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• On the post: To Prosecute A Single Bombing Suspect, FBI Demands Identifying Info On Thousands Of YouTube Viewers

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2018 @ 04:34pm

  %s

  In reference to that first URL, the one that ends ".../watch?v=%s": The "%s" is a common computer language shorthand for "insert arbitrary string here". So, if I were YouTube, I would think that that meant "return information on every video ever watched."

• On the post: Homicide, Sexual Assault Cases On The Line After Crime Lab Discovers Tech Using The Wrong Tools For The Job

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2018 @ 03:13pm

  The Houston Forensic Science Center has fired a crime scene investigator who violated policy by using unapproved equipment that resulted in false negatives for biological evidence in at least two sexual assault cases, officials said Friday.

  It rather seems to me that they are far quicker terminate someone for false negatives then they are for someone who yields false positives.

  I mean in this case, she was terminated "immediately" for using unapproved equipment that yielded false negatives. But my recollection is that previous investigations into false positives have taken months, years even, and involved legal system foot-dragging at every inch of the way. In the Annie Dookhan case for example, it was said that their first response to the discovery that she was falsifying tests, yielding false positives, was to give her even more tests to falsify.

  Isn't that odd?

• On the post: Court To Law Enforcement: You Can't Seize A House For 15 Hours Before Obtaining A Warrant

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2018 @ 08:36am

  Re: Re: Missing piece ...

  Well, of course it was, after the cop moved it from wherever he found it by doing a little quick digging.

• On the post: Corel Manages To Accuse A Totally Legit Customer Of Piracy

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2018 @ 02:49pm

  Yeah, they'll remember...NOT!

  I desperately want to be a fly on the wall when he tries to collect that 9% discount.

• On the post: Prosecutors Charge Suspect With Evidence Tampering After A Seized iPhone Is Wiped Remotely

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2018 @ 06:55pm

  Re: Re: Defense

  A phone is a computer. Per the rules for computers, anything it reports is Gospel.

  Gallois’ Revelation: If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled, and no one dares to criticize it.

• On the post: Facebook Releases 13 NSLs, Reports Another Big Increase In US Government Demands For Info

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2018 @ 06:37pm

  Give me interest like that

  Good grief! At this growth rate, by 2065 they'll be NSL'ing everyone on the planet, every year.
  
  Oh, wait, they already did that. And it only took one NSL.

• On the post: After Being Hit With A 'Motion For Return Of Property,' Gov't Agrees To Delete Data Copied From A Traveler's Phone

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2018 @ 07:17pm

  Citizen 1, CBP probably 300+

  CBP said they were going to delete "the copy?" Well, they might delete the copy in Flat, Alaska. They're keeping the rest.

• On the post: Sheriff's Dept.: The 1,079 Privileged Jailhouse Calls We Intercepted Was Actually 34,000 Calls

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2018 @ 07:06am

  Re: Re: Geographically challenged

  Clues? I don't need no stinking clues. Who, what, where, when, how, why.
  
  Why should I have to be a private detective to find out where the story is about?

• On the post: Judge Says Amazon Needs To Hand Over Recordings Created By Murder Victim's Echo Speaker

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2018 @ 05:25am

  Re: Re: Re:

  It's the difference between attended and unattended. Yes people created Alexa, but Alexa decides based on the algorithms when to record and when not to record. No human intervenes. And the Supreme Court has already ruled that copyrights can only be owned by humans.
  
  So which human should we say initiated this recording and would own this copyright?

• On the post: Sheriff's Dept.: The 1,079 Privileged Jailhouse Calls We Intercepted Was Actually 34,000 Calls

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2018 @ 04:22am

  Geographically challenged

  Wait, I'm confused. Are we talking about Orange County, California; Orange County, Florida; Orange County, Indiana;
  Orange County, New York; Orange County, North Carolina; Orange County, Texas; Orange County, Vermont; or Orange County, Virginia?

• On the post: Judge Says Amazon Needs To Hand Over Recordings Created By Murder Victim's Echo Speaker

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2018 @ 04:49am

  Re: Re: Why challenge it?

