow.
What would be truly 'funny' would be if that gray marketeer were to not continually purchase new copies for resale, i.e. if they simply copied the spyware and sold those copies onward. That would force NSO to sue them, and thus admit that the IP in question is, indeed, spyware.
Want to see scalping stop? Simple - institute price fixing.... by the government, not by some corporate cabal behind closed doors. Simply make it a law that no price for the retail transfer of an item can be for more than the MSRP. But, but, but... you say - companies can simply jack up their MSRP's and then where are we? And you just exposed your forgetfulness of the Law of Supply and Demand. If it's priced too high, the number of items sold will be lower, simple as that. I'm sure you can figure out the rest of this maxim.
Note that a retailer can charge a lower price, just not a higher one. For the same reason, this would not apply to wholesalers, jobbers, etc. Once the law becomes "common" knowledge, no one would respond to a scalper's ad for anything more than MSRP. In fact, a cottage industry might crop up, reporting any attempted scalping.
Now, does this solve anything? Stock still might run out, true, but the stock that was sold went to people who wanted it for what it is, not for an investment (i.e. scalping). Fewer people deprived, and more legitimate demand created, driving the manufacturers to work harder to keep the customers happy, and the bank account even fatter. I'd say that's an overall positive, wouldn't you?
However, there is still a real fly in the ointment, and that is the used market. Details for that have to be fleshed out as well, or this whole concept becomes null and void.
Beat me to it. So-called scalpers are just retailers dealing at what the market will bear.... and are willing to live with a smaller market share. Those people who learn that someone else got the same item for less money, they're just upset that they "had" to pay more. Them's the breaks, pal.
In point of fact, scalpers cannot be stopped, with the possible exception where a person must physically show up, and a sales limit was put in place at the outset. Even that can be overcome, but it takes a little more effort. And online? No extra effort at all - false names and other ways to get around limits, there are many methods available.
But the real question is, why are there scalpers in the first place? Ah, but that's a question for a different thread. I'll leave it to others to hash that one out. :)
The update that removed "God mode" fixes the main issue of potential/probable liability for physical harm to the customer, that's all. It may be enough to ward off a loss in the current court case, in fact I'm betting that it will, but I'm also well aware that the opera ain't over until the fat lady sings. I can only hope that the case will be either settled outside of court, or resolved by the court(s), soon. And that's only because I'm curious, you understand. :)
The other things you mention are likely still intact and vulnerable. I can only guess that when an attacker success fully bricks a treadmill, or worse, then another court case will ensue. Not every treadmill user is smart enough to block its network access at the router, sad to say.
Oh, and please enlighten us as to where to find God Mode in MS-DOS, or IBM's PC-DOS, or DR-DOS, any versions of such. I gotta admit, I do love me some command line exploits!
I'm surprised that TFA didn't mention why Nordic Track said "safety" numerous times. (Though they got close with "moving parts".) I'm seeing this machine as an IoT device, which of course is defined as an external access point with less-than-zero security - it effectively challenges scumbags to come in an fsck up your workout routine. (Come to think of it, isn't that what just happened - a malicious intruder just entered the system under a false flag and boogered it up?) And that's just for starters - what about the rest of your network?
I've had a couple of treadmills in the past, the second with the same abilities of the current NT (but probably without the God Mode, I don't know). I can just imagine being dumped into the console, with no small amount of force, by some script-kiddie telling the machine to shut off just when I'd reached my favored running speed.
That's just the kind of thing that lawyers look for, and successfully sue over: "The manufacturer should have anticipated this possibility, and taken steps to prevent it". Still, Nordic Track could've just given that example, and been done with it. People would still be very upset, but they'd have no chance in Hell of succeeding in court. After all, users are looking to them to take responsibility, and that's just what they are doing - protecting the user from him/her self. Courts tend to accept this line of reasoning, as galling as it may be to the user.
Bait and switch? The plaintiff would like this to be the central focal point, but they'll fail for the above reasons - it's about the manufacturer being responsible for preventing a potential tort, end of story. Sony's PS3 debacle wasn't about possible physical harm, that truly was about revenue streams, and thus was correctly decided as a bait and switch.
