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• On the post: Google To French Regulators Looking To Expand 'Right To Be Forgotten' Globally: Forget About It

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2015 @ 01:36pm

  Re: It only takes one.

  So what happens when one country says "you MUST show our propaganda" and a second country says "you must NOT show propaganda from that other country"?

• On the post: The Drug War Is Creating Problems Too Big To Fix

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2015 @ 05:40am

  Re:

  just make sure that no prisoner gets to inspect his own records as part of the job.

• On the post: The Drug War Is Creating Problems Too Big To Fix

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2015 @ 05:37am

  Re: I don't see how this is unmanageable

  That's the whole problem. They don't really have a simple way to create a list of every prisoner convicted on the basis of this technician's work.
  Some, but not all, defendants are named with the sample tested, many names were left off. The only way to create the complete list is to have a person go to the paper court records scattered all over the place, and read them all.
  Given the reasons why this is being done, it probably should also involve a second person doing an audit of the first person's work.

• On the post: Canada Opens Incumbent Fiber Networks To Competition, Cue The Hysteria

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2015 @ 11:02am

  Re: Re: Cue the economic sanctions...

  There's your mistake, you're looking at the long run.
  Politicians don't look past the next election. They rarely even look past the next campaign fundraiser.

• On the post: Canada Opens Incumbent Fiber Networks To Competition, Cue The Hysteria

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2015 @ 08:19am

  Re: Cue the economic sanctions...

  That depends. When is the next special 301 report due out?

• On the post: I'll Put My Name On This Piece Declaring It Idiotic To Argue Against Anonymity Online

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2015 @ 11:10am

  So who gets to keep the "John Smith" account online? What do all the other thousands of John Smiths do when they can't use their real name?

• On the post: This Week In Techdirt History: June 7th – 13th

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2015 @ 09:00am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: "is intellectual property immoral?" -- Techdirt answers that only one way:

  And remember there's nothing stopping you from making your own version of any of those stories.
  
  Well, go right ahead and announce you're making an animated movie of Kipling's Jungle Book stories, and watch how fast you get a call from Disney's lawyers.

• On the post: And Another One Bites The Dust: Mass Surveillance Ruled Unconstitutional In Slovak Republic

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 04 May, 2015 @ 05:33am

  Re:

  Why? An ISP has no business reason to every track what web sites you visit, or who you send email too. At most they need to track aggregate data usage, and that is only needed long enough for the billing to be settled.
  If law enforcement needs more than that, they can go to a judge and make a case for obtaining a warrant.
  While they are there, it should be made very clear that evidence too secret to be revealed to the defence at trial is not evidence at all, and will not be accepted by the courts. It should also be redundant to point out that any material errors in the evidence presented should automatically invalidate the warrant, and make any evidence collected under that warrant inadmissible in court.
  
  Police and security organizations have been abusing the trust placed in them for decades now. It's high time police should be trusted no more than the defendants they bring before the courts. At best, the sworn word of a police officer should not be given any more weight than the sworn word of a witness who has nothing to gain from the outcome of the case.

• On the post: Can You Sue For Copyright Infringement Before It's Actually Happened?

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2015 @ 01:42pm

  Copyright only exists once the work is created in a fixed format.
  
  Are they saying the fight is fixed?

• On the post: Jeb Bush Is The Latest Politician To Demonstrate Absolutely No Understanding Of Net Neutrality

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2015 @ 08:58am

  If Jeb Bush is looking for support from the most innovative sector on the planet...
  
  Jeb Bush is not looking for support from the most innovative sector on the planet, he's looking for support from the deepest pockets on the planet.

• On the post: Ford Foundation Joins Hewlett Foundation And Gates Foundation In Requiring Research They Fund To Be Released Under CC BY Licenses

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2015 @ 04:51am

  Now if only we could get all the taxpayer funded research released the same way.

• On the post: Verizon Doubles Down On Bogus Claim Title II Will Kill Broadband Investment

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2015 @ 03:51pm

  Re: If verizon hates title II

  The only problem I have with that is that it would put politicians in charge of running the pipes. For an example of why that's not a good thing, just take a look at the condition of those highways that the politicians are already in chsrge of.

• On the post: Analysis Of Pirated Oscar Movies Shows They're Almost All Available… In HD (And Not From Screeners)

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2015 @ 08:02am

  "Content Protection" is like handing someone a locked box, with the key taped to the bottom of the box, and expecting they will only be able to open the box at a certain location and a certain time of day.

• On the post: Could The FAA's Drone Policies Violate The First Amendment?

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2014 @ 10:51am

  If the FAA wants to regulate drones, it should be on the basis of safety only.
  Drones large enough to be a hazard to aircraft should be licensed with a mandated requirement for built-in restrictions for flights near an airport.
  Drones small enough to not be a hazard would be license free.
  Drones that might be a hazard if they crash should be licensed somewhere in between those extremes.
  Drones that could be a hazard to aircraft should be permitted near the airport only with written permission from the airport operator. Such permission to include acceptable flight locations, date, and times that the permssion is granted.
  
  It's not the FAA's authority to judge based on why the drone flight is desired, only that it be a safe flight.

• On the post: Selling Fear: The First US School Installs A Shooting Detection System

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2014 @ 08:22am

  It should be interesting to see what happens the first time a child brings some bubble wrap to school.

• On the post: Chicago Transit Cops Start Up Their Own Security Theater, Will Start Randomly Swabbing Bags For Explosive Residue

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2014 @ 12:14pm

  So what happens when the 'randomly chosen' number is 1?

• On the post: Germany's Top Publisher Admits Its Web Traffic Plummeted Without Google; Wants Politicians To 'Take Action'

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2014 @ 01:38pm

  Re: Re: Abolish Google!

  don't forget to insist that the stone tablets be delivered air express via trebuchet. :-)

• On the post: MPAA And Movie Theaters Issue A Complete Ban On Google Glass, Because They 'Have A Long History Of Welcoming Tech Advances'

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2014 @ 06:26am

  The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have a long history of welcoming technological advances

  
  They just forgot to mention that they have a history of welcoming technological advances with torches and pitchforks.

• On the post: IP Is No Excuse: Even If Someone Is Using Fake Chips, It's Not Okay To Kill Their Devices

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2014 @ 08:47am

  Re:

  if I go into a major retailer and buy a USB to serial cable, how am I to peek inside the molded plastic and identify the fake chips before I buy the cable?
  I have no way to identify fake chips inside equipment.
  The retailer has no way of identifying fake chips inside equipment.
  The manufacturer may know that there are fake chips in the equipment, or they may have been duped by a supplier.
  The supplier probably knows that the chips are fakes.
  
  So I'm expected to dig three levels deep into the supply chain just so I don't have to worry about some software update bricking my $20 cable?

• On the post: Facebook To DEA: Hey, No Setting Up Fake Accounts

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2014 @ 08:07am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  They are supposed to be different. Too bad the Department of Justice dosen't see it that way.

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