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  • On the post: Another State Court Says Speedy Fourth Amendment Violations Are Still Just Fourth Amendment Violations

    DannyB ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2016 @ 06:57am

    Re: That pesky Constitution

    Police work has always been easy in a police state.

    That's why they "don't have time for this constitutional bulls**t".

    “If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe.” -- George W Bush

    http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8221-if-this-were-a-dictatorship-it-would-be-a-heck

    . . . and other sources, just google it.

  • On the post: Another State Court Says Speedy Fourth Amendment Violations Are Still Just Fourth Amendment Violations

    DannyB ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2016 @ 06:53am

    It if is done quickly it's not a violation

    Viewer Discretion Advised

    Suppose a police officer claims he / she was raped. The defendant could prove that it's not a rape because it only took 30 seconds instead of 10 minutes, because the defendant cannot hold it longer than 30 seconds. This argument is supported by the very words the police use in court. So it should be equally persuasive. A violation that takes a short time is not a violation.

  • On the post: Federal Judge Now Taking A Closer Look At Bogus Libel Lawsuits Filed By Unscrupulous Reputation Management Companies

    DannyB ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2016 @ 01:44pm

    Re: Popcorn

    Righthaven, which was here and gone so quickly.

    Then Prenda, which seemed to take forever. (But not as long as SCO which is still ongoing.)

    Now Profile Defenders.

  • On the post: Woman Sues Google Because SEO Guy Wrote A Mean Blog About Her Company

    DannyB ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2016 @ 01:33pm

    Re:

    Someone, somewhere has to be the first to coin the term. Just like The Streisand Effect.

    The Bennett Effect?

    Or perhaps name it after some earlier defamation folly that has been concluded against the plaintiff?

  • On the post: State Senator Wants To Turn First Amendment Activity Into 'Economic Terrorism'

    DannyB ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2016 @ 11:16am

    No Protests Allowed

    Consider the people who think it is so horrible that Colin Kaepernick won't stand during the national anthem.

    What form of protest would those people like? Would they like it better if he were out burning cars and breaking the windows of businesses as a form of protest?

    In fact, what these people want is a form of protest that is totally invisible so that they don't have to be offended by it.

    You can have free speech as long as it is impossible for anyone to hear it -- even if they want to. You can exercise your free speech in a location that is out of range of seeing and hearing to other people.

    Isn't the purpose of a protest to be able to draw attention to some perceived injustice? Don't we all want to be made aware of injustice, before it happens to us?

    First they came for the InstaFaceTwit users, but I was silent because I did not use InstaFaceTwit. Etc.

  • On the post: State Senator Wants To Turn First Amendment Activity Into 'Economic Terrorism'

    DannyB ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2016 @ 11:06am

    criminalizes illegal protests aimed at causing economic damage

    You mean causing economic damage such as Trump publicly saying that the NY Times is failing. Saying this can have an effect on its stock price, whether true or not. But its worse when this is said just to punish a news organization, whatever you might think of them, for exercising their rights. Maybe Trump should have consequences for this type of behavior? But, then I suppose he could just pardon himself.

  • On the post: Trump Transition Website Has Some Copyright Problems — Both In Copying Content & In Claiming Copyright

    DannyB ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2016 @ 02:56pm

    Re: I refute you thus:

    I didn't say it WAS a copyright infringement. It is a copyright issue. The kind of topic TD covers. And whether or not it is an infringement, it isn't any more or less so based on which candidate is doing it.

  • On the post: Junk Scientist Greets Skepticism With Legal Threats, Sues Blogger For Criticizing Him And His Work

    DannyB ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2016 @ 02:44pm

    Re: Re: Shouldn't we welcome all viewpoints?

    Point 5: you feel that 9.8 m/s^2 force holding you to the ground don't you? That's proof of the rocket's acceleration. If you're complaining about the infinite stack, I would point out that an infinite length can have one end to it. So there could be one tortoise that is the start of an infinite stack. According to Miksch's Law, if a string has one end, then it has another end. I conjecture that it's the number of tortoises in between the two ends that is infinite. QED. :-)

    Point 6: what other source of power, according to YOUR theory could maintain the rocket's thrust for such a long time? Not puny chemical rockets. Not even nuclear (nook-you-lar) power.

    It is important to have all of this well thought out. If you're not trying to make public policy, or sell something, then why would anyone need junk science?

  • On the post: Rutgers Lecturer Forcibly Sent For Psych Evaluation By NYPD For Some Tweets About The Election

    DannyB ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2016 @ 12:42pm

    Re:

    As a patriotic American, I'm proud to stand and say that I love the freedoms this country once had.

  • On the post: Rutgers Lecturer Forcibly Sent For Psych Evaluation By NYPD For Some Tweets About The Election

    DannyB ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2016 @ 12:41pm

    Re: Re: I don't get it

    No need to come out of the house.

    They'll bust down the door and come in, warrant or no.

    Your honor! There were exigent circumstances!

  • On the post: Bug Related To HDCP DRM Is Giving New Playstation PS4 Pro Owners Headaches

    DannyB ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2016 @ 10:32am

    Re: Not a Bug

    So, in other words, it's working as intended.