And using a separate tablet, that's just what I did... with a cable up to the 32" monitor mounted on the wall. (Largest thing available at the time.) Lot cheaper than a new treadmill, and one less thing I have to learn how to protect from just from this kind of malarky.
In what way is he damaged by the Pulitzer board refusing to strip the awards....
He's been butthurt, and he needs to lash out at what his feverish mind believes is the source of that buttpain. Of course, the narcissism in him never seems to make the connection that he's bringing all this shit down on himself by the very fact that he suffers from diarrhea of the mouth and constipation of the brain.
I see this being smacked down relatively quickly for failure to state a claim.
You got it in one. However, he'll be allowed to amend it two or three times before the court realizes that it has other cases to adjudicate, and tosses it out for good.
"Trumpista" would be a good one, but the fact is, all "retard" really means is that one thing is comparatively behind or below another thing. It's a synonym for "retrograde", and an antonym for "advanced". Still and all, while the dictionary (usually) does not define "retard" as a description of a person lacking in brain-power, we as a society do tend to use the word that as a pejorative, and it's been accepted into the common vernacular.
For all intents and purposes, Koby's development in ability to recognize and accept reality has been completely arrested in progress, and thus it is fair to say that he is clinically retarded.
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in re "deserve", do we need to remind you of Martin Niemoller's poem from 1946?.
in re "think", you are expressing a belief, which by definition, requires that one forego rational thinking at all.
Just trying to help, that's all.
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Oh goodie, now we know that the follow-on to "Think of the children" is "... and the judges". Nice to see them lumped into the same class of society
I think it's much worse than that. A moral judge would have to recuse him/herself, because of the obvious self-interest. Which then says that any judge who does declare a verdict of "It's a good law" is automatically suspect as to moral turpitude.
Besides which, even if J. Salas' info was published on a website, that would not be the first place an attorney would look for it - they would just use the ABA's own Directory.
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If the plaintiff had won the case, can you imagine how long it would take before Parler, Gab, et al were to be sued for "being the direct and proximate cause of the insurrection"? I'd make it minutes, not even an hour...
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Oh, so you're paraphrasing the permanent notice on the company bulletin board that reads:
if it were not for Techdirt and guitarnuts2.proboards.com, I would've cut the internet cord completely, years ago. Comcast, et al don't need my money as much as I do.
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If the universe were truly fair, Justice Roberts would've seen him for the ass he is, and shit-canned him from the legal career before any of this crap could take hold.
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T, FTFY
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I meant that as in, all of their products are essentially spyware, no exceptions. But I'll freely admit that spyware is a sub-category of malware, so I probably should've used the latter term, to be more inclusive.
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All it's going to take is just one person from just one of those 37 countries, and the "gray market" will thrive like there's no tomorrow.
What would be truly 'funny' would be if that gray marketeer were to not continually purchase new copies for resale, i.e. if they simply copied the spyware and sold those copies onward. That would force NSO to sue them, and thus admit that the IP in question is, indeed, spyware.
Good times....
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Nice try, both of you. Good for the yucks, but not much more.
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Want to see scalping stop? Simple - institute price fixing.... by the government, not by some corporate cabal behind closed doors. Simply make it a law that no price for the retail transfer of an item can be for more than the MSRP. But, but, but... you say - companies can simply jack up their MSRP's and then where are we? And you just exposed your forgetfulness of the Law of Supply and Demand. If it's priced too high, the number of items sold will be lower, simple as that. I'm sure you can figure out the rest of this maxim.
Note that a retailer can charge a lower price, just not a higher one. For the same reason, this would not apply to wholesalers, jobbers, etc. Once the law becomes "common" knowledge, no one would respond to a scalper's ad for anything more than MSRP. In fact, a cottage industry might crop up, reporting any attempted scalping.
Now, does this solve anything? Stock still might run out, true, but the stock that was sold went to people who wanted it for what it is, not for an investment (i.e. scalping). Fewer people deprived, and more legitimate demand created, driving the manufacturers to work harder to keep the customers happy, and the bank account even fatter. I'd say that's an overall positive, wouldn't you?
However, there is still a real fly in the ointment, and that is the used market. Details for that have to be fleshed out as well, or this whole concept becomes null and void.
