People all over the world, throughout history, have taken advantage of their own skills, talents and proclivities to earn a living. This is not new.
So ....... what's the difference between me taking advantage of how my brain works in an office to earn a living, and somebody else taking advantage of how their body works in a bed to earn theirs?
I am no more morally superiour to a prostitute than I am to a day laborer, both of whom use their physical rather than their mental skills
NSO has sold malware to serial human rights abusers and one would hope US agencies would voluntarily choose not to buy from a company with such shady clientele.
It doesn't. But just because a judge can consider the intent of the law, doesn't mean he has to.
Case in point - and one that has been discussed here many times: laws regarding child pornography. Every one of those laws were intended to protect children - I'm pretty sure we can all agree on that. But that hasn't stopped many judges from interpreting the letter of the law strictly and convicting 15 year old children from sending naked pictures to a bf or gf, has it?
Just because Parliament did not include site blocking does not mean a judge can't find a justification for blocking from common or case law.
That being said,I think this judge is seriously out to lunch and this was a seriously bad decision. Knowing the law doesn't mean you know squat about technical issues. I've had this argument many times with one of my sisters, who is a lawyer.
More to the point: Yes, there are going to be instances where the lack of encryption would be the only way to solve the case but those, generally speaking, are going to be very rare edge cases.
But the core problem isn't the lack of data - it's the lack of ability to use all that data. And when you already have a problem finding the needle in a haystack, making the haystack bigger is not going to be much of a help.
Stop whining about how you're all the way over here and the magnet is all the way over there. Just pick the damned thing up, and do your bloody job.
I have only one issue with what was said ..... a phone using a modem to make a direct connection to another computer is NOT "the very definition of connecting to the internet". But that's just one line in an otherwise sterling show.
The CBC has shown considerable restraint, given that it was a Conservative party (under Stephen Harper) which shut down a long list of CBC/Radio-Canada transmitters at the end of Aug 2012, some of them in places as large as London, Ontario.
You do realize that those transmitters were shut down because the switch to digital transmitters was completed, and the ones shut down were analogue and no longer of any use, don't you?
There's also the little detail that the CBC shut down the transmitters themselves to save money - the Tory government and exactly zero to do with it.
Yes, of course I did. MY point was that it doesn't matter if you think it was wrong or not - the point is moot, because even in those cases where they ARE right, it's only pure, dumb luck.
I was in intelligence in the 70s/80s during the "good old days" of the cold war, and I think I've got a perspective on this that pretty well anybody else in the intelligence community should have ....... which makes this whole thing even more confusing.
The problem, generally speaking, is not so much the lack of information, but a surplus of information. One of the hardest parts of analysis is separating the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.
Computer automation allows us to handle much, much more data than we did before. Unfortunately, the amount of data has increased even faster (by orders of magnitude) than our ability to process it.
Bottom line is this: When you have to work so hard to find a needle in a haystack, giving yourself an even bigger haystack to deal with is NOT the most productive of moves.
How long before ISIS, or whatever the hell the non de jour is, clues in and starts sending automated takedown requests for anything that shows them in a bad light?
Will the EU then charge itself for giving material aid to terrorists?
I didn't realize that this was an issue till I caught the story on google news, and didn't even know Hasan Minhaj has a show - I've since watched that episode specifically, and have the rest queued on Netflix for watching.
What's the difference?
People all over the world, throughout history, have taken advantage of their own skills, talents and proclivities to earn a living. This is not new.
So ....... what's the difference between me taking advantage of how my brain works in an office to earn a living, and somebody else taking advantage of how their body works in a bed to earn theirs?
I am no more morally superiour to a prostitute than I am to a day laborer, both of whom use their physical rather than their mental skills
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Why not? They'd fit right in
Re:
It probably took you more time to look up the locations of all the Orange Counties in the US than it would have taken to visit the links.
Re: great possibilities
As a student, I would expect to be graded on my knowledge of the source material, not my location in meatspace.
This is NOT respect
The police are not demanding "respect" as we know the word. They are demanding submission.
They don't even know the proper definition of the word. They use it in the same way inmates in jail use it. Read into that what you will.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 'Legislation? Bah, I'm a judge, that doesn't
It doesn't. But just because a judge can consider the intent of the law, doesn't mean he has to.
Case in point - and one that has been discussed here many times: laws regarding child pornography. Every one of those laws were intended to protect children - I'm pretty sure we can all agree on that. But that hasn't stopped many judges from interpreting the letter of the law strictly and convicting 15 year old children from sending naked pictures to a bf or gf, has it?
Re: Re: Re: 'Legislation? Bah, I'm a judge, that doesn't concern
The judge is not there to worry about what laws Parliament did NOT pass - His job is to interpret the laws that they did.
Re: 'Legislation? Bah, I'm a judge, that doesn't concern me.'
Just because Parliament did not include site blocking does not mean a judge can't find a justification for blocking from common or case law.
That being said,I think this judge is seriously out to lunch and this was a seriously bad decision. Knowing the law doesn't mean you know squat about technical issues. I've had this argument many times with one of my sisters, who is a lawyer.
Re: Nerding Harder
More to the point: Yes, there are going to be instances where the lack of encryption would be the only way to solve the case but those, generally speaking, are going to be very rare edge cases.
But the core problem isn't the lack of data - it's the lack of ability to use all that data. And when you already have a problem finding the needle in a haystack, making the haystack bigger is not going to be much of a help.
Stop whining about how you're all the way over here and the magnet is all the way over there. Just pick the damned thing up, and do your bloody job.
Re: Re: Re:
Ezra Levant is jewish. I'm pretty sure they don't do pork.
A tiny quibble
I have only one issue with what was said ..... a phone using a modem to make a direct connection to another computer is NOT "the very definition of connecting to the internet". But that's just one line in an otherwise sterling show.
Re: Re: Common law prevails over even so large as CBC!
You do realize that those transmitters were shut down because the switch to digital transmitters was completed, and the ones shut down were analogue and no longer of any use, don't you?
There's also the little detail that the CBC shut down the transmitters themselves to save money - the Tory government and exactly zero to do with it.
From the CBC itself: [https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/cbc-tv-tvo-end-analog-transmission-1.1145615]
Re: Re: Re: And what if the field tests were correct?
Yes, of course I did. MY point was that it doesn't matter if you think it was wrong or not - the point is moot, because even in those cases where they ARE right, it's only pure, dumb luck.
Re: And what if the field tests were correct?
And what if my painting of a clock was right twice a day? Would that mean it really was 8:55 and I was never late for work?
(untitled comment)
I was in intelligence in the 70s/80s during the "good old days" of the cold war, and I think I've got a perspective on this that pretty well anybody else in the intelligence community should have ....... which makes this whole thing even more confusing.
The problem, generally speaking, is not so much the lack of information, but a surplus of information. One of the hardest parts of analysis is separating the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.
Computer automation allows us to handle much, much more data than we did before. Unfortunately, the amount of data has increased even faster (by orders of magnitude) than our ability to process it.
Bottom line is this: When you have to work so hard to find a needle in a haystack, giving yourself an even bigger haystack to deal with is NOT the most productive of moves.
Aid to terrorists?
How long before ISIS, or whatever the hell the non de jour is, clues in and starts sending automated takedown requests for anything that shows them in a bad light?
Will the EU then charge itself for giving material aid to terrorists?
Re: Re: Re: work?
Because it would take at least 1,600 employees just to handle the complaints about Comcast
Thanks you, MBS
Thank you :)
Re: Ah, right! Sometimes that catches me when it's late…
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But what the hell do the Chicago Cubs have to do with the letter W?
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