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• On the post: Uber's Video Shows The Arizona Crash Victim Probably Didn't Cause Crash, Human Behind The Wheel Not Paying Attention

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2018 @ 01:41am

  Dark clothing is still dark to infrared LIDAR…

  …and RADAR is little help when it's tuned for vehicles and
  solid obstacles. ‌ They should look into military antipersonnel
  RADAR such as these:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-portable_radar
  
  No doubt they can add a simple stripped-down version of
  these to detect pedestrians and wildlife at low cost.
  
  All people should be careful crossing streets in dark clothing,
  because even good drivers and the best AVs will still hit them. ‌ ‌ ;]

• On the post: Both Facebook And Cambridge Analytica Threatened To Sue Journalists Over Stories On CA's Use Of Facebook Data

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2018 @ 05:45pm

  Don't forget…

  …that "too big to jail" American firms get deep, deep volume discounts. ‌ ‌ ;]

• On the post: The Future The FBI Wants: Secure Phones For Criminals, Broken Encryption For Everyone Else

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2018 @ 05:09pm

  Ummm, no…

  …They're still shy about admitting they want their own glory holes
  so they twist English into pretzels to call them anything but that. ‌ ‌ ;]

• On the post: Lucha Underground Wrestling Sends Legal Threat To Journalists For Publishing 'Spoilers'

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2018 @ 05:34pm

  Being majority Catholic countries…

  …they tend to successfully avoid becoming more like Sodom as time goes by. ;]

• On the post: Lucha Underground Wrestling Sends Legal Threat To Journalists For Publishing 'Spoilers'

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2018 @ 03:03pm

  Nope.

  I'm observing that Barbra married Elliott in 1963. ‌ ;]

• On the post: Lucha Underground Wrestling Sends Legal Threat To Journalists For Publishing 'Spoilers'

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2018 @ 01:07pm

  Barbara hasn't been a "señorita" since 1963, Tim,…

  …so from now on please express proper respect for señora Streisand!
  
  :P ‌ ‌ ;]

• On the post: Trump's Lawyers Apparently Unfamiliar With Streisand Effect Or 1st Amendment's Limits On Prior Restraint

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2018 @ 11:07am

  "By their fruits ye shall know them"

  ;]

• On the post: More Than Half Of U.S. States Now Pushing Their Own Net Neutrality Rules

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2018 @ 11:36am

  In these cases the global nature of the internet is irrelevant…

  …as the BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS involved are between customer
  and provider within that state. It is rarely, if ever, otherwise.
  
  That a customer can then access resources worldwide doesn't
  erase the fact that the purchase and sale was between two
  entities almost always in the same jurisdiction at that time.

• On the post: Wired's Big Cover Story On Facebook Gets Key Legal Point Totally Backwards, Demonstrating Why CDA 230 Is Actually Important

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2018 @ 10:36am

  One feature that would really help with the clutter…

  …is a simple "collapse thread" icon, activated automatically
  if the first post was flagged and then hidden from view.
  
  Without that clutter we'd see more adult conversations.
  
  [ ‌ ‌ …and fewer ‌of us would waste time arguing with fools. ‌ ;]

• On the post: My Question To Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein On Encryption Backdoors

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2018 @ 12:58pm

  The only argument that shuts these guys up is this:

  Weaken encryption in the U.S. and all exports of software
  and network-related technology "made in U.S.A."will dry up.
  Everybody, Americans included, will shop elsewhere for tech.
  
  That's trillions of dollars in new trade deficits, hundreds
  of billions in lost profits to tech industries and tens of
  billions in lost taxes every year until a new administration
  undoes the damage and stops the bleeding.
  
  Arguing about security and rights of the American people has
  no effect on these clowns because they hold the public in
  contempt and always will. ‌ Show them what effect their dumb-
  ass meddling will do to their billionaire friends and corporate
  backers and they'll quietly let the issue die off without ever
  having to admit why it was a stupid idea to start with.
  
  [Yes, I've said it before; and I'll say it again every time. ;]

• On the post: China Is Building The Ultimate Surveillance Tool: A DNA Database Of Every Adult Resident In Troubled Xinjiang Region

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2017 @ 05:25pm

  Human Rights Watch has forgotten a vital point:

  "Human Rights" is a relatively new concept and Mao's type of
  communism arose before this concept could spread into China.
  
  Their laws, policies and social norms simply never had it.
  
  Chinese millennials may know the theory but it's irrelevant
  now that Xi Jinping has crowned himself the new Mao-emperor.

• On the post: New Documents And Testimony Shows Officers Lied About Their Role In An Arrested Teen's Death

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 15 Dec, 2017 @ 10:51pm

  Any competent court could reset the statutory limit…

  …by effectively cancelling out the time spent concealing the evidence.
  
  This is especially true in homicide cases like this one.

