http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c522 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:11:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c522
I don't know if it is the fact that the people who created snow fall misled the NYT into paying for 6 months work where it could easily have been done in a few hours even without the tool. Yes there is still the time taken to investigate the story and question the survivors but to say that using them as an example of what is great and what the future could look like is nothing more than rewarding them for their design and hopefully encouraging them to make more of it available on their site.

I am surprised that the NYT could think that pointing to them as a good example of what their software can achieve is bad in any way.

If i was stroll i would have take a story and created a site and used that to show how useful the software is, ignore the NYT give them no acknowledgment for their design and just release it as something new.
With the NYT going so crazy and not thinking they have enabled scroll to get a lot of much needed advertising, something i doubt was their intention to start with.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c513 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:10:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c513
Please show the actual fair use here, pointing to the fair use laws to explain.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c130 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:08:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c130
Number 2 does not seem too useful when Police Officers can lie but sure if their sanity is questioned then they can be sent off to be evaluated.

Number 4 seems a fair request and part of the job agreement but weekly seems a bit too intrusive where random checks can work better.

This whole case though is about cops not following established procedure rules, and even in breaking the law, where they will indeed be judged and fairly punished for what they have done.

I would hope to see in this case that the system works with no changes needed beyond reminding Police Officers to actually follow the law and standard procedures.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c129 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:06:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c129 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/11032823096/how-low-can-drones-go.shtml#c807 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:06:18 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/11032823096/how-low-can-drones-go.shtml#c807 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c122 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:04:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c122 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130421/21241622795/angry-prenda-is-angry.shtml#c382 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:04:11 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130421/21241622795/angry-prenda-is-angry.shtml#c382 continues to entertain.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c560 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:01:29 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c560 ... yet they ignore the robots.txt file's disallow instructions, and not only that, but publicly display links found on a site where those links were clearly delineated as "disallow" in that file.

Do you have a citation for that? It's not that I don't believe you - just haven't heard that one before.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1582 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:00:37 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1582
Authoritarians and the sheeple following them are complete assholes.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/11032823096/how-low-can-drones-go.shtml#c794 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:57:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/11032823096/how-low-can-drones-go.shtml#c794
End of story.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c121 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:57:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c121 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130521/20101423164/att-says-you-can-use-any-video-streaming-app-you-want-just-as-soon-as-it-can-get-meter-running.shtml#c161 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:56:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130521/20101423164/att-says-you-can-use-any-video-streaming-app-you-want-just-as-soon-as-it-can-get-meter-running.shtml#c161 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c105 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:52:02 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c105 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c544 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:48:11 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c544 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c103 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:47:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c103 ...since May 15...

Yeah. The report in the Bakersfield Californian is datelined Monday, May 13, 2013.

]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c519 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:47:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c519 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c506 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:46:22 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c506
Google claims to be on the side of security, yet they ignore the robots.txt file's disallow instructions, and not only that, but publicly display links found on a site where those links were clearly delineated as "disallow" in that file. As such, they are implicit in the breach.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1557 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:43:52 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1557
This is just another example of what happens when you give up freedom for safety.

In the end you lose both.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130521/20101423164/att-says-you-can-use-any-video-streaming-app-you-want-just-as-soon-as-it-can-get-meter-running.shtml#c138 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:43:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130521/20101423164/att-says-you-can-use-any-video-streaming-app-you-want-just-as-soon-as-it-can-get-meter-running.shtml#c138
My home Internet was out for a week and my wife had to use her data plan for everything. We both made heavy use of her phone for FaceBook, reading the latest news, watching new YouTube posts.

The data consumption was under 300MB that month. I can blow through that in one night on my computer doing nothing but browsing the web, no Media streaming, no file downloads.

That is mostly because of ads. I now use ad-block for Chrome for other reasons, such as CPU usage, but at the time, I did not have that addon.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c492 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:41:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c492
You want any data related to you removed from google there is a button you can press to scrub yourself from their system. Otherwise if you don't want to give them access to the data you create you can feel free not to use their free services.]]>