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• On the post: Judge Dumps Felony Manslaughter Charges Brought Against An Arrestee After A Deputy Ran Over Another Deputy

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2021 @ 07:28pm

  Night safety

  Some officers need a remedial course in Personal Safety and Visibility at Night, C103 at the local kindergarten. Even the dark scenes in Pitch Black weren't this dark.

• On the post: Report: Client-Side Scanning Is An Insecure Nightmare Just Waiting To Be Exploited By Governments

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2021 @ 10:49am

  Re:

  Doesn't matter who you buy from. If Apple implements this, the other phone manufacturers will follow like a string of baby chicks.

• On the post: Report: Client-Side Scanning Is An Insecure Nightmare Just Waiting To Be Exploited By Governments

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2021 @ 10:47am

  Re:

  Governments, including US government, are always more concerned about threats from citizens than about external threats. Citizens are a direct threat to the power of the politicians in charge.

• On the post: Appeals Court Says Couple's Lawsuit Over Bogus Vehicle Forfeiture Can Continue

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2021 @ 08:01am

  Re:

  Lap dances down at the nudie bar?

• On the post: The Surveillance And Privacy Concerns Of The Infrastructure Bill's Impaired Driving Sensors

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2021 @ 02:58pm

  It's for the intelligence agencies

  Our government is just so tired of people going wherever they damn well please without permission or surveillance. "A camera in everyone's car" is just what they need as a way to know who is going where, and when.

  A little facial identification software, and a quick (automated) query to DHS and you have a perfect pre-approval system for travel.

• On the post: Study Says Official Count Of Police Killings Is More Than 50% Lower Than The Actual Number

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2021 @ 11:42pm

  Sure, why not?

  ...pathologists should be awarded whistleblower protections under the law.

  ...because whistleblower protections {sarcastic: always work so well}.

• On the post: In Latest Black Eye For NSO Group, Dubai's King Found To Have Used NSO Spyware To Hack His Ex-Wife's Phone

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2021 @ 01:31pm

  Free markets unconcerned

  ...why even sell to the [hero/heel] at all?

  Hey, Free Market here. Free Markets never concernt themselves with what the [hero/heel] is going to do with the [product] they're selling.

  Depending on [product], how much that matters is variable. For example, [water] or [foodstuff] is probably okay, but not [WMD].

  For NSO...I wouldn't trust their product in the hands of Jack Ryan.

• On the post: Report: TSA Is Spending $1 Billon On Bag Scanners That 'May Never Meet Operational Needs'

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2021 @ 03:01pm

  ...which members of Congress are in their pocket.

  If you just assume "all of the members" you'll be right about 95% of the time.

• On the post: Locast Shuts Down, As Yet Again A Bad Interpretation Of Copyright Law Makes The World Worse

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2021 @ 03:31pm

  That's not why broadcast TV exists

  Services like Locast are doing them a favor by helping ensure that their channels actually get watched.

  No, it is an anti-favor.

  The broadcast signal is not meant to be watched by anyone.

  Period.

  Broadcast watchers are not paying stations directly for watching; stations can't sell broadcast watcher habits to advertisers; stations can't tailor ads to maximize advertiser takings from broadcaster watcher pockets; and, with rebroadcasters, stations can't control the boundaries of their viewing area for blackouts and local business advertising.

  No, broadcast television is not meant to be watched. It only exists to create a barrier to competition in the station's viewing area. Stations wouldn't even bother with a broadcast signal, if the FCC didn't require it as a condition for anti-competition. My observation is that their signal is often weak or offline, because they don't care about it -- so long as they log enough time online to satisfy the FCC the station has met its obligation.

  A rebroadcaster cannot exist in that environment. No matter where the rebroadcaster kicks the ball, the broadcasters will just move the goalposts somewhere else.

• On the post: Investigation: CBP Targeted Journalists, Illegally Shared Info With Mexico, And Attempted To Cover It All Up

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2021 @ 02:47pm

  Re: "Get caught again and I'll wrist-slap you a little harder!"

  Wait....you expected the DHS inspector general to care about a civil rights violation? When DHS was created explicitly to violate civil rights wholesale?

• On the post: Tampa Bay PD's 'Crime-Free Housing' Program Disproportionately Targeted Black Residents, Did Nothing To Reduce Crime

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2021 @ 10:48am

  Re:

  Most rental contracts these days have a clause making criminal activity a violation of the terms, justifying eviction. To see some examples, search "rental clause for illegal activity." (link) In fact, many of these make crimes committed against tenants grounds for eviction. (I.e., Evan comes uninvited and beats up Alice is grounds for evicting Alice.)