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Beat me to it. So-called scalpers are just retailers dealing at what the market will bear.... and are willing to live with a smaller market share. Those people who learn that someone else got the same item for less money, they're just upset that they "had" to pay more. Them's the breaks, pal.
In point of fact, scalpers cannot be stopped, with the possible exception where a person must physically show up, and a sales limit was put in place at the outset. Even that can be overcome, but it takes a little more effort. And online? No extra effort at all - false names and other ways to get around limits, there are many methods available.
But the real question is, why are there scalpers in the first place? Ah, but that's a question for a different thread. I'll leave it to others to hash that one out. :)
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Doesn't work - somebody* will want that toy, or those concert tickets, etc. Just a matter of patience, that's all.
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The update that removed "God mode" fixes the main issue of potential/probable liability for physical harm to the customer, that's all. It may be enough to ward off a loss in the current court case, in fact I'm betting that it will, but I'm also well aware that the opera ain't over until the fat lady sings. I can only hope that the case will be either settled outside of court, or resolved by the court(s), soon. And that's only because I'm curious, you understand. :)
The other things you mention are likely still intact and vulnerable. I can only guess that when an attacker success fully bricks a treadmill, or worse, then another court case will ensue. Not every treadmill user is smart enough to block its network access at the router, sad to say.
Oh, and please enlighten us as to where to find God Mode in MS-DOS, or IBM's PC-DOS, or DR-DOS, any versions of such. I gotta admit, I do love me some command line exploits!
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I'm surprised that TFA didn't mention why Nordic Track said "safety" numerous times. (Though they got close with "moving parts".) I'm seeing this machine as an IoT device, which of course is defined as an external access point with less-than-zero security - it effectively challenges scumbags to come in an fsck up your workout routine. (Come to think of it, isn't that what just happened - a malicious intruder just entered the system under a false flag and boogered it up?) And that's just for starters - what about the rest of your network?
I've had a couple of treadmills in the past, the second with the same abilities of the current NT (but probably without the God Mode, I don't know). I can just imagine being dumped into the console, with no small amount of force, by some script-kiddie telling the machine to shut off just when I'd reached my favored running speed.
That's just the kind of thing that lawyers look for, and successfully sue over: "The manufacturer should have anticipated this possibility, and taken steps to prevent it". Still, Nordic Track could've just given that example, and been done with it. People would still be very upset, but they'd have no chance in Hell of succeeding in court. After all, users are looking to them to take responsibility, and that's just what they are doing - protecting the user from him/her self. Courts tend to accept this line of reasoning, as galling as it may be to the user.
Bait and switch? The plaintiff would like this to be the central focal point, but they'll fail for the above reasons - it's about the manufacturer being responsible for preventing a potential tort, end of story. Sony's PS3 debacle wasn't about possible physical harm, that truly was about revenue streams, and thus was correctly decided as a bait and switch.
And using a separate tablet, that's just what I did... with a cable up to the 32" monitor mounted on the wall. (Largest thing available at the time.) Lot cheaper than a new treadmill, and one less thing I have to learn how to protect from just from this kind of malarky.
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Samuel, I'm not gonna engage you on that one. Have a good one.
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... and succeed at that explanation, i.e. the dumbass calls off the project that surely would've failed big-time.
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Unless you'e on various torrent sites, where the shoutout goes to Nic Cage. 😂
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He's been butthurt, and he needs to lash out at what his feverish mind believes is the source of that buttpain. Of course, the narcissism in him never seems to make the connection that he's bringing all this shit down on himself by the very fact that he suffers from diarrhea of the mouth and constipation of the brain.
You got it in one. However, he'll be allowed to amend it two or three times before the court realizes that it has other cases to adjudicate, and tosses it out for good.
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"Trumpista" would be a good one, but the fact is, all "retard" really means is that one thing is comparatively behind or below another thing. It's a synonym for "retrograde", and an antonym for "advanced". Still and all, while the dictionary (usually) does not define "retard" as a description of a person lacking in brain-power, we as a society do tend to use the word that as a pejorative, and it's been accepted into the common vernacular.
For all intents and purposes, Koby's development in ability to recognize and accept reality has been completely arrested in progress, and thus it is fair to say that he is clinically retarded.
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Koby has a peer? Where, pray tell, is this alleged peer? If there's more than one of him, I'm quitting the internet!
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