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• On the post: Facial Recognition Company Says It Won't Sell To Law Enforcement, Knowing It'll Be Abused

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2018 @ 07:49am

  Re: Re: Re: Tragic

  Good point about your comment not being specific to facial recognition, I overlooked that.
  
  But, for the rest, I would counter that some tools cannot be used safely by anyone, even with best intentions.

• On the post: Facial Recognition Company Says It Won't Sell To Law Enforcement, Knowing It'll Be Abused

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2018 @ 09:51pm

  Re:

  No they didn't. They gave it to them. They're getting their money charging by the face.

• On the post: Facial Recognition Company Says It Won't Sell To Law Enforcement, Knowing It'll Be Abused

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2018 @ 09:49pm

  Re: Tragic

  I think your statement assumes facts not in evidence.
  
  The evidence that we have seen doesn't really show that facial recognition will make people safer; in fact, there is a fair indication that the contrary would be true.

• On the post: DOJ Stacks Charges On MalwareTech, Including Stuff Put Out Of Reach By The Statute Of Limitations

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2018 @ 05:54pm

  Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and prosecutions

  I think all your pronouncements of case weakness are wishful thinking. I'd take odds that he'll get convicted (includes taking a plea) and sentenced to 5 or more years.
  
  Remember, modern prosecution operates on what they can sell a judge and jury, and has little or nothing to do with justice...or guilt.

• On the post: Latest Privacy Fracas Drops Facebook In The Middle Of Anti-Huawei Hysteria

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2018 @ 03:26pm

  Roach hotels

  I wonder how long it would have taken Facebook to wind down the Huawei deal if it hadn't been for the sudden media attention. Probably only a few more decades...
  
  Some of these companies are like roaches: "They consume, infest, destroy, live off the death and destruction of" their customers, but shine a little light and they run for cover.

• On the post: Thanks To No Competition, Broadband Satisfaction Scores Plummet

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2018 @ 02:22pm

  ...companies not only mindlessly raise rates like it's going out of style...

  Wait...cable is going out of style, isn't it?

• On the post: Judge OKs Class Action Status For Illinoisans Claiming Facebook Violated State Privacy Law

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2018 @ 11:24am

  Pervacy

  You misspelled "privacy" in the first sentence. But upon reflection, and given the perverted nature of these laws, maybe it would be more appropriate if you'd spelled it this way: "Illinois' Biometric Information Pervacy Act".

• On the post: Egyptian Gov't Arrests Journalist Who Exposed Brutality; Will Use Social Media Suspensions As Evidence Against Him

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2018 @ 11:10am

  The problem with mandated moderation

  This case perfectly exemplifies the problems with mandated moderation.
  
  Companies rarely get into moderation on their own, because moderation is expensive. Instead we have our governments insisting that companies must moderate content, creating laws with a furrowed brow concern that we were warned would be the father of so many bad measures.
  
  First comes moderation, then comes censorship, then comes the use of the censorship as justification for stronger penalties.
  
  Censorship is always a weapon of those who are in power, and it is always used as a weapon against the downtrodden. It does not matter whether the censorship is overt or comes through the back door in the form of mandated moderation.
  
  Enthusiasts of FOSTA/SESTA, and enemies of CDA 230, could learn a thing or two from this case if they were paying attention.

• On the post: WIPO Didn't Want The Pirate Party To Observe Its Efforts, But Happy To Include A Group Whose Mission Is To Battle Space Lizards

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 30 May, 2018 @ 11:41am

  All in tbe name

  It's all in the name. If PP wanted a seat, they should have rebranded. No one investigates past the name.
  
  Maybe "IP Advancement League" would have done it? (Doesn't say how they're advancing it. But they can explain that on their website, no one will read it.)

• On the post: DOJ, FBI Issuing Corrections To Statements, Testimony Containing Bogus Uncracked Device Numbers

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 29 May, 2018 @ 10:40pm

  Re: Re: Tim, a favor please?

  No, it is not short. It is just elegant.

• On the post: Amazon Alexa Instantaneously Justifies Years Of Surveillance Paranoia

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 25 May, 2018 @ 04:30pm

  Paranoid? Paranoid??!

  You're only paranoid if the government doesn't actually want to listen in on everything you say.

• On the post: Both Democrats And Republicans Blame The Messenger When Leaked Emails Are Made Available

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 25 May, 2018 @ 12:56pm

  It's almost as if most of the people on either side of this political horse race are determining which news orgs to support based on whose side the revelations help.

  Yeah, it does almost seem like that, doesn't it?

  That's... bad.

  No, it depends. Is this leak embarrassing the Republicans or the Democrats? It's bad if it's one of them all right, but if it's the other one, it's nothing more than the bastards deserve!

• On the post: No, The FTC Is Not Going To Do A Good Job Policing Net Neutrality

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 24 May, 2018 @ 05:27pm

  Re: Today's Big Lie

  The FTC was created in 1914. Under your reasoning, that makes it even less qualified than the FCC.

• On the post: DHS Fusion Center Gets Request For Documents On Extremists, Decides To Hand Over Mind Control Docs Instead

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 24 May, 2018 @ 05:22pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Mind control already exists

  I suppose that is true enough, but I would like to point out that they also learn even more and get unbrainwashed very quickly.

• On the post: DHS Fusion Center Gets Request For Documents On Extremists, Decides To Hand Over Mind Control Docs Instead

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 24 May, 2018 @ 05:20pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  They would only count as a Faraday cage if the aluminum foil extends from the top of the head to the neck, the neck is then cut through, and the foil closed completely around the entire head and inflated into a spherical shape.

• On the post: No, The FTC Is Not Going To Do A Good Job Policing Net Neutrality

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 24 May, 2018 @ 10:06am

  ...making him a dubious selection for the job. [...] ...he's going to have to recuse himself from a long list of decisions at the FTC, which also doesn't make him a particularly compelling hire.

  What rock did you say you spend your time under? The way Washington works these days, zero experience in representing the citizenry is the only qualification for the job, and conflict of interest (or outright bribe-taking) is just (non-)regulation as usual.

• On the post: ACLU Obtains Documents Showing Amazon Is Handing Out Cheap Facial Recognition Tech To Law Enforcement

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 22 May, 2018 @ 02:32pm

  Introductory price

  Don't worry. The service won't be cheap for long...

• On the post: Report Confirms Deep Flaws Of Automated Facial Recognition Software In The UK, Warns Its Use In The US Is Spreading

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 21 May, 2018 @ 04:10am

  Re:

  ...so only outlaws will know it.

• On the post: ICE Drops Extreme Vetting Software Plan After Discovering No One Could Possibly Deliver What It Wants

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 19 May, 2018 @ 07:51am

  More isolationism

  My cynical interpretation of this solicitation is that ICE is looking for software that will dig and dig and dig until it finds something that can be used to exclude any particular visitor. Excuse me, every particular visitor.

• On the post: The 'Race To 5G' Is Largely Just Marketing Nonsense

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 18 May, 2018 @ 10:30am

  You are so wrong. 5G is better in every way, because it has 5 G's instead of 4 G's. That's like a 500% improvement right there. Of course it takes 5G to support all those new fangled IOT apps, because we won't let them be built on 4G, because 4G won't support them and 5G will! 5G is like magic, it solves every problem you have, and some you don't. Support 5G now, my bonus depends on it.

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