• On the post: Misquoting Einstein Is Fast And Stupid, But Not Accurate

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2021 @ 08:02pm

  Futility

  Correct attribution: $1,500 plus -- no doubt everyone will invest that amount for each detail -- to get their paper correct in every detail.

  So...999 of 1000 future papers will still be misattributed, because no one can confirm the correct attribution in this ocean of misattribution. (Yes, Ben Shoemate's site has the correct attribution and says so...but 999,999 other sites will swear to their misattribution. This is the web, after all.)

  Sigh.

  The only thing that surprises me is that it didn't get attributed to good ol' Ben Franklin.

• On the post: New Report On Predictive Policing Shows How New Tech Is Giving Us Little More Than The Same Old Racism

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2021 @ 06:57pm

  If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it. -- Pierre Gallois

  Predictive Policing is nothing more than an attempt by police to use the above principle to hide their racism.

• On the post: Minnesota Dept. Of Public Safety Now Handing Out License/Insurance Carriers In Hopes Of Keeping Cops From Killing More Drivers

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2021 @ 06:39pm

  Ideal conception

  I think this would all be more easily solved by tattooing the suspect's national ID# barcode around each forearm. Then the insurance and the car registration could be tied to the ID in a national database -- problem solved.

  All the cops would have to do is yell, "All suspects outta the car. Hands up!" and the suspect(s) can yell, "Hands up, don't shoot!" A quick scan of the barcode(s) and the police will immediately know whether there's something about the suspect(s) that should make them be in fear of their lives -- and, if so, would justify an Immaculate Self-Defense while they remain safely in the seat of their Armored Suspect Service vehicle.

  (The above is Certified Satire.)

  Only in today's America would today's police be insensitive to the taking of a long step in the direction of the above.

• On the post: Billy Mitchell Lets His Site Lapse, With A Critic Of His High Score Claims Swooping In To Take It Over

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2021 @ 06:47pm

  I see a future with...

  Fleets of slogging lawsuits marching shore-to-shore.

• On the post: Minnesota Troopers Decided Being Sued For Excessive Force Was The Perfect Time To Delete Emails And Text Messages

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2021 @ 11:15pm

  Re: Re:

  Honestly from the "kill em all" lot would look too much like incitement to murder.

• On the post: Minnesota Troopers Decided Being Sued For Excessive Force Was The Perfect Time To Delete Emails And Text Messages

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2021 @ 11:23am

  Re:

  I'm betting that -- by complete and total random coincidence that only an insane, malicious and unreasonable skeptic would doubt -- the backups got deleted at the same time. Ain't it funny how life is like that?

• On the post: Biden 'Competition Council' Urges Biden FCC To Do Things It Can't Do Because Biden Hasn't Fully Staffed It Yet

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2021 @ 08:00pm

  FCC RIP

  Let the FCC RIP. All it is, is a one-stop target for regulatory capture anyway.

  I think we should give the telcoms and ISP's what they say they want: effective regulation from three dozen different departments of government. FTC for billing and marketing, SEC for monopolization, HUD and BIA and USDA for broadband coverage, and etc.

  At least they couldn't one-stop capture the regulation anymore.

• On the post: Parler Was Allowed Back In The Apple App Store Because It Will Block 'Hate Speech,' But Only When Viewed Through Apple Devices

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 20 May, 2021 @ 11:21am

  No loss

  Oh, well. Apple is for elitists anyway.

• On the post: Chicago PD Oversight Says Officers Racked Up 100 Misconduct Allegations During A Single Wrong Address Raid

  

  Coyne Tibbets ( profile ), 18 May, 2021 @ 06:49pm

  The usual story

  Sometimes I wonder if the cops bring along a chesty stripper for the Judge to closely inspect while he signs the unread warrant.

  But the reality is, the officers come waving a claim of probable cause -- and the only thing the judge does is decide if their claims do constitute probable cause. Since the application is basically ex parte there's no one to argue for citizen rights or to check for errors or malfeasance.

  Typo'd addresses and cop lies are matters for the court hearing and trial, assuming the cops arrest anyone to bring to court. If they do find somethig good, the errors fall under the "good faith" exception and the lies get explained as "oops, good faith errors" or fall down the same "good luck proving that" rathole as the parallel construction.

  If the cops don't find anything good -- as in this case -- cop stonewalling usually buries it...no proof.

  Either way, usually no consequences. Where's the incentive to do better?

  Oh, right, the bleeping bleeping bleep bleep of a bleep cameras...

  Any wonder that we want the cops to wear cameras and they don't?

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