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• On the post: Deputies Sued After False ALPR Hit Leads To Guns-Out Traffic Stop Of California Privacy Activist

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2019 @ 09:39am

  Re:

  I was under the impression that before ALPRs they didn't manually run every set of plates which crossed their field of vision. It was too labor intensive, that's the attraction of automation. Which means that the driver would have had to do something to attract the attention of an officer in order to induce an inquiry. Now all a driver has to do is exist in certain physical space.

• On the post: Another California Court Rules Against Law Enforcement Secrecy, Says Agencies Must Release Old Misconduct Files

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2019 @ 09:13am

  Bad Apples

  The unions going to bat so hard for these "bad apples" makes it seem like the bad apples are much more pervasive than they lead us to believe when an incident actually gets exposure. Shouldn't unions and diligent officers welcome this public oversight as a means to finally rid themselves of the stigma that they care more about themselves than the communities they police?

• On the post: California Court Says New Records Law Covers Past Police Misconduct Records

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2019 @ 04:46am

  Re: Re: Re: 'What's that, I can't hear you over the shredder.'

  "Who watches the watchmen?"

  No one. No wait, we'll watch ourselves. Or each other; or whatever. Just close your eyes because you're not allowed to see it.

• On the post: California Court Says New Records Law Covers Past Police Misconduct Records

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2019 @ 09:41am

  Re: 'What's that, I can't hear you over the shredder.'

  Doesn't seem that long ago that Police were demanding we outlaw entire technologies that would destroy evidence or make it more difficult to obtain, and result in "good guys" unable to take "bad guys" off the streets. What changed?

• On the post: Infamous Pinkerton Detectives Claim Red Dead Redemption's Use Of Historically Accurate Pinkertons Is Trademark Infringement

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2019 @ 05:31am

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  Securitas AB pulls up Scooby-Doo villain mask to reveal Pinkerton and asks the gang to stop telling people about things it did in the past.
  
  "Jinkies, you're still alive?"

• On the post: Nice Work EU: You've Given Google An Excuse To Offer A Censored Search Engine In China

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2018 @ 06:17am

  Re: Re: Re: The Blue boy Algorithm

  Errors?

• On the post: Cable's Top Lobbyist Again Calls For Heavier Regulation Of Silicon Valley

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2018 @ 10:54am

  Re: What's good for thee is not good for me

  This is a win-win play for Content Company ISPs. They get us to argue that regulation of content on the Internet is anathema to American ideals, and then they get to turn around and proclaim "SEE?!?! We TOLD you that Net Neutrality was a bad thing" because they're constantly trying to conflate the Internet with the private Networks they operate.
  
  Access to the Internet is not the Internet. Content is not a utility, access is. Regulating access is not regulating content. The faster we split these companies into Access components and Content components, the faster we'll be able to actually improve price, availability, and clear consumers' rights for all Americans.

• On the post: Travelers To New Zealand Now Face $3,000 Fines If They Don't Give Their Device Passwords To Customs Agents

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2018 @ 10:42am

  Re: Re:

  First thing I thought when reading this headline:
  "Good thing I've already got New Zealand crossed off my list."

• On the post: Travelers To New Zealand Now Face $3,000 Fines If They Don't Give Their Device Passwords To Customs Agents

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2018 @ 10:45am

  Privacy vs Security

  (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
  
  Sorry, just "balancing" this table. What were you saying about National Security and the farce of inspecting information at the border?

• On the post: The DOJ's New Net Neutrality Lawsuit Is A Giant Middle Finger To State Rights, Consumers, Competition & The Democratic Process

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2018 @ 11:45am

  A State Of Constant Uncertainty

  This FCC seems like a child who's through playing with a toy and has cast it aside, yet when someone shows interest in it they "were still using it!!!" even when they've clearly stated otherwise. They don't want it, but they don't want anyone else using it either.
  
  It's also an interesting argument that the State can't step in to fill the void until the courts resolve whether the FCC's abdication was legitimate in the first place. Is that how these policies usually go into effect, void AND in-place until overturned by a court?
  
  If ISPs are operating as if the FCC has no mandate over them, then the State should also be able to operate similarly. At least until the courts replace that mandate.

• On the post: Pennsylvania Legislator Thinks He Can Ban Teachers From Talking About Politics In The Classroom

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2018 @ 06:04am

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  Yes, it seems one of the goals here is to keep children, and therefore young adults, ignorant on the persons and policies which govern their lives.

• On the post: Ajit Pai Whines About California's Net Neutrality Effort, Calls It 'Radical,' 'Illegal'

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2018 @ 07:00am

  Re: Re: We'll see

  I bought a gallon of milk in the grocery store last week, and I actually got a measured gallon of the listed substance for the posted price. It also didn't make me ill when I consumed it.
  
  https://www.fda.gov/downloads/food/guidancecomplianceregulatoryinformation/guidancedocuments/foodlabelingnutrition/foodlabelingguide/ucm265446.pdf
  
  https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=101.7
  
  https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/Milk/default.htm
  
  I'd wager that the government does thousands of things right in your life, it's just transparent when it's running smoothly.

• On the post: Charter CEO Apparently Unaware He Runs One Of The Most Despised Companies In America

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2018 @ 07:19am

  Litigate till service is great

  There may be years of litigation before we prove that we have done what we said we would.

  I'm not clear how it would take so long to prove what you've already done if it was anywhere close to as cut and dried as he tries to say. Unless litigation is a stalling tactic while you run around laying fiber you said was already lit.

• On the post: FBI Boss Chris Wray: We Put A Man On The Moon So Why Not Encryption Backdoors?

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2018 @ 04:48am

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  Yes, it's not just that the math doesn't work out, it's that the philosophy of the request doesn't work. He might as well ask "why can't we put the sound of one hand clapping on the moon?"

• On the post: Charter Spectrum's New 'Unlimited' Wireless Service Bans HD Video Entirely

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2018 @ 09:37am

  Re: Re:

  Citizens United.

• On the post: Charter Spectrum's New 'Unlimited' Wireless Service Bans HD Video Entirely

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2018 @ 07:10am

  Re:

  I assume you're being sarcastic and are attempting to build a straw-man to argue against. I also assume you have no issue with this blatant false advertising because you read their use of "unlimited" as sarcastic.

• On the post: AT&T Is Very Excited To Try And Ruin HBO

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2018 @ 06:54am

  I'm Out

  "you get more data and information about a customer that then allows you to do things like monetize through alternate models of advertising as well as subscriptions"

  I canceled my HBO after reading this yesterday.

• On the post: Fresh Off Its Merger, AT&T Jacks Up Price Of Streaming Video Service

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2018 @ 07:00am

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  Does Facebook stream? I don't pay them much attention, but I wasn't under the impression they had an a la carte or subscription streaming media consumption model. Or are they just included because they're a big tech company AT&T thinks is taking their ad money?

• On the post: Verizon's Sad Attempt To Woo Millennials Falls Flat On Its Face

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2018 @ 08:18am

  Re: Re: Pipes -- Why shouldn't Google be a "dumb pipe" too, then?

  What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

• On the post: Illinois Prosecutor Brings Felony Eavesdropping Charges Against 13-Year-Old Who Recorded His Conversation With School Administrators

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2018 @ 10:59am

  Re: Administrators may have shot themselves in the foot

  Yup, this was my thought as well. How does anyone know if there was even a recording unless it is preserved, presented in court, and the administrator testifies that it's him being recorded without consent?

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