  It is more than that, it is a Fourth Amendment concern if the household contains more members than the victim.
  
  For example, say Bob was murdered. The government gets a subpoena for Alexa's recordings looking for evidence in Bob's case.
  
  Housemate Joe didn't wasn't involved in the murder, but he was doing child pornography and the recording contains evidence of that. Joe is arrested and charged.
  
  Can Joe challenge the evidence as a violation of his Fourth Amendment Rights? You know the government is going to assert that he cannot, because the evidence against him was discovered "incidental" to the investigation into Bob's murder.
  
  And that case might be a little gray, but what about as the subpoena ratchet works its way down toward getting recordings for crimes like, say, Bob's out of household drunk driving?

• On the post: Judge Says Amazon Needs To Hand Over Recordings Created By Murder Victim's Echo Speaker

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2018 @ 04:22am

  Re:

  Recording was by a device, not by a person. No copyright.

• On the post: Colorado Voters Continue To Opt Out Of State's Protectionist, ISP-Written Broadband Law

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2018 @ 04:17am

  Re: Well, only one thing to do really...

  No, we can't have that. Laws like this are just just...downright un-American!

• On the post: Alabama Voters Say At Least One Sheriff Won't Be Enriching Himself With Federal Inmate Food Funds

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2018 @ 04:08am

  It might not do much for the prisoners though:

  ...all excess funds would go toward law enforcement operations like deputy equipment.

  So, then, after the prisoners have been fed "enough" (read: starvation ration) then the rest goes into the shiny DOD 1033 program gear...which will then be sold off for cool, non-public, cash.

  Why not use the excess to feed the homeless? We know they wouldn't prioritize that over the prisoners.

• On the post: UCLA Flails Amid Pro-Palestine Group's Planned Conference, While L.A.'s City Council Goes Full Stupid

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2018 @ 06:17pm

  Save me, save me!

  I am totally confused: ACLU and UCLA have the same letters. However shall I tell them apart? Help me, trademark law, help me!

• On the post: The US Refusing To Sign 'The Paris Call' Is Not As Big A Deal As Everyone Is Making It Out To Be

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2018 @ 01:23am

  Vision killer

  I don't agree. The "Paris Call" is a vision statement. Human aspirations and human successes often begin with vision statements: visions define horizons, horizons become strategies, strategies become plans, and plans become reality.
  
  Yes, there is not much reality yet, but it is an aspiration for a better future...and as usual, here is USA, trying to drive a stake through its heart.

• On the post: The Girl Scouts Sues The Boy Scouts Over Trademark

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2018 @ 12:56am

  It's a real problem

  Let's see, you say the right new trademark would have solved everything...

  • "Boy and Girl Scouts of America"
  • "People Scouts of America"
  • "Inclusive Scouts of America"
  • "Universal Scouts of America"

  No, I'm sorry, that won't work. The problem is that the Boy Scouts new market encompasses the Girl Scouts market. Any name that combines inclusion with "Scouts of America" is going to have that problem.

  But I suspect the GSA had better just get used to being relegated to the junk heap, crushed by BSA. Trolls do that.

• On the post: Denuvo: Every Download Is A Lost Sale For This Anonymous AAA Title We're Referencing, So Buy Moar Dunuvo!

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2018 @ 07:05am

  Re:

  Wrong. You forgot that they should all be buying one each for the two game consoles, the six cell phones, the four desktops, and the three pads. That makes $8.1 trillion they potentially stole.

• On the post: AT&T Ignores Numerous Pitfalls, Begins Kicking Pirates Off Of The Internet

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2018 @ 09:45am

  Quests

  Don Quixote went on futile quests because he wanted to be a hero. Sometimes ISPs want to be heros.

• On the post: New Acting Attorney General Part Of A Patent Scam Company Recently Shut Down By The FTC And Fined Millions

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2018 @ 04:37am

  Bright side

  Hey, at least the new acting AG knows crime.

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