http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/03160923172/chinese-hacks-google-database-surveillance-targets-highlight-how-dumb-technology-backdoors-are.shtml#c197 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:58:06 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/03160923172/chinese-hacks-google-database-surveillance-targets-highlight-how-dumb-technology-backdoors-are.shtml#c197
Eric Schmidt was once quoted in basically stating that anyone working for Google has the ability and access to see users' emails without the use of users' passwords, and the reason people working there don't do it is because he'd know about it immediately and their policy is "don't be evil"...I mean seriously how delusional is that?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c691 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:57:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c691
Regarding violent video games causing savagery, just shut the hell up. You're clearly speaking of something which you have no experience with and as such are incapable to comment on it's (v. video games) effect on behavior.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c679 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:55:22 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c679
and this is why the cops should have had their own cameras recording the whole thing. Nine cops and no cop cameras. Incredible. Why didn't the cops bring their own cameras? Very suspect, very disturbing.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090516/0820434902/dailydirt-commencement-speeches.shtml#c60 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:49:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090516/0820434902/dailydirt-commencement-speeches.shtml#c60
Spoken like a true Ohioan :-) Bill also carried this philosophy throughout C&H :-)]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1796 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:45:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1796 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02350923170/new-bill-would-stop-patent-trolls-hiding-behind-shell-companies.shtml#c126 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:37:17 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02350923170/new-bill-would-stop-patent-trolls-hiding-behind-shell-companies.shtml#c126
Most lawmakers are lawyers, THAT is the problem.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/16402423161/first-hand-account-judicial-smackdown-prenda-minnesota.shtml#c1344 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:35:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/16402423161/first-hand-account-judicial-smackdown-prenda-minnesota.shtml#c1344 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02350923170/new-bill-would-stop-patent-trolls-hiding-behind-shell-companies.shtml#c125 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:33:23 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02350923170/new-bill-would-stop-patent-trolls-hiding-behind-shell-companies.shtml#c125
But, but, but zero tolerance!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/18364622931/ma-teen-arrested-held-without-bail-posting-supposed-terrorist-threat-facebook.shtml#c1334 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:25:04 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/18364622931/ma-teen-arrested-held-without-bail-posting-supposed-terrorist-threat-facebook.shtml#c1334 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/11032823096/how-low-can-drones-go.shtml#c811 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:24:29 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/11032823096/how-low-can-drones-go.shtml#c811 So how close does a drone have to be to someone's home before it becomes intrusive? Clearly, at some height the air is part of the sky commons that belongs to everyone, as a famous 1946 US Supreme Court decision laid down:

The air is a public highway, as Congress has declared. Were that not true, every transcontinental flight would subject the operator to countless trespass suits. Common sense revolts at the idea.

If that's true, why do you need special permits to fly model aircraft over a certain size or launch large rockets?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/10364522962/eric-schmidt-still-fan-figuring-out-way-to-erase-past.shtml#c201 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:19:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/10364522962/eric-schmidt-still-fan-figuring-out-way-to-erase-past.shtml#c201 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/07475922914/why-even-good-hospitals-doctors-are-obstacle-to-better-cheaper-healthcare.shtml#c357 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:18:57 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/07475922914/why-even-good-hospitals-doctors-are-obstacle-to-better-cheaper-healthcare.shtml#c357 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1780 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:16:47 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1780
http://www.infowars.com/video-hundreds-of-dhs-armored-trucks-on-the-move/]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1758 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:12:53 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1758 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c692 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:11:48 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c692 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c663 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:08:06 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c663
If you shoot video of cops breaking the law and/or abusing someone, make disseminating the video(s) your top priority! Upload them! Email them to someone, even yourself! Hide the memory card! Don't just sit around waiting for the cops to show up and confiscate the phone/camera/card!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c648 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:03:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c648
They should separately pay for taking those cameras. The person whom the cameras was wrongfully taken from should be rewarded well. Do you know why? It will encourage more people to record the cops because, if they record the cops and the cameras are wrongfully taken, those making the recordings get rewarded. That is a good rule. Otherwise people will be discouraged from recording the cops knowing that they can get their cameras forcefully taken from them and not be compensated and accomplish nothing when the evidence is deleted. That's not a rule we want. The fact that these people had their cameras taken from them and should get compensation is independent on whether or not the cops are guilty of murder. Yes, the cops should be convicted of murder. But, separately, these people should be well compensated for having their cameras taken.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c636 Wed, 22 May 2013 18:57:12 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c636
They should be convicted of murder, yes, but that's a separate issue. They should separately be punished for the wrongful confiscation of (potential) evidence.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c619 Wed, 22 May 2013 18:55:10 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c619 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c606 Wed, 22 May 2013 18:54:44 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c606
But I suppose cops getting away with murder and the forceful and wrongful confiscation and destruction of evidence is OK. People like you will defend them.

That's just the American way, isn't it?]]>