• On the post: Appeals Court: Forcing A Teen To Masturbate So Cops Can Take Pictures Is A Clear Violation Of Rights

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2017 @ 05:04am

  In the case of § 1983…

  …damages were repaired when declaratory relief was granted;
  so the 'judicial officer' can't be sued again for the deed.
  ____________________________________________________________
  § 1983.
  Civil action for deprivation of rights
  
  Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance,
  regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or
  the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be
  subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person
  within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any
  rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the
  Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured
  in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper
  proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought
  against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in
  such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall
  not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or
  declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of
  this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to
  the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a
  statute of the District of Columbia.
  ____________________________________________________________
  [So, The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals covered his six.]
  
  HOWEVER, he CAN face sanctions by his Law Society for bringing
  the Administration of Justice into Severe Disrepute in that state. ‌‌ ‌‌ ;]

• On the post: Appeals Court: Forcing A Teen To Masturbate So Cops Can Take Pictures Is A Clear Violation Of Rights

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2017 @ 06:29pm

  Absolute immunity protects againat that…

  …but I expect the local Law Society eagerly awaits for someone to lodge a formal complaint. ‌ ‌ ;]

• On the post: Supreme Court Hears Arguments In Cell Site Location Info Case

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2017 @ 08:29pm

  Re: Re: resembles no property right that's existed.

  https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080306/003240458/if-intellectual-property-is-neither-intellectual-property-what-is-it.shtml
  
  ;]

• On the post: Russian Foreign Ministry Accuses America Of Supporting ISIS With Video Game Footage

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2017 @ 05:21pm

  I guess that's why they used framegrabs instead of video.

  ;]

• On the post: Russian Foreign Ministry Accuses America Of Supporting ISIS With Video Game Footage

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2017 @ 05:19pm

  Bullets shine brightly in IR.

  Traveling at Mach 3-5 will heat small things up quickly.
  
  Also, they would seem to be traveling slowly when moving
  directly away as you move offline, such as when flying.
  
  The game's realism is reasonably good in that respect but
  bodies always falling in exactly the same way gives it away. ‌ ‌ ;]

• On the post: Texas National Guard Latest Agency To Be Discovered Operating Flying Cell Tower Spoofers

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2017 @ 04:44pm

  Correction:

  You must overcome THOSE and one of the three THATs to prevail in court,

• On the post: Texas National Guard Latest Agency To Be Discovered Operating Flying Cell Tower Spoofers

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2017 @ 04:31pm

  Don't forget the jurisdictions involved.

  On a military mission, outside the country, involving
  unidentified suspects during the commission of a crime,
  and using military equipment designed for precisely that
  purpose; warrants are irrelevant because they don't exist
  under that legal jurisdiction. ‌ It's a military search.
  
  Don't forget that the DRT box is designed for this usage and
  no court anywhere in the world has ever challenged field use
  of field tech by the U.S. military for military operations.
  
  What you, in effect, are saying is that if the U.S. tracked
  and then droned a terrorist while he was shooting at troops
  or planting bombs, it would become illegal after the fact if
  that corpse is later found to be an American terror tourist.
  
  Like I said earlier; show any court case which takes away
  a legitimate use of tracking tech by the Coast Guard on patrol.
  It hasn't happened never will because THAT use by THOSE
  personnel in THAT jurisdiction for THAT purpose is legal.
  You must overcome THOSE and all three THATs to prevail in court,
  which is the only venue for balancing law under the Constitution.
  
  Constitutional law is a foundation, NOT AN ABSOLUTE RULING.
  Reasonable limits apply to all constitutional rights and
  all courts are tasked with keeping those limits in order.
  The Constitution exists offshore but does not apply to this.

• On the post: Texas National Guard Latest Agency To Be Discovered Operating Flying Cell Tower Spoofers

  

  aaronwalkhouse ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2017 @ 09:16pm

  It doesn't matter if they are citizens…

  …because the pursuers are soldiers in a military unit carrying
  out military missions hundreds of miles away from those borders,
  and people they find and pursue are not identified as citizens
  of any nation until they are arrested and brought into custody.
  
  And no; no time is wasted on identification during an active
  pursuit beyond what is necessary to ensure capture and arrest.
  It is not legally required and could incur unnecessary risk.
  
  I am in a good position to know, having worn a uniform myself.
  Relative jurisdictions of military and civilian law is central to
  Basic and General Military Training in all established and legally
  mature military organizations. This is especially true for nations
  which tend to lead most international peacekeeping missions.
  
  Constitutional law is a foundation, not an absolute ruling.
  Reasonable limits apply to all constitutional rights and
  all courts are tasked with keeping those limits in order.
  
  Even if suspects later turn out to be American, tracking and
  pursuit in international waters during the act of smuggling
  remains legal and unassailable in court; partly because
  they are not yet identified and mostly because the action
  was all during meticulously documented enforcement against
  the active commission of felonies and violations of international
  maritime law. ‌ Show any case that resulted in a smuggler
  getting off for surveillance if you claim expertise. ‌ ‌ ;]

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