    DRM is supposed to keep you from seeing the content, and its working.

  • On the post: Junk Scientist Greets Skepticism With Legal Threats, Sues Blogger For Criticizing Him And His Work

    DannyB ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2016 @ 12:32pm

    Shouldn't we welcome all viewpoints?

    All viewpoints should be welcome. Otherwise we end up with an echo chamber limited to sane, rational viewpoints.

    My new junk science research conclusively shows that:
    1. the sun rises in the west
    2. the earth is a flat disk
    3. the sun, moon and stars rotate around the disk
    4. the disk is on the back of an infinite stack of tortoises
    5. the final tortoise of that infinite stack is propelled by a rocket at 9.8 m/s^2 giving the illusion of gravity
    6. the rocket is powered by perpetual motion machine

    Politicians should make public policy based on these scientific results.

    If you are skeptical and try to refute this, I'll sue! Waaaaaah!

  • On the post: Trump Transition Website Has Some Copyright Problems — Both In Copying Content & In Claiming Copyright

    DannyB ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2016 @ 03:18pm

    Re:

    It's not nitpicking.

    It's an actual copyright issue.

    Just because it belongs to a certain political party doesn't make it any less or any more of a copyright infringement.

    You only call it nitpicking because it is your candidate.

  • On the post: Comey Can't Say How Often Encryption Thwarts Investigations, But Probably A Lot

    DannyB ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2016 @ 06:13am

    Investigations

    Does Encryption actually thwart legitimate Investigations? Or does it merely thwart unauthorized snooping and fishing expeditions without oversight?

    In a legitimate investigation there are no doubt multiple ways to deal with encrypted communications.

  • On the post: VP Elect Mike Pence Goes To Court To Keep His Emails Secret

    DannyB ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2016 @ 12:31pm

    An easier solution

    Dear Mike Pence, just use a secret email server. That has worked well for politicians in the past.

  • On the post: Las Vegas PD Continues To Use Faulty $2 Drug Field Tests Because Convictions Matter More Than Justice

    DannyB ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2016 @ 05:32pm

    what it might be about

    It's not about justice. It's about convictions.

    Maybe it's also about keeping 'for profit' prisons full.

    Fewer vacant cells means more revenue. Higher profits. Executive bonuses. Increased shareholder value. What's not to like?

  • On the post: New Docs Detail How AT&T Planned To Profit Massively By Helping Law Enforcement Spy On The Public

    DannyB ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2016 @ 01:38pm

    Re: I imagine a future when we've had enough of this.

    Corporate-police collusion will be presumed Everyone is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty,
    It's not collusion. MERGER ANNOUNCEMENT: AT&T to acquire law enforcement. Today, AT&T announced its intention to acquire all law enforcement for an undisclosed amount. To make future law enforcement easier and more flexible, guilt will be presumed instead of innocence. The accused will bear the burden of proving innocence.
    Now the opposite is true and we're filling our prisons up with innocent convicts.
    We have For Profit prisons. This is in addition to Secret: courts, warrants, laws, court orders, arrests, trials, convictions, and secret prisons. But for profit prisons(!). The education system needs to produce the correct balance of graduates who are destined to populate the prisons and others who will be the worker drones to pay for the for profit prisons. This will be a necessary change to the economy in case the military industrial complex revenue is ever in danger. (Remember the lesson of Snowden. No matter how bad you think it might be, reality is that it is already worse!)

  • On the post: New Docs Detail How AT&T Planned To Profit Massively By Helping Law Enforcement Spy On The Public

    DannyB ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2016 @ 12:17pm

    Re:

    After the flood subsided, God promised that next time it would be by fire and not by water. :-) And the symbol of that is the rainbow.

    In the case of AT&T, government, and many other parties that are literally creating the Sci Fi dystopia of our nightmares, I don't know if fire would be enough. Maybe eternal fire so that they don't rise from the ashes.

  • On the post: New Docs Detail How AT&T Planned To Profit Massively By Helping Law Enforcement Spy On The Public

    DannyB ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2016 @ 12:09pm

    VPNs may become the new ISPs

    Having a modem was a requirement in the dial up days.

    Now, having a VPN may be a basic necessity when signing up with any ISP. Instead of trusting your ISP, who once was considered worth trusting, you'll vest that trust in the VPN provider. Or use TOR over your VPN. :-) To keep your VPN from knowing the contents of your connections.

    Next after that, having several VPNs, and (not yet written) software that randomly directs your connections over one of the several different VPNs.

    VPNs through other VPNs?

    Who knows what else you'll need after that. Some kind of meta-network built on top of everything I just described.

  • On the post: Zuckerberg Momentarily Curbs 'Hate Speech' Moderation Stupidity At Facebook To Reinstate Posts By Donald Trump

    DannyB ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2016 @ 10:35am

    Re: Re:

    and good ole fashioned cheating.

    I don't think Trump will lose because of any cheating.

    Any cheating that may be going on has probably been upgraded to 21st century standards and techniques.

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