Crew shoots for months, hundreds of hours recorded, no usable final product... how is that a fake documentary crew? Sounds real to me. FBI Agents are probably pitching HBO as we speak.
$13? That's one of the biggest class action awards I've seen. Still holding a check from TD Bank that's supposed to make amends for lobby-located coin counting machines that chronically undercounted the contents of my pickle jar full of pocket change. I haven't needed the 56 cents yet.
This isn't a news story, but it cites one in the first line. And if clicking-through is too much work, a mere roll-over reveals there's an underlying Washington Post news story one can refer to before (or after) reading the opinion piece posted here.
Poor prosecutorial decisions are hugely at fault. And it's helpful to differentiate the actual municipal court prosecutors involved here from the ennobled characters portrayed in TV crime dramas.
In my experience in NJ municipal courts, the recent law school grad, unable to secure a slot in a regional powerhouse law firm, returns to her or his hometown and hangs out a shingle... wills, divorces and personal injury. Then, mostly because they're young and don't know any better, they get themselves appointed as a municipal assistant prosecutor. What follows is intoxicating: irrespective of their mediocre class rank or inexperience, ticketed motorists must bow low or curtsy before them, and beg for a reduction in the charges (and increase in fines). The municipal prosecutor, in that instant, is the most important person in the room; before court begins, a line is formed so that, one by one, each miscreant may appear before them and grovel. Local bigwigs, crabby neighbors, a teacher they always hated... heady stuff! And clearly, failure to kiss the ring could quickly escalate charges, especially for less savvy supplicants, or those who display a bit of 'tude. Bingo - no license, no ability to pay.
This is no doubt compounded by the state's governmental structure -- few services are provided by regional governments, like counties or extended townships; a NJ County Sheriff enforces evictions and patrols county buildings, nothing more. New Jersey's 18th-19th century topology means hundreds and hundreds of small town Emperor-Prosecutors never develop enough professionalism to look at big-picture issues in small-time enforcement.
I hear "slow news", and my mind jumps to a specific place - a service of the the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW), in which the news reports of the day are read at an excruciatingly slow speed, enabling comprehension by high school language class washouts like me.
But I think there's a slightly deeper "slow news" significance here, too: slower dissemination enables more complete comprehension, in both the language example and in a TechDirt arm's-length review of a flash-bang "hot topic", one where nuance and more thorough understanding are fostered. I think a lot of us are nauseated by the "breaking news" culture, and "slow news" is the antidote.
Not sure why I'm even looking for plausibility, but really, what's the motivation for a CIO to cry DDOS? Site crashes under load due to unanticipated public response -- doesn't sound like a hangin' crime to me.
This clearly comes from the top; and even if it didn't, accountability rests there regardless.
"... a gun that can shoot 2-3 rounds before it fails..."
That's always the first thing I picture -- the moment you detonate a small explosive charge inside a sculpted lump of UV-cured resin. Run away... run very, very far away.
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Re: How about basic reporting standards?
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Moo Shu DDOS
This may explain why the fortune cookie I opened this weekend said, "L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) vulnerability may bring you sadness unless patched."
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In my experience in NJ municipal courts, the recent law school grad, unable to secure a slot in a regional powerhouse law firm, returns to her or his hometown and hangs out a shingle... wills, divorces and personal injury. Then, mostly because they're young and don't know any better, they get themselves appointed as a municipal assistant prosecutor. What follows is intoxicating: irrespective of their mediocre class rank or inexperience, ticketed motorists must bow low or curtsy before them, and beg for a reduction in the charges (and increase in fines). The municipal prosecutor, in that instant, is the most important person in the room; before court begins, a line is formed so that, one by one, each miscreant may appear before them and grovel. Local bigwigs, crabby neighbors, a teacher they always hated... heady stuff! And clearly, failure to kiss the ring could quickly escalate charges, especially for less savvy supplicants, or those who display a bit of 'tude. Bingo - no license, no ability to pay.
This is no doubt compounded by the state's governmental structure -- few services are provided by regional governments, like counties or extended townships; a NJ County Sheriff enforces evictions and patrols county buildings, nothing more. New Jersey's 18th-19th century topology means hundreds and hundreds of small town Emperor-Prosecutors never develop enough professionalism to look at big-picture issues in small-time enforcement.
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Many would love to deliver a sockdolager to ol' Agent Orange.
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I hear "slow news", and my mind jumps to a specific place - a service of the the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW), in which the news reports of the day are read at an excruciatingly slow speed, enabling comprehension by high school language class washouts like me.
But I think there's a slightly deeper "slow news" significance here, too: slower dissemination enables more complete comprehension, in both the language example and in a TechDirt arm's-length review of a flash-bang "hot topic", one where nuance and more thorough understanding are fostered. I think a lot of us are nauseated by the "breaking news" culture, and "slow news" is the antidote.
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This clearly comes from the top; and even if it didn't, accountability rests there regardless.
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"... the only place you feel showing more hostility towards you..."
How 'bout those Canadians, eh? The only country where I've been "taken to the little room" to explain why I needed to enter the country.
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"... a gun that can shoot 2-3 rounds before it fails..."
That's always the first thing I picture -- the moment you detonate a small explosive charge inside a sculpted lump of UV-cured resin. Run away... run very, very far away.
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Side wagers, anyone?
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"...before that, Congress should start to do its damn job and..."
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Did you really want to start making that list?
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