There are chemical solvents for many plastics, they're used for things like shaping plastic objects and welding things together all without use of heat. Splash a little on and the plastic goes soft like taffy. You can easily deliver them with a squirt gun, so long as the gun is made of a plastic the solvent has no effect on.
Good luck trying to fly when your rotor strut is flopping around like a rubber band...
It seems to me that the common sense answer would be that if you're directly above someone's land, but lower than the roof of a building on that land, you're clearly trespassing.
If you're higher than the buildings, you're in the public highway.
Of course, even if you're in the public highway, you might still be liable in the event of a noise complaint or for being a peeping tom.
That perjury clause is a real problem. If you did check whether you or your company owned the intellectual property you're taking down, and you don't own it but take it down anyway, that's perjury. But it's also perjury to claim you checked when you didn't even if the IP turns out to truly be yours.
Perjury is a federal crime, with a 5 year prison sentence attached. Given how many false takedowns happen and how many are automated, it's astounding that people aren't going to prison over this.
A private citizen perjures himself once and rarely gets acquitted. You can even get convicted of lying to the feds because the FBI wrote down something untrue about what you said to them. But if an organization engages in a criminal conspiracy to commit perjury hundreds of thousands of times...nobody in the government cares.
Each individual incident of perjury carries a rusk if going to federal prison for up to five years if convicted.
At some level, there must be someone who said "I don't care how many false positives this program creates, we're using it anyway."
Assuming 0.1% of all automated DMCA takedowns are false, if you send out one hundred of thousand automated takedowns that person who approved the program could go to prison for 500 years.
Do people seriously not realize what danger they're in when they act in bad faith under penalty of perjury?
And yet, Washington state still retains both the Olympic Mountains, the city of Olympia and Mount Olympus. Apparently a U.S. state is too big for the IOC to bully.
The point of using a log file as evidence is that it shows what actually happened. If it has been edited, then it no longer shows what actually happened, only what the editor wants you to see.
Suddenly, the log file is no longer evidence of anything except evidence tampering.
Re: Re: Lowered expectations
Yeah, given Chicago's reputation, he could well be.
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There are chemical solvents for many plastics, they're used for things like shaping plastic objects and welding things together all without use of heat. Splash a little on and the plastic goes soft like taffy. You can easily deliver them with a squirt gun, so long as the gun is made of a plastic the solvent has no effect on.
Good luck trying to fly when your rotor strut is flopping around like a rubber band...
Re: Re: It's not that hard
Silly string infused with a stronger polymer. That will bring down a drone nicely.
Re: Interesting question
It seems to me that the common sense answer would be that if you're directly above someone's land, but lower than the roof of a building on that land, you're clearly trespassing.
If you're higher than the buildings, you're in the public highway.
Of course, even if you're in the public highway, you might still be liable in the event of a noise complaint or for being a peeping tom.
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That perjury clause is a real problem. If you did check whether you or your company owned the intellectual property you're taking down, and you don't own it but take it down anyway, that's perjury. But it's also perjury to claim you checked when you didn't even if the IP turns out to truly be yours.
Perjury is a federal crime, with a 5 year prison sentence attached. Given how many false takedowns happen and how many are automated, it's astounding that people aren't going to prison over this.
A private citizen perjures himself once and rarely gets acquitted. You can even get convicted of lying to the feds because the FBI wrote down something untrue about what you said to them. But if an organization engages in a criminal conspiracy to commit perjury hundreds of thousands of times...nobody in the government cares.
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Each individual incident of perjury carries a rusk if going to federal prison for up to five years if convicted.
At some level, there must be someone who said "I don't care how many false positives this program creates, we're using it anyway."
Assuming 0.1% of all automated DMCA takedowns are false, if you send out one hundred of thousand automated takedowns that person who approved the program could go to prison for 500 years.
Do people seriously not realize what danger they're in when they act in bad faith under penalty of perjury?
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Whac-a-mole with mallets: Good.
Whac-a-mole with 10 kiloton nukes: Not so good.
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No way! That would be an invasion of his right to privacy.
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Omerta has nothing on the blue wall of silence.
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And yet, Washington state still retains both the Olympic Mountains, the city of Olympia and Mount Olympus. Apparently a U.S. state is too big for the IOC to bully.
Re: The real fear of Google Glass
I have perfect pitch and near-perfect memory for sounds I hear.
I already am destroying the global economy every time I walk outside my house.
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Commuters with fricking lasers on their heads?
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If the VCR was the Boston Strangler to the movie industry, would Google Glass be the Boston Marathon bomber?
Re: Re: The question that needs to be asked...
The difference with Glass is that people can see the camera.
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Well, he certainly is associated with oddly pointy headgear...
Re: Well...uh... That's completely different!
Your interests are special interests. My interests are just common sense.
That's a common concept throughout human history.
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The point of using a log file as evidence is that it shows what actually happened. If it has been edited, then it no longer shows what actually happened, only what the editor wants you to see.
Suddenly, the log file is no longer evidence of anything except evidence tampering.
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You can also use that to mess with a semi-savvy computer user.
Label a totally legal image with tags that suggest illegality and email it to people.
Re: Publicity stunt
Yes, and that brilliantly glowing ball of nuclear fire in the sky every day is just a publicity stunt by the nuclear power lobby.
The fact that reality is real means it doesn't have to make sense.
Actually, Prenda IS pretty clearly dead...
We're now seeing Zombie Prenda in action. They're desperately seeking brains (due in large part to lacking functional brains themselves).