Latest Techdirt Comments http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... Re: But in today's world, the consequences are total http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/10364522962/eric-schmidt-still-fan-figuring-out-way-to-erase-past.shtml#c137 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:36:31 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/10364522962/eric-schmidt-still-fan-figuring-out-way-to-erase-past.shtml#c137 Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c372 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:35:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c372 The autopsy report seems most critical in this case

My understanding is that the cause of death won't be determined for another several months.

]]> Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c354 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:34:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c354
Here today it is clarified that the law says the Police cannot use a warrant to seize a by-standers property if a news story is to be reported. Only a Subpoena can be used and that of course gives people time to do their thing.

It is also true that detaining someone in their home for hours is not on the good side of the law. Police Officers are not even allowed in your house without a warrant unless you invite them in.

So all a case of not knowing the law, not taking up their lawful rights, then allowing the Police to bully them and to abuse the law in order to delete critical evidence against them. To win there is only one choice... to be an even bigger bully and annoyance.]]> Re: Police State http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1672 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:31:02 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1672
Warrant less wire taps, no-knock entries, confiscation of cameras, arrest and indefinite detention with no charges or even probable cause, torture, rendition of prisoners, and stop and frisk at will. Are those the actions of a free country?]]> Re: Re: Solution http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c351 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:30:12 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c351 "Well 1, 3 and 5 would be invalid when even Police Officers have Fourth Amendment rights meaning their privacy cannot be violated by the Government until there are facts to indicate that they may have been involved in a crime."

Not really. On point #3, police in many states are already required to carry in-dash cameras. On point #1, senators and judges are required by law to disclose their financial records each year, and on point #5 certain elected officials are required to keep copies of all non-personal communications as part of the public record. It's not much of a stretch to require police officers to do the same.]]> Re: Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/16402423161/first-hand-account-judicial-smackdown-prenda-minnesota.shtml#c1267 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:28:47 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/16402423161/first-hand-account-judicial-smackdown-prenda-minnesota.shtml#c1267 "I just think it's funny how completely obsessed you guys are about these idiots because, gasp, they're anti-piracy."

I'm not sure if you're genuinely naive or just trying to deflect from the truth (I suspect the latter). These guys are NOT "anti-piracy", their entire business model depends on it! They're not trying to stop piracy, they're trying to profit from it. If piracy stopped, so would their income stream.

Judging by your frequent rape comparisons, you seem to believe copyright infringement is a crime as bad as rape. So surely profiting from piracy is even worse? Maybe even as bad as murder! Are you sure you want to be taking their side of this?]]> Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c332 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:28:29 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c332 Good going http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1647 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:26:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1647 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/18364622931/ma-teen-arrested-held-without-bail-posting-supposed-terrorist-threat-facebook.shtml#c1270 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:21:54 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/18364622931/ma-teen-arrested-held-without-bail-posting-supposed-terrorist-threat-facebook.shtml#c1270 But in today's world, the consequences are total http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/10364522962/eric-schmidt-still-fan-figuring-out-way-to-erase-past.shtml#c123 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:20:40 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/10364522962/eric-schmidt-still-fan-figuring-out-way-to-erase-past.shtml#c123
This will be the first generation that grows to adulthood with nowhere to hide from their stupidity. Do we really want to make people who do stupid when they are 12 or 13 unemployable for life?

Note, by the way, that the well-off and well-connected will NOT have to suffer this fate. They do not get jobs by applying online. They get jobs through daddy's friends, and the Yale buddies they went to school with. This is strictly an issue for the 99%.]]> Everyone who gets a phone on contract is supporting this 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#c209 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:18:38 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#c209 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/18364622931/ma-teen-arrested-held-without-bail-posting-supposed-terrorist-threat-facebook.shtml#c1252 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:15:48 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/18364622931/ma-teen-arrested-held-without-bail-posting-supposed-terrorist-threat-facebook.shtml#c1252 Re: I'm glad they actually arrested these guys http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1636 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:12:04 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1636 Why let them get away with it just because they're two years younger?

Because boys will be boys, you fucking salad tosser.

I guess things weren't very rambunctious over at the chess club, huh? Obviously the memories of 'kick me' signs and wedgies has left an indelible mark and sped you into geezerdom.]]> Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c312 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:10:04 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c312
Then they only need to try to tie up every blow with the video evidence and who did what.

Keep in mind innocent until proven guilty.]]> tiny flaws in the plan http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/03160923172/chinese-hacks-google-database-surveillance-targets-highlight-how-dumb-technology-backdoors-are.shtml#c87 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:06:07 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/03160923172/chinese-hacks-google-database-surveillance-targets-highlight-how-dumb-technology-backdoors-are.shtml#c87 "Our brilliant American programmers, they assert, will find ways to enable wiretapping without creating new vulnerabilities."

1: China has some brilliant programmers too.

2: where excellent security is possible and has not yet been implemented, half of the time it's because no one wants to pay for it.

3: ...and the other half of the time, it's because it's slightly inconvenient to use.

4: this is supposed to be a free society, so when you try to install secret police, you're going to run into some problems. That's as it should be.]]> The public is not the government http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/10364522962/eric-schmidt-still-fan-figuring-out-way-to-erase-past.shtml#c98 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:04:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/10364522962/eric-schmidt-still-fan-figuring-out-way-to-erase-past.shtml#c98 Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/03160923172/chinese-hacks-google-database-surveillance-targets-highlight-how-dumb-technology-backdoors-are.shtml#c79 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:01:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/03160923172/chinese-hacks-google-database-surveillance-targets-highlight-how-dumb-technology-backdoors-are.shtml#c79 I thought we weren't at cyber war with China, Masnick? And that there was no such thing as cyber terrorism?


A bit of hacking isn't cyberwar or cyber terrorism. It's just hacking and some espionage. No one died because of this. No one ever said that there wasn't hacking going on backed by nation states, but that's not "cyber war." But, if we're talking about keeping people's private data safe, opening up backdoors is a bad way to do it.]]> Re: Re: As I've said, police aren't even thugs now, just attack dogs. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c291 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:00:59 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c291
Oh, and take this egregious tenuously related dig: I bet EVERY ONE of those savages played violent video games until they could do it in real life. How could violent games possibly lead to any other behavior than savagery?
Once again Blue ignores any evidence contrary to his predetermined beliefs.
Even knowing OOB's history, I took that part of his comment as sarcasm, as in taking a dig at the people (including many cops) who claim that violent video games make people do violent crimes. Basically saying that since the police apparently beat this guy to death they must have been playing violent video games to cause them to do such a horrible thing.

Sadly I wouldn't be surprised to see them try that as an excuse if this ever goes to trial.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/10364522962/eric-schmidt-still-fan-figuring-out-way-to-erase-past.shtml#c82 Wed, 22 May 2013 15:59:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/10364522962/eric-schmidt-still-fan-figuring-out-way-to-erase-past.shtml#c82
I admire your optimism that people will do the right thing. We all live in a small town now where everyone knows what you did and what you're doing.]]> 3 cheers for dead pigs http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c267 Wed, 22 May 2013 15:58:16